My collection of articles, blog posts, or videos that I found this past week that might be of  some value to you.  Read, digest, discuss. [Click on the headline to read the full article]

17 Reasons Why Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Listen to “Experts”:

There will always be naysayers. And some of them may have even been right in the past about an idea, thought or event. Even if they have been right about something in the past, it doesn’t mean that they’re opinion is always correct. Are you willing to risk your business on someone else’s opinion of it?

IRS Agent Didn’t Report $41,842 in EBay Sales

…claimed her EBay sales were not a business, and characterized it as an online garage sale, according to the court document. She said she liked to shop for designer clothes and that this was a way to clean out her closets.

5 Tax Advantages of a Home-Based Business

The perks of a home-based business are many: freedom, independence, tax advantages … yes, tax advantages. Here are some tax advantages that your home based business may qualify for.

Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."-Helen Keller

Tenacity vs Intellect: What Makes an Entrepreneur? [Video] 

3 Things You Must Have When Starting A Online Home Business To Be Successful

Desire, Discipline and Discretion is the answer to your dream to be self-employed without failing.

1. Entrepreneurs’ Simple Ideas Can Mean Big Success: Think small, grow big. 
2. Optimistic entrepreneurs offer tips on besting recession:Words of wisdom for surviving a recession from some the country’s top women entrepreneurs.
3. Young entrepreneur opens her second Beauty Loft downtown: At 20 years old the owner of The Beauty Loft, Jessica Lhota , is opening her second retail store. Makes me really regret my mis-spent youth.
4. 10 unordinary tips for entrepreneur women: A great list of tips for every entrepreneur (in my opinion), My favorites: 1,3,6, 7, and10
5. Mint.com Founder Tells Entrepreneurs To Stick To The Basics:When someone can take a company from $0 to $170 million in three years, you should really want to hear what he has to say.
6. Entrepreneur sees future – on his iPhone: I have recommended creating iPhone apps as a good home business before. Its seems like the gentleman featured in this article agrees with me.

 Bonus LoLVideo:

This was the runner up for the Funny Fridays video selected this week. This is YouTube at its best.

Interesting reading that you might have missed this week.  Read, digest, discuss.

Internet Marketing Guide For Newbies.  Internet marketing is one most popular ways to make money online. It even made my list of 10 Business That You Run Out of a Dorm Room. Here’s a good article laying a roadmap for success.

Is Your ‘Scammy’ Sense Tingling? I haven’t come across Liberty League as of yet but someone down under doesn’t like them. Does anyone know anything about this company? Stand up and share with the class.

Good Idea? Bad Idea?  I’ll let you decide. Read the article and leave a comment stating if you think this is a good mony making idea or bad one. I’ll post results in next week’s column.

Heeere’s Tony. As is Tony Robbins the self guru. He posted a video on his blog on where he interviews two millionaires that made their fortunes from Internet marketing. The interview seeks to find out what traits successful people share. The video is 38 minutes long so you might want to get comfortable.

Is That Really Legal? Can someone explain this to me? I’ve seen some "creative" ways to make money but this one takes it to a whole new level.

UPDATE:

More Businesses You Can Run From Your Dorm Room: I came across another list of businesses that a would-be college entepreneur can run the comfort of a dorm room.

 LMAO@ 2:48!!!

1. Have you got the moxie? Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Forget startup capital, forget years of experience, forget having a huge network of contacts.  This article wants you to look deep inside of yourself and ask some pretty tough questions.
2. Finding Money For Your Business.  Not having enough money to fund your business is one of the biggest killer of the entrepreneurial dream.  This post outlines a couple of places to look for additional funding.
3. MLM Business- How to Make Money Online Selling Other Peoples’s Product. MLM’s are still very popular. And there are many legitimate MLM companies out there. The trick is knowing how to pick out the good ones. 
4. Books For Entrepreneurs. I read The Prince years ago. It might be a good time for a re-read. Never heard of the other 2. Can anyone share a few books that they think are good for entrepreneurs?
5. Your JOB (Just Over Broke) is Killing Your Spirit. This one is kind of wordy but I agree that nothing can kill your dreams of freedom and happiness quicker than a job.  That’s why its important to stay focused on your goals and take immediate and consistent ACTION towards acheiving your goals.

1) Where to be an Etntrepreneur: Entrepreneur.com posted this article profiling 10 start-up friendly cities and success stories from each city. Biggest suprises: Portland Oregon,  Chapel Hill North Carolina, and Madison Wisconsin.

2) Entrepreneur Thrives in Difficult Economy: Chris Hume combines his passion for design with his love for children into a growing company.

3) Entrepreneur Survival Guide: 10 Apps the every entrepreneur should use daily 

4) Mortgage Bake Sale Becomes a Runaway Success: New Jersery woman started selling cakes to raise money to stop foreclouse and it turns into a huge business opportunity.

5) 15 Ways to Take Action NOW!:   15 steps to world domination. If world domination isn’t your thing, then you could use them to help you get control of your life and move you closer to your obtaining your goals.

BONUS VIDEO (It was a hard week, so I needed an extra laugh. You probably do too! Enjoy)

Yes, change has come to The Home Business Private Eye.com!

Welcome to the latest verison of my humble little blog. Even though it’s only the 3^rd verison, it’s light years beyond the default word press theme that I started with.  I believe that it was about two and half years ago when I launch my first blog and I remember being impressed with myself when I figured out how to change the default color scheme. Last week I handled the upgrade from Word Press 2.6 to 2.8 (without the benefit of the automatic upgrade function) and I’ve been tweaking the code on this theme to customize it to my needs. So, not only has the blog come a long way, it has dragged me along with it. 

Work in Progress

There is still much work to be done.  As I write this post I’m chatting with the support desk of my hosting company trying to fix some technical issues that are beyond my pay grade.  And there is still some tweaking I have to do on my end; like getting the header that took me a day and half to create to show. But I am doing this upgrade in stages so as not overwhelme myself. So please bear with me.  As it stands now the plan is to resume regular posting on July 6th.  That should give me enough time to complete all the tweaks, work out any bugs, and get the new services up and running. What new services you ask?!? Well its a secret for now but I plan to introduce them very soon.  All I’ll say is that I’m working on reducing the guest work some of you do when trying to find the right business.

Update: Due to the change in themes some of the formatting on some of the older posts is off.  I’m correcting them as I come across them.

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Happy Thanksgiving Charlie Brown!

 I watch this special every year.  Makes me feel like a kid every time.

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