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How to Run Your Home Business Lean – and Profitable

If there’s one lesson this economic downturn teaches us, it is the importance of running our business operations lean.

Many small business entrepreneurs made the mistake of spending too much, too soon. They based their spending on the money that they thought will be coming in, not on the money that they actually have. While optimism [...]

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10 Reasons NOT to Start a Home Business Part Time

Starting a home business part time is one option many entrepreneurs take in starting a business. Part-timers work on their businesses after getting home from their day jobs or working only on weekends.
While keeping full time jobs, many opt to start a home business on the side for a number of reasons:

It enables the part-time [...]

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Home Business Challenges: Working from Home Is Not Easy

MSNBC has an interesting article on the challenges of working from home in a piece entitled “Barking dogs and other home office issues” . The article describes some of the issues when working on a home-based business, as follows:

Kids may not easily adjust to the fact that their home-business owner parents are not available and [...]

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How to Get Your Home Business Off to a Good Start

Starting a business, even a small home-based business, is full of risks. It is therefore essential that you ensure that you thoroughly understand what needs to be done, as well as the risks and challenges you will face. Here are some tips to help make sure that your business is off to a good start.

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How to Earn Money from Home

There are many opportunities for earning money from home – from buying into a turnkey business opportunity system, finding work at home employment, starting a home-based business, or even buying a home-based franchise. The key is to know what interests you, what you’d like to do, and what your resources can allow you to do.
Here [...]

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Tips to Successfully Run a Home Business

One of the most common questions we are asked is, “How do I start a home business?” My husband and I started PowerHomeBiz.com in 1999, and a decade on the Web has taught me a lot in terms of what to do (and what not to do) when running a home-based business. Here are some [...]

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Beware of "Google" Scams: Google Money Kit, Cash Kit, Quick Cash, etc.

Beware of business opportunity companies that uses the name of Google — e.g. Google Money Tree, Google Cash Kit, Google Quick Cash, or whatever the other names are. They are all running a scam using Google’s name. And I must say that they are succeeding pretty well, convincing a lot of people with snapshots of [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions for Home Business Entrepreneur

Hope everyone is having a great holiday season, even if the economy is sagging and business owners like you and me are feeling the pinch.
It’s almost end of the year, and it’s time again to draw up our New Year’s resolutions for our businesses. Preparing resolutions for the next year is my sort of strategic [...]

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The Challenges of Work at Home Moms

Balancing family and business for work at home moms is never easy. Here’s what Nicole Simons, founder of Fortunuts.com, says about her own experience in work-life balance.

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10 Management Lessons for Home Based Entrepreneurs

Many small and home-based entrepreneurs start out small, oftentimes working alone in their businesses. Eventually, their businesses begin to expand that hiring employees become imperative.
Then they find that steering their businesses to success is different from managing other people. Managing employees is an entirely different ballgame, and some successful business owners spectacularly fail in this [...]

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