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If It All Goes Right: The Exit Strategy.

After a few years, you might find yourself with a successful home business. After a few more, you might find yourself sick of it and ready to retire, only to realise that you have no idea what to do with the business and all the customers who rely on you ... Read >

What to Do if You Need Staff.

If you grow large enough, the time may come when there's no getting around it any longer. You simply don't have the time in the day to do everything that needs to be done. You need to hire some staff. Staff Create Profits. The chances are that you'v... Read >

Once You're Established: Planning Your Growth.

If you've got a profit-making home business on your hands, the next step is growth -- expansion into new markets and new products. But how can you grow when the physical space you have is so restricted? Outsource More. A typical problem when your bu... Read >

Reviewing Your Performance.

So you've made it through your first year. When you quit your job, you probably thought you'd escaped performance reviews for good, but I've got some bad news for you. It's actually a really good idea to review your performance at your own company, to tak... Read >

The Top 5 First-Year Mistakes.

Even once you've got past the starting-up stage, there are still plenty mistakes to be made, and most of them are going to be made in your make-or-break year -- the first one. Here are the top five things to avoid. Waiting for Customers to Come to You... Read >

Tax, Tax and More Tax.

When you run a business, it can feel like you spend far too much of your time worrying about tax. Here's a quick guide to the what you need to know about tax. What Do You Qualify For? There are all sorts of tax breaks for home and small businesses, ... Read >

Keeping Customers Loyal.

It's a well-known fact that it costs many times more to acquire a new customer than to keep doing business with your existing ones. For this reason, the best way to become profitable is to have loyal customers who keep coming back again and again. It's al... Read >

When Customers Complain.

You probably won't have been in business too long before you get your first complaint. It just can't help but happen: low-end customers pay nothing and expect the Earth, while high-end ones pay a lot but expect an inhuman effort in return. You just can't ... Read >

Trademarks and Copyrights.

So you've put all this work into your business: you've got a name, you've made some marketing materials, even written some things for your customers. If you don't want your competitors to be able to take what you've done and exploit it, though, you're goi... Read >

The Art of e-Commerce.

So you've got your website, and people can email you about your products and services. The next step, if your home business is suitable, is to start selling them directly online. Why E-Commerce? E-commerce can be a massive business booster. If you ... Read >

Setting Up a Website for Your Business.

There are very few businesses these days that don't have websites, and as a home business your website is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. A good website can really work for you, but you need to know what you're doing. Hire For... Read >

Hardware and Software: Using IT in Your Business.

There's almost no-one nowadays who doesn't have a computer -- it's more-or-less a given that you've got a computer in your home office, and that you use it almost every day. But are you getting as much out of it as you could be? Here are some things your ... Read >

Guerrilla Marketing: a Cheaper Alternative.

So you've spent an enormous amount on advertising in the media and got very little response -- or maybe you were scared enough by the prices that you never put the ads there to begin with. You're annoyed at how expensive it is to get even the simplest and... Read >

The Secrets of Pricing.

An often-neglected part of home business is the pricing of your services. You know what you can do, you know there's a market for it, but do you know how much you can get away with charging, without putting the customers off? Here are a few tips to maximi... Read >

Safety in the Home Workplace.

One of the most ignored aspects of working at home is safety. Business offices go to all sorts of lengths to avoid any injury or harm to their workers (they don't want to get sued, after all). Meanwhile, you might not even know that it's possible to injur... Read >