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Taking a Chance
When anyone decides to leave their current job and develop a home business or turn their hobby into a money making venture from their home, they’re taking a chance and jumping into the exciting entrepreneurial field.
 Over the next few days, we’ll be learning from Debbie Yost about developing a daycare business in one’s home. I’ve had several readers ask me about this type of business. Since I have never operated one, I needed to go afield to find answers.
Fortunately for all of us, Yvonne Russell, my co-blogger here at Home Biz Notes, has scheduled a series of guest …read more

In the apprentice challenge this week, we’re to relate to Kay, our prototype entrepreneur, a success story that might inspire her.  I discovered recently that success isn’t always what you think it is, Kay.
My Mother, the Country Grocer
When I consider business success stories, I now think of my mom, who, with no experience, took over the operation of a small country grocery.  She’d been a school teacher, then farmer’s wife and mom to four children.  When a grocery store, built on a corner of our farm property by my dad and a friend, was in need of a storekeeper due to the …read more