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A Home Business Idea for The Cat Lover

Sometimes, home – based business ideas just appear out of the blue. Since I like to share ideas for home – based businesses that others may be interested in, I would like to tell you about an idea that I stumbled upon today with a little help from my two year old son. A few days ago, I went to the local library to borrow some DVDs to watch with him. We don’t have television service at our house, but we do occasionally like to sit down and watch a nature video or something else appropriate for little eyes and … Continue reading →

Learn About Using Social Media to Grow Your Business

While there is a great diversity of home-based businesses out there, there is one thing that all home-based businesses have in common. Whether you are a freelance writer, a home daycare provider, a housekeeper, or any other home-based professional, your home-based business needs customers. Without customers, there can be no business. Since all home-based businesses need customers, any information that can help home-based business owners attract new customers and keep the business of existing customers is certainly worth sharing. With this in mind, I feel that it important to share the details about a series of events that are being … Continue reading →

A Neat Idea For A Home-Based Business

There are some people out there who just have a knack for cleaning. Unfortunately, I am not one of them but I have figured how to keep my home looking mostly tidy most of the time. If you know how to clean well and you do not mind cleaning, you may be able to turn your skills into a home-based business. With more and more families leading busier and busier lives, sometimes people choose to take some tasks off of their plates by paying others to do them. If a family decides that they are going to hire someone for … Continue reading →

Running a Pet Care Business: Chatting with Marlene Richardson, Former Pet Care Professional

Marlene Richardson with her pooch Zeus. Photo provided by Ms. Richardson and used with her permission. Meet Marlene “Marly” Richardson, a neighbor of mine. We met because we both walk our dogs. One day we got to talking about our pets (she has four others in addition to Zeus: Tipsy, a free-roaming house rabbit; Pip the guinea pig; and two doves, Cisco and Cecilia) and our love for animals. Somehow my being a Pets Blogger came up and she mentioned how she’d been a pet sitter. I thought, “How interesting. That’d make a neat blog.” So I asked if she’d … Continue reading →

Know Before You Go – Does That Hotel Have Free Wireless Internet?

For the past week, I have been on vacation with my family on Cape Cod. I had a great time, and I was even able to get some work done in the evenings after the kids were in bed. Taking my home – based businesses on the go has always been fairly easy. For the law office, I take my smartphone, laptop, and whatever files I need. For my freelance writing business, all I need is my laptop and my day planner. All of these things fit neatly into one bag. Of course, one other thing that I need for … Continue reading →

Safe Photo Storage

Have you looked at all the pictures on your computer lately? If you are anything like me, there are a ton of them. I take so many pictures, thanks to digital cameras, and then I upload them and there they sit. When I want to find a picture I have to scroll through file after file to find what I’m looking for. Even worse, if your computer dies you lose all those wonderful pictures. What can you do? First, I went through each folder, there are lots of duplicates, I always take several pictures of each thing to make sure … Continue reading →

What’s On Your Plate?

One major issue that home-based professionals often deal with in running their businesses is the issue of their work load. The amount of work that a home-based professional can have on his or her plate at any given time depends on much more than just how much work is available. Also, home-based professionals must decide when it is time to change their work load by adding more work or by taking on less work, and even sometimes delegating work out to other people. What are some of the factors that affect a home-based professional’s work load? For starters, there are … Continue reading →