Home Office Tips and Hints — The Links

golf.jpgHere is this weeks edition of “The Links”. Hope you enjoy as we are including not only posts I found interesting, but posts and links from some of the people I interact with on twitter

Free Market Research for Your Home Based Business provides some great sources for doing market research for your home business.

Tips for making your press release shine online is from Enterprise Nation.

And another one from Enterprise Nation is Homeworking 2.0: Manage your online reputation.

A 2-inch home office billboard: the power of the business card comes to us from Chief Home Officer.

Looking to set up your own freelancing office at home, here is a good post on how to do that from Pro Freelance Blogger.

Working from home — the pros and cons includes a visit with Emma Jones of Enterprise Nation.

Floating shed is an interesting idea from one of my favorite blogs, Shedworking.

Advice on running your business from a Chinese Master is another one this week from Sparkplugging.

And there is a new social networking site for those in a home based business, Advice on Home Business.

And to add a little humor in this weeks Links and because Cody is also from Kansas, here is Cody Heitschmidt’s wife and daughter flying off an inner tube.

Why using only single opt-in is dangerous for you is from one of those blogs you really should be reading, ISIPP.

A little more humor for this week is at hey, I resemble that remark!!

A topic I have discussed before and something being discussed on twitter too is ghost writers. So, they just don’t get it, do they? ghost in the machine… is a timely post from my friend Sparky Firepants.

12 new rules of working you should embrace today is a must read.

If you are not using a mindmap, you should be. Here is a good post on how to create a master map — and boost your productivity.

5 ways to leverage StumbleUpon for small business owners is from Home Office Web Tools.

Home office vacation policies provides some guidelines for taking that vacation we all should be taking more often.

And now some from my twitter friends

@nancymkLessons we can learn from Michael Phelps.

@themarketingguylocal search: why its important for your business.

@esquiremacI have a thing for Things.

@SCartierLiebelSocial Media is your business future.

@StephKimbroAdvertising a Virtual Law Office — setting up your VLO Web site or blog.

That is it for this week. Get me your suggestions for links for next week’s edition. And if anyone would like to host the Home Office TIps and Hints…Links on their own blog, let me know. It might be fun to spread this around and turn it into our own little “carnival”. We won’t call it that, but you get the idea.

Home Office Tips and Hints — The Links

“The Links” this week is being hosted by Halo Secretarial Blog which is published by Laurie Mapp. Laurie can also be followed on twitter at @halosecretarial.

Take a trip over to Halo Secretarial Blog and read, The Links. And thanks Laurie for doing such a great job this week hosting it.

If anyone else would like to host “The Links” just let me know. You can leave a comment on this post or drop me an email at, grant@g2webmedia.com.

Ask the Readers — What is your best tip?

This weeks edition of Home Office Tips and Hints — The Links will be hosted by @halosecretarial at her great blog Halo Secretarial Which will be wonderful in that it will provide all of you with a different look at some different links from someone other than me.

However, I am not going to let any of you off the hock that easy. In order to make this week’s edition even bigger and better, with Laurie’s edition of “The Links”, I thought we would do a “Reader’s Best Tip” post too.

So, submit your best tip you would give someone brand new to the home office world. Something you would have really liked to have known when you first started working from a home office. No holding back either. Any tip will work. Leave your comments here or drop me a direct message on twitter at @grantgriffiths

What I will do is than take all of the tips provided either in the comments to this post or on twitter and make a post including them all. Not only will your tip be featured, you will get linkage too. And if you have more than one tip, don’t stop with one. Lets get the conversation going.

Home Office Tips and Hints - The Links

golf.jpgHere is this weeks edition of “The Links”. Hope you enjoy as we are including not only posts I found interesting, but posts and links from some of the people I interact with on twitter

Making a home office professional is from Improving Your World

15 abilities you must have to get out of the rat race come to us from Sparkplug CEO

8 tips for creative solopreneurs is from one of the blogs you should have in your RSS reader, Freelance Switch

Twitter for small business - the solo practitiioner is from another great blog, Build a Solo Practice, LLC. And I have said before, even those this blog is targeted to solo law practices, the content really applies to a wider audience. Check it out if you have not already.

Google’s “appreciated gesture” drives record sales of Spanning Sync is Spanning Sync answer to Google introducing CalDAV support. I have been using Spanning Sync for some time now and it is a great way to keep your iCal sync’d with your Google calendar.

Five life-changing mistakes and how I moved on is a great post from SmartNow

Drafting vs. editing and Google docs is from another blog you should be subscribed to, Another Think To Do

More than blog is my own way to self-promotion and is from one of my own blogs, Blog for Profit

Giving it away is from another one of the blogs you should be subscribed to, Rick Mahn social web + the enterprise

How to write for the new media is a very timely post from The Puck Writes

Taking the homeworking test is from another blog you have to be subscribed to, Enterprise Nation

RSS: the shipping container of the Internet is another great take on the bloggers and blog readers tool, RSS and is from RSS4Lib

Four years of masterminding: nothing short of amazing is another timely post since there has been so much talk lately about forums, membership sites and mastermind groups and is from WAHM2.0

How to create a virtual office is also from my friend Emma Jones founder of Enterprise Nation

Evernote: why it will make it & 20 awesome ways to use it is about one of the new tools you really should be using. This post is from The Inquisiter

Building a company from scratch with Linkedin recommendations is about the great networking tool, Linkedin

And a few from my twitter friends:

@FatFighterMaking a healthy difference: better school food

@halosecretarialParalegal/legal assistant confidentiality

@markdavidgerson Whose book are you writing?

That is it for this week. Get me your suggestions for links for next week’s edition. And if anyone would like to host the Home Office TIps and Hints…Links on their own blog, let me know. It might be fun to spread this around and turn it into our own little “carnival”. We won’t call it that, but you get the idea.

Home Office Tips and Hints — The Links

HarbonTown.jpgHere is this week version of “The Links”. Once again, if you have links for next week’s edition, get them to me. You can email them to me at grant@g2webmedia.com

First of all, I have a couple of links I wanted to make sure we highlighted and than we have another group of links from some of those who I follow and follow me on twitter.

Home Office Highway has the financial recap, part 1 where we get a first look at how it all worked out for the “road trip”.

A mobile office for people who work from home is from Keeping the Castle

twitter links:

@mfartr Using custom .htassess file with Wordpress

@DivinePurposeMV See how easily you can shift your negative expectations

@SCartierLiebel Are you suffering from brain drain?

@AprilTara Laptop Bag Giveaway

@thomasclifford Story. What the heck is it?

@lisasolomon Want to Hear Scalia Talk About Legal Writing

@wiredprworks Branding Transportation: Moveable platform or an inplace podium?

@GayleTrent Cake Wrecks

@halosecretarial Lawyers and staff laid-off - go virtual!

That is it for this week. Get me your suggestions for links for next week’s edition. And if anyone would like to host the Home Office TIps and Hints…Links on their own blog, let me know. It might be fun to spread this around and turn it into our own little “carnival”. We won’t call it that, but you get the idea.