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. [...]

If you haven’t yet tinkered with Google Wave, think of it as a sort of collaborative email where those in your address book are simultaneously invited to view, alter and add to the email rather than having the email travel to each individual.  Collaborators assigned to a certain wave simultaneously have access to the documents carried by the wave through active sessions.  Collaborators can communicate in real time via instant message.  Collaborators can even play games and exchange photos.  Extensions such as grammar and spell checking as well as automatic language translation help to support the Google Wave. [...]

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: [...]

Actress and Global Avon Ambassador Reese Witherspoon

When one thinks of a work-from-home business, the first thought that often comes to mind is the iconic image of the Avon Lady.  Founded in 1886, door-to-door book salesman, David H. McConnel, persuaded women to buy his books by giving out perfume.  Soon, the demand for his perfume outgrew the demand for his books and he established the California Perfume Company in New York.  True to tradition, the company products are still pedaled in the door-to-door fashion by men and women who have used Avon to create a home business for themselves.  Catalogues offer beauty supplies, bath products, and other handy items that cater to women. [...]

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. [...]

I’ve found 8 benefits you can talk about with your employer, according to Kate Lister and Tom Harnish, authors of “Undress for Success: The Naked Truth About Making Money at Home” (Wiley, 2009).

1. Most employers that have been surveyed have said that they’ve noticed an improvement in productivity among their employees who were telecommuting. The amount was substantially more than usual and was observed to be as high as 35% more.

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Cellphones like the iPhone & Motorola Droid help you Work at Home

Cell phones technologies such as the iPhone and the upcoming Motorola Droid are making it more and more possible each day to work from home or anywhere in the world – even while traveling – and reduce your stressful lifestyle. It let’s you be anywhere and still get your work done. It has really helped me to be able to take MORE vacations because I’m not dependent on a job to decide when I can travel. I usually just go when ever I realize I have some money saved up, and I want to travel. And I complete my work while traveling, by the pool, sipping on a drink. [...]