By Randy Duermyer, About.com Guide
Step 3: Make Sure You Can Do the Tasks Needed Before Starting a Small Business
Before starting a small business, you need to understand and carefully consider that you'll have a lot of daily tasks that will need to get done. If you can't do them, who will? If there's no one to take care of these tasks properly, is it worth starting a small business?
Answer this question honestly. Can you handle the day-to-day general tasks that starting a small business requires, like:
**setting appointments
**ordering supplies
**bookkeeping
**marketing
**filing
**answering the phone
**checking and replying to e-mail
If you'll have help, great. If you can afford to pay someone else to do some of these tasks for you, all the better. But a great majority of home businesses are a one-person operation starting on a shoestring budget, and most other small business are not much larger and don't have substantial budgets to hire help. That means there's a good chance you'll have to do everything or it just won't get done.
You'll want to think twice about starting a small business if you are going to be run rugged with the mundane tasks to the point that you won't have adequate time to do the things you love that will make you money.
Step 4: Make a List of What Needs to be Done to Prepare Your Home for Business
With the product or service you have in mind, can you handle the business from your home the way it is right now? If not, what do you need to do to get it ready?
**Will you need space for inventory, supplies, records and/or equipment?
**Do you already have an area you can use for your office or will you need to bargain with another member of the family to give up some space?
**Is the nature of your inventory or equipment such that special climate needs must be accommodated?
**Do you need to add a room, enclose a patio, convert a garage or basement, or stake out the attic?
**What kind of power needs will you have and will you have to make any alterations to accommodate them?
As you determine what you'll need, keep track of your estimate costs because you'll need them later in this exercise.
Handy Tools to Consider
**Whiteboard
**Multifunction Inkjet Printer
~~ TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW, 05/20/2010 ~~
Step 3: Make Sure You Can Do the Tasks Needed Before Starting a Small Business
Before starting a small business, you need to understand and carefully consider that you'll have a lot of daily tasks that will need to get done. If you can't do them, who will? If there's no one to take care of these tasks properly, is it worth starting a small business?
Answer this question honestly. Can you handle the day-to-day general tasks that starting a small business requires, like:
**setting appointments
**ordering supplies
**bookkeeping
**marketing
**filing
**answering the phone
**checking and replying to e-mail
If you'll have help, great. If you can afford to pay someone else to do some of these tasks for you, all the better. But a great majority of home businesses are a one-person operation starting on a shoestring budget, and most other small business are not much larger and don't have substantial budgets to hire help. That means there's a good chance you'll have to do everything or it just won't get done.
You'll want to think twice about starting a small business if you are going to be run rugged with the mundane tasks to the point that you won't have adequate time to do the things you love that will make you money.
Step 4: Make a List of What Needs to be Done to Prepare Your Home for Business
With the product or service you have in mind, can you handle the business from your home the way it is right now? If not, what do you need to do to get it ready?
**Will you need space for inventory, supplies, records and/or equipment?
**Do you already have an area you can use for your office or will you need to bargain with another member of the family to give up some space?
**Is the nature of your inventory or equipment such that special climate needs must be accommodated?
**Do you need to add a room, enclose a patio, convert a garage or basement, or stake out the attic?
**What kind of power needs will you have and will you have to make any alterations to accommodate them?
As you determine what you'll need, keep track of your estimate costs because you'll need them later in this exercise.
Handy Tools to Consider
**Whiteboard
**Multifunction Inkjet Printer
~~ TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW, 05/20/2010 ~~
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