Start up a online business if you are looking for a low risk way to venture into a profitable niche market. A small start up online business is easier to manage and it gives an entrepreneur more room for expansion when they are ready to hurdle bigger challenges. However, no matter how small an online business is there are still difficulties, risks and uncertainties involved.
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While a large fraction of U.S. businesses are home-based, few small business owners take advantage of the home office tax deduction, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) statistics show.

Nearly six-in-ten new businesses, and more than half of established small businesses, are home-based, recent data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, a representative survey of e...Read More

When it comes to working remotely, it seems like people are divided into two ideological camps.

The first camp includes CEOs like Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer and HP’s Meg Whitman, who famously issued edicts last year that working from home is at the very least frowned upon. Collaboration, according to Mayer, comes from “working side by side.”Read More

(BPT) - About 16 million Americans work from home – a number that Global Workplace Analytics expects will increase by 63 percent over the next five years. In fact, every 12 seconds someone starts a new home-based business in the United States, according to Business for Home. Access to new technology, increased job flexibility and a higher earning potential are just some of ...Read More

The office isn't what it used to be.

Today, 2.8 million self-employed Americans work from home, while another 3.3 million workers consider their homes their primary workplace, even though many of their employers have corporate offices, according to Global Workplace Analytics, a San Diego-based research firm.

"Nearly half of the workforce...Read More

The 2.9m home-based entrepreneurs who trade in Britain are predominantly female, according to a report [PDF] from Enterprise Nation and Direct Line for Business.

Of those surveyed in the report, 64% were women, with the West Midlands boasting the highest concentration of female entrepreneurs at 83%. Young children were part of the picture, however only 28% of fem...Read More

Working from home doesn't mean sitting around in your pajamas all day and having to struggle to make ends meet.

In fact, some companies will pay their telecommuters six figures to work from the comfort of their own home.

FlexJobs, a subscription job board for people who want to telecommute, put together a list of the highest-paying work from ...Read More

A15-year-qualified solicitor tells the Gazette that she would rather ‘poke sharp sticks’ in her eyes than work from home. She would be isolated at home, she explains, with no colleagues to discuss a case with or share a rant. There would be no handy IT guru, either, for when the computer screen goes blank. And anyway, home is where she goes to be at home, not at work....Read More

Some of you may remember the days when finding a job involved searching through the newspaper or Pennysaver’s “Help Wanted” ads. The ad would often tell you how to apply; a resume sent via fax machine, maybe in-person, through the mail, or sometimes even over the phone. After you found jobs that piqued your interest, you would go to the library (or wherever ther...Read More

BANGALOR: As the international job market and World Wide Web continues to expand, it only makes sense that individuals looking for meaningful and lucrative work have more job options outside the nine-to-five schedule.

But if you’re not sure where to start in terms of finding an awesome position, it could just remain as a dream and not reality. So as the wor...Read More