“Back-to-School” is the selected topic for the b5media Business Channel Theme Day hosted by Miranda Marquit at Yielding Wealth.   Home Biz Notes participated with a post, 5 Ways Back-to-School Affects Your Home Business. 
Now that youngsters are back in school, parents who operate home businesses, as well as those who shop, will find some changes in their lives and businesses.  I share five ways you might be affected.

Most youngsters are back to school and you may find this affects your home business, either because you’re a parent or your customers are.  Have you noticed any changes in your business?
 *You can keep on a stricter schedule, working at your business while your children are at school.  Or if your business depends on customers stopping in, you’ll probably find more of them do so during school hours.
*You may have visits from youngsters on fund raising projects.  For instance, our granddaughter joined the year book committee at her school and has the task of visiting ten businesses to see if they will purchase an …read more

  This time of year, throughout the month of August, the “back-to-school” idea is in many people’s minds….students who will be going back to school of some type, parents who will be involved in getting them ready, grandparents who may be helping raise grandkids, and businesses that provide products and services in some way connected with school.
Even if you don’t think you’re involved, you can’t help seeing all the back-to-school advertising and displays, even in the supermarkets.  (The one where I shop most frequently has a large display of school supplies along the wall as you enter the store.)
                                        
If …read more