Image via CrunchBase When we emerge from this recession, you may want to borrow money to start or expand your business. If you do, the time to plan is now. Specifically, you’ll want to examine your credit history. These days, all personal lending and much of business financing considers your credit score as the leading [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Contractors Can Collect Unemployment
Did you know that independent contractors, freelancers, and temps can, in some cases, collect unemployment? I sure didn’t until read this New York Post story by Sheila McClear. Say you’ve been working as a contractor with BigExpensiveStuff Inc to develop and implement a new marketing strategy. Times have been tough for BigExpensiveStuff over the past [...]
Telecommuting News Summary
Dear Readers: We’ve decided to stop publishing the weekly Telecommuting New Summary because the automated process to produce it, we’re concerned that we might unintentionally direct our readers to scams and other junk posts. If you’d like to create your own weekly summary, just use Google Alerts to aggregate and report the topics that interest [...]
New FTC Rule Could Trigger Big Fines for Bloggers
Image via Wikipedia New guidelines regarding the use endorsements and testimonials were released by the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) last month, and they have far-reaching implications for bloggers and advertisers. Under the new rules both face substantial fines if they fail to disclose value-for-testimonial relationships. A Workshifting.com post by David Baeza, head of the global [...]
Self Employed Humor
A woman owned a small consulting company near San Diego California. The California Labor Department got a tip that she was not paying proper wages to her help and sent an investigator out to interview her. “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them,” demanded the investigator. “Well,” replied the [...]
