Work at Home Business Ideas

The Wall Street Journal:
Three weeks ago, 50-year-old Mimi Norris strapped on black steel-toe boots, packed a face mask and a digital camera in her bag, and headed to work. Her assignment: inspecting a foreclosed home in a blue-collar neighborhood of Akron, Ohio.
From outside, the small white house appeared to be in good condition, but as […]

Statesman Journal:
You hear Gregorian chants. All around you it is blindingly white, and the taste of sweet rum cake is on your tongue. You think you may have died and gone to heaven, but it’s only Barbara Storey’s kitchen in Independence.
That’s where and how Storey works, in her own home, baking and selling a line […]

Forbes:
When credit gets tight, the vampires come out.
Now feasting on small businesses is a cadre of “merchant cash advance” (MCA) shops. These lenders of last resort–which started popping up after the tech crash in 2001–give small businesses cash today in return for a percentage of their future credit card sales. Annualized cost of that precious […]

Send2press Newswire:
Starting a business can be expensive, but starting a home-based baking business is smart and cost-effective. It enables the business owner to try out their products in the market place, build their business skills, and acquire an understanding of what it takes to eventually open a business outside the home.
“I’ve been asked many times […]

PJStar.com:
The iRepair Squad began as the iPod Repair Squad, and it was the winner of the initial Project Springboard business plan competition co-sponsored by Junction Ventures Ltd. and Bradley University. With that win came financial and technical assistance to get the company started. Nobody, Scaggs said, expected this kind of growth.
That growth for iRepair Squad […]

Reuters:
The credit crunch driven by the U.S. housing crisis appears to have hit another engine of the American economy — small businesses.
After years of fast and loose lending, major banks have begun tightening standards for loans to small businesses — often described as the backbone of the jobs market. That is making it harder to […]

Beth Ann Herrin ,the propietor of on the Realityplus Clothing Company took a few moments recently to speak with our special correspondent Lisa Di Clemente about starting her niche clothing website.
Beth Ann, tell us about Realityplus Clothing. What prompted you to start this business?
Realityplus Clothing Company is a company that was created to focus […]