I've been in business a little over 3 months now and I'm getting all nostalgic about the days when I sat at my workbench - dreaming about starting my own business and how fabulous it was going to be and how great it was going to be working for myself. Then reality set in and here I am - still working at my day job, spending more time promoting my business, and spending less time than ever creating jewelry. I do miss those halcyon days when it was all just about exploring my creativity. On one hand it's a good thing that I have a good back log of inventory to tide me over while I'm spending time promoting my business - that's when I'm being positive. Then when my darker, more negative nature takes over it dawns on me that I have lots of inventory that I haven't sold. I tell you - it's enough to drive me towards inaction. Luckily, I have resources that I can consult to help me in these early days of my business.

I don't know if you noticed that I've started a column called "Resources" on my blog. It's a place I like to park web sites that I feel contain invaluable information for me as a new business owner and they're just a "mouse click" away when I want to refer back to them.

My latest find is Entrepreneur.com (www.entrepreneur.com). Below is one of the articles that I read and would recommend to you:

10 Ways to Grow Your Homebased Business

By Rosalind Resnick

When the status quo just won't do anymore, these 10 ideas will help you take your home based business to a new level.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/homebasedbiz/growthoptions/article71910.html

I have no idea how people started new business' before the advent of the Internet. To me it's become a very valuable tool for me. It's where I promote and sale my jewelry in my on-line stores, , find arts and craft fairs to sale my jewelry in person, and most importantly, I love all the groups I have found where I can find support from people who are going or who have gone through what I'm going through - it's all made this experience a good one.

Now if I could only find "patience" on the Internet, I'll be set.