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Summer Is a Great Time to Turn Your Craft into a Business

How fun would it be if you could turn your fun hobby into a cash making business? Frugal living is about saving, but it is also about extending your resources, such as by earning a little extra cash. So many have already done it. The best part? You get to decide how much work you put into it, and you get to have fun at the same time. Summer is an idea time to launch a home business. The weather is nice and opportunities to sell your items in the community abound. It will also give potential customers a chance … Continue reading →

Is Working from Home Right for You?

How do you know if working from home is right for you? It’s important to know this before you take the plunge. First, consider if something you do as a hobby could be turned into a home business. There are so many ways this can be done. Maybe you can make a killer cheesecake. Or you know how to design some really cool jewelry. It could be that you are great at organizing. Virtually anything we enjoy as a hobby could potentially be turned into a business. Think outside the box. This may be the first step in deciding if … Continue reading →

From Hobby to Home Based Business

One great way to start a home – based business is to build a business around your hobby. If you think about it, work should be enjoyable. You chose your hobby because you like to do it. Wouldn’t you like to earn money while spending more time doing something that you enjoy? The single most important thing to remember if you do decide to turn a hobby into a home – based business is that you must change the way that you think about it. Once you commit to turning your hobby into a business, it is no longer a … Continue reading →

A Chocolate-Themed Home-Based Business Opportunity

I love chocolate. Not just any chocolate, though, it has to be good chocolate. Even though I am not in the market for a home-based business opportunity, I must admit that I was tempted when I heard about the Dove Chocolate Discoveries home-based chocolate business. This business opportunity combines direct selling with entertaining in a way that is similar to many home-party types of business opportunities. Independent sales representatives that participate in the Dove Chocolate Discoveries program are called Chocolatiers. Chocolatiers host chocolate tasting parties in their homes, and guests at the parties get to sample fun, chocolatey treats. Chocolatiers … Continue reading →

Home Based Business Idea – Landscaping

If you are looking to start a home-based business and you would like to spend time outdoors while you work, you may want to consider starting a landscaping business. Depending upon the geographic area where you live, you may want to turn your landscaping business into a year-round enterprise by offering services like leaf clean up and snow removal during times of year when those things are needed more than lawn mowing and hedge trimming. Landscapers that provide high quality work and have good customer service skills are always in demand. Some of the things that you will want to … Continue reading →

Your Favorites Might Lead You to a Business

For those of us who are at the beginning stages of a home-based business, maybe even trying to figure out what sort of a business to start and whether or not we are even cut out to embark on such an adventure, a little advice about how to search out and find the right fit might be in order. It might be a good idea to start with your favorite things–those things you love to do, hobbies, and interests–these passions might lead you to a great home business idea. Look around your world and make a list of those things … Continue reading →

Finding Support for Nontraditional Businesses

To read the business trade magazines or business books, it can seem like there are only a few models for successful businesses. A small home business, however, might be rather unorthodox and some of us build businesses that are also nontraditional. It can be tough to find other businesses like ours, or to even find the support and advice we might need along the way… The other morning, as I was on my way to take care of some errands, I passed by an early morning chamber of commerce breakfast meeting. The parking lot was full and there were plenty … Continue reading →

Grant Writing as a Home-Based Business

Nonprofits organizations, schools, individuals, and even small businesses sometimes depend on grant funding in order to keep programs open and the bills paid. Grant writing can be a good business for some, or a way to supplement other writing or consulting work for others. As someone who has done a bit of grant writing I can share some of the pluses and pitfalls of taking on grant writing as a home-based business. Grant writing requires a great deal of technical writing skill, as well as just pure organization. A little creativity and writing talent is a good thing, but basically … Continue reading →

Thinking of Starting a Meeting Planning Business?

Meeting and conference planning seems to be one of those businesses that is perfect for a home-based business. You can do most of the work from your home office, or from meetings with clients and venues, and it is something that can be done by one person. Before you jump in and start your meeting planning business, however, there are some things you might consider… Meeting planners need to be incredibly organized. There are a lot of details to manage and balls to keep in the air and it is one of those businesses where it if you see someone … Continue reading →

The Wonderful World of Quotas

I just want to go on record as saying that I am NOT a big fan of the quota. One of the chief motivators for working independently and running my own home business is to not have to work at someone else’s speed or meet externally-set quotas. But, I have found in chatting with other home business owners, that some individuals do work well with quotas, and for those people who are doing direct sales (working with a parent company as an independent contractor), quotas do play a role in their home-based businesses. If you work with quotas–whether self-imposed or … Continue reading →