Thing that reading magazines and periodicals is a distractive activity that takes you AWAY from your home business? Well, with a little planning and focus, you can actually incorporate magazines and periodicals into your work and it can provide you with information, motivation and inspiration to help you do a better job of running your home business.
Depending on the type of business you do, I almost guarantee that you will be able to find a trade publication (or two or three) that matches your field of business. There are specialty trade publications and newsletters available for just about every area of interest and field of professional expertise. You can do some research on the internet or at your local library to see what might be available. One good thing is that by subscribing to one of these small, specialty trade publications, you will likely be supporting another small time operation or entrepreneur who is struggling to build a business just like you are.
Don’t overlook peripheral magazines that might not seem dead-on to what you do, but could provide inspiration and information for ideas and markets that you haven’t tapped into yet. For example, if you are in a direct sales business, you might want to subscribe to a marketing or internet marketing periodical to help you learn how to grow your marketing efforts to support your business.
Another good thing about business focused magazines and periodicals are that they can likely be considered a business expense. Be sure to save your expense records and subscription information for your accounting and tax time. You may also find that you want to file or save your professional magazines so you can access articles and information. Unless you’re quite confident you only want the one article or piece, it is a good idea to save the entire publication (you can get handy containers that are made for storing magazines and periodicals or develop your own system.)
So, go ahead, read those magazines and periodicals—if you find the right ones, it just may help you grow and build your home business!