Growing Your Business This Holiday Season

By G. L. Giddings                      

 

The holiday season is here and with Christmas right around the corner, people are looking for viable ways to earn some additional income to help with their shopping, vacations, etc. How many people do you know that’s “open-minded” to an opportunity to make an extra $500 to $1,000 between now and Christmas? Everywhere you look, there’s someone look for that opportunity; it may be your opportunity!

Now is the time to get out of your “comfort zone” and reach out to those individuals and share with them your service or business. Remember, it may or may not be for them. If you offer a service that can help them save money, you are on your way to helping a lot of people. Saving money is a value-proposition that consumers need to stay competitive in today’s financial crisis.

Whenever you can give someone added value to their families well-being, it creates a WIN-WIN-WIN for everyone involved. You may have sold a product or service that is desperately needed in the marketplace, while giving a person the opportunity to prosper financially.

G. L. Giddings, Director

GLG and Associates, LLP

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Four Home-Based Business Myths

By Lesley Spencer Pyle


Published December 01, 2010

WomenEntrepreneur.com

The home-based business industry is buzzing with new startups, products and services. If you are considering launching a home-based company, it's a good idea to have all the facts. There are a lot of misconceptions about what it takes to run a successful business from home.

Separate fact from fiction, and find out whether these oft-repeated notions are just myths.

Anyone can start a home-based business.

While anyone can launch a home-based business at virtually any time, not everyone will succeed. It's not as easy as you might think. So before you jump in head first, make sure you're in touch with reality. First of all, building a business from the ground up is a slow and sometimes tedious process. You will not become a millionaire overnight.
There is a lot of information to take in and a lot of junk to filter out. The truth is that running a home-based business is, in most cases, a trial by fire. Lots of people throw in the towel before they ever see any real money.

It doesn't cost anything to start a home-based business.

If you are offering a service, this might be true. Emily Suess, a freelance writer in Indianapolis, launched her business virtually overnight without any startup fees. "I already had a laptop and a high-speed internet connection," says Suess. "The only thing I needed was to find my first client."

To read the entire article, click here - http://www.foxsmallbusinesscenter.com/sbc/2010/12/01/home-based-business-myths/