It’s almost end of the year. Now is the time to make your last-ditch effort to maximize your tax deductions for next year. Here are some things you can do: – If you are self-employed with no employees other than your spouse, you can open a Self Employed 401K. The main benefit of the self […]
Archives for December 2006
Work from Home as a Virtual Call Center Representative
The call center business is not going entirely to Asian countries such as India and the Philippines. Even in the United States, the call center business is growing. The best part of it all though is that these companies are turning to home-based people like you as their call center agents! If you are a […]
Business Idea: Starting a Yoga Center
Ten years ago, mention the word “yoga” and the first thing that comes to most peoples’ minds is that yoga is all about “weird poses” that is part of Eastern mysticism. Now, people have greater awareness of what yoga is and yoga classes are now being taught in gyms, health clubs, county recreation centers, aside […]
Search Marketing Strategies
As the year comes to a close, I’m sure you are now strategizing how to improve your website’s performance next year. At the top of the list typically is how to improve your search engine rankings (both organic and performance of your paid listings). A good start is to read MarketingSherpa’s Search Marketing Benchmark Guide […]
Are You Cut Out to be an Entrepreneur?
If starting a business is part of your plans for next year, you need to be sure that you are ready for entrepreneurship and all the ups and downs that goes with it. There are a million and one things that can happen — from hitting on a winning business idea to finding a dud; […]
Prison: A Captive Market for Small Businesses
If you are looking for a captive market, look no further than the prison system. Prison has become more than a place to lockup felons, criminals and other misfits of society (including those wrongly accused, of course). The prison system is a hot growing market full of business potentials, estimated to be about $37 billion […]
Profile of Home Business Entrepreneurs
I’ve always known that the home business market is wide, which the latest Survey of Business Owners conducted by the Bureau of Census confirmed. According to their study, almost half or 49 percent of the nation’s businesses are operated from home. Imagine that — almost half! Other very interesting statistics on home businesses: Home-based businesses […]
Tapping the Gay Consumer
In the recent issue of Forbes Magazine, they tackled the growing market of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) in both the corporate and consumer marketplaces. According to the article “Courting the Gay Consumer,” 175 Fortune 500 brands advertise specifically to gay and lesbian audiences. Big companies such as American Airlines’ AAVacations.com, Volvo, American […]
8 Tips to Holiday Online Selling
I am almost done with my online shopping for Christmas, 100% of which was done online. I just find it so much easier to jump from one website to another and shop — something that is very hard to do in the mall when you have 2 toddlers pulling you in all directions. But the […]
Business Idea: Selling Merchant Accounts
One business you can do from home, whether full time or part time, is to sell merchant accounts. There are a number of merchant account providers, including big companies such as Card Service International or smaller outfits such as Vantage Card Services. In this business, you tap businesses accepting credit cards processing to use your […]