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How to Set Up Your Home Office
Making space for your work at home endeavours can vary from having no space to renting offsite space – and everything in between! Here are some tips on how to set up your home office. Your home office has to fit your personal working style and you may need to be working for yourself for some time before you really know what you prefer. Maybe you need nothing more than a laptop and connection to the Internet. You might be perfectly happy in your favorite recliner, on the couch, or even in bed with your laptop to work from. Do you need to use your office to meet clients? This…
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The Romance of Homesteading
It is a compelling and romantic dream to be able to live off the land and be completely self-sufficient. It is a dream that involves living lightly on the planet and finding satisfaction in freedom and independence. Though we no longer have the skills or the inclination to live like the pioneers, the idea of a homestead that provides for the needs of the family remains an inspiration to many. For me, homesteading involves the dream of being my own boss, working from home, and being part of my local community but also being part of a virtual community providing mutual help and support. And I am getting closer to…
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Blogging for Your Home Business
If you are considering building a home-based business, be sure include blogging for your home business as part of your plan. Blogs really can be a great way to promote your business. They rank highly in search engines, they’re easy to promote, and they can be entertaining enough to gather a large following of people who look forward to reading them on a daily basis. Keep Your Blog Fresh One of the biggest keys to success when blogging is posting regularly. If you don’t post often enough, you likely won’t get much traffic, and people won’t come back for more. Posting frequently also ensures that search engines will see your…
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Do You Have What It Takes to Work from Home?
The internet is full of wild claims of people getting rich working from home by building an online business of some sort. Are any of these claims true? What are the odds that an ordinary person like me or you could actually make an income from the internet? While it does seem true that some people have made fantastic amounts of money online,
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Understanding and Overcoming Procrastination: 7 Steps to Stop Wasting Time
I will confess: I am not always as motivated as I would like to be. There are always more exciting things to do than work. As long as my bills are paid, money doesn’t necessarily motivate me. What’s a lazy person gotta do to get motivated around here? Procrastination tempts all of us at times. In order to know how to beat it, we need to look at what procrastination really is, and how we can overcome it to be productive and profitable.
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Self-Employment: Living a Self-Sufficient Lifestyle
When it comes to living a self-sufficient lifestyle, there are two complementary approaches. One is to increase the amount of income that is self-produced. The second is to reduce expenses so that less income is needed to achieve the required standard of living. How you will make money is up to you. Please, just let it be legal! Hopefully it will also be something that will contribute positively to the life we all share on this planet. Increase Your Income There are a number of ways to earn money online these days. Some are better than others. All require a certain amount of time and effort. There are no get-rich…
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Home Office
The Home Office category of Home Free Media looks at the possibilities available for earning income without relying on someone else for a paycheck. While the internet has opened up a realm of new opportunities, there remain many traditional ways to make a good living without punching someone else’s clock.
