Des Walsh, at his Thinking Home Business blog, alerted me to the new online magazine, eMoms at Home,  for home based entrepreneur parents launched by Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home blog.
Check out Des’ blog for more information about Wendy’s new magazine with its eight channels of information.

E-cards or postcards proved a handy way to send a greeting or thank-you to online customers or those with e-mail.  However, business owners have become increasingly wary of using them, as Des Walsh explains at Thinking Home Business in his post, Email Greeting Cards R.I.P.
Because spammers have begun using e-cards or postcards, business owners as well as the general public have become wary of this great way to remember friends, relative, and customers.
“Sadly, I suspect that the days of sending and receiving email cards might be numbered,” states Des, then goes on to explain why.
I realized, after I read Des’s post, …read more

With more and more people interested in starting a home business and more people advocating this trend, it was interesting to find Des Walsh’s post, Why Working From Home Might Not Work for Startups, at Thinking Home Business.  Here Des quotes some statistics that indicate fewer startups are home businesses and then ponders the situation.
One of Des’ readers, apparently a home business owner, wonders where they got their stats…no one polled or asked her.  Des is looking into this idea further.
But, when we see so much pro home business information, it’s interesting to gather data from the other opinion.  Like …read more

It seems when I posted the 5 Simply Successful Secrets for a Home Business item and listed having fun as the fifth one, many people took notice.  I’ve had a number of comments on the importance of considering the enjoyment of your business.
Des Walsh at Thinking Home Business, tells us how this post made him realize the importance of fun.  He mentions:
“…there are times in any business that seem anything but fun, but business is going to be much more manageable and more likely to bring success if our prevailing mood abut our business is that we are enjoying what we …read more