Liza Porteus Viana

FOXBusiness.com regularly features profiles of people doing business from home, and making it work.

The food industry relies very heavily on word-of-mouth marketing and recommendations--making it important for small business owners in the field to join in and even start the conversation. And many are finding the best way to do this is with social media.

Many businesses have started out of necessity: someone needed a product, couldn’t find it and decided to fill the market void themselves. But before launching your own company there are several questions wanna-be entrepreneurs should ask. 

Tips from a successful Mary Kay Cosmetics independent beauty consultant on starting a business and making it work.

With the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq coming home soon, more retiring military personnel are coming back looking for jobs in a flailing economy. And some are finding opportunities: in franchises. 

A multitude of women say they are finding that the skills honed in careers prior to having children - particularly if they have marketing, content, or communications backgrounds - are coming in handy when looking for ways to continue earning a paycheck while staying home with their children.

While some say having pets around the home office provide a soothing element that keeps one sane when dealing with multiple deadlines and various other work stresses, others warn that one has to work to keep the animal distractions at a minimum to be productive. Is there a just-right balance?.

Tips for the self-employed on how to file taxes this year.

The holiday season is upon is, which means also decking the halls are plenty of deals on gadgets for your home office.