For those who enjoy cooking, there are many ways you can turn this into a home business, something you can work at from your home.  If you are doing actual cooking to provide food for others, you’ll need to research the regulations for your state and community.  Also, check out zoning laws to see if this business is possible from your home.

 
Decorating cakes
 Providing breads for restaurants and stores. 
 Making and providing party foods
 Doing party planning for others
 Writing about cooking.  I wrote (and still write) a cooking column for newspapers for more than 40 years.
 Compiling a cookbook.  This even can be an …read more

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Yvonne Russell, in her post, Do You Take Your Home Business On the Road, asked if others bloggers operated their businesses while traveling.  I’ll expand upon her post and give some insight into how I operate my writing/blogging business from home and during my travels. 
Perhaps others will share some of their business/travel tips. 

I do find a laptop is a necessity.  Then I can type most anywhere, even when I don’t have Internet access.
Since much of my writing nowadays is blogging, I do need Internet access somewhere along the route.  Even when I write for print publications, the editors want the material …read more

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 “Help!  Help!  My server’s down.” 
(Or my computer crashed.  My e-mail has a zillion spam.)
When you’re depending solely on the Internet to operate your business, what do you do when you have problems, can’t access it, or can’t fill your customers’ requests?  Are there solutions?
*Use the phone…Make sure your regular customers have a phone number they can call you.  Try to get their phone numbers when they contact you or order so you can respond. 
*Use traditional postal mail…This is slower, but can be a back-up to the Internet.  Also, sending postcards or notes to customers is good for public relations.  When …read more

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Susan Gunelius, a work at home mom, blogging at Women On Business, asks the question, Why don’t more companies hire stay-at-home moms as consultants, freelancers or as telecommuting employees?
She has an interesting post on this topic, Tapping into the Experience of Stay-at-Home Moms at Women on Business. 
Are you a stay-at-home mom?  Are you considering staying at home with your children as Susan does with her triplets?  Some moms develop their own at-home business.  Others would like to work for a corporation from their home.  Still others consider being a home based consultant, working on contract to a larger corporation.
What’s your …read more

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Productivity in one’s home business, the April theme at Home Biz Notes, seems to be a topic on other blogs as well.  I found a very useful tip at Slacker Manager by guest blogger, Sandy Renshaw, Know When You’re In The Red. 
It’s one of those simple measures that makes one wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?”  I didn’t, so I will take Sandy’s advice and see about categorizing my files for easy reference.  Her tip, I think, can be adapted for other types of file categories.
Do you have a productivity tip to share with our Home Biz Notes readers this month?  Or …read more