A friend, who also runs a home-based business, told me that she has a pond dug in her garden for better feng shui. It’s a beautiful pond and looks good in her garden but the main reason my friend had it done was to attract good chi for better business. I told her that the […]
Mass Scam Email
In late August, I received an email that was sent by the name of a prominent philanthropist. The email address was slightly different. I only corresponded to this person once and I guess this person, this scammer, who had access to the address book of the legitimate email owner, sent out a mass email to […]
Staff Discount
Working for myself, I just realized that there is one perk that I will never get to enjoy and that is staff discount! You know, a friend told me that she gets a steep discount on items that her company sells which makes her a loyal consumer as well. Another friend, who worked as a […]
Doing Business In Africa
Buy cheap Viagra online As internet users, I am sure many of us have encountered many stories of African scams, particularly from Nigeria. Actually, I know of a few Nigerian Scam 411 victims, one even died as a result of being scammed. A couple of days ago, I read an article that highlighted the other […]
Product Trial & Error
I had the opportunity to meet up with a friend a couple of days ago and was surprised to see that she looks so different now. I remember that we used to call her “Fatty” when we were kids. I know, that was so mean, but then children will always be children. They call each […]
How The PayPal & Skype Divorce Affects Users
Many of us have a PayPal account. Many of us have both a PayPal and Skype account. But with the PayPal and Skype divorce (PayPal sold off Skype for US$2.75 billion recently), I read about cases, quite a few to be alarming, that PayPal users who also use Skype have been mysteriously charged for Skype […]
Seasonal Merchandise
A friend told me that she would like to sell online like me, but unlike me, she doesn’t want to sell an exclusive niche product but to sell in season items; sort of like hit while the iron is hot. She asked me what would sell right now and I couldn’t give her a definite […]