Lightening the Load … Getting Help When You Need It
If there’s one immutable fact of life when it comes to this business, it’s that there’s so much to do but so little time to do it all in. At some point around the one year mark, if you’ve been even moderately successful in your online business, you’ll find you’ve reached the limit of what you can do with the time you have available.
Personal Discipline and the Home-Based Business Owner
Allow me to let you in on a little secret you’re probably already wise to anyway. As often as not, the inspiration for article topics comes from struggles with my own personal demons. Writing about them is my way of giving myself a good talking to (a.k.a. kick in the rear end). And so it is with this one – the personal discipline demon.
Creating A Professional Image For Your Home-Based Business
Like it or not, there is still a segment of the population who will erroneously conclude that you and your business are less than professional and competent just because you run your business out of your home.
Dumb? Obviously. Narrow-minded? Yes. Wrong? Absolutely. Unfair? No question. Want their business? Well … yes. OK, then you’re going to have to play the game and beat them at it. Here’s how to do it. It’s a little sneaky, but hey, all’s fair in love and home-based business.
Organize Your Business and It Will Take Care of Itself
Describe the top of your desk. No, not what’s on it. The desktop itself. What do you mean you can’t see it?
Taming the Email Tiger
Email … friend or foe? On balance, I would have to say, “friend”. But there are times … like when I download my mail in the morning … all 200+ items of it, only to find a good 40% or so is nothing but junk, that I have to acknowledge that there is a “dark side”, as well.
How Do I Start A Home Business?
From time to time (at least once a day actually) I’ll get an impossible-to-respond-to email that says something like, “How can I work from home?”, or “I want to start my own home business. Please send info.” or even, “Please send free info.”. Naturally such vague, generalized requests are not, for reasons of time (among others), going to elicit a particularly helpful response but it does exemplify the mindset of a proportion of my site visitors – they think they want to start a home business but where on earth do they start?
Six of One, Half a Dozen of the Other
You’ve read many articles I’m sure about the advantages and disadvantages of working for yourself from your own home. Many of them I’ve written myself, in fact. But how many articles have you read that give equal time to the advantages of working for someone else compared to working for yourself?
Not a Marketer? Got An Online Business? Guess What? You’re A Marketer!
What’s that I hear you say? You’re not a marketer? You’ve got an online business haven’t you? Well, guess what, baby. You’re a marketer!
Getting Organized for Success
Email, sales letters, email, phone calls, J.O.B., email, kids, conference calls, mentoring and sponsoring, errands, personal time, email, website updating, writing articles, email, search engine positioning, ezine publishing, advertising, email. Oh, and sleep. And did I mention email? Sounds like your day, right? Yours and everyone else’s who runs a business part-time around their REAL life.
Is Your Site Accessible? Five Simple Tests
Accessibility is not a new issue, but there is still a great deal of confusion out there about what makes a Web site accessible and why it matters. If you don’t think this topic is important, consider this: