Just because you work from home doesn’t mean you can’t sell to the world’s biggest customer — Uncle Sam, reports Inc.com. Jim Anderson has digitally mapped over 100 countries from his home office nestled in the hills of Anchorage, Alaska, which he describes as the crossroads of the grizzly and black bear populations. Founded in […]
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According to a story at OPENForum.com, stories of Zappos, the online shoe retailer, and how they pioneered a new way of doing customer service, using social media, and selling products online are now all over the business and trade media. Whether or not you think that the Zappos model may work for your business, there
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Some people follow rock stars. Steve Greenberg follows inventors. Greenberg calls himself an “invention groupie.” The author of “Gadget Nation,” he’s written about quirky inventors who have dreamed up everything from a talking toilet paper dispenser to a “Vidstone” grave marker that displays a video tribute of the dearly departed. Now is a great time
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First and foremost, I chose to run my business from home. When I started my Web consultancy, Soapbxx, it became a constant migraine with all the overhead and office space. I’ve been running Soapbxx from home now for four years. We are brutally honest with our structure and have never lost a client. I find
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There is a difference between being busy and being productive. What are you wasting time on? What are you doing that doesn’t produce revenue? Here’s a powerful exercise. In 15- to 30-minute increments, keep track of each of your activities during the workday. Do this for a week. Then annualize the total amount of time
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One of the downfalls to being a home-based business is that if you wanted to, you could always be working. When I first started Shop Around Tours, it was so important to build the business, so whenever the phone would ring, I would answer, no matter what time of night it was. After answering a
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There are days where I won’t even open my Twitter or Facebook accounts, just so I can tune out and focus on my goals. Just because you are connected all the time doesn’t mean you have to be available all the time too. Set up absolute productive time for yourself where you don’t go on
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Whenever something happens that is not in line with our desires, we get disappointed. We stick the label “bad thing” on it. And when we do, we experience it as such. In truth, we do not know whether something unexpected is “good” or “bad,” and we may never know. When Greyston Bakery filled its first
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How can your company get started with cloud computing? Well, consider following the market leaders. With a few more months of client experience, Forrester Research recently addressed the major questions that executives have about the adoption of cloud services, reports David Deans over at Cloud Computing Journal. Benefit #1: Improving time-to-application deployment. Benefit #2: Aligning
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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry…
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