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Let Your Personality Shine Through

We talk a great deal here in the Home Business blog about various ways to go about “doing business.” Many of us get it into our heads that the “business person” in us is somehow a completely different entity than the “real” person that we are in every other aspect of our lives. In reality, we need to be ourselves even when we are working at our home businesses and it is important to let our true personality shine through as we network and build our business’ reputation. In my old life, working in nonprofit management and fundraising, I used … Continue reading →

Do Extroverts or Introverts Do Better in a Small Business?

Making a go of a small home business can seem so precarious and so unpredictable, that many of us look for all sorts of ideas about what it will take to be successful. One of the latest I heard two people debating is whether or not introverts or extraverts make better small business owner/operators. What do you think? I would probably define myself as an extrovert. But, as a writer, I am not really in an extroverted business. I have read biographies and articles and it seems that most successful writers prefer their own company and need to be alone … Continue reading →