Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

From Skip McGrath…

1. Poor Feedback Rating
2. Don’t accept credit cards
3. Weak Headlines & Poor Product Descriptions
4. Poor images turn off sellers
5. Underestimating costs & losing money

Should you sell things online or offline?
Actually this is a false dichotomy… why do you need to choose?
Sure, it’s nice to wake up every morning and go to check Google Adsense or Clickbank and see how many new dollars are there.
But sometimes the dollars just aren’t there… you haven’t hit your stride… haven’t tried the […]

The following financial advice is good for anyone… get out of debt, move cash to investments, etc. It applies equally well to folks running any business and hoping to achieve financial security.
MLM is not the only home based business vehicle for achieving this however.
It depends on you as to whether it’s your vehicle to achieving […]

Marty asks… “Chuck are you still promoting local sales networks as a viable opportunity?”
Marty, thanks for asking.
I’m still very optimistic that people can make excellent money by providing local firms with internet advertising and driving traffic to the site by using grassroots advertising.
I believe that using the “guerilla marketing techniques” taught by folks like Skip […]

According to this article titled “Americans are Fleeing Big Cities”,
Northeasterners are moving South and West. West Coast residents are moving inland. Midwesterners are chasing better job markets. And just about everywhere, people are escaping to the outer suburbs, also known as exurbs.
“It’s a case of middle class flight, a flight for housing affordability,” said William […]

In this post on screening employees for cultural fit, Jeff Cornwall is talking about the corporate culture… as entrepreneurs who are growing any business (even my wife’s home business which just had to sub contract some work)… you want someone to help, not drag you down.
The most common culprits are the attorneys and CPA’s we […]

Kevin Nobelman via Ty Tribble
My name is Kevin and I’m 24 years old. This is the true story of how during the summer of 2001, I made $40,000 selling dropshipped goods on ebay only to lose it all and end up with $4,000 of debt. Read my cautionary tale to prevent yourself from making the […]

Via Dane

Steve Strauss in USA Today:
First of all, from a business perspective, running a business from home can certainly be a good idea since it does indeed help keep overhead low, and that’s a big bonus. And if you can maintain a balance between work and home life, working from home can also make life […]

Need to file for an automatic extension on your taxes?
Last year, you just called a toll free number, typed in your data and got a confirmation number.
This year, when you download the IRS Form 4868 - Application for Automatic Extension, you get directed to … government contractors.
Filing for an extension was fairly easy… confirmation numbers […]

From Bizymoms.com
First let me explain why I chose the word “failure” for this week’s topic. I spoke to four different women last week about home business. Two of those women commented on their “failures”. In essence they were not moving forward because of past failures. Another was afraid of future failure. […]