Des Walsh, at his Thinking Home Business blog, alerted me to the new online magazine, eMoms at Home,  for home based entrepreneur parents launched by Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home blog.
Check out Des’ blog for more information about Wendy’s new magazine with its eight channels of information.

Soon it won’t be enough simply to write thoughts and ideas, publish information, and post photos on your blog or web site.  You’ll need to consider videos when promoting your products and services and keeping your customers informed.
Des Walsh, at Business and Blogging, considers this in Time to Get Serious About Video.
“For some months now I’ve been hearing plenty of people going on about the importance of video for online communication and marketing.  But up until now it’s frankly not been on my high priority list to get into.”
What is making Des change his mind?  Read more here…..

With more and more people interested in starting a home business and more people advocating this trend, it was interesting to find Des Walsh’s post, Why Working From Home Might Not Work for Startups, at Thinking Home Business.  Here Des quotes some statistics that indicate fewer startups are home businesses and then ponders the situation.
One of Des’ readers, apparently a home business owner, wonders where they got their stats…no one polled or asked her.  Des is looking into this idea further.
But, when we see so much pro home business information, it’s interesting to gather data from the other opinion.  Like …read more

“Do you have a blog?”  business owners often are asked nowadays.  Customers expect them to have a web site, but a blog as well, or instead, if you’re not an online business.
“What should I blog about?” the business owner asks.  “I’m not a writer!”
(Writers have discovered the need to blog to promote their work and are among some of the most avid bloggers…whether they’re blogging about writing or some other topic related to their work.)
I noticed quilters and artists have picked up this trend. (My daughter has a blog, Meandering Threads, to share her world and her quilting.)  
What about the person who has …read more

It seems when I posted the 5 Simply Successful Secrets for a Home Business item and listed having fun as the fifth one, many people took notice.  I’ve had a number of comments on the importance of considering the enjoyment of your business.
Des Walsh at Thinking Home Business, tells us how this post made him realize the importance of fun.  He mentions:
“…there are times in any business that seem anything but fun, but business is going to be much more manageable and more likely to bring success if our prevailing mood abut our business is that we are enjoying what we …read more