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Tips for Shortening your To Do List

Do you start each day with a To Do list that feels a mile long? Do you always feel defeated because you never accomplished everything on the list? You should probably shorten your To Do list.
The first thing you should do to shorten your list is to make a To Do list template for everything [...]

Protecting Your Home - AND Your Business

When you have a home business, you are in some ways doubling your risk and the price you will pay if someone breaks in.  Because your home and your business share space, you will lose not only your personal valuables, but those associated with your business — equipment as well as irreplaceable financial data and customer [...]

Planning Vacation Time as a Sole Proprietor

Taking a vacation is difficult to do when you are self-employed or the sole proprietor of your own business.  However, just because you own a small business doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever be able to go on vacation.  You ought to be just as able to go on your dream holiday in Lake Louise, Canada or go [...]

Turn Your Hobby into a Home Business

A friend of mine who is really into beading and making jewelry recently opened an Etsy shop where she could sell her stuff.  Beading started out as just a hobby for her, but she doesn’t really wear jewelry, so she decided she needed to be able to do something with the things she makes.
Even your [...]

My Parts Shop

The marine supply company that I go to is right down the street.  We live near the bay so this is very convenient for me to go.  We picked the area that we live in because of the location near the bay and we have never regretted that decision, even during hurricane season, knock on [...]