For Women Ready to Start Their Business@Home!

Clarify Your Small Business Objectives

Without clarity your profit picture will be too fuzzy to serve as an accurate guide to making more money in your small business. Sharpen your focus in these four areas to improve your bottom line: Personal, Business, Lifestyle, Time.

Take the Free Small Business Success Checklist Action Steps to regain your 20/20 business vision right now!

Small Business Start Up Passion P(l)ay

What role does passion play in the success of a small business at home start-up? In my experience it's the leading role. Any endeavor of merit has challenges to overcome, new things to learn and habits to put into practice. Small business success is no different - the role played by passion must be convincing or you may not get beyond opening night.

But, as Sam & Judy learned, there is a key supporting role to be played - Business Basics. The name of the character "Business Basics" doesn't even sound interesting or entertaining, but it's the role responsible for profit.

Passion maybe the sentimental favor, but the supporting role of Business Basics deserves a lot of credit for making your small business passion p(l)ay.

Small Business Start-Up Opt-In "Wizard of Oz"

In the classic movie "Wizard of Oz" we discover the person behind the curtain differed greatly from the persona of the Wizard. Does the image portrayed by your small business start-up differ from or match you as a person?

If you operate online you either have or will create an "Opt-In Offering" to build your list. Up till now there was no easy way to quickly "step out from behind the curtain" and reveal your true personality. Today, thanks to Social Networking, its fast and easy to reveal more about you and your small business.

Today, I won't debate the consequences of your image and your reality not matching up or whether that should be a concern. Much of how close a match there is is subjective away. Instead, I'll just offer my Social Networking links and let you decide whether The Daily Profit - Don Osborne Persona and the Social Networking bio, tweets, wall posts and links at Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn match up with The Profit Puzzle Website.

Small Business Start-Up Success Story Telling

Many small business at home start-up success stories are surprisingly similar. Yet, they are all uniquely different. What makes them unique is the actual person involved in telling their story is an individual who treasures the idea of becoming a successful small business owner for reasons that are deeply personal to them.

Small business success comes from learning and applying a number of basic principles or functions to a start-up business idea. What should be unique about business is its owner, not how it operates. Certain practices must be in place for a small business to become successful and profitable.

The Start-Up Success Story of Sam & Judy exemplifies the concept of how uniquely different business owners can be while, at the same time, being surprising similar.

3 Small Business Goal Tweets

One thing Twitter forces you to do is be concise. Whether you're tweeting about the last cup of coffee you drank or trying to stimulate people to focus on a key small business practice you've only got 140 characters including a shorten link to get the words out. Here's 140 character or less on three things to consider about Small Business Goals:

• "Small business goals set up a finish line you can cross to win the start-up success race." 
  
• "Fuzzy goals blur your small business start-up vision."
   
• "Yes, I know it would be easier to make my small business goals if I wrote them down!"

Each Tweet had a shorten link leading to a Free "Take Action" Sheet. One thing about a blog post is you can take as many characters as you like. But, if you use too many words it should probably be an article not a post. I'm leaning towards the "Fuzzy Goals" tweet as a possible article.

8 Tweets for Small Business Success

This set of small business @home tips focused on one Tweet for each of the small business basics. Can you identify the "Basic" for each tweet?

1. "A clear set of business objectives can free up your time and explode your small business profits."
2. "Quick reports are a mandatory small business management tool if you want to boost your profits."
3. "Do you know how much it will cost to finance the small business project you just started?"
4. "Don't take your small business personnel issues too personally - it won't get the job done."
5. "Small business Marketing Match Game : Problem + Customer + Product = Purchase."
6. "Equipment with the right ROI can save your small business operations time and money."
7. "Are your true production costs built into your small business pricing?"
8. "Are your products and services valuable resources used by other small business owners?"

A "Take Action" sheet is available to help you explore each Business Basic Piece and act on those small business pieces you need to work on to optimize your success and profit.

Small Business 3M Goal Success

All small home based business owners must set goals if they plan to succeed. Success by chance is not duplicable; it’s just a happy accident. The process of setting goals on purpose can be duplicated over and over again to perpetuate growth and profitability.

The 3M Goal Success Action Sheet helps you with one way to have some fun and realize your small business goals.

No Small Business Profit?

In far too many cases, the small business owner hasn't made an active, dedicated, daily action decision to
"make a profit".

The Action Guide covers four "No" action areas
you can focus on to impact your small business profitability. How are you doing in each of them?

The Profit Driven Small Business

Profit is probably not your passion but you may want to consider using it as the driving force of your daily business activities.

The Action Guide covers five reasons for using profit as a stimulus for successful daily small business performance. Use profit to fuel your real business passion every day. It can take you where you really want to go.