If you’re a work-at-home mother or father, the chances are you have your hands very full. Not only do you have to fit in your work hours but you may also have the additional responsibility of tidying up the house, picking up the kids from school, doing the shopping and a number of other tasks.

While working from home sounds very stress free in most cases, home workers can end up doing twice the amount of work they would do if they worked outside the home. If you’re starting a new...

Ideas are all around us, and nothing feels more exciting than coming up with a fantastic idea that you know will absolutely work. The difficult part for most, however, is taking those ideas and turning them into an actionable plan.

Here are a few tips to help you get started:

#1 – Write out a plan of attack. You have an idea - fantastic! Now is a good time to write out a fail-proof plan of how you will act on that idea. Detail in writing how your idea will work and break...

Developing self-motivation is something you may not have thought about before you started to work from home. Most work and life structures have been set up to provide motivation from an outside source.

For example, if you work at a job outside the home, instant motivation would be provided by the fact that you are working in a monitored environment where there is not much other to do than work. And so you work.

When you go to school, instant motivation is provided by...

If you find you’ve strayed from your business goals slightly or are simply looking for a way to refocus and recharge, then these tips will help you get back on track.

1 – Write it down. You may have written your goals down previously, but perhaps your situation has changed or you simply need reminding. This is a good time to write your goals down and start focusing on what it really is you want.

2 - Plan for success. It’s been said that if you fail to plan you plan...

Today’s online market is competitive. Couple that with the fact that consumers are no longer satisfied to buy from just anyone but instead are looking to make some type of connection, and it’s become almost imperative for business owners to have something of themselves on their website – a personal touch.

Let’s take a look at just a few of the personal touches you might want to consider adding to your website, and how they can benefit your business.

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