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Home businesses seem to get more popular all the time. Promoting a new home business around your products or services can be a daunting plan. Success StoriesOne mom’s home business has big impact. Think your home business can’t make a big splash? Think again! Read more and be inspired by this home business entrepreneur whose efforts are fostering national pride. What can your home business achieve? AZCentral.com Home business successes become more common. Have you noticed that home business successes like this one have become more common. Unaffected even by a tough economy, home based entrepreneurs find many niches in which to thrive. Yahoo! News Getting StartedHow your home business can be a green leader. Going green isn’t just a consideration for big business. Home businesses can make environmentally friendly choices as well and save money in the process. Here’s how your home company can lead the way. Planting Money Seeds Is home business protected in your community? Home businesses benefit communities and the entrepreneurs who operate them but some communities seek to regulate the kinds of home businesses allowed to be operated. Is your city or town friendly to small business owners who operate from home? The Wanderer Tax AdviceShould you take a home office tax deduction? It’s a question that certainly many small business owners must consider and certainly those who run a business exclusively out of their homes. But here are some suggested guidelines about how to determine whether it’s a deduction you should consider. Bloomberg Businessweek Solopreneur tax tips home business owners should review. Many home business owners are also solopreneurs so if your small business fits into this category, here is a list of advice you may definitely want to consider as the tax season draws near. Portfolio.com Latest TributesWorking from home could be a strategy for most companies. You don’t need to be a solopreneur or small business to realize the benefits of working from home. Large companies too are increasingly seeing the plus side of the savings that letting employees work from home can often bring. Washington Post Home offices also spring up abroad. London, in particular, is seeing an explosion in the number of hiome offices established in the city. These include both businesses that are increasingly encouraging their employees to work from home and entrepreneurs starting their own home businesses, experts say. London Loves Business Marketing Tips10 ways to promote your home business. You’ve set up your home business. Now you’ve got to promote it. That could be harder than it sounds unless you have a strategy. Here are ten ways you should consider right off the bat about getting the word out. Support a Work At Home Person Another way to promote your home business. As we’ve said before, getting attention can be harder than you think when launching a home business. There have been many suggestions for getting creative with your marketing. But here are some sites that suggest another way of networking. The New Business Idea MORE NEWS FROM SMALL BUSINESS TRENDSBarnes & Noble Nook Tablet for Small Business Owners“Tablet computers are for kids and gamers” is the prevailing sentiment that I hear from small business owners. The logic is that a tiny handheld computer won’t really help you get your work done. Even Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg dissed the iPad by stating it is not a mobile device. But despite a myriad of less-than-positive commentary, tablets are a big part of the near-term business future. Small Businesses Pay More For Health Care CoverageIn a 2009 study by the White House, small businesses pay 18% more in premiums for health coverage than their big box competitors per employee. As a small business owner are you surprised by this statistic? Creating Google Alerts Directly in Google AnalyticsA few weeks back I wrote about the powerful new metrics that small business owners can glean from the new Social reports within Google Analytics. And since that post, even more neat features have been released to help business owners learn more about not only what’s happening on their site, but what’s happening off of it, as well. Nominations Are Open for the Small Business Influencer Awards!Does a special person or company come to mind when you think of someone or something important in the world of small business? Perhaps you think of a client of yours. Or maybe a favorite vendor or supplier, or a software app that has transformed your small business or made it more profitable. Or perhaps you think of a favorite journalist who covers issues important to small businesses. G8 Leaders Call for Growth: Six Things You Can DoLeaders the world over including those at this week’s G8 Summit are calling for economic growth, not just budget tightening, in an effort to combat world market instability and speed recovery. But for all the talk in policy circles, this growth will ultimately come from the private sector and especially here in the U.S., from small to medium sized businesses that create many of the jobs and employ many of the workers already in our economy. Here’s a look at the economic growth G8 leaders are calling for and six things you can do to promote growth in your business today. RELATED SMALL BUSINESS NEWSHow Low Can Facebook Stock Go? And What Route Will It Take to Get There?Facebook ended Tuesday, its third day of trading at $31 per share -- $7 less than where it launched on Friday.... Mayan Doom or Time to Buy?According to ancient Mayan prognosticators our world should be coming to an end sometime around Christmas. If you’re sitting in Greece or JP Morgan’s bond-lending group, the end might seem like it’s already here. And off the Peruvian coast, wildlife is literally dropping from the sky.&... When 'I'm Too Sexy' Lawsuit Settles, Will IRS Win Too?This is a great country, one of equal opportunity and more. Where else could you find the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) handling a complaint alleging religious and gender discrimination occurring in a lingerie warehouse?... Want to Hangout With the SBA Chief? Join UsAs part of National Small Business Week, we'll be moderating a live chat with SBA chief Karen Mills and winners of the SBA's video contest Wednesday in a Google+ hangout. ... Private Equity Investments: A Question Of Supply And DemandThe PE investment picture as 2012 began looked very much like the one that prevailed two years ago as the industry was clawing its way back from the depths of the downturn. But as we discuss in Bain & Company’s Global Private Equity Report 2012, conditions today are more favorable for PE deal ... |
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