Time for a Holiday: But How?
When you’ve been working long and hard at your home business for a while, you might feel like you’ve earned yourself a little break. There are home business owners out there who haven’t taken a real holiday since they started their business — including some who started their business as [...]

Working From Home: the Pros and Cons.
If you?re thinking of starting a home business, you?ve got to realise something about life. Life has a certain balance: there is no pleasure without pain, and there are no pros without cons. Here?s a look at the upsides and downsides of home businesses.
Pro: Independence. You do what you [...]

The Top 5 First-Year Mistakes.
Even once you’ve got past the starting-up stage, there are still plenty mistakes to be made, and most of them are going to be made in your make-or-break year — the first one. Here are the top five things to avoid.
Waiting for Customers to Come to You.
Too many people wait [...]

The Top 5 Setting-Up Mistakes.
When you’re starting a home business, it’s all too easy to make mistakes — after all, you’ve never done this before. Fortunately for you, though, you can learn from others’ errors, by making sure you don’t do any of these things.
Thinking Skills You Don’t Have Aren’t Important.
So you have no idea [...]

The Next Step: a Marketing Plan.
Many people include their marketing plan as a section in their business plan. Really, though, marketing is important enough that it deserves a plan of its own, separate from the technical details of the business. Here?s what your marketing plan should include.
Your Marketing Strategy.
It might sound silly, but it?s good [...]

Working and Living: Don’t Blur the Lines.
When you’re at home all the time, people have a way of giving you everything to do, with no regard for your job. It can be very hard indeed to keep your family life separate from your business when you work at home — in fact, this is one [...]

The Art of e-Commerce.
So you’ve got your website, and people can email you about your products and services. The next step, if your home business is suitable, is to start selling them directly online.
Why E-Commerce?
E-commerce can be a massive business booster. If you sell reasonably small, easy-to-ship products (or services that don’t need shipping), [...]

The Grant Game.
Depending on what kind of business you?re planning to start, you might be able to get a home business grant. These grants are usually government-issued. They are, effectively, ?free money? ? as long as you use the money for what you say you?re going to use it for, you don?t ever have to [...]

So What?s Your Idea?
You?ve got this far. It?s time to ask yourself: what exactly do you plan to do? What?s your big home business idea ? and, more importantly, how is it going to make you any money? There are quite a few ways to figure out whether your idea is a good one or [...]

Working Alone: Who’d Have Thought You’d Miss Your Co-Workers?
Remember co-workers? Those annoying people who you’re forced to share an office with — some of them friends, but most of them insufferable. If you’re anything like me, one of reasons for starting a home business was to get away from these people. And yet, when you [...]