Just because you left corporate America in favor of working from home, doesn't mean you have to give up all the comforts of a good office. Your environment is proven to have an impact on your work output and quality levels. Most people do not have an entire room to devote to their home business, however, these tips can apply to any size space -- even a closet! Here are three steps to help you take charge of your home office:
Thanks to the accessibility of the Internet and the advances of affordable tools, anyone can sell anything online. If you are just getting started on your site or are ready to take your ecommerce to the next level, consider these excellent resources from About.com's expert, Ajeet Khurana:
Time is money, there is no doubt about that. Are you using yours efficiently?
In hopes to save you time AND money, here's a running list of some of the many free or affordable home business tools you should consider using for your business:
About.com's Online Business guide, Bryan Haines, recently highlighted a very interesting company called oDesk. You need to know about oDesk because it could possibly help you with your work-from-home dreams. oDesk offers the world's largest, most comprehensive and fastest-growing online workplace. According to oDesk's website, "more online work happens on oDesk than anywhere else on the web. In 2011 alone, businesses posted over a million jobs and contractors earned more than $220 million."
My last post highlighted the top 10 home business franchises for 2012, based off of Entrepreneur's annual franchise report. All excellent choices and opportunities for any entrepreneur looking for a solid business model. However, some of those franchises could run you a ticket price of upwards of $100,000 -- which definitely isn't chump change.
If you are an entrepreneur looking to make an investment in a business which you can run out of your home, consider these franchises. This year's list is very similar to last year's list and still consists of 60% commercial cleaning businesses. A franchise is an excellent way to lower start-up risk, providing a proven business model with training in operations, marketing and business set-up.
To finish out this week's tax help, I thought it might be helpful to provide you with a few useful links. Each of these resides somewhere on the government's official IRS website and may provide you with additional answers to questions that haven't been answered.
Here are links to the previous articles which were highlighted this week, in case you missed something. Best of luck to you as you prepare your taxes! (Remember, deep breaths).
Once you get started on your taxes, you are undoubtedly going to run into a few road block questions, like, "What the heck are self-employment taxes and should I be paying them?" Or maybe you are wondering if you have gotten yourself in too deep and need to pony up the cost to hire a tax accountant. Another question you'll have is whether you should you be filing your business under your social security number or a Federal Employer ID Number.
What's the one word that can make all Americans nauseous in one second flat? AUDIT. Gulp, just saying the word makes me feel a bit dizzy. An IRS audit is no fun. Just ask anyone who has been through one, especially those home business owners and self-employed individuals.
If you are new to filing taxes as a home business owner or as an individual earning self-employment income, undoubtedly you have questions. Perhaps you wonder whether or not ...
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