Self-Employment Basics


Recent Self-Employment Basics Articles

7 Tax-Saving Tips for Home-Based Businesses

Filing taxes for your home-based business doesn't have to be a daunting process. Here's how to maximize your return.  Read more

Ask Inc.: Is It Critical for a Start-up to Have a Website?

Ask Inc. is an open forum for entrepreneurs to ask questions and get answers. Join the conversation.  Read more

Don't Put Your Assets on the Line

Starting a business? Protect what you have by thinking through your legal form first.  Read more

How to Boost Confidence and Success

Are you willing to take the emotional risks associated with taking your business to the top or do you do only what is necessary to survive? Find out why you ...  Read more

10 Marketing Musts

Are you are spending enough time and money marketing your business? If not,you are ignoring a critical success component. Customize these ideas to work for y...  Read more

Got Attitude?

Business people with a positive attitude usually exude success and attract other success-minded people. Take this 20-question quiz to find out if your attitu...  Read more

Surprised Employer Fires Sex Blogger

A St. Louis blogger thought she went to great lengths to keep her office life and her personal life separate -- but then it all went wrong. A cautionary tale...  Read more

Virtual Work: Up Close and Personal 

Inc. reporter Tamara Schweitzer travels to Utah for an inside look at her dad's virtual lifestyle as an entrepreneur.   Watch video

8 Work-From-Home Rules

Editor-at-large Leigh Buchanan, who has been working from home for the past four years, shares her advice with entrepreneurs (as well as her newly-virtual co...  Read more

The Tradeoffs of Returning to a Home Office

An independent consultant wonders if she should trade in her office space for a virtual home office  Read more

Six Questions to Ask Yourself Before Starting a Business

Do you have what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur? Here are six things to consider  Read more

How to Buy a URL

Here are 5 tips on finding and obtaining the rights to a good domain name.  Read more

eBay 101 

Many entrepreneurs are making big money on eBay these days. Inc. Expert Barbara Weltman highlights everything you need to get started.   Watch video

Summer Tax Tips 

Use the slow summer months to consider how you might best decrease your tax burden. Inc. Expert Barbara Weltman offers five tips to help you get started. ...  Watch video

Trading Places: Are You Ready for Self-Employment?

Thinking of chucking the security of a job to become a soloist? Make sure you understand the forces that keep most people trapped in cubicles and dreaming of...  Read more

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

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

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

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