Monthly Archives: January 2008

January 19, 2008

Telecommuter’s Lament—It’s The Little Things

You can tell who the pioneers are, it’s said, because they’re the ones with the arrows in their back. If you’re one of the pioneers of home-office work, if you run a home-based business, if you work for a big company and telecommute, or if you’re involved in telework any other way, you’ve probably experienced [...]

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January 18, 2008

Don’t Blow That Work-At-Home Job With Digital Dirt

If you’re looking for a telecommuting job or home-based freelance work, you might want to sort out any digital skeletons lurking in your closets before they scare off prospective suitors. Execunet, a executive career and business networking organization, recently updated a study of recruiting practices first conducted in 2005. That study showed that “digital dirt,” [...]

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January 16, 2008

Home-Based Workers Ask “Will the Iceman Cometh?”

Ruminating, I remind you, means both thinking deeply and chewing cud.That said, I’ve been ruminating on the idea that the 100 million people who say they’d like to work from home, plus the 28 million who already do, may provide the impetus for the return of daily home deliveries. Add skyrocketing fuel costs, pandemics, and [...]

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January 15, 2008

Scambusting: Telecommuting and Home Business ‘Opportunities’

We’re not sure why, but it seems the telecommuting and home-based business world has attracted more than its fair share of scam artists. Perhaps the problem is because this way of working is so new that people don’t really know what to expect or accept. So, as South American revolutionary Che Guevera put it, “Where [...]

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January 14, 2008

Home-Based Businesses: Use Your Credit

Back in my days as a small business lender, I asked a loan applicant why he wanted to borrow money from a bank when his accounts showed an abundance of cash. He imparted the following wisdom that I’ve carried with me ever since: Use your credit—your cash is always good. But most business owners don’t [...]

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