What are Your Business Resources? Computer skills
Contacts and friends
Financing sources
Professional and membership contacts
Spare time
Related training
Sales experience
Support from family and friends
Cash available for start up costs
Secure income source from partner
Income from a job you may decide
to keep during
start-up Analyze
an old job resume to look
for skills, experiences, and assets which could help you
be
successful.
Your
Family - Help or Hinder?
When you
start a home-based business, everyone
living in your home will be affected. Their imput will be
essential.
It can make or break your business. Talk over your plans with all other
family
members. Find out how your partner and other family members think your
plans
will affect them. You will need to tell them exactly
what expectations you have for their help.
Family members might have to answer the door, take phone
messages, lend a hand at
busy times,
or just leave you alone to do your work. You will need to take into
account their expectations of you
such as
being available for family occasions, giving warning of absences, and
cleaning up.
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Conflict
management between a home business
and your family home life is particularly important for women. Family members need to be aware of the
time requirements of a home business. The whole
family needs to be onboard. If
your business is going
to be treated as a
hobby by you or anyone else in the family, that is all it ever will be.
Check
out family expectations and reactions before going any further.
We all
have many valuable
skills, life and work experiences and other personal resources that we
often overlook. It is
important to list all your assets and weaknesses so
that way you can focus your attention on the areas that need extra
attention or
where you need more knowledge.
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