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Youth Motivational Speakers - Getting Into the World of Public Speaking

Motivational speakers come in all shapes, sizes and ages. These days, even youth motivational speakers are getting into the action, and they are using their unique approach to motivational speaking to reach audiences in a whole new way. In the past, most people did not consider younger motivational speakers for events, since it seemed that groups would not feel eager to take advice from those that are younger than them, but that has changed in recent years. If you are a young person who would like to get into the exciting world of motivational speaking, there are a few things to consider.

For one thing, it is important for young motivational speakers to not ignore what gives them a leg up on the competition. Many younger speakers may be tempted to adopt a more authoritative style, especially as a way to reach older audiences, but it is important to retain what it is that makes you a great young speaker. When many organizations and groups book a young speaker, they are doing so in part because they want an energetic person who is fresh-faced and full of life. That is why you do not want to get away from those positive aspects of being a youth speaker.

Also, make sure that the energy that you do have is focused towards the task at hand. Unfocused energy can be a hindrance, but if you can take your youthful exuberance and focus it towards engaging the audience in a meaningful way, it can give you quite an advantage over older, more experienced speakers.

Finally, make sure you tailor your message towards your background, but also your age and experience level. You will not be able to boast the laundry list of achievements and experience that older motivational speakers have to their credit, but you can still have an effective message. For instance, you may be able to "remind" audiences of the ideals and motivation that they had as a younger person who was fresh out of school and ready to take on the world. It is likely that this is the exact reason why you have been hired to speak to the group in question.

By tapping into your high level of energy and enthusiasm and standing out from the rest of the crowd, youth motivational speakers can easily reach the levels of success that are enjoyed by their more experienced counterparts.

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10 Incredible Ways To Keep Your Sales Soaring

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1. Maximize the effectiveness of your banner ads.
Don't just use the same ad on every banner, use a
variety to attract the greatest number of clickers.

2. Make your web site load much faster by cutting
down on banner ads and start using more buttons.
Button ads are also smaller and take up less space.

3. Offer free advertising space to well known and
respected companies on your web site. Sometimes
people link their business credibility to yours.

4. People have been taught all their life to respect
people in authority. Tell your visitors that you are
the president or CEO of your business.

5. Offer people a free telephone consultation before
they order your product. When they get to know
you personally, it could convert to more sales.

6. Test the "bill me later option" on your web site.
Most people are honest and will pay you. It is a
powerful little niche and could increase your sales.

7. Find a charity your target audience would likely
support. Tell people on your ad copy that you will
give a percentage of the profits to that charity.

8. Hold a "buy the most wins contest" on your web
site. Tell people each monthly winner will get their
entire purchase refunded.

9. Attract visitors to your web site by offering them
a free course. You could package the course on
a follow-up autoresponder and send lessons daily.

10. Interview people related to your industry and
get their legal permission to convert it to an article.
Promote your web site by submitting it to ezines.

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Easy Steps To Make Your Home Business Work!

Networking Your Home Business within Circles of Influence
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When you need an auto mechanic or an air conditioning repairman,
where do you turn for help? Sure, some people turn to the yellow
pages. But most will turn to friends and family and ask if they
know of anyone who can do the work.

The best place for your business to be positioned is to be the
business on the tips of the tongues of the people asked to make
the referral.

THE 300 RULE

Preachers, funeral directors and people in a few other
professions have learned "the 300 rule" through their own
personal experience.

"The 300 rule" states that the average person knows 300 people
on a friendly level. Wedding planners tend to make reservations
for 300 guests. Funeral directors tend to need to make room for
300 mourners. You get the idea.

DOODLING WITH CIRCLES OF INFLUENCE

Imagine your circle of friends, family and acquaintances, a.k.a.
your circle of influence. Now, draw your circle of influence as
a circle on a blank piece of paper.

Next, contemplate the people in your parents` circle of
influence. Some people who know your parents also know you.
Therefore, you will share some influence with the people your
folks know. Now draw your parents` circle of influence on your
piece of paper.

Your circle and your parents` circle will intersect in one area,
although the larger majority of the two circles will not
intersect. If you are like most people, the two circles on your
page at this point looks very similar to the MasterCard logo.

Now imagine drawing a page full of intersecting circles, each
circle representing the circle of influence of the people who
are within your own circle of influence. Imagine trying to
encapsulate an accurate rendering of where your circle and the
circle of your friends will actually intersect.

Some circles will share a large area of space, while others will
barely cover one another.

Actually, you can only imagine at this point what your piece of
paper will look like. The actual layout of the circles imagined
in this analogy is simply too overwhelming for the mind to
comprehend.

THE BIG PICTURE

300 multiplied by 300 equals 90,000. By using the analogy of
doodles in the previous section, the average person can actually
network with up to 90,000 people! Even factoring in the overlap,
one can still probably network with 50,000 people through their
own circle of influence!

Simply amazing, isn`t it?

HERE IS THE SECRET TO YOUR SUCCESS

There are 300 people on this planet whom you have a reasonable
amount of influence. Take advantage of this fact. Make darn sure
that every person within your own circle of influence KNOWS that
you are in business for yourself, and make sure they understand
what your business offers.

When your friend is asked to make a referral, they will
recommend you.

PASSIVE VERSUS ACTIVE REFERRAL NETWORKING

When people ask your friends for a referral and your friend
mentions your business, that is passive referral networking.

Active referral networking is when you can get your friends go
directly to their friends and say "Hey, I have a friend who just
started a business. If you are in need of what he offers or you
know someone who will need his services, would you please give
my friend a call or make the referral to his business?"

If you can get even a portion of the people in your own circle
of influence to actively refer your business, then you have
built the foundation to build an advertising campaign even more
effective than the average local television advertising campaign.

Think about that for a moment.

Most people only dream of reaching 50,000 potential customers
with their television advertising dollars. You now have the
knowledge to reach 50,000 people without spending a single penny.



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The Perfect Internet Business

Ideas Of what You Should Know
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Operating a home business is seldom easy and interruptions come
in all shapes, sizes and forms.

Between the family, friends and neighbors who call or come by,
and the telemarketers who insist on ringing your number off the
hook, getting through the workday can be a real challenge.

When you introduce children into the home office environment,
your productivity and patience can be seriously tested.

For example, right now my three-year old daughter is pulling on
my shirt and begging me to read her a story. Clearly, Im in the
middle of something important here, but how can I say no to
those eyes? Ill be right back...

Ok, that wasnt so bad was it? Shes happy, Im happy (having
bonded with my daughter) and now Im back to continue my
conversation with you :-) Whats the lesson here? Flexibility
is a major key to balancing your home business priorities with
your familys needs.

I can tell you from first-hand experience that maintaining a
deep level of concentration on work in a home business for long
periods of time is next to impossible. Naptime does offer some
reprieve, but any break from the kids is usually short lived.

Even with older children, summertime introduces new challenges
with kids running in and out of the house all throughout the day.

I would like to share with you some of the tips I have
discovered to help manage your home office with children in your
midst. Since children of different ages pose different
challenges, I will present my tips in terms of age groups.

OLDER CHILDREN AND TEENS

We will look at older children first since they pose the least
challenge to our work productivity.

Children, who are old enough to understand the idea of schedules
and chores, are old enough to understand the needs of your home
business. Explain to your children that you do your work at home
so that you can be near them when they need you. But also be
sure they understand that you must do your work so that you will
have the money necessary to keep your house, feed the family and
to provide them with money for entertainment.

Once your children understand the necessity of your work, then
outline a work schedule and explain it to them. Do make sure
they understand that emergencies are definitely an acceptable
reason to interrupt your work. Then make sure they understand
that between hours x and y, you will be doing work --- and then
hold them to respecting your schedule.

INFANTS

Infants will never understand your needs for work. But
fortunately, babies do well under a schedule or routine. Instead
of expecting your child to work around your schedule, schedule
your work around the needs of your baby.

It is simple. Babies eat, sleep and poop. Sometimes they play.
Fortunately, babies sleep more than they do anything else.

Naptime offers the best advantage for getting your work done.
Get your baby into a routine of eat, sleep and play, and you
will experience unexpected levels of productivity.

TODDLERS

If you have a toddler running around the house while you are
operating your home business, then you may find that your hair
turning gray or disappearing altogether. But, gray hair is a
sign of character, right. ;-)

I am venturing to guess that the person who devised the door
lock for the inside of the house did so because he had toddlers
in his own home. Inside door locks should only be utilized when
you are making that important phone call and your toddler is
screaming for your attention. At all other times, your door
should remain unlocked with your door open.

Develop a routine with your children for meal times, naptimes,
and play times. Work these times into your work schedule and
adhere to them. If you fail to keep appointments with your
children, your children will have less respect for your work and
do more to prevent you from the completion of your work.

Don`t be afraid to let your children sit in your lap while you
are working. It helps them to feel wanted and it helps them to
be a part of your daily life. There are times when it is okay
for them to be sitting in your lap while you work, and at other
times you need them out of your lap. Don`t be afraid to tell
them to get down and go play or read a book so that you can
resume your work.

Permit your children to have their toys in your office. Often
they will sit contently and play while you work. Just knowing
you are near is enough to keep them happy.

Be prepared to take an hourly break to deal with your toddler.
Try to do potty breaks at your hourly break and to do drink
refills. This can help your child grow into a routine that will
work well with your home business. At each break, spend a few
minutes with your child giving hugs and kisses and talking with
your child about what he or she wants to talk about.

Toddlers don`t always do well with the routine, so be prepared
to take a few minutes when needed to give the attention that
your child so desperately needs in the moment.

IN CONCLUSION

I hope these tips serve to help you in the challenge of
operating a successful home business.

My home business permits me to fulfill my financial obligations
*AND* see my children grow up. I would never contemplate trading
my home business for another kind of business. Even with the
added challenges of dealing with toddlers in my home office, the
upsides far outweigh the downsides.

Growing my own home business with children around has definitely
given me a new respect for all people who successfully run a
home business with kids in the work environment. I tip my hat to
you... You deserve it!

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Home Business

Advertising Your Home Business on a Budget
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Hi and welcome, todays topic we'll be looking at how to Advertise Your Home Business on a Budget

The most important thing is to remember that when you start a new business no one knows who you are, so one of the greatest challenges you will face is how to drum up new business.

If there were not people in your community or marketplace that
you knew who needed your products or services, you probably
would not have started your business to begin with. But, once
you have talked to those who you personally knew who needed your
what you offer, then your next task is to find others who will
help keep your doors open.

Many people know that they must turn to advertising at some
point in the future, but they hope that day will be long down
the road. For some, this utopian concept will come to fruition.
But for the rest of us in the real world, we must come up with
creative solutions for meeting our home business advertising
needs while working within our budget.

Most people have a misconception about having to spend lots of
money in order to advertise their home business. When you start
out, you honestly will not have much money available for
advertising, and if you do, you should still spend it wisely.

Before you jump headfirst into the world of advertising, let me
share some of the lessons I have learned concerning this most
important topic.

LESSON #1

It does not have to cost an arm and a leg to advertise your home
business, unless you fail to plan and fail to test.

As much as is possible, you should always test your advertising.
If you jump in and start dumping tons of money in to advertising
without first testing your advertising, you might find yourself
broke and without sales at the end of the road. Most people who
commit this error write off their failure on the home business
they chose or the economy or any of a hundred other excuses.
But, if they are unwilling to take responsibility for their
mistake, they will never learn from their mistake. Don`t let
this be you.

LESSON #2

All testing should be done in blocks. If you begin to advertise
simultaneously in newspapers, radio and television, how will you
know which advertising is bringing people to your cash register?
You won`t. All you will know that something might be working,
but you will not know what is actually doing the trick.

Even if you tell people in your advertising to tell you how they
found you, my experience shows that fewer than 10% of the people
ever will tell you anything --- and those people who do may not
even get the facts straight! You cannot rely on your customers
to tell you what advertising is working for your home business.
You must put in the extra effort to know for yourself.

LESSON #3

Only when you have a proven and solid advertising portfolio
should you venture to drop big bucks in an advertising campaign.
Even then, you should be careful to keep further measurements to
determine how much the maximum advantage of an ad would be.
Sometimes you might be able to reach ten times as many people,
but depending on the kind of media and other factors, the
additional exposure will only generate twice as many sales. Keep
your eye attuned to situations like this to get the most from
your advertising dollars.

LESSON #4

As Lesson #3 illustrates, sometimes your best advertising
investment may actually cost you less money. When you are first
starting out, whether you are running a home business or a
business outside of your home, you need to be able to get people
talking and thinking about your business.

If you are busy testing ads in media`s such as the newspaper,
magazines, radio, and television, you need to learn ways of
promoting your business that do not require large cash
expenditures. A few examples are:

· Word of Mouth
· Business Cards
· Press Releases
· Non-Primetime Ads on Radio and Television

Here is more information about each type of low-cost advertising:

WORD OF MOUTH

This of course is the cheapest kind of advertising on the planet
--- it does not cost you anything. Ask your customers if they
know anyone who could also use your products or services. When
they are happy with your offerings and service, they will be
willing to tell you whom you can contact, and they will pass the
word for you.

BUSINESS CARDS

You can usually pick up 500 business cards for about $20. When
you do, hand them out. Do not give more than a couple of cards
to each person. If they need more cards from you, they will ask.

Some people are known to network with others on a regular basis.
Some of these people are also known to be always looking for an
extra few bucks. With these people, you can suggest to them that
if they write their name on the back of one of your business
cards and the card is presented to you, then you will pay a
referral fee to them. You do not have to offer much ---
sometimes one dollar is enough. Look at your home business and
your offerings and decide how much would be a good referral fee.

PRESS RELEASES

Press Releases are a good source for generating news about your
home business. The business editor at your local newspaper is
always on the lookout for a good business story to fill the
business news section of the newspaper.

Of course, the business editor understands the economics of
running a paper and is more inclined to run your story if you
buy advertising in his/her publication, but will still print
stories for special events and openings.

The important thing to remember about Press Releases is that it
must be constructed in the form of a news story. Even if you are
a sole proprietorship, quotes from you should be written in a
third person format: John Doe said, "Your quote here."

A Press Release should pack the most important information at
the beginning of the copy, and leave extra details towards the
end.

You should always provide the reporter who gets the task a
simple and easy way for him/her to contact you directly. Often
the reporter will want to contact you to get details that will
enhance their take on your story.

NON-PRIMETIME ADS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION

Believe it or not, some of the best rates for radio and
television are on the overnight and non-primetime venues. These
target times are not a total waste as they can easily keep the
infomercial people in business.

These off-hours are just less populated than the primetime hours.

Don`t be afraid to check your local radio and television rates
for non-primetime hours to see what bargains may exist. With
television, primetime is 7pm to 10pm. With radio, primetime is
8am to 5pm. This sure leaves a whole lot of hours available to
advertise your home business at discount rates!

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IN CONCLUSION

When it comes down to it, there is a lot to understand about
advertising, but when you have the basic knowledge down pat,
everything will fall into place and bring more dollars to your
bank account.



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Staying Focused On Your Home Business Goals

How to Stay Focused on Your Home Business Goals
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When you are the owner of a home business, you will findhundreds of distractions that vie for your time, energy andfocus.Common distractions include: children, family, friends,neighbors, pets, phone calls, mail, household chores, videogames, television, neighborhood children, visitors, and so manymore.As an owner of a home based business, you must always rememberyour purpose in bringing your profession home.

What was yourreason for wanting to own a home business? Was your goal to workfrom home so that you can share in the lives of your children?Was your goal to be out from under the rule of a tyrannicalboss? Was your goal to have the freedom to work when it isconvenient for you? Was your goal to make tons of money working for yourself?Here`s a few good tips that will help you stay focused on your home business:

TIP #1:
Whatever your reason for going out on your own, you must keepyour reason in the forefront of your mind. If you forget yourreason for starting your own home business, you will not beworking for yourself for long. It is far too easy to letcircumstance drive your activities --- and when circumstance isin the driver`s seat, you are more likely to crash and burn.

TIP #2:
Remember --- your own business is a lot like a real job. Some
people go to work to play, some go to socialize, and others ---
most often those who are paid in a commission or tip environment
--- go to work to work and to make money. When you work for
yourself, your salary is directly proportional to your
productivity. Therefore, wouldn`t it make sense to stay focused
on getting as much done in as short of a period as possible?

Go to work to work and to make money. Leave playtime and
recreation for when your workday has ended.

TIP #3:
When you are dealing with family in the course of your workday,
it is important to schedule your activities as much as possible.
With small children, you must take time when you must, but you
should also work hard to make sure you dedicate a specific
number of hours to your workday.

With older children, it is much easier to tell them that you
will be working between the hours of x and y. Your children and
your friends must understand that certain hours of your day are
devoted to the activities of your business.

TIP #4:
Don`t permit your friends and extended family to run over you.
Many people get the blind idea that if one works from home then
they are not actually working.

Well-meaning people may try to fill your doorway to bring advice
about getting a real job. Others may simply believe that if you
are at home, then you are fair game for chitchat and
socialization.

You must stand firm. You must make certain your friends and
family understands that when you are working, then you ARE
working! If they wish to socialize with you, then they need to
do it during the hours that are not dedicated to your home
business.

You are the only one who can stand up for you. Your friends and
family will seldom be able to appreciate your dedication to your
home business, unless you make the effort to make sure that they
have the same respect for your business that you do.

TIP #5:
You should allot a certain portion of your day to email and to
regular mail. For example, allot one hour in the morning and one
hour in the afternoon to handling your written communications.

Unless you dedicate certain times to the handling of these
communications, you will soon find yourself on the downward
slope of decreased productivity.

TIP #6:
When you find yourself spending too much time doing
non-productive activities, then you should seriously consider
finding a third-party service provider who will assist you in
those non-profitable business activities.

As an example, you might be in the mail-order business. You
might believe that your time is best spent writing ad copy and
setting up your advertising, but you find yourself spending far
too much time taking care of your books to take care of your
advertising in the manner that you should. In this event, it
might make more sense to hire a bookkeeper to handle your
financial records for you.

CONCLUSION:
In the end, the success of your home business is entirely and
completely reliant upon you and the decisions that you make.

You had your reasons for deciding to start your own home based
business. You must always keep your reasons in the forefront of
your mind. You must always be able to rely upon your own self
and your dedication to the success of your business.

Your friends and family might be annoyed that they cannot come
visit upon their own whim, but when success comes to you and
your business, they will better appreciate you for putting your
foot down when necessary.

Success is within your reach, if only you can stay focused on
your goals. You must decide to reach for your goals, and then,
you must have the discipline necessary to reach them.



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Home Base Business Start-Up Secrets

Starting Your Home Based Business On A Shoestring Budget
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Whether seeking a supplemental income or a full-time income,many folks have undertaken the task to discover a viable homebased business solution to meet their personal needs.
For most folks who contemplate a home business, a low-cost orno-cost solution is not only nice, but also very necessary. Manyalso seek to find a home business that will permit them tomaintain their regular day job in order to protect their baseincome.

Taking the cautious approach to a home based business andkeeping one`s job during the start-up period is often a verygood decision. By maintaining one`s job, one can maintain thehealth of their personal finances while permitting their homebusiness grow healthy and strong.

Fortunately, most home based businesses can be started withlittle or no cash, can be maintained on a shoestring budget, andcan be operated successfully with only a part-time investment.
One day, the business will be strong enough to support itselfand its owner. When that time comes, it will make good sense forthe business owner to leave his or her outside job to dedicatemore time to growing and maintaining their new thriving homebased business. You will know when that time has finally arrived.

The nature of a home based business makes it easy and veryrealistic for most folks to take the plunge into home businessownership.
Yet, many folks put off starting their own home based business,because they have the misconception that they will have to riskthousands of their own hard-earned dollars at start-up. Thenlater, if their business fails, they fear they may be forced totake out a second mortgage on their house just to stay out ofbankruptcy.

Are you one of these folks? Do you let your fears of failurekeep you from reaching for your dreams?
If so, then allow me to introduce you to a few home businessideas that you can start for less than $100 and can be startedand operated very profitably as a part-time business.

THE LIFEBLOOD OF ALL SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES:

First of all, let me advise you to search out a business modelthat will deliver steady and repeat business. It is the onething --- above all others --- that will assure that yourcompany can survive the test of time.

HOME-BASED MAIL ORDER:

Home-based mail order is a good example of how one can quicklygrow a home business income. Mail order is a low cost start-upbusiness that can be launched for around $100 USD.
With proper planning, your home-based mail order business willnot require up-front inventory purchases. In the mail orderbusiness, it is not uncommon to rely upon drop-shippers forproduct fulfillment services.

By utilizing drop-shippers, we can sell the products, collectthe money and then purchase the products from the wholesaleoutlet. The wholesale outlet will then put a return address foryour company on the product packaging and deliver the productdirectly to your customer.
Your primary expense in the mail-order business is advertising.Classified advertising tends to be a relatively inexpensive formof advertising with thousands of outlets available to the smallbusiness owner.

WHOLESALE BUSINESS:

Buy low --- sell high. You can acquire high quality,top-of-the-line merchandise for a fraction of the retail cost.
AUCTIONS:Auctions can be an excellent source for buying cheap and sellinghigh. Both government auctions and Internet auctions can lead tosome excellent profit opportunities. Auctions are an excellenttool for both acquiring and selling merchandise.

MAKE AND SELL YOUR CRAFTS:

Crafts are a hot seller at country fairs, swap meets or anyplacewhere people gather. Make your own crafts and sell them for atidy profit!
SELLING INFORMATION:Selling information by mail is another good example of aninexpensive home based business start-up. One can gain theresale rights to information for usually about $50 USD. Othercosts will include printer cartridges, paper and postage. Thereare plenty of free classifieds sites on the Internet, in whichto successfully advertise your information.

WRITE INFORMATIONAL BOOKLETS:

Write and publish your own informational booklets; sell them ata high price! All you need is a little know-how, a printer,paper and stamps. This is a GREAT home business idea! You canalso sell the resale rights to others, for extra profits. Inthis age of the Internet, you may also take advantage of thefact that selling information is one of the most profitableendeavors one can pursue online.

OFFICE SERVICES:

Offer office services for hire in your local paper. You`ll besurprised at the amount of regular office business that can begleaned from one little classified ad. Word processing, typing,accounting, data entry, proofreading, transcription, promotional letters and newsletters. All these tasks can be accomplishedright from your own home office.

AVON REPRESENTATIVE:

Yes, Avon`s been around for eternity, hasn`t it? Then it`s notsuch a bad prospect as a home based business, is it? I once knewa woman who did so much business as an Avon rep. that she hadpeople calling her and knocking at her door wanting to order products at all hours of the day and night! Once you are anestablished Avon representative, you, too, will turn a goodprofit.

CONCLUSION:On your search for the ideal home based business, try not to get caught up in any scams that will run off with your money. Thereare thousands of scam artists out there just waiting for thenext sucker to come along. Remember, if it sounds too good to betrue, then it probably is. Just use your good judgement andinvest wisely in proven methods of earning extra income.

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How to Make Working From Home Work

If I Can Do It - You Can - Anyone Can
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It's unfortunate, but true: many people who work from home find that their work is trivialized by others simply because of the atmosphere in which they work. Because you are at home, friends and family seem to assume that you must always have time to talk to them or that they can drop by anytime when, in fact, the opposite is most often the case.

Working at home allows for casual attire, but not for a casual attitude towards your job.

When I first started as a freelance writer, this was something I encountered on an almost daily basis. Case in point: up until several months ago, my mom used to call me nearly every day just wanting to chat. Although I'm not so busy that I can't make time for my family, just because I can work in my pajamas doesn't mean that I have time for an hour-long conversation about last Monday's golf tournament.

So, how does a work-at-home go about getting stuff done? Below are a few time- and people-management tips specifically designed for people working from a home office:

Explain to friends and family what you do and that it is important to you
When I first began freelancing, most of my friends and family seemed to think that my writing was just a hobby, and that I would eventually find a "real" job where I would go into an office, work until 5 or 6 p.m. and come home to my husband.

It hurt that everyone but my husband was blind to the fact that this was my job, and it was something I intended to do for as long as I could. Finally, after several months of interruptions by family members calling to "just have a little chat" and friends asking me to lunch because I "wasn't doing anything anyway," I had to sit down with the most notorious offenders and explain to them exactly what I was doing and that it was very important to me.

I also told them that, like any business, I had an administrative, accounting and marketing department in addition to my product. The difference between me and an established business, though, was that I was all those departments. Although it was hard to do, most of my friends and family accepted the fact that working at home does not equal available all the time.
Establish boundaries by setting working hours and letting people know about them
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Although your time may be more flexible because you work at home, that doesn't mean that you're sitting on the couch eating bonbons. Depending upon your profession, you probably need to make yourself available during regular business hours. If you find that friends and family just can't seem to take the hint, tell them, gently but firmly, that you simply must be available to clients during those hours, and that you will talk to them later.

Set aside a place for work to minimize distractions. It may seem obvious to most people, but it is vitally important have a separate space for your home office. Ideally, you'd have an entirely separate room so you can close the door against distractions. And if you are a work-at-home parent, consider hiring a childcare specialist to take care of the kids during the day. It's not very professional to have screaming kids in the background when you're making a conference call, and no matter how hard you try to avoid interruptions from your children, they'll happen unless you have someone there to help you when you're done working.

Many people who work from home find that they work even longer hours than they did when they worked somewhere else. The time they would have spent commuting can now be spent being productive, which is wonderful. But the downside of working at home is that it is very easy to work too late. Make sure you're not spending all of your time in front of your computer. Once you've finished the day's tasks and have determined what your major goals should be for the upcoming day, stop working and turn off that computer! Now is the time to hang out with friends and family.


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