Capitalising On Your Home Business: Here’s What To Do

October 17, 2019

Your business may have just started out as an idea you had one afternoon that you just couldn’t shift. An idea that your nurtured over time, worked out the kinks and eventually took a leap of faith to create it. Many of these start up ventures start from home, and it is the ideal set up. You can work the hours that suit, you can keep the costs down, and you can work on building your empire. But at some point your business is going to boom, and it might suddenly outgrow your little office in your home. So what's next? With that in mind, here are some of the things that you could consider. 

Think about moving out of the home and into a business premises 

One of the first things you could consider doing would be to look at a business premises. You may be working from home right now, but that may no longer suit you down to the amount of storage you might need or workspace you want. It gives you so much more flexibility and a chance to really push your business forward and expand as much as you can. 

Work on your branding and digital presence

The next thing to consider doing would be to work on your branding and your digital space. Are you doing what you can to promote your brand? Are you really making the most of it? Sometimes we can stick with the same types of updates on social media, the same images or the same output when it comes to our website. But if you really want to step things up, you may want to think about looking at your brand and creating a new social media and marketing campaigns. Sometimes it might even be things like developing an app as an extension of your website, this is when research on websites like www.xibis.com can pay off. Thinking outside of the box when it comes to the focus as well could make all of the differences. 

Outsourcing different roles to help you get more focus on your output

Sometimes you just can’t do it all. You may think you can, but you just can’t always have your finger on the button. The problem is, if you try to do it all, you can end up doing everything half-heartedly rather than giving one thing you can make a difference with your full attention. This is when outsourcing can be so important for you and can really help you to focus on the output of your business. 

Expansion is key, but where to invest?

Finally, expansion of your business is important, after all, you will want it to grow and be as successful as it can be. But the issue you face is where to invest and what to do? There are a few options. You could increase the amount of stock you hold. You could invest in more lines and add to the services you offer or product range. You could look at franchising your business and taking a different route. Only you know the answer to that, but reinvesting can get you to where your want to be. 

Let’s hope that has helped you decide on your next step.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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