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Business News Blog posts insightful comments on the latest international news that render us taken-aback in the domain of business facet of life. Business News Blog Sample Business-News 1 Expert: Discipline, love key to home business: Fri July 20, 2007 (CNN) -- CNN spoke with the host of the syndicated radio show, "The Small Business Advocate," Jim Blasingame, to find out what it takes to run a successful home-business.
Blasingame, a small business expert, answers so many business-related questions that he recently launched a new Web site, askjim.biz, which functions as a search engine for people looking for business advice. CNN: What were the circumstances that led you to work from home? Blasingame: I've been in home business a couple of times, but I'm not now. The main reason people work from home is it allows them to start a business without having to pay the expenses of an office somewhere else. A lot of people start a home business part time. They do their job, they come home and they set up a little shop in the den or the attic or the basement ... and it allows them to literally grow a business one teeny tiny step at a time without making a huge infrastructure decision. The last time I was in home business was in '89, and I started a consulting company. CNN: What are the qualities of a successful home business? Blasingame: Discipline. First is discipline. You've got to be able to separate your work from your personal life. You've got to be able to set working hours so that when you work, you work, and when you're not working you have quality personal time. You've got to make the decision to turn the computer off and not take e-mail. You've got to be able to say, "This is a job, it's just a coincidence that it's in my home, and so I'm going to work 8 to 5." But also you can time shift. You can say, "I'm an early morning person who has to pick my kids up at 3 o'clock from school." So you can work 5 till 7, get up and take the kids to school, come back and work till 3 and go get your kids and come back. You don't have to work a full shift like a regular 8 to 5 kind of thing. But whatever you're doing, you have to have regular hours, and you have to have the discipline to stick to those hours, otherwise you wind up not really getting a lot accomplished. CNN: What are the questions you get asked a lot? Blasingame: The biggest thing, the most frequently asked question is, "What kind of a home business should I start?" They know they want a home business, they would like to be home-based: maybe it's a mother who's going to have a baby and she wants to stay home or maybe a parent is ill or a spouse is ill and they need to make some income and stay home. And it's an almost impossible question to answer, and the reason is if you're going to be in a business, you must be in a business that you love a lot ... almost as much as you love a child. Because you've got to be able to stay with it when the times are rough and when the times are good, and if you don't love it you won't. The other question I get asked a lot is about technology. "What kind of technology would make me more productive as a home business owner?" You've got to have a computer and ... because often times space is an issue with a home-based business, they've got the really good combination like the "biz hub." We've got one in my regular business actually, it's a scanner/fax/copier and it's all in one piece and you don't have three different pieces of equipment. CNN: What are some pitfalls that home business owners can fall into? Blasingame: The one thing that I would say -- and this is typical of all small businesses, especially starting out -- I'd say the pitfall is you get some business, and you focus on delivering that business ... it's difficult to do the work and do the marketing at the same time. That's what happened to me when I was a consultant. I'd work hard to get a bunch of clients and some business, and then I'd be in really good shape for a month or two, 'cause I had all this business. And then I'd deliver the business, and I'd realize that while I was doing the business no one was marketing. No one was getting the next customers. So it's hard to keep business in the pipeline when you're the only one that's doing the marketing and delivering the services. The impact of time on any small business is something that shocks a lot of new business owners. And the reason is the expense clock never stops ticking. You have three clocks: you've got sales clock, cash collection clock and expense clock. The sales clock can stop, the collection clock can stop, the operating clock never stops, the expense clock never stops. It's shocking to a lot of businesses when they've gone a week without making any sales or collecting any money, all of a sudden that bill comes due again. And that bill you've got coming in for your phone or whatever you're using for your business, it doesn't care whether you've collected any money or not, it's still due. Business News Blog Sample Business News 2 Entrepreneurs Looking for the Right Home Business Should Look into the Virtual Assistant Industry: July 15, 2007 - Margate, FL The demand for this type of business continues to soar as more and more small businesses, authors, entrepreneurs, etc., realize that having the expertise of a Virtual Assistant on their team can be a tremendous asset to business success. Virtual Assistants can handle everything from daily correspondence and e-mails, to establishing a PR Campaign for clients, handling their article and press release submissions, to developing a client's website or blog. The sky is truly the limit. Business News Blog Sample Business News 3 Benefits For Home Business Web Publishing As ADXDirect.com's Performance Driven Advertising Network Expands: July 18, 2007 - Baltimore, MD It is a good time to be a web publisher; at least it is when a company like ADXDirect.com is availing its traffic monetizing services.? Today's online environment is inducing record levels of advertising spending, largely because it's a measurable medium where technological innovations are almost instantaneously implemented by both end-users and institutions? It is no longer a question of how to monetize the traffic of a website, but rather how best to.? With the many choices web publishers have, ADXDirect.com makes perhaps the most compelling option of any advertising network found online today? Business News Blog Sample Business News 4 Big Cash Express Rocks the Home Business Industry: Kansas City, MO, July 13, 2007 Ralph Lampton, real estate investor and business consultant has announced the addition of a new home business opportunity. Big Cash Express is a powerful new company that recently launched and is breaking all records of growth in the home business industry. Their brilliant structure is designed to help an absolute newbie make money on the Internet. Lampton said the reason why people love this business is because it has an incredible product that is worth the price and yet they also get a home business opportunity that is quickly making waves in the industry. Digital Gold the flagship product provides breakthrough Internet marketing. If someone wants to make money on the Internet, they need to know how. Most marketers, 95% of them, lack the marketing skills and training required to make serious money from home on the Internet. Business News Blog Sample Business News 5 Freelancing for Extra Home Business Income is Becoming a Hot Trend: July 17, 2007 - Surfside Beach, SC Freelance writer, Melissa J. Gallagher, has released a free guide entitled, CREATIVE FREELANCING, that helps cash-strapped college students, home-bound moms, and aspiring freelancers earn extra income in their spare time by freelancing from home. Her free guide is available at http://www.writingcareer.com/creative-freelancing-book.php Business News Blog Sample Business News 6 Fiber-to-the-Home Drives Telework, Home Business: Jul 12, 2007 High-bandwidth connections are enabling more people to work from home, according to new research by RVA Market Research. RVA’s survey of fiber-to-the-home subscribers found that over 13 percent were working from home more often – a monthly average of 7.3 more workdays at home instead of the office. More than half of these telecommuters said the fiber connection had helped convince their employers to allow them to work from home. Business News Blog Sample Business News 7 Home-business controversy continues in Lansdowne: July 2, 2007 Lansdowne residents, members of the board of directors and those who operate home businesses remain involved in a controversy concerning what types of businesses should be allowed in the community. In May, the board voted to enforce the covenants of the community, which do not allow home businesses to operate. A hearing was held June 27 to discuss an amendment, which would further define what kinds of home businesses or offices would be permitted. Business News Blog Comment: A whole new breed of e-in business professionals is in the making. These new ventures are partially sprouting as home based business, or in short home business and partially as branches of big business. Business is showing some signs of going democratic, after all! May be it is able to end the corrupt monopolistic practices of big business houses and make business more transparent throughout the world. Wanna have some bidding fun with 'Home Business' on ebay auction? You might grab a bargain or two! Just say your bid and you're done: I invite you to subscribe to my E-zine titled Life Coach, free of charge. 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