By Stephen Bucaro

They say, if you can't figure out how to do something with your computer, ask a teenager. While computers intimidate adults, they seem to pique curiosity of children. This computer curiosity starts at a very young age.

Some Web entrepreneurs have learned how to profit from this young audience - by creating children's ebooks. If you can tell stories that are interesting to children, you can tap this market too.

An important component of a children's ebook is pictures. If ebook is written for preschoolers, artwork should be built from basic shapes with bold colors. If written for older children, pictures don't have to be of professional artist quality, but they must be interesting.

Children's ebooks should be designed to teach reading. Woven within story should be additional learning about history, geography, mathematics or science. Most importantly, your story should teach a moral lesson. This will please parents, who are, after all, ones who will pay for ebooks.

How to start a children's ebook business:

- Create a Web site that is attractive to, and usable by children.

- Provide free access to beginning of each story. This gets child involved and curious to learn what happens in rest of story. Curious enough, we hope, to convince mom or dad to pay a small fee to download entire story in an ebook.

- Each ebook should contain beginning of another story and a link to download page for that ebook.

Operating a home-based business has many benefits as you already know, but its main drawback is that it often causes line between your work and your personal life to become permanently blurred. Unlike those individuals who work outside home and who know their day at office ends when they get in their car and start commute home, home business operators do not usually have a definite end to their day. The reverse situation is also possible: they may not have a definite start to their day either. If you have a hard time breaking free of your work responsibilities or if you sometimes have trouble settling in to tackle them, these tips will help you bring both aspects of your life into equilibrium.

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If your work computer is in living room where everyone in family congregates, chances are you are being bombarded by distractions. Plus, when it is time for you to relax, you may find it difficult with computer right there as a constant reminder of all work you still need to finish and all of communications you still need to respond to.

The answer is to set aside an area of your home just for work. If you have an office or an extra bedroom where you can set up your space, then you can block out distractions simply by shutting door. Also avoid putting anything in your home office that might prevent you from getting your work done, such as a television.

If you don't have an entire room to dedicate to your office, move your computer and materials into a room that is rarely used or that is normally unoccupied when you need to be working, such as a bedroom. Once you have separated your home from your office, you will find it easier to stay focused on your work but also to leave your work in its space so you can relax and enjoy remainder of your home.

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