“I’ve always considered myself a PR pro,” comments Barbara Brabec in her current e-newsletter bulletin, “but what I was particularly good at in years past was getting print publicity.  Things are different today and, thanks to Traci’s teaching [Traci Vanover]  I’ve learned a lot about the special resources and strategies needed to get publicity on and through the Web.”
Yes, for many years Barbara has been considered a pro on helping small crafts and business people promote their enterprises and has written several books on the subject.  Many of us have discovered, as Barbara has, that the PR field is a …read more

May and June signify graduation time in the United States, when students are leaving school…whether high school, technical school, or other places of higher learning.  Most are venturing into the “real world” of earning a living.  Or they may have received a degree they hope will take them into a higher earning level.  It’s a time for new beginnings in your life.
Some thought could be given to developing a home business, probably along with your job as an employee for someone else at this stage, unless you’ve already been establishing yourself in a work from home career.  However, in today’s Internet world, …read more

From time to time I’ll refer to home business resources found which will expand upon topics I discuss, will be geared for a particular type of busienss, and offer online newsletters.
Barbara Brabec, on her web site and in her newsletter, offers information for home business owners who are striving for financial success and happiness.
I first corresponded with Barbara when she was writing a book about and for home businesses in the 1980s. I was a newspaper reporter at the time and often wrote about small businesses in my hometown. Somehow Barbara realized this (in the age before the …read more