Work at Home Business Ideas

Sierra Vista Herald:
The dumb waiter has evolved with one local man’s invention.
Patrick Schmitt has his patent pending for “My Personal Waiter,” a motorized lowering device for kitchen cabinets.
The “waiter” works like an elevator for your dishes or canned foods. With flip of a switch, the shelves are lowered down toward the kitchen counter within the […]

Gizmodo: “Scientists in China and Australia have developed a method of cleaning fabric using nanotechnology that avoids dunking clothes in soapy water, before scrubbing and rinsing. The titanium dioxide-based coating bonds to silk and wool and uses sunlight to automagically decompose dirt, stains and microorganisms, meaning smelly socks could be a thing of the past—something […]

The New York Times:
I am thinking of proposals because it is almost Valentine’s Day — the most depressing or the most romantic of holidays, depending on your view — one of the big four holidays to propose. The others, according to Anja Winikka, associate editor of the WeddingChannel.com, are Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. An […]

Reuters:
Lovelorn staff at a Japanese marketing company can take paid time off after a bad break-up with a partner, with more “heartache leave” on offer as they get older.
Tokyo-based Hime & Company, which also gives staff paid time off to hit the shops during sales season, says heartache leave allows staff to cry themselves out […]

CNNMoney.com:
Unlike housing prices and interest rates, Cupid’s costs are expected to go up in 2008.
According to a study issued Monday by the National Retail Federation (NRF), the average consumer plans to spend $122.98 on Valentine’s Day, up from $119.67 in 2007. Total retail spending for the Feb. 14 holiday is expected to reach $17.02 billion.
Of […]

The following is a guest post by Kyle James.
Online companies that have high fixed costs, especially when those fixed costs are associated with office equipment, inventory, warehousing, and high distribution costs have the hardest time making money. A company that fit into this category was WebVan, an online grocery delivery service that went bankrupt in […]

When Alissa and Noah DeRouchie take their two toddler sons to a restaurant, they dream of eating at a place that has no whine as they dine.
That dream just got one step closer to reality, courtesy of Intuit Inc., sponsor of the Just Start contest in which the couple was voted grand winner. The contest […]

Inc.:
When it comes to matters of the heart, do small businesses have an edge on their larger competitors?
While Christmas, Thanksgiving, and other holidays generally boost sales across most retail categories, Valentine’s Day tends to bring out shoppers seeking more specific items — cards, flowers, chocolates, candles, gourmet dinners and other tokens of affection, categories in […]

Money Magazine:
For Jessica Jensen and Jason Pelletier, running a business together seemed like a natural. They had worked together in the late 1990s, when they both put in 60-plus-hour weeks as consultants, helping other companies figure out better ways to run their businesses.
They had complementary skills - hers in marketing and sales, his in environmental […]

Smart Company:
Smartpack Kitchens chief executive Mike Caminer realised five years ago that if he didn’t take quick action, competition from Chinese imports would destroy his kitchen manufacturing business.
Today Smartpack still sells kitchens, but just about everything else has changed – its product is now almost entirely manufactured in China, a new digital strategy is reaping […]