Making Work at Home Work , livre ebook

Baker Publishing Group - M. Byers Mary

Découvre YouScribe en t'inscrivant gratuitement

Je m'inscris

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

121 pages

English

Vous pourrez modifier la taille du texte de cet ouvrage

Obtenez un accès à la bibliothèque pour le consulter en ligne
En savoir plus

A propos
Informations
Extrait

Description

As of 2004 nearly three million self-employed women worked at home, and women continue to start home-based businesses at twice the rate of men. Many of these women left the workplace by choice in order to stay home and raise their children. And though their numbers increase each day, resources for this growing market of entrepreneurs are scarce.Making Work at Home Work shows moms how to develop an entrepreneurial mind-set without sacrificing their families. It covers important topics such as developing a successful business philosophy, balancing time between work and family, setting realistic goals, and handling the challenges of being both "Mommy" and "CEO" while running a profitable home-based business. In addition to including her own experiences, author Mary Byers profiles real moms with home-based businesses who offer their hard-won advice.

Sujets

Employabilité, métiers et formations

Informations

Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 avril 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781441203823
Langue	English

Informations légales : prix de location à la page 0,0202€. Cette information est donnée uniquement à titre indicatif conformément à la législation en vigueur.

Extrait

making work at home work
making work at home work

successfully growing a business and a family under one roof

mary m. byers
2009 by Mary M. Byers
Published by Revell a division of Baker Publishing Group P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.revellbooks.com
Printed in the United States of America
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means-for example, electronic, photocopy, recording-without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Byers, Mary M., 1962- Making work at home work : successfully growing a business and a family under one roof / Mary M. Byers. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8007-3275-2 (pbk.) 1. Home-based businesses. 2. Working mothers. I. Title. HD62.38.B94 2009 658 .0412-dc22
2008049312
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION . NIV . Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.
Scripture marked KJV is taken from the King James Version of the Bible.
Recipes from The Great American Supper Swap by Trish Berg and are used by permission of David C. Cook, Colorado Springs, CO. All rights reserved. For copies of this book call 800-323-7543 (or online at www.davidccook.com) .
Recipes from Once-a-Month Cooking: Revised and Expanded by Mimi Wilson and Mary Beth Lagerborg. Copyright Ä 2007 by the authors and reprinted by permission of St. Martin s Press, LLC.
Published in association with the literary agency of Alive Communications, Inc., 7680 Goddard Street, Suite 200, Colorado Springs, CO 80920. www.alivecommunications.com
To Marissa and Mason- you are why I work at home. And to Stuart- you make it possible.
I love you all deeply. Thanks for being a part of both my home and business team!
contents
Work-at-Home Mom Profiles
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: Saving Your Sanity
1. Being Honest: Acknowledging the Difference between At Home and Work at Home
2. Why Are You Working? Understanding Your Motivation
3. How Much Is Enough? Identifying Your Goals
4. I Can t Work in These Conditions! Setting Boundaries
5. Guilt: The At-Home Entrepreneur s Worst Enemy
6. The Parental Pact: Creating the Perfect Team
7. Child Care Strategies for Every Season of Your Work-at-Home Life
8. Client Crisis-or Is It?
9. Systematizing Your Business for Maximum Effectiveness
10. Refreshment: Learning the Art of Taking a Break
11. Facing the Daily Dinner Dilemma
12. Relying on Faith to Get You Through
Part 2: Preserving Your Profit
13. Accepting the At-Home CEO Mantle
14. Professional (and Other) Advice: You Don t Have to Know It All to Be a Success
15. The Tax Man Comes: Record-Keeping and Deductions
16. The Right Equipment: Ensuring You Have the Tools You Need
17. Subcontracting: Surrounding Yourself with a Winning Team
18. Boosting Your Revenue: Lessons in Working Less and Making More
19. One-Page Planning: Spend a Morning, Plan a Year
20. Rainy Days and Reinvesting: Creating Peace of Mind from Your Profit
21. Retirement Planning: Feathering Your Own Nest
22. Giving Yourself Permission to Make Your Business a Reflection of You
Appendix: Quick and Easy Dinner Recipes for Work-at-Home Moms
Notes
work-at-home mom profiles
Mary Byers, author, editor, and professional speaker
Mary Byers, author, editor, Amy Bifano, Piece O Cake
Kristin Maletich, Key Players Piano Studio
Kris Holmin, K K Inspirations, Inc.
Lisa Weitzel, Lisa Weitzel Photography
Sue Schwartz, Imagine Designs and Studio on 6th
Amy Peterson, The Closet Guy, Inc.
Betsy Walter, Circle of Song-Buckhold Music
Dana Saal, Meeting Works
Joy Duling, A 25 Hour Day, LLC
Tammy Harrison, JDHarrison.com and Quiltalicious, LLC
Jennifer Swanson, Jennifer Swanson, LLC
Jennifer Swanson, Jennifer Swanson, Patti Chadwick, PC Publications
acknowledgments
I am grateful to be able to do work I love and to do it from home. It s not easy, but my path has been sprinkled with wonderful family and friends who encourage, love, and support me. I am blessed.
Please do not be offended if you do not see your name on this page. I am who I am because of who I know. And I ve been touched by many people over the years, all of whom have helped create the person I am today. The following have been especially helpful as I worked on this project.
Beth Jusino, my literary agent, and Jennifer Leep, my editor, helped craft this idea. I m grateful to be in partnership with you. Sarah Albracht, Tracy Dowell, and Pat Essig were all generous in sharing their experience in the field of network marketing. Thanks for enlightening me!
I m indebted to adviser June Walker for sharing her tax wisdom with those of us who work from home.
Because I am not an accountant or financial planner, I asked several individuals to review the chapter on retirement planning to be sure I don t lead you astray. Thanks to the following who helped in this regard: Cindy Sumner, speaker and author of Dollars and Sense: A Mom s Guide to Money Matters ; John Sumner, president, Sumner National Bank; Michelle J. Usher, CPA and manager, Sikich LLP; Andrew Paoni, MBA, vice president, Sikich Cozad Asset Management, LLC; and Brent Davis, AAMS, Edward Jones Investments.
Special thanks to the 125 women who responded to an online survey about the challenges of working from home, and to the two dozen more who candidly shared their experiences with me in person.
Special thanks to Bob Rechner, executive director at the Illinois State Dental Society and my former boss, who continues to be an extraordinary mentor and friend and who provided me with my first work-at-home contract. (Are we really old enough to have known each other for twenty years?) I m also indebted to Bill Zepp, CAE, executive director of the Oregon Dental Association, for being one of the first individuals to hire me after I retired. You helped launch my business.
As always, Julie Kaiser and Tara McAndrew, my beloved fellow writers, checked in occasionally to make sure I was still alive. Julie and my mom, Nancy Carlson, also proofed the manuscript for me. Thanks for loaning me your eyes and expertise as I neared the end of the project. Julie also helped with the work-at-home mom profiles you ll see throughout this book. (And Mom, thanks for the soup that kept showing up for lunch at just the right times! More importantly, thanks for being so generous with your encouragement over the years.)
Finally, to work-at-home moms everywhere: the path is hard, the pay may not be great, and the tangible benefits may be sorely lacking, but the intangible benefits are rewarding beyond measure. Be strong. Stay the course. And don t forget that time invested in your family is never wasted.
introduction
One of the hardest decisions I ever made was to leave full-time employment outside the home in order to be more available to my children.
One of the hardest things I ve ever done is to run a home-based business-also to be more available to my children.
If you too have experienced the challenges of successfully growing a business and a family under one roof, this book is for you.
The genesis of this book was rather simple. It began as my quest to more fully understand the dynamics of balancing work and family when they coexist under one roof.
I understand that balance is an issue most of today s working mothers wrestle with. However, a large portion of working women leave home to make their living. What about those of us who have a short commute down the hallway? There s a big difference between heading to an office each day-with the child care support system this necessitates-and doing your work with children underfoot or hovering in the background.
In my own search for practical guidance about working from home, I discovered that though it s easy to find resources to help women decide what type of home-based business to start, it s not as easy to find resources about sustaining both a home and a business after the start-up phase. This lack of information was what led me to write Making Work at Home Work .
If you re like me, you ve discovered that starting your business was the easy part. It s keeping your business going while meeting your family commitments that s difficult. Though I ve been in business for myself for over a decade, there are still days when I wonder, Why am I doing this? It s hard to be a wife, mother, and CEO-and to be equally good at all of these jobs, especially during a busy season of work. There have been many times when I thought it would be easier to let the business slide so that I could focus more fully on my family or conversely to check out temporarily on my family when the demands of business required more attention. But I believe that my home-based business is a perfect provision for me and my family. It allows me to do work I love, contribute to the family income, use the skills I have, and most importantly, have flexibility in my schedule, which is precious to me.
I ve relied on a cadre of other working mothers to provide input and feedback to help ensure that this book is helpful and practical and one you ll turn to time and time again. (That s my hope, anyway!) Over 125 work-at-home mothers responded to an online survey with questions designed to explore the heart of work-at-home issues. More than two dozen women also shared in person the joys and struggles they encounter as they work from home.
Though our reasons for working may be different, I believe the challenges we encounter are similar. I also passionately believe we can learn from one another, which is why I took the time to listen to other work-at-home moms. I learned from them and look forward to sharing this knowledge with you.