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Home Business Idea – Real Estate Agent

Have you ever thought about just how many types of work you can do from home? I keep thinking of and finding out about more and more things that people do as home based professionals. Whether you have already been trained as a real estate agent or you aspire to become one, you could work from home as a real estate agent. Real estate agents help people find and purchase homes. Since the home buying process is a very individual and often an emotional journey, successful real estate agents are highly skilled at working with people. Clients want a real … Continue reading →

Cost Cutting Tips for Home Based Professionals

If you are a home-based professional, you are probably always on the lookout for ways that you can spend less of your hard earned money on business expenses. Today, I have rounded up a few suggestions that could help you to keep more of your money in your pocket. Of course, saving money is great but these suggestions are only really worth doing if they can fit in with the way that you do business and the needs of your business and your clients. Make sure that you thoroughly examine these and any other cost saving strategies that you come … Continue reading →

Taking Time To Think About Time Management

For home-based professionals, time management skills are not only important, they are necessary for survival. If we are not able to do enough of the right things on a consistent basis we will find ourselves falling short of accomplishing the goals that we have set for our home-based businesses. Saying that time management is important and actually doing something about it are two different things, though. In order to make a difference in how you manage your time, you must actually take the time to sit down and think about how you are using your time. Many people do not … Continue reading →

Working At Your Business vs Working On Your Business

If you are like many home-based professionals, you may spend a lot of time working at your home-based business while spending little time working on your home-based business. There is an important distinction between working at your business and working on your business, and both things are important to your continued success. When you are working at your business, you are doing the actual work that your customers or clients have asked you to do – writing the articles, selling the products, baking the cookies, or whatever it is that you do in your business. When you are working on … Continue reading →

Don’t Let Housework Get In The Way Of Work

Have you ever been en route to your home office, only to be sidetracked by a pile of laundry that you just have to stop and fold? Maybe you were not sidetracked by the laundry. Perhaps you found yourself unable to walk by the kitchen sink without stopping to wash the three dishes that were neatly piled in there. Maybe it was neither of those two things, but something else entirely. A funny thing that happens when you work from home – you can hear the housework calling to you all day long. A desire to keep a tidy home … Continue reading →

Helpful Hints For Surviving Tax Season

It’s that time of year when I start to get a little itchy. No, I am not talking about dry winter skin here; I am talking about filing my tax return. There are a few different attitudes that people take when it comes to filing their tax returns. My personal take on taxes is that I like to file them as soon as I have all of the documents that I need to prepare them. That way, I get it done and over with and, more importantly, get my refund check. There are others who prefer to put it off … Continue reading →

Get-Organized Tips For Home-Based Professionals

If you work from home, staying organized is likely to be a top priority of yours. It takes some effort to keep a household running smoothly and when you combine this with running a business, caring for children, and all of the other great things that you have going on in your life; it’s easy to see why organization is so important. There are many things that a person can do to stay organized. Some strategies work great for some people and not at all for others. It is important for you to understand that creating and maintaining order for … Continue reading →