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Home-Based Businesses

Home Based Business Read what other home-based business owners have to say about the ups and downs of being the captain of your own ship.

Accounting And Taxes

A Shoe Box Of Receipts Won't Do
If you’re serious about starting your own business, you’d better be serious about keeping your records up-to-date and up to snuff.

How To Decode Your Business Numbers
Most people think of communication only in words. The numbers from your financial records can tell you a lot, but only if you can understand what they say. Here's how to crack the numbers code and interpret what your company's financial records are telling you.

The Home Office Deduction: A Taxing Question
If you have a home business, you have to pay taxes. Are you able to take a home-office deduction? Remember, the IRS is watching.

Tax Tips For Home-Based Businesses
Included here are a number of ways for home-based business owners to save money on their taxes.

How To Write A Successful Business Plan
It's the American Dream to be in business for yourself. To make that dream a successful reality, you need to have a specific, detailed business plan. Here are some tips on writing a solid business plan that can lead to self-employment success.

The Accounting Model–Accounting’s Rosetta Stone
As a small business owner/manager you must have an understanding of the financial end of your business. Certainly, you have a decent grasp of how the business operates, but are you able to visualize an accounting framework that your transactions fit into?

eBay® Help

NEW! Selling On eBay®
Learn tips and tricks to start selling on eBay. Learning how to sell on eBay is not as difficult as it might seem.

NEW! The Secret Of eBay® PowerSellers®
Learn some techniques to become an eBay PowerSeller, and what you should know that an eBay PowerSeller already does.

Is Selling On eBay® Just A Hobby Or A Real Business?
While you might think selling on eBay is just a hobby and the extra money you're making is not reportable as income, depending on the circumstances, the IRS just might disagree with you.

The Secrets Of Starting A Successful eBay® Business
While there is a lot of junk/treasure for sale on eBay, it is typically sold by individuals who have "I break for yard sales!" bumper stickers on their cars and are not serious businesspeople.

How To Sell Your Crafts On eBay®
Artists, craftspeople, and photographers are successfully selling their wares every day on the online auction site, eBay. According to a recent analysis of eBay sales, a crafts-related item is sold every nine seconds, a scrapbook item is sold every minute, and 40 cross-stitch items sell in an hour on eBay.

How To Find Products To Sell On eBay®
Have you wondered how to find products to sell on eBay? One key for business success on eBay is sourcing products to sell. The first questions eBay sellers ask themselves are: "What can I sell?" and "Where can I buy?"

Dropship Your Way To eBay® Success 
Dropshipping has been around since Sears first started selling goods from its mail order catalogs over a hundred years ago. However, the idea of dropshipping still confuses many people who don't understand exactly how the process works.

Four Tips For Organizing Your eBay® Inventory 
Before heading out to garage sales, auction sales, and secondhand stores searching for those unique products, make sure you have a plan in place for organizing.

Making Money On eBay® Can Be So Simple, Just Let Somebody Else Do All The Hard Work For You  
Visiting yard sales is taking up all of your spare time and your income from eBay does not match the effort you're putting in.

When It Comes To eBay®, Don't Follow The Herd
The most successful eBay sellers are those who understand that success on eBay relies on many of the same factors as success in a brick and mortar business.

How You Can Obtain Life-long Customers From eBay® 
In this article I'm going to briefly cover how you can use a newsletter to turn your eBay browsers into customers and turn eBay customers into life-long customers.

Negating Negative Feedback On eBay®
Taking pride in my one hundred percent positive feedback score on eBay, I was horrified to see a negative feedback appear against me. What had I done wrong?

The Top 10 eBay® Buyer Personalities!

The top 10 list of eBay buyer personalities and how to handle them.


The Powerful eBay® Bidding Strategy That Claims A 99% Success Rate  
Don't you just love it? You've found that special item on eBay that you've just got to have! No ifs, ands, or buts, you've got to win that item.

How To Become An eBay® Power Bidder
The difference between smart buyers and average buyers is information!

Five Ways To Detect Shill Bidders On eBay® So That You Don't Pay Absurd Prices
There is a lot of buzz about shill bidders on the eBay forums. But in actuality, shill bidding isn't that common and is rather easily detected.

Don’t Get Lost In The Jungle Called eBay.com®
I just cannot believe how many web pages exist on the Internet offering eBay tips or help. Certainly, there are damn good eBay tutorials out there, but I think it’s incredibly important for an eBay beginner not to get lost in the jungle.

Office Equipment

How To Minimize Computer Downtime
Personal computers are great tools to help business owners be more productive. They can also cause major headaches when they don’t work properly. Here are some tips to keep your computer and business running smoothly.

Ergonomics, Your Home Office, And You
Your surroundings have an impact on the quality of your work. If your home-based business is messy and cluttered, it's time to clean up your act.

Planning For A Home Business

So You Want To Start Your Own Home-Based Business
So you want to start your own business. Before you take the plunge, be sure you have what it takes.

Fire Your Boss And Work For Yourself
Run down by the corporate machine? Starting your own business could be your ticket to financial freedom.

Drafting A Persuasive Home-Business Plan
Use this article as a general guideline for developing your home-business plan. An effective home-business plan functions as an operational guide as well as a tool for winning the trust of lenders and backers.

Working From Home–A Blessing Or A Curse?
With some good planning, it is possible to reap the benefits and reduce the drawbacks of working from a home office. Here are 10 tips to help.

Trading Traits: What You Need To Be A Successful Entrepreneur
It's far too easy to say that the only trait a successful entrepreneur has to have is the ability to make a lot of money. Success comes in many different forms and so do entrepreneurs. What works for one will not work for another. What traits are necessary for you to become a successful entrepreneur?

Checklist For The Would-Be Home Business Owner
You landed your first few gigs through no fault of your own, but don't expect your luck to last. You'd like to use this as a springboard to formulate a more viable plan of action, but it's so confusing—hopeless even. Think you got what it takes to run your own business?

Organization Is The Key To A Successful Home Life And Home Business
Can you have a wonderful life and a successful home-based business? Yes, with lots of common sense and good organization.

How Setting Small Goals Leads To Big Business For Your Home Office
If you run a business out of your home, you need to set clear and realistic goals, with multiple small goals amounting to the achievement of larger long-term goals. This method allows you to schedule out your time, and work towards your aims in logical and manageable steps.

In Good Favor: Trading Resources Through Business Networking
This article discusses the importance of establishing a mutually beneficial relationship through the act of business networking. Networking is about compatible needs and the fulfillment of both parties’ agendas through an ongoing relationship based on trust and active commitment. The payoff for this extra effort could prove immeasurable.

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