Off The Grid News Better Ideas For Off The Grid Living

If you’re blessed enough to be able to work from home, you know it has some great perks. Every day can be casual Friday. No long morning commutes or rush-hour traffic. But don’t be fooled. Working from home isn’t perfect. In fact, it presents some very unique challenges you’ll need to recognize in order to avoid them. Make sure you don’t fall prey to the some of these potential work-at-home pitfalls.

In our last column, we took profiled two families who found success as owners of community-based home businesses. Today we’ll look at another group of home-based entrepreneurs, real people making a decent living by using the medium of the Internet. For those wishing to sell their wares online, the Internet marketplace is no longer confined to just eBay alone. A newer kid in town, Etsy.com, is hot, hot, hot. Its popularity with both buyers and sellers is rapidly expanding each day. Etsy, an online artisan ...

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks exploring how to get ideas for your own home-based business. Are you pumped and ready to jump in with both feet? Today’s column will give you a great way to get started. For a low-investment, fast start-up kind of business, information products can’t be beat. What are information products? Strictly speaking, information products are ...

In our last column, I let you in on my #1 secret weapon for developing the best business ideas: how to “listen” to your customer base for product inspiration. Today we’ll discuss a few more proven ways to generate viable product ideas time and time again. Initially, it may feel like a waste of time talking about the steps to creating great ideas. You’re probably raring to go. I encourage you to...

Last time we talked about some of the leading trends in today’s marketplace. Today we’ll discuss some of the specific ways you can come up with your own "off the grid" product ideas. I started my company, Solutions From Science, with just one product. Since then, we’ve grown our line to dozens of products, and we’re always adding more into the mix. People often ask me how I come up with so many new ideas; today I’m going to give you an insider’s look into how I do just that.