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Home Business
Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory
You may find the lure of an online business seductive indeed. And why not? After all, it holds the promise of true independence - time and money freedom - from the comfort and sanctuary of your own home. It tantalizes you with the promise of unlimited potential, a limitless market. With immediate results.


Home Business
Running Your Own Race
There was an article on the front page of the Los Angeles Times a while back that caught my eye. The headline was "Small Dot- Coms Thrive While Industry Giants Melt Down". Here are the opening paragraphs ...


Home Business
Rites of Passage
"I'm not sure what exactly my point in writing this is going to be other than to voice my frustration to someone who has been there, and would understand. "Like many, I've been considering starting up some form of a home business. Or at least some way to boost the income. So over the past few months, I've been looking at every hare-brained idea out there. All the Associate Programs, the eBooks with publishing rights, all the scams (and most of them out there really start to look like scams after a while!). "What I've discovered: "There are no short-cuts". I don't know why I thought there were."


Home Business
Rethinking Frees
"I have had to change my email address to [deleted], as usa.net is no longer offering their services for free, another indicator that the internet business environment is not what it used to be."


Home Business
Pricing Yourself to Get and Stay In Business
It goes without saying that the bottom line of any successful business is profit. Don't make a profit and you won't be in business for very long. Making a profit is pretty simple really. You just have to make more than you spend. The trick is to know how much you have to make to exceed what you spend.


Home Business
Personal Discipline and the Home-Based Business Owner
Allow me to let you in on a little secret you're probably already wise to anyway. As often as not, the inspiration for article topics comes from struggles with my own personal demons. Writing about them is my way of giving myself a good talking to (a.k.a. kick in the rear end). And so it is with this one - the personal discipline demon.


Home Business
Overcoming Isolation in Your Home Business
Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious benefits such as working your own hours, not having to face a stressful, tedious commute every day, actually seeing what your garden looks like in daylight hours, not having to answer to a boss, being home when your children are, working in a comfortable environment and so on. These are, of course, some of only many wonderful benefits of working from home.


Home Business
One Foot In Each Camp
You have a full-time job but secretly you yearn to break free of the corporate shackles and strike out on your own. You have a great idea for a business but you need the income from your job to pay your mortgage and to feed yourself while you get it underway. Sound familiar? This article considers this dilemma and suggests how you might make the break from paid workforce to your own full-time home business when financial necessity dictates a regular and uninterrupted monthly income.


Home Business
Misclassifying Independent Employees as Independent Employees ... One of the Most Expensive Mistakes
The time comes for every successful home-based business owner when one person can no longer do it all. In the early days of your fledgling business you accepted that not only were you CEO, CFO, COO, secretary, treasurer and marketing director, you also had to be laborer, receptionist, janitor, chief cook and bottlewasher. That is simply what you have to do when starting out. In fact, I'll bet you worked harder in your "little home business" than you ever did in your former life as corporate whatever, right? But now the time has come. You have successfully taken your business past the initial, maddeningly slow, frustrating start-up phase to the point where you're seeing some growth ... so much growth in fact that you're finding it near impossible to keep all the balls in the air.


Home Business
Mirror Mirror On the Wall, Who's the Fairest Of Them All?
Your product or service must be unique and it must be consumable. If it's not unique you have to compete on price and convenience. If it IS unique, your market comes looking for YOU.