Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

When the going get’s tough, it turns out people are turning to the Lottery to try to escape their financial woes.
Rattled Americans Try Their Lottery Luck In Hard Times
One guy interviewed plays his state lottery $20 per week. He’s a restaurant chef. I guess he thinks investing over $1000 per year in the lottery is [...]

Back when Overture was still alive, it was a great keyword research tool.
Now Google is showing real numbers with their keyword tool, but the “competition” index is sketchy at best if you’re trying to build niche pages. You can find keywords will lots of searches monthly and think you’ve got a “killer” niche for an [...]

It’s August 15-17 and you might want to check it out. I’ve only read the press release and, as always, you must make the choice whether this is “for you”! But were I near Atlanta or seeking to reach this market, I might drop by myself.
Here’s the press release.
Here’s their Squidoo lens 
“Presentation topics at this [...]

Here is the tower after yesterday’s construction. Still no internet service, but the tower is high enough to reach over the crest of the hills and get a signal from town. (They used a “cherry picker” truck to determine that it would be the right elevation before building it in case you’re wondering…)

Now… will the [...]

This is part of the saga of work at home people in the boondocks past suburbia.
In particular it’s about my wife needing high speed for her business because the old land line systems for medical transcription are being phased out. So it’s GET SOMETHING fast or lose accounts. And I also need it for [...]

Here’s an interesting interview with Emma Jones the founder of Enterprisenation.co.uk
Emma Jones is the founder and managing director of Redbrick Enterprises, a company that advises local authorities and regional development agencies on promoting and increasing home enterprise, and is the editor of www.enterprisenation.co.uk, a free-to-use home business website that offers help to people who want [...]

I used to pass through Danville, VA from time to time and noted that it had once seemed busy but often seemed to have lots of empty industrial buildings.
For example:
The textile manufacturer Dan River, a former Fortune 500 company, once employed as many as 15,000 workers by some accounts. It began hemorrhaging jobs as it [...]

Following up on yesterday’s post, I wanted to mention this one…Co Working Stations Fill The Needs Of The Work At Home Class
Basically while it’s a great thing to work at home, sometimes to be productive you need to get out of the house. But you don’t want to be an office slave so, what do [...]

It’s funny, if a husband, for example, works at the office all week and the wife works at home, then when the husband just wants to hang around the house over the weekend, the wife wants to escape I’ve noticed. She’s tired of being locked in!
So getting out is the new “big thing” for working [...]

From Dane’s blog
The Outpost:
You Should…
Let your neighbors know that you ARE employed, you just work from home. In this messy economy, people may suspect the worst when they suddenly realize your car no longer leaves the driveway at 6 a.m. Be proactive before donated canned goods arrive on your doorstep.
You Shouldn’t…
Farm out your work to [...]