For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: - Ecclesiastes 3:1 As important as perseverance, determination, and hard work are a part of working from home--an even more important trait might very well be knowing when to move on. As I mentioned before--you might have to try several times before you find something that works for you, before you find your niche and have success. Stepping away can be so hard though. When you've poured money, time, sweat, tears and more into getting a business up off the ground moving on can be heartbreaking. If you're like me you pour your heart into anything you do so when it flops it's so easy to beat yourself up about it--to take it personally and think that maybe if you just work a little harder it will finally succeed. And maybe it will--but only you know if it will be worth the cost. As I mentioned before I got my big introduction into the work at home world by doing scrap-for-hire. It didn't take me too long … [Read more...]
Faith and Business 101: 7 Tools
What do you have to make your work at home business easier? For many having a Virtual Assistant (VA) is something they can't live without or maybe it's their web designer, social media expert or their business coach. Whatever it may be, there are tools that can help you make your business run smoother and help you be more organized so you can be out there making more money. 7 Important Home Business Tools: Good Internet Connection It's no secret, when you work your business from home, you need reliable Internet to access your email, website, social media and other important things. You have to be able to access all of these things and having a slow or poor Internet connection will only slow down your day and makes things more difficult and frustrating for you. External Hard Drive It's important to have an external hard drive to back up your important things from your desktop computer. Remember those family vacation photos to Disney World? Yeah, if your hard drive crashes, it's … [Read more...]
Faith and Business 101: 20 Productive Tasks To Do When Internet Connection is Lost
It happens. It's not the end of the world when you lose your Internet connection. When you work online and you depend on your Internet to be working all of the time, it's disheartening when suddenly it disappears on you, but it doesn't mean you can't be productive offline. Here are 20 productive tasks you can do in your business while you wait for your Internet connection to come back: 1. You know that your Internet connection can cut out at any given time and the same goes for your hard drive. Now is the time to get your external hard drive and backup all of your important files, documents, photos and other things that are important to you. Give yourself some peace of mind and do this on a regular basis. 2. Brainstorm ideas for your business whether it's for blog posts, writing, marketing campaigns and so on. Two heads are better than one, so call or meet up with a friend or discuss it with your Virtual Assistant. 3. Grab a pen and notebook, go outside and start writing the … [Read more...]
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