As work at home parents, our biggest challenge is finding the right balance between work and our families. Juggling the demands of our home-based businesses and raising our kids is tough, and many are finding it hard to juggle these two competing priorities. Learn 25 ways you can balance your home-based business with your family life.
Challenges of Working at Home
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 — and many become frozen with fear. Learn how to avoid the common excuses of startup entrepreneurs.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]