Business At Home

Discover how to set up and run a successful home-based business. Find practical advice on workspace organisation, managing distractions, and balancing home and work life.

Designing Your Home Office
The vast majority of small business will invariably be started and run from home. If you intend to make your home a permanent base for your business, it's cr...
Fighting Isolation When Working at Home
Running your business form home has many advantages such as avoiding the daily commute, but many home workers can become isolated as they could have very lit...
How to Use Virtual Office Services
In today's commercial environment the image that your business projects is all important as your customers and business partners will want to deal with a pro...
Interview With Alex Johnson, Journalist and Shedworker
Alex Johnson is a journalist with extensive experience in designing, editing and publishing that Alex describes as a ‘portfolio career’. He is also known...
Interview With Emma Jones, Running a Home Based Business
Emma Jones is Founder of Enterprise Nation the premier home business website and author of ‘Spare Room Start Up – how to start a business from home’. A...
Maintaining a Work/Life Balance
How many hours a week do you work? It’s official that workers in the UK are at their desks for longer than their European counterparts. As an owner/manager...
Organising Your Space and Your Time
When you run your own business developing good organisational skills is essential. With a number of tasks pulling you in different directions it's easy to be...
Starting a Business on eBay
Founded in 1995, eBay now sports 157 million registered users, and currently has around 300,000 stores trading at any given time. Many people who have begun...