Running a home based business isn’t easy, but can become a great career choice and source of income. Those who are successful at home businesses know the difference between running the operation professionally, and a laid-back comfortable home alternative. Knowing that difference and working off of that concept is your biggest hurdle, and guide to making your home business succeed.
So firstly, remember that your home business is just as professional as a company that works out of an office building, and respect the job as such. With that as your start, here are a few tips that can help you set up your business:
-Organize a home office that will be regarded strictly as your working space. The office is a part of your home, but remember this is no different than if you went into an office building 9-5 like most people. Remember that you’re not at home when you’re supposed to be working.
-Schedule out your activities and effectively plan your day. Keeping on top of the situation, and maximizing productivity means sticking to a schedule. That’s the only way to set yourself up for as much success as possible.
-Make sure that you research all applicable tax laws. The last thing you’re going to want to deal with is a tax problem, so research the information now opposed to later. As a self employed businessperson, the tax laws are going to be very different, so read them and know them, and always file on time.
-Once again in the treating your business like the real business it is vein, make sure that you’re covered by insurance. Any sort of business owner’s insurance that you feel applies to you, is something you should definitely look into. Every business needs insurance. Don’t wait until it’s too late, ever!
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In Learn to Write a Website Review, I outlined the framework of basic website review. If you are writing a basic website review then you only need to focus on design, navigation, content, and focus elements of a website. But a more complex website review will require you to focus many more elements after keeping all the elements of basic review in place. I would suggest you to read about basic Website Review before reading this post. I must tell you that writing more detailed review is more time consuming in comparison to the basic ones.
Fundamental
The first thing that should come after design, navigation, content, and focus elements in a website review is the fundamental check. You need to find out the following in a fundamental check:
- Is the navigation intuitive?
- Are the hyperlinks working properly?
- Is there any broken link?
- Does the website have a site map?
- Are the internal pages properly links with the home page and among themselves?
Effectiveness
Once you have verified the fundamentals of the website, you need to find out how effective website will be, and in order to do that try finding answers to the following questions:
- How difficult or easy it will be for a visitor to understand the purpose of the website?
- Will the visitors easily accomplish the goal the webmaster has in mind while creating the website?
- How much time will it take for the visitors to find out the core of the website?
- What element or elements will create hurdle in visitors’ mind?
Credentials
Almost all the websites has a about us page talking about what is the purpose of the website, who is running the show, what affiliations it got, etc. You need to find out that the credentials are properly laid or not, and in order to do that, you may need to answer the following:
- Can visitors easily find out who is running the show?
- Is the website written by one or multiple writers?
- Are the facts presented on the website right, and are they verifiable?
- Are the writers qualified to write on the topics website covers?
- Has the website got some industry affiliation or accreditation?
- Does it have Https (secure server)?
Advance elements
There are some more advance elements that you may care to find out for your review. You may want to find out the following:
- Color scheme (advanced design)
- Marketing and branding capability (branding and monetization)
- How quickly it loads (development issue)
- Are the widgets, forms, etc., working properly (development issue)
- What resolutions it supports (design element)
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