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    What Is The Biggest Obstacle You Face When Starting A Home Business?

    So you want to start a home business?

    When you look at starting a home business as a new entrepreneur, you look at all the things you need to do to get started.

    Website

    Sales Pages

    Traffic

    Product creation

    Design graphics

    Social media

    Funnels – what are funnels?!

    All the other requirements like taxes, books, government regulations and so on ..

    All you want to do is find the customers who need your solution to their problem or what they desire…..

    All the equipment or technology you need to create a functioning business can seem like the biggest obstacle to starting a home business but it is not the biggest obstacle.

    The biggest obstacle to starting a home business is YOU!

    Paralysis

    Your brain will get overwhelmed by all the “things” you have to do in your business.

    Your Mind is powerful and it is great at collecting knowledge from here, there and everywhere.

    But that can be overwhelming and cause “Paralysis Analysis.”  You will become overwhelmed by all the information and get STUCK. What should I do next?!

    Well… take a deep breath ..and make a step by step checklist of what you need to do and cross it off as you do it.

    Perfectionism

    Don’t try to be Perfect.

    Perfectionism can also cause paralysis in terms of “waiting” till I get this done and it takes longer than you thought and suddenly, it has been three months of you trying to perfect a sales page.

    Imperfect Action is better than no Action.

    Perfect is unattainable so don’t even try for Perfect. Just Perfect Enough to get moving!

    The Next Best Thing

    There is no quick way to make money with a home business. It is about building a business that has systems in it to keep the cash flowing. So always following the newest idea on how to make the cash flow will get you into chasing the quick money instead of a business. It is called the “Bright Shiny Object” syndrome and the promise of the “NEW” has always moved people to buy but you don’t want to move “off your path” chasing rainbows, you want to be focused on a path to your business such that you can see how it works.

    The Business of At Home Business Membership

    As an entrepreneur working in home business, I have (and still know) known the challenges of being in home business so I have developed a Membership to help others get their home business started quicker and easier.

    Check it out at  The Business of At Home Business here.

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    Do You Want To Start A Home Business In Your Community

     

    Today we’re going to be talking about some of the things you have to think about when you’re before you start your business. And some of the actual research you have to do before you start your business. So first off we’ll be talking about starting a home business and picking a business. And today it’s all about offline. So we’re going to be talking about local business and working out if your home office and there are many ways you can do that.

    There are some restrictions obviously to what you can do from your own home office. You can check with your local authority on what kind of businesses are allowed as a home business in your community. For example we don’t really have hairdressers. We don’t have car shops. We don’t have you know auto body shops. We don’t have various other ones basically things that make noise and smells because of course you have to think about your neighbors which we’ll talk about another time when it comes to offline.

    But in terms of home businesses and what one you might be interested in, one of the recommendations I would say is that try to do something that you already know about and that’s something you’ve been working in. Whether it’s the food industry (that would be a concern in terms of doing it at home) or if you were to had an internship as a bookkeeper or you were working in marketing or your writing business and you were writing for business or you were an office administrator for business. These are skills that you could do from your home in terms of a local home business.

    You just have to decide if there’s a market out there for you. So you have to decide how to figure out if there’s a local market for your business. So they see the first things that we would do, which we did a long time ago in the 1990s, was have a look and see who else was out there in the local community who was doing the same business.

    I think there was only one Engineer near us at the time so we had not too much competition in our local area and then of course we had to look at the kind of work that’s out there for us in terms of being able to have a steady flow of business. So you want to research at what is selling in your community whether it’s a product or service.

    How many people or how many businesses are out there? 

    For example, if there are five to 10 home cleaning businesses in your community and your community is only 5000 then you might want to consider a different business.

    But one of the things I want you to think about if there are other businesses out there doing the same service then most likely there is a demand for that business especially if they are in the business for at least five years or more than they have enough clients to keep them busy. So you’ll probably find enough clients to keep you busy. And of course there’s always people moving into your community and it is always growing. Assuming your population will grow enough to support five or six of what you do as your product or service then you might want to consider putting some tentative idea out there that you’re in business. See if you get some interest in people wanting to know what your business is and whether or not they could use your business.

    If you have no idea, my first recommendation would be to decide on a business.

    Don’t forget that you pick the wrong business just pick something and then get an internship or part time job in that type of business to see what it’s like to see if there’s certain skills or knowledge that you don’t have for that you might need in order to do that same business. Then you’ll need some experience to learn about it and see how the business sells its products because that’s one of the important things to learn if you want to sell your products. So be in the market similar to your business product or service and then you have to allocate a few five to 10 hours on learning about your type of business part time outside your day job in order to get some of the skills you need to be in business.

    We’ll talk about that on Thursday when we’re talking about running your own business and some of the skills that you need as an entrepreneur. Then once you have a primary a pretty solid understanding of what the business entails and what kind of requirements are needed. You can certainly have a tentative look at maybe starting selling a bit of what you’re doing part time.

    Now I forgot to mention that there are a lot of good government Web sites which have information on starting your own business and how to do it and some other requirements that are required for by the government So go and just do a search for starting a home business and add your country and you’ll probably find a great many places on Google where you can learn more about what their requirements are for starting a business.

    Say you’d like to start so what you need to do is to do research and maybe gain a bit of knowledge about your business that you want to be and is probably recommending that you already know something about the business that you want to go into and then make some kind of decision on what you think you could do day to day and be useful in your business.

    For example I think I mentioned yesterday that I don’t think even though I have the skills to be a bookkeeper I would be happier as a bookkeeper. So I’m not going to have a bookkeeping business. Whereas I love being an artist and I’d love to have an artist business and that would keep me going day to day even though the sales might be less than in a bookkeeping business.

    So it’s something for you to think about is are you willing to challenge yourself to do that you have the passion to do that you want to know the things that you need to know to do the business. Don’t go into something that people are just saying “go into it because it’ll make you rich.” It won’t make you rich because you don’t have the passion for it.

    So we’re going to be talking about some of the practical ideas next time where you can do your research for offline and starting your local business. Obviously, anyone can go get their computer out and start an online business from their home office without really any requirements from the local authority.So we will talk about online research next week and it will be for offline and online.

    So let’s hope the you got some information out of that and we’ll go out and research your local community and see what’s out there and whether they need another dog walking service or whether they need another cleaning service or whether they need another bookkeeper or another accountant or another.

    You know there’s lots of business that you can do out of your home that are not required to go out and be in a rental office in your hometown. ‘

    So go out and have a look and see if you have enough passion in order to do business.

     

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    To Have Systems in your Business

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    Welcome. This is Jane Gardner.

    And today we’re going to go looking at the systems you can put in your business to save you time and money making you more productive, get more sales and get more leads to have a great business so let’s get started.

    As you know I’m Jane Gardner and we’re talking about systems today. I know that sounds very boring to most people but systems in your business will allow you to have the time to get more sales and also lets you have more time with your family and friends to get yourself a lifestyle business.

    So we’re going to be talking about the five systems that you need to have in an online business today as well as offline business of course. So we’re going to be looking at first off making yourself a hub on the internet or a hub in your business where you can be found so that would be your web site and how to set up a system so that your web site is the location that people can come to and they can find out who you are as well as obviously sign up for anything you have or you can get sales as well as get engagement.

    So your web site is a system that is built for you to collect it.

    So you have a lead system as well that’s set up for you so that you can collect leads without having to be there day and night. It’s collecting leads for you because you set up a system that does it.

    You can set up a system for engagement whether it’s on social media or on the internet. Making sure you keep connected with your customers that you have or keeping connected and following up with your clients that you have.

    There’s a system for you to have sales. How to set up a system for your sales so that you have some automation so that you’re not always having to do it from scratch every day slowing you down, losing focus, not progressing as quickly as you want.

    Having a system for your sales so you can go out, and people can interact with your sales system whether or not you’re there or whether or not you’re open as far as being out there, can work for you day or night.

    As well you need a payment system set up so that it’s automatic and will collect any payments for you and release any products or services that you’re going to be have with your customer or client.

    So that’s when it can also work for you day and night. Well, of course previously without the internet your day of business was nine to five or all every seven days a week. For us, it was usually 8:00 in the morning till about 6:00 at night. So right now it is seven days a week because this is when we’re available. But if you get your business onto the Internet of course with the difference in the hours all over the world you can actually go and do business as long as you have some automation and use systems so that you could collect a sale or two in the morning while you’re asleep from someone over in England who’s found your product to be something that they want. So I know this isn’t something that you think very important in your business and it’s certainly not very exciting to have systems but these systems in your business will allow you to make more sales and get more engagement and collect more leads and of course process more payments and have a website that is interacting with your customers and clients so they get to know like and trust you.

    So your systems and your business are almost the most critical thing in your business because it gives you the time to collect more leads; to follow up more often with your clients; to have more time for yourself rather than having to work all day in your business.

    You all have systems in your business that will help you to organize and make you more productive and give you the free time that you need in order to be successful in your business.

    So my approach may be starting with offline business like I mentioned in your home business and some of the systems that you can put into your offline home business now and ignore the internet next week. Anyway, we are trying to because ,of course, in offline business can work just as well on the Internet as online.

    You have five systems in your business.

    Do you have a lead system to collect leads?

    Do you have a Web site that’s online so that people can visit you even though you may be asleep? They can come visit your web site and see what you sell or see who you are.

    Do you have a sale system in your business so that it can work while you’re asleep?

    Basically you’re sleeping all the time and you have something to engage with systems on social media or engage with people on email lists.

    Then of course do you have a payment system set up in your business so that you can collect payments from the sales that are made from that leads that you get from the email that you send out etc..? So that’s all going to be talking about on systems Saturday so I hope you’ll find this useful and we’ll talk to you next week.

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    To Run a Home Business

    This is Thursday so we’re going to be talking about running a business. Today is the first one so we’re going to be just talking briefly about some of the things that we’ll be talking about in terms of running your home business. I know that you may be just starting a home business but you may also be running a home business and later we will talk about growing your home business. I think I should talk to you about running your home business just so that you know in case you’re new at this, some of the challenges ,and of course, some of the pleasures of being able to run your home business.

    So I’m Jane Gardner and as I mentioned before, we have a structural engineering firm that we have had for 20 years out of our home and our home office. We’ve earned a certain reputation and I would expect in our local community as an offline home business and ,to be honest, most people don’t know that we’re here in business because usually they only find us when they need us. But that’s what’s called “word of mouth”. So if you can develop word of mouth in your community about your home business then you don’t have to pay anything for advertising. We do have our ad obviously in the Yellow Pages. We keep that in there for those who are interested in just finding a local engineer. We do have a Web site and that now is being used more often by people to find us. We have a lot of local referrals from business people who do business with us before.

    So I think we can say that in running a business, one of the most important things for you is your reputation and we will certainly be talking about that.

    I usually do the organization and productivity for home business so I keep all the files and government taxes and keep the deadlines for our insurance and and all these other things so we’ll be talking about how to organize your home business so you don’t get overwhelmed by all that. All the paperwork and the work that you have to do that isn’t even part of your actual business but is actually something you need to do to run your home business. We’ll be talking about maybe some tips on organizing your business so that it’s much easier to do. Also that you will be able to be more productive so that you’re out there promoting or selling your home business or getting more clients instead of having to always be running around doing your bookkeeping or doing your filing etc.. So of course that means also we will be talking about outsourcing and hopefully at one point be able to afford to hire a few employees.

    We’ll be talking about that and we’ll be talking about cash flow. Cash flow is one of the most important things in your business in terms of making your business successful and how you can try to keep the cash flow going. Even though you of course you’re having to do all these different things in your business like your filing, your organizing and you’re selling it and actually producing whatever it is you’re selling. We’ll also talk about some of the skills that you need as a solopreneur or maybe some of the mindset you might need to do every day in some of the meditation or the calming influences or the time you need for your health as well as some of the technical skills you’ll need in a home business. Unfortunately whether you like it or not as a solopreneur, you have to at least be aware of certain technology and certain skills so that you can be quicker and produce things much easier and not be stuck by either not knowing how to do something maybe on your Web site or at least having a web developer who is slow and slowing you down because they’re not getting something done for you. Well you should learn how to do it yourself. So there’s always I think we talked about a lot of that is being Jack Jill or jack of all trades.

    We talked about that in our season one, we went over some of the skills you might need running your home business. We’ll be talking a lot about how to make your home business more productive, more organized, save you time and save you money so that you can go out there and sell more and not have to be working in your business. But in terms of actually producing whatever it is you’re selling in your business or just getting more clients whatever it is you have to be able to be organized enough to be getting that going and running your whole business in the most efficient way for you. With of course the Internet there’s lots of plenty of ways that you can save time and money. So I’ll be going over some of those and maybe some of the technology that might be worth you getting especially if it’s free in order to help you and your business.
    So we will be talking about the nitty gritty and the down and dirty as we like to say on running your own business on Thursdays.

    Hopefully you’ll find this very useful. Every week, I will try to make sure that I have at least three tips for you on that you can take away. Three questions for you to think about every week about how to organize your produce or make your business run more efficiently.
    But for today I just wanted to mention that there’s a few things and we’ve talked about quite a few ways to make your business more efficient, run better and easier and save you time and money because saving you time will make it possible for you to go out there and either make more sales or maybe have more time for your family whichever is more important to you. =
    So we’ll do that next week. We’ll start talking about some of the things that we can do to make you a jill or jack of all trades so that you aren’t always having to wait for others instead of you can take control of your own business.
    . I just thought I’d introduce the ideas and go or some of the ideas that I’ve had and helped in my business as well.
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    Selling Sales You and Your Customer

    Well today is Wednesday and it’s all going to be about selling sales and your customers.

    Today, I wanted to start off by talking about how you don’t have to be salesy in order to sell as a human being.

    You sell yourself all the time and you sell ideas that you have all the time.

    When you were a baby, you would always try to persuade your mother or father that you wanted a certain food or that you would could see that either doing a tantrum or you would smile and be happy and you could make them understand that you wanted something. As you got older we were always putting our “best face forward” as they call it to people in your school. You wanted to have friends so you always either went with the crowd or you persuaded others you were someone to meet. You’re always persuading other people to do what you were interested in.
    So, it comes to reason that “To Sell is Human.”

    Of course, there’s a book called “To Sell is Human” by Daniel Pink that I’ll go into it further another time but I just want to say you don’t have to be intimidated by the idea of selling because you’re doing it every day;

    1. you’re giving a first impression to someone new that you meet;
    2. you’re showing people you’re interested in what they have to say or you’re ordering people around
    3. always whatever you’re always selling and always having a certain face that you put forward to other people.

    So, what we’re going to be talking about is first how we’re always selling anyway so it shouldn’t be foreign to you and to not be intimidated by the idea of selling but I’m going to be talking sort of backwards in terms of we’ll be talking about because we are talking about the customer first because really “it’s not what you’re selling as much as what your customers want.”

    Of course, first you have to define who you think your customers are and what they want before you can approach them.
    Give them a solution to what they want to buy and what their pain is or what they desire to have.
    So we’re really actually not going to be talking about selling so much as trying to understand who your customer is and what they want what they want to experience with you and what they enjoy and all those kind of things. So, first of all, we’ll probably be talking about the actual process of selling itself and we will be talking about how you can give a good impression to others in terms of selling and how you can be more human in your selling and use your human skills as you are.
    Now you don’t have to become that enthusiastic loud salesmen of the old days because with (of course) podcasting as we have now and being on video, you can still be human and connect with others and be engaged by these type of media.

    So, in Season 1, I talked about first defining who your customer is and how you can do that as well as researching what they want and where they hang out so that you can find out where they hang out and connect with them there and obviously figuring out what they actually want rather than what you think they want and then selling them the solution to what they want.
    Then after that develop the relationship such that you can also then give them what they need in terms of what they want as well.
    So as long as you can learn how to define what they want and give them that solution then you will be able to sell very easily to them in terms of having a transaction of money for what the solution is that they want to have from you.
    Of course, we’ll be talking about my business and with my husband as well as other businesses and how they work and how they sell and how they market and also offline as well as online. A lot of offline businesses can go online and become more internationally known so that’s awesome. We’ll be talking a lot about how to market yourself and probably growing your business because we’ll be talking more about the internet. But today I just wanted to mention to you that first.

    •  It’s about your potential customers and do you know what they really want.
    •  You don’t have to sell or be salesy.
    • You can just be human and use the way you are.

    We’ll be talking about that further in a later episode. Use the way that your personality is and you can then match it or change it to match your customers personalities such that they feel that you’re an old friend and that it’s not a matter of selling.
    It’s just a matter of being human to human and realizing that you have the solution to what they want.

    So I know that sounds all very confusing but I certainly thought I would start out with an introduction to selling and then we’ll be going on to understanding that selling is not about you, it’s about your customers of course.
    First you have to figure out who your customers are.
    So we’ll see you next week and will be starting on finding out who your customer is and what do they want.
    So ask your questions or ask yourself that question over the next week and maybe you’ll find out that the people that you thought were your customers aren’t actually and other people and others who actually want your solution that you hadn’t thought about selling to ..so see you next week.  Subscribe on Itunes.
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    Mindset of the Entrepreneur

    Welcome. I’m Jane Gardner. And today on Mindset Monday, we’re going to talk about being an entrepreneur and what a mindset of an entrepreneur is and whether you are capable of being an entrepreneur due to your mindset. Over the next few weeks we’ll be talking about some of the ways you can be challenged as an entrepreneur in terms of your mindset and how you can conquer those challenges. You do not have to be born an entrepreneur and you can actually learn to be an entrepreneur. You can also train your mind to have the mindset of an entrepreneur.

    Unlike what some people say that you have to come from an entrepreneurial family, over 50 percent of successful business owners come from the middle class and 35 percent were either poor or working class. So you don’t have to be a family member of an entrepreneur.

    You can change your mind in order to be an entrepreneur. So don’t let that stop you. The idea that you don’t know what it is to be an entrepreneur should not stop you because we can talk about changing your mindset as we go along.

    Ask yourself these questions because I believe that you shouldn’t quit your day job as I mentioned in order to be an entrepreneur that you should be at least thoughtful about your process etc.

    So let’s ask these questions of yourself.

    How many of you would you agree that.

    “I don’t like to risk my money.” Not at all.

    “I would never think of quitting my job and risking my life savings.

    “I like the idea of being my own boss. I’m not sure I would be good at it.

    “I’m willing to take responsibility for my actions but I still don’t want anyone to find out about my mistakes.

    I sometimes have good ideas but often have no idea of what to do.

    Well, if you agree with any of those statements you are a reluctant entrepreneur at heart.I invite you to join our ranks because you don’t have to be a risk taker in order to be an entrepreneur.

    As I mentioned yesterday, one of the books I highly recommend is “The Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson and read through that and start learning how to train your brain to be the successful entrepreneur.

    So for today I want you to think about who you think is a successful entrepreneur. Next time, we’ll be talking about some of the entrepreneurs you may not know of who have conquered their inability or their fears. Being an entrepreneur and becoming a successful entrepreneur is regardless of being a risk taker or trying something without even thinking beforehand because you or anyone else can be an entrepreneur. All you have to do is try to have a positive, committed attitude and have a natural love of a challenge and the ability to manage a lot of stress and work at a high level and the willingness to take responsibility.

    These are some of the ideas of having the mindset of the entrepreneur and if you don’t have them now you can certainly learn how to train your brain in order to be challenged as an entrepreneur.

    My husband and I have been entrepreneurs for 20 years we work on our own. Every day is a challenge and every day is a pleasure. Every day is a day where we don’t know what the next day will bring, what work will come but we accept that work will come and we continue on. We will also have a huge pile of work for the day and know that there’s a huge pile the next day and we have to get through it.

    So , you have to have a few traits of the entrepreneur to succeed. In season one, I talked to you about some of the traits of an entrepreneur. I’ll go into more detail in the second season on what the traits of the entrepreneur is and some of the ways you yourself can learn some of these traits and train your brain to have the mindset of the entrepreneur.

    So I hope you’ll come along with me on the challenge and the triumph of being an entrepreneur on Mindset Monday. We’ll see you next week.

    Just have a think about “are you an entrepreneur now” or “do you want to be an entrepreneur in the future.

    Do you want to take action and get control of your life or at least make some extra money too as a business person so that you can have a more successful life and that you can have the things that you want and you can help your family and you can help yourself and you can control your life. So we’ll see you next week. Subscribe to the podcast on Itunes.

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    Solopreneur Success Strategies Season Two on HomeBizStartup

     

    INTRODUCTION

    Welcome to season two of Solopreneur Success Strategies. This is Jane Gardner and we’re going to be talking about business startup. We’re going to be talking about starting running and growing your own home business whether offline or on.

    Monday is all about mindset. Tuesday is all about starting a home based business, Wednesday is all about selling, sales and your customer. Thursday is going to be about running your home business. Friday will be running your home business. Saturday is all about putting systems in your business and Sunday is all about strategy. So subscribe to this daily podcast and help you get started running and growing your own home business For more information go to boahb.com. [27.7]

    SHOW

    Hi this is Jane Gardner. And welcome. This is all about you because we’re going to be talking about how to start run and grow a business in season two of Solopreneur success strategies. So I’m going to be giving you some tips and tricks in five minutes or less on the various subjects from mindset on Monday, Tuesday is about starting your home business, Wednesday is selling and sales and your customers, Thursday is going to be about running your home business and Friday is about growing your own business. Saturday is about systems as we mentioned in our introduction. Sunday is all about strategy. As it is Sunday today, I’m going to give you some strategy to think about for the idea of starting a home business. So today, I wanted to just to introduce you again to myself. I’m Jane Gardner. I have a Web site Jane-gardner.com where I talk about sales and I’ve had my Solopreneur success strategies podcast there as well as the web- tv show and we talk about your message and your brand and who you are and how you sell. I have started a Web site called boahb.com which is the business about home business membership where you’ll be able to go in and start learning how to run and grow a home business.

    But today I’ll just talk about myself and why I think I can help you. I’ve worked in engineering firm with my husband for the last 20 years. We started in about the 1990s when the Internet was just in its infancy.

    Our business was always very local based and wide in terms of our clients. Now in terms of where we are in western Canada, we basically do renovations and retrofits and some new construction. My point to all this is that most of the time we are a “word of mouth” business that is local. So if you have a good “word of mouth” on your business then you get more business. So that’s a tip for you on starting a home business in the local area.

    Always make sure that you have good word of mouth about your business.

    In about 2013, I decided there might be time for me to go out and help other people start their own home business and find out what the resources and tools and the ideas and mindset that you need in order to start a business. So that is why I am here now. We’re going to do Season two of Solopreneur success strategies just talking about starting running and growing your business as well as putting together a strategy for your business.

    So today I just wanted to talk about the first strategy that I want to talk about which is if you’re thinking of starting a business consider it as to be a business that you will start part time. You will not quit your day job in order to start on business even though you know it might be a successful business until you start selling in your home business. You really should consider testing your idea and doing some research as well ,as of course, trying to sell your service or product to your market.

    I would certainly suggest today that you consider buying the book “Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson.

    It’s a great book to read to realize that you need to be able to test the market before you actually start a business in order to see whether or not they’re interested. So one of the ways I test the market is by having this podcast and seen how many people want to listen in. One of the ways that you can test your product or service is to do something like this and do a podcast on the subject. You’d be surprised what kind of people are interested in it and you can find your audience there as well. So that’s one thing you can do certainly for free. It’s just a matter of using their time and getting the voice in order to learn how to create a podcast. So we’ve given you one tip.

    First don’t quit your day job.

     Recommend to get the book “The Reluctant Entrepreneur” by Michael Masterson to give you some ideas.

    I’ll be giving you some other ideas from that book in order to get you going and thinking about starting your whole business. And of course on Tuesday I believe is starting your home business will be given you more tips about how to research and find out how are whether or not you should start the business you’re thinking of.

    The other idea is why not do a podcast and see whether or not there is a market out there if there’s people who are will listen to you about your business. That’s the other tip.

    Certainly in my business about home business we can certainly learn about how to do the research very easily in order to find out about your market. We’ll be talking about other ways to find out whether there’s a market out there for your business. But today I just wanted to introduce myself on Sunday.

    Monday will be about mindset when starting the whole business and I will give you tips and tricks to think about selling on Wednesday. Thursday will be running a home business , Friday is growing your own business and Saturday is systems. On Saturday, systems will help you to save time and money. Sunday will always be about strategy.

    So today we talked about having this strategy to realize that you shouldn’t quit your day job. You should do this new business you’d like to start part time and see whether or not there is a market out there by selling it and testing whether or not you can sell the product or service out there. So we’ll talk a bit more about that next Sunday. But for now this is Jane Gardner on Solopreneur Success Strategies. This is season 2 and we’ll be getting into the nitty gritty and down and dirty for starting your own home business and running and growing it. So thank you for listening. I hope that this podcast will give you some ideas to think about and subscribe on Itunes.

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    Season 2 of Solopreneur Success Strategies is coming!

    Season Two of Solopreneur Success Strategies is arrived over on iTunes or Soundcloud or iHeartRadio.

    Jane Gardner will be talking about Home Business Startup.

    We’re going to be talking about starting, running and growing your own home business whether online or offline. Monday is all about mindset, of course!

    Tuesday is all about starting a home based business,

    Wednesday is all about selling, sales and your customer.

    Thursday is all about running a home business,

    Friday will be all about growing your home business,

    Saturday is all about putting systems in your business and

    Sunday is all about strategy.

    So  you’ll be able to listen to this daily podcast to help you get in motion and implement ideas to start run and grow your own homebiz

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    Tried And True Home Business Tips From People Who Know Best

    Working from home is a dream shared by many people. Starting a home business is not a daydream endeavor, though – not if the business is going to be successful. Thoughtful planning and advance work are necessities for starting a good home business. This article shares a few tips that may help prospective home business owners plan their home business strategy.

    Postal advertising can be a big help to your home business, especially if you are in a position where you rely on drumming up local business. Sending out fliers, postcards and other adverts is relatively cheap and easy, and for businesses whose customers are located nearby they can be extremely effective.

    Always plan ahead. When you’re running a home business, you’ve got to make sure that you are always a bit ahead of the wave. Plan for every emergency situation you can, so that when a crisis strikes, you already have some idea of what you’re going to do and the business will survive.

    You may want to consider attending a trade show in order to get your home business known. These shows are very helpful because you can explain what your business is all about to attendants. If you set up a booth at one of these shows, make business cards that give your website name.

    You need to set up a separate checking account for your home business. It is important to keep your personal finances and the business finances separate. This is so that you can show the IRS that you are not embezzling money or trying to evade paying taxes on your business. It will make for less hassle when tax time comes around.

    Requisite permits and licenses for home businesses can vary according to city or state. Starting with your city and county government, you may request to speak with a city employee. Most are willing to discuss the steps needed to start your home business and they also, frequently offer packets of relevant information and legal forms for no charge.

    Get your website visible in the market. Submitting your site to the major search engines is a quick way to get new customers to look at your home business. Be patient because many search engines take a little bit of time before you will actually begin to show up in their listings.

    Keep good records of all transactions that apply to your home business. If you find that you are getting lost in some of the financial paperwork, consider hiring an outside accountant to do that work for you. There are also some great software programs that will make it fairly easy to keep track of everything.

    While every home business is unique, certain concerns and situations are common to all of them. Hopefully the ideas presented here can apply to a wide variety of home business owners. Whether an owner is just starting out or is looking for ways to improve an established business, tips like these can improve their home business plan.

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