Work at Home Business Ideas

This mom owned website has three different directions it goes in. Be Still & Knit offers knitting and crochet classes, hand-knit baby and children’s items as well as a charity program called Blankets for Deployed Daddies which gives hand-knit blankets to the babies of deployed soldiers.
With the many years experience to back her up […]

The New York Times:
The e-commerce bandwagon bypassed millions of carpenters, massage therapists, lawyers and other service providers, mostly because it is impossible to drop an appointment into a shopping cart without unleashing a scheduling nightmare.
Now that a set of Internet start-up companies has emerged to help solve this problem, though, small businesses could start using […]

lifehack.org:
Telecommuting has been suggested as a cure-all from everything from the stress of your morning commute to that high carbon footprint you want to reduce. And odds are you have a whole list of what you need to make the switchover: software packages, computer specs, technical equipment for your profession. Every productivity website has lists […]

International Herald Tribune:
They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed with computers and smartphones and wired to the hilt, are toiling […]

Observer-Dispatch:
Bret Snyder had a tough time finding couture dresses for his wife’s miniature pincher Nicolina.
There weren’t many stores for dog specialty wear, so Snyder brought it all together in his one-stop Web site, nicolinaballerina.com, a boutique that sells dog couture wear and accessories.
“The pet industry is the fastest growing industry. Everybody is buying stuff for […]

Marketing Profs Daily Fix:
Holly Suttmann, a former schoolteacher, started the Black & Light Candle company. Holly really understands word of mouth.
Lessons from Holly:
1. Cultivate key talkers. She’s sent me two personal notes and really built a relationship with me.
2. Use samples. People can’t talk about a product they haven’t seen.
3. Make it easy to spread […]

MyDesert:
Bob Smith is one of the owners of Teserra, the area’s largest designer and builder of outdoor environments. He’s come a long way. He started in 1979 by digging trenches for $2.65 an hour at a San Fernando Valley pool company and then set out to learn plumbing and masonry. Today, he and four partners […]