The following tips are from an article we contributed to Compute magazine. These are ideas that we all should know, but many times forget. It constantly amazes us how quickly a basic tenent of business can be shoved by the wayside in the heat of daily transactions.If we all try to keep these simple principles in mind, they may keep us on the straight and narrow in our pursuit of home office bliss.1. Buy an answering machine. This will allow you to give your attention to a client and not the tele.