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• Jul 25 2008

  

  Photos from the first leg of our book tour

  As Emma prepares to embark on the second leg of the tour to promote her first book, Spare Room Start Up: How to start a business from home, we thought we'd share photos of the people and places she's seen so far: they include John Hutton and Harriet Harman, London, Barrow-in-Furness, Croydon and Horesham.

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• Jul 25 2008

  

  Q&A with Aspire Planning & Design

  James Davis started his town planning business on a part time basis in February 2008. He now operates full time from the garage, is fast building a name for himself and just loves the luxury of watching ‘Homes under the Hammer.’ 

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• Jul 25 2008

  

  Report calls for changes in planning permission to allow home business to flourish

  Oh, hooray, hooray. A report just out called ‘Living Working Countryside’ authored by Matthew Taylor, MP for Truro, calls on the PM to adopt a more flexible approach to work-based extensions to homes. The report is seriously good reading for any home business operating in a rural area.

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• Jul 24 2008

  

  Extra gift for Home Business Couple of the Year

  If there weren’t enough prizes already for this year’s Home Business Award winners, we’re delighted to announce a new one. It’s from Return to Glory and is a gift that will have our Home Business Couple feeling relaxed and rejuvenated.

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• Jul 24 2008

  

  The Times is looking for a case study

  A journalist at The Times is looking to profile a home business that wants to expand from one space in the house to another. Could this be you?

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• Jul 24 2008

  

  3rd Places: The pub

  San Sharma's fallen out with Starbucks and into a place where everybody knows his name: the pub! Find out if there's any room at the inn for him and his home business and whether he managed to get any work done in his latest adventure working outside of the home office.

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• Jul 24 2008

  

  Ron keeps on rockin’

  Ron Hodgson started his first home business in the early seventies. Since then he’s run a sports goods manufacturing and mail order business, a construction advisory service, an antiques business and a photography business. And he’s here to offer his advice to us inexperienced ones.

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• Jul 24 2008

  

  How to Win at Telephone Tag

  We saw this feature and thought you’d like it. Written by Jeffrey Gitomer, author of ‘The Sales Bible’, the subject goes a bit like this: how can you get an appointment, discuss a business transaction, or close a deal if you can't get a return phone call? Jeffrey offers answers to get that call returned.

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• Jul 23 2008

  

  Q&A with Twins Store

  Having twins quite simply changed the lives of Nigel & Catherine Sanders, and for the better. They now have two beautiful children and a growing business. All three are taken care of from the comfort of home!

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• Jul 23 2008

  

  Website of the day: Aqilla

  Aqilla founders, Colin Christianson and Hugh Scantlebury, claim their web-based accounting software, Aqilla, was named after nothing more sinister than an available domain name and trademark. But their aspirations could make theirs 'a killer' app in what's becoming a competitive market.

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