When most people think about working at home, they think about the tasks specific to the work. Making their crafts, emailing for a client, completing a report. What is often left out is marketing. Without marketing there is no one to sell crafts to, to email for, or write a report for. The challenge of [...]

Marketing is crucial to home business success. But marketing is much more than placing an ad or running an article. People are bombarded with marketing messages all the time…every one of them claiming to “care”, “give results”, and be “#1″. For the most part people no longer see or believe these messages. So how can [...]

I’m a project and idea queen. I have so many great ideas and usually I just jump right in. The problem is, I have so many projects, that I can’t seem to manage it all. And because I jumped in, many are live and active but aren’t being cultivated. It comes to a point when [...]

Over at Lifehacker there is a simple script that can help you stay on track with your work projects. The scrip will provide a pop-up every 20 minutes asking you if you’re on task. While such an application could get annoying, if you find that you waste time surfing the net, Twittering, or reading about [...]

A successful business trainer and I were talking one day about how people give up their goal of working at home before they get started. “The Martians get them,” he said. He calls the dream stealers Martians, but I like to think of them as lemmings. Lemmings are those creatures that follow everyone else even [...]

Sparkplugging is continuing our tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Adapted Excerpt from The Work-At-Home Success Bible. I’ve been providing work-at-home information and support for a long time. I’ve talked to a lot of women who were gung-ho about working at home one day, and then after a discussion with their husbands are content to commute and send the kids to day care. What happened?

Sparkplugging is continuing our tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Most people can suffer through unprofessional looking websites if they’re able to easily get to the information they’re looking for. But there are some web design tactics, many advocated by marketing gurus, that can cause people to leave your site. Forced Registration Sites use this tactic to get visitor’s contact information before letting them see [...]

I love being a work-at-home mom, but living and working under the same roof 24/7 can get tedious! For that reason, sometimes I like to work outside the home. All I need is free wi-fi and a cup of coffee and I’ve got a new office. The prevalence of free wi-fi means that there’s likely [...]