My Favorite Home Biz Notes Posts of 2008 – And Promotional Pens

The second half of 2008, Home Biz Notes posts …

July posts focused on writing as a home business, with several posts… on writing family stories, writing a book to establish yourself as an expert, and using a book and website to build your business. And also learn more about self-publishing as a home business.

The August theme at Home Biz Notes was travel, about taking your home business on the road, while Mary Emma talks about taking her home business on the road.

And Yvonne wrote an important post about including a clear call-to-action in your advertising materials.

In September, Home Daycare Businesses were featured, and Mary Emma reviewed 13 outlets for home produced products. Yvonne discussed the 21 most effective words to use in marketing your home business.

And Yvonne wrote a popular post on Acts of Kindness.

October saw a Virtual Blog tour series with Magic, Moving Beyond Books 1, and Moving Beyond Books 2.

And Home Biz Notes helped readers cope with the economic slowdown .

By the way, in October Home Biz Notes celebrated its 2nd anniversary!

Mary Emma took us to home businesses around the world

and Yvonne talked about Baby Boomer business ideas to take on the road.

Mary Emma and Yvonne both bid Home Biz Notes goodbye at the end of October…

In November and December, my favorite posts were:

On taking a home office business deduction

Two posts on a home business success story – Down the Garden Path, and Lessons Learned from Down the Garden Path

Making your home business look bigger than life

and the Hidden Costs of Working from Home

One final note:  Promotional Pens seemed to be the “hot topic” at Home Biz Notes in 2008, with posts on whether promotional pens have outlived their usefulness – a “revisit” to the promotional pen issue – the value of promotional pens -a tip from Shannon Cherry at Startup Spark – and the usefulness of promotional pens .  Interesting topic, I’ll agree.