From the category archives:

Home Office Trends

A Warning…

November 30, 2010

I will be doing more posts than usual to my blog come Wednesday as I participate in #reverb10 and then in 2011 I will be switching up my blog! In 2009 I blogged in Gwen Bell’s Best of 2009 , which was “A look back on your year. A time for reflection. A chance to [...]

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Personal Brand 2011 Marketing Plan

October 27, 2010

Wow- this year has gone by so incredibly fast! The team at Ovaleye is hard at work at our 2011 Marketing Plan. We have some exciting happenings developing and are excited to work hard at getting our name out their as the place to go to empower your small office home office business through hosted [...]

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What do you do?….

October 6, 2010

That is a good question. I am part owner of a company that hosts websites (Ovaleye); it’s not something that people hear of everyday and it’s not exactly something I do. I’m building a business, not necessarily trading hours for dollars, creating something that provides a service that many people don’t understand on face value, [...]

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Take our Daughters and Sons to Work 2010

April 20, 2010
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Last year I wrote (not very elequently) on the history of Take our Daughters and Sons to Work Day, including a clip from the sitcom The Office. In the clip the character Kevin shows his fiance’s daughter around his cubicle. Like Kevin in the clip, the entire episode is a mix of activities that have [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Running a Business Out of your Home

November 13, 2009

I began working from home right after college when I joined our family business, Ovaleye Web Solutions. Since then the majority of the clients I have had the pleasure of working with have begun new businesses from their kitchen tables, extra bedrooms, and local coffee shops. Whether you are building a business from your home, subcontracting, or your employer is letting you work from your home office, there will be pros and cons to living the work from home lifestyle. Here are a few…

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Mr. Mom Revisited

April 24, 2009

Another video… I know, but it’s good! I just finished reading an excellent article from the NY Times on the surge in number of stay at home dads, an effect caused by the poor economy. The article comments on a few items of interest to me. First being that in many cases the wives are [...]

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Take Your Daughters- and Sons- To Work Day

April 23, 2009

Today is Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work day. The program originally began in 1993 as “Take Our Daughters to Work” by the Ms. Foundation for Women. The Ms. Foundation for women began as a way to gain exposure and funding for the women’s movement in the early 70′s. In 2003 the program incorporated [...]

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Twitter Mainstreamed! Oprah takes on Twitter.

April 19, 2009
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Telecommuters, Work from homers, Independents… The SOHO Movers and Shakers

July 14, 2008

With the costs of commuting skyrocketing it’s understandable that the work from home trend is on the rise. There are over 4.2 million Americans who refer to their house as both a home and an office. An article about the politics of working from home that ran in the NY Times last November noted that, [...]

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