Starting a Home Based Business
Setting Up A Company
So you've written all your plans, you've got any financing you need, and you're all ready to set up your business. Uh, wait a minute... how do you do that?
Company Law Jargon Buster
Company law is full of confusing terms, and if you don't know what they mean then setting up a company can start to look far more scary than it really should be. Read through this jargon buster and you should find it much easier to understand what starting up is all about.
Top 5 Home Based Business Set-Up Mistakes
When you're starting a home based business, it's all too easy to make mistakes -- after all, you've never done this before. Fortunately for you, though, you can learn from others' errors, by making sure you don't do any of these things.
Putting A Work Area In Your Home
When you work from home, one of the hardest things to get right is knowing where to do your work. In your bedroom? In a special home office? Well, here are a few pointers.
Working And Living: Don't Blur The Lines
When you're at home all the time, people have a way of giving you everything to do, with no regard for your job. It can be very hard indeed to keep your family life separate from your business when you work at home -- in fact, this is one of the most common reasons home businesses fail, and their owners come away all too glad to get back to the corporate grindstone.
Working Alone: Who'd Have Thought You'd Miss Your Co-Workers?
Remember co-workers? Those annoying people who you're forced to share an office with -- some of them friends, but most of them insufferable. If you're anything like me, one of reasons for starting a home based business was to get away from these people.
Safety In The Home Workplace
One of the most ignored aspects of working at home is safety. Business offices go to all sorts of lengths to avoid any injury or harm to their workers (they don't want to get sued, after all). Meanwhile, you might not even know that it's possible to injure yourself with nothing more than office equipment. If you're going to avoid a lot of pain in your future, you need to read up on home office safety now.
Don't Forget Yourself: Surviving The Financial Strain
When you start a home based business, it's all too easy to get carried away by all your new obligations: keeping your customers happy, earning enough money to live, and so on. Being in such an uncertain financial situation is stressful, but many home based business owners simply ignore this stress, instead of dealing with it.
The Secrets Of Pricing
An often-neglected part of home based business is the pricing of your services. You know what you can do, you know there's a market for it, but do you know how much you can get away with charging, without putting the customers off?
A Guide To Advertising In The Media
The media is a powerful thing -- the average person spends an enormous amount of their life consuming it in one form or another, and will spend a significant percentage of that time looking at, listening to or watching advertisements. If you want to use the power of the media, though, you need to know what you're doing.
Guerrilla Marketing: A Cheaper Alternative
So you've spent an enormous amount on advertising in the media and got very little response -- or maybe you were scared enough by the prices that you never put the ads there to begin with. You're annoyed at how expensive it is to get even the simplest and smallest ad in front of anyone, and how useless the whole thing seems to be.
Hardware And Software: Using IT In Your Business
There's almost no-one nowadays who doesn't have a computer -- it's more-or-less a given that you've got a computer in your home office, and that you use it almost every day. But are you getting as much out of it as you could be?
Setting Up A Website For Your Home Based Business
There are very few businesses these days that don't have websites, and as a home based business your website is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. A good website can really work for you, but you need to know what you're doing.
The Art Of E-Commerce
So you've got your website, and people can email you about your products and services. The next step, if your home based business is suitable, is to start selling them directly online.
Computer And Internet Glossary
Computer-related things tend to have a language all their own, and while you don't need to know all of it, there are many confusing words and phrases that you're going to come across sooner or later. Here's a quick primer.
Trademarks And Copyrights
So you've put all this work into your business: you've got a name, you've made some marketing materials, even written some things for your customers. If you don't want your competitors to be able to take what you've done and exploit it, though, you're going to need to take some steps to protect yourself.
Finding Who You Need: Advisors, Accountants and More
When you run a home based business, there are all sorts of professionals whose services you need. They are often indispensable, saving you two or three times what they cost. But what do you need, and how do you know who to choose?
Putting It In Writing: Contracts For Customers
When you're dealing with customers, sometimes things can go wrong. It might be your fault, it might be their fault or it might be no-one's fault -- but if you didn't make a contract, then you'll all suffer.
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