Is a successful business from home on your “to-do-list”?

Running your own Successful Business from home is not for everyone, but most people at some point in their life have given the idea some consideration.

It provides many things that a regular job cannot, and if you run the business alongside your regular job, you can have the best of both worlds. The biggest challenge in running your own Successful Business from home is not in the actual running of it.

Where most people struggle is in choosing what kind of business to run!

With that being said, there are still important aspects of any business that need to be dealt with effectively for your business to become successful. Take care of these things to help create the success you want for your business.

Enjoy what you do

If you find yourself NOT enjoying what you do, find out what you don’t enjoy, fix it, forget it, change it, or get someone else to do it. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it’s just a matter of time before you quit.

This is not like a job where someone tells you what to do and how to do it. ALL the choices are yours when you run your own business. Choose a different strategy, make a decision, take action, and move on.

It’s all about leveraging your passions. When you find that point of leverage, “miracles” will happen.

Keep your overhead costs low

Working from home is hard to beat in terms of low overhead—no rent to pay, no commute, no staff either. The lower your overhead, the quicker you get into profit.

There are many articles and advice you can find on the web on how to control your finances.

Start day one to monitor all your expenses. When it all starts to roll, the number of transactions with money going out and also coming in will speed up. If you lose track of your financial status and your cash flow, you can run into problems.

Charge the maximum amount the market will accept

The best time to increase your rate/prices is when you’re doing well. To keep loyal customers, have a modest increase each year for existing clients. Every other business does it. Taxes go up. Food goes up. Gasoline goes up, and so should your rates/prices.

Make the increase at the same time each year. Tell them ahead of time to expect it.

Always charge NEW clients/customers higher rates from the start. Charge the maximum you can. If you’re providing outstanding service, nobody will mind paying for it.

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Be efficient with your time

Always be looking to increase your efficiency. If you can increase your efficiency, your profits will increase. It’s easy to waste time when you work from home, and time IS money when you run a successful business from home.

How much?

Divide your weekly profits by the number of hours worked to find out your hourly rate. If your earnings for the week are $250 and you serviced 10 clients, you are worth $25 an hour.

Or, if your average fee per client is $25: If it takes on average one hour to service each client, you are worth $25 per hour.

If a client keeps you talking for 30 minutes after the appointment is over, that chat has cost you about $12.50. You would be no worse off if you had charged half price and left on time.

To follow the Pareto 80/20 principle is an easy but efficient rule to apply to squeeze out a maximum of a day.

Be both persistent and consistent

Whatever you do, always be consistent and persistent. For example, if you generally call clients ahead of time to check that they are ready, always call.

If you take 30 minutes between appointments for lunch on the run, always take 30 minutes.

If you tell clients that bookings run from Wed to Saturday, always book on those days. Be consistent. Don’t allow clients to infringe on your free time.

ALWAYS be persistent. If you follow up with anyone for anything, like a bank, clients, suppliers, IRS office, or whatever, be PERSISTENT. Keep at it until it is resolved to your satisfaction. Don’t let things slide. They have a habit of accumulating.

The bottom line is: the tighter you run the business, the better service you’ll provide, the more satisfied clients you’ll attract, the more profit you’ll make, and the more fun and free time you’ll have. Plus, you’ll enjoy more satisfaction and fulfillment.

If you’re running your business alongside your regular job, it’s important to create and maintain a routine to ensure that your business doesn’t interfere with your job and vice-versa.

The business doesn’t have to be huge to become meaningful. If you could make a modest $250 a week profit, working part-time from home, that would be an extra $1000 a month into the family budget. Would that make a difference for you and your family?

Shortcut to a Successful Business from Home 

There are indeed no shortcuts to a successful business from home. But you can take advantage of systems and platforms that already exist, not have to start from square one.

Of course! It’s not always the case, but often you can grow a small, home-based business to allow you to quit your full-time job eventually. If that is something that might interest you over time, it will benefit you, to begin with, the end in mind.

What’s most important is not to get everything right, but to get started. You can adjust and adapt as you go, but most importantly, it is just to GET GOING. You’ll be glad you did!

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