This tells you a managers hot spots, his points of pain. These are frustrating tribulations that vex his day. If you can identify who's on red phone and what they're calling about, you've identified most pressing problems a manager deals with.

Of course, there likely isn't a real physical "Red Phone" -- but people know what you mean when you talk about it! Find out about these calls -- and you'll cut through all clutter to identify areas you should address. Spend your time and direct your efforts to solve these problems -- or even just ease them some -- and you'll have greatest chance of success.

Operating a business from your home provides you with opportunity to work business in your extra or spare time, and expand business only as it grows. By minimizing your start up cost and monthly expenses there exists less pressure for immediate success. Cutting costs and saving money in beginning provides you with more capital for expansion as well.

Owning and operating a small part-time, in-home, business provides you with insight as to whether or not you have self-discipline, attitude, determination, and confidence to run your own business. You have don't have to "risk it all" to find out if you have what it takes.

Once your business becomes profitable, then you can decide whether time is right to expand and convert your part-time business to a full-time business, and give up your career(s) or full-time job(s). Part-time, in-home businesses provide great opportunities for first time entrepreneurs.

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