20 Success Tips for a Home Business

20 Success Tips for a Home BusinessIf you are running a home business, you need all the support you can get. Often people flounder or feel overwhelmed beginning a home-based business. Follow some basics and it is easier to launch yourself into success.1. Dedicate space in your home as your office. If others live with you, and you need uninterrupted time, create the office in a room where you can close the door when needed.2. If you work with the phone, have everything collected near the phone that you need for that activity.3. Whatever activity moves you to financial success, do it consistently. It has often been said that successful people do routinely what unsuccessful people fail to do.4. If other leaders in your field say follow-up is important to success, keep good records for that purpose. 5. If there are others living in your home, let them know what hours you must dedicate exclusively to your home business. Concentrated focus on your work helps you accelerate toward financial success.6. Have one calendar for both personal and business scheduling to avoid conflicts.7. At the beginning of each day, or the night before, map out what you will do for that day. You will get a lot more done this way than if you wing it.8. Prioritize the activities for the day. Take care of the most urgent matters first. 9. It is valuable to do a little bit of each of these each day – Advertise or prospect. Provide service. Follow-up and follow-through.10. Set financial goals. If you have a yearly goal, break it down into monthly and weekly realizable goals.11. If you promise to get back to someone with information, do so – it helps to build trust.12. Even if your business is exclusively online, there is a need for building some level of trust, as through regular email.13. Learn about marketing your website.14. Build opt-in email lists.15. Keep in touch with clients and prospective clients through an auto responder.16. Whatever you are promoting, one of the most important requirements is to become visible. People have to be able to find you in order for you to make sales. 17. Do not rely on only one way of bringing in clients. Fish out of many lakes.18. Read all that you can to expand your knowledge in your field.19. Seek out inspirational and/or motivational material to help you overcome potential discouragement from any perceived setbacks.20. Be persistent with what you know others have done to succeed. Be patience as you build your business one day at a time.I have been working from home for 20 years. It is among my greatest desires to help people succeed.Debra Taylor800.793.1403http://www.mygoldplan.com/dtconsult/For the last 20 years, I have run a successful business in hypnotherapy and intuitive counseling from my home. More recently, I have been helping people find financial freedom through perpetual cash leveraging.http://www.mygoldplan.com/dtconsult
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For the last 20 years, I have run a successful business in hypnotherapy and intuitive counseling from my home. More recently, I have been helping people find financial freedom through perpetual cash leveraging.