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Home Business Challenges: Working from Home Is Not Easy

July 23, 2009 by Isabel Isidro · 4 Comments 

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

August 16, 2008 by Isabel Isidro · Leave a Comment 

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

April 25, 2008 by Isabel Isidro · 1 Comment 

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

March 25, 2008 by Isabel Isidro · Leave a Comment 

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

December 4, 2007 by Isabel Isidro · 4 Comments 

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

September 28, 2005 by Isabel Isidro · 1 Comment 

“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. [...]

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