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25 Jul 2008 07:18 AM

A Blueprint for Your Business

by Kori Rodley Irons

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.

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14 Jun 2008 07:16 PM

It Takes Real Work

by Kori Rodley Irons

I certainly do not mean to insult anyone and I am quite sure that all of you home business owners out there did NOT get into your work and businesses because you thought it would be easy. Well, let's assume that we had some idea of how much work it was going to be to operate a business.

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13 Jun 2008 11:34 AM

Starting a Home Business in the Current Economy

by Kori Rodley Irons

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.

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31 May 2008 01:57 PM

You Get to Decide How You Want to Do Business

by Kori Rodley Irons

You may think it goes without saying but for many of us, it takes us a while to learn just how much we are in charge of the HOW in how we do business.

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02 May 2008 07:23 AM

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

by Kori Rodley Irons

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.

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18 Apr 2008 12:09 PM

Creating a Home Business Culture

by Kori Rodley Irons

I know that the term "culture" has become a bit of a buzz word in recent years. Every business, company, family, and organization seems to be exploring what its "culture" is and we all talk about whether or not we fit in to a certain "culture.

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09 Apr 2008 08:34 AM

Work Motivators: Passion Vs. Security

by Kori Rodley Irons

Many of us stayed in more traditional jobs far longer than wanted to for one very important reason: security.

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15 Mar 2008 10:10 PM

How Much of Your Own Money Should You Invest?

by Kori Rodley Irons

One of the big realities of starting a home-based business is that, like any small business, we have to invest time and money at the onset in order to get the enterprise off the ground.

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10 Mar 2008 03:44 PM

Finding a Business to Match Your Lifestyle

by Kori Rodley Irons

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.

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04 Mar 2008 09:32 PM

Starting From Scratch

by Kori Rodley Irons

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.

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