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Coordinating Your Thanksgiving Feast With Your Home-Based Business

Most professionals get to enjoy a day or two extra off from work when Thanksgiving rolls around—often with pay. Some professions have to work, such as medical personnel, police, and many retail outlets, but they often receive extra pay because of it.

What about home-based business owners? How do they manage around the holidays? Simply put—they either work or they don’t make as much money as usual. This is one of the draw-backs of being your own boss.

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Party Sales: Children's Products

As every major retailer knows, children’s items are one of the largest areas of sales. When products serve a distinct educational purpose, they are even easier to sell. Here is an assortment of direct sales or home party sales businesses that specialize in children’s products.

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Kitchen-related Party Sales: Tupperware and Pampered Chef

Almost everyone loves home parties, even the kind that are primarily for selling stuff. One of the most popular categories is that of kitchen items. The two best known would certainly be Tupperware and Pampered Chef.

Tupperware has been around for a while. Quite possibly the first home party that anyone ever went to, Tupperware has been the standard of kitchen storage for generations. Their products are sturdy—they have a lifetime warranty. They are trendy—they usually come in the latest kitchen design colors. And the opportunity is satisfying and rewarding.

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Become a Virtual Assistant

Kim Scott, Kansas City Home-Based Business Examiner
Virtual assistance is not new, but it’s certainly new to many people. A virtual assistant is much more than a telecommuting secretary. According to VAnetworking.com “A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a highly-trained independent entrepreneur who provides a myriad of business support services virtually via phone, fax and internet based technology to support and meet the growing needs of businesses worldwide.”

A virtual assistant often specializes in certain business aspects such as marketing, graphic design, sales, etc. Some virtual assistants may be employed by one company and simply telecommute. Most, however, are small business owners and their business is to provide support to other small and large business owners from their home office.

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Home-based business: an idea of the past, an idea of the present

Kim Scott, Kansas City Home-Based Business Examiner
A home-based business has long been the income producing stand-by for stay-at-home moms. Think about the women from 100 years ago who “took in” laundry to wash and/or iron for strangers, those who made alterations or sewed entire outfits for their “grocery money.” Then there have always been the moms who have watched their neighbor’s child and this has often evolved into a full-fledged home daycare.

Home-based businesses have also been the traditional method of supporting a family well before the industrial age altered much of our notions about “work”. Farmers are probably the oldest and most well-known home-based business people, although few people would think of that as a home-based business.

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Red flags that a home-based business opportunity is a scam

Kim Scott, Kansas City Home-based Business Examiner
When considering a home-based business opportunity, it is hard to see past the promises of easy money, but careful research and attention to the following red flags can help you find success.

The advertisement in the classifieds of the Star promises a six figure income with minimum effort. New affiliates of almost any business should expect minimum income and maximum effort.

The website shows great cars and yachts the other affiliates purchased, supposedly a matter of months after entering the business. If they bought them, it wasn’t with the money they earned from their new business.

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For Examiner.com, my topic is anything that has to do with home-based businesses. So any real posts I write will be on that site, although I will post a teaser and a link here for each of them.

Examiner is always hiring, but the pay is going to be dependent upon your ability to network and get readers! Anyway, if you would like to apply with Examiner here's the link. Be sure and indicate that I am the one who referred you!

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Is WAHM a stigma for professionals?

What are your thoughts?

Stigma Attached to Being a Work-At-Home-Mom (WAHM)

September 10th, 2009 by Cristina Favreau

Last week I asked an innocent question on one of the VA discussion boards about VAs opinions on the work-at-home-mom label. An animated and passionate conversation ensued!

Based on the conversation, most VAs feel the work-at-home-mom label casts a negative or unprofessional light on their services to their clients and prospects.

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