Mar, 2016 : 10 Little Changes That Make Home Based Businesses Succeed

📅 March 23, 2016 - You can improve your home based business today, right now, with these 10 tips from Conversational! We've just summarized these actionable tips. There's a lot more information in the original article!

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1. Stay on task.

It's important to make yourself stay on track while you're working. Close those extra tabs and focus on the task at hand. The kitties will be there when you finish.

2. Get connected.

If you're working with a remote team, it's really important that you stay connected to your team members. No one should feel like an island on a remote team..

3. Switch things up.

Feel like you just can't take another day of working from your couch? Don't! Simply sitting in the sunlight and breathing fresh air can boost your mood and make you more productive.

4. Try coworking.

If you find yourself going to coffee shops a lot just to be around others, coworking might be the ticket for you. You'll be able to surround yourself with other remote workersand that can get the creativity and productivity flowing.

5. Get a business phone number.

Services like Conversational and Grasshopper provide professional, toll free phone numbers for your small business.

6. Create boundaries.

Designate some concrete boundaries for yourself so you can concentrate on being productive. For example, you might say that from 8am-12pm, you'll work, 12pm-1pm is lunch, and 1pm-4pm is your second chunk of productivity.

7. Schedule family time.

Even though you're home most of the time, owning a home-based business can seriously impede on your family time. Why? Because it's hard to set boundaries on work when you're in the same place where work is done.

8. Set goals and track your progress.

It can feel like you're disconnected, or doing it all alone, when you're running a business from home. That makes it especially important to set goals and track your progress along the way.

9. Hire extra help.

If you've been going at it alone, or if you've been working with a limited team, it might be time to consider hiring some extra help. That might be for your business (a virtual receptionist, marketing assistant, web designer, etc.) or it might be for you or your home (a maid, organization specialist, chef a few nights per week, etc.).

10. Get some exercise.

You may not think exercise has anything to do with your success as an entrepreneur, but it can. Research has shown that sedentary lifestyles do affect our brains and the way we learn, react to, and retain information.

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