Archive for the 'WAH News' Category

Google got in trouble for seeking to digitize books with legally enforceable copyrights. Now Yahoo et al are planning to do the same with the classics. Read through and I’ll pass an idea along that may allow you to profit while working from home… From BizJournals.com A group including Yahoo Inc., Adobe Systems Inc. and [...]

Catering to the growing work at home trend world wide, this UK architectural firm designs customized work at home environments for the work at home crowd… The growing trend in working from home finds people working in very strange places. InsideOut Buildings, who design and build bespoke home offices were very surprised by their survey [...]

MSN is celebrated “National Work At Home Week” with some profiles in 2000. Here’s one I found interesting. A Portland, Ore., man describes how the MSN network of content and services enables him to work more productively from home and on the road. A typical day at the office for Chris Hanschka might begin in [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]