Home-Biz Advice -- Home-Business Management, Marketing & Publicity, Time & Stress Management, Tax & Legal Issues"

Helpful articles on managing and marketing a homebased business.

Home business management and marketing information and resources for home business owners and other self-employed individuals working at or from home base in all fields of endeavor.

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Office/Business Management

Do You Really Need a Landline Phone (and the Expense That Goes With It)? How Barbara cut her monthly telephone expenses from $117 to just $12 by switching her local and long-distance service from AT&T to her cable Internet service provider.

Analyzing Sales and Profits. Barbara explains how to use financial reports to study the overall profitability of your business and every product or service you sell.

Are You Prepared for Disaster? Tips for Setting up a Grab-it-Quick Box by Barbara Brabec

Are You Pushing Yourself Too Hard? Barbara Brabec discusses the importance of making changes to adjust to changing life situations or business circumstances.

Carbonite: The Best Little Computer backup Program You'll Ever Find. Barbara reports on how to save time and stress by securely and effortlessly backing up ALL your valuable data, for less than $55 a year.

Counterfeit Money Orders & Credit Cards that Seem to be Okay - Cautionary tips from Barbara Brabec

E-Fundraising: Using Your Website for Charitable Purposes. A report from BeautiControl Consultant, Martha Oskvig.

HACKED! Dennis Gaskill, Boogiejack.com, tells how his business was ruined by a hacker, and how other Web businesses can avoid his costly experience.

Nigerian Scams on the Rise- by Barbara Brabec

More Reports from Readers Who Have Been Targeted by Nigerian Con Artists - edited by Barbara Brabec

Online Businesses at Risk. How Nigerian con artists are using the relay telephone service for the deaf to defraud online sellers. See also Reader Reports on this topic.

Prescription for Economic and Financial Woes. Uplifting advice for those who suffered great financial loss during the 2008 "Black October" stock market crash.

Ship-to Names & Addresses Being Used by Nigerian Scammers - A handy reference list for merchandise sellers on the Web

Caught in the Middle: The Plight of Relay Telephone Operators (regarding orders from Nigerian con artists) - by "Clear Conscience"

Change is Part of the Picture- by Barbara Brabec

Is It Time for a Change? - by Barbara Brabec

Seven Tips for Working Safely at Home - by Jeffrey Zbar

Watch Your Mailbox--It's Ripe for Theft! - a Reader's report

Tax & Legal Issues

About Common Law Trademarks - by Barbara Brabec

A Beginner's Guide to Intellectual Property Law, by Attorney Richard E. Schell

Domain Names and Trademark Pitfalls. Barbara's tips on how to avoid a costly mistake, with several resources for more information on this topic.

How to Get a Handle on Your Schedule C Deductions and Work with an Accountant, by Barbara Brabec. Waiting until the last minute in April to think about your tax situation is a BIG mistake.

Read Scott Smith's "David vs. Goliath" trademark story here—Judge Rules "Entrepreneur" No Longer Part of Public Domain— and the 2008 update: BizStarz Alleges that EMI Defrauded the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office.

Partnership Pitfalls: Look Before You Leap - by Carol A. Thelen

Profit From Paying Your Kids - by Julian Block

Seven Tax Tips for Business. Bernard Kamoroff's annual tips list on how to save money on taxes.

Marketing & Publicity

Doing Business in a Recession. Barbara offers tips on how to increase sales of products and services in a recession.

A Dozen Strategies for Growth and Financial Success in a Difficult Economy - by Barbara Brabec

Five Ways to Keep Your Customers - by Karen Smith

How to Create and Use Audio CDs for Profit — Ten tips on how to use your voice and your computer to create audio CDs you can sell or use for publicity purposes, by Dr. West Conner.

How to Get Media Publicity. PR expert E. Braunstein offers suggestions for successful media publicity.

How to Give a Speech About Your Product or Service - by Silvana Clark

How a Small Business Can Generate Big Publicity - by Alan Caruba

Image Marketing: How to Develop a Successful Business "Persona" -- by Valerie Giles

Marketing in the "New Age of Skepticism"—How to Build Customer Trust and Get New Business, by Barbara Brabec.

Networking: The Catalyst that Makes Things Happen. Barbara's tips on how and where to get the help and encouragement needed to achieve a new goal or realize a secret dream.

Networking Can Change Your Life ... if You Take it Seriously. A motivational PDF report by Barbara you can pass along to others by email, or post to your website or blog.

The Importance of Networking (a brief excerpt from Homemade Money)

Nine Simple Marketing Tips for New Business Owners - by Robin Vaccai-Yess

Six Steps to Success in a Mail Order Business - by John Schulte, NMOA

Using PR Web's News Release Distribution Services. Tips from Barbara and PR expert Traci Vanover.

Using Internet Discussion Boards to Advance Your Business - by Eileen Coale

The Value of Customer Opinions and Testimonials - by Val Dunlop

Time & Stress Management

Business Deadlines Were Made to Be Broken, by Barbara Brabec

What Time is it on Your Cell Phone? A little levity for time-challenged home-business owners, by Barbara Brabec.

Why Creative People are Sleep-Deprived--and What to Do About it - by Barbara Brabec

Prescription for Economic and Financial Woes, by Barbara Brabec

10 Ways to Discover the Happiness Factor by Mershon Neisner

Wrestling the Fear Monkey - by Robert Spiegel

The Many Faces of Stress, and Why Women Can Handle it Better Than Men - by Barbara Brabec

Barbara's Stress Reduction Tips

Stress--What it Does to You and What You Can Do About It - by Barbara Brabec

Stop Wasting Time on Virus Hoaxes and Chain Letters - by Steve Maurer

Helpful Stress Mgmt. Books

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HOME BUSINESS RESEARCH & REPORTS

National Surveys
SBA Office of Advocacy
Reports
Home-Business Studies by
Joanne Pratt
Barbara Brabec's research on the history of both the crafts industry and the general home business industry.

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General Topics

Are You a "Self Employed Individual" or an
"Entrepreneur?"- by Barbara Brabec

Capture Ideas When They Come! - by Barbara Brabec

Doing Your Home-Biz Homework. - by Robert Spiegel

Looking at Your Life in an Exciting New Way. Barbara revisits a book she first read and reviewed twenty years ago, one that could cause today's readers to seriously rethink their whole life and career/job/business ambitions.

Yogi Berra's Business Wisdom - by Robert Spiegel

More help for Your Home Business

When you need more information than you can find in articles on this site, or in one of Barbara's books, consider a telephone consultation or coaching session with Barbara.

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