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Friday, August 25, 2006
Web Log for Web MoneyCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comOne Internet home business opportunity that’s getting a load of attention lately is a blog. A blog is easy to set up, easy to run, quite a bit of fun, great marketing and a good way to make money selling advertising. Of course, a blog can also be a good Internet tool for marketing the home business opportunity but should be far more subtle than would be a banner ad or advertising on the home business site. A blog, can however, be the Internet home business opportunity itself. The word blog is a derivation of the term Web log. A blog is essentially a journal that is displayed on the Internet. All it takes to add to the blog is log on, post the day’s thoughts or activities and it’s out there live. Someone who wants to build a blog as an Internet home business opportunity obviously has to make it more revenue-based than that. The best way to do that is by using the blog audience as a market for someone else’s business. In other words, selling advertising on the blog. There is simple and inexpensive software that can help spread the word by advising other sites and search engines each time a change is made to the Internet home business opportunity blog. However, most may not know is that a blog can also be a very powerful marketing tool for your business, and some people actually earn an income just from blogging alone. Blogs are easy to maintain than Web sites because they are informal and conversational. Their volume is maintained, sometimes exponentially, by encouraging others to comment or respond to postings. A blog is much more “human” than a Web site, which invites and encourages conversation. The best way to make money with a blog is through pay per click contextual advertising. The best known of these products is Google’s Ad Sense. Google actually offers the ready made advertisers. The entrepreneur simply indicates the keywords and industry and Google does the rest. The way this Internet home business opportunity works is that the ad links are placed on the blog site and any time someone goes to the blog and clicks on the ad links the advertiser pays Google and Google pays the blogger. Affiliates are money makers as well. The Internet home business opportunity is a two way street here generally, with the blogger placing a link to someone else’s Web site on the blog and being paid for links, but also placing his or her own link to the blog on the affiliate Web site and paying the affiliate for any link, or revenue from the link. Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,327038,00.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, August 24, 2006
Interactive Engaging InternetCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comOne of the most important factors in an Internet home business, and one that is getting a lot of emphasis – and a lot of help – is the idea that customers want to be engaged. They don’t want to be receptacles for the information of the Internet home business. Instead they want to be able to converse in real time, to offer their ideas and have them heard and to be able to make purchases instantaneously. They want instant access to the Internet home business staff – to its sales staff, its customer service staff and perhaps most importantly, its technical support or help desk. Technical vendors offer a lot of opportunity for an Internet home business owner to offer this interactivity and engagement and at little cost and virtually no risk. Some products such as live chat and click to call can be purchased as a revenue share. What this means is that the Internet home business owner can collaborate with a vendor to offer these services and let the vendor take a portion of the proceeds that these products help bring in the door. A live chat feature on an Internet home business Web site can give an entrepreneur an incredible competitive advantage. A consumer who has a question can simply click on the live chat and converse with the business representative in real time. Some of the latest presence aware products are great for the small Internet home business owner who doesn’t have the staff to offer live chat 24/7. What the presence aware function does is signal the system when the business is available for a chat and display the icon on the site but remove the icon when no one is there for a chat. Click to call is just what the name suggests. With just a click of the mouse on the site of the Internet home business a consumer can call a business representative by phone from her or his computer at no charge to the consumer. Other interactive offerings that help an Internet home business merchant make that sale are Buy Now and Ask the Seller features. Buy Now is an e-commerce function that lets the consumer add items to her or his shopping cart, check out and make a credit card payment - all from the Internet. Other handy features allow consumers to rate a product or a merchant. All these interactive and engaging features offer the consumer the instant gratification folks have come to expect from the Web and offer the Internet home business owner instant payment – and that’s all terrific. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Picture This Home BusinessCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comA home photography business doesn’t necessarily require formal photography training. What it does require is a passion for photographic art, an artistic flair, the technical skills to operate the equipment and the ability to market the business. Someone who is still in high school or college can start out preparing for a home photography business by taking photos for the yearbook or the student newspaper. A basic photography course would be very helpful as well. Nowadays it’s good to know how to operate both a 33 mm and a digital camera. Local community colleges often have very reasonably priced community education courses, many that involve just one class in the evening or on the weekend. Colleges that offer Lifelong Learning Centers for folks 50+ have courses as well, and some of these are taught by very experienced retired home photography business professionals and little or no cost. There are many types of photography and the home photography business entrepreneur may want to specialize, perhaps in photography for news organizations such as the local daily or weekly paper, in advertising photography for local magazines and local firms that need to market their products. One of the most common forms of home photography business is for events and celebrations such as weddings, bar mitzvahs, anniversaries, and other events. These can be especially lucrative as repeat business and excellent multiple referrals. Travel photographers have exciting home photography business lives, although it takes a lot of skill and a lot of travel expense and practice photography before that first paid vacation is finely paid for. Some folks create a home photography business working as photojournalists or specializing in medical or science photographers. While quite lucrative, these almost require a four year degree with extensive photography and communication training. A college photography internship is a wonderful foot in the door for a home photography business as well. A portfolio is a must for building clientele for a home photography business. This means taking lots and lots of unpaid photo shots to show off exceptional talent to potential clients. Helpful ways to learn the ins and outs of home photography and a home photography business are by working as an assistant to a photographer, by joining associations and organizations of fellow photographers and by attending seminars and workshops on home business and photography. Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_12361_become-photographer.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Home Business Shouldn’t be TaxingCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comHere are some tips on making the most money by taking the right deductions on home business taxes. An entrepreneur who doesn’t have the time, the interest, the energy or the mathematic savvy to keep up on changes in the taxes for home business should have an accountant or a professional tax preparer that can advise her or him throughout the year. Tax laws can and do change. Not realizing or understanding this can lose profit for the home business with payment over taxes needlessly. It can also result in audits and penalties which can be time consuming and costly. Here’s a general list of what home business owners can generally deduct on taxes. Auto or other vehicles expenses used in business are eligible for home business deductions on taxes at the mileage rate of 40.5 cents for every mile. The alternative is to claim the actual cost of insurance, car repair and maintenance and gas. Business forms such as stationery, newsletters and business cards are deductible for a home business, as are expenses incurred in entertaining and feeding clients. Generally half of the cost is all that is deductible unless the clients are served in the business owner’s home. Business travel is a legitimate deduction for home business taxes. Any training or education expense that furthers a business owner’s training in his or her chosen industry or prepares them for a new business industry is deductible as is Internet access and expenses related such as computer hardware and software and Web site hosting and design. Other legitimate deductions of taxes for home business include the interest paid on student loans or business credit cards, the cost of office supplies and furnishings, telephone and other communication devices used in the home office, postage and delivery, business periodicals, the services of consultants, and other business professionals and vendors, rent or lease paid on the home business space and the cost of utilities associated with running the home business. Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,326630,00.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Working the WebCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comOne a business owner has decided to take his or her home business opportunity online the first thing that’s needed is a domain name. What’s most important is coming up with a business site name that describes the business well enough so people have some idea what it’s all about. The ideal would be that people interested in the type of services the particular home business opportunity offers and type the keywords online and the site pops up. A business that offers online writing services would do well to have the name www.onlinewriting.com or perhaps www.writingfortheweb.com. Of course, the names could already be taken. While there are other choices like .net , .org, .biz and so forth this is generally not a good idea for building an online home business following. The reason is that if, for example, someone were to decide on using www.onlinewriting.net because onlinewriting.com was already taken most people who take a shot in the dark at guessing the site address will find the competition before they find the new home business opportunity online. When taking the opportunity to market the home business online the entrepreneur should follow a few basic marketing rules. The first is to keep the URL short. A URL can be as long as 63 characters, but no one should have a business domain name that is anywhere near that long. The shorter the better when it comes to a business Web address. The second important item to remember is to keep it logical – something people would naturally think of if possible. The third rule of thumb for online home business marketing opportunities is to register every common variation of the business name. If the business is about cleaning widgets and the domain is www.cleaningwidgets.com , then it would be wise to also register www.cleanwidgets.com , www.widgetcleaners.com and perhaps even www.cleaningwidgets.net. The last online home business rule, which increases the business’ opportunity to be found online, is to register common misspellings of the company name. www.cleaningwigets.com might be a good idea, or www.cleenwidgets.com and so forth. There are several sites, such as register.com which would tell the entrepreneur which Web addresses are already taken. However, many businesses register domain names not to use them to build a site but in anticipation of someone wanting to use them and being able to sell them for a hefty profit. If there is a Web address that seems the ideal opportunity to market the home business online, the entrepreneur shouldn’t give up. He or she would be wise to approach the owner and see what the asking price is. Source: http://money.howstuffworks.com/online-biz-planning2.htm About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Blog it and They Will Buy itCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comBlog it and They Will Buy it One of the best home business marketing ideas is a business blog. What makes a business blog one of the top notch marketing ideas for a home business is that it’s easy to create, it’s inexpensive to build and run and it’s so casual and conversational that the owner can draw consumers in a non-threatening way. Trust is the key to successful home business marketing ideas and blogs build trust. The approach is non-confrontational, subtle and encourages two way conversations. Trust comes in the openness of the blog. It’s a fact that people buy people, they don’t buy products. Consumers have to trust and like the entrepreneur or they don’t buy the product. Blogs build this relationship that brings in the sales. So, what makes a blog one of the best home business marketing ideas is that it drives a lot more traffic to the business Web site, it generates more business sales, and it creates a secondary income stream, and offers personable, efficient and timely customer service. To create a great blog and use it successful as a marketing tool for the home business the owner must become a talented blogger. There are three things she or he must accomplish to achieve great blogging status. The first is a distinct blog voice. A blog should have the tone of a forum, a place where the ideas of the blogger and others can flourish and where topics totally unrelated (or seemingly unrelated) can be discussed and debated without disparagement of other’s opinions. It doesn’t take an Ernest Hemingway to write a great blog. It just takes an interest in and devotion to the subject matter. The content must be relevant to the audience, however, so while it doesn’t have to be exactly on topic it does need to have some relevance. In other words, a landscaper might have a blog that discusses various lawn care ideas and the forum postings might segue over to neighborhood eyesores and what to do about them – and that’s okay. Why? Because the blogger may add some suggestions which will present him or her as an expert on how to create a beautiful front yard from a garbage heap. What wouldn’t be very useful is to let the discussion get around to the price of auto insurance. What help is that going to be to ideas about marketing the home landscape business? Regular blog updates are great marketing ideas and the key to bringing people back often to the home business site. To not update regularly would be to invite people to stay away. After all, who wants to read yesterday’s news? Especially if they already read it yesterday? Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,327038,00.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Senior Services SellCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comA good home business idea is one that has a strong market. It’s doubtful, with baby boomers nearing retirement age, that there is any stronger market than the 50+ crowd of consumers. This decade there are 15 percent more seniors than the last and in 2010 that is likely to increase even more. Coming up with a home business idea that is attractive and useful to baby boomers and seniors and for whom the market hasn’t been saturated is a sound business plan. For an entrepreneur who wants to focus on the truly elderly here are some home business ideas. Senior day care center not only helps the elderly but can be marketed to the middle aged and baby boomers that are tasked with caring for aged and infirm parents. This is a group that’s really caught in the middle, with full time jobs, caring for elderly parents and often children still in the household. They’re a great market for someone with a home business idea that helps save them money as well as time. It also offers social opportunities for the parents being cared for. While adult day care can be in a large commercial facility many of them are owned by sole proprietors who offer the center in their own home. There are two different levels of adult day care, and the home business idea is best for the social center. The other choice is a medical focused care center, where those who are bound to a wheelchair, are incontinent or need assistance with eating and bodily functions can be cared for. A typical home based adult day care center focuses on the idea of providing a safe and social environment for those who are higher functioning, though the caregiver should be prepared to dispense medications. Another home business idea that centers on seniors is a relocation service. Many of the tasks involved in moving, or even in making the twice yearly transition from the winter to the summer home or vice versa, become increasingly difficult with age. A relocation specialist can help sell a home, help select a moving company, help pack, load the truck or car, prepare for an manage the garage or estate sale, and even help unpack depending upon the geographic restrictions of the service. A related home business idea that might be lucrative as well would be to travel with the senior and drive the car. Many older folks no longer drive long distances, are uncomfortable with the higher highway speeds that exist now, and have lost their night vision. These are just a couple of the home business idea possibilities centered on seniors. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Walking in Their Home Based ShoesCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comThe following stories might give entrepreneur hopefuls some ideas about creating their own home based business opportunity. Here are the tales of two who founded and succeeded at their own home based business opportunity. The first is the business opportunity story of a man that launched his home based computer consulting firm. Never formally trained in computer science, he nevertheless started training on his own part time while working for a major oil refinery full time. After five years of hands on training he was able to convert a loft in his home into a graphics production firm. He left his job and lived off his savings while growing the firm. The computer equipment he had accumulated in the five year training period stood him in good stead for quite some time while he grew his home based business opportunity. His only initial expense was several hundred dollars worth of business cards and business stationery. Just a few years later his home based business opportunity had grown to a $100,000 a year profit. One year, after a relocation and resulting slow down he started networking with other computer consultants who had their own similar but not identical home based business opportunity, to offer a full complement of computer services to their mutual clients. He felt it was better to have just half of the revenue pie than no pie at all. Another entrepreneur succeeded at her home based business opportunity, but she was lucky. The mistakes she made early on might have caused her business to fail. She cautions others not to repeat her early behavior. The first thing she did wrong when starting her home based business opportunity was to open its doors with too little money. She had $5000 total and thinks in retrospect that she should have first saved enough to survive the first year before beginning her home based business. She said she also announced her business opening before she had finished her marketing research, which was quite a blooper since part of her business consulting services included marketing research assistance. Her business name was wrong, she said. Instead of choosing a memorable name that conjured up a picture of the type of business she offered she simply used her middle name as the company name. Fortunately she was good at what she offered, and her home based business opportunity thrived. She is now a full time entrepreneur with 14 big name clients who provide her a nice six figure income. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Safe and Sound at Home WorkCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comIt is very important that anyone with a home based business start out by setting up an office and work space that is ergonomically correct, for safety and comfort’s sake. Here are some tips on how to have an ergonomically sound home based business. A home based business computer monitor should be set at a height that keeps the user’s neck level and documents viewed while looking straight ahead instead of moving one’s head up or down. It may require a shelf or a swivel base to make this happen. If the computer’s image size is too small because the pixels aren’t right the home based business owner or employee could develop eyestrain. Eye strain can result from too dim a monitor image. This requires adjustment to contrast or brightness. Lights from lamps or overhead lighting should never be directly in anyone’s eye and the monitor should be at least 16 inches away from the user’s eyes. It might even be a good idea to set a timer so that the user will remember to periodically look away from the screen. Another way to remember to look away is to place the monitor’s back to an outdoor view so that the user is looking at the lovely view and looking away from the monitor periodically. After all, a home based business should have some pleasant perks. A glare screen on the monitor is important too. A home based business should offer variety, with regular breaks and varied activities throughout each day. As much as possible heavy objects should be slid or rolled rather than lifted. Perhaps the most important piece of furniture for a home based business owner is a good chair. The height and tilt of the chair should offer comfort and the user should be able to have her or his back resting against the back of the chair with ease. A swivel chair is important to keep from twisting the head or body. Fight should be flat on the floor, and thighs should be parallel to the floor. A short person might need a footrest. If much of the activities of the home based business center around computer use the hands and the wrists take the worst beating in most cases. To prevent this, the work surface should be lowered so that the user’s hands are below his or her elbows. A keyboard tray helps to keep the user’s wrist flat. A very important tip for your wrist is to break the habit of resting your hand on your mouse when not typing. These home based ergonomic business tips will help an entrepreneur work more comfortably for extended periods. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Handy Home Base HabitsCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comSetting up a home base business office may seem like the perfect answer to spending time with family as well as earning a living. It’s not that easy, however. It takes a lot of planning to find just the right balance between home base business and family life – but it can happen. Here are some ideas. A primary caregiver needs child care for young children during the hours she or he will be running her home base business. It doesn’t necessarily have to mean taking the kids to the sitter. It may be that a sitter can be found to come to the business owner’s home just as long as the geographical distance is great enough between the office of the home base business and the play area of the home to allow for undistracted work. If the home base business has fluctuating hours, then perhaps a child care coop might work, where the small business owner would take his or her part in watching all the children. This would reduce child care expenses while assuring that someone known and trusted is watching the children. If the children are going to be home, plan conference calls and business meetings during the hours they are in school or away elsewhere. A home base business needs its own closed-door space if children are in the home. Not only does this help soundproof the work area and help get the message across to the kids and others that the home business owner is working and the area off limits but it also gives the business owner a break. Closing the door at the end of the day gives the owner a break and makes her or him less likely to work constantly and get burned out. Other handy options for a home base business are a second phone line dedicated to the business – one the children would never answer. This line should have voice mail as well, which would keep the phone answerable even when the owner is on the line. It would also allow for remote voice mail greeting changes and remote message check. Another handy service for a home base business is an office away from the office, such as UPS store or others that offer faxing, copying and mailing. There are some that answer the phone for the business as well, passing the messages on regularly. The most important client-related issue with a home base business is that the customer not be aware that they are talking to you anywhere but in your professional office. Screaming children or barking dogs in the background of your home base do not make for a professional business environment. Source: http://www.ehow.com/how_138118_work-home-with.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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No Bucks Business Start upsCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comThere are literally hundreds of free home based business opportunity listings on the Internet – some legitimate, some not. While it’s not necessarily the case that there is no cost involved, they are offered as a free home based business opportunity because there is no upfront fee to be paid to the firm offering the opportunity. This doesn’t necessarily make them legitimate home based business opportunities just because they’re free, nor does not being free indicate that a home based business opportunity is not legitimate. In fact, if someone wishes to start his or her own home business and build their own creative idea into a successful venture it will cost money to start. One of the best ways to get started for free in a home based business opportunity is to start small as an online merchant at one of the major auction sites. The first step in this venture is for the budding entrepreneur to simply take a look around the house, the office and the garage to see what is not in use and what might bring in some cash if put up for sale. The trick to making this start up venture free at the outset is to find what is already available, use it as the basis of the home based business opportunity and then take the sale proceeds to start buying up other items to sell. Of course, the trick is buying cheap and selling higher. The skills needed to start this home based business opportunity for free are not extensive at all. In fact, most online merchant and auction sites will walk the entrepreneur right through the process. The general step by step is to first supply the site administrator with banking and credit or debit account information and then sign up for online payment resources such as PayPal. There is generally an online form to fill out about the item or items to be sold, and then the choice of setting fixed prices for the item, using an online store dedicated to this seller, allowing the auction format or any combination of these options. The merchant site has categories from which to choose. The seller writes the title for the listing, the description of the products being sold, and can add photos. Pricing must be chosen as well as the duration of each listing. Another thing that’s important with this free home business opportunity is to reveal to consumers the city and state in which the items are houses. Starting out for free on an online merchant site with items already available is a great option for a budding entrepreneur who doesn’t have a ton of upfront financial resources. Source: http://pages.ebay.com/help/sell/basics.html About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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The Right Product for the Right MarketCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comA major part of evaluating home business opportunities is determining if the product the entrepreneur wants to sell is marketable, if the market is saturated, and what a competitive asking price might be. Even if someone wants to start a home business opportunity that is not Internet based but rather marketed in the local area, an online auction vendor or aggregator site is still a great way to determine what is out there in the industry, and what the going price is. Rule of thumb, according to online merchant experts, is to price the item at about two thirds of what the major online auction sites are asking for the same or similar item, or 65 percent of the top bid over the past sixty days. In evaluating home business opportunities for local sales the buyer must take into consideration that the local cost of living can alter the asking price. Market research for evaluating home business opportunities in this case would weigh most heavily on other local competitors in the industry. Some of the standard procedures an entrepreneur should do in evaluating home business opportunities are to check both the credibility and the performance of the parent firm. Home Business opportunities should be evaluated poorly just because they don’t report big dollars in revenue. A small company can be a sound home business opportunity. One advantage of working with a small firm is the accessibility to the executives in the firm, to help answer the evaluating questions about the home business opportunity it represents but to help the entrepreneur get started. Great sources of information when evaluating home business opportunities are people you know and trust that have dealt with the company. If the small business owner doesn’t have any such resource she or he should then turn to financial statements if it’s a public corporation or to firms such as Hoovers for information about the stability of the firm. Local help would be the Chamber of Commerce and the Better Business Bureau. Vendors of the firm that the entrepreneur is evaluating for home business opportunity are great resources, as they can tell you that the firm pays their bills on time and has been ordering large quantities of products for an extended period. This means sales are good. One important thing for a hopeful entrepreneur to do in evaluating the company is to ask for current and former customers and contact them for honest critiques of the firm. Evaluating home business opportunities should never rely only on the clients the firm offers. The entrepreneur should seek out others that the firm hasn’t put forth as good testimonials. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Monday, August 21, 2006
Scoring Big with Business Plan HelpCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comNew entrepreneurs often make the mistake of thinking that creating a business plan is not important. They don’t know how to create a business plan and they don’t know where to turn for help. Often they are concerned that competent help creating a business plan will be costly. So they do nothing about their business plan design. What this does is leave these entrepreneurs without structured goals or a clear business path to follow to reach their goals. Creating a business plan may be time consuming, yes. But it beats the alternative, which is to fail at the business. If you were setting out on a long trip to a place you had never been before would you not consult a map, strategize where you would stop and when, where you would sleep each night on the road and your mode of transportation. A start up business owner who doesn’t begin by creating a business plan is like a traveler who drives aimlessly, not knowing the route to his destination. Professional help creating a business plan can be free. The U.S. Small Business Administration offers books, tapes, and personal guidance at its various small business development center locations. An entrepreneur can even find helpful advice and tips on creating a business plan on its Web site. Another much-lauded organization that can help not only with creating a business plan but with just about every aspect of setting up and expanding a small business, is SCORE. This Service Corps of Retired Executives is made up of volunteers who have been where these beginning entrepreneurs have been and have succeeded. These folks used to be entrepreneurs themselves or business management professionals and they now offer their expertise in one on one face to face meetings, in group workshops or on the Internet. When a new business owner needs help creating a business plan, designing marketing materials, deciding on a product or service, a business location, finding capital to get the business off the ground, to advertise for and hire the right people, to set up an accounting system, to pay taxes, and to expand operations, either of these fine organizations can help. Sources: www.sba.gov , www.score.org About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Putting Christ in CommerceCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comIf an entrepreneur wanted to buy an established Christian home based business there are several resources on the Internet dedicated to that. One Christian home based business marketplace that we studied included not only the listings of Christian businesses for sale, and Christian franchise opportunities but several other features as well helpful to would be Web entrepreneurs. The categories of information and pages on this Christian home based business site included the mall itself (where the businesses for sale were displayed), Christian blogs, a category called Bible, one entitled E-cards and another called Articles. Under the Christian home based business mall heading we found the ten top choices in home based businesses. What was questionable, though, about these so-called opportunities was that each wanted the consumer to fill out a feedback form but not one of them indicated the type of business or the contact information. So, while this site offered some good articles and information it may likely be one of the Internet marketing ploys disguising themselves as Christian home based business resources simply because the term Christian suggests honor and trustworthiness to many. This is something an entrepreneur looking for a home based business opportunity must be wary of. The blogs section of this Christian home based business mall is set up with the mission of answering important Christian topic questions on marriage, evangelism, theology, prophecy, salvation, hell and yes, Christian home based business. Over 4000 questions are presented her. The Bible section is a category of quizzes one can take to test and learn about what the scriptures say about dozens of topics. The user can choose to test their bible expertise on finances, creationism, poverty, abortion, stem cell, world religions and many other subjects. The free e-cards might be just the thing to create top of the mind awareness for a Christian home based business. For little time and no expensive whatsoever the owner of the Christian home based business can send a birthday card, a happy holidays message, a sympathy card, a congratulatory message and many others to clients, coworkers, vendors, business associates and friends and family. The articles portion of this site offers tips to the owners and managers of Christian home based businesses on topics as diverse as home equity loans, affiliate programs, getting an online degree, buying business insurance, and taking care of her or his health. So, while the home based business opportunity list of this allegedly Christian site is somewhat questionable it’s still a helpful resource. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Caring for KidsCopyright © Roderick Eash http://www.TheEashSyndicate.comThere are many business opportunities for stay at home moms that fit well with their busy and often irregular schedules. These business opportunities should be carefully thought through and studied before stay at home moms take them on, however. One caution that is very important for stay at home moms to realize is that seldom do business opportunities and child care go hand in hand. Small children need all a caregiver’s attention to be safe and secure, while that business opportunity might well be demanding the same – especially if customers are involved. Stay at home moms embarking on business opportunities should assume that child care is still going to be a necessary expense while they grow their business. The one exception might be a child care center in the home. Many stay at home moms succeed at this, enjoy their business and still have time for their children. There are stringent regulations for at home child care centers, though, and these vary by state. Let’s look at a few of the regulations for these business opportunities for stay at home moms. The state of Texas has actually made this business opportunity impossible for a stay at home mom, stating that licensing is only given for child care centers outside of the owner’s home. In the state of California all stay at home moms or other caregivers who want to start a home child care business opportunity must attend a state-run orientation. They must be licensed, with a few exceptions. Anyone who is watching only her or his own children and the children of only one other family in their home need not be licensed. A cooperative arrangement where each parent of some members of the group of children being cared for takes her or his turn watching the children does not require any licensing. The only circumstances under which such a coop would require licensing is if one or more of the adults supervising the children was not a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or lawful guardian of at least one of the children; or if anyone is paid for the child care services; or if more than 12 children are being supervised. California, as do many other states, requires that stay at home moms and others seeking home child care business opportunities attend several hours of emergency health care training including CPR, first aid for children, prevention and recognition of infectious disease, child nutrition, sanitary handling of food, emergency evacuation and recognition and reporting procedures if child abuse is suspected. Child care business opportunities for stay at home moms are plentiful but do require preparation and strict attention to the little ones in their care. About the Author:----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.TheEashSyndicate.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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