HomeBizNotes.comIn previous posts, I discussed working with an expert to help you in your home business and facing the fact that You May Be the Expert. You’re still uncertain you’re an expert. How do you become one…in a skill, a hobby, your home business?

Finding that unique skill or talent. Perhaps it’s even a new one.
Learning all you can.
Taking classes and workshops.
Practice, practice, practice.
Realizing you do know more about your topic than many others.

So now you’re ready to speak to small groups, then larger ones. You’ll find others are coming to you because you’re the expert who can inform, entertain, and …read more

Darlene McDaniel’s post on Perpetual Learning at Small Business Boomers made me realize this is something for home business owners to think about. 
“How much do you invest in your learning?” Darlene asks.  “Are you growing and strengthening your knowledge about your product, your pricing, your competition, your strategy and your vision?”
This made me realize that’s what I was doing this past weekend at a business conference which I referred to in Attention to the “Little Things” by Home Business Owners.  I picked up a great deal of information which gave me new ideas, made me assess what I’m doing, and …read more

Many people decide, “I’m going to open a business at home.  Or I’m going to start an online business.”
They get set up, organized, products made or purchased…and then wonder, “Where are my customers?”
If you already have begun to establish customers in your “hobby” business while you’re working at another job, you have a start.  However, if you plan to develop this into a full time, or even greater parttime, income you need to develop methods of acquiring more customers/clients, learn about record keeping, organizing your time, and other business matters.
So before you jump into your business full speed, arm yourself …read more