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My post Office or Home Based Business? generated quite a bit of talk. Chris De La Rosa wrote: I’ve been working from home doing several different things internet related and not only have I been successful, I love it. I dread the thought of going back to a daily 9-5. Not to mention the circus [...]
Today is Thursday, the day of the week I’ve decided to start publicly thanking my paid advertisers. Thank you : Franchise Solutions The Entrepreneur’s Source WSI Sticky123 Franchise & Business Opportunities Show And an extra thank you to Google Adsense. I wouldn’t be able to do this without you. (If you’re interested in advertising or [...]
In response to Get Into Motion, Charlie Cook said: The best way to get your business up and running is to be able to explain what you do in one sentence in such a way that it prompts prospects to contact you. Responding to Spotlight on the Staffing Industry, my father, John Henry Carlson said: [...]
Suggest Some Other Blogs, Please
I need your help. Although I’m subscribed to 719 feeds in Bloglines, I feel like I’m just keep reading the same bloggers over and over and again. Use the comments below and suggest some new sites for me to read, and please don’t be ashamed to promote your own blog, either. Thank you.
I just downloaded and installed Skype. My username is dane_carlson. Feel free to ring me if you see me online.
Is anyone else tracking their Bloglines subscribers? Does Feedburner do something similar? If not, is anyone interested in how I’m doing it?
I Was Offline – Please Recommend a New Web Host
There’s nothing quite as scary as waking up to discover that your website has been offline for most of the night and that you can’t get any real information from your web hosting company. Can anyone recommend a host that when something, God forbid, goes wrong actually communicates with their clients?
Entrepreneurs Wanted For Interview Series
I’m looking for some small business entrepreneurs to interview. If you’re interested in some free exposure for you or your business, please email me.
Following up on the last post I thought I’d run my reader survey again and try to gain a better understanding of my readers. I would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thanks! Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender [...]
I’m back from the show, and am going to decompress and catch up on some work around here for a bit, so posting will be light today. I promise to answer everyone’s questions soon.
At the National Franchise And Business Opportunities Show
This is how our booth looked Saturday morning before the crowds arrived at the National Franchise and Business Opportunities Show in Sacramento, CA. We’re between a pre paid legal company and a security system business opportunity. The show runs through 5PM Sunday at the Sacramento Convention Center.
This Weekend: National Franchise and Business Opportunities Show
Just a reminder that I’ll be at the National Franchise and Business Opportunities Show, in Sacramento, California, at the The Sacramento Convention Center, on March 5th and 6th. Admission is $8 and the show runs from 11 AM to 5 PM on both Saturday and Sunday. This will be the show’s only stop in Northern [...]
Business Opportunities Weblog: Now En Español!
It is my pleasure to announce the launch of Business Opportunities Weblog en Español! The new weblog features translated posts from this site and original content by translator Jacky Benzaquen. An Atom feed of the new site is available. Jacky Benzaquen es graduado de Ingenieria de Sistemas de la UNIMET (Caracas – Venezuela). Su verdadera [...]
I’m going to be interviewing a very successful eBay-based small businessman soon, and I’d like to offer you the opportunity to help me come up with questions to ask him. If there’s something you always wanted to know about running profiting from eBay now’s the time to ask. Please post your questions in the comments.
I’ve been nominated for the Best VC/Entrepreneur Blog at the The 2005 Business Blogging Awards. Please vote early! Update: I won!
If anyone wants a Gmail invite, my buddy Loyd has 50 of them. Post a note in the comments and he’ll send you an invitation.
Defining an Exceptional Business
NFIB: “Every large, Fortune 500 company once was a small business. So what did they do differently that allowed them to grow and profit so well? Maybe more appropriately, the question should be, what does it really take to create an exceptional business that prospers? In the book Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry [...]
I’m trying to gain a better understanding of my readers, and would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thank you. Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender Female Male Entrepreneurial Status Full time entrepreneurPart time entrepreneur (have a job and [...]
I’m back and decompressing from Las Vegas. Regular posting will resume shortly.
While I’m away for the next few days these three fantastic bloggers will be guest posting: Ted Armstrong runs, with his wife Karol, Eastern Business Solutions, a an acounting software service company and regularly blogs at Vorlon Whispers. Tim Grahl is chief blogger at Blue Collar Mountain Biking. Geoffrey Gonzalez runs Ahorre Marketing, a Hispanic [...]
Today is the fourth third birthday of the Business Opportunities Weblog. If you think the name is long now, when I started the site four threeyears ago, the name was “The Moderated Listed of Legitimated Business Opportunities for Entrepreneurs.” Quite a mouthful, don’t you think? (To my wife, Angie Carlson, and my father, John Henry [...]
I’m going to be in Las Vegas next week at the WebmasterWorld’s Search Conference #7 and so won’t be able to keep up with my usual volume of posts. I’d like to recruit three or four guest posters to help fill the void. If you don’t yet have a weblog of your own and would [...]
BloggerCon Thanks to Dave Winer
Dave, Thanks for putting together such a wonderful conference. It was my first BloggerCon and I met loads of interesting people. My life is richer for attending and I hope that you put together another one soon. I know that sometimes members of the blogosphere don’t seem to appreciate everything you’ve done to get us [...]
I’m at BloggerCon and will be posting some notes about it in this entry. This is my first time sitting in an Aeron chair. I don’t see the point. Lots of Macs. Maybe 75%. Lots of convention photos are popping up on Flickr. I’m in the “Newbies” session with Rebecca MacKinnon right now. Lots of [...]
This Saturday, November 6, 2004, the third BloggerCon will be held at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, CA. I’ll be there. Anyone else planning to attend and like to meet up?
I Started A Blog and Flipped It
I sold the Diet Blog today. I didn’t get the $15,000 Jeremy did for his blog, but I haven’t even posted to the site in nearly 6 months. If you want to sell a site, I thoroughly recommend Sedo. I received nearly thirty respectable offers in the month that I had the site listed as [...]
Dear Fellow Bloggers, When someone asks you to remove a comment that they made on your weblog, what do you do? Do you remove it? Do you require that they prove that they posted the comment? How? Do you make a notation on the page indicating that you’ve removed a comment? I was planning to [...]
Good morning! I’m back and rested from a quick, last minute, trip to central Nevada. If you sent me any email, or are expecting one from me, I’m just a bit behind — but I should be caught up soon!
Smart Man Online Interview with Dane Carlson
Yvonne DiVita, author Dickless Marketing: Smart Marketing to Women Online, interviewed me Monday. I had a good time and I think we covered some great subjects. Read it, and let’s talk about some of the points I’d made.
Last Friday, I posted a letter from a reader asking me to cover more topics related to starting a small business. Since my readership is lower on Fridays, I’m asking again: Are there other aspects of starting your own business that you’d like me to cover more? Please post your suggestions in the comments.
WebmasterWorld’s Search Conference #7
I’ll be in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 16 – 18th, 2004 for the WebmasterWorld World of Webmasters Search Conference #7. If you’re going to be there, and want to meet up, drop me an email.
I’ve updated the comment posting rules.
Please excuse the mess. I’m upgrading this site from Movable Type 2.65 to 3.1, so the site might act a little weird until I finish. Thanks for reading, and please email me if you come across any problems.
If my calculations are correct, this is post number one thousand and five this year. Thank you for reading. I couldn’t (and wouldn’t) do it without you.
On November 6, 2004 the third BloggerCon will be held at Stanford Law School in Palo Alto, CA. I’ll be there. Anyone else planning to attend and like to meet up?
Over the next couple of days, I’ll be guest blogging a little at Fast Company’s weblog FC Now. I’ll update this entry when something of mine goes live.
Reader Survey Reviewed: By Entrepreneurial Status
Reader Survey Reviewed: By Age
Over the next few days, I’m going to be releasing the results of my reader survey. If you haven’t taken it, please take a second and do so.
If you answered the survey before, please ignore it. If not, I’m trying to gain a better understanding of my readers, and would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thank you. Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender Female Male [...]
Business Opportunities Weblog is this week’s PowerBlog in the PowerBlog Review series by Anita Campbell, on Small Business Trends: The Power of the Business Opportunities weblog is in its use of the blog format to highlight small business opportunities — and in its straightforward, factual coverage of specific opportunities. Thanks Anita, I’m honored!
As if it wasn’t long enough already, I’ve added a few more of my daily reads to my blogroll at right. Few, in this case, means 68. In alphabetical order, the new additions are: A VC Adrants Ageless Marketing Angie McKaig Ardinger Authentic Boredom Biz Ideas Bplans Blog Branding Blog Brewed Fresh Daily Business Logs [...]
If you answered the survey before, please ignore it. If not, I’m trying to gain a better understanding of my readers, and would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thank you. Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender Female Male [...]
Gmail Invite Contest, Followup
Thanks to everyone who entered the Gmail Invite Contest. By good fortune, Google gave me a few more invites, so everyone who entered received one. If still don’t have one (and want one), I have more.
I still have one more Gmail invite available and will send it to winner of this competition. To enter, make a post on your weblog about the Business Opportunities Weblog with a link back to this site. The post can say anything you like – as long as it lets your readers know about this [...]
I’m trying to gain a better understanding of my readers, and would really appreciate it if you would take a couple seconds and answer the following survey questions. Thank you. I will be posting the results in a couple weeks. Age under 14 14-18 19-24 25-30 31-40 41-50 51-60 61-70 71+ Gender Female Male Entrepreneurial [...]
I updated six more business opportunities for your information and inspiration today: Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Camp-Resort, Gateway Newstands, Wireless Zone, Crestcom Management/Sales Training, Craters & Freighters, and Cookies in Bloom.
This Weblog Featured on Busines Blog Consulting
Rick Bruner: “Dane Carlson, an entrepreneur, has started this blog seemingly just as a resource to other aspiring entrepreneurs, not as a promotion for his own business (in fact, it’s not even clear from his About page what his business is). He explains more of the blog’s mission.”
If you blog about business, you owe it to yourself to submit your weblog to this Yahoo category: Directory > Computers and Internet > Internet > World Wide Web > Weblogs > Business Since it isn’t acommercial cateogry, you shouldn’t have to pay the normal $299 annual fee for inclusion, but unlike other directories Yahoo [...]
