Why bother with a home business credit card ? Well…..from a tax and accounting perspective it is important to separate your personal income from your business income.

This also applies if you have multiple businesses. Keep a separate set of accounts for each business.

Once you have separate accounts setup, accounting for all the revenue and costs for your businesses becomes a whole lot easier.

The same applies to your credit card (or cards). Don’t make the mistake of putting your business expenses on a your personal credit card.

Having a separate credit card is handy for any home based internet business. Most of the products for sale online today require a credit card for payment. This especially applies if your advertising with the larger PPC programs link Adwords.

We run three separate accounts for our online home business: Read the rest of this entry

Here’s a couple of older posts on an interesting topic.

Most people know about house flipping. Probably not an easy business right now but the principal is the same for limited edition eBay flipping.

First you buy limited editions of prints or fashion items at a sale – then sell them on eBay for a profit.

Here are a couple of links providing more background. Read the rest of this entry

There are a few opportunities which deliver true residual income and a VoIP home based business is one of them.

So what is VoIP ? VoIP stands for Voice over IP. Simplified it is the means by which voice (& images) are transferred over the internet.

Instead of making a phone call on your home phone (landline), you can call people from your computer or one of a number of special phones which use the internet instead of a regular phone line. Read the rest of this entry

If you like meeting people, have a design flair and enjoy decorating, then a home staging business could be for you.

Home staging is the process of redecorating a house prior to sale, to ensure it appeals to largest cross section of buyers and gets the highest possible price.

Entrepreneur Magazine has rated this as one of the hot opportunities for the year, and with exposure on HGTV’s Designed To Sell and A&E’s sell this house, the general market is more receptive to home staging proposals. Read the rest of this entry

The change to the Adsense privacy policy in latest Google TOS is the item which requires action from the largest number of Adsense publishers.

If you are an Adsense publisher, you would have recently been advised of Google’s updates terms of service for Adsense. There is an excellent description of the wider changes on Jim Karter‘s site.

While most of the changes are more ‘for your information’ there is one which has required some action from us and I’m guessing a lot of other publishers.

The Adsense team have re-enforced the requirement for sites displaying Adsense to display a privacy policy. They have also been quite specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to: Read the rest of this entry