Overcoming Isolation In Your Home Business
Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious…
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Like most people, when you think about what it would be like to work from home, you probably think of the obvious…
Email ... friend or foe? On balance, I would have to say, "friend". But there are times ... like when I download my mail in the morning ... all 200+ items of it, only to find a good 40% or so is nothing but junk, that I have to acknowledge that there is a "dark side", as well.
From time to time (at least once a day actually) I'll get an impossible-to-respond-to email that says something like, "How can I work from home?", or "I want to start my own home business. Please send info." or even, "Please send free info.". Naturally such vague, generalized requests are not, for reasons of time (among others), going to elicit a particularly helpful response but it…
You've read many articles I'm sure about the advantages and disadvantages of working for yourself from your own home. Many of them I've written myself, in fact. But how many articles have you read that give equal time to the advantages of working for someone else compared to working for yourself?
What's that I hear you say? You're not a marketer? You've got an online business haven't you? Well, guess what, baby. You're a marketer!
Email, sales letters, email, phone calls, J.O.B., email, kids, conference calls, mentoring and sponsoring, errands, personal time, email, website updating, writing articles, email, search engine positioning, ezine publishing, advertising, email. Oh, and sleep. And did I mention email? Sounds like your day, right? Yours and everyone else's who runs a business part-time around their REAL life.