Archive for August 2002
Sony Ericsson unleashed paid actors & actresses to key attractions such as the Empire State Building in New York and the Space Needle in Seattle to ask unsuspecting tourist to take their pictures using Sony’s new T68i, a mobile phone/digital camera. This concept is called stealth marketing and it’s meant to generate “buzz” and sales [...]
Setting Up A Word Processing Business In Your Home
Home Based Business Opportunities: Prepare final documents from typed, hand-written or taped drafts, such as student term papers, business letters, legal briefs, manuscripts, resume’s and institution reports. Much of the work in the pure business of finalizing documents can be accomplished on a typewriter, especially a good one (with changeable type, error removal and/or a [...]
How To Earn Hundreds Of Extra Dollars Weekly By Running A Home-Based Answering Service
Home Based Business Opportunities: Do you enjoy talking on the phone? Does your voice have a friendly, cheerful tone? Are you well-organized? Do you need a few hundred extra dollars each week? If you answered “yes” to each of the four questions listed above, then you are a great candidate to pursue one of the [...]
$100 An Hour Making Exclusive 3-D Foto-Figures
Home Based Business Opportunities: This is a creative business in which you can turn your spare time into big money, and all you really need to get started is a few materials and your existing work shop. If you don’t have a workshop, a corner of your basement or garage will give all the space [...]
Help Wanted at Dick’s Drive In
If you’re in Seattle, stop by a fast-food restaurant called Dick’s Drive-In. The food is good, but what should really get your attention is the “Help Wanted” information posted at the window where you placed your order. How do they do it? By focusing on what’s important to their customers and their employees.
It’s not a suggestion I want to make, because you might not think of death as an optimal career move, but for some celebrities, crossing over to the far side doesn’t hurt their income in the least. Top-Earning Dead Celebrities
The Sure Fire Way To Make Money With A Personal Computer
Home Based Business Opportunities: Most people use their computer to do simple tasks, such as their taxes. Or they buy a word processor so their children can write term papers and get better grades in school. Very few people realize that their computers can make them money as well as fulfilling all of these other [...]
Despite challenges, small companies remain a driving force in an economy posting surprisingly high employment and a solid gross domestic product. According to a survey by the National Association for the Self Employed (NASE), 49 percent of the nation’s self-employed say they’re optimistic or very optimistic about their revenue, while 41 percent said they are [...]
Turn Your PC Into A Profit Center
Home Based Business Opportunities: Even though personal computers have been around for several years, the market is still growing in many areas. With some imagination and initiative, you can join the thousands of entrepreneurs who are using computers to make money in such businesses as word processing, bookkeeping, desktop publishing, and computer training or sales. [...]
The only upside to the current business climate is that business owners are finding it easier to hire people, and many say they’re paying less than they did a few short years ago. Yet it’s still difficult to fill key positions. The number of small businesses with hard-to-fill openings has peaked this year.
Here’s what a few people who started businesses in their twenties thought was key to pulling it off. Seize your opportunity: maybe you should go into business for yourself. It doesn’t really matter how old you are, what matters is your attitude.
Bed And Breakfast The Easiest Home-Based Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: There’s an exciting new “down-home” kind of business springing up among homeowners all across the country. It’s called Bed and Breakfast. Basically, this is a transplant of European Hospitality, adapted and refined to the American way of doing things. To foreign visitors, it’s the comfort and hospitality of home—staying overnight “with [...]
Garage Sale Promoting: For Quick, Easy Money
Home Based Business Opportunities: Pick almost any city or town in the country, drive through any middle class neighborhood or residential area on the weekend, and you’re sure to spot at least a half dozen garage sales. What’s being sold at these garage sales? The accumulated “junk” people no longer use or want taking up [...]
Private Equity Firms Change Focus
Back in the good ol’ days — early 2000 — private-equity firms were eager dealmakers, trading billions of dollars of cash for equity stakes in thousands of private companies. Today, though they’re still investing, the pace of the deals has slowed. These days, private equity is a bit of a misnomer. Private equity firms change [...]
How To Make $5,000 A Month Or More With Garage Sales
Home Based Business Opportunities: In this day and age, everyone seemingly knows how to put together and hold a garage sale. Yet is this is so, why is it that some people are lucky to gross $150 while others consistently make $1,500 or more from their garage sales. Pick almost any city or town in [...]
You’ve located a good prospect, you’ve attracted his attention, and you think he’s interested in what you’re selling. Time to pull out your best sales presentation speech and then go for the close, right? Wrong! Why having a friendly conversation is the best and easiest way to make a deal. Try it yourself.
Does it bother you, like it does me, to see the US Postal Service waste money even as they increase rates? What type of operation continually increases rates, but continues to waste money sponsoring TV advertising? What good is that? We have no option of who carries our postal mail. Where else can you justify [...]
Auto-Lab Diagnostic & Tune-Up Centers
→ autolabusa.com You are a big part of the business. Full service automotive repair facility, performing all aspects of auto service and repair. Our specialty is in the diagnostics and repair of computerized and electrical systems. Our goal is to be a professional alternative to auto dealer repair shops. Contact Information Daniel J. Kiefer (877) [...]
Start Your Own Highly Profitable Shopping Center Papers
Home Based Business Opportunities: One of the easiest of all businesses to establish, publishing shopping center papers– CAN MAKE you very rich–almost as fast as finding gold, or inheriting an oil well. Revenue and profits come from two main sources: The businesses in the shopping center your paper serves, and the people reading the paper. [...]
About 1 in 5 Americans currently run their own business, but a new study shows that many more aspiring entrepreneurs yearn to join that club. Forty-seven percent of 1,014 adults questioned randomly in early July said they dreamed of starting a business. What do you think their #1 reason is? Go ahead and guess.
It’s a lazy summer Saturday. Perfect for a day of golf, but other commitments require my time. Fortunately there are entrepreneurs like this young man who are providing just what I need, a half-hour at the driving range. Now I can make it until Sunday afternoon. Who hasn’t considered turning their hobby into a business? [...]
I’m becoming more reflective of what I’m doing, why I’m doing it and how it relates to the people close to me, I love my work, business is good, and the people I work with are great, but I guess since September 11th, I now have a better appreciation of another way of life. Do [...]
How To Start Your Own Successful Window Washing Service
Home Based Business Opportunities: Here’s a business that, almost more than any other with equal potential for real wealth, meets the most stringent requirements of just about any skeptic. In fact, there’s so much in favor of the “little guy” with this business, it’s a real mystery why more people don’t choose this one as [...]
What if there were a way to build your business, year in and year out, regardless of fluctuations in the economy or the activities of your competition? Everyone knows about it, but hardly anyone does it well. It’s time you learned to use it. Even Jesus of Nazareth used Word-of-Mouth: the world’s best-known marketing secret.
