Fabulous Finds Friday

Editor’s Note: This is the first of our Fab­u­lous Finds arti­cles. Yolanda and I are always find­ing great web­site and online resources and we want to share the best of the bunch with the 2ChicksatHome read­ers. We will pub­lish our Fab­u­lous Finds on Fri­days so that each list will be fresh and on the front […]

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Three Ways to Tell if Your Home Business is On Track

Have you ever felt like you’d be will­ing to pay any­thing for an extra brain? Or an extra set of hands? Or an extra hour of pro­duc­tive time in your day? Yeah. It hap­pens to all of us who work from home. We get too close to ourselves—too much in our own heads. It’s far too […]

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Is it Time to Fire the Customer?

Con­sis­tency in Home Busi­ness We’ve talked about the idea of con­sis­tency before, specif­i­cally in our audio on Suc­cess Strate­gies.  Not every­one has lis­tened to the audio (I know who you are by the way), so I want to chat about it again. I was surf­ing around the ‘net, specif­i­cally the forum for Sonia Simone’s Remark­able Marketing […]

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Does Your Home Business Need Help?

Ever hear these state­ments made about your home busi­ness? “If you can’t do it on your own, then you shouldn’t do it at all.” “If you ask for help, you’ll owe the other guy when he says yes.” “You can’t afford to pay for advice. The profit mar­gin is too small for more than one per­son.” I […]

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Unusual Home Business Advantage

Is it Advan­ta­geous to be a Work from Home Chick? I’ve been quiet. Yep, no ban­ter fly­ing around the site.  No gun posts, no cool whip or spicy curry issues, nada. The rea­sons for my sub­dued pres­ence around the 2Chicks coop are the basis of this post. Read on, chicks… If you are think­ing about working […]

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What can Olympic Gold Teach You About Your Home Business?

I was watch­ing the post-olympic gold inter­views of Evan Lysacek, the first Men’s skater to win gold for Amer­ica in 22 years. He was asked about how he han­dled the pres­sure while wait­ing for his turn to com­pete. His response cred­ited his coach for hav­ing the right words to say. Evan said Coach told him to […]

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Is Perseverance Your Home Business Strategy?

Thoughts about Per­se­ver­ance Okay so I talked about this a lit­tle bit on The Info­pre­neur blog, but I want to talk about it some more…’cause I was out for a run and I was think­ing… It came to me, as I was about three-quarters of the way through my run, that I was get­ting tired.  […]

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Home Business Info: Slipper Brigade

Free is good. Some­thing use­ful or valu­able for free is even bet­ter. Guess what? We’ve got some­thing free for you and you might not even real­ize that you can claim it. What is it? Being a part of the slip­per brigade. The 2Chicks first came up with the term slip­per brigade when we were brain­storm­ing what […]

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Why try to be WalMart when you’re a small biz?

You have the com­pet­i­tive advan­tage of being you.” Scott Strat­ten in a post recently on his UnMar­ket­ing blog wrote this. It bears repeat­ing. “Why try to be a Wal­Mart when you’re a small biz? You have the com­pet­i­tive advan­tage of being you.” Now before you run off and read Scott’s blog (which you should do after you […]

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When Your Home Business Takes an Unexpected Turn

Sur­prise! Sur­prise! Sur­prise! Do you Laugh? So here’s the thing…not every­thing turns out like you think it should. Not every­thing fol­lows a straight line path. Cer­tainly run­ning a home busi­ness is soooooo not lin­ear.  It’s like a big zig­gity zag, some­times a loo­p­ity loop. And always right around the cor­ner, there’s a sur­prise.  Right?  Like when the thing […]

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