Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

Jim’s Cleaning, an Australian firm, lets families start their own cleaning franchise. Over 200 families have joined so far.
Most start operating from a home based office to do the book keeping while serving customers at their homes.
The trend they’re seeing? Busy people, homes in need of maintenance, no time for the homeowners to do [...]

Interesting conference.
Look for one in a city near you.
From North Jersey Media Group
To carry a briefcase or a diaper bag? Increasingly, mothers are looking for less of a black-and-white solution to that often guilt-laden question.
On Monday, several dozen North Jersey women gathered in Jersey City to kick off a national conference series on ways [...]

It’s nothing new, but I liked the way he phrased the part about Leave it to Beaver. By the way, Jeff, don’t people who have offices often find themselves unable to divorce themselves from their work too?
From Jeff Corwall writing in the Tennessean
If you have children, teach them what I call the “Beaver Cleaver’s Dad [...]

Congress hears from eBay sellers on proposed sales tax
Why?
Because November 1st, the moratorium on Internet Access Taxation expires.
Also, that’s when states want you to collect their sales tax for them, even customers don’t reside in your state.
If that happens, it’s only going to work if ebay assesses the respective taxes just like they do auction [...]

An out of control building commissioner issued cease and desist claiming they were in violation of the current zoning bylaws because they “pushed the envelope”.
Now certain people in the town are scrambling to create an ordinance that keeps the commissioner at bay.
From Mass Live
Currently residents are allowed to have one employee, one commercial vehicle [...]

This business makes body lotions at home.
PITTSBURGH — Tucked inside a small apartment in the city’s Friendship section, there’s an eco-friendly business brewing — literally.
Megan Brame, who runs Disquieting Designs, has become a master at mixing all kinds of calming creations.With her tiny Crock-Pot, she cooks up massage oils, body butter, bath salts and other [...]

This was cool. You really need to read the whole article, but in these days of neat camera phones, you can make money. Here’s how from the photopreneur blog…
1. Stick to High Quality
2. Use the Flash
3. Be Odd!
4. Shoot Celebrities
5. Become a Bounty Hunter
6. Demonstrate!
7. Watch Sports Events
8. Take in a Concert
9. Develop Contacts
10. Win [...]

I’m not saying you’re going to get rich, but then again, who knows?
I’ve been working like a dog on my Angel Food Ministries Lens
I thought I’d put up a “Bonus” module with other products that would fit the theme of saving money on groceries.
Here’s one I found: “How A Family fo 5 Can Feast on [...]

I think it’s Day 10. How time flies. It could be day 11… It’s the 28th and Squidoo didn’t start tracking the rankings of my lens on Angel Food Ministries till the 18th.
It’s number 56 today. As of yesterday there were over 250,000 lenses on Squidoo.
I’ve been spending alot of time at Squidoo lately [...]

Cybertary has sold it’s first franchise
Actually the creator of the company sold her virtual assitant’s practice to focus on expanding the business and selling other franchises.
Cybertary provides “virtual assistants” to support independent and small-business owners.
They are now marketing franchises nationwide.
Image courtesy Cybertary.com