Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Setting Up Home Office For Your Home Business!

Before you can start your own home business, the one
thing that you should do is to designate a place for
you to work. The area that you work in should be free
of distractions and have a computer,a desk, a phone, a
connection to the Internet, and, if possible, a
bathroom. This way you will have everything you need
until you take your lunch break.



It would be cool to have every imaginable piece of office
furniture in an office. However, this is not only
impractical, it is also impossible.

The secret behind well-organized offices (at least in terms
of the furniture it owns) lies not on the variety of
furniture they have but on how well they place each
available piece on the office space.

Organizing the office furniture begins with the familiarity
of the office’s floor plan. Being armed with that knowledge
helps a lot when deciding the right size and amount of
furniture to procure.

Another thing is that the office should know very well what
work needs to be done there. It is also the key to buying
the right kind of furniture.

For example, there is no need to buy a full-sized desk when
all that an employee would do on it is to receive phone
calls. This also saves time in narrowing down the choices
for the right furniture.

The future should also be taken into account when buying
office furniture. Will there be enough space to accommodate
additional furniture in the future?

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Knowing this helps prevent headaches in organizing things
at a later time.

Finally, the choice of a portable or fixed furniture should
be considered. Choosing the former makes things easy to
move around when they have to be reorganized.

This is kind of set up is good for cubicles. The latter, on
the other hand, is ideal for executive offices where not a
lot of restructuring usually happens.

Please leave your comments, we love to read them.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

6 comments:

Giovanna Garcia said...

I remember the day clearly, 15 years ago. I set up my frist home office: a desk, a chair and a fax machine. :-) What seems to be the biggest purchase at the time. Looking back I am so greatful that I did take a risk and made my major inventestment.
Thanks for sharing.
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action

New York Office Furniture said...

There are lots of reasons for today's boom in people working from home. Telecommunications and computer technology are cheap and user-friendly enough to make off-site workers productive. Workers want to spend more time with their families (and favorite soap operas) and away from office politics, corporate cubicles, and rush hour traffic.

Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Hello Giovanna,

For some it is the biggest step they will ever take-do business from home and really make it work. Hopefully they have a good mentor that can help them to not find all the pitfalls. Thank you for sharing Giovanna. Have a good day.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Hello,

Those are great reasons to do a home business. Traffic, office politics, those cubicles-they are the worst. These are the things that we want to stay away from. Families are the reason that we want to do business from home.Thank you for your comments.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"

Hilary Melton-Butcher said...

Hi Dan and Deanna .. I'm sure in the beginning I was all tidy and set out - now I have a set of hangovers .. lots of businesses .. do I need the info from them, is there anything of value there, can't sort it out, need to get on to the next one .. such is life ..

on top of that .. it functions as a linen cupboard, my ceiling airers, washing line, etc etc - it functions .. it's producing a blog now!

Yes - a proper office, where you expect to meet and greet people, should show your organised, neat and tidy, and efficient?!

I don't have much excuse .. but some ..

Thanks .. all the best - glad your NY Office Furniture came along too - I looked at their video and enjoyed the music.

Hilary Melton-Butcher
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Marketing Unscrambled, Home edition said...

Hello Hilary,

You are so right. It works for a lot of different things. Yes it should be a place to meet and great people. It ends up doing more than one thing.
Thank you for your comments.

Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"