A reader arrived at Small Biz Survival with this search query:“I want to start a home business, but I’m on Social Security. Can I still be self employed?” This sounds like a good addition to the Small Biz 100 and tax question for Maesz! Here’s the answer:—–Yes… but If she is not “full retirement age,”…
Our friend Wendy Piersall is now CEO of Sparkplugging :: Thinking Big in the New Work at Home Generation. Sparkplugging is a complete rebranding of eMoms at Home. The new brand makes it clear that her site and network of blogs are focused on entrepreneurial content. Wendy’s eMoms at Home started as her personal blog,…
Our Small Biz 100 series, designed to give you 100 useful hands-on business basics posts, has reached 10 posts. And I have two requests of you. 1. What other small business topics do you want to see me cover? Put them in the comments. With 30 articles in process, I’m no where near out of…
Our friend Michelle Riggen-Ransom sent me an email about a nifty small business contest: I wanted to let you know about our Small Business Super Hero contest that we’re running in honor of National Small Business Week next week. We’re inviting small business owners to tell us, in 200 words or less, what makes their…
New friend from SXSW, Tony Katz, president and founder of Aweli.com, left some comments in our brag basket that explain why we do it, better than we ever have explained it before. Ok, here’s my brag. I’m thrilled to know other people who understand the importance of being proud of what you do and the…
Running a small business is tough enough. But if you’re running a small business in a small town, there’s a secret you need to know… it’s more fun than being in the big city! You don’t believe me? Well here’s the top 5 small town advantages …1. You don’t need GPS Navigation2. Out network is…
Common small business mistakes have become a regular series here! This week, we’ve got another local example you can learn from. The pizza place is closed??! Tried to call for pizza the other day, but the phone just rang and rang. Not too unusual for them. I decided to run down and just pick up…
As your business starts to take off, you’ll hit a time when you have more work than you can do, but not so much that you are ready (or can afford) to hire an employee. How can you handle the crunch? Here are ten ways to delegate some of the work, without hiring any employees….
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