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Three Home Businesses that Can Get You Out of Debt

To speed up your debt recover, consider starting a home business. It can help you earn extra income that can be applied directly to paying off your debt. Best of all? Most home businesses can be done at home, on your terms, and take as much time as you want to spend. This makes home businesses ideal for retirees, stay at home moms, stay at home dads, and even students. In fact, any one can start a home business to get out of debt. When selecting a home business to pursue for the goal of getting out of debt, it … Continue reading →

Business Profile: Barefoot Books

Finding a business to start is not an easy process. It takes money to make money so most businesses will have start up costs and things to purchase before you can begin. That is just the nature of business and there is rarely a way around it. At some point you will have to put money into your business. Barefoot Books is not exception. To make it work you will need to purchase some materials but it does have a few advantages which make it simple to start today. Barefoot Books sells children’s books and a few accessories related to … Continue reading →

How to Prepare Your Christmas Cards

Are you always behind on preparing your Christmas cards or Holiday cards? Here are some easy steps that you can take to make the process smooth and fun this year. First, get your list started. This may simply be a review of last year’s list. If you don’t have a list, you’ll have to start from scratch. Figure out if you need separate lists for home and business. A good place to start is with your address books. Start with the people that you know you must send cards too. Prioritizing gives you some wiggle room. Instead of trying to … Continue reading →

Home Business Idea: Little Passports

Back in June I introduced my homeschool readers to Little Passports. My first grader and I have enjoyed the product immensely. Little Passports is a monthly subscription program that introduces your child to the world. Each month your child is sent a package with information about a new county and other little surprises. My daughter and I have already experienced a few countries with Brazil and Japan being favorites. So today I am just as excited to introduce you to a new business opportunity brought to you by Little Passports. The other day I received an email from Little Passports, … Continue reading →

How To Avoid Common Home Business Mistakes

If you are thinking about starting a home-based business, there are a few things that you may want to think about as you decide what kind of business you want to have and how you will run that business out of your home. Thinking through these topics can help you in the long run by steering you clear of some common mistakes that home-based professionals make. The first thing that you should do in order to avoid making major mistakes along the way to becoming a home-based professional is to make a business plan. By making a business plan, you … Continue reading →

Learn About Using Social Media to Grow Your Business

While there is a great diversity of home-based businesses out there, there is one thing that all home-based businesses have in common. Whether you are a freelance writer, a home daycare provider, a housekeeper, or any other home-based professional, your home-based business needs customers. Without customers, there can be no business. Since all home-based businesses need customers, any information that can help home-based business owners attract new customers and keep the business of existing customers is certainly worth sharing. With this in mind, I feel that it important to share the details about a series of events that are being … Continue reading →

Unique Home-Based Businesses

Lately, I have been educating myself about the variety of home-based businesses that are out there. Today, I would like to point out that having a successful home-based business does not have to involve having a cookie-cutter career. In fact, people who choose to blaze their own trails as home-based business owners have a great deal of freedom in choosing what they will do for work. Their creativity is limited only by what the market will support. The internet plays a large role in enabling many unique and different home-based businesses to succeed. It provides instant, inexpensive access to potential … Continue reading →

When Customers and Clients Try to Make Their Problems Yours

There is a difference between great customer service and getting sucked into taking on someone else’s problems. There is a place for good limits and boundaries in business too and just because our clients and customers have problems and “issues” does not mean that we always have to take them on… One of the most common “problems” that customers or clients try to pass on is when they have difficult time management—they delay taking care of something, do not manage their own affairs until they are in crisis, etc. and then they want someone else to come in and bail … Continue reading →

Does Handwriting and Penmanship Matter in Business?

I’ve been told that it is possible in this day and age to get through weeks of work without ever actually putting pen to paper and having to hand write anything. I certainly haven’t found that to be the case, but I’m willing to discuss and debate whether or not handwriting and penmanship actually matter at all any more in the business world… I do a lot of work by hand still—writing notes, writing out ideas and first drafts, making lists. But I do see that people who do other types of work can get by using only a computer … Continue reading →

One of the Best things About a Home Business–No One has to Understand Your “System”

When a person works a traditional job for an employer–there is a pretty good chance that you will have to justify your filing system and working style. If you get a promotion, or leave or change jobs, you will very likely have to train a replacement and pass on your “system” to that next person. Most of us personalize our working style and while our way of organizing our work may seem perfect for us–it is not necessarily easy to explain to someone else. One of the greatest things about operating your own home business is that you DO NOT … Continue reading →