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Traits that Separate the Best from the Rest – Part II

You’ve already learned, by reading Part I, the enormous difference in taking advantage of a home business opportunity, running a home-based business and having a career as a successful home-based business entrepreneur. Some of the factors that have been mentioned previously that determine which category you will land in include integrity, loving what you do, grabbing positive attention and planning.

Traits that Separate the Best from the Rest – Part I

That feeling that comes from being able to fire your boss and set out as an entrepreneur as the business mind behind your own home-based business is enough motivation to fuel the ship, so to speak.

It does take more than that, though, to be successful. Anyone, technically, can take advantage of a home business opportunity. There is a huge difference in taking advantage of a home business opportunity, running a home-based business and having a career as a successful home-based business entrepreneur. Aside from integrity, which was covered in a recent piece you should certainly review, there are plenty of other factors that determine where you will fall within these categories.

Is the Traditional Office Becoming Extinct?

Are there dinosaurs among us? If a new joint report from Regus and Unwired called VWork: Winning Strategies at Work is to be believed, yes. The report on the future of the office in an age of increasingly agile work surveyed 600 businesspeople along with several heads of global real estate. Of course, the lumbering beasts it identifies aren’t giant reptiles, but instead traditional corporate buildings, which the report claims are underutilized, inflexible and a bad fit for the work of today.

This is the right time to buy a business

I am in the market for a good business. Of course I am not talking of a million dollar business, although this is a very good time to buy for those with the capital. I saved a few bucks to buy myself a good internet based business. I initially saved the money to start a [...]

Bring on the entreprenuers

Bring on the entrepreneurs! This is the tag line and focus of  the July/August 2010 edition of Inc. Magazine. The magazine presented a  ” highly practical, eminently doable, totally reasonable plan to revitalize the American dream.” The several ideas in their main articles resonated with me mostly because I do fit into several of the [...]

Failure is good, especially if it takes long?

I have been trying (more of positioning myself) to get into business as soon as an opportunity arises. I firmly believe that entrepreneurship runs in my DNA (My parents for a long time had a poultry business and it served as the major source of income for our family.) Now that I am out of [...]