business

Cutting costs

“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Ben Franklin said it first. It’s probably better to save a penny than spend it and earn it back later because the earned penny will be taxed a second time. I’m not talking about being miserly or cheap, but wisely frugal. When you are working online it’s important [...]

Table filler

Table filler

It’s the lower price point stuff that is meant to garner an opening sale. Table filler is the stuff that technically pretty much anyone can make (and does) and make fairly quickly from cheap materials. It’s cute and fills in the odd spaces hopefully without distracting from the more involved (and higher priced) items. I’ve [...]

Do you label?

If you work with fibers and fabrics in your at home business, you’ll need to pay attention to labeling requirements. The rules seem a bit arbitrary for instance you must label all clothing items, except for hats and socks, unless those fall under a different section of the labeling requirements (such as those from fur [...]

What is really worth your time?

Is it SEO, networking, network marketing, plain old marketing, advertising, directory submissions, blog carnivals, or building back links? Or is it being able to go outside and witness the rain with your kids, taking photographs of moments that would might go unnoticed, developing otherwise impossible friendships with people states or even countries away, voicing your [...]