Archive for the 'Business' Category

Search Engine Help for Your Business

How is your small business going? Mine is moving right along, though I admit growth has slowed down. I’m still maintaining all that I have been, but find that it is time to outsource a few items I have to work on. I would love to have a virtual assistant, but I’m at that point [...]

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Online File Sharing

There is a new web based business in town! Check out Driveway (which is at http://www.driveway.com) for Online File Sharing. I’ve ran into this problem before. I’ll have an attachment and when I go to send it to someone it gets stuck in my outbox (or gets stuck ‘sending’) and just never leaves. Driveway offers [...]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

PayPerPost Secures Another Round

PayPerPost never ceases to be controversial and the announcement of securing $7 million in funding has simply brought on another round. I haven’t read many reviews, but I hope people can stop questioning various bloggers blog ethics. Since when is earning money selling your soul? I for one am very happy for Ted Murphy and [...]

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Paid Blogging Goes Direct

PayPerPost recently released a handful of changes one of which is PPP Direct. Here is a video you can watch that tells about the process. This looks like a great addition to an already great get paid to blog network. PPP Direct puts an advertiser in the drivers seat of picking who they want to [...]

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

Getting used to not working

When we left off : We moved to an area that just about required a commute for a job. Not just any commute, a 45 minute on a great traffic day commute. Keep in mind that I was pregnant and was looking at temp jobs. Yep, they wanted me to commute at least 45 minutes [...]

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Data Backup Online

Have you heard of IDrive? It is a free online backup service – free up to 2GB of storage. There is a paid version available ($49.50/year) and that comes with unlimited storage. I hope you have some sort of backup system. I have an external hard drive which has the same amount of memory as [...]

Friday, April 27th, 2007

Consulting Jobs

I’ve been working various consulting jobs off and on for the past ten years or so. After I was out of high school I worked for our school district’s technology guy – it was there I learned html, a couple of wysiwyg programs, as well as a few specialized software programs. I had a couple [...]

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

Send Files Securely

There are some times in working online when I need to send something securely via email – when I do my brothers taxes for him being just one of those times. I’ve been doing his taxes for years – they are simple to do but he hasn’t had a computer until just a couple of [...]

Tuesday, April 24th, 2007

When A Property Manager Would Be Great

We are renting our house ourselves. That’s fine, we collect the rent, we don’t pay a fee to anyone, we communicate with the renters, we take care of repairs. But there are some moments when I wish we would have gone with a good property manager. First of all we would have gotten more money [...]

Friday, April 6th, 2007

Starting With A Good Work Ethic

I have worked since I was 14 years old. I got a job during the summer and worked up until the week before school started. During the school year I couldn’t drive so I didn’t have a job, but several of my friends had jobs because they livedin tihe same town as the job. I [...]

Saturday, March 10th, 2007