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Potential Problems of a Home-Based Business

As we are nearing the end of 2011, you might be thinking about ways to increase your home-based business or start one up. While there are many, many positive reasons to work from home, there are also potential problems that have to be realized. You may end up using this blog as a defense weapon as well, the next time someone tells you how “easy” you have it being able to work at home. No matter what your business is (inside or outside the home), there are always good and bad parts to it. One of the biggest problems you … 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 →

Helpful Hints For A Successful 2011

It’s the New Year, and many of you are probably wondering how you can make your home-based business even more successful than it was last year. There are many ways that you can find increased success in 2011. Here are a couple of ideas for things that you might want to do this year – perhaps even right now, today, or this week. It’s time to update your résumé. This is an important thing to do each year, because you are constantly acquiring new skills as you go about your work. Even though you may not be out there applying … Continue reading →

How To Expand Your Client Base In 2011

As the New Year approaches, you may be thinking about how you can expand your home-based business’s client base in 2011. Chances are, as the owner and operator of a small, home-based business, you do not have a large advertising budget. That’s okay, you do not need one. In fact, one of the things that you can do to increase your client base does not cost you anything and will improve the way that you do business overall. Building and maintaining excellent relationships with your existing clients will help you to increase your client base. You are probably already dedicated … Continue reading →

Some Food For Thought

Have you ever wondered how you ended up in the situation that you are in? Why you work the schedule that you do, and do the type of work that you do? If so, you are probably not alone. In fact, if you have not taken time to think about the “whys” of your current work situation, now is a good time to do so. Often, we just sort of arrive at the place we are at and work along day after day at the same pace without ever questioning how we got there and whether it is really where … Continue reading →