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Working from home requires discipline and balance
Many people are trading in their commuter passes and cubicle life to work from home. After all, technological advancements enable remote access to servers, and just having e-mail and Internet access can provide workers all the tools they need to conduct business from a home office.
The appeal of working at home is very alluring to those who have sampled the benefits, particularly mothers or fathers who think this would be the ideal means to remaining in the workforce, while also caring for children. Many think at-home workers have it easy. Dont they have free reign to wake up late, remain in their pajamas and probably goof off more than they put in productive hours?
Thats how misinformed people view working from home, or telecommuting, as its often called. However, many home-based workers can attest that these statements couldnt be further from the truth.
Centerville firm running scam, suit claims
"Immediate Cash Flow! Incredible Return on Investment! The Perfect Home Based Business!" proclaims Universal Advertising Inc. of Centerville in promoting its franchises.
"Bogus business opportunity," responds the Federal Trade Commission.
"Lacking a reasonable basis for each claim," adds the U.S. Department of Justice.
The federal agencies on Dec. 6 filed a civil lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City that accuses Universal of harming consumers and the public interest.
It is the only Utah action among more than 100 taken nationwide in Project FAL$E HOPE$, an FTC crackdown on alleged franchise and work-at-home scams.
The suit alleges Universal has violated the Franchise Rule that requires franchisers to have a reasonable basis for earnings claims, to provide complete and accurate financial information to potential buyers and to disclose the number of prior purchasers who achieved the same or better results as touted in promotional material.
FTC launches crackdown on work-at-home scams
US consumer rights organisation the Federal Trade Commission has joined up with law enforcement agencies to launch a crackdown on bogus job opportunity scams.
Project FAL$E HOPE$ encompasses 100 law enforcement actions against various bogus work-at-home scams. The bogus business opportunities targeted include vending machines, ATM and Internet terminals, display racks for coffee and ink cartridges, Internet-based businesses, envelope stuffing, medical billing, and others.
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Centerville Company Targeted in Home-Based Business Lawsuit
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal prosecutors have filed a civil lawsuit against a Centerville, Utah, company that promised a home-based business opportunity would bring investors immediate cash flow and incredible returns. But the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice say the promise was bogus and lacked a basis for the claim. Both agencies are parties in the lawsuit filed Dec. 6 in U.S. District Court.
The action is among 100 included in "Project False Hopes," an 11-state federal crackdown on work-at-home scams. Other cases involves home-based business opportunities for vending machines, ATM and Internet terminals, envelope stuffing and medical billing.
The Utah lawsuit alleges Universal Advertising Inc., failed to provide complete and accurate financial information to potentials buyers and failed to disclose the number of prior investors who had achieved the profit levels claimed in promotional material.
Easy Home Based Businesses
If you want to survive in this world and support your everyday needs, then its either you work for others or work for yourself. The former is the more common choice simply since people find it easier to find a job working for other people. Traditionally, employees favor a predictable office lifestyle than the risks involved in running their own business. Nowadays, however, more and more individuals discover that they prefer to have their own business in order to free themselves from the constant 9 to 5 hour routine that a normal day job requires. Establishing a home based business may seem daunting at first but things can be easy if you know which direction to take. .
Home Business Cents to Target Moms and Dads
Home Business Cents promotion will target moms and dads who want extra part-time money making business for their spouse and family.
Montevallo, AL, USA, December 27, 2006 (XTVWorld.Com) -- The formula for a Work-at-Home business is having a product everyone wants and working hard to get the word out that you can supply this product to them. The birth of the internet has led to the profitable home based business, with many opportunities, which has led to an exponential growth in mom and dad working from home.
Daily evidence by the recent company layoffs and shutting down of plants announced on news and press everyday, HomeBusinessCents.com aims to jump in the forefront of the home-based business Industry with a powerful online promotional campaign of its stable medical discount program, enabling other would be entrepreneurs to start and run legitimate work from home based business.
Leading Home Furnishing Retailer Anna's Linens Selects CyberShift ...
NEW YORK, Jan. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- NATIONAL RETAIL FEDERATION'S 96TH ANNUAL CONVENTION & EXPO - CyberShift, a leading provider of global workforce management and expense management software and services, today announced that Anna's Linens has selected the company's Workforce Management 3G(TM) suite of products as its new workforce management system. Costa Mesa, Calif.-based Anna's Linens, the value leader in fashions for the home, operates 249 stores in 21 states and employs more than 2,000 workers. Over the next three years, the company's strategic initiatives involve major expansion efforts including increasing the number of stores and recruiting and training employees to work at these new retail locations.
"We wanted to give our store managers an automated, easy-to-use scheduling and time-and-attendance system that allows them to focus their energies on our core business: merchandising, sales and the overall daily management of our retail locations," explained Linda Wendt, vice president, Human Resources, Anna's Linens.
Putting a price on cleanliness
Housekeepers used to be only for the wealthy. But these days, middle class Americans are hiring help to do their dusting, scrubbing and vacuuming. "It used to be for the rich, but the people who need us more and more are the people who work," says Anna Manalis, who owns a housecleaning company called Home Express.
Though the company is based in Huntington, Manalis comes to the Danbury area to clean customers' homes.
"(People) don't want to spend their Saturday and Sunday cleaning their houses," she says. "Mothers want to spend time with their kids. That's why the business is starting to get bigger and bigger every day."
Bethel resident Kathy Eggert said having a house cleaner has allowed her to spend more time with her two small children. Her husband had the idea to hire a house cleaner five years ago.
Company to launch magazine for work-at-home women
Cutting Edge Media Inc., based in Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, is launching a magazine for women interested in working from home. The magazine, called From Home, will publish for the first time in February. From Home will provide tools and strategies for starting a home-based business and offer real stories from women already working from home. Cutting Edge Media provides lead generation and marketing prospecting services for the direct sales, home business, franchise and network marketing industries.
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