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Home Biz Myth Busted has been one of our most popular new series here at Home Biz Notes.

Here’s a wrap up of all our Home Biz Myth busted reader submissions, plus a few from my co-blogger, Mary Emma Allen and myself.
Remember you can join this stellar cast by submitting your very own Home Biz Myth. C’mon you’re not going to tell me that you don’t identify with many of these.
Get writing and send in your own favorite (or cringeworthy) Home Business Myth.

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The tendency to become distracted by other tasks and people when we work at home challenges many of us.  We find it difficult to block off specific amounts of time and tasks free of interference from family, friends, and other work facing us.
There’s an interesting article, with informative tips at CareerJournal.com, Running a Home Business Like a Big-Company Office by Kelly K. Spors.
Running a business from home isn’t always as liberating as it sounds. With all the distractions of home, like young kids, errands and dirty dishes, competing for attention, many home-based entrepreneurs find managing their time and concentrating on work particularly daunting.
However, Kelly …read more

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Are you so dependent on the Internet that your business comes to a standstill when electronic problems occur? Does your business cease when your computer fails, your server has problems, or there are Internet challenges? What happens when electricity goes out in your area?
If you have a walk-in shop in your home, you probably can tally the sales on a calculator and make any computer entries later. If you operate a mail order (or online ordering) business, you can package and ship orders you’ve already received.
However, if your business is solely on the Internet, whether involving sales, writing, consulting, teaching, …read more

Many people think that as soon as they’re not working for “the boss”, all will be swell.
This is another one of those home business myths. Sure, home business gives you flexibility and many other advantages. Being able to pursue your passion is a big one.
Home Business – Answering To A Different Boss
However, home business is just that… a business. If you want a steady income, and a growing business, you need to stay motivated, work hard and often long hours. If you start your business from scratch, this will be even more true.
Now you have to answer to a …read more

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

In a previous post, I discussed 5 of the advantages of an Internet home business. Some of these advantages may turn into challenges or disadvantages if you’re not careful.  There also may be other ones you need to consider…those common to most home businesses or particularly to yours.
*Don’t have face to face contact with people.  So sometimes it’s more difficult to address problems when you can’t have personal contact.  Some people find it much easier to deal with people when they’re face to face, while others like the anonimity of the phone or e-mail.
*Less investment may equate less production.  When …read more

In a previous post, I discussed the pros and cons of turning your hobby into a home business. Readers agreed this was ideal when you can do it, turning something you like to do into a business. One mentioned that it really didn’t matter how much you got paid…the money was just a bonus for something you like to do.
This is a great idea, that the money is just a bonus…as long as you aren’t depending on that hobby turned home business for a living. It’s wonderful if you can get paid for a hobby. However, …read more

Perhaps you thoroughly enjoy a particular hobby. You decide, “Why not make money doing what I love?”
I heard someone discussing the “dream job” and he described it as a hobby you turned into a money making venture.
This often is how many home businesses start….expanding upon a talent or hobby to earn a living. However, you should be aware that something you enjoy as a hobby you can do at your leisure, when you want and how you want, may lose some of its enjoyment when it bacomes your source of income. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t undertake …read more