Randy Duermyer over at About.com’s homebusiness guide dropped us a note warning of yet another telecommuting (work-at-home) scam. Seems the lowlifes involved are offering part-time data entry jobs—or at least they claim they are. But there’s a catch: as part of the hiring process they inform you that you need some special and therefore expensive [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Cutting Back While Moving Forward
This post isn’t about telecommuting or work from jobs per se, but there’s a new kid on the block you should meet. RubbingNickels.com is nice looking new website based on the premis that in tough financial times you have to have a plan and you have to be organized. You’ll find solid advice there on [...]
Reality and Working At Home
In our book, Undress For Success we offer the naked truth about making money at home. And you can; you just have to know how—that’s why we wrote the book and filled it with what you need to know to succeed. The allure of working at home is so strong the scammers prosper offering ridiculous [...]
Our Freelance Tips in the Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal did a big story on freelancing today. Sarah Needleman, the author, did a great job of pulling together lots of good information for existing and prospective home-based freelancers. She even included some advice from yours truly (though she referred to our book as Undressed For Success, but beggars can’t be choosers [...]
Your Digital Future
The first report of the University of Southern California Annenberg School Digital Future Project in 2001 created a baseline profile of Internet behavior and attitudes. The survey looked at who is and isn’t online, what media Internet users use and trust, how online consumers behave, what communication patterns could be teased from online usage and [...]
