Grow a Beach…Not a Home Garden Project

If I could do math, I might have gone into engi­neer­ing. Process fas­ci­nates me. Think for a moment…how would you go about adding tons of sand to a beach? Beach renour­ish­ment has kept me enthralled over the past week or so. This con­tro­ver­sial process fights beach ero­sion by dredg­ing up sand and pump­ing it onto beaches […]

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Is your Email Running You?

Home Busi­ness Infor­ma­tion about Email Did you know that there are more than 1.3 BILLION email users world­wide? More than one per­son in every five use email. Some esti­mates put the num­ber of emails sent daily to exceed 210 bil­lion. That’s two mil­lion emails sent every sec­ond. Huh. It’s no won­der that some­times I feel like […]

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Fabulous Friday Finds

Hel­loooooooooooooooooo every­one and Happy Fri­day! Here’s some great links to home busi­ness infor­ma­tion I found surfin’ the net. Good Stuff!  And you all know how much I love stuff. Word­Press Themes Web Designer Depot First up!  These Word­Press themes will give you ideas or you may find one that is just right. What the cus­tomer sees […]

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Does Your Home Business Have a Cubicle Mentality?

In the his­tory of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” —Lawrence Sum­mers, Econ­o­mist When you wear the hat of home busi­ness owner, nearly every­thing involves nego­ti­a­tion. Some deals are tiny, like get­ting a great price to print let­ter­head and busi­ness cards. Oth­ers are sig­nif­i­cant arrange­ments that can make or break your […]

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Does Your Home Business Have Appeal?

Emo­tion Sells Peo­ple make emo­tional deci­sions. Every deci­sion from whom we marry to the clothes we wear to the color liv­ing room couch we buy is made from an emo­tional base. Often we rely on a host of log­i­cal rea­sons to con­vince our­selves that we made the best deci­sion. The truth remains that the deci­sion itself […]

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Workaholic vs. Home Business. Which Describes You?

Has any­one asked you recently what you ‘do’? How did you answer? How do you define YOU? Bal­ance between work and self or work and fam­ily is a chal­lenge for most adults. It is a greater chal­lenge that often verges on becom­ing a prob­lem for those of us who have a home busi­ness. Today it […]

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The ‘In-Between’ – A Dirty Little Secret

There’s a place… No one talks about it… If you’ve been there you know… But you’ve prob­a­bly tried to for­get it… I would say that on aver­age it hap­pens to about 90% of all busi­nesses… It’s the ‘In-Between’. It’s ugly, it’s dirty, and it’s a secret…if only because no one wants to talk about it. But I’m talkin’! Hmmm, I […]

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How Usable is Your Home Office?

It’s Mov­ing Day—again. No, not for 2Chicks, for CaZ. For a small town girl who never lived more than five miles away from her birth­place, the nomadic lifestyle I’ve adopted in recent years has yielded more mov­ing days than most would con­sider rea­son­able. So mov­ing day is nearly a non-event for me, except that it […]

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Home Business Seal of Approval

Out­stand­ing Home Busi­ness is Lat­est Recip­i­ent of the 2Chicks Seal of Approval As our reg­u­lar read­ers know, when we find a home busi­ness that we think is out­stand­ing in some way, we look closer and con­sider them for the 2Chicks Seal of Approval. And since Yolanda has this per­sonal prob­lem called Stuff-itis,  she is always […]

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Do You Climb Invisible Hills?

I saw some­thing delight­ful this morn­ing. It was one of those rare moments of mer­ri­ment and glee that hap­pen spon­ta­neously. Let me set this up for you, because I want to share both what I saw and some thoughts that occurred to me after­wards about run­ning your home busi­ness. It was early, maybe an hour […]

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