March 2009

Home businesses are springing up all over, as more people look into creating a better quality of life for themselves and their families. Starting a home business requires planning, just like a traditional business.

Building a solid foundation in the beginning, will help shape the future and direction of your business. Creating a vision about what you want your business to look like and where you want it to go in the future will give you a much clearer picture. Read more...

Yesterday, I had a funny thing occurred. After grabbing my morning cup of coffee, I walked out into my front yard, to look for the paper.

This morning I noticed something different. Hanging on my garage door was a flier, again nothing new. Sometimes we could call this drive by prospecting.

What was kind of funny is that it shows how many really do not understand target marketing or how to implement it. What this flier said really made me laugh.

"Tired of Maintaining Your Grass?" Read more...

Two years ago, I started looking for ways to reduce my energy bills. Electric rates continue to skyrocket! I'm sure everyone wishes they could increase their rates 15 to 30% a year.

One of the biggest consumers of electricity in our home offices is our computer systems, followed by printers and fax machines. I have nothing against Micosoft and Windows operating systems, yet they use a tremendous amount of power. Read more...

With so many individuals utilizing social sites to promote their home bases businesses, most never think of the image they are creating with their online presence.

If you are on Twitter, and you click on many of the links to their web sites most take you to a landing page. If they do have a site many are using either free blog hosting, an inexpensive way to do it.

Correct me if I'm wrong but what you'll often see is a poorly designed site, based on a free template they've picked up. They have rushed through this process and have their priorities all wrong. Read more...

Green Energy Everyone want's it, yet not all for the same reasons. Many are just tired of watching utility companies get rate increase after rate increase only to see the CEO's get millions in bonuses.

No doubt many new and exciting things will happen over the course of the next few years and many individuals will participate in these small to home based businesses. Read more...

With so many different ways to market your home business opportunity today what is the best marketing methods or sales style to employ today?

With more people flocking to social sites is this the next wave? When you listen to individuals, many of them are definitely proponents of this style of marketing.

My experience has been as if I've just stepped into a pool of sharks already to feast. Watching them on Twitter is quite funny, as everyone is pitching their business opportunity or their products. Read more...

As a small home business owner making presentations can be challenging, yet there are a few resources that can make life so much simpler. We no longer really need to travel to locations to make a first class presentation.

With today's home based businesses, covering such a wide range of products and services and the majority of it done via the internet there is one tool that I've found quite useful. Read more...

The site here at Nav60.com has undergone some major transitions over the years in the both the content and design of the site.

Originally, it began as a pure static html site. One that I occasionally neglect for quite sometime, the problem when you have so many different ones.

The site here has now transitioned to fully to the Blog format utilizing Wordpress as the underlying engine. Finding a theme to use with any site can be challenging, so many options to choose from. Read more...