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Here’s Web Worker Daily’s review of Yahoo’s new messenger beta.

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Here’s how one work at home mom is coping with the rising gas prices… increased coupon use among other things. How about you?

From KCCI Des Moines

Nora:  I am a work-at-home mom, my husband is a trucker (he drives for one of the major trucking companies so he does not have to pay for the fuel)…….yes, things are getting really tight, gas and food are getting very expensive, but I feel that people just have to change their lifestyles…I do a lot of refunding/couponing and do various programs on the Internet to get free gift cards to help the family budget…we have a Ford Escort Sports SE and it gets 35 to 38 mpg…..have cut down to one vehicle. We still are able to take trips, go out to eat, go to movies, but just not as often…I have a part-time online job so I can work at home (no traveling, no work clothing budget, etc.)…….things are really tight but we just have to tighten the budgets…I am even managing to stash some money away into savings.

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 to start and grow a business from home.

Visuwords.com is an “online graphical dictionary”. It can help you spot synonyms and choose just the right word to get your web page copy or article out of those verbal ruts you and I can so easily inhabit!

Here’s the results for the word “buy”.

If you constantly read and take notes to help you learn, it’d be nice if you could retrieve them easily.

Personally, the process of making notes in a journal helps me think through the material and retain it. But if you want to look it up later… that’s hard.

So if you’re in that situation you may want to check out Note Scribe.

Sadly, I just found out about this today and the sale ends today… it’s still just $21 bucks if you want to keep it after the 30 day trial.

A friend passed this along. I guess you could use Google’s Notebook if you don’t mind Big Brother keeping all your information for you.

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 fought a losing battle against overseas competition. Now it employs fewer than 50. Big tobacco also lost business, slowing production in the warehouses that were Danville’s second-largest industry.

That’s not the case any more as today’s Washington Post notes.

The weakening dollar, rising transportation costs, and the other things we normally bemoan are making the US ripe for foreign investment and basically demanding that US workers be used to keep stores like IKEA in business.

New companies are moving in to breathe life into once-tired economies across the industrial corridor in central and southwestern Virginia and in Southside, a strip of generally poor counties in the south-central part of the state.

Like many factory towns, Danville was built on labor intensive industries where workers were as important as the machines. That’s changed in advance manufacturing where workers with low skills simply don’t fit the picture.

One of the companies moving there was a technical support firm with 750 jobs…

Now, here’s my question,  how many jobs could be brought in that would be work at home jobs?

Another question this brings to mind is what opportunities for creating work at home businesses will emerge because things need to stay closer to home due to rising transportation costs? Here’s one list of 7…

Along the lines of creating a CASH GENERATOR (not just getting a power generator), here are 7 Hot Businesses

It’s a good post well worth your time. I like Gordon’s articles and recommend them.

Here are the businesses he thinks are smoking right now…

1. Bicycles. Buy and sell, repair, start a club, a members group online, etc.
2. Electric vehicles. About to explode. A group I’m joining and it’s FUN too.
3. Day play destinations. Families are opting for shorter trips vs. family vacations.
4. Home gardening. Watch for backyard greenhouses to become the “in” thing.
5. Energy saving equipment. Buy, sell or repair things that save energy.
6. Pet social groups. Pets are at an all time high and their owners want to meet other like minded people.
7. Direct response business. Take your products directly to the people.

Here’s a blogger with a somewhat dim view of the energy situation in the US.

Can’t say I blame him or disagree.

Get yourself a generator. In fact get two. One to produce electricity when the brown outs come, to keep at least your freezer and refrigerator working and the other kind of a generator should be a CASH generator…

You may only need a few gallons of gas to keep your electricity on (or course you apartment and high rise condo dwellers are at the mercy of your grid and landlords), but you only need to part with an amount that will soon cost less than one tank of gas (for the guzzlers) to  get your hands on the CASH generator, which is to have your own business or to expand your current business in profit generating direction.

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 you do? Find some place to “Co work”. Here’s why it’s popular…

“The worker who’s been working at home for three years and has a stronger relationship with their cat than they do with anybody else in their lives and they walk in here and they get it and they go, ‘Oh thank goodness,’” said Susan Evans, Office Nomads.

I was in Amish Country in Ohio last week, I noticed a thriving bicycle shop there.

Will there be a boom in such shops outside Amish areas some time soon?

Here’s how insane gas prices are changing the economy? Can you profit from it somehow? Or will you just complain?

From Acton.org 

The search for fuel-efficiency has, for example,…

…hurt the trucking industry, but given new life to long-suffering railroads.

…convinced growing numbers of urbanites to use mass transit.

…been a boon for bicycle shops.

…hurt many parts of the auto industry, but has also spurred a sharp advance in hybrid auto sales.