Putting your duckies in a nice little row.
I wanted to take some time today to write a little bit more about setting up your business. If you remember in the first post about setting up your business (click here) I talked a little bit about the different types of business entities that you can create. Now I know it has been a while since I last wrote on the subject… So you can just click that link above to give yourself a little refresher. Anyways… Here goes.
When you select the type of business you want to form there are several things you need to do to help you keep organized and productive. I’m want to outline some things that I do and recommend that you do so that you can keep productive and grow a strong healthy business. These are just my opinions from things that have worked for me. You won’t know if they apply to you or not unless you try them out for yourself.
First things first. You need to select a place to do business. People have offices for a reason. When we are in a location that is supposed to be dedicated to our work then we WILL work and get more done. Picking the location can be alittle difficult if we don’t have a seperate room to dedicate. So this is my suggestion. When I first started out online I didn’t have a seperate room to work. Infact, at the time, my wife and I were house sitting for someone. We lived in a 2 bedroom guest house off of the main house. One of the bedrooms was storage for the owners and the other was for us to sleep in. The dining room was about as big as the bathroom and the living room was taken up by one futon and a TV. So where did I choose to work on my marketing stuff? The futon. I sat with a laptop on my lap for about 3 months. This in the end turned out to be an epic fail. Let me explain why.
