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Make your photos work for you!

Lisa — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:34:11 +0000

One of the most talked-about movie releases of the year is the movie Avatar, directed by James Cameron. This flick looks wicked cool, mostly because it is such a massive special effects undertaking. Just from seeing the previews, I can’t even begin to fathom how some of it was done. But fortunately, most of the demand for videos, photo editing, etc., is not of the ”Avatar movie” caliber. [...]

Never a better time to quit…

Lisa — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:30 +0000

Quitting smoking can improve your health and your bottom line

…than right now!

Today is the Great American Smokeout, a day created to encourage smokers to quit the habit, even for just one day. It’s a great impetus to see if you can go without cigarettes or other tobacco products for 24 hours. [...]

Foreclosures and Real Estate Investing

Lisa — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:30:36 +0000

The housing market, as we all know, is not exactly a bowl of cherries these days. Lending has tightened up, prices are unpredictable at best and freefalling at worst, and people are losing their homes to foreclosure all over the place.

However, that doesn’t mean that you should run away from the idea of real estate investing. While the market might no longer be full of oodles of real estate plums ripe for the picking, there are still great ways to get in on the market. Real estate investing is a great way to work from home (at least part-time, at first), and the foreclosure market is a great way to do this. [...]

Should you get the H1N1 vaccine?

Lisa — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:10:40 +0000

Should you get an H1N1 flu shot?

We all know working from home has a great list of benefits, and a really great one is that you don’t get sick nearly as often. But the H1N1 influenza is out there, and it looks pretty nasty. The vaccine has been released but its availability right now is sketchy at best. To gauge whether the vaccine is worth pursuing (right now, or soon), answer some of these questions for yourself: [...]

Health Care Reform

Lisa — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:07:41 +0000

Is health care reform actually happening?

I have felt for a very long time that a major obstacle for economic growth in the United States was the health care situation. For as many small business that are started up, how many more great ideas are shelved because of the economic barriers to entrepreneurship? Arguably, one of those largest barriers is health insurance. And, it’s not just a barrier for the person starting the business… but when you start a business, sometimes you need to hire people, and you want to hire the best people. How many of those best people will be willing to work without health insurance? [...]

Trapped by Familiarity?

Lisa — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:29:08 +0000

Andre Agassi's shocking autobiography. He describes how trapped he felt doing something he hated

The husband and I sat down to watch Andre Agassi on 60 Minutes this evening. His autobiography, Open, comes out tomorrow, and is full of juicy and scandalous revelations. He was addicted to crystal meth. His iconic hair of the late 80s was a weave. And perhaps most surprising, he hated tennis, and still doesn’t like it very much. I found it shocking – he was so good at it, it was his whole life, and he hated it! [...]

Risk-taking has its rewards – and its traps

Lisa — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:42:15 +0000

Unethical behavior is a risky roll of the dice

Working independently – whether working from home for someone else, or working in the realm of your own business – is an incredibly rewarding and challenging experience. You get to call the shots, make the decisions, be your own boss (or at least, your own supervisor). Truly, any willingness to leave the safe cocoon of a regular office job takes an enormous amount of courage and the ability to weigh options and take a calculated risk. [...]

Happy Anniversary, Sesame Street!

Lisa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Elmo hasn't been around for 40 years, but now Sesame Street has!

When I worked full time in a corporate job, I’d get the kids to day care by 8:30, and sometimes didn’t pick them up until 6:00 or 6:30. I hated it! I was making a great salary that more than paid for their child care, but when all was said and done, paying for the quality of child care I was willing to settle for amounted to a lot of my take-home pay. [...]

Nicolas Cage is broke – and you can be, too!

Lisa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:13:10 +0000

Poor, poor Nicolas Cage. Despite making millions upon millions of dollars over the course of his career, he’s in the poor house. Of course, his poor house is a $10 million mansion in Beverly Hills, but do not judge him! Because, of course, none of this is his fault whatsoever. It’s the fault of his incompetent financial manager, who lined his pockets, didn’t file Nick’s taxes, and committed other sundry vile acts against Mr. Cage for which we should all be shocked and appalled. [...]

Prevention of DVT and Pulmonary Embolism

Lisa — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:42:22 +0000

Working from home doesn’t have to mean sitting in front of a computer all day, but for many of us, that’s exactly what it means. I own a photography business, which someone might immediately picture as an action-packed sort of vocation. But the reality is, I’ll go and take pictures at an event or wedding, or take someone’s portrait, and then spend hours at the computer doing all my uploading and editing. Folks who work from home on a part time or full time basis doing even more computer-centric work, such as programming, will find themselves at the computer even more than I do. [...]