Do You Keep Track of Your Hours?

Now that we are operating our own home businesses, we may be thrilled that those days of punching time cards and tracking hours and minutes of work are behind us. We have other ways of measuring our productivity, right? On the other hand, keeping track of the hours we are actually working at our home businesses might not be such a bad idea… I have spoken with other home and small business owners who confessed that they didn’t want to actually figure out how many hours they were putting into their businesses because if they did, they just knew they … Continue reading

Flexible Holiday Hours

One of the fantastic things about a home-based business is that we can arrange our work time to accommodate our family and other obligations. But, in taking time off or working more flexible hours during this hectic holiday season—we still need to take into account meeting the needs and expectations of our clients and customers AND we need to make sure we let them know what we are doing! I really appreciate it when people I work with on a regular basis let me know what their hours will be for the holiday season. If you are planning to take … Continue reading