Janet Attard

About the author:

Janet Attard is an expert on home businesses, self-employment and working in a virtual world. She is the author of Business Know-How:An Operational Guide for Home-Based and Micro-Sized Businesses on Limited Budgets (Adams Media,) and The Home Office and Small Business Answer Book (Henry Holt & Company). Her company, Attard Communications, Inc., provides editorial content, community management services and web-enabled databases to business and government organizations. The company has been running home office and small business forums online since 1988 and is the creator of the popular Business Know-How Forum on America Online and the Business Know-How web site.



We were under the table–how talk about history?


How important is an 800 telephone number?


How can I get myself in front of the media?


Free Internet services companies successful?


Can you help me find funding?


How do I get name recognition within a community?


What should we expect as reasonable funding for our company?


Opening a handmade cosmetic store


Is it illogical to start a business similar to an established one?


How can we get business working capital?