Work at Home Business Ideas

I discovered food blogger Matt Bites because Matt shot this amazing outtake of an author photo for my blogger friend Rebecca Woolf of Girl’s Gone Child. (Not about cupcakes, but her book Rockabye: A Young Mom’s Journey From Wild to Child will be out in March and if you love baby photos, you can go […]

Here’s news of a new custom-only home-based bakery in Fairfax, Virginia called Signature Cupcakes. (photos from their site)
“I’ve been known by family and friends as the dessert queen. I’ve always been responsible for bringing the dessert,” said Amini, 41, who runs her new business out of the kitchen of the California contemporary-style house near Robinson […]

eMarketer:
U.S. men age 18 to 34 have always been an elusive target for marketers, and one they pay dearly to hit — think of the ever-rising cost of Super Bowl spots.
eMarketer estimates that the segment now comprises 27% of the total male Internet user population, and the percentage is growing.
Whether at home, work or school, […]

Dan Portnoy wanted to make a movie. So, instead of spending his days dreaming about what it would be like to be a big-time Hollywood director, or studying the minutia of filmmaking and watching movies in his basement, he made one. And it’s good. Plus, as you’ll read in my interview, it […]

Kiplinger:
The search for business contacts is fast moving online. Social networks — long the domain of youngsters interacting with their friends — are increasingly attracting the corporate set on the hunt for sales leads, new hires, new jobs, vendors, contractors and other contacts.
For business users, the most popular site these days is LinkedIn, which boasts […]

Unusual Business Ideas That Work:
Washington, D.C.-based PaceTat offers on-skin advertising in the form of pacing guides. Pacing guides are used by runners in marathons and races to help them maintain the speed needed to finish a race within their goal time.
Existing solutions include paper or plastic bracelets, which have a tendency to chafe and get […]

I’m a Mac user by default, not necessarily out of a great love for them, though I do like the way my pretty little white laptop looks (um, when the screen isn’t broken - not to laptop users, do not step on your computer!). Still, these are too adorable. From Geeksugar, but the cupcakes were […]

Washington Post:
Arthur Jones, 80, the swashbuckling inventor of Nautilus exercise equipment, which revolutionized strength training by replacing the dead weight of barbells with a variable resistance technique, died Aug. 28 at his home in Ocala, Fla. No cause of death was reported.
Gruff and profane, Jones did not fit the image of the creator of the […]

The Labor Day holiday threw me for a loop when it came to picking a winner. But after much randomizing, and accounting for stumbles and comments, we have a winner for our first giveaway.
The winner is Oleg Korneitchouk of Webmaster Toolbox.
For having his entry selected at random from all of the comments and stumbles submitted, […]

New Perception:
For those who keep scouring the Internet looking for ways of become rich beyond belief (may be an exaggeration), this will be either interesting or infuriating. Or maybe a combination of both.
Basically, one clever guy was able to make an incredible profit, $500,000, on eBay by buying a rare item for a negligible price. […]