Archive for the 'WAH News' Category

From StartUpJournal.com
There’s a growing market for slightly used books. I find these at my local library’s regular “book sales” for next to nothing.
Could this be a nice work at home niche for you?
The key, of course, is turning a one time sale into repeat customers through building your list of potential future buyers…
The Internet is [...]

LocalTN.com is just another one of the bids to tap into the emerging local search marketplace. They’re using offline marketing via sweepstakes and other incentives (one a “lifetime hosting” offer for a sweepstakes winner) to build online traffic. From what I can tell it’s not a home based business, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t [...]

Though network marketing has been a work at home choice in the US for a generation, it’s just now
catching on in India.
From the Deccan Herald
All of 60 and no signs of slowing down. Jayanti aka Jay Mackay is as active as an ant. Sitting in the comfort of her swanky office room, Jay plays around [...]

Statistics show that the “sweet spot” for flipping a property (not a human being) is three to six months.
From Real Estate Journal
Question: I recently bought a home priced below market. I tried to sell it right after closing escrow. I received an offer the next day and we opened escrow right away. After two weeks, [...]

In New Jersey, the most recent census indicated that 106,000 - 2.7% of the population - work from home.
Nationwide the number is expected to jump to 15 million by 2008.
Most work at home entrepreneurs highlighted in the article are not employed using the “packaged” business opportunities so popular online or in home business magazines.
From the [...]

I was working at a Disaster Assistance Center yesterday for persons who have left their homes due to Hurricane’s Katrina and Rita.
I was reminded that home business entrepreneur’s are being displaced too.
I got to speak with a single mom who’d worked a flex time job for a local chamber of commerce in the affected area.
As [...]

Google’s Adword program is the favorite of low budget marketers because it allows pay per click bids as low as 5 cents per click.
With a 1% conversion ratio and 5 cent clicks, your customer acquisition cost is just $5.00 per customer.
If you have a product with a $10 profit per sale and a mechanism to [...]

From Small Business Computing
The national chain has just announced its CompUSA Network for Business, a loyalty-based marketing program aimed squarely at the small office/home office (SOHO) market — a $70 billion demographic according to CompUSA’s Mark Anderson, director of loyalty marketing.
“SOHO is a growing market with important customers for CompUSA. This program helps us [...]

High gas prices are frequently being cited as a factor in favor of telecommuting. Now the federal government is stepping up efforts to encourage the practice.
From the Hagerstown, MD Herald-Mail
For a limited time, federal employees tired of long commutes and soaring gas prices can telecommute for free at the Hagerstown Telework Center as part [...]

BobVila.com, StartupNation, Overstock.com and Microsoft team up to offer a S.O.S. (Small Office Support) Home Office Giveaway.
If your home office is selected a “home office makeover” worth up to $5,000 may be yours!
From Arrive.net…
To enter the SOS Home Office Giveaway, simply sign-up for the BobVila.com newsletter at www.bobvila.com. This will automatically enter you in [...]