How to telecommute without losing your mind

We’ve mentioned it before – telecommuting is great but it’s still a job. Employers aren’t in the habit of paying money for nothing. You must stay productive. Here are some tips about how to telecommute effectively from home.
1. Create an actual workspace: You need a space devoted to work. Squeezing between the dirty supper dishes or [...]

Top REAL options for working from home

We’ve all seen the ads – millionaires are being made every day stuffing envelopes from home. Please don’t waste your time on such nonsense. If you have a college degree, there are legitimate opportunities to work from home and make good money doing it. From Yahoo HotJobs, here five great home-based careers.
1. Customer Service Representative: [...]

Crash course in direct mail marketing – part 2

Yesterday, we touched on five critical factors to pay attention to in direct mail marketing. For those of you who missed it, you may pick yourself up off the floor now and return to your seat. Yes, we said direct MAIL marketing. Not email. There is a quite lucrative world of profiteering that exists outside [...]

Crash course in direct mail marketing

You read it right. We’re talking about direct marketing the old fashioned way, using a stamp and envelope rather than sending out emails. Don’t laugh. It’s still a serious tool for connecting with prospects, especially in this day and age when 99% of all email we get is pure crap, offering to enlarge certain areas [...]

Are you disciplined enough to be an entrepreneur?

Most people seem to think that working from home is the best thing in the world. Well, it is but that doesn’t mean it’s easy, especially if you made the transition from a traditional office environment. It takes three things – discipline, more discipline, and yet even more of that discipline stuff. The problem with [...]

Flipping websites for fun and profit – maybe

Call them day traders, scalpers, or hit-and-run investors. The investment world is ripe with strategies promoting short term ownership. Buy it. Hold it until a momentary glitch bumps the price upwards. Repeat. In real estate it’s called flipping. You buy a house on sale in need of renovation, do the work, and re-sell it for [...]

Are unfilled vacancies a self-fulfilling prophecy?

Landlords should expect it to take even longer to fill vacant properties during an economy as weak as today’s – right? Not so fast. You should never expect that it will take longer to find a renter at one time than another. Some property owners target a 72 hour window to fill their vacancies no [...]

Do you want $30,000 or $60,000?

As an up and coming real estate investor, there may come a time when two hot opportunities land on your table at the same time. Property A is going to require a full gutting to rehab but you’re looking at a profit of $60,000 when it’s complete. Property B needs only minor work and will [...]

Web hosting for non-geeks

It’s easy for some people to choose a web hosting company. They’re the ones born with a keyboard in one hand and a binky in the other. The rest of us looking to jump on the internet train to wealth need a little education. Before you can put up your website and make a single [...]

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