SOHO Articles

1). Java Good Bad or Very Very Ugly By : Mark Brading
It's yet another plug in that users hate, and there are lots of those, and Java has an even worse reputation than most. Why? There are just so many reasons.
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2). Fax Machines Pull Double Duty By : James Hunt
If you work in an office, you probably already know how indispensable the office fax machine, copy machine and scanners are to the people who work in the office...
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3). Web Design Not Book Design By : Mark Brading
Paper and the web aren't adversaries by any means; the web is highly unlikely to destroy paper layouts, as we know them, no matter how many 'technologists' might predict it. The important thing though, is that paper and the web are different, and you need to realize that their differences are something to be celebrated, not worked around.
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4). Do's and Don'ts of Launching a Small Business Website By : Alicia Harper
Launching a small business website can seem like an enormous task ,although it does require some research, if done right it might be just the marketing tool your business needs. The road to a website is filled with website designers, website developers and graphic designers. This in itself is very confusing. A website designer is someone who produces the design.
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5). Strategic vs. Tactical Approaches and How Too Much of One Might Be Hurting Your Home-Based Business By : Laurie Hayes
In basic terms, strategic refers to the "what and why" and tactical refers to the "how." Both methodologies are critical to your business success. Strategic thinking, planning, and actions reflect your ability to take into account the big picture, to recognize patterns and trends, foresee issues, predict outcomes, and have smart "Plan B's" to fall back on.
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6). Double Your Business Results Using The Penny Model By : Leanne Hoagland-Smith
What does a penny and doubling your business have in common? A lot if you understand how by simply doubling your activity can exponentially increase your business. Maybe it’s time to start saving those pennies and begin turning them into nickels, dimes and dollars.
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7). Is Life Getting In the Way of Your Home-Based Business? 5 Steps to Take Today to Keep You on Track By : Laurie Hayes
Working from home provides the ultimate experience of freedom in many ways, but at the same time it can easily allow a freedom we take for granted - a freedom that if not appreciated, can actually sabotage our success. In the corporate world we have structures, deadlines, rules and bosses to keep things in order and on track. These are often the elements entrepreneurs want to escape from when they start a home-based business.
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8). Ready to Break Free of Your Entrepreneurial Rut? By : Laurie Hayes
When you first leave the corporate world to start a home-based business, you're pumped, assured and passionate about making your dream come true and that excitement and desire can fuel your progress for a good long while. Eventually, like all things that go up, a plateau is inevitable and it's at this stage that you as an entrepreneur may start to feel frustrated, lost or even as though you've reached the limit of your capabilities.
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9). Are You Leaving Money on the Table? By : Laurie Hayes
As a solo professional or home-based entrepreneur, are you still trading your time for money? If you're being paid solely for the hours you work, your income will always be limited by the number of hours in a day. In order to leverage your revenue generating activities, consider adding complementary products and services to your repertoire. I recall a time when my massage therapist used this beautifully scented oil on my back and shoulders.
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10). What Every Home-Based Business Owner Needs to Know About Shiny Object Syndrome By : Laurie Hayes
One of the greatest enemies to business success is Shiny Object Syndrome. You as an entrepreneur are probably highly creative, intuitive and optimistic by nature, and it's likely common for you to have a mind full of new ideas at any given moment. You see opportunity where many others don't and the trouble arises when you want to bring all of the ideas to life at the same time.
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11). 7 Ways to Manage Breaks As A Home-Based Business Owner By : Laurie Hayes
This week during a coaching session, one of my clients shared her ongoing struggle with managing "breaks" throughout the day. Whenever she felt the need to get up from her desk and stretch her legs, she found herself in the kitchen. As a result of this habit, she is now 20 pounds heavier, very uncomfortable and extremely unhappy with herself. Unfortunately this phenomenon is all too common among entrepreneurs who transition from the outside work world to working from home.
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12). Don't Stop Short of The Gold By : Laurie Hayes
In Napoleon Hill's classic Think and Grow Rich, he tells a true story of a man named R. U. Darby and his uncle who were hit by the "gold fever" during the gold rush. After having their first car of ore shipped to a smelter, they discovered they had hit one of the richest bodies of gold in Colorado. Excitedly, they continued digging, but the ore vein disappeared.
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13). Three online business myths busted! By : Marsha Maung
I am here to bust a few myths about making it online as serious online business owners. Working online or earning an income from an online business is not impossible, if you’re expecting me to say that, you’re wrong. After all, I AM making money online and I would only be saying I am a big fat failure is I said that online businesses are load of….well, a bunch of lies.
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14). The Invisible Customer By : Laurie Hayes
How many times have you as a customer felt as though you were putting a salesperson out by asking for assistance or interrupting them as they were engaged in a personal conversation with a co-worker or friend? I can recall times I've actually said to different store clerks, who were either fully engaged in telling their co-workers about the wild party.
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15). When the Small Stuff Matters in Home-Based Business By : Laurie Hayes
You've probably heard before that in order to reap the rewards of business success, you must work "on" your business, not "in" it. This is most certainly true ... within reason. Eighty to ninety percent of your time should be spent working strategically as opposed to tactically. It's important that your time and energy be focused on the BIG picture, the future of your business and your industry.
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16). Internet Productivity--Lofty Goal or Oxymoron? By : Yvonne Bailey
When you work for yourself and do business on the internet you have to be a great strategic leader and a skilled tactician; even under the best of circumstances, it’s hard to be both. In the corporate world, goals and milestones are the absolute measure of productivity and success. But when you work for yourself there’s no objective-other than to hold you to your goals and keep you on track.
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17). You Can Lead an Entrepreneur to The Ocean of Success ... By : Laurie Hayes
… but you can't make him swim. Are you guilty of not putting all of your knowledge, skills and abilities to the best use possible? Even more important, are you putting them to any use at all? This is the equivalent to being provided a map to the ocean of success, having all of the necessary equipment lain by your feet, then remaining on shore watching the waves crashing in, making no effort to get your feet wet or sand between your toes.
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18). Internet Marketing Does not Require Genius By : Mark Brading
As Thomas Edison famously said “ genius is one per cent inspiration ninety nine per cent perspiration”. Internet marketing does not require genius, present company accepted of course, but it does need persistence of the one per cent decision, ninety nine per cent action variety.
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19). To Site or Not To Site That Is The Question By : Mark Brading
Whatever your situation is, though, you need (or maybe even want) a website, and I'm here to tell you why.
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20). Don’t Just Guess Know Your Code is Right By : Mark Brading
If your code validates, then it's correct, and therefore very likely to work as intended on every web browser, and there are more each day, out there. If you don't validate your pages, then you might find that people who visit your site with less forgiving browsers see nothing at all. These are customers lost.
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21). Is What You See Always What You Get? By : Mark Brading
When you use a visual HTML editor like FrontPage or Dreamweaver, you are using a WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. This means that, at least in theory, what you see while you're editing the page should look just like what you get when you're done.
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22). How Successful Entrepreneurs Handle Failure By : Laurie Hayes
There are many differences that separate the winners in business and life from those who are struggling and falling by the wayside. One big difference is how they handle failure. Successful entrepreneurs have a positive mindset around the experience of failure. When they fail, they look at it as a result. They took "x" steps and produced "y" result.
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23). Internet Fax Machines for the SOHO User By : James Hunt
If you work in a small office/home office environment (often referred to as a “SOHO” environment) then you can appreciate “convergence” products that allow one device to do the work of many other devices...
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24). Computer Printers - Cut Your Costs By : Wanda Cortez
When you buy a new computer it almost always comes with a free printer. The free printer is almost always an inkjet model. The printer manufacturer gives these to the computer manufacturer for a knock down price as a loss leader. What most people never consider is the cost of replacing the inkjet cartridges in a few weeks time, and on a monthly basis after that.
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25). Deliver An Elevator Speech That Grabs Attention and Has Them Begging For More! By : Laurie Hayes
An elevator speech is a short verbal snippet that clearly and memorably introduces you. It highlights your uniqueness and focuses on the benefits you provide. Imagine ... you step onto an elevator and there is a lone occupant waiting to travel with you to another floor. You are together for less than a minute, but long enough to make polite conversation.
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