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Making Changes in Your Business? Have a Back-up Plan

I often encourage taking calculated risks and making changes in your home business. The fact is, change is inevitable and we can either embrace and use it to our advantage or fight it and drag our feet when it is time to expand or grow our home businesses and make adjustments. Even when you are embracing change and charging toward the future, however, I think it is a good idea to have a back-up plan “B” tucked away in your pocket. You may be concerned that having a back-up plan means that you do not have complete faith in your … Continue reading →

Consumer-Driven Changes

In the business world, changes can come from myriad directions—in our small businesses, we may need to make adjustments because of a change in our schedule, shifts in our families, or even natural disasters can affect how we do business. One of the realities that we have to adjust to is when those changes to our business or industry come from the consumers. Our customers and clients can be strong forces in pushing us to do business differently. These are those consumer-driven changes that I wanted to write about. There are many factors that influence a market—even a small market … Continue reading →

Making Business Changes Painlessly

Change is one of those inevitable constants I write about fairly regularly here in the Home Business blog. The truth is that flexible business models that can change and adjust with market fluctuations and trends are a very good thing. BUT, change isn’t always easy. As a matter of fact, there can be a fair amount of resistance and stress around changes in our home businesses—both for us and for our customers or clients. Learning how to make changes as painless as possible for those we do business with can be a benefit to our bottom line. There is a … Continue reading →

Balancing Heart and Head

I refuse to buy into the belief that successful business people are always practical and always let themselves be guided by their head and NOT their heart. In fact, I think that while realism is a good thing in the business world, not to mention necessary—I definitely think there is a place for some heart and emotion in any business. Like all things in life, of course, it comes down to balance. Too much of anything can’t be good—isn’t that how the saying goes? Too much realism and emotionless business dealing can make a person cold-hearted and turn off customers … Continue reading →

Looking for Gaps and Holes (That Need Filling)

When I was thinking about writing this blog, a thought came to mind—that of a cowboy (or girl) or a ranch hand who goes out walking along the fence surrounding the ranch. Walking over every inch, the ranch hand looks for gaps, holes and breaks in the fencing that need to be fixed in order to keep the cattle—the product and potential profit for the ranch—for escaping. Even in a small home business, we need to periodically walk our fence line and see if there are any gaps or holes that need to be fixed so we can optimize our … Continue reading →