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  • Not only are municipalities becoming sympathetic to home-business owners, but many neighbors are, too.

    Rise in Home-Based Businesses Tests Neighborliness Jennifer Levitz 2010

  • A prenup, lawyers say, can spell out how home-business assets would be divided if a marriage goes south.

    Saying Emily Glazer 2010

  • Not only are municipalities becoming sympathetic to home-business owners, but many neighbors are, too.

    Rise in Home-Based Businesses Tests Neighborliness Jennifer Levitz 2010

  • These are two powerful ways to get started in attracting clientele to your home-business.

    Karen Luniw: Does Law of Attraction Work for Getting Clientele? 2009

  • Many of them have to deal with home-business zoning ordinances and take on new insurance and marketing costs.

    Entrepreneurs Pack Up and Go Home 2009

  • On these Web sites, you'll be warned about useless home-business seminars; online malls that promise heavy customer traffic but don't deliver; online salespeople who offer to pay for leads but don't; and the poor potential of many a "business-in-a-box" (prepackaged Web-based sales ideas, marketed to lambs).

    Scam Busters On The Web 2008

  • Arise. com, with 8,000 home-business owners as agents, plans to add 4,000 more by year end, says Angie Selden, chief executive.

    Nice Work If You Can Get It: 2008

  • Last year the Arkansas Better Business Bureau reported that, while it received 6,192 calls inquiring about the legitimacy of a home-business pitch, only 95 were actual complaints.

    Home Is Where The Scam Is 2006

  • Of the myriad home-business schemes that are advertised, it's impossible to know just how many are ripoffs--mainly because most victims are too embarrassed to make formal complaints.

    Home Is Where The Scam Is 2006

  • James Dutton remained firm in his theory of the worthlessness of education beyond what, in a narrow acceptation of the term, was absolutely 'necessary;' and Anne Dutton, although now heiress to very considerable wealth, knew only how to read, write, spell, cast accounts, and superintend the home-business of the farm.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 440 Volume 17, New Series, June 5, 1852 Various 1841

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