“Back-to-School” is the selected topic for the b5media Business Channel Theme Day hosted by Miranda Marquit at Yielding Wealth.   Home Biz Notes participated with a post, 5 Ways Back-to-School Affects Your Home Business. 
Now that youngsters are back in school, parents who operate home businesses, as well as those who shop, will find some changes in their lives and businesses.  I share five ways you might be affected.

You’re enthusiastic about a project.  You’re excited you have another customer.  You try to make an impression and agree to finish a project or perform a service in less time than usual.  Or you don’t allow time in case you run into a problem.
Take Eric Eggertson’s advice in this post from his Common Sense PR blog…Quick Tip: Don’t Promise More Than You Can Deliver.
Eric talks about resolving problems, but the advice applies to performing services and supplying products for customers.  If you find you can’t keep to the time frame or get the material agreed upon, let the customer know …read more

Creating a mailing list, whether e-mail for online customers or a physical list if they come to your home shop/office, often can reap benefits…both for you and the customer.  However, many customers, unless you have something of value to offer them, don’t want to be on simply another mailing list.
Alexandria K. Brown, at her Small Business Marketing Blog, has a very interesting post, How Starting Your Own ‘Country Club’ Can Skyrocket Your Revenues!  Just the name intrigued me when I visited her site.  Here Alexandria, ‘The E-zine Queen,’ gives tips on creating an interesting approach to mailing lists that make …read more