Put a smoke detector and a fire extinguisher in the room you work in. That is not the advice anybody expects from a home business article, and the reasoning behind it is entirely practical: fire protection lowers what your insurance costs, and a decent desk and keyboard save your back across years of sitting at them.
The rest of the collection stays standard without being lazy. Set aside a stretch of time nobody is allowed to interrupt, then defend it. Take payment on your own site instead of making people ask how. Do not try to run any of this for nothing at all, because the things worth paying for are the things that produce something back.
One post suggests selling second hand books out of the house as a way of starting with what you already own.
Nineteen collected articles across home business, search, email and mobile. Useful as a checklist while you set things up, and of much less use afterwards.