Maximizing Revenues from Google Adsense

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 the [...]

The Business of Scrapbooking

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 create [...]

How to Find the Hottest Products to Sell on eBay

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 [...]

Small Business Statistics

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 to [...]

How to Attract Advertisers to Your Web Site

Advertising is one of the easiest ways to earn money on the Web. You don’t have inventory to worry about, no shipping and fulfillment problems, and there is minimal credit card fraud risk (though believe me, there are scammers who use stolen credit cards to pay to advertise their website).
To earn from advertising, you can [...]

Five Reasons Podcasting Might Be Right For Your Home-Based Business

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 [...]

Looking for a 100% Success Guaranteed Home Business

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 [...]

Balancing Home Business and Family Life

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 work. [...]

Starting a DJ Business

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 [...]

When to Decide Not to Pursue a Business

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 they are [...]

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