Tag Archives: starting a business

A Blueprint for Your Business

If coming up with a business plan for your home business is daunting and you would rather just wing it than actually have to design a functional budget to guide your business—consider trying to build a house without having a blueprint. Not many of us would simply take stack of boards, a hammer and some nails and hope to build a solid, beautiful and functional home. The same can be said for building a business—a blueprint makes all the difference when it comes to having a plan for what you would like your business to look like. What does a … Continue reading →

Starting a Home Business in the Current Economy

Our economy is not at its strongest. When the economy gets shaky, it tends to cause us to get shaky about other aspects of our lives too. The other day I was talking to a woman who was looking for work. She said that once she finally found a job—no matter what job—she was going to “hang onto it for dear life!” For many individuals who have been contemplating starting a home business, you may be feeling like now is definitely NOT the right time. But, is it really the wrong time to start a home business? If you are … Continue reading →

Starting a Business in Your Line of Work (or Trying Something New)

Figuring out what your home business is going to be all about can come easily for some of us, but for others, we might spend years just trying to sort out what we think we ought to be doing, what we’re good at, and what we actually want to do. One of the big questions is whether to start a home business in a field that you already work in and have experience in, or do you go after something you’ve always wanted to do or head into a brand new field? The pros of starting a business doing something … Continue reading →

Finding a Business to Match Your Lifestyle

In recent days, I have written about how important it can be to match family life with a home business—exploring ways of evaluating whether your family is supportive of your business and whether your home business fits into your family life. As I was writing these and chatting with a few others, I realized that lifestyle is an important consideration overall for anyone wanting to start a home based business. We have to be willing to look at how we like to work, the sort of home life we have, and other lifestyle realities in order to find a business … Continue reading →

Starting From Scratch

Most of the articles I write here are geared toward those of us who are already working in our home businesses. We have already decided what we want to do and are struggling along trying to make it happen. But I have been reminded that many individuals who read these articles are still at the very beginning stages; many are starting from scratch and trying to get ready to take the big leap… Take it slowly, there is no big rush. Even if you are feeling the panic of needing to generate revenue as I was when I finally took … Continue reading →

Ideas Can Come From Anywhere

Whether you are trying to figure out what sort of home business to start, or looking for new products and services to offer in an existing business, or trying to find exciting and creative ways to market your business and attract new customers–ideas and sparks of creativity and ingenuity can come from virtually anywhere… When I chat with people about where they got the idea for their business or a particular product or service, I hear all sorts of different stories. Some people do a great deal of research in books and magazines before choosing business based on all sorts … Continue reading →

Consider Adding a Compatible Business

Looking for ways to grow and develop your home business operation? Well, there may be only so much you can do with an existing business–but adding a second (or third) compatible business to your existing one may be just the way to grow and expand. Some of the most successful and pleasantly happy entrepreneurs I know in my mid-size West Coast town actually have more than one business going on. They may have started out with one on the side while they were working a more traditional job–and then, as they got the hang of things and one thing led … Continue reading →