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Working From Home Could Save You Money

If you work outside of the home and you are considering switching to working from home, you may be wondering whether you can afford to make the switch. You know how to make your family’s finances work with your current income, at least most of the time. You are wise to be wary because many home-based businesses do take a while to start making money, but the transition may be more affordable than you think. The reason for that is that, simply stated, working from home cuts your expenses in a number of ways. For example, unless your home-based business … Continue reading →

Should Your Business Offer Flexible Financing?

One of the many things that you will be in charge of if you own and operate your own, home – based business is billing. You not only do the work or sell the product, you are responsible for creating invoices and processing payments. While keeping track of billing and payments can be a hassle at times, it also puts you in a unique position where you are able to treat your clients a little differently if a situation so requires. This topic may be more applicable to service – based businesses than those that deal with physical products, but … Continue reading →

Encourage Teens to Pursue a Career They Are Passionate About

(My son in his Civil Air Patrol uniform) As I am writing this, my 17-year-old son has just left for his first official day of work. After eight months of looking, he finally landed a job. Of course it was with the help of my husband, who is the manager at a store that belongs to a large grocery chain in our city. He put in the word and my son was hired. Yes, it helps to know someone. My husband waited this long to play the card because he was worried that our son would end up like him. … Continue reading →

Top 10 Tips for a Home Business

Whether you are thinking of just starting a home business or you are already running one, these top 10 home business tips can help. Tip number 1 is to put the word “no” into your vocabulary. This word can easily be eliminated when you are starting up a home business because you want to take advantage of every opportunity you can. When I first started my writing career, I jumped at everything that came my way. But even after I established myself as a writer, I still kept taking on additional things. Giving of some of those things was one … Continue reading →

Is the Grass Always Greener on the Other Side?

The grass is always greener on the other side, right? Not necessarily but many of us can relate to feeling this way. This can happen in any area of life and it can even happen when you have a home business. When others hear that I work from home, without even knowing what I do, they tell me I am lucky. I think the reason people feel this way is because it sounds so luxurious. They envision you get to sleep in, work when you feel like it, take off whenever you want and stay in your jammies all day. … Continue reading →

Take Time Out For You and Your Family

One of the downsides to a home-based business is that you often find yourself putting in more hours than an average worker. Growing a home-based business and making it work takes a lot of time. Even if you love what you do, it can become something that quickly overtakes you. I have to be very deliberate about taking time off, not just on holidays but even on weekends. With a home business you don’t have someone telling you, “The office will be closed for Memorial Day.” You have to make it happen if you really want it to happen. Even … Continue reading →

Business Marketing 101: Creating a Website

In this business marketing 101 series, I have talked so far about the importance of a resume and a portfolio. In this blog I am going to be talking about the need for a website. Virtually every home business should have a website. A website is a great way to market your business. The first reason is that you can potentially reach millions of people. Of course, you might not have that kind of goal in mind but the point is that you can reach many more people through this means than you can in any other way. Another reason … Continue reading →

Setting Up a Home Office

When I first started working from home, I did it from my dining room table. But when my writing career took off and I eventually was able to work full-time from home, I quickly realized this wasn’t going to work. So I began to build my home office. Well let me take that back…my husband actually built the room that is now my office. I was then able to add things such as my desk, chair, printer and a number of other supplies. If you are looking to set up a home office there are some important things you should … Continue reading →

Appreciate Working from Home

Last week I was reminded of one of the great benefits to working from home. I live in Wisconsin and we got hit with a wallop of a blizzard that went from Tuesday evening until Wednesday. I couldn’t believe what I woke up to Wednesday morning. My van was completely buried, our alley had four feet high snow drifts and the side door to our house was unreachable because it was snowed in. It didn’t take long for my husband to discover he wasn’t going anywhere. He tried to leave for work but our alley prevented him from even getting … Continue reading →

Keep Learning about Your Field

If you are looking for ways to increase sales potential or boost your home business in some way, then you should probably spend time learning more about the nature and skills of your home-based business. No matter what your business is, how long you have been doing it or how much education you have; there is always more to be learned. Industries and technology change so it’s important that you are keeping on top of those changes. Using my work as a freelance writer for example, I try to brush up on my writing skills by investing in books that … Continue reading →