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June 26th, 2007

Why Leave Home? Start a Home Business!

Jennifer, at OffBeat Homes, visited a Home Biz Notes post and mentioned something I’ve been thinking about since.

“Once you’ve got your home nice and decorated, why would you ever want to leave?”

So why not start a home business?

Here’s why many people start home businesses:

*Convenience of staying at home

*Children or elderly family member to care for

*Working at something they enjoy

*Decreased expenses traveling to and from work

*Less stress in their lives

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June 6th, 2007

Tips for Home Business Success

Many people want to work at home and even set up a business at home.  However, they may soon find they’re easily distracted and aren’t so effective as when working for someone else. 

As has been said, “The good news is…you’re your own boss.  The bad news is…you’re your own boss.”

Now isn’t that contradictory?

Not necessarily.  As your own boss, you can set your own schedule, generally work at something you enjoy,  and work at or from home.   However, as your own boss…you must have the incentive to be effective and productive…or your business will fizzle away.

At Contract Worker, Rico refers to 9 Things That Make Working at Home More Effective and links to Web Worker Daily’s post, 9 Best Practices for Home-Based Web Workers.

Here you’ll find suggestions that apply to online home businesses.  Also, you can use many of them even if you have a more traditional business working from your home.  By applying these suggestions, you may find you fall into the category of “the good news is…you’re your own boss.”

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April 27th, 2007

Working From Home for a Home Business or Someone Else

When I visited Yvonne’s blog, Grow Your Writing Business, where she mentioned her interview at Home Biz Notes, I found a question from one of her readers.  This lady wanted to know about working from home.

“I would like to work from home, but I do not want to own my own business.  Do you have any suggestions?”

Her query got me thinking about this variation of a home business, working from home, but working for someone else.  I’ve discovered that more companies are doing outsourcing…right in their backyard and over the Internet nowadays. 

If you’re interested in this type of work…being a home worker, as it once was called, check in your area to see if there are any companies that set people up to work for them…but in their own home.  There is a business near my hometown that makes dolls and sends sewing out to workers in their homes.  Another company that made unique pillows started in a woman’s home.  As she developed more business than she could handle, she sent work to women in their homes.  This lasted until she moved to a large building and had everything made there.

I have a friend who started working for a company (solving customer’s cable set-up problems or something similar).  However,  after she was trained and had worked at the business location for awhile, they set her up to do this in her home.  She has to work specific hours (not at her own whim) and take calls from customers.  She says they’re setting up more of their employees to do this. 

One of the smaller, yet growing, airlines started by using homeworkers to make reservations.  They work from their homes around the country.

Instead of outsourcing to another country, a number of companies are following suit and looking for people to work for them from their homes. 

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