Home Business Solutions

Escaping the Work at Home Blues
Self-employed guru Gil Gordon combines his love of travel and photography to get away from his home office. He enjoys connecting with nature, and appreciates the craft of being a nature writer as much as a nature photographer. Browse through galleries of his travels when you're cooked up in your home office, waiting for it to be vacation time.

Be Your Own Boss
This is a site for entrepreneurs. Learn if you have what it takes to start, run, and grown your own home-based business. Start by clicking on BIZ 101. Here you will find dozens of masterful articles on subjects ranging from how to attract new clients while still keeping existing customers happy, how to accurately project start-up costs for a new enterprise, the art of creating a Buzz around your new business, and lots more. But don't stop there. Click on BE YOUR OWN BOSS and get tons of ideas from starting a new business to ways of conducting market research for free. This site is filled with articles on every aspect of being your own boss, creating your business plan, organizing your office and advice on practically every other aspect of being a home entrepreneur.

Tips for Home Office Tax Deductions
This article from Inc. magazine offers information and advice on tax deductions for a home office. Topics covered include real estate expenses, business expenses, depreciation of home office equipment, depreciation on the portion of the home used for home office, etc. The central purpose of the article is to educate people on the dos and don'ts of home office deductions. Tips from experts are included.

Home Office Lighting
Site gives tips for home office lighting. Many home office workers spend a lot of their time working in front of their computers. If the area around your monitor is not well lit, there will be a contrast between the bright computer screen and the darkness of the room, which will certainly create eye strain after awhile. To avoid this situation, try "washing" the wall behind your computer with a recessed "wall washer", a light fixture that looks like a regular light that would project light down the wall, but, says Doreen Lee May Madden, a lighting consultant "the optics, or reflectors, inside are designed to kick light out of the side instead of having it shoot straight down." Variations in the color of lighting can also create an attractive effect. Different types of bulbs provide different shades and colors of light. "An incandescent lamp... has a lot of yellow in it and a halogen lamp has more bluish white to it. By mixing different types of bulbs you'll achieve an effect that is more pleasing to the eye," states Madden.