Running a Home-Based Business


Recent Running a Home-Based Business Articles

You Think You Can File an Accurate Tax Return, Do You?

When it comes to paying taxes, independent professionals should consider if they can tackle the project themselves.  Read more

How Planned Development Rules (CCRs) Affect Home-Based Businesses

In subdivisions, condos and planned-unit developments, rules pertaining to home-based businesses are often significantly stricter than those found in city or...  Read more

Can I Claim a Tax Deduction for a Part-Time Home-Based Business?

Your business must be more than a disguised hobby--it has to pass muster with the IRS as a real business.  Read more

Meeting's at 9. I'll Be the One in Slippers

Home-based businesses are gaining new legitimacy as affordable office technology levels the playing field and a growing number of downsized executives opt to...  Read more

Nine Steps Toward the Home Office of Your Dreams

What to think about when it comes to design, equipment, and management.  Read more

Cybersecretary

Program your telephone to handle everything while you're away from your one-person business.  Read more

Non-Taxing Matters

A small-business automation expert looks at several popular tax preparation software packages.  Read more

Resource: Phones for Soloists

A quick review of the book Telecom Made Easy.  Read more

Things We Love

A CEO tells readers about a service that brings him CD-quality sound through his local cable company.  Read more

How Information Technology Is Leveling the Playing Field

Various business people discuss how technology allows them to compete with the "big boys."  Read more

CEO Compensation: The ABCs of Paying Yourself

Advice from experts and CEOs that adds up to primer for execs to figure out their annual salaries.  Read more

Tool on the Hill

A software developer discusses what equipment he uses to stay connected to his office while he works in a log cabin.  Read more

More On Home Offices

Meet the college professor who lost his war with the Internal Revenue Service but who may have won an important battle for others.  Read more

How to Make $10 Million from Home in 4 Easy Steps

Plenty of Fish founder Markus Frind runs a company that makes $10 million a year—from home. Here's how.  View slideshow

Recession Feeds Increase of Home-based Businesses

More than half of all businesses in the United States are now home based.  Read more

Coworking Spaces Grow in Popularity

How shared working spaces are facilitating start-ups.  Read more

Home Offices

A home office is a space within an individual's personal residence that is used for business purposes. It may be a corner of a spare bedroom equipped with...  Read more