Archive for the 'Working At Home' Category

Many small businesses use MySpace and other social networking sites to bootstrap their marketing.
One tool to automate My Space marketing is SpaceAdder.com
Test it yourself. I’m not a My Spacer so can’t comment on its relative virtues but thought you might want to know about it.
Promoting on Myspace? - SpaceAdder.com
Promoting on Myspace?
Friend Requester - This one [...]

From Steve Marr
 
If you are married, take this marriage health inventory test. On a scale of 1-to-10, measure yourself and then honestly evaluate your score.
(1) How well do I communicate with my spouse? – Do I spend time with my spouse, catching her/him up to date with my day, plans, spending, dreams, etc? (Though one [...]

There’s nothing worse than having a $300 IPOD sitting around collecting dust because you can’t transfer your favorite music to it.
Here an enterprising computer whiz offers to do just that!
Let me help load your CD collection on your iPod!
Just get a new iPod and have tons of CDs to load on it? Don’t want the [...]

B’s Purses based in Louisville, KY let’s women create personalized purses to fit their life and style demands. Using American seamstresses the company allows women to serve as representatives and share in the profits. Here’s information about their representative opportunity:
Make money the easy way… sell B’s products that everyone loves! You will make a commission [...]

Toni Berry answers the question… “My company will let me work from home… what advice can you give me about creating a home office?”
-Invest in good lighting for your home office. If you will be spending long hours at the desk, lighting is crucial. I recommend you have an electrician come and put incandescent down [...]

Do you have an invention that makes life in the cubicle easier?
You might win $25,000 and 8% royalties for life if you have a great idea!
From Start Up Journal…
Neil Grimwood once missed a meeting because a Post-it note he’d stuck on his computer as a reminder fell off. That inspired him to invent a [...]

When the rest of the business world was using Windows 95 and about to move to Windows 98, I sent my secretary at the time to a business class at the local university where she learned how to use what? Windows 3.1
Oh well, what’s a few generations of software progress between businesses seeking to make [...]

The ingenious but busy Dan Sherman has recently given folks an update. One that that struck me as important for many microbusinesses is one of his projects called PurpleStreet.com for microbusinesses:
PurpleStreet.com - (The site is a template right now… we’re doing development on it so what is there now is nothing like the actual final [...]

Yvonne Shortt started a home based business with $865 so she could spend more time with her two daughters.
Now she averages over $50,000 per month gross revenue and her one luxury is a Steinway Baby Grand Piano.
She saved labor costs at first by using College Interns who got college credit and a stipend and part [...]

New Zealand’s teleworking community is growing slowly and still relatively low tech. It is expected to increase with the proliferation of broadband connections and formal telecommuting policies.From the New Zealand Herald
[Telework Consultant Bevis] England says a well established telework programme will typically deliver a business $300,000 per 100 employees per year in cost savings [...]