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Randy's Home Business Blog September 2006 Archive

By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide to Home Business

Organic SEO or Pay Per Click?

Friday September 29, 2006
Organic search results are those that come up in Google or Yahoo or any other search engine where the site owner didn't pay to get the site listed in the ... Read More

Building Your Home Office

Wednesday September 27, 2006
This article, from the NBC affiliate in Chicago, talks about how to get started and what to expect when setting up your office for your home business or for telecommuting. ... Read More

Home Business Idea: Musical Instrument Repair

Monday September 25, 2006
Flutist Nancy Shinn decided to take a class in flute repair from Dr. Eldred Spell at Western Carolina University. At the time, she had no idea it would lead to ... Read More

Speaking Out on Behalf of Home Business

Saturday September 23, 2006
Former chief of staff for the city of Rochester, NY, William Faucette Jr. speaks out in this guest editorial for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. When he left city employment ... Read More

Virginia State Office to Foster Telecommuting

Thursday September 21, 2006
Five years ago, Virginia's Department of Taxation began a pilot telecommuting program. Largely because office rents in Northern Virginia were exorbitant. Of 837 full-time employees in the deparment, 225 are ... Read More

Virtual Assistants Can Help Grow Your Business

Wednesday September 20, 2006
Virtual assistants can handle some of your daily tasks, including your administrative support tasks, allowing you to focus on what you do best. Since virtual assistants work from their own ... Read More

Kathy Ireland: Fashion Model to Role Model

Saturday September 16, 2006
You'll want to be sure to read my inspirational conversation with Kathy Ireland, a successful fashion model beginning in her teen years and now a role model for working moms ... Read More

Getting Too Busy for a One Person Business?

Wednesday September 13, 2006
Home business operators frequently run their businesses solo. When business picks up, it often happens that there's too much work for us to handle on our own. The options are ... Read More

Could You be an Entrepreneur?

Tuesday September 12, 2006
That's the question this San Francisco Chronicle article asks. It's all about examining whether you have the types of personality traits needed to succeed in your own business. If you ... Read More

Work-at-Home Scams on the Increase

Sunday September 10, 2006
The Internet is a great tool for setting up and running a profitable business without a lot of capital investment. Unfortunately, it's also enabled work-at-home scams to become abundant. There ... Read More

Making the Most of Working at Home

Friday September 8, 2006
Working at home is on the rise around the world, as evidenced by the statistic cited by the Athens News recently in its article about making the most of working ... Read More

Choosing a PC for Your Home Business

Thursday September 7, 2006
If you're not a computer whiz and you run or are planning to start a home business, you can use all the help you can get in understanding what all ... Read More

Spotting a Phony SEM Firm in 3 Minutes

Wednesday September 6, 2006
It doesn't take long to get to know the warning signs - the promises some search engine marketing (SEM) concerns make that your site will get number one rankings in ... Read More

Home Business Ideas: Traveling Wine Consultant

Saturday September 2, 2006
After I'd read an article about how a teacher embarked on a new career - as an independent wine consultant for The Traveling Vineyard, I had to learn more. Karen D'Valentine, ... Read More

Keyword Selection Critical for Your Website

Friday September 1, 2006
Correctly choosing the keywords on which you want your website to compete is the single most important aspect of a search engine optimization campaign. Proper keyword selection for your home ... Read More
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