http://www.home-office-guide.com Thoughts and ideas from our own experiences running small businesses Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:51:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When your planning on hiring someone to do some work on something that is a key part of your business don't hire someone because you feel sorry for them. Don't hire someone because they're always coming around begging for work. Hire the person who has the proven track record ... not ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2010/08/06/for-pitys-sake-really/ Ok so it's been a while since either Toni or I posted anything here. I guess that some of our regular readers may have wondered whether our small business had died during the recession but it didn't. Times were a little tough there for a while but we've come out of ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2010/02/17/small-business-website-that-works/ It's been a while since I've had a spare moment to pop in here and do one of my typical brain dumps but business kicked into overdrive back in June and that's still continuing, Toni spent some time off earlier this month after a knee operation and about the same ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/08/14/how-will-your-small-business-cope-with-death/ Here's a question that a number of small business people are going to be asking themselves in this town in the coming months. What do you do when you run a small business in a tourist town that has just had it's major tourist attraction hijacked by a number of other ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/07/01/what-do-you-do-when/ The number of people who expect something for nothing that you, as a small business person, will bump into in the life of your small business is unbelievable. Or as one person put it on Twitter today: The sense of entitlement for a person getting financial value who has no intent of ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/07/01/a-lesson-every-small-business-will-learn/ These days more and more small businesses are taking their business online. Some are even going so far as to shut down their bricks and mortar stores and concentrate solely on selling online. Actually succeeding online can be quite a challenging task because suddenly you're not just competing with other businesses ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/06/28/expanding-your-small-business-offline/ "Every thought you have is a road that you can travel down ... so where are your thoughts taking you." (Martin Fritz) http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/06/09/something-to-think-about/ Our business continues to boom and we've had some excellent results with outstanding search engine placement for a couple of clients in the last week. While none of them have been mission impossible it's still good to be able to say that "I love it when a plan comes together" ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/05/25/small-business-web-design-worst-practice/ More and more small businesses are going online with their own websites. Once their site is online it's not long before they begin to wonder what their site is actually doing for their business. At that point the site owners start looking for an analytics programme that will give them ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/05/20/analytics-for-small-business-websites/ In tough financial times like these there will always be plenty of people looking for a way of earning an income by working from home. In tough financial times like these there will always be plenty of sharks out there looking to fleece gullible people and pyramid selling schemes are a ... http://www.home-office-guide.com/2009/05/12/pyramid-selling-schemes/