We’ve often talked about setting up a business plan for starting your home business.  However, you also need a marketing plan.  If you’re in a business, then that assumes you need customers or clients.  You need someone to purchase your products and/or services.
Over at Startup Spark, Steve discusses this topic, Writing a Marketing Plan – Series Overview.  This series addresses large and small businesses, those with employees and without, so gather ideas from it for your business and see what you can accomplish in refining the marketing plan you already have…or start a definite one if you haven’t considered this …read more

Whether one collects sales tax for mail order and Internet sales often presents a quandry for the home business owner. 
*What if you live in a no tax state but sell to customers in a state where there is a sales tax?
*What if you have a sales tax in your state and sell to someone in another sales tax state?
*What happens when you and your customer both live in the same state that has a sales tax?
*Do you collect sales tax if you visit another state to teach a workshop or give presentations and sell items while there?
These and other scenarios …read more