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Randy's Home Business Blog July 2006 Archive

By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide to Home Business

Home Business Profile: Game Becomes Home Business

Monday July 31, 2006
Resourceful Coloradan Barbara DeYoung has launched a home-based business after developing a board game she calls Ka Bump with her daughter Cheryl. Ka Bump is a board game that's sort of ... Read More

Search Engine Strategies Bring Results

Friday July 28, 2006
As the Internet becomes an increasingly popular means of doing business, the importance of search engine optimization (SEO) continues to grow. You can make the most of your Internet marketing ... Read More

Gainesville, FLA Mayor Studies Telecommuting's Potential

Wednesday July 26, 2006
Under the direction and with the full support of Gainesville's mayor, Pegeen Hanrahan, the Gainesville City Commission has created a task force to study the issue of telecommuting in general ... Read More

Homeschoolers Can Be Great in Home Business

Tuesday July 25, 2006
With homeschooling growing in popularity in the U.S., what happens to home-schooled kids when they finish their schooling? An increasing number, used to being at home during their school years, ... Read More

The Constant Quest for Business Growth

Monday July 24, 2006
Ask any hard-working entrepreneur what he or she is working on and you're bound to hear a comment related to growth. If your business is not growing, you're shrinking. It's ... Read More

Diversifying Your Online Business is Smart

Saturday July 22, 2006
By spreading your effort over a handful of well thought out work at home business plans, you can insulate yourself from the inherent risks of the fast-moving online business marketplace. ... Read More

MySpace Generation Could Greatly Expand Telecommuting

Thursday July 20, 2006
Despite rapid advancements in the technology that enables it, only 2 percent of workers telecommute full time and only 9 percent telecommute one or two days a week, according to ... Read More

Starting and Running a Business is Journey

Wednesday July 19, 2006
Not everyone is cut out to start a home business. You need to be well prepared, have plenty of patience to build your business one brick at a time and ... Read More

Home Business Idea: Marketing eBooks on the Internet

Monday July 17, 2006
If you have an Internet business or if your are thinking of starting one, you may want to consider creating and selling informational ebooks on your website. Ebooks are generally ... Read More

Raising Capital for Home-Based Business Takes Extra Work

Sunday July 16, 2006
Home-based businesses can face some obstacles when it comes time to secure capital, in part due to pre-conceived beliefs of some bankers that most home businesses offer little credibility and ... Read More

One Link Can Be Better Than 10 for SEO

Thursday July 13, 2006
Having one link from a well-respected, high-page-ranked related web site can carry more weight in optimizing your web site for the search engines than 10 links from unrelated sites that ... Read More

Design Inspiration for Your Home Office

Wednesday July 12, 2006
These case studies of somewhat extraordinary home office layouts may inspire you to create a work at home environment or improve your existing home office arrangement. If nothing else, they ... Read More

Internet Marketing Popularity is Growing

Tuesday July 11, 2006
Internet marketing continues to grow in its importance as most companies have been making substantial commitments to add Internet marketing to their marketing mix. Measurability, flexibility, and affordability are just ... Read More

Competitive Advantage Helps Build Lasting Organizations

Monday July 10, 2006
Defining your business' competitive advantage is an important step in growing your business and outlasting your competition.What does your company do best? Or better yet, what can your company potentially ... Read More

A Look at Ergonomics

Saturday July 8, 2006
About's guide to Ergonomics provides some insight into the subject in his What is Ergonomics? article. Home business operators and telecommuters usually have to take full responsibility for creating an ... Read More

SEO Can Level the Playing Field for Home Businesses

Friday July 7, 2006
Search engine optimization (SEO) can be used by smaller, home-based business to help level the playing field with the "big guys". In fact, if you're using search engine marketing tools, ... Read More

Floods at IRS Result in Telecommuting

Thursday July 6, 2006
The Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, DC was badly flooded from the heavy rains that hit the Mid-Atlantic region. With damage to much of its IT equipment, the IRS ... Read More

Google Introduces Scheduling for AdWords

Wednesday July 5, 2006
Google has announced it has released ad scheduling for AdWords, a feature that allows you to determine the times of day and/or days of the week when your ads ... Read More

Majority of Home Businesses Can't Survive a Major Loss Without Insurance

Tuesday July 4, 2006
This article in Forbes about the basics of business insurance quotes a VP of the Insurance Information Institute as saying "Of the 11 million home-based businesses in the United States, ... Read More

Microsoft Releases the adCenter Labs Suite of Tools

Monday July 3, 2006
Microsoft came out with a whole batch of useful tools for their adCenter Labs suite. Although some of the tools don't quite seem to be perfected yet, they're designed to ... Read More

If it Sounds Too Good to Be True...

Sunday July 2, 2006
It probably is. U.S. District Court in Cleveland sentenced a Michigan man to 18 federal counts of conspiracy, mail fraud and money laundering for placing ads across the country for ... Read More
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