Work At Home Business Opportunities Weblog
A new study from the UK shows that nearly 9 out of 10 UK internet users have broadband access.
This number has doubled since 2003.
As the article notes, this makes starting freelance home businesses much easier than before and so England is seeing these pop up everywhere.
As a result the old way of doing things like zoning for “residential” or “business” will change everywhere and yesterday’s bureaucracies will be dragged kicking and screaming into the present reality.
That’s frightening for them. The old government boys were used to doing things their way. When options came along for people to choose it was the old boy endorsed options of “Our preference A” or “Our preference B”.
In the US that meant our President could be Bush or Kerry but we’d be getting a “Yale Skull and Bones” man either way and the old media establishment would tell us what to believe about whatever happened.
Alternative channels though open up interesting possibilities that give freedom new opportunities and will leave the old guard scrambling to remain the old guard.
Take Ron Paul’s $4.3 million dollar donation day that left the old guard stunned.
Technology dispersed to the people causes outbreaks of innovation, change, and freedom that the old way of doing things can’t stand.
There are a variety of articles on the web about the feds pushing telecommuting again.
This time they’re stressing the homeland security issues and the need to have a decentralized work force in the event of access problems due to storms, floods, fires, terror alerts, etc.
Same story, different day.
Alpine Access a leader in the home based customer service field got some press as they expand operations in the Pittsburgh area.
I find the opening line amazingly true: “There will be no politicians cutting ribbons to celebrate the region’s newest call center and the 100 jobs that it is bringing — jobs that start at $9 an hour with a 401(k) retirement plan plus dental and medical benefits.” Why? In part because this isn’t a factory. Politicians love to be seen opening factories and huge sprawling plants because they can take credit for using your tax dollars to make themselves look good that way. $9 per hour with benefits isn’t seen as “important” even though these workers will have no commute, no parking expense and no meals to eat out daily and could possibly spend more time with their children and reduce social service expenditures as a result. The author explains it away as not happening because it’s an expansion.
Families in Pittsburgh will be loving it though!
Read it here: Company expanding local operation of home-based employees
Image courtesy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Because Broadband Access = More Home Businesses, I like to watch trends regarding broadband accessibility. Nationwide municipalities wanted to offer “free wi-fi”. In a world where There’s No Such Thing As A Free Lunch I always wonder how they plan to do this.
Short version: the private company couldn’t see how they were going to make any money from the deal.
Read it at Houston’s Wi-Fi deal with EarthLink fades and here.
Since I scan the news daily for topics related to home business and telecommuting, there’s alot about the environment mixed in.
Most of it involves measures that are presently untenable because they require those least likely to change behavior to do just that, i.e. your consumer who’s just trying to make ends meet. Selling “belt tightening” to them after the government has trashed the buying power of what they earn just in time for Christmas is going to be like “selling” them on cutting off a good arm with no anaesthetic just because some politician said so.
I don’t call that an easy sell.
So who is willing to make significant changes and why?
Well, people who stand to save lots of money in the process.
In this case, those are businesses reeling because of transportation costs.
So how could cutting their costs end up saving energy and even helping consumers?
Learn more at Solving The Freight Rail Transportation Bottleneck
It’s from a UK perspective so some of the services are ones I’ve only seen available there like Vodaphone.
The routers, IMAP, Plaxo, and Google calendar are available most anywhere there’s broadband.
These 2 sisters mostly work from home to create commemorative beads from rose petals. It’s amazing the jewelry they create using rose petals!
Read more at the Courier Journal on “Rose Riveters”
Their website:Remembering With Roses
I give up… Hold their breath?
How Green is Your Web Work?
Evidently swapping computers for your car just isn’t green enough. Shame!
Men cause more pollution a major new Swedish report on “Gender and the Environment” shows, so therefore before too long I’m sure someone will say that the logical outcome is to kill all the men.
One telecommuting male pleads for mercy in response and offers a tongue in cheek Mars/Venus defense.
I know we men can’t all be perfect non polluters like neutered Swedish males who author such reports. Since we’re being “intuitive” here though thanks to the comment here that ends by reminding us that “Chickens are our cousins!”, isn’t it also “intuitive” that for all these men polluting the environment there are women who are the beneficiaries? Duh…
(I blame the word “telecommute” in the article for starting all this… that’s how I found this report in my news search!)
Currently residents in Sioux Falls, SD who have a small business in their home can’t – by law – even use their garage or an outside storage building for business purposes!
“Officials” say the reasons are “obvious” … at least to communist dictators and control freak bureaucrats everywhere. Supposedly it was designed to stop a feared rash of garage based auto repair shops they feared might spring up if the serfs were not kept well controlled!
Since home based auto garages aren’t the imminent threat they used to be the fearless leaders at city hall have instructed their minions to look into the matter.
Unfortunately as progress was being made, those looking into the matter of loosening restrictive home based business laws found there was another city ordinance that prevented city employees from thinking at work and so the matter is still in limbo.
Read the actual story instead of my rant at City Could Loosen Home-based Business Restrictions
