What are the Top 100 At-Home Businesses for 2007?

I've been kind of slacking on staying up to date here. I have two other blogs that I devote my time to, but that's a poor excuse.

Anyway, guilt or responsibility compelled me to get to work here. In my continual wanderings, what I came across is a site called startupnation.com, which listed the top 100 home-based business in the United States. The winner in the "most lucrative" category: Medical Solutions International where Robert Woltz has grown a business that connects nurses on short-term contracts to medical facilities. The company grossed $11.2 million in 2006.

MSI has a network of more than 10,000 registered nurses with more than 500 actively placed at any given time in hospitals in the U.S. and internationally. Nurses get benefits, incentive programs, flexible work schedules, and long-term stability.

Startupnation.com has categorized the best home businesses in a variety of categories including most innovative, wackiest, grungiest, most wordly, and, my favorite, most slacker friendly.

To see the Top 100 list, go here.

Go check out what other people are doing.

Swollen Pickles and Goal Setting

Goal setting is a good idea. And it's an especially good idea for us work-at-home folks trying to make a go of things online.

I came across a site called Swollen Pickles. Can't recall how or why I came across the site. In any case, the bloggist here has kept track of his online earnings for 2007. He has set specific goals regarding the amount of money he wanted to make from his blogs and the number of site visitors he was hoping for. He also set a goal for his body weight. He then month by month posted updates on this progress toward his goals.

This got me thinking that I should set some goals, post them here, and update my progress. Not a unique idea in the blogoshphere but worth a try.

Even if you're not interested in goals, check out Swollen Pickles for some ideas on how he made money online in his own work-from-home scenario.