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		<title>Tips for Beginning Craft Designers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professional crafts designer Lisa Galvin offers practical and motivational tips for how beginning crafts designers can get started in this industry. She emphasizes the importance of joining professional organizations to meet the individuals who will help you up the ladder of success. Includes links to several resources.]]></description>
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		<title>How Life Leads Us</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed how life leads us in new directions when we least expect it? A step in any new direction will automatically set in motion a chain of events that could change and enrich not only your life, but the lives of your family and friends as well.]]></description>
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		<title>Scrapbook Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 03:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To get started on the right foot in a homebased scrapbook business at home, you need the right industry and marketing information and contacts.]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Tips for Hobby Sellers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For tax purposes, you must decide whether you're going to operate as a hobby business or a "real business."]]></description>
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		<title>Business Name Registration</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the U.S., registration of a business operated under any name other than your own is required by law because a fictitious name must be connected to the name of an individual who can be held responsible for the actions of a business.]]></description>
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		<title>Licenses and Permits</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a home business license or permit is required and you operate without it, you run the risk of discovery, which could lead to a fine or an order to cease your business.]]></description>
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		<title>Adjusting Your Attitude</title>
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You Can&#8217;t Ignore the &#8220;Nitty-Gritty Legal Stuff&#8221;
Creative people rarely want to hear this, but a certain amount of “nitty-gritty legal stuff” goes hand in hand with even the smallest homebased business. There’s no sense in starting a business if you’re not going to pay attention to all the rules and regulations that apply to even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Business Journal</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping a written record of your crafts business journey will pay big dividends as time passes. Here are tips for how to do this.]]></description>
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		<title>Zoning Laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven't done it already, learn where you stand by reading a copy of your community's zoning regulations.]]></description>
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		<title>Home Business Family Issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any business run at home will be stressful at times, but much more so if you don't have support and encouragement from those you love.]]></description>
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