Marketing
Running a Successful Home-Based Business with Children
Have you ever felt guilty because you feel that your home-based business takes too much precious time away from your children? Do you sometimes feel frazzled because you think that caring for your children interferes with your home-based business? You are not alone. However, if you set some ground rules and adhere to them, you can have a successful home-based business as well as contented children. Here are seven guidelines to make sure your home business is a happy home.
1. Children thrive on routine. You will find that when you have a routine you are more productive as you work at your home-based business. If your children know that you work between certain scheduled hours and should not be interrupted unless it is an emergency, then you will find that your interruptions will lessen.
2. Have your kid's routine part of yours. Whether it is telling a bedtime story, helping your children for an hour with homework, eating breakfast with your children, they appreciate predictability. If you schedule regular time with your children, then you will avoid getting too obsessed with home-based business demands. When you schedule daily time with your children, this will help you to realize that they are just important as the activities associated with your home-based business.
3. Organize child care. You must accept the fact that you cannot run a business from home and be a full-time mother. Some home-based business owners only work when their children are in school or in bed for the evening. If you have a spouse, then you may be able to arrange your schedules so that one is working at the home-based business while the other watches the children. You may have to pay for child care. However, the increase in productivity that is generated by your home-based business will be well worthwhile.
4. Set ground rules for your business and share them with your children. Your children should be aware that you run a home-based business, and they should know how to act accordingly. Lay down basic rules which will allow you to be as professional as possible in your home-based business. Include rules that will allow your home-based business to be as productive as possible.
5. Include your children in your home-based business. No matter what your home-based business is, there is always something your children can do. Making your children part of your home-based business will allow you the opportunity of spending more time with them and teaching them such things as handling money.
6. Try to find creative ways of combining your home-based business with your children. If you have a client who is agreeable, you may try holding a business meeting at MacDonald's or some other restaurant that is designed for children. Take your children with you when you run business-related errands.
7. Think of all of the regular working people who have full-time jobs and long commutes. One of the great benefits of running a home-based business is that you have many opportunities to be with your children. You not only get to run your home-based business, but you get to live there as well.
Post je objavljen 16.07.2007. u 10:47 sati.