A successful home business takes careful planning. The information here will give you basic ideas that will help you get your home business off to a good start.

You need to be able to listen to your internal time clock if you work at home or own your own business. It’s true that there is very little that you can do about when your employer wants you to get up, but when you are in charge, try listening to your own body to determine when you should start your day.

Keep home and work communication separate. Don’t send work e-mails from your personal account. Consider getting a separate work phone line. If that is not an option, get caller ID. Don’t take personal calls while at work. Don’t take business calls after work hours. Politely ask friends and neighbors to call before coming to your door.

Before you venture into a home-based business, ask yourself why you want to start a business. Your reasons might include: you want to be your own boss; you want to express your own creativity; you want to supplement your income; or, it might be others. Your reasons for wanting to start a business will influence your decision on what type of business you start.

If you want to run a home business, you need the space to do it in. Make sure you have a quiet office, away from the noises of the rest of the house and family. Make sure your space includes a comfortable desk and chair, as well as adequate storage for your needs. Setting your office up right will make you a more effective worker.

Don’t walk into a home business blind! There are many online discussion forums designed for small business owners to discuss the unique obstacles in this field. Look locally for other small business and home business organizations that meet in person. Either way you go, networking with other business owners gives you an excellent support system.

If you want make some of the products you sell in your home business, take careful account of how much it costs to product it. Two times the cost of the raw material is typically the wholesale price of a product. Two times the cost of wholesale pricing is the cost of retail in many cases. If the final retail price is prohibitive you will struggle to shift the product.

While conducting business in your sleepwear can seem enjoyable at first, you may begin to miss the interaction that you had with coworkers and clients everyday at your previous job. Make plans to meet people at other places besides your home during the week to stay in touch, reinforce your personal connections and meet the need for interaction with others.

The voyage in becoming a virtual assistant is a joy ride. Everyone will undergo challenges in the first few steps especially if they are not computer savvy. Being in this line of business, you need to be up to date with the technology because if not you will say” how they do it?” or you will utter” I think that’s difficult” but the truth is it is just simple actions that we need to learn so that we can get along with the millennials. So let us start two basic things that we think that it is not important but needed in becoming a VA.
1. Facebook: What is your account title used on this site? Is it your real name or a different one that you just made up? Okay, let us begin with that when you’re trying to look for a job, and you’re using a different name that cannot be found easily on the internet then your client will think that it is a scam that you are not a real person. That’s why you need to correct it and to indicate your first and last name and also be careful in all your posting because it will reflect your reputation. Most people today will upload everything on social media like when you’re going to a party and drink liquor, as much as possible avoid posting it because the client might think that you are an alcoholic and not capable of the job. So be careful with it.
2. Email: This kind of communication is bit disregarded nowadays because of the availability of Messenger, Skype, Viber and many others but in the business world this conveyance is important. They used it to impart information to the consumer or client about the service or product that the company provides. That is how important it is to them, so how about you is email is it still working or have you still remember the password? Let us talk about it, now make also your email profile like a professional such as indicating your full name. You must also be familiar with how to use the “cc: CARBON COPY” or the “bcc: BLIND CARBON COPY” to keep all information secure.

Those are the starting point we need to improve first because we thought it’s fine that we a made our social media account under a different name but in the business world that’s not good. For example, there will be an interested client that want to hire you, but they will do a background check first if you are visible on the internet, so you already know what will happen if they will look for your name in the web. The sad thing will happen is that you lose the opportunity. I am making this awareness only for those who are planning to start a home-based career because they might be like me doesn’t know about it. Those things that I say are the start of my voyage in becoming a virtual assistant. We can do it, guys!

Weightlifting is generally broken down into various categories – bodybuilding, powerlifting, Olympic weightlifting, and general health and fitness pursuits. And while each varies in philosophy and execution, weightlifters in general share one common trait – they love workouts and time spent in the gym.

In many cases, if not most, successful weightlifting also involves weightlifters getting enough sleep, maintaining a healthy diet, and using various vitamins and supplements to keep them healthy and maximize the results of their weightlifting.

Sound familiar?

So tell me, does it make sense to put in all that effort, to craft a healthy mind, body and lifestyle, just to then spend 40 hours a week in a job you hate? Or even in a job that’s OK, but still brings stress into your life on a daily or weekly basis? We all know stress can be bad for the body and the mind, so why go through it to your detriment in order to make someone else wealthier? Sounds kind of counter-productive to all your healthy weightlifting lifestyle, doesn’t it?

What if there was a viable alternative?

Fortunately, there is! If you’ve been weightlifting for a while successfully, you’ve no doubt noticed beneficial changes in your strength, energy, body shape and general attitude. And those around you, in the gym and out, have likely also been noticing and commenting. People are starting to ask how you lost weight, tightened up your midsection, built more muscle or have the time and energy to maintain your fit lifestyle, aren’t they? And therein lies the answer to the work/lifestyle conundrum…

Millions of people around the world go to the gym regularly but aren’t getting the same results you are. They may not have the knowledge of proper weightlifting procedures, they may not know which exercises are best to meet their goals, or they may not even have set specific goals yet, leaving them unable to gauge what works and what is wasting their time.

And for every one of them, there are 5 – 10 people outside the gym who want a healthy lifestyle, who want to lose weight, who want to be stronger or just generally want to improve their body before venturing out to the beach in their newest bikini or swim trunks. Many of them are intimidated by the idea of going to a gym and want to train at home, but they have no idea how to start. Others aren’t intimidated, but they aren’t overly motivated – yet.

Easy to see how YOUR weightlifting, diet and lifestyle knowledge and experience can help them, isn’t it? Fortunately, you can start building your personal training business part-time, investing as much or as little time each week as you have available, at any point through the day or night that you choose to work on it. And unlike a lot of other home-based businesses, you have a great deal of control over how fast your business grows.

Start by doing some quick research online to see which certification best suits the style of weightlifting you want to coach. You might want to start with training to become a Certified Personal Trainer (CPT), a Certified Fitness Instructor (CFI) or even a nutrition coach. Over time you may want to get all three along with other, more specific certifications, but for now choose the one that’s most directly related to the type of weightlifting you yourself love participating in. You’re more like to stay motivated and complete the certification if you love the subject, and you’ll also be learning new information to help your own weightlifting results.

While you’re working toward your first certification, set up and start posting to your own health and fitness social media accounts. These will be your ‘store-front windows’ to the weightlifters and wannabes, so don’t skimp – at a minimum set up profiles at Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you’re already a member or know of other social media sites you’d like to use, so much the better.

From this point on, make sure you’re in compliance with any local laws and bylaws regarding home-based businesses, and speak to your insurance professional as to whether you need liability insurance when dispensing exercise instruction, especially with the potential hazards for people new to weightlifting whether they are training at the gym or training at home.

While it’s not necessary to have your weightlifting certifications to start training people, it certainly adds to your credibility when getting started, at least until you have some success stories from your initial weightlifting clients. But you can still do a lot to launch your business while you’re still working toward those certifications.

Are you going to set up a private training area in your garage, basement or spare room? Or are you looking to train people virtually, providing them with the necessary guidance through video chats and pre-prepared workout routines tailored to their goals? Either way, let the word out that you’re looking for a couple of weightlifting friends or acquaintances who are looking to get started or get better results, and that you’re willing to train them for free or a reduced fee in order to be able to use them as examples of your training prowess.

And from there you’re on your way to your own home-based business, turning your weightlifting hobby into your profession. As you garner more certifications, more clients, and a bigger social media following in the weightlifting and fitness industry, you’ll find your knowledge, results, reputation and income can all increase regularly in line with the time and effort you invest in your new home-based business.

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