What Keeps a Small Business Entrepreneur Awake At Night?

Being a small business owner is fun, challenging, but never easy. Whether you are just starting a business or already running one, there are a number of things that will push your stress limits and keep you awake at night.
Here are some of the common concerns of small business owners:

1. Financial stress.
One of the [...]

Work-Life Balance: Tips From Successful Small Business Entrepreneurs

When you start a business, the pressure of making the business work may compel you to work 24/7. You are hungry for new business and you feel the strong urge to prove that your business idea works. More importantly, you need to get the business start earning some money – and fast.
As a result, may [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Getting Sick is Not an Option for Solo Entrepreneurs

I have just been released from the hospital for an emergency surgery last Wednesday. Everything went well, and I am now back home recuperating.

But I have not been able to post anything in my blogs, which brings me to the question: If you are hospitalized or get sick, do you have a back up plan [...]

How to Survive Life as a Work at Home Mom

Having a home-based business is a great way for moms to earn money while staying at home. However, the reality is easier said than done. A home-based working mom must be adept in the tricky balancing act of caring for the kids, ensuring the house is in order, and running the business.
I have 3 kids, [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]