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Five Steps to Start Working From Home
by Charlene Polanosky
About 11 years ago I was faced with the biggest challenge of my life - one that required a gigantic leap of faith. My first child was about to be born and even though I had the benefit of half price childcare, I just couldn’t bear to hand over my baby to a childcare provider. I had to do something - I had to find a way to work from home.
Here is the path I took - it is one that could easily be adapted for anyone who is looking to start working from home. :: full article
Top Ten Working from Home Mistakes
by Wendy Piersall
Be wary of bad habits that can bring your business to the ground...
Speaking from true experience, here are the top ten ways I made myself miserable when working from home... ::full article
Five Steps to Making the Most of Your Website
Create a Marketing Plan
Is your web site (blogs fall into this category, too) accomplishing what you had planned for it? You don’t know? What plan, you say? Just like any other business, a web site needs a marketing plan. If you are under the mindset of launch it, blog it or sell it and they will come, you are wasting your precious resources (time and money). ::full article
You've Only Got 30 Seconds or 20 Words...
To get your message across.
We would all like to think that our web sites contain such compelling information that users will stick around, browse, and really get into our material, but the brutal truth is, they won’t. Statistics show that over 80% of your site’s visitors will leave your site within 30 seconds of arriving. At first I didn’t believe it, but then I looked at the web statistics for more than 20 sites I maintain/host, and yep, the stats tell the same story. ::full article
Blogging: It Just Keeps on Getting Better
If you don ’t quite understand blogging, you’re not alone. Over 62% of Internet users don’t understand the term and don’t know how blogging can dramatically change their lives. But after this article, you’ll be one of those in the know and poised to take advantage of this rapidly growing phenomenon. ::full article
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