Achieve an Online Presence and Revenue Breakthrough

Deciding that your home-based business would benefit by having its own web site was the easy part. The tough part is avoiding the nasty pitfalls that make too many web sites money losers instead of money makers. The first commercial web sites were designed by early computer experts. These hardy pioneers were quite comfortable in the arcane world of computers, but woefully lacking in communicati...

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Backing Up Your Web Site Data

Over the last decade many businesses, long established and newly formed alike, have made the World Wide Web a key revenue-generating channel. Billions of dollars are transacted each year over the Web. A natural consequence of this situation is that enormous amounts of very valuable data are stored on computers. For every business that is using the Web as a revenue-generating channel, their data...

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Conduct “Visual Communications” from Your Home Office

Rising gas prices, airline cutbacks, canceled and delayed flights, skyrocketing travel costs…These are just a few of the challenges facing businesses today. As a result, more and more home-based business owners are looking for ways to eliminate or at least greatly reduce travel expenses, and they’re re-examining how they’ll conduct meetings in the future. In the past, some business owners have o...

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Feng Shui Your Home Office

Does your office support you? You may have never asked yourself that question, but you should. Your office should support you energetically. Are the colors on the walls conducive to productivity? Is the entrance clutter-free and welcoming? Does it reflect a successful business? Whether you work in the corner office of a multi-story commercial building, a cubicle in a medical center, or the corn...

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Green Glue

Noiseproofing Compound The trend towards home offices has been steadily growing for more than a decade, but recent economic woes and a sharp hit to the job market are making home offices more indispensable than ever. But the most important thing about having a solid home office is to maintain productivity and creativity. And the best way to do that is by stopping noise. The Green Glue Compan...

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Home Office Health Begins with Good Ergonomics

If you’re like most home business owners, you probably spend the majority of your time working at your desk. Sure, you get up and walk around and maybe stretch a little as you refill the coffee cup, but you’re spending 6 hours of each workday seated, with your arms on your desk working at your computer, staring at your monitor. As with any repetitive motion, this can lead to stresses on importan...

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Home Users Live Dangerously with Computer Backup Practices

Home PCs and laptops that store ever-changing data, business information, photos, video, music and photos of consumers’ digital lives are backed up less than once a month, according to a new survey of the backup habits of home users conducted by Acronis®, Inc.(provider of storage management and disaster recovery software). The online survey of 5,964 home users found that 87 percent of users bac...

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How to Maximize your Home Office Space

According to the US Department of Labor Statistics, of the 13.7 million wage and salary workers who usually did some work at home in 2004, about 3.3 million, or 1 in 4, had a formal arrangement with their employer to be paid for the time they put in at home. Whether you have your own business and work from home or work outside the home, or both, almost everyone can benefit by having a home offic...

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Make Room for Home Office Space and Cut Costs

Finding an appropriate space for your home-office can be tough to balance with your home-life. Your home was designed and built with a family in mind — YOUR family. Carving out a work sanctuary may alter that balance and result in a compromise between family life and work life. However, if you’re reading this you’re already thinking about blending the two when you decide to work from home. It ma...

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Mobilized: Get Your Home Business Cell-Phone Ready

While businesses have long eyed the cell phone as a new revenue stream, recent market developments indicate the technology is finally beginning to deliver on its promise. By 2013, more than two billion consumers worldwide are expected to have made a purchase using their mobile, according to market research firm Juniper. Plus, more than 20% of all businesses worldwide are already offering custome...

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