So, You Have a Home Based Business (Part 2)
A while back we addressed the "pros" of working from home. I find these outweigh the "cons", but some might not. As with everything you can be imaginative and create opportunities for yourself by turning a negative into a positive.
Some might view the following items as deterrents to working from home. (Please feel free to leave your comments. 
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- Some towns do not permit in-home offices or limit them to certain zones. (Usually this is not a problem unless you will be having many customers coming to your place of business and/or parking company vehicles on your premises)
- Will customers be visiting your business (home) and if so will it portray professionalism? (Many people run businesses from home these days, and the stigma of years ago appearing to be a small "Mom & Pop" shop are not the same. Most people will take the opportunity to meet with a client somewhere such as a coffee shop though - keeping personal and business separate)
- If a customer does come to your home business - what would happen if they became injured? How would your insurance be handled? (Another key component as to why people will meet their client’s offsite, and not on their premises.)
- Have you addressed how you would handle disaster recovery issues and strategies in the event of an earthquake, flood, or fires, etc.? (When you worked for "someone else" these may be items the company addressed behind the scenes and you may have been aware of them or not. Now, it’s up to you to have backups of all of your business documents offsite. In many situations you may be able to run your business on web based platforms that you can access from anywhere. Take some time and think your plan through and determine how you would operate in the event of an emergency.)
To read the balance of this article and the other 6 items, please continue here .
Until next time, J.
"Take control of your destiny or someone else will"
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May 16 2008 02:04 pm | Home Business Ideas and Wealth Strategies
