Start a Side Business

The Bootstrapper’s Bible, by Seth Godin, is free again, till the end of December.  Grab it while you can. This is a fascinating read, and choke full of good ideas for starting a business with no money. Also worth a read by Seth: Do Less.

Today’s theme is about competition, and more specifically about finding out who your competitors are, and what they do, what their edge is, and how you can beat them. Knowing about your competition is key to your business success. Knowing what they do can help you refine your pricing structure. It can help you hone [...]

Today’s edition theme is “Setting up an online presence”. In fact setting up your online presence is becoming easier and easier so the challenge is more to get people to find you. Google Adwords has become a very effective way to attract people and Suzanne, from The Get Known Now Blog explains how to be [...]

An interesting part of putting together the Home Business Carnival, is that after 12 editions, I’m starting to receive quite a few contributions. Many are great, on topic and a great fit for the next edition, some are either off topic, or not quite as good as the other and don’t make it. The observant [...]

This week’s theme is about free resources you can use for advertising your home business. A first suggestion comes from Brian of Genius Type. He urges you to take a second look at Network Marketing. What’s Network Marketing? Here’s Brian’s definition: Network marketing is a business model that replaces large marketing budgets with a compensation [...]