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The time comes for every successful home-based business owner when one person can no longer do it all. In the early days…
Picture it. You run your own business. You've worked long and hard for the past 18 months to get where you are today. Long hours, no weekends, anxiety attacks in the middle of the night worrying about whether you're going to be able to meet expenses for the month. Your phone rings. You answer it. "Stop sending me your rubbish!", the belligerent voice at the…
"I'm looking for a program that will make me enough money so that I can quit my job. I need about $2,000 a week. I have to give a month's notice at work. Will I be making that with your program by then?" "I just lost my job and I need to make a lot of money fast to pay off my debts. How quickly…
Publish or perish. If you're in academia, you know the expression well, I'm sure. It means that if you want to progress in your career, you will write books, articles, papers and theses and have your work published and reported in the leading journals. In other words, you are expected to make an original contribution to the body of work in your area of expertise.
I've just watched, again, an episode in the Back to the Floor television series, which aired on the BBC (United Kingdom) and PBS (United States). Once more, communication turned out to be a key issue, as it often does in business stories.
Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious benefits such as working your own hours, not having to face a stressful, tedious commute every day, actually seeing what your garden looks like in daylight hours, not having to answer to a boss, being home when your children are, working in a…
