Comments on: Office or Home Based Business?

By: Takumi86

Takumi86 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:22:26 +0000

I would like to say office based business, if you are home based business, you should try office based business so that you can learn how to interact with different people and with different character. I found out that doing office based business can earn a lots of knowledge and experience since you’re having a conservation with them so you probably can learn how do they start their home/office-based business. Because a lots of people would love to sharing their thought with you

By: BOA Method Blueprint

BOA Method Blueprint — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:10:45 +0000

I agree with all the idea that you have but also in my own idea, I still go on with home base especially when your business is just starting but when your business is growing bigger and well and maybe thats the time to spent some for the rental or if your is good enough and continue growing maybe you can invest to have your own office its better that renting a building for your office. Its your additional point with your business.

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By: J Ryan Isaksen

J Ryan Isaksen — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:15:17 +0000

I’ve been working at home since ’99 promoting affiliate program. However, the competition has increase dramatically in recent years, and now, in order to make any kind of decent living, you must find creative ways to convert your visting web traffic into paying customers…there’s just too much competition otherwise.

By: David Peterson

David Peterson — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:28:52 +0000

There was a time when I exclusively worked my home-based business from the bonus room above my garage. It was a difficult transition from a busy office to the empty room. What made it difficult was the pace of the business. Until the home business got rolling the highlight of my day was going outside and getting the mail.

After a few months my home business got busy and I adjusted to working from home. I didnâ€™t just get adjusted I loved it. No traffic, no tie, no watch, no boss. It was all good.

I eventually got lured back into an office setting. The office setting does have its advantages but I now look back on how nice the home office really was.

David Peterson Editor – USReference.com

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:45:07 +0000

I was an office administrator and my company moved. I was going to quit because of the time it took to get to work; so they set me up to work from home. They connected my computer to the business computer. It worked out great!
http://www.marketersinmotion.com/blog

By: Claudine

Claudine — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 20:27:55 +0000

I remember the first time I went to apply for a job and was not told that the business was located in a home. I drove through the neighborhood (in a city different from my own) and thought that I had had to be going the wrong way! When I arrived at the address, I have to admit that I thought that the job was a scam. My view changed, however, when I went inside and met the business owner and other employees. If the business owner told me beforehand that it was a work at home business, I would have been psychologically prepared (and I wouldn’t have thought that I was lost).

By: Luc

Luc — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:25:48 +0000

Myself,

I think that a home-based business can take away from the professionalism of a business if you ever meet clients there… some people prefer doing business this way and others do not. It just depends

Also the PO Box rental is always a good idea because you never know and you don’t want people knowing exactly where you live. Whether you have an online business or not doesn’t matter really. Plus as Yaro said it is a tax write-off so why not use it.

I am also a big believer in making mistakes in order to figure out what you really want; so renting and/or leasing just gives you more insight into the world around you if nothing else.

Growing a business wherever you choose to grow it totally depends on how a person works best. Some people get more work done in a formal working environment while others don’t. What ever your style there is a way and method to suite you perfectly!

By: Ken King | King Marketing

Ken King | King Marketing — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 02:11:35 +0000

On the topic of having employees come to your home office to work – I believe that my staff should benefit from the same freedom that I do and therefore have arranged things such that they can work from their own homes.

For the occasional face-to-face meeting we have been lucky enough to forge a relationship with one of our clients that lets us use space within their offices (not unlike that described above by MattE of PlusOne Marketing).

By: Office Max!

Office Max! — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:26:48 +0000

Office Or Home Based Business?

Good bit on the trade-offs of having an office at home or in an office building….

By: Home Business on the Internet - HomeOfficeVoice » The Home Business Inferiority Complex … Those Days Are Over

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:32:28 +0000

[...] Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey blog has an interesting post, Office or Home Based Business? Talking about his move fr [...]

By: Home Business on the Internet - HomeOfficeVoice

Home Business on the Internet - HomeOfficeVoice — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:30:06 +0000

The Home Business Inferiority Complex … Those Days Are Over

Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey blog has an interesting post, Office or Home Based Business?
Talking about his move from a traditional office last year into a home-based business, Yaro had the problem of running an internet business …

By: Business Opportunities Weblog

Business Opportunities Weblog — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:22:57 +0000

Office or Home Based Business?

Entrepreneur’s Journey: A lot of small business owners worry that running a home based business can hinder their ability to convince clients to buy because of the perception that they are not professional if they do not have an office….

By: PlusOne Marketing

PlusOne Marketing — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 04:05:58 +0000

There are hundreds of ways to have an office without having the full cost of rental. Perhaps like I did – renting space in a large office that is not big enough to use all available space…

I did this once for six months when it was important for me to have an inner city ‘profile’ for a project. I asked a business I had dealings with if I could use a corner of their large open plan office, with use of the conference room for meetings.

This gave me a proper inner city business ‘address’ and hence a degree of ‘establishment’.

This worked out well, paying just A$60pw – all phone communications was via mobile and I chipped in a bit for bandwidth via their broadband connection.

I generally used the space only three days per week, with the rest of my business undertaken from my home-based office in a large regional centre 130km away.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 02:08:37 +0000

It appears that some people require a clear definition of work and not work. I have trouble justifying the rent expense…however if I was working with a group on a project and there wasn’t an appropriate home space to set up a group office (like for me at the moment it’s my room so I wouldn’t want anyone else joining me there) then an office is more appropriate. Sometimes having the rent expense makes you work harder because you take things just that bit more serious.

By: Alborz

Alborz — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:53:31 +0000

Hmm, given that I work in an office that we rent for our business, I have to almost not agree.

I love working from home, I really do, its a great thing, but I love the clear border of where work and home is, I travel from home to get to work, and when I am here, I work (except for now ofcourse when I am reading your great blog yaro). When I go home, I work on the othe 200 things that I do in my day but nevertheless it provides a clear barrier of separation for me, and I find that very important.

Next year when we move out of our current office, we havenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t decided on how we would run the business, we are really hoping to get a small office somewhere for cheap rent, just so we can be “at” work, it might be okay for a sole business owner to work from home, but when you have more then one person in charge, an office is a must.

Alborz.

By: PlusOne Marketing

PlusOne Marketing — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 00:38:49 +0000

The blurred lines of work and home is very valid. With the increased flexibility that work-from-home provides (like being able to pick the kids up from school, or in my case drop them off, go for a swim (up to doing 1300 metres per day now ) , and then maybe stop off and do some grocery shopping on the way to ‘work’ comes the fact that after dinner, it is easy to ‘catch up’ on those deadline items, etc.

The downside is that is is VERY easy (from my experiennce) to spend too much time ‘at work’ because of the ease of commuting (like now!).