Do You Need To Move Before Operating Your Home Business?

By • on June 1, 2009

When considering whether your current geographical area is adequate for your home business, consider your client base. If you live in a rural area and rely on customers who are accessible within a reasonable travelling distance from your home, you might be okay.

If your business requires that you work and frequently meet with medium or large business, however, your location will determine whether you can afford the time and expense necessary to have those meetings.

Being a freelance graphic artist in New York City or other major urban area, for example, seems logical. Starting your own business as a graphic artist in a remote, rural area could be problematic.

Also consider the cost and availability of services in your geographic area. Most of the below services are very important for the business to operate and avoid unnecessary delays. Ask yourself can you :

- Get a high speed Internet connection if needed? Have access to a local dial-up number, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?

- Send and receive packages by overnight courier?

- Have reasonable access to necessary service such as copying and printing at a nearby office centre?

- Get a second phone line to install in less than 30 days?

- Easily visit a library and other resources or conduct necessary research online?

- purchase office and other supplies close by or pay the added expense of having them delivered within 48 hours?

Most, if not all, of these amenities should be readily available to you. If they are not, you can count on spending extra money and taking extra time to gain access to less readily available services or risking a loss of business because you can not provide services to your clients within a reasonable time frame. It might be cheaper to live in an isolated area, but those savings might be offset by a reduced income because of the lack of access to clients or necessary services.

Finally, do not assume that you can do all of your business online. Unless your business is a retail website. The Internet is much more likely to be a mean of communication, and at most, you might be dealing with 10 – 20% of your clients from outside your initial area, especially when just starting a new business.

As the downslide in Internet based business indicates, business with no local customer base are very difficult to build and take quite a bit of time, planning and capital to succeed.

Mona Abdulla is the owner of http://www.AutomatedNotes.com and reviews popular home business ideas and opportunities. With AutomatedNotes.com you can get your own home business website setup to earn multiple streams of income within 24 hours. If you’d like more information about this topic, please subscribe to my free newsletter by visiting my Home Based Business website today!

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  • http://twitter.com/QPMS Sherra Scott

    Those are all valid questions that need to be take into account. However, you've stated that you can't assume you can do all your business online unless it's a retail web site. That is a bit of an overstatement. With today's technology, there are very few businesses you can't operate on the Internet (such as physical service industries like plumber, cleaning services, etc.). Most people don't even need to get a physical second phone line. Services such as RingCentral afford home based businesses flexibility and additional phone/ fax lines without any equipment. You don't even need to have in-house administrative assistants in many cases. A virtual assistant can do almost anything an in-house assistant can do…without the “employee” and “space” overhead. Here is a link for a blog specifically for clients (or potential clients) of virtual assistants. http://vanetworking.com/blog/

  • http://twitter.com/QPMS Sherra Scott

    Those are all valid questions that need to be take into account. However, you've stated that you can't assume you can do all your business online unless it's a retail web site. That is a bit of an overstatement. With today's technology, there are very few businesses you can't operate on the Internet (such as physical service industries like plumber, cleaning services, etc.). Most people don't even need to get a physical second phone line. Services such as RingCentral afford home based businesses flexibility and additional phone/ fax lines without any equipment. You don't even need to have in-house administrative assistants in many cases. A virtual assistant can do almost anything an in-house assistant can do…without the “employee” and “space” overhead. Here is a link for a blog specifically for clients (or potential clients) of virtual assistants. http://vanetworking.com/blog/