Expert guides for your success
Whether you’re just starting out with your work at home business or you’ve had a home business for many years, you’ll need to stay motivated if you’re going to see continual success.
For many parents, the idea of running a business that fits in with family life and makes enough for a decent life is a distant dream. For some it’s a raw subject of failure, and for others, they are living the dream.
Are you about to start working from home, or start a home-based business and don’t know what items you need to purchase to help you be as effective as possible in your new work environment?
Here are some must-haves that every home office should have:
Are you all set to embark on a new business, be it online or something more traditional? If so, good for you. However, before you take the plunge, take a little time to step back and make sure you’ve really done your homework on your industry and competitors.
Setting up a home office is relatively simple – you decide which part of your home you want to work in, set your working hours and get started.
But what if you have some company…a new baby to join you? Here are some tips to make it work:
Working from home has become the reality for millions of people around the world, thanks to the internet. Our mum friends in the US have taken a lead on this, and it’s not uncommon to find a mother homeschooling her children while running a home-based business at the same time.
If you’re looking for a way to generate money doing just that (homeschooling aside), there are three models you can use to keep a steady flow of cash coming through:
Setting up a home office is one of the first milestones that lets you – and the rest of the family – know that you mean business. You’re not just spending hours on your laptop surfing or Facebooking, but are actually doing something tangible.
But you don’t need to spend thousands to do it – unless you choose to, of course. If you want to get the basics right and build on from there (or expand as your business grows), here are some tips on choosing office furniture:
Starting a business is exciting and nerve-wracking. Doing it right will mean taking on a lot of responsibilities and making a lot of sacrifices. It will also mean working harder than you ever have before…but you knew that already, didn’t you?
For these reasons (among others), running a business is not for everyone. If you don’t have the right skills work ethic and commitment to operate a business, you’ll be in trouble before you make your first sale.
Setting up a new business is something that can be very exciting, but it can also be a daunting process in a number of ways.
One of the most worrying prospects that people face when setting up a new business is the potentially crippling set-up costs that may be involved.
Many a successful company starts with just one person, who creates an illusion of being a lot bigger than they really are.
But when the first big contract comes in, you can change your fortunes. The only problem is, when it’s just you doing the day-to-day admin, providing the products and/or services; it can be a challenge to make big clients think you’re worth working with.
Here are some things you can do:
Are you thinking of starting a business but don’t know whether to set up as a limited company or declare self-employed income to the taxman?
Are you new to the business world and getting confused with all this talk about having to do marketing and advertising for your business? Fear not, this article will help to demystify the two.
While the two sound similar, advertising and marketing are not the same thing.
Working from home is a way of life for many small business owners. A great solution to juggling family and work responsibilities, self-employment also comes with the benefit of flexible hours.
However, when your business begins to grow, the home office isn’t always the best place to receive potential clients. One option is to rent service do spaces.
For work at home parents, the extra space needed for an office might seem impossible.
It’s difficult enough to live in the homes we have (with just enough areas to eat, sleep and relax) without needing a quiet, self-contained space to get work done.
There are many entrepreneurs today who have set up a business from home selling items that they make or customise themselves. Anything from iPhone covers to jewellery can be turned into a profitable business through sites such as eBay and Etsy. But if you’re thinking of starting a creative business where do you start?
There are few – if any – roles in life harder than being a single mother. Looking after and caring for a child is hard enough, let alone doing so with the added burden of having to earn to make ends meet. Then there’s the fact that for many single mothers, these roles have to be done individually.
Offline marketing methods are still important to small businesses. Even with all the hoo ha about social media, if you’re trying to target a local audience, then things like flyers, brochures, business cards etc still work!
However, the best-produced brochure on the planet is going to be useless unless it is distributed effectively. So what is the key to effective distribution?
If I had a pound for every mum who thinks her lack or technical understanding, skill or knowledge means she cannot start an online business, I’d be writing this from a beach I own somewhere on an island only I knew existed.
If that’s what you’ve been telling yourself, get ready for a complete transformation of your thinking!
Having an online business that only you, your friends and family know about is like having a shop in the middle of nowhere that people only come across by accident.
You want get enough traffic, let Lone make those all-important sales and soon it will become very demotivating indeed.
Once you have started your business, the next thing that you are going to want to do is to advertise your product or service so that you can get more customers. If you leave it to word of mouth only at the beginning, business will likely be slow and this can be demotivating and financially crippling,
Most small businesses have a very limited (or non-existent) advertising budget. If that shoestring is so thin and you really can’t afford to pay out for much-needed advertising, here are some free and cheap ways to advertise your business online.
