Category Archives: Home Business

Keeping your business legal

When you start a new business there are certain legal matters that need to be taken care of.  I’m not a lawyer or a tax expert, I’m just speaking from experience of being a business owner in Missouri.  I encourage you to seek out the details of the laws in your own state. Ficticious Name [...]
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How to Make Money

There are limitless ways to design your business to bring in cash.  Some are passive forms of income and some require daily work.  Here are just a few examples to help you write this part of your business plan. 1.  Trading time for money:  This is one of the fastest ways to get the cash [...]
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The Business that Fits You

Before I start today’s post, I want to say something important.  Being a stay at home mom is enough.  There are enough dishes to wash, clothes to fold, ironing to do, toilets to scrub, stories to read and noses to wipe to keep a mother busy all day.  Adding a home business will add to [...]
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Part 2: Birth of a Business

My pattern business went okay, but was not the smashing success I had hoped for.  My advertising consisted of a link at the end of my email signature and my market niche was very small.  Only the nursing mother who favored plain style dressing would be interested in my first designs.  Still I managed to sell [...]
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The Birth of a Business

Today I’m launching a 3.5 week series on home based business.  For the first post, I’d like to tell my story and how it evolved into the 3 businesses I currrently run.  Ever since a child I’ve dreamed of ways to make money.  I had a lemonade stand, participated in garage sales, and designed crafts that I hope to sell [...]
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