Last night, I thought of a very important topic for home-based professionals – getting paid. Everyone loves to get paid, and there are many different ways in which people get paid. When you are a home-based professional the way or ways that you get paid may involve a bit more effort than what you may have been used to at a traditional job where you report to work for your shifts, you punch in and out, and you get a regular paycheck on a regular schedule. Some home based work does generate regular income on a monthly, weekly, or bi-weekly … Continue reading →

When you are running a home-based business, it is natural to want to focus on the business side of things like getting customers, doing work, keeping your books and files in order, and so on. There are other important things to keep in mind though, even during your working hours no matter how precious few those may be. Things like eating and sleeping may seem like they are only tangentially related to the work that you do. Of course, if you have ever tried to power through a work session while you are starving or get just one more thing … Continue reading →

There will be times when your home-based work is going so smoothly that you start to think about taking on additional work so that you can earn more money. It feels great to be working at a nice pace and getting things done ahead of schedule but you begin to wonder whether you are not working up to your potential. Sometimes this may be true and there really might be room on your plate for something else. Sometimes, though, just when you are tempted to find another project or two to fill in your work schedule something happens to make … Continue reading →