ABC's of Having a Home Business

The ABC's of Having a Home Business!
By Shelly Hill

A= Advertise! You need to Advertise your business!
B= Book Parties! Bookings are the Heart & Life Line to a home party business! These can be online website chat room parties, offline catalog order parties, home parties etc!
C= Catalogs! Order alot of catalogs and hand them out every where you go and to everyone you meet! Catalog Shopping is Big Business these days!
D= Draft up a Business Plan and Stick to it!
E= Effort! The more effort you put into your home business, the more you will get out of it.
F= Financial Budget! Set aside a certain percentage of your business income to re-invest back into your business.
G= Goals! Make a list of goals for your business. You can make them weekly, monthly, bi-monthly, quarterly or yearly goals. Cross off the goals that you meet and work on the rest of the list. This will help you to "keep" focus on what you want out of your home business.
H= Help! When you need HELP ask for it! When other's need HELP, offer to help!
I= Investigate! Investigate what it takes to run a home business. Investigate what is working and not working with others in home business.
J= Just Ask! Tell everyone you know about your business and ask them to book a party, to place an order or to accept a catalog/business card from you! Just Ask!!!!
K= Kick Off! If you are New to the business, have a Kick Off Grand Opening Party! Every time your business comes out with new products or a new catalog, its YOUR job to kick off the new products by promoting them!
L= Learning! You can never learn enough about having a home business. You can do research at your local library, local chamber of commerce, home business associations, online & offline home business networking groups and learn all that you can from training provided by your company and upline managers.
M= Marketing! You need to market your home business to get business exposure!
N= Network with other home business owners!
O= Organization! Get yourself & your business organized! Opportunity! Take the Opportunity you have been given with your business and run with it!
P= Patience! You will not make money immediately! Like any job or business you need to work on your home business and build up a customer/client base.
Q= Quality & Quantity! Are you providing a quality service or quality products? Customers these days want high quality goods & services! Quantity: Do you have enough stock on hand to sell to your customers? To show to your customers to get orders? Always make sure you have enough stock on hand, that can be products, business supplies, etc.
R= Recruit! Recruiting others into your home party plan business can help you acheive your financial goals & dreams sooner!
S= Schedule! Work up and stick to a business working schedule! You need to set aside time when you will be working on your home business!
T= Telephone! Get on the telephone and start making phone calls! Call up potential customers, hosts, clients, associates, friends & family members.
U= Use what you sell! Be your own walking testimonial. When you use your products/services, you know its benefits and can pass that information on to your customers/clients.
V= Venture! Venture out of your comfort zone!
W= Who do you know list! Draft up a list of everyone you know and work that as your Contact List to get yourself started! Work! You need to work your business!!!
X= Xerox! Make copies of current product specials for customers, current specials for hosts and current business oppty. sign-on specials! Get these copies into the hands of other people!
Y= YOU! You are the most important part of your home business so take care of Yourself!
Z= Zero, is for Zero Excuses in your business! You need to treat your home business like a business and work on it constantly! Businesses don't promote or work themselves, you need to do that!


The idea is to go down the list, see what you are good at, or what you need to work on, and just go out and do it!!! This is one of the lists that I will be following this year as I strive to make my businesses work for me!

Shelly Hill is a great friend of mine! She has another list, 100+ ways to market offline, which I will post soon! To learn more about Shelly and what she does, visit my Spotlight blog!