It’s a feeling that everyone around the world is likely to have felt at one point in their lives – heading up to bed on a Sunday night while feeling slightly anxious and worrying a little about going back to work on Monday morning. And although it can seem like small business owners wouldn’t get this feeling, as they’re working in a role they should, in theory, love, the truth [...]

Whether you work from home or you’ve got specific business premises, it’s highly likely that you have somewhere that you call your desk. It might be a desk in the traditional sense or it might just be part of a coffee table that you work from, but if you’re the owner of a small business, there’s a very good chance that you have somewhere that you think of as your workstation. One [...]

For most small businesses, irrelevant of what they offer or what industry they operate in, chances are they’ll have to pitch to prospective clients at least a handful of times throughout the year. Sometimes, these pitches can be nothing more than a well put together report that provides in-depth information about the business. On other occasions, however, the more traditional route needs to be [...]

Summary: My home office is a cluttered, unorganized mess lately. What tips can you offer home business owners like me about organizing a home office or even just our desks so we can work more productively in an area it can sometimes feel like we live in? I work in a home office. My work area (most specifically my desk) usually looks like a complete disaster area. It’s not “dirty” [...]

One of the biggest reasons many home businesses fail is that the home business owner faces home office distractions not necessarily present in other work environments, from kids to pets to their kitchen. If you find yourself struggling or not working as productively as you need to because of home office distractions, developing a regular work routine might help. Planning and organization in general [...]