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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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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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Avoiding the Common Excuses of Startup Entrepreneurs

Starting a business can be scary, exciting and daunting at the same time. That’s why it’s not uncommon to find those thinking of starting a business frozen in fear and making excuses:

“Is this business really going to work?” That’s why you need to do research first before starting the business. It is important to check [...]

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Balancing Home Business and Family

I previously wrote about the how to survive life as a work at home mom , which got a great comment from a reader.

An article at Lousiana’s ShreveportTimes.com focused on the same topic as well, with some additional tips on how to balance home business and family:

Prepare a realistic schedule — and stick to it.
Write [...]

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21 Common Mistakes of Home Business Startups

What’s the biggest mistake you did when you were just starting the business? The ideal situation, of course, is to go through the process of starting a business without a single misstep. Unfortunately, that doesn’t always happen. We sometimes trip; or even stumble; or worse, fall flat on our faces.
Discounting complete ineptitude and bad luck, [...]

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Challenges of Working from Home

“I now believe you!,” a friend exclaimed to me the other day. “Working from home is HARD!”

My friend’s husband just quit his top-level job to be a full-time consultant working from home. At the top of his list as the most difficult aspect of starting a home business is the part of working from home. [...]