Developing a business plan becomes important for the home business owner…for keeping your own goals before you and for letting the IRS (in the United States) know you’re seriously involved in a business not a hobby making spasmatic earnings.  I attended two home business workshops recently.  At both the necessity for developing a home business plan was mentioned.
Also, if you go to a bank for any type of loan for your business, they generally will want to see that you have a busiiness plan.  This lets the bank/lending institution know you’re serious about what you’re doing.  For some, this is …read more

The 7th Carnival of Entrepreneurs has gone “live” and a Home Biz Notes blog post was featured.  This one concerned my 2007 goal of learning more about the Internet and the technical computer world.
In order to keep pace with what’s going on in today’s Internet world, writers, bloggers, and people in general will feel a need to learn more about this aspect of our society…actually world society.
Ben Yoskovitz, the host of the Carnivals, invites you to participate.  You can check this out at Ben’s StartUpSpark.com blog and carnival page.

I’ve begun to realize the Internet world is where we’re oriented, where business is going, writing, and the day-to-day activities of our lives.  As a society, we’re becoming more techincally talented.  Also, this trend seems to be moving faster than ever before.
If we don’t try to keep up with a computerized world, we’ll find ourselves falling behind  and miss out on so much. This isn’t to say you must know everything there is about every technical advance….and that you must spend every waking hour on the computer.  However, I find that so much of my life now is involved, in some part, …read more