Editorial Profile & Calendar:  Home Business Magazine (print version)

Designed to complement its display advertising, HOME BUSINESS® Magazine’s (HBM) editorial foundation covers both the start-up and operation of home-based businesses and subjects of interest to home office workers and telecommuters. Editorial includes a cover story feature each issue and more cutting edge articles broken down into these major print magazine departments and sections:

Marketing and Sales: Whether a start-up or a business veteran, each issue of HBM provides innovative and proven techniques to maximize our readers marketing and sales efforts. HBM addresses advertising creative that sells, customer communications, Internet marketing techniques, direct marketing, publicity, networking, negotiating, and selling tactics.

The Home Office: It takes significant planning to maximize productivity in a home office environment. Determining the best way to utilize space, setting up an office, projecting a “big business” image, minimizing overhead, selecting equipment and supplies, IT and networking, communication technology, computers and software, working smarter, and finding the balance between your home office and home life are covered in HBM.

Money Corner: A solid financial foundation is required for start-up and long-term business viability. Raising venture and business capital, obtaining financing, accepting all forms of payment, setting prices, tax planning, credit management, and handling collections…these subjects and more are covered in HBM’s Money Corner.

Businesses and Opportunities: From self-evaluation of your current business, reinvigorating a long-term business, and surviving a business setback to choosing a business and structure that will provide start-up success, HBM showcases the trends and opportunities that will provide our readers with the roadmap to financial achievement. Articles cover business start-up and growth and special business subject areas.

Telecommuters’ Corner: Recognizing the growth in telecommuting and working remotely, HBM devotes special coverage to the needs of teleworkers with our special Telecommuters’ Corner. This section provides an additional link with home office products and services advertising.

News and Reviews: Important items hot off the newsstand including home business news, legislative issues, health tips, economic news, and industry studies along with online business courses, new product reviews, and book reviews.

Celebrity Interviews: Each issue HBM features an interview with a celebrity or well-known personality. They all have wisdom to share with HBM Readers, on how to better operate a business, achieve more business success, work smarter, and improve oneself.

EDITORIAL CALENDAR FOR UPCOMING COVER STORY FEATURES**
Each issue of HBM contains a cover story feature on a key subject of wide interest to magazine readers. These subjects also require more detail than can be provided from just a regular article in one of HBM’s departments.

November/December 2008 – 100+ Low Cost Businesses: Directory Tables with Complete Business Details.  Fight the Economic Downturn in 2009 with One of These Easy-to-Start Businesses.

January/February 2009– Home-Based Success: Trends that Will Impact the World of Home Business in 2009.

March/April 2009 – Annual 350+: Directory Listing Table of Home-Based Businesses and Franchises You Can Start in 2009. Provides start-up information including points of contact, descriptions of businesses and franchises, training and support provided, investment requirements, etc. 

May/June 2009 – Sales and Productivity Tune-Up: How to Use the Internet and Technology to Increase Sales and Productivity in 2009. Highlights the key areas for home-based entrepreneurs to focus on in 2009 including home office tools, equipment, and linking one’s business operations and marketing with the Internet, to gain a competitive advantage.

July/August 2009 – The Millionaires Working Next Door.  Success Profiles on 10+ Home-Based Entrepreneurs Who Have Attained 7 Figures in Yearly Sales. Discover the measures these entrepreneurs took and the skills they possessed that helped them attain the highest income levels working from home

September/October 2009 – Countdown to a Home-Based Success.  Start-Up Guide Of Ten Steps To Start, Manage, Expand, And Profit From A Home Business.  Insightful information for both new and experienced home business owners.

November/December 2009 – 125+ Consulting Businesses: Extensive Directory of Exciting Home-Based Consulting Businesses that Serve Businesses and Individuals.

** Please Note That A Planned Cover Story Feature Could Change.

The editorial at HBM ONLINE is structured in a similar manner as the magazine, with editorial placed in Channels accessed from web pages. Updated daily, HBM Online provides the internet’s most extensive resource of articles and information on the world of home business.