We received a feedback from a user today telling us that our site’s use of Adsense was critiqued in a video lecture. I watched it and listened to what the person had to say. The page the person assessed was the article “Earn Money from Your Hobby” – although he had an old version of [...]

I am a frustrated scrapbook enthusiast. I love the idea of creating and keeping scrapbooks. I subscribe to several scrapbooking magazines. I always buy papers, embellishments, stickers, other accessories and equipment for scrapbooking every time I head out to a craft store. Yet I don’t have the time. Since I decided a year ago to [...]

Every Tom, Dick and Harry sells on eBay. Ok, a bit of exaggeration, but eBay sure has become an important marketplace for small and home-based sellers. Many are even using eBay as their main business. Some are doing well with it, but some not so well. Just see how many listings on eBay that are [...]

For the recently concluded Small Business Week held in Washington DC on April 9-16, SBA prepared a compilation of statistics on small businesses: Curiously though, one important stat that is missing from this list is the number of small businesses that fail in their first year, or in five years. I suppose SBA needed only [...]

Podcasting has been called the wave of the future. The truth, however, is that podcasting is the here-and-now and is rapidly gaining momentum across the world. There are podcasts available for just about any topic you can think of from cooking to video games to religion. As of February 2006, a Google search for the [...]

Someone at Yahoo Answers asked whether he can “start a home business through a certain company and be sure to make money with no doubt at all.” He doesn’t want to use any of his money or waste his time until he is sure that he will make profit from the business he wants to [...]

One of the best things of working on a home-based business is that you can be with your family. One of the worst things is that you are with your family. If you are like me with two very young children, the toughest part of working at home is finding time to actually do any [...]

Disk Jockeys are not just record players anymore; they have become an integral part of various celebrations and venues from weddings to clubs. Get a lousy DJ and it sure can dampen all your birthday or wedding festivities. DJs can even serve as the main attraction in clubs, and many in fact are becoming hot [...]

Someone posed a question at Yahoo Answers as to why some people invest money in a business and then quit before they’ve even started. Why indeed, considering that they already plunked down money for the business? I ventured 10 possible reasons: They realized a little late that they are not cut out for entrepreneurship; that [...]