We often talk here in the Home Business blog about ways to grow and expand our businesses. Growth, overall, is considered a good thing. We need our businesses to grow and expand in order for them to stay healthy. Many of us are a little wary, however, about how big we really want to get. After all, we may have started our home businesses precisely because we needed something small and manageable and we wanted to get away from that big corporate mentality. The question we ask ourselves is whether or not a bigger business is necessarily a better one?
I have the sort of home business that can really only get so big. I do not plan to open a big “firm” or take on that sort of responsibility. I want my home business to be just about me so I know that I can only take on as much work as I can personally, comfortably handle. Other business owners might not be so clear on that. They may have started their home business with the hopes that someday it will expand to a physical storefront, more employees, or just get bigger. Both approaches are just fine, we just have to keep our focus on what our goal is and not be swayed into trying to build our business to support anyone else’s definition.
What says success to you and what do you want from you home business? Will you be able to achieve that if you stay small or will you need to expand in order to meet your goals? If you do not have the resources and infrastructure to cope with the business expansion you need to make, can you get them? What do you need to do in order to accommodate your business getting as big as it needs to be?
Keep in mind that you get to decide what you are comfortable with and what sort of business you want. If it starts to get bigger than you can comfortably handle, you get to decide if you want to grow, sell, or scale back.
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