Home-Based Company Owner Helps Small Business Become Stronger and More Savvy
By Home Business Magazine
Lynn Sarkany has been a home-based business owner since 1994. Along with Entrepreneurs Professionals, she also owns a home-based marketing consulting practice, MarketFinders.
Writer Creates Resources for Families Facing Eating Disorders
By Home Business Magazine
After 14 years of being a community volunteer and at-home mom, Becky Henry hired a coach to figure out what she wanted to do next. Coaching women in transition inspired her to start her home-based business. During coaching training, Becky’s oldest daughter became very ill with an eating disorder. An absence of parental help motivated Ms. Henry to create badly needed resources for other families facing these deadly illnesses.
Building Brands From Home
By Home Business Magazine
Arjun Sen has an Aeronautical Engineering undergraduate degree and an MBA. His career started at Pizza Hut Corporate marketing, and then to Boston Market and Einstein’s Bros. Bagels. Next, Arjun joined Papa John’s corporate office as VP of Marketing and Operations Services, where he maximized the power of a brand by making marketing and operations work together. According to Arjun, he was the consumer vision behind Papa John’s online which evolved to a billion-dollar business.
Start a Service Business Using Your Professional Skills and Talents
By C.J. Hayden
Are you cut out to be a consultant? Consulting to businesses and organizations can result in higher earnings than working as an employee, provide you with needed income if you are laid off, and allow you to work from home. But success as a consultant isn’t guaranteed. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how consultants work, the essential elements of starting a consulting practice, and how to land your first clients.
Entrepreneur shares his story of persistence to motivate people to not give up.
Brian S. Arrington was previously profiled in Home Business Magazine, back in 2001 (June issue). Up until last year, he still ran his own home-based entertainment business. He had become quite successful and was still a radio personality on a local radio station. Brian’s success in business had allowed him to purchase a home, and enabled his wife be a stay-at-home mom.
Thomas Myer, owner of Triple Dog Dare Media since 2001, has published a new book aimed at helping technical freelancers and consultants who are, willingly or not, striking out on their own in these troubled times. The book's focus is on surviving the first year in business, providing straight-up advice from someone who has survived nearly a decade in the trenches as a contractor, business owner, and software consultant.
When Times Get Tough and Jobs Dry Up, Do What Millions Do
C.J. Hayden, Mcc
An economic downturn may seem like the wrong time to start your own business, but layoffs and downsizing can create new opportunities for one breed of entrepreneur — the corporate consultant.