May 15th, 2006
If you are going to start your own business it is a sound idea to get some expert advice where to start and what to expect. Keith Robinson, LifeHacker Editor, has shared his experience of starting his own company.
Below I list the key points of his article. The major conclusion is that once you run your company you should change the way of thinking: you should stop thinking and acting as an employee, you should take control of your career. It is a great responsibility. Here is the place for a good business plan before starting any business. And you should have a back up plan just in case your plan does not work out.
Well, I think you’d better read the original author and hope that you will find much valuable information to think over.
Here is a list of key statements you are likely to face once you become your own boss:
- Choose to change
- Work harder and smarter
- Don’t make excuses
- Master your time
- Get out of your comfort zone
- Communicate
- Lead by example
- Embrace risks
- Be flexible
- Own it!
- Don’t settle for average
- Stick up for your passions
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May 14th, 2006
Now you have chosen what to do for home business, arranged your home office and determined the product or service to offer. What is next? Sitting and waiting for customers to trickle in and for money to start flowing is one thing. The result can be different if you try to market your product.
There are several simple marketing methods to promote your business, including:
Word of mouth. One of the cheapest, most effective and easiest ways to represent your skills and mastery is by word of mouth. You can use a certain opportunity, why not a party, to announce what you are up to to the people that you know. You can find a humorous way to do that and say that you will appreciate if they place your advertisement in a foreign country every time they chance to visit it.
Internet advertisement. Another way of getting yourself in the spotlight is through various advertising Internet sites. If you are a freelancer, go to one of freelancing resources, form a resume (they usually have some aid for it) and leave it there for a potential employer to find and contact you.
Free branded samples. One of the marketing methods that are welcome by potential customers. If you are a freelancer, you can be helpful and do your first job at a discount. Or you can use a two-week trial period for your product. Or, you put your URL on the stationary that you give out or leave in coffee shops or local day centers.
Classified ads in local titles. You should not skip this opportunity, most local newspapers and magazines have a special section reserved for ‘home-business opportunities’ where you can advertise your business. Contact the editor and tell him/her that you have a home-biz running, you can jump into a limelight of a feature article or be in ‘a guest column’.
There are other ways to market and advertise yourself and they are limited only by your imagination.
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May 14th, 2006
Today is Mother’s Day and this article is a praise to those moms who have stepped onto the path of combining raising children and raising a home business and an inspiration for those who are going to.
Despite the fact that men are managing a home-business better and their ambitions lead them to expanding beyond their home-office – world-known stories include Bill Gates of Microsoft, Steve Jobs of Apple, Richard Branson of Virgin – success stories of mothers at home are also impressive and it is a strong tendency.
Do you know that the number of mom enterpreneurs in the US have doubled since the mid-1990 and now their ranks account for almost 8 million? That is a great step forward for those, who are to manage many different roles.
I have come across a beautiful website, which features women that launch at http://www.ladieswholaunch.com. It is a wonderful resources that presents women who have risked and attained their goals, their dreams have become a reality. They have pursued careers in different fields ranging from analytical writing to door-to-door selling of underwear and ended up founding their own business.
There are all kinds of stories here, but all of them are common in satisfaction and sense of achievement that is a reward to the women who ventured to go for it and developed their passions or hobbies. At first your idea may seem fragile and unlikely to be implemented, but as they say the best artist is not the one who paints like Picasso, but who is brave enough to reveal his/her own style.
The website offers you to join the Incubator, which is a training program for those who are ready to go out on their own and make their lives more fulfilling and creative. Meetings with and between women are organized in several cities around the US and you can learn the venue in your city at the website.
The subscription is free and you can post your own success story there to let the world know about your way of success, which so many work-from-home moms are hungry for.
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