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The Christmas Homeschool

Before you can count the twelve days of Christmas it will be time to trim the tree and count eight tiny reindeer. Christmas is a busy time for all so many homeschoolers take time off in the month of December. Some take the entire month off. I find that the more time I take off the more chaotic my home gets. The kids need something to do and some structure in their day. For me, December is busy but if I took the entire month off I would go crazy. Here are some ideas to keep Christmas the focus, get … 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 →

Diary of a Work At Home Mom Part 17

Today a random thought crossed my mind and I cannot seem to get rid of it. It is probably a thought that is not unique to me, in fact I am sure that many home-based professionals and even some people who work outside of the home have had at one time or another. It is actually more of a question than a thought, though. My question of the day is whether it is okay for a person who holds themselves out as a professional to admit to themselves and/or others that work is not their top priority. I am not … Continue reading →

Mobile Credit Card Processing – Is It Right For Your Business?

Getting paid. It is at the forefront of every home-based professional’s mind at least one or more times each day, in the form of thoughts like “When is client x going to pay that invoice”, “I have to make time to get to the bank to deposit these checks”, and “Why aren’t there credit card processing systems that are geared towards the needs of home-based professionals like me”. Fortunately, although I cannot tell you when client x is going to pay (hopefully soon) or run to the bank for you, I can tell you about recent innovations in credit card … Continue reading →

Diary of a Work At Home Mom – Part 16

Everyone understands the value of learning from mistakes. Once a mistake has been made, the best thing that you can do is to find the lesson in it and move forward, remembering not to repeat the mistake again. Today I made a mistake that made me realize that being eager to please is not always a good thing. Yesterday, I received wonderful news that I had been awarded a job that I had bid on the night before. It is just for a few hours a week, which is exactly what I needed to round out my schedule. Today, I … Continue reading →

Letting Things Happen in Your Business

We talk a great deal here in the Home Business blog about control and organization–how to build and shape and encourage growth in our business operations. In reality, sometimes even our home businesses have an organic process of their own and they need us to get out of the way so that they can develop and grow in the direction they are meant to. I know this might sound a little “new age” for some of you who have strong ideas about how to build and shape a business, but I do think there is such a thing as energy … Continue reading →

Frugal Ideas for Wedding Flowers

Flowers can be a big expense at a wedding, but you don’t really want to do without them. Here are some easy, fun ideas to be frugal about your wedding flowers but still make your big day extra special. In an earlier wedding article, I talked about how friends and relatives can pitch in to help with your wedding, and that will help your budget. A great way to have some frugal flowers for your wedding is to ask others to help grow them. Depending on the type of flowers that you want to have, and the preparation time for … Continue reading →

Be Specific To Be Successful

When you start your own business, you quickly realize that you are in charge of a lot of things. From accounting to production and everything in between, if you are going into business by yourself for yourself, it’s all you. One of the things that can be tempting for solo business owners is the urge to appeal to as many people as possible in the hopes of attracting more customers. It is only natural to want people to believe that you are the one who can provide what they need. Since you are in charge of how you market your … Continue reading →

Little Notebooks

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There is a dangerous obsession with notebooks I’ve encountered recently. Not the digital kind that gets thinner and thinner and thinner (while losing vital functions in both hardware and software), but another kind of notebook. A more paper-based form of the term. The internet tells me it’s been going on for a long time (and who am I to argue?), but it seems that I can remember forms of this even when I was a little kid. Remember those branded folders? The really cool 3D designs and other weirdness that accompanied complex three-ring binders that also held folders and other … Continue reading →

What to do When Customers and Clients Pester

When I was writing earlier this morning about how to cope with having other’s problems dumped in your lap in your home business operations, I thought about how a “sister” topic for me is those individuals who pester–they make repeated calls with repeated demands and nitpick over all sorts of tiny details. They might not give you time to call them back, or they may think of a dozen excuses to call or send e-mails. If you only have one or two clients, this might not seem like such a big deal, but if you’ve got a full roster of … Continue reading →