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.

By Home Business Magazine

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.

By Thomas Myer

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.