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7 Home Business Start Up Tips To Get Your Home Based Business Off ToA Good Start!

An article from guest blog writer, Matt Press, Splash Copywriters, looking at some home businessstart up tips to help you get started with your home business.

Matt Press – Splash Copywriters

If you are looking for some home business start uptips to help you with the running your own homebased business, or you’re thinking of starting anew venture from the comfort of your house,you’ve probably heard this statistic:

According to Bloomberg, 8 out of 10 entrepreneurswho start a business fail within the first 18 months.

That’s 80%. It’s a telling statistic. By implication, itis the first few months that are most critical.

Set up your home business correctly and youmerely give yourself a better chance of lasting thecourse. Don’t and you’re doomed to fail before theink’s dry on your certificate of incorporation. Hereare 7 home business start up tips to make sureyou get off on the right foot.

Home Business Start Up Tips – 1. Be Professional.

Have a routine. Work from an office area at regular times of the day. If you take a sloppy attitude, it willshow.

Note from Mark Ford, Home Business Coach: I have found this home business start up tip to bevery true. Having a dedicated home office and work space has helped me maintain consistency intaking action daily to build my home business. Couple that with working to a daily method of operation,a routine and a work timetable and productivity shows it’s happy head!

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Home Business Start Up Tips – 2. Advertise.

For many people, marketing seems like a chicken and egg situation. They can’t afford to spend muchon advertising until the home business is turning over a certain amount of money, yet that won’t happenunless the customers start coming.

Speculate to accumulate. Take business risks. It’s what entrepreneurs do.

Note from Mark Ford, Home Business Coach: That said, there are many ways to do free advertisingand create amarketing budgetby using yourexisting skills. Ifyou would like toreach out to MarkFord on thiscontact MarkFord at this link.

HomeBusinessStart Up Tips– 3. Don’t behamstrung bya businessplan.

While it’simportant to havea thorough home business plan, don’t worry if things go off-course. The world is changing every day.Situations change. Parameters change. Make sure you’re moving according to your industry’sdemands and not having your strategies dictated by a Word document that you created 6 months ago.

Note from Mark Ford, Home Business Coach: Whilst we must not be tied to the document to thefinest detail, I have found that working with a timetable, a daily method of operation, scheduling callswith clients and making sure I am organised helps me maintain productivity in my business and eachday move the business forward a bit more to help achieve my goals. So, have a home business plan,but don’t be hamstrung by it.

Home Business Start Up Tips – 4. – Be positive.

Business is tough and your profits probably won’t just keep going on an upward trend. There will bepeaks and troughs but, as the adage goes, you’re going to learn more about your business throughadversity. Take the lessons as they come. So long as you learn from stuff, that’s all that matters.

Home Business Start Up Tips – 5. – Keep Your Overheads Down.

Every successful home business budgets well. Working out of your home is brilliant and could saveyou a fortune – just make sure it does. Don’t offset your office rental savings with lavish overspending.

Thought from Mark Ford, Home Business Coach: keep your overheads down, yes, but still developa budget to invest in your ongoing education.

Home Business Start Up Tips – 6. – Take the bird’s eye view.

It’s crucial that, in order to progress as a home business, you don’t become too consumed by yourbusiness or personal brand. Don’t spend every waking hour working in your home business. Productsand services are important, but that’s only the here and now. Delegate if possible and ensure thatyou’re working on your business too – identifying ways to innovate.

Home Business Start Up Tips – 7. – Appearances Matter.

Working from home might suit you, but does it suit your customers? Don’t come across as amateurish– your brand will still need the respectability of things like a proper email address, letter heads etc.

Matt Press – Splash Copywriters Accreditation

“Matt Press is an experienced copywriter who has writtenwords for some of the UK’s biggest brands, such as Sky,Three and Vodafone.

Working through his company Splash Copywriters, hecreates content and delivers marketing, branding andSearch Engine Optimization (SEO) advice to businesses ofall sizes. Learn more about Matt Press and his copywritingservices over at his website > Splash Copywriters <

I wish you every success in your home business.

Mark Ford

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