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I have owned a number of businesses, including an award winning bookstore and home based businesses. I own a small training and development business and am an accredited Myers Briggs trainer. I also have […]
A friend frantically spent the night transferring posts and e-book links to other sites or blogs because she found her two main web site domain names had expired. The company she purchased them through said they couldn’t do anything about it because someone had purchased them as soon as they expired.
So whenever someone clicks on those original […]
The question of what to charge for our services and products often is a quandry for home business owners, whether they sell items they’ve made, resell those purchased wholesale, or perform a service. There are various formulas of cost of materials plus operating expenses plus an income, yet there is no absolutely fixed one. Much […]
Anne Wayman, at the Golden Pencil, referred to my post, Meet More People - A Key for Promoting Your Home Business, when giving advice to freelance writers, who generally are home based. As Anne explained, many writers can stay at home with their writing business, but it’s a mixed blessing.
So…In Get Out There and Meet […]
A recent writing activity in the blogosphere consisted of the Simply Successful Secrets Roundup at Today is that Day blog. Aaron Potts organized this project and had amazing response. The final results have been posted at Aaron’s blog.
Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business tagged me and I participated with the post, 5 Simply Successful Secrets for a Home […]
The question posed by a reader at Grow Your Writing Business impelled me to write a post in answer her query and for Yvonne Russell to seek answers, too. Yvonne has set up a “Just Ask” feature at Grow Your Writing Business and asked me to be one of her “experts” in answering questions.
I consider this an […]
Do you produce items that appeal or are used by youngsters? Do you use promotions that might appeal to them, as well as their parents? Is there a difference between how youngsters view purchases than the adults in their lives?
Ron E. discusses this sometimes controversial topic in a recent post, Marketing to Kids, at Brand Curve […]
Patricia Fry has some interesting promotional ideas, at Publishing Basics based on seasonal events. She has written this article with authors in mind, giving them ideas for promoting (and selling) their books once the holiday gift giving and buying season is over.
Many home business owners can utilize some of these seasonal promotions for items […]
Hope Clark’s article, What is a Platform?, in her newsletter, FFWSmall Markets, gives great information on promotion and branding oneself as a writer. Although Hope’s article is written primarily for the writer, much of her information has wider application for the home business owner.
“A platform is a brand. Your brand. Every entrepreneur […]
As you develop a home business or your hobby evolves into one, you may find occasions to give talks to groups about what you do. Of course, some businesses lend themselves more readily than others as topics for talks.
However, you may have a fascinating interest, non-business related hobby, unusual trip you can talk about to […]
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