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22 Insider Tips to Working from Home Successfully

Copyright October 2005 Gobala Krishnan  

Your Home Office

As the nucleus of your home based business, setting up and organizing your home office can be the key to your success:  

1. Learn to separate work from play

Although working at home is fun, you must learn to mentally separate your work from your personal life. Otherwise you’ll get it mixed up and both will suffer. Do not put too many personal things in your working space and vice versa. 

2. Separate the “home” from the “office”

Yes, you have a home office or a SOHO (Small Office Home Office) as it’s popularly called. But you need to physically separate the two. For this reason, it is never a good idea to put your office in your bedroom or share it with any other room. If you have a small living space and can’t afford a separate room, do what I do. Just determine which part of your hall or living area to convert to your home office, and mentally draw a “line” separating it from the rest of the room. You can also put full or partial partitions if you want. 

3. Separate entrance is best

If you can afford it, create a separate door or entrance into your home office. This is especially useful if you expect a lot of clients at home. 

4. Create wireless networking

Cables are messy and troublesome. If you have more than one PC just use wireless routers and create a wireless environment in your home. 

5. Be fully equipped for business

Technology has made things cheap, so make full use of it. I personally use the TelExtreme VoIP service that gives me unlimited calls to local, domestic and international fixed and mobile phones for a flat rate. I use Skype when I travel with my notebook and use it to automate all incoming phone calls, record messages and send them to my email (you can learn more on how to do this with my e-book on Internet Telephony). You could also get a 3-in-1 fax, copier and scanner for under RM800! You can’t afford to have an ill-equipped home office if you’re serious about making the type of income you dreamt about.   

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