This article in Business Week, Before Setting Up Shop on eBay, by Karen E. Klein, provides tips to consider about insurance, taxes, licensing, permits and other similar issues before setting up your Home Business.  Even though it may be an online business, rather than one with customers coming to a shop in your home, you may find several legal and regulatory matters to take care of first.
These regulations may vary from state to state, county to county, and even town to town.  However, it’s better to be aware of them before you begin.
Ms. Klein mentions the book, eBay for Dummies, by Marsha Collier …read more

I’ve written about home business insurance before, the various types and what you should consider when setting up an enterprise at your home or basing from it, whether mainly an Internet one or physical type.  Yet, insurance can be puzzling.
I came across an article Peace of Mind: Right insurance package for small businesses is paramont, in the Edmonton Sun (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) that gives great suggestions.  It’s interesting to me, too, because this is written about business in another country.  However, most of the considerations remain the same.
Writer Terri Williams has covered many contingencies that might face the small [home] business …read more