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It is important for a home business owner to come up with ideas. How to generate ideas? The best and most effective way is to use mind maps. Mind map is “the whole-brain alternative to linear thing. it reaches out in all directions and catches thoughts from any angle.” (- Michael Michalko, Cracking Creativity). If you don’t know much about it or how to use it, there are some extra readings for you:

Drawing mind maps on a piece of paper is fun. It really helps come up with brilliant ideas, find inspired solutions to any problem and set goals. However, sometimes it would be better to have the maps saved in a digital format and share it with other people. There are several mind mapping software available in the market, but most of them are not free and the functions are not completely satisfactory. But here came Exploratree–

Exploratree is a web-based application that allows the user to create mind maps, or to organize ideas and thoughts in a visual manner. The service is for free. There are a lot of ready-to-use templates for the user to start creating from the scratch. Users can share it as a group project. Users can save and print the created mind maps easily as well.

Let’s take a look at one of the many templates.

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I think it is a great resource for any home business owners of self-employed people to start using it to get ideas, to move ahead with innovative thoughts and plans. Well, of course, the next step, and more importantly, is to put the ideas into action.