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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A recent Computerworld article noted that employees given laptops log an extra 7 hours of work per week more than employees assigned to desktop computers. They become “work at home” employees whether it’s company policy or not. Evidently the proximity of work and the computer blurs the boundaries of work and leisure. This is good [...]

Home based workers may not only help companies retain skilled workers while reducing the costs of “brick and mortar”, they also serve a crucial role in corporate disaster back up planning. From SearchSecurity.com: Paul Kurtz has spent years in the upper levels of government working on ways to protect America’s physical and digital infrastructure. He [...]

Michael Ross offered this challenge on the SowPub.com forum. Can you answer this question… The best business to be in when you don’t have time to be in business is… And can you give reasons for your answer. Michael Ross Read the thread for some options others gave. Busy? Here’s his answer… If you have [...]

Instead of competing with 20 year olds in the job market, these veteran ebayers got their start standing in line for concert tickets and selling them at auction for nice profits… From Startup Journal… Marcia Cooper and Harvey Levine hoped for a blissful retirement, until they both were laid off from their jobs. They hadn’t [...]

In case you hadn’t heard yet, the IRS has raised the mileage deduction limit for business travel to 48.5 cents per mile, but not without debate… From BizJournals Rising gasoline prices led the Internal Revenue Service to increase the business mileage reimbursement rate to 48.5 cents a mile for the final four months of the [...]

In Fashion Monitor Toronto… According to the new review, nearly 75 percent of home business owners do not have a designated home office equipped with the right office furniture. With new space efficient computer desks, every room in the condo or a house can be transformed into a convenient home office. Office furniture you need [...]

Motley Fool (UK) reminds home business owners, that their activities may be more valuable than they think. While – like most small businesses – home businesses may be especially dependent on the owner for their continued viability, you may be able to get more than you’d think if your home business has expensive assets associated [...]