Work At Home To Earn Extra Income
February 11, 2008 by Tom Lindstrom
Working at home has a nice ring to it, and the sound of it gets even better when you realize how profitable it can be working at your computer making money from an income opportunity with the hours you set for your self, and not your boss. For those who have little or no self-discipline, that dream can quickly turn into a nightmare.
There may be times when a deadline is approaching as well as your favorite sports team on television. Without the discipline to set your priorities to your work, your home business will fail.
When you make the commitment to work from home, you are telling your clients or customers that you are ready to do whatever it takes to get the job done within the promised time.When you continually fail to do that, you are telling them that you do not care about their needs and your time is more important to you than their project.
When you work from home, if there is no one around a majority of the day then there should be no distractions to keep you from getting your work done. When you first begin working at home, the first few days may be wasted as you get up in the mornings and think about not having to go anywhere. How nice it is that you can work whenever you feel like it. Soon, however, you may find yourself struggling to hit deadlines and having trouble finding new projects.
One tip about working from home is that while you can work in your pajamas, until you are settled into your routine of working at home, get up in the morning and get dressed for work. Hit the office at a specified time and establish regular hours. Once acclimated to getting your work done on time, then you can play with your schedule and your dog during the day and finish your work in the evening.
Many clients will not care whether you are working on their project at seven in the morning or 10 at night. Their only concern is that the work is done to their specifications within the time that was promised. It is up to you to accomplish this.
Other than discipline, organization is a key ingredient in working from home so that little details, or big jobs, are not overlooked and forgotten. Other than not getting a project completed on time, the worst customer service you can offer is telling a client that you forgot to do their work. Telling them they are not important enough to remember will likely not bring you any additional business from them or their friends.
Once you are organized and disciplined, you can be prepared to work more hours than normal. At least until you have established yourself in your business and become acclimated to the amount of work you need to do. Another tip is to finish all the hard projects at the beginning so if you get behind, the easy ones can be done quickly.
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Working from home has so many benefits but I agree that it takes alot of hard work and discipline to get it going at first but the freedom you get later is well worth it.
Hi Todd! It sure does take a lot of work to get things of the ground but after that the marketing of your site becomes a routine that you need to do everyday.Thanks for commenting!
I made the mistake of quitting my day job too soon but the situation was bad where I was working and I eventually quit.
I took me quite a while to get my web business going but I never went back to work for anyone but myself and love it that way.
I make my living online blogging and thought I would spend more time away from my home office but I find that I start new blogs instead of cutting back to spend more time on my hobbies.
I do spend a lot more time away in the summer, I am a bit of a fly fishing nut and get away any time someone mentions fishing.
I tried a number of things online but eventually found that my hobbies make me the most money online because I never tire of them and that’s key.
Hey James! Thanks for commenting. I have a normal job at the moment but it ends in a few months,so before that I work in the evenings and in the night on my online business.
You are right on the money, when you say to get a regular routine going when you first start working from home!
It takes more discipline to get up at regular hours and do your work first, and then take your time with family.
I have found that it is just easier to be an early riser, and have everything done before anyone else is even out of bed.
the first few days I decided to work from home I thought “this just isn’t going to work”.
As long as I was in their sight everyone in the household needed my attention (right then!)
Now that there is a routine (where I’m up and they are not) things have gotten much easier, and more profitable.
Todd Harrison
@ Todd Harrison
Thanks for visiting! Yes, you need to have discipline with a home based business and work at it every single day, it will become a routine.
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