Back in September I wrote a piece on Time Management. Good time management skills help you organize your time wisely, get all your work done and keep on your clients’ good side. Going a step further, as a self-employed person, should you set yourself set work hours? This is an interesting question. If you don’t establish some type of schedule or work hours, you’ll have a tough time keeping on top of things.
With Freelancers and Administrative Consultants (also referred to by some as Virtual Assistants) on the rise, home offices are becoming more common than ever before. Things have changed though and the typical home office is no longer relegated to a tiny area of your house to tinker around in. For many, it is now a key room in the home where many hours are spent.
For this reason, it is vital for your office space to be functional if you’re going to run a successful business from it so careful planning needs to be done. Prepare a check-list of the equipment and furniture you’ll need. We touched on this briefly in a previous article (see Planning Is Key, Part 8: Calculating the Costs) but equipment aside for a second, think about the following:
