starting a small home business

IDEAS & INSPIRATION

How 2 stay sane

7 Power Tips for Woman Starting a Small Business
If you're a woman starting a small home business, you need a lot of things, but mostly you need support, encouragement, and a dose of sanity. These 7 tips will help you harness your power to be more effective, but unleash it all when you need to!

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Map your time and make your life work
For women starting a small business, handling the demands of home and family, business and oh yeah -- taking care of ourselves -- is overwhelming and often frustrating, even downright defeating. I'm still trying to make it all work myself but I've recently implemented some strategies that are providing some relief and freedom. See if these apply to you.

How 2 pay the bills

Starting a small home-based business: Charge it or borrow it.
Don't let dollars stop you from your dreams. There are many creative ways to finance your home business and to survive the lean years. Read more to see if there's anything you hadn't considered.

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Starting a small internet business: Do your due diligence.
If you’ve been surfing around the web, trying to discover a legitimate, straightforward way of starting a small internet business, no doubt you’re a little overwhelmed by the opportunities and the information. Here's my recommendation for doing your due diligence.

Starting a new small business: Know your worth.
Whether you're promoting services or pushing products, you need to know what you're worth. In the services industries, people will challenge your rates left and right. With products, you have to have a general sense of the value your product brings to the marketplace. And find out here what the ULTIMATE value really is.

How 2 find your inspiration

Starting a new small business: Establish your why.
So you're starting a small home business? Before you do anything else, get out a piece of paper and write the answer to this question: Why are you starting a new small business? This exercise is important because the answer is what will sustain you through the tough times.

Starting up a small business: Get fired up.
You've only got one life to live and you'd better live it with passion and enthusiasm or you may as well be dead. Even some entrepreneurs don't demonstrate too much excitement over their businesses. Could be they're in it for the wrong reasons. Whatever your passion, whatever your pursuit, sing it loud and proud. Your home business should get you fired up! Read on. (And for more on making a living doing what you love to do, read how to make your passion sell.)