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How To Turn Your Love Of Gardening Into A Home Business: Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, shares some great ideas on how to turn a love of plants and gardening into a profitable home business.

Does It Seem That Your Business Is Eating Your Time?: Learn how to manage your time so as to maximize profit and productivity.

How To Get Attention For Your Business: Even if You Are A Shy Person Who Hates Being In The Spotlight.

Juggling the Demands of A Home Business and a Family: Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on how to better cope with the sometimes conflicting demands of a home business and a family.

Home Business Ideas for Writers: Are you a writer who would love to find a business where you could utilize your talent and profitably work at home? Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice for writers who are looking to start a home business.

How to Finance A Start-Up Business: Where and how can you get the money you need to make your great business ideas a reality? Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on how and where to get the money you need to fund your new business.

Outrageous Marketing Techniques: Do you worry how you are going to compete with all the other businesses providing the same type of products and services you are? Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, can teach you how to be so outrageous and so creative that customers will be knocking down your doors!

Would You Like To Own Your Own Gift Basket Business?: Cheryl Miller, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, talks about how she is working hard to make her gift basket business, 'Wacky Wicker' a success.

How To Start An At-Home Writing and Web Site Business: Liz Folger, of California, the author of "The Stay-at-Home Mom's Guide To Making Money" talks about how she started a successful writing and web site business at home.

How To Start A Successful Pet Sitting Business: Do you love animals? Would you enjoy spending your time walking dogs, cleaning horse stables, or taking care of cats? Then a pet sitting business might be right for you! Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert home business columnist, has advice on how to turn your love for animals into a profitable home business.

Starting A Photography Business: Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on how to turn a creative hobby into a successful business.

You Can Accomplish Great Things--Yes, I'm Talking To YOU: Liz Folger, our work-at-home Mom expert, dares you to make your living doing something you love. Her advice: "Don't listen to people who say you can't do something....Nothing great was ever accomplished because it was easy."

How to Cope With the Isolation of Working From Home: Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on how to cope with the challenges of working at home.

How To Make Money With A Home Biz In 2000: Liz Folger, our work-at-home Mom expert, has tips on how to create a successful home businesses.

Learn How To Promote Your Business: Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, has advice for a new business owner who isn't quite sure how to get customers.

Success Strategies for Self-Employed Women

How An E-Zine Can Make You Money: Would you like to start your own E-Zine? Liz Folger, our work-at-home Mom expert, has some great tips for you.

How To Open Your Own Dance Studio: Have you always dreamed of opening your own dance studio and teaching dance? Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert home business columnist, has advice on how to turn a love of dance into a profitable business.

Turn Your Good Cooking Into Big Profits: Do you make a favorite recipe that everyone oohs and ahh's over? Is your banana cream pie, alfredo sauce or chocolate truffles to die for? Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert home business columnist, has advice on how to turn your best recipes into a money-making business.

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Taking the Plunge: Meet June Van Klaveren, of St. Louis, who founded her business Compelling Communications on her 50th birthday. Her advice to women who dream of starting their own home business: "Take the plunge. I dreamed of starting a business for many years and waited until I was 50 to do it."

Become An Internet Millionaire: Could your web site make you an Internet millionaire? Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on making your web site into a profitable home business.

Do You Have Too Much To Do and Too Little Time?: Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert columnist on self-employed women and the author of "101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women" has tips on organizing and keeping track of all the varied responsibilities in your hectic life.

Work-At-Home Moms: Betty, a Commitment reader from Montana, tells what it is like to work at home doing medical transcription. Her advice for other work-at-home Moms: Be realistic. Be flexible. Realize you are not super woman and let some things around the house go.

Does The Fear of Selling Terrify You?: Is your inability to sell holding you back from business success? Azriela Jaffe, our expert home and small business columnist, discusses how to cope with your fear of sales.

No--You Don't Have to Be Rich to Get Great PR for Your Business: Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, discusses how to get great public relations for your business even if you don't have a big budget or a big PR agency behind you.

I'm a Disorganized Mess - Can I Still Succeed?: Is your inability to be organized hurting your business? Azriela Jaffe, our expert home and small business columnist, discusses how being disorganized can be the symptom of other problems, such as fear of success.

Secrets To Making Money With Crafts: Liz Folger, our work-at-home Mom expert, can show you how to turn a hobby into a profitable at-home business.

Other Women Are Becoming Millionaires With Their Home Businesses--Why Not You?: Liz Folger, our work-at-home mom expert, interviewed three work-at-home Moms who are on their way to big success. Learn the reasons why they are making lots of money.

What Business Would Be Right For You?: Do you dream of starting a home business--but you don't know what type of business would be right for you? Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert columnist on self-employed women has advice on how to choose a business that matches your circumstances, personality and goals.

12 Ways to Get New Customers For Your Business

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Free Business Advice for Female Entrepreneurs: Priscilla Y. Huff, author of '101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women' and one of our expert columnists on women's home businesses, has important tips and information for self-employed women looking for free advice.

Can Your Home Business Compete With Big Corporations?: Priscilla Y. Huff, our expert columnist on self-employed women and the author of "101 Best Home-Based Businesses For Women" can show you how not to get left behind in the dust of the big corporations.

Attention Craft Lovers: Are You Ready To Turn Your Craft Or Hobby Into A Business? Tips and advice from Azriela Jaffe, our expert home and small business columnist. How to decide whether or not you really want to try to make money doing something you love.

Could You and Your Husband Survive Working Together?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, has advice for a woman who fears she and her husband can't work together in the business they created.

Do You Suffer from Work-At-Home Burn-Out?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home and small business columnist, has great advice for those who suffer from work-at-home burnout.

Never Hear 'I'm Bored' Again: How to Keep Your Kids Busy and Happy While You Are Working.

Do You Have What It Takes to Be An Entrepreneur?: What qualities and skills are needed to be successful at starting your own business? Priscilla Y. Huff, author of '101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women' and one of our expert home business columnists, shares her thoughts on what type of person can successfully start and run their own home business. 

Daring Online Entrepreneurs: Shari Peterson is a pioneer in the field of web site promotion. She started Webster Group International, a full service web promotion company, in 1995, when there were only a few other site promotion companies. Today, WGI has 38 employees and has helped hundreds of Internet sites gain the publicity they need to succeed. Read about this daring online entrepreneur.

How To Increase Traffic to Your Web Site--Even If You Are Just a Tiny, One-Person Operation: Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, offers great tips on how to bring attention to your web site.

Create A Money-Making Business Plan: Liz Folger, our work-at-home mom expert, can help you create a winning business plan.

Is Your Fear of Rejection Preventing You From Achieving Your Dreams and Reaching Your Career Goals?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, has written "Starting from No: Ten Strategies to Overcome Your Fear of Rejection and Succeed in Business." In this interview, she talks about overcoming the fear of rejection, accepting your limits, and building resiliency.

Are You Afraid to Start Your Own Business?: Liz Folger, our work-at-home expert columnist, asks: are you succumbing to the voice that says you can't do it? Or do you dare start your own home business--even though you don't know how it is going to turn out?

Caring For A New Baby While Working At Home: Can a new Mom care for her baby and run her home business at the same time? Azriela Jaffe offers some practical solutions.

Public Speaking 101: Does public speaking frighten you? Liz Folger, one of our expert work-at-home columnists, has tips and advice on how to be an attention-getting, never-to-be-forgotten public speaker.

Are You Lonely Working at Home?: Our expert home business columnist Azriela Jaffe gives advice to a freelance writer who is lonely and bored working at home alone. Should she return to a traditional office work environment?

Great Information On Starting Your Own Business: Priscilla Y. Huff, one of our expert home business columnists, has advice on how to find the best and most helpful information on starting a home business.

Home Business Success Stories: Meet Liz Folger, of California, one of our expert columnists and the author of 'The Stay-at-Home Mom's Guide To Making Money.' Her advice on starting a home business: "Find something you are going to LOVE and ENJOY. So many people start a business because of all the money they can make. That is the biggest mistake you could ever make. Start a business because it's a part of you and you just love it."

Are You Being Paid What You Are Worth?: Liz Folger, one of our work-at-home expert columnists, has advice on what to charge for your services and products.

Are You Excluded from the Clique at Work?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, discusses what to do if you are not part of the clique at work.

Growing Your Home Business: Meet Amy Lincoln, of Memphis, TN, a single mother of three, who supports herself and her children as an Independent Senior Director for The Pampered Chef.

Organizing Your Home Office: Liz Folger, one of our work-at-home expert columnists, interviews Janet Taylor, owner of Totally Organized, on how to organize a home office.

Downsizing Hits Home: Advice on what to do when you or your spouse has been downsized.

Health Insurance for the Self-Employed: Liz Folger, one of our work-at-home expert columnists, has advice for women who work for themselves, but don't have health insurance, retirement and disability benefits.

What do you do when a business partnership isn't working?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, has advice for a massage therapist who fears her partnership isn't working out.

Use E-Mail To Promote Your Business--Without Getting Anyone Angry: Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, can show you how to use e-mail to promote and market your business.

Organize The Paper In Your Home Office: Diana Brock Makes, one of our expert columnists, has tips to help you escape the loads of papers piling up in your office.

How Can You Turn A Creative Hobby Into A Profitable Business?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, discusses the challenge of turning a craft or hobby into a profitable business.

Are Work At Home Opportunities Legitimate?: Priscilla Y. Huff, author of '101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women' has important information on 'work-from-home' opportunities that promise big money for little work.

Make Money While You Sleep: Liz Folger, one of our work-at-home expert columnists, can show you how to use the Internet, message boards, affiliate programs, and autoresponders to make extra money.

Are You Ready for Tax Time?: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home and small business columnist, has advice for entrepreneurs who can't seem to get their bookkeeping records organized for the April 15 deadline.

How Can A New Business Attract Customers?: Our expert marketing and publicity columnist Joe Vitale offers great tips and advice for a new hair salon owner who needs advice on attracting customers.

Follow Your Dreams Or It May Haunt You: Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, discusses going for your dreams even when they don't seem practical.

Azriela Jaffe, one of our expert home business columnists, offers advice to a woman whose husband is tired of spending money and sacrificing to make her business a success.

Thinking of Starting A Gift Basket Business?:Elizabeth Thompson, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, started a gift basket business when she realized that she wanted to be home with her son, but still have her own business. Here she shares her tips and secrets for running a successful gift basket business.

Use E-Mail To Win New Customers: Paul Krupin, media specialist, has great advice on using the Internet to grow your home business.

When Family Pain Sparks Entrepreneurial Hunger: Azriela Jaffe, our home business expert, discusses the sadness that comes when family doesn't understand or support an entrepreneur's dream.

Does Your Business Need Lots of New Customers?: Our expert marketing and publicity columnist Joe Vitale offers great tips and advice for a new business owner who needs to expand her customer base beyond just her family and friends.

Can a business partnership ruin a great friendship?: Home Business Advice from Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist. This month, she has advice on how to start a business with a friend--and not ruin the friendship.

Meet Heather Martin, the owner of SuccessWorks, in Bellingham, Washington, where she conducts workshops on marketing, debt management, and home business issues. Her advice on starting a home business: "Know what you like and what you don't like. I constantly see women choose a business because a friend does it, or they think they'll make tons of money, or it feels 'safer' than what they REALLY want to do."

Meet Catherine McQuillan, of New Jersey, a distributor for the House of Lloyd, a home party business. After a banking career for 18 years, she wanted her own home business so she could be home with her children.

Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, discusses some of the problems that can accompany a business partnership.

This week, Azriela Jaffe, our expert home business columnist, offers advice to a woman whose husband is trying to sabotage her success.

Get lots of publicity for your business: Joe Vitale, our expert marketing and publicity columnist, offers great advice for new business owners who wonder how they will ever afford to spread the news about their business.

What are the ten best home-based businesses for women? Read our interview with Priscilla Y. Huff, author of the 101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women.

Meet Judi McMahon who started a direct mail beauty products business based on REBORN, a moisturizer she developed made of 11 essential oils.

Home Business Advice: Our expert home business columnist Azriela Jaffe offers advice to a mother who cannot get her teenage daughter to respect her home business.

How does working from home differ from working in an office setting? What challenges do women who work at home face? Karen Skorochod, of Wind Gap, Pennsylvania, does medical transcription at home. "Many other moms come up to me and inform me that 'you've got it made---you are so lucky to work at home!' I would just love to shake them and tell them that it is definitely not the easiest thing in the world."

An interview with Leslie Godwin, a Career and Life-Management Coach, who specializes in helping female entrepreneurs avoid burn-out.

How do you turn a beloved creative pursuit into a home business? Expert home business columnist Azriela Jaffe advises an artist who wants to quit her day job and pursue art full-time as a home business.

Home Business Success Stories: Boots Baumbaugh, of Sarasota, Florida, owns Communications Plus, a communications company, with her husband. "...working together, living together in the same space can get a little emotionally crazy. I handle it by not taking vacations together. It's rejuvenation time for me and it keeps us on speaking terms the rest of the time."

Is working alone at home getting you down? Read our interview with Murray Felsher, Ph.D., author of 'Working Alone: Words of Wisdom for the Self-Employed.'

Our expert home business columnist Azrielle Jaffe gives advice to a woman whose family and friends no longer believe she can make her home business a success.

Do you want to start an indoor kitchen herb garden? Bertha Reppert, our expert herb columnist, has some advice for you. Bertha is the owner of the The Rosemary House, an herb shop in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania and the author of many books on herbs, including "How to Grow Your Herb Business."

Grow Your Home Business: A series of interviews with women who have started their own home business. This week, meet Kristene Markert, of Norman, Oklahoma, who founded The National Specialty Gift Association, a professional trade association for the gift basket industry.

Are you trying to win new customers? Read our interview with Joe Vitale, author of "There's A Customer Born Every Minute" a fascinating book about P.T. Barnum's amazing business strategies. Joe shows businesses how to get lots of positive attention by putting into practice Barnum's savvy marketing techniques.

How can a Mom who works at home cope with her children's constant interruptions? How can she satisfy their cravings for attention and still get some uninterrupted time to get her work done? Meet our home business expert Azriela Jaffe, author of "Honey, I Want To Start My Own Business, A Planning Guide For Couples" who has lots of advice for women who work at home.

An interview with Patrick Cochrane, author of 'The Kitchen Table Millionaire.' Find out why some entrepreneurs succeed and why some fail.

Learn the art of being prosperity conscious.

An interview with Lori Haston, who started her at home consulting business. Read how she learned to embrace 'the place of failure.'

An interview with Kenn Oberrecht author of How To Open and Operate AHome-Based Craft Business.

An Interview with Azriela Jaffe, author of 'Honey, I Want to Start My Own Business'

Hear how one woman made her home business dreams a reality. An interview with Bertha Reppert, author of Growing Your Herb Business. Learn about how she made her herb business a success.

A review of 'Growing Your Herb Business.' Bertha Reppert shares common mistakes in start-up herb businesses - and she shares some great ideas for new herb businesses!

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