Hope That You Will Love Today's Mega-Converter!

Hi Friends:

Sincerely hope that you will find today's MEGA-CONVERTER both interesting and useful.

It can do conversions over a wide range of disciplines.

Familiar tasks such as converting yards into meters, and less used ones like tons into hundred-weights or into pounds, are all there! Literally hundreds of conversions can be accurately and rapidly done. Click the Mega-Coverter link near the top-right of this blog, and this tremendous tool will come to life.

Please enjoy, and check us out again tomorrow!

More About "Due Diligence"

Friends:

We are almost done with our "essential terms" and "anti-scam tips. Please click on the link included our first POST dealing with this subject, for a full read of the source document! However, I hope that my excerpts on these subjects will be helpful!

More Essential Terms For your "Knowledge Bank:"

1. Computer Virus: computer code that is created maliciously to damage your files or disrupt your computer system. You can unintentionally download a virus from a Web site, receive it as an attachment in an email, or get it from a computer disk.

2. Chat Room: an area online that allows users to communicate in real time by typing and posting messages that others can read and/or respond to.

Some More Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Beware of the old “envelope stuffing” scheme: In this classic scam, instead of getting materials to send out on behalf of a company, you get instructions to place an ad like the one you saw, asking people to send you money for information about working at home. This is an illegal pyramid scheme because there is no real product or service being offered. You won’t get rich, and you could be prosecuted for fraud.

2. Do your own research about work-at-home opportunities: the “Work-At-Home Sourcebook” and other resources that may be available in your local library provide good advice and lists of legitimate companies that hire people to work for them at home. You may discover that these companies hire only local people and that there is nothing available in your area.

Please think about the messages in today's POST, and share some thoughts in our "Leave A Comment" box at your convenience. Thanks.

Please Use As Part Of Your Due Diligence

Friends:

Here are some more terms that you should be familiar with. And, a couple more anti-scam tips.

More Essential Terms For your "Knowledge Bank:"

1. Secure Anonymous Remailer: Web sites that will strip your identifying information so you can surf other Web sites and send email anonymously.

2. Software: Programs that tell computers how to perform certain functions like word processing, accounting spreadsheets, or games.

More Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Don’t believe that you can make big profits easily: Operating a home-based business is just like any other business – it requires hard work, skill, good products or services, and time to make a profit.

2. Be aware of legal requirements: To do some types of work, such as medical billing, you may need a license or certificate. Check with your state attorney general’s office. Ask your local zoning board if there are any restrictions on operating a business from your home. Some types of work cannot be done at home under federal law. Look for the nearest U.S. Department of Labor in the government listings of your phone book.

Please don't be scared or discouraged by any information or ideas shared on this blog. Suggest, instead, that you use it as part of your "due diligence," going forward!

Also, please use our "comments" box to share your thoughts and ideas.

Thanks.

Today's Essential Terms & Anti-Scam Tips!

Friends:

Here are more essential terms and anti-scam tips, as promised. The sources are the same as stated in yesterday's POST. Do you think that this information is useful to the SOHO community?

Today's Essential Terms:

1. Cookie: Placed on your computer by a Website you've visited, or by an advertiser on that site, these tiny documents work like electronic tags to track what you look at on the Website and, in some cases, to track what other Websites you visit. Cookies are used to identify visitors for customer service, customizing information and preferences, marketing, and other purposes.

2. Internet Service Provider: A company that provides direct access to the Internet, usually for a fee.

Todays Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Get all the details before you pay. A legitimate company will be happy to give you information about exactly what you will be doing and for whom.

2. Find out if there is really a market for your work. Claims that there are customers for work such as medical billing and craft making may not be true. If the company says it has customers waiting, ask who they are and contact them to confirm. You can also ask likely customers in your area (such as doctors for medical billing services) if they actually employ people to do that work from home.

That's all for this POST. Of course, all comments will be highly appreciated!

Essential Terms & Scam Awareness Tips

Today's POST takes us in a somewhat different direction. It deals with some computer-related business terms (which all SOHO owners should know), and shares some tips to help SOHO-ers avoid scams when prospecting for work-at-home opportunities.

Today's Essential Terms:

1. Browser: software that allows you to travel the World Wide Web. Common browsers include: Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.

2. Encryption: scrambling data into a private code so that it can be securely transmitted and only decoded by the intended recipient.

(These terms are from: http://www.nclnet.org/technology/essentials/glossary.html).

Todays Anti-Scam Tips:

1. Be cautious about emails offering work-at-home opportunities. Many unsolicited emails are fraudulent.

2. Know who you’re dealing with. The company may not be offering to employ you directly, only to sell you training and materials and to find customers for your work.
(The source of these tips is: http://www.fraud.org/tips/internet/workathome.htm).

Tomorrow's POST will be similar to today's. More essential terms, and more anti-scam tips!

Please leave any thoughts and/or advice in our "comments" box. Thanks.

Do You Know The Expression: SOHO?

Is SOHO a familiar, everyday expression?

It certainly looks like an acronym, but what does it mean?

Are we, perchance, talking about the famous Soho district of London? Or, are we talking about the giddy lights of New York?

Here's what the website AllinLondon.co.uk says about Soho:

• Though it's never going to be cheap, the infamous Soho district should be experienced at least once by visitors and Londoners alike purely because of its history and the fact that it is the historic centre of London nightlife.
• Lying to the east of Regent's Street and west of Tottenham Court Road with the miriad of bars and restaurants on offer, Soho never fails to pull in the punters on Friday and Saturday nights in particular.
• The sex shops for which it once was known are now far less prominent with the trendies slowly taking over with up-market bars and restaurants.
• It remains however a wonderful mix of chic and trashy.
  

But the Soho district in London, and its mirror image in New York, are not the subject of this blog. So let's get to the point, shall we!

Let's therefore turn to Wikipedia websites for a definition of the the SOHO we want to focus on today. Here goes:

• The modern concept of Small Office and Home Office or SoHo, or Small or Home Office or Single Office/ Home Office deals with the category of business which can be from 1 to 10 workers.
• Larger business enterprises, one notch up the size scale, are often categorized as a small business.
• When a company reaches 100 or more employees, it is often referred to as a Small and Medium-sized Enterprise.
• At the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, the term "Small or Home Office" and its variants —along with the acronym "SOHO"— have been used to a great extent by companies who market products targeting the great numbers of small businesses which have a tiny or medium sized office.
• Several ranges of products, such as the Armoire desk and a few other desk forms, are often designed specifically for the "SOHO" market. Several kinds of books are written and marketed specifically for this type of office, ranging from general advice texts to specific guidebooks on setting up such things as a small PBX for the office telephones.
  

Do You Read Bestsellers - Fiction & Nonfiction?

Some years ago, I developed a very interesting habit: I read every bestseller (fiction and non-fiction) I could lay hands on!

Soon, my personal library had literally hundreds of these books, and I found that I could speak sensibly on most topics. I also greatly enjoyed this type of reading, and was able to expand my network of friends by recommending these books or gifting them to anyone who seemed interested.

Last night, the idea occurred to me to provide readers of this blog with a listing of some of the most recent New York Times bestsellers. This initial list comprises six "hardcovers," with subjects ranging from "women & money" to "discovering your own strenghts" and "putting your strengths to work" for you!

If any of you are potential entrepreneurs, or if you just enjoy curling up and reading a great book, I invite you to read one (or more) of these books, and to visit this blogsite in the weeks ahead for more bestseller lists and/or related information.

Thanks for your time, and please visit our blog again soon!