One of the toughest obstacles we face when working from home is making it appear that we're not, in fact, working from home. When clients call and there are kids screaming in the background, pets barking and meowing and timers going off for laundry and cooking, it doesn't appear professional. So, how can we appear more professional?

Tip # 1: Have a clean, professional website with your own domain name.

Do not, under any circumstances, have a "free" website hosted on another domain name with other company's ads all over the place! This is one of the biggest no-no's out there! Decide, instead, that in order to appear professional, you must invest in a professional website. If you aren't skilled in web design, hire someone…

I'm no stranger to Network Marketing. I've owned a number of "Starter Kits" in my days. Once, I made really good money, but it didn't last. Why? Because Network Marketing is a flawed business model. 

Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) has been around for decades. Can you make a lot of money in MLM? Yes. Will it last? No.

I've seen people through the years that made fortunes in MLM, but today they are not in the business or moved on to another MLM.

MLM's will always fail, with a few exceptions. The Network Marketing companies that seem to have longevity revolve around solid mainstream products, like cosmetics, cookware, candles. All of the gimmick products like vitamins, weight loss, nutritional…

Mark the date for NYEBN's 2011 Official Holiday Party! To carry forward NYEBN's innovative DNA, we want to do away with our traditional trade show model this time. How about some top-notch business networking in a more productive environment, with plenty of food and drinks for everybody? RSVP here: http://www.ny-entrepreneur-network.com/events/41803322/ Time: 6 - 11 PM, Wed., Dec. 14 Location: Empire State Building (60th Fl) 350 5th Ave, New York, NY Admission: ~ Discounted tickets for NYEBN members - $10/person (until midnight of 12/7) ~ Regular tickets…

By Dr. Jeffrey Lant



Author's program note. We shareholders of the United States of America, Inc. are deeply worried, perplexed, baffled and, yes, angry about our persistent unemployment rate, which continues to hover around 9%, with no end in sight. Experts, in fact, once so quick to offer their profound economic predictions based on their experience and study of past malaises are now gun shy, having been wrong so often; as a result their predictions are more opaque than ever, seeming to say much, but after explication saying absolutely nothing at all.



Into this breach the brightest and most well meaning folks have entered... unwilling to be patient a minute longer and anxious to show that American people can solve America's problems, even this draining one of unemployment. And so today, we celebrate what our never-say-die countrymen are dreaming up for bona fide jobs in the hopes that you, too, will join the parade and keep those grand ideas coming, timely and in…