The Home Biz Notes post, My Mother, The Country Grocer, won this round of the b5 Business Channel’s “Apprentice” type challenge, an ongoing 8-week contest, with a different version each week. This week we were to tell the prototype business owner, Kay, a success story.
I chose to relate the story of my mom, who influenced […]
Family businesses operated from home take on many aspects. This is a fun story about the Christiansen family in Utah, who have developed a web site with instructions on how to tie a tie along with ties you can purchase.
This story, at PowerHomeBiz.com, A Real Family Home Business: Utah Family With Knot Problems Creates a Website […]
We generally like to learn about other’s success stories that give us the feeling…
“Ah! If she/he can do that, I can be successful with my business”
Or…“What a great tip! I’ll have to try that with my home business.”
Over the existence of Home Biz Notes, I’ve interviewed and mentioned numerous home business. I’ll round up some of these […]
When I learned Laura Spencer, of Writing Thoughts, had juggled a home business with caring for her father, as well as her family, I thought some of her tips would be helpful for other home business owners who are in the midst of this, too. They’re part of the “sandwich generation” with responsibilities in numerous directions. […]
Do you operate a jewelry making or similar business from home? Have you been thinking of doing something like this?
Check out Laura Spencer’s interview of Barbara Giordano , owner of SunfleursJewelryDesigns. This is the fifth in a series of interviews of women who work from home that Laura has conducted at her Work From Home Momma blog.
An […]
In a previous post, The Exciting Evolution of a Home Business to a Big Business, I told you about Patricia Bolton, founder of Quilting Arts Magazine and Cloth Paper Scissors. Her venture evolved from a home business headquartered in the family barn to it’s merger with another corporation.
Now Patricia has taken this business and her career to another […]
Some businesses that start out as home businesses, then reach the point where you have to expand into larger quarters or settle for the status quo. You have decisions to make whether you try to do everything yourself or begin to hire employees.
Traci Bisson, owner of Bisson Barcelona, in Barrington, NH (USA), recently found […]
Developing a craft or hobby into a business, operated out of the home, or at craft shows and by mail order is the dream of many people. The Werts’ wood quilt business now is in the second generation. It evolved from Jewell Wert’s classes in folk art painting. Reading their story, on their web site, […]
I find it exciting when I learn about small home businesses that evolve, through a great deal of work by their owners, into a business that has to move out of the home. Sometimes these businesses become so successful they’re offered mergers or associations with other business.
Quilting Arts is one of these. What […]
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