No, sorry if you were thinking we’d won some sort of award.  I think we all hope that will happen, but know it never will.
This is a short post, because for the very first time ever, we’re featuring a video in a blog post.  Yup, we’re seriously behind the times on this, and should have [...]

eBay SE Asia have announced an “invitation only” listing promotion for sellers in their region.
Sellers who list on the US site from now through to 31st December, and offer free shipping, will receive 25% off final value fees … provided at least 25% of their listings total qualify for the promotional rate.
The emphasis on free [...]

Over on PaymentsViews.com, Glenbrook’s Carol Coye Benson took a look at the UK’s Faster Payments Service.
Carol spoke with David McFarlane, Company Manager of CHAPS Clearing Company about FP – and said she was surprised by much of what he said – FP is not what you thought!
Her article comes at a good time to ask [...]

Newly released data shows that PayPal is up to five times more fraud-prone than regular credit cards, based on statements made by eBay to the Australian ACCC last year.
Financial Fraud Action UK, the voice of the industry in the UK for financial fraud matters, (previously known as APACS) has published the latest payment industry fraud [...]

Last Thursday’s UK card fraud report was surprisingly positive – with card fraud losses down 23% for the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008.
However, there was much worse news with respect to online banking fraud – which spiked up 55% in the same period.  I’ve not seen the data to [...]

Where to Sell your Santa Letters?
Congratulations! You followed our advice and decided to start a Santa Letter Business.  You’ve got your kit, ink, stationery and some little goodies for the envelopes.
You’re ready to start processing orders.  But, before you settle down and rest, you still have some marketing to do.
Even though there is a [...]

Article by: JustAddSweat.com’s “Start a Santa Letter Guide”
With the uncertainty surrounding the economy these days, many people are trying to think of ideas to make money from home. You don’t want to fall for a scam but you do want something that is easy to do and still have time for your families.
Starting a Santa [...]

From where to shop and eat, to where the best places to live or work are, most people will freely share their ideas about these things with others.
This can also translate to what the best products and services are out there and people talk about them with their friends and families via word-of-mouth.  It’s [...]

Are you a crafty person who enjoys making other people happy by creating beautiful things?
Do you like sharing how you do this with others?
Then an online crafting blog might be perfect for you!
Blogs are like online journals and they can be set up easily in minutes via the use of such free applications like [...]

Having a Web log, or ”Blog” as it’s more commonly called, is a great way to share information with others in a public forum, by posting comments on an often free website.
Blogs are easy to build; even a novice can set one up in just an hour or less. With free applications like Google’s “Blogger” [...]

Thanks to the rising costs of daycare and transportation and the desire to have a parent home with the children, today many mothers choose to work from home.
This arrangement is sometimes called “telecommuting”, and it allows parents the opportunity to set up a workspace in their homes to earn a living instead of having to [...]

A new research report titled “Protecting Personal Information: We Lost the Battle, Can We Win the War?” by TowerGroup,  declares that the financial services industry has lost the battle to protect consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII) data.
TowerGroup’s George Tubin points out that “in light of the loss or theft of hundreds of millions of data [...]

A Perfect Work from Home Opportunity:
Start a Transcription Business
If you’re looking for a business to start from home quickly and easily then working as a general transcriptionist could be just what you’re looking for.
A transcriptionist is someone who who types verbatim (word-for-word) from an audio recording.  This online business idea won’t require much in [...]

Mom, You Can Become an Online Virtual Assistant
by Nicole Dean
Virtual Assistants are frequently mothers, like you and me, who want to work from home.
A Virtual Assistant (or VA) can offer clients any number of services from their home-based location, rather than being at a traditional office.   VAs can earn a nice income, charging somewhere [...]

Got Writing Skills?
If you have ever dreamed about having a career in freelance writing, you might look into the growing opportunity of “Ghostwriting”.
Ghostwriting is the practice of writing books, articles, etc. anonymously for a client.  In turn, the client gets full rights to place their name on the writing, and publish it as their own.
In [...]