Finding The Right Home-Based Business Learn what questions you should ask yourself to help you select a home-based business that's right for you and avoid getting sucked into a scam, just because you want to work from home. Look Before You Leap-Is A Home-Based business REALLY For You?  ...not having to worry about being laid off; leaving the office politics way behind; not having to get dressed up; being with your children. Is this what comes to mind when you think about what it would be like to work from home? If so, take a good hard look before you make the jump from paid to self- employment. Start My Own Business? What Was I Thinking! This is a story that many of entrepreneurs can relate to. It also provides a checklist (or a reality check) for future entrepreneurs. Here's the tale of how I began...  Home Based Business Opportunities Your Best Opportunity For Home-Based Business Success Might Be Right Before Your Eyes! Ten Ways To Keep Your Home-Based Business On Track Balancing family, social and career demands is one of the biggest challenges when it comes to keeping a home-based business focused and successful.  Here are Millie’s top ten tips to keeping your home-based business on-track.  10 Distinctions Between Building A Business And Creating Your Own Job Many professionals and Small Office/Home Office owners don’t understand the distinction between building a business verses creating a job for themselves. While either route can be satisfying and fulfilling, it is important to choose the path you prefer. How to Use A “Hot Market” To Build Your Business Do you remember all the anxiety about Y2K in 1999? It created a "hot market". A lot of businesses jumped into that hot market. Many of them failed when the Y2K problem evaporated. But a few used the unique opportunity it provided to build permanent, profitable businesses. Your Online Success is Only a Plan Away! Let's step back from the World Wide Web for a moment. In fact we're going to pretend it doesn't exist yet. Don't panic! Just trying to make a point here.... Your most important business asset - unlimited you Your office may have the best equipment money can buy, but still be short on the one thing that makes the biggest difference. You wouldn't even think of operating without a properly working phone, fax or computer system, yet whether you know it or not, the asset most important to your success is often functioning in only a limited way. That asset is you! STOP Sending Press Releases! Whether you are in business or in the PR profession, you have been taught that the way to disseminate publishable information is by using the press (or news) release. Companies with good intentions do it, and public relations firms do it. The practice of sending press releases has been pounded into our brains and rarely questioned. But, for 99% of my clients, that's the harder - not smarter - way for small business owners to attract publicity.