Crafting for Profit

Getting your creative business off the ground by Susan Beal.
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Free Business Courses Online

The iLearn section of iVillage is offering free courses to help you grow your small business. These courses begin now and are online.
iLearn Small Business Courses

Courses include:
How to Build Your First Web Page
Using Search Engines to Market Your Business
Improve Your Personal Networking Skills
Intermediate Microsoft® Excel 2007

Have You Heard About “The Switchboards”?

The
Switchboards
began when a group of indie business women decided that there needed
to be a place on the web where [...]

Is Crafting Your Business?

Are you a crafter? Are you looking for an inexpensive online space to sell your wares? There is a place that just may be the perfect fit for you.
It’s called —> 
Etsy is all about buying and selling all things made by hand. There mission? “To enable people to make a living making things, and [...]

40 SOHO Business Printables (free)

As-Salaamu ‘Alaykum
40 Free Printables Sheets.
Here is a siteful of home business printables. Should help with getting and staying organized.

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Wholesale Merchandise To Sell

Use this “industry-specific” search engine to find goods to sell; it just may be better than using Google.
TopTenWholesale.com:
One of the biggest hurdles for new retailers is finding wholesale
merchandise to sell. Prescott aims to place all those product sellers
in one place so that when you search for shoes, you receive wholesale
results, not Zappos.com. The site also [...]

1001 Inventions

  Are you an Inventor? If so, you will enjoy “1001 Inventions” a website dedicated to the lost ages of Muslim inventions and innovation. Who knows, you may feel inspired to do a little inventing of your own.
1001 Inventions

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Yan Cheung — 1 Billion Dollars Later

Yan Cheung is China’s richest person and the Chairman of Nine Dragons Paper, a paper recycling company she founded.
Yan is the daughter of a Guangdong Province army officer and eldest of eight children. She got the idea to start her own business from her first job at a foreign paper-products trading company.
In 1985 she [...]

If Nobody Loves You, Create The Demand! Got 15 Minutes?

Do you have 15 minutes to spare? If so, I recommend listening to this short radio interview on the WS Biz Radio Magazine program.
Host Lee Mirabal talks to Dr. Joel Freeman about his book, “If Nobody Loves You, Create The Demand”.
Freeman explains that for the entrepreneur, your biggest enemy is yourself! You must confront [...]

If Your Customers Come to You, Read This!

Earlier in the week, I went to someone’s business that was operated out of her home. I would like to pass along some advice to anyone who has a business in the home where the customers come to you.
First, make sure the place is not just clean, but extra clean! If you think your customers [...]

Take the My Own Business Course

Take the My Own Business Course
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covers the 14 important topics for anyone starting a business. Most
people fail in business because they make avoidable mistakes. The
course teaches you what those mistakes are and how to avoid them. |Start The Course|
Session Topics

Session 1: Deciding on a Business

Session 2: The [...]

Home Based Businesses

Home Based Businesses

By Phil Holland, Founder, My Own Business.org
Mr. Holland gives some great advice about home-based businesses. He says that many home-based businesses can be started without having to quit a job. This gives time to get the business established.
Read the full article here Home Based Businesses

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Teaching Entreprenuership to Elementary Students

As-Salaamu ‘Alaykum
Wish I could have been exposed to this kind of class-room lesson when I was growing up.

“(Thanks to Ronni Cohen, Claymont Elementary School in Delaware for this group of activities
that she uses with elementary school students. Ronni is the organizer of B-School for Beginners,
a program she runs to teach elementary school teachers how [...]

Non-Profit Grant Writing Course

Grant Research/Writing
Free Grant Research/Writing Course online offered by Suite101.

Lesson 1: Introduction to the Process

Lesson 2: Searching for Funding

Lesson 3: Writing a Proposal

Lesson 4: Checklist

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E-Commerce Tutorial

As-Salaamu ‘Alaykum
Webmonkey, a Web Developing resource, has a FREE online E-Commerce Tutorial available.
These five easy lessons will show you how to create a realistic e-business plan, create your website, handle issues such as shipping, taxes, and shipping, as well as other important matters.
• Tutorial Overview
• Lesson 1
Making a plan
• Lesson 2
Sales techniques
• Lesson [...]