When you are starting up a home business, its easy to ignore the alarm clock and get up whenever you want to get up. You are your own boss, you should be able to keep the hours that you want, right? Wrong. This is a misconception that many who are going into the home business have.
It is true that you are your own boss, but if you work from 9 to 5 one day, and then dont get up until noon the next day, people wont take you seriously.
When you are setting up your home business, the first thing that you should do is to pick a schedule and stick to it. This way your customers know when they can reach you. This is good for business, and will help keep your customers coming back.
When you sit down to plan out your business hours, figure out a starting time and a closing time, and factor in time for lunch as well.
If you were working in an office environment, you would take a lunch break so set an acceptable amount of time to be at lunch and stick to it.
You dont have a time clock that you have to go by, but you will have customers who are counting on you to be available during the hours that you set.
Just as its important to stick to your...