Extreme Work At Home Success – Canadian Style

The globeandmail.com reports on Canadian entrepreneur Brian Alger who runs a soft drink business from his home apparently finishing his day by 1pm on most days. He has tapped into the nostalgia for a 70′s discount brand, Pop Shoppe, even re-registering the trademark and relaunching the brand with bottle custom designed to resemble those from the 70′s.

Last year the re-born Pop Shoppe sold over 6 million bottles making it Canada’s second largest selling premium soda. Remarkable enough though when you consider the man knew nothing about the soda business and actually has no empoyees you can’t help but admire him all the more. He runs the entire operation from home its all outsourced meaning his workload is really all about co-ordinating the efforts of the various partners involved.

Of course it was no easy ride to success, the article explains how Alger got started, the costs involved and the many failures and disappointments before the first glimpse of success. Now with sosme success under his belt Alger is looking to make a dent in the much larger US market!

This is a well written article by Joanna Pachner an inspiring story of how one entrepreneur’s journey had lows before the highs, check it out here.

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This post was written by admin on June 7, 2010

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Social Media & Marketing

Just saw this excellent and funny little video explaining the principles of social media marketing.

Its aimed at larger enterprises than most work at home businesses but the principles are the same no matter what your size. If you have a business in just about anything you can learn from this how to spread the word in a positive light.

Credit to http://ocondesign.com/?p=713

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This post was written by admin on August 27, 2009

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Another Work At Home Idea – Sports Souvenir Business

I keep coming across some cool little businesses run right from home that almost anyone can do.

I recently came across a couple who have a nice little business dealing in sports related collectibles including football trading cards as well as little figurines and souvenir signed posters etc.

They do everything in their own time using a website to market their goods and getting traffic from links, adwords and some ebay marketing.

While its not their main income they do very nicely from it, its enough to pay for the treats and to set up their retirement fund, though I reckon they’ll be doing this stuff well past retirement from work.

Good luck to them, always nice to hear of folk setting themselves up with a little security doing something they love!

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This post was written by admin on June 19, 2009

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