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Home businesses range from small one-person operations to larger ones with employees and equipment.  They may be operated solely online or completely off line in a portion of your home. Also, you might have the office in your home, but your service is performed at your customer/client’s house or business. 
Here are just thirteen possibilities, if you’re thinking of opening your own.  You also can use these as springboards and consider variations of them.

Snow plowing (winter) and yard work (other seasons).
Medical transcription
Accounting and billing
Editing or other writing related projects
Skincare and beauty consultant
Daycare
Tutoring
Housecleaning and home organizing
Giving music lessons
Plant rental or upkeep service
Pet …read more

Most youngsters are back to school and you may find this affects your home business, either because you’re a parent or your customers are.  Have you noticed any changes in your business?
 *You can keep on a stricter schedule, working at your business while your children are at school.  Or if your business depends on customers stopping in, you’ll probably find more of them do so during school hours.
*You may have visits from youngsters on fund raising projects.  For instance, our granddaughter joined the year book committee at her school and has the task of visiting ten businesses to see if they will purchase an …read more

By Guest Author – Yvonne Russell
Many people dream of owning a home based bookstore. Can you compete with Amazon? Absolutely! You can find a little corner of the market and make it yours. What you need is a well thought out and well researched point of difference. You may not reach everyone Amazon reaches, but with a specific target market, you have the potential to reach a lot of people other web based or brick and mortar stores don’t.
Check Out the Competition
How? Most large bookstores focus on the latest bestsellers (new releases) plus tried and true standbys …read more

A friend frantically spent the night transferring posts and e-book links to other sites or blogs because she found her two main web site domain names had expired.  The company she purchased them through said they couldn’t do anything about it because someone had purchased them as soon as they expired.
So whenever someone clicks on those original web site domain names to purchase e-books or learn about her business, they get a totally different web site.  Apparently the same person/company purchased both, because the graphics are the same on both even though the content is different.
One domain name even had the author’s …read more

Many home business owners (and traditional businesses, as well)  start their venture without seeking advice or learning much about the various aspects to consider about a business.  Some businesses require more business accumen than others, yet some basic business knowledge is beneficial.
Nowadays, operating a business by utilizing the Internet often requires much less investment and stocking of products than businesses which operate out of a physical location (your home, in this case) or perform services requiring equipment (like carpenters, lawn maintenence, etc.)  
(See the posts about Mark and Dorothy’s  online businesses as examples of those requiring little overhead.)
Here are 7 items to consider and perhaps seek advice …read more

When I posted The Value of the Interview for Home Business Owners, I mentioned I’d give a few tips in a later post for getting interviewed.   
When I was a reporter for a weekly newspaper and interviewed business owners, the print media, radio and television were the main methods of  being publicized.  However, now we also have the Internet and all its various types of interviews and appearances for business owners.
(These tips aren’t 100% guarantees.  Also, they aren’t all of the ideas possible. However, as you become known, either in your hometown area and the Internet, you’ll find yourself of interest to …read more

With a laptop and the Internet, many business owners can conduct their home business away from home these days.  As my husband and I travel from our home in New Hampshire to attend a conference in Tennessee this weekend, I still can write blogs and my newspaper column, research travel articles, add a chapter to my book, and conduct correspondence.
Not all businesses can be maintained away from home.  However,  if they’re mainly online home businesses, you can do much while on the road or in the air.  If we get delayed at airports or have long waits between connections, I can work …read more