PRICING YOUR SERVICE OR
PRODUCTS
Operating your business at
home will generally mean lower overhead. This of
course means that you could price your service
and any produces that you sell for less money,
than if you opened an office outside of your
home. However, don't grossly under price your
services.
It is possible that if your
customers realize you conduct your business at
home, some may try to get a cheaper price. Don't
allow clients to use the "you work at home and
should be able to charge less" tactic to lower
your prices. If this comes up, simply tell them
that your prices already reflect your lower
overhead.
Remember that your computer
business should concern itself with repeat
business. It would be difficult to build a solid
home business on one-shot offers. If you give
your clients good service and real value,
they'll be back again and again. Don't ever
cheat or otherwise take advantage of your
customers, because you'll be the loser. Instead,
win success by giving your customers their
money's worth. If you want great success, give
them more than their money's worth in price,
service, and value.
Nothing can ruin a business
faster than sloppy work habits and time
mismanagement. Time is money, and the misuse of
time is almost always the result of an
established pattern of poor work habits.
Changing or reprogramming behavior is not always
an easy task. Learning to cope with the clock to
make it work for us instead of against us is no
simple behavior change. Still, time-wasting
habits must be changed if a person is to be
financially successful.
Far too many business people
develop the bad habit of having huge piles of
papers, envelopes, and work together on their
desks. Priority jobs get lost in the shuffle,
and precious money making time is lost. An
effective way to deal with papers, projects,
mail, etc., is to sort and divide them into the
following categories:
(I) High Priority-Immediate
Action
(2) Low Priority
(3) Pending
(4) Reading Matter
(5) Wastebasket
By working on one project at
a time (from most to least important), your time
will be used wisely and effectively.
To operate a timely business
you may also have to let your friends and
relatives know that you have business hours, and
that you mean business. You'll never be
successful chatting on the phone or having two
hour coffee breaks with well meaning friends. It
of course may be necessary to be a little
flexible, but a line must be drawn somewhere if
you're serious about conducting a money making
home business. |
RoDI
ISOC
IWA
ARTT
RTS
WQC 2003 
ISAQ 2005