I am writing this document for people who own and operate Internet Home Businesses because their circumstances are unique. They have the flexibility of being able to operate from home, which is great, I do so myself, but along with this flexibility comes the drawback of being so close to potential distractions.
Right now, as I am trying to type this, I have Logan; my 14-year-old cat determined that he can help me do this task, by sitting on my keyboard. This is a regular occurrence and I sometimes end up having to close the door on him in order to do any work. I do not have any children, just 4 cats, but I can just imagine the potential for interruptions from children during your workday at home. If you operate Internet Home Businesses, you need to be especially diligent about setting goals, and keeping them, in light of the work environment we all operate in.
Listed below you will find some thoughts on Goal Setting. I have always found it strange that for something as critical to our success as setting and then achieving our goals, that we spend so little time on this crucial process. This article is not meant to be an all inclusive list, just some thoughts that I hope you find useful in helping you look at this very important process in a different light than before.
Goal Setting For Operators of Internet Home Businesses Is Not a One Time Activity
This is probably one of the most important aspects of Goal Setting that I would like to get across to you today. In real time, it's January 5th, 2010, the time most people think about New Years Resolutions and setting goals for the coming year. Unfortunately, most people have abandoned their resolutions by mid January and are back in their old habits long before they see February 1st.
My point here is this, setting and establishing our goals, has to be an ongoing process, it does not have a beginning, and it certainly, does not have an end. You want to look at setting goals as an ongoing process, one that is part of your daily structure. I hope you are working with an established Time Management system, something that helps you organize your day to day activities, and one that allows you to monitor your progress in not only establishing your goals, but allows you to monitor them as you move through your day to day routine.
That aside for a moment. Thinking about goal setting as an ongoing process, helps to bring some relevancy to the process. If you look at setting goals as something that you do once a year and then when they fizzle out, you just forget the process, you can see how the process and the results will be shuffled to the back burner very quickly. Here are some quick points to help integrate your goal setting process, into your day-to-day activities.
Time Activate specific tasks on a daily basis, into your Day Planner that directly relate to specific goals. This will help to keep the goals front and center.
Keep a record of the days when the activities are completed. If you see that you are not able to keep up with the demands of certain goals, re organize your time, or re think the feasibility of achieving those goals in the time frame allowed.
Goals that are not being met have to be either assigned a different time table, re a assigned back into your Power Living Life List, or re evaluated as to whether you want to continue with this particular goal or not.
The worse thing that you can do is to simply allow the goal to just whither away, from lack of attention. Internet Home Businesses need attention, time, and resources to flourish. Proper Goal setting is a key element in getting your Internet Home Businesses to be successful and profitable. I hope I have given you some insight into Goal Setting. At the very least, I hope you will take away from this article one important point, integrate Goal Setting into your day to day activities and when you find you are unable to achieve them in the time frame you would like, re think and re organize. It's worth the effort.
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Work From Home Job or Home-Based Business?
In this article, we are going to look at the difference between a work from home job and a home-based business. To help us illustrate the difference, we are going to create a fictitious fast food chain, Hamburger Heaven, and pretend that this national fast food chain is on every major street corner so that you can get a visual image of what I’m talking about.
If you wanted to go get a job at Hamburger Heaven, you would expect certain things. For example, you would expect:
That Hamburger Heaven would ask you for the hours you were available to work before they hired you.
That they would develop a work schedule for you based on your available hours and expect you to work those hours with minimal disruption.
That they would explain your compensation before you were hired, and that you would be paid this compensation on a regular and consistent basis.
That you would be entitled to this compensation for all hours worked, even if Hamburger Heaven had no customers during the time you worked.
That if your schedule was considered full-time, that you would be entitled to additional compensation such as paid vacation, access to health insurance, and sick pay.
That you would be an employee of Hamburger Heaven, and that they would be responsible for making your federal and state withholding payments and unemployment insurance, etc.
You would not expect to be charged to be hired or trained by the company. In fact, if training is required for the job, you should expect them to compensate you for the time you spend in training. There might be legitimate expenses involved in taking the job, for example, you might be required to wear shoes with non-slip soles, which would be your responsibility to purchase. The company might provide you with a list of vendors that sold such shoes, or they might have an arrangement with a vendor where you could order the shoes and have them deducted from your future payrolls.
A work from home job should not be any different. It is still a job – the only difference is the commute is much shorter. Your prospective employer should still provide you with a work schedule based around your availability, and expect you to work your schedule. They should still provide you with a stated compensation package and pay you on a consistent and regular schedule. If you are expected to be “on call” during certain hours, you should be compensated for those hours even if no calls are received. If you are scheduled for full-time (usually over 35 hours a week) of work, you should discuss benefits that would be available to you in a regular job. And since you are their employee, you should expect to fill out a W-4, have withholdings taken out of your paycheck, and be provided with unemployment insurance and, if applicable, workman’s compensation insurance. And you should not expect an employer to charge you a placement fee or a fee for training; you should be paid for necessary training. If the charge is for necessary equipment or supplies, consider this in light of the Hamburger Heaven example above, and see if it would fly in a regular job environment.
How about a home-based business? How does that differ? Well, let’s return to our Hamburger Heaven example. If you wanted to open your own Hamburger Heaven, it would be quite a bit different than getting a job there. You would either go to the Hamburger Heaven corporate office and purchase a franchise license, and then go about setting up your own restaurant from scratch using their guidelines, or you might find someone selling their already open and running Hamburger Heaven restaurant, and purchase that (called a turn-key business). Either way, there is likely to be some money required to get started (capital). While you would have Hamburger Heaven to help train and guide you, there would be no guarantee of success. You would be exposed to some risk. You might not make money right away, or even on a regular basis. You would be responsible for many of the day-to-day decisions, although with a franchise, there might be some decisions you had no control over. For example, you would have to decide how many employees you needed, who to hire, and when to schedule them. But Hamburger Heaven’s franchise agreement would require that you use their uniforms, signage, interior décor, menu, and prices, so you would not have control over these decisions. Because you are self employed, you are responsible for self-employment tax. You are also responsible for making sure your employees’ taxes and fees are paid (on time) and for carrying whatever licenses and insurance is required to operate your business.
A home-based business works much the same way. You will likely have to put out at least some money. If you become an independent consultant, affiliate, or franchiser for a company, you will have the support and training of that company to help you get started, but that is not a guarantee of success, or even of an income. There is likely to be some risk involved. You are the boss, which means you will be responsible for many decisions. As an affiliate or franchiser, there may be rules you have to agree to with the company you align yourself with; this is something you want to consider before signing up under them. And regardless of whether you start your own business, buy a turn-key business, become a consultant, affiliate, or franchiser, you are self-employed, and responsible for your own (and any employees’) taxes, insurance, licenses, and fees.
Now, that makes it sound like I am against home-based businesses. On the contrary! I own one myself! There are many benefits to owning your own business. For example, there is no limit to the income you can earn with your own business. Once you start a business and it takes off, your income quite often multiplies itself with the work others in your organization do or products you sell when you are not working (called residual income). With a job, your income is limited to the hours you work, and there are only so many hours in the week.
With a business, you set your own schedule and adjust it on the fly to accommodate your son’s ball game or your daughter’s ballet recital. Try that with a job, even a work from home job, and you’ll soon find yourself unemployed.
I just want to be sure you understand the distinction because being an entrepreneur is not for everyone. If you start searching for a work from home job and end up with a home-based business, you could be very unhappy. And if you are a free-spirit who hates working for someone else and wants to be in control of your own destiny, you will be just as unhappy with a work from home job as you are with a regular job. Once you understand the differences and can look at the advantages and disadvantages of each, you can decide which is right for you and your family, and adjust your search accordingly.
Julia Allen is a work at home mom of six children, ranging in age from 21 down to 4 years. She is a referral agent for MomExecs. To find out more about her business, visit [http://www.homebizmother.com].
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If you wanted to go get a job at Hamburger Heaven, you would expect certain things. For example, you would expect:
That Hamburger Heaven would ask you for the hours you were available to work before they hired you.
That they would develop a work schedule for you based on your available hours and expect you to work those hours with minimal disruption.
That they would explain your compensation before you were hired, and that you would be paid this compensation on a regular and consistent basis.
That you would be entitled to this compensation for all hours worked, even if Hamburger Heaven had no customers during the time you worked.
That if your schedule was considered full-time, that you would be entitled to additional compensation such as paid vacation, access to health insurance, and sick pay.
That you would be an employee of Hamburger Heaven, and that they would be responsible for making your federal and state withholding payments and unemployment insurance, etc.
You would not expect to be charged to be hired or trained by the company. In fact, if training is required for the job, you should expect them to compensate you for the time you spend in training. There might be legitimate expenses involved in taking the job, for example, you might be required to wear shoes with non-slip soles, which would be your responsibility to purchase. The company might provide you with a list of vendors that sold such shoes, or they might have an arrangement with a vendor where you could order the shoes and have them deducted from your future payrolls.
A work from home job should not be any different. It is still a job – the only difference is the commute is much shorter. Your prospective employer should still provide you with a work schedule based around your availability, and expect you to work your schedule. They should still provide you with a stated compensation package and pay you on a consistent and regular schedule. If you are expected to be “on call” during certain hours, you should be compensated for those hours even if no calls are received. If you are scheduled for full-time (usually over 35 hours a week) of work, you should discuss benefits that would be available to you in a regular job. And since you are their employee, you should expect to fill out a W-4, have withholdings taken out of your paycheck, and be provided with unemployment insurance and, if applicable, workman’s compensation insurance. And you should not expect an employer to charge you a placement fee or a fee for training; you should be paid for necessary training. If the charge is for necessary equipment or supplies, consider this in light of the Hamburger Heaven example above, and see if it would fly in a regular job environment.
How about a home-based business? How does that differ? Well, let’s return to our Hamburger Heaven example. If you wanted to open your own Hamburger Heaven, it would be quite a bit different than getting a job there. You would either go to the Hamburger Heaven corporate office and purchase a franchise license, and then go about setting up your own restaurant from scratch using their guidelines, or you might find someone selling their already open and running Hamburger Heaven restaurant, and purchase that (called a turn-key business). Either way, there is likely to be some money required to get started (capital). While you would have Hamburger Heaven to help train and guide you, there would be no guarantee of success. You would be exposed to some risk. You might not make money right away, or even on a regular basis. You would be responsible for many of the day-to-day decisions, although with a franchise, there might be some decisions you had no control over. For example, you would have to decide how many employees you needed, who to hire, and when to schedule them. But Hamburger Heaven’s franchise agreement would require that you use their uniforms, signage, interior décor, menu, and prices, so you would not have control over these decisions. Because you are self employed, you are responsible for self-employment tax. You are also responsible for making sure your employees’ taxes and fees are paid (on time) and for carrying whatever licenses and insurance is required to operate your business.
A home-based business works much the same way. You will likely have to put out at least some money. If you become an independent consultant, affiliate, or franchiser for a company, you will have the support and training of that company to help you get started, but that is not a guarantee of success, or even of an income. There is likely to be some risk involved. You are the boss, which means you will be responsible for many decisions. As an affiliate or franchiser, there may be rules you have to agree to with the company you align yourself with; this is something you want to consider before signing up under them. And regardless of whether you start your own business, buy a turn-key business, become a consultant, affiliate, or franchiser, you are self-employed, and responsible for your own (and any employees’) taxes, insurance, licenses, and fees.
Now, that makes it sound like I am against home-based businesses. On the contrary! I own one myself! There are many benefits to owning your own business. For example, there is no limit to the income you can earn with your own business. Once you start a business and it takes off, your income quite often multiplies itself with the work others in your organization do or products you sell when you are not working (called residual income). With a job, your income is limited to the hours you work, and there are only so many hours in the week.
With a business, you set your own schedule and adjust it on the fly to accommodate your son’s ball game or your daughter’s ballet recital. Try that with a job, even a work from home job, and you’ll soon find yourself unemployed.
I just want to be sure you understand the distinction because being an entrepreneur is not for everyone. If you start searching for a work from home job and end up with a home-based business, you could be very unhappy. And if you are a free-spirit who hates working for someone else and wants to be in control of your own destiny, you will be just as unhappy with a work from home job as you are with a regular job. Once you understand the differences and can look at the advantages and disadvantages of each, you can decide which is right for you and your family, and adjust your search accordingly.
Julia Allen is a work at home mom of six children, ranging in age from 21 down to 4 years. She is a referral agent for MomExecs. To find out more about her business, visit [http://www.homebizmother.com].
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Julia_Allen
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