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Four Strategies that Will Reduce Car Costs

When you budget your auto-related and transportation costs, are you including everything? There is the cost of the car itself, the monthly loan or lease payment, plus insurance, maintenance costs, and gas of course. Here are four strategies that you can use, covering each of those areas, to lower these costs, from beginning to end. Saving on Car Payments If you are considering the purchase or lease of a new car, review your options carefully. This is where you can save the bulk of your money. Really think about saving up to purchase a car with cash, if you can. … Continue reading →

What Will 2011 Bring to Your Home Business?

A few days before the New Year, I take time to sit down and think about goals. I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions but I like the whole idea of setting goals for important areas in my life. Of course, one of those areas is with my career. Having a home business is mostly a blessing but it does have its downsides. I started to think about some of them and how I can either overcome them or learn to readjust. It got me thinking, “What will 2011 bring to my home business?” Well here is the thing, it … Continue reading →

More Ways To Have Fun At the Airport

For harried parents traveling with a children or overscheduled business travelers looking to get home as soon as possible, airports are far from fun. Still, if you are using air travel to get from point A to point B, then you have little choice than to spend some time at an airport. So why not make the experience relatively fun? If you find yourself in any of the following airports in the near future, consider yourself lucky. Travel experts recently ranked them as some of the “Most Entertaining Airports” in the nation: ANCHORAGE, ALASKA: If you are looking to pass … Continue reading →

Give Yourself Time to Adjust when You Take on More Work

Growing a small business can often mean stretching beyond your comfort zone. While it growth and taking on more customers, clients and work sounds great in theory, the reality can be daunting. You may think that you will never be able to carve out the time or find the resources to expand your business. Instead of throwing up your hands and avoiding the challenge, give yourself time to adjust and see if you just don’t find a way to stretch and accommodate a growing business schedule. We all get in a groove–many of us are pretty good at establishing a … Continue reading →

Family Lanes at Airport Screening Areas

I frequently make use of the family lanes offered at my local supermarket so when I heard the Transportation Security Administration was experimenting with screening lanes designed specifically for families with children I was anxious to learn more. Heck, as far as I am concerned any parent who has struggled with juggling multiple tots and totes while navigating airport security areas should be interested in the new program. According to TSA security officials, the idea for the family lanes is to ease the pressure on parents journeying through an airport with young children. In airports around the world parents with … Continue reading →

When You Need Technical Assistance

Most of us who run our own home businesses are pretty small operations. We don’t have staff support or our own IT person standing handy when we have computer questions or need technical assistance. Still, we run into bumps and problems just like any other business owner, but what can be done? Where can we go when we need some technical assistance? Well, if you are lucky enough to have a computer or technologically savvy teenager in your household that may be all the farther you need to look! Of course, this isn’t always the case and you may face … Continue reading →

Are You Bringing Compulsions Into Your Business?

Compulsive behaviors can be everywhere–they don’t just affect how we deal with our personal relationships or our own private way of coping with life. When it comes time to evaluate your business operations and how you are doing with your small, home-based business, you might need to see if you are bringing compulsive behaviors into your business operations… So, what constitutes compulsive behaviors? Any sort of addictions, or out-of-control behaviors can be detrimental to our businesses. Work-a-holism, chemical addictions, the need to be always in control and controlling, difficulty managing or using appropriate emotions, co-dependency, etc. All of these compulsive … Continue reading →

Some Days, I Can’t Keep Up

Most of the time, I consider myself a rather flexible sort who can shuck and jive with the best of them. But, then, there are those days when there are so many changes and adjustments that I truly feel as though I am doing a rather poor job of keeping up! Have you ever had one of those days in your home business when no matter how alert, focused, and brilliant you felt when you started the day—you are totally thrown for a loop in terms of keeping up with what the day (and your customers, clients, and vendors) throw … Continue reading →

Are There Areas of Your Business You Are Avoiding?

We all have places where we shine in our home business, and areas where we would just rather not focus. For some of us, we avoid keeping care of our finances and paying the bills, for others, it might be marketing that sends us running to the nearest distraction. With so much to do in the average home based business, we can hide out and avoid some of the tasks we don’t want to face for a good while. Eventually, however, those neglected areas will need our attention. The big question to ask yourself is “Why?” Why are you avoiding … Continue reading →

Can You Sell Security?

There are some things that never fail but to appeal to people and when it comes to promoting your home business, finding a way to tap into those “feel good” areas will help you to connect with your customer base and add profits to your business. One of the things people respond well to is “security.” If you are in a business or industry where you can tap into and sell “security”—that might be just the promotional angle for you to take. Selling security does not have to mean using fear tactics and pushing an idea that there is some … Continue reading →