5 Tips for Keeping your Home-Based Business on Track

USA Today Small Business columnist Gladys Edmunds gave some great tips for keeping your home-based business on track. They may seem obvious but as someone who works from home, I know how easy it is to get distracted by household activity, get cabin fever and feel isolated or forget to delegate.

Her five main points were:

• Select a designated space in your home for your business.
• Make and keep a work schedule.
• Get out of the house daily.
• Don’t try to do everything yourself.
• Build a network of supportive entrepreneurs.

Read the whole article here: http://usat.ly/eJcRLu

Gladys Edmunds’ Entrepreneurial Tightrope column appears Wednesdays. As a single, teen-age mom, Gladys made money doing laundry, cooking dinners for taxi drivers and selling fire extinguishers and Bibles door-to-door. Today, Edmunds, founder of Edmunds Travel Consultants in Pittsburgh, is a private coach/consultant in business development and author of There’s No Business Like Your Own Business, published by Viking.

Why a Recession is the Best Time to Start you Own Craft Business

Do your friends and family discourage you from starting your dream business “in this economy.”?  Is their reasoning that you’d be unwise to “leave the security of your job in a recession?”  I’d find that humorous if it weren’t so sad because,most likely, these naysayers have never been self employed and haven’t yet been victim to the mass layoffs of “valued employees”. In the present economy, the only secure job is the one YOU CREATE for yourself.

Yes, I do listen to the news. I know people are losing jobs and retailers are shutting their doors. And I also know that most of my self employed friends with small businesses are  reporting record breaking sales. Because when you’re self employed, you create your own economy. When something isn’t working , you can make changes quickly without the bureaucracy of a board of directors. On the corporate level, by the time reports are generated and changes approved, it is frequently too late. Too much has been lost. Not so in Read more