Success in Home Business with a Family

For a lot of people finding time to work their home based business is hard thing to do, people are so busy these days. However, for men and women who have young children in the house the job of finding time for your business can be even harder… but not impossible. In this article we’ll be giving you a handful of way that you can successfully build an income from home even if you have kids!

Tip #1 – Naptime!

This one is pretty obvious, if you have small children in the house naptime just might be your favorite time of the day! Even if your kids don’t nap for that long it will still give you some child-free time to make calls, market online, answer emails or however else you market from home.

Sometimes all you need is 15 or 20 minutes to get a good amount of work done, now obviously this shouldn’t be the only thing you do for your business all day but it’s a start. If you have any prospects to call back this is an especially good time to do that because talking on the phone is usually easier while the kids are asleep.

Try to make the most out of your kids naptime by getting things ready to go while they are awake so that when they go down you can get right to work and get the most out of your time. That means getting the names and numbers of the people you need to call back, or just getting things organized in general.

Tip #2 – Mommy/ Daddy Day

Sending your children to have a special day with just mommy or daddy can be a great way to give the other parent time alone to work on their business. Most parents I know would LOVE to spend a day with their kids at the park, going to see a movie or hanging out at an amusement park.

By scheduling these special trips every couple of weeks it will give you an entire uninterrupted day of work… and that can go REALLY far when you’re trying to build a business!

If you and your spouse are separated you might have set days when you know your children will be with their other parent… USE THAT TIME. If you’re still together it would be best to sit down with your spouse an work out a time when the other parent can have some one on one time with the kids therefore giving you lots of time to get things done at the house.

This is also awesome for the child because they get to spend a fun day alone with mommy or daddy and those are memories they’ll have forever!

Tip #3 – DVD’s Are Your FRIEND

Now I’m not saying to let the T.V. parent your kids. However, there’s nothing wrong with allowing your kids to pick out a fun movie, pop some popcorn and sit them in front of the T.V. from time to time.

Let me say it again, when you are trying to build a business… DVD’s are your FRIEND! Use them! Depending on the age and the attention span of your child that can give you anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour and a half of pure uninterrupted work time and that will go a long way.

Tip #4 – Crafts

Kids LOVE to do arts and crafts. Even children who tend to be a little hyper will usually settle down to make something especially when they get to use their hands and be creative.

Of course you’ll have to find the right crafts for the right age range but once you do it will not only give you some good work time but it will be fun for your kids as well. Keep in mind that if you have your kids working in one room that might not be the best time to start making calls because there will probably be some supervising that needs to take place. It is a good time, however, to organize things or perhaps do different kinds of online marketing that you can stop and start at your leisure.

Tip #5 - Early Bedtimes and Strategic Calling

Our final tip is like naptime, it’s pretty obvious. Depending on what time your kids go to bed and what time zone you live in bedtime can be a GREAT time to catch up on calls and just get things done in general.

Now I’m not telling you to send your kids to bed earlier than they normally go but, let’s say they go to bed at 8:00 PM. If you live in the Eastern time Zone that’s only 5:00 PM Pacific or 6:00 Mountain or 7:00 Central… THAT’S PRIME CALLING TIME!

Remember when you’re making phone calls or doing marketing of any kind that you are not limited to your time zone just because it’s too late to make calls in one time zone doesn’t mean you might not be able to call people who live in another.

Of course this rule does go both ways. You will need to be aware of what time it is in other time zones and make sure you’re not calling people where it is 3 hours later!

If you organize yourself well throughout the day you should have everything organized and ready to go so that when the kids go to bed you will at least have a couple good hours of work time.

I hope that these tips have been helpful in allowing you to find time to work your home based business as much as possible while still being an awesome mom or dad. Also please remember that your kids are probably one of the main reasons you’re working your business anyway. The more time you spend in the early stages of your business building your income the more time you’ll be free to spend with them down the road for years to come!

Dan Himes
www.theamericanelite.com

Financially Independant....or boke? Choice is yours

It is a sad but true fact that by the time people reach their “golden years” people are either dead, dead broke or financially independent.

Now I would hope that you wouldn’t want to be dead, I’ve yet to run across someone who thinks this is the best option.

So it really just comes down to two big choices: dead broke or financially free.

A few decades ago you could work hard all your life and at the end of it all retire with a nice amount of money to show for your years and years of effort. Sadly, for many people this is no longer the case.

If you don’t believe me take a look around at how many people in their 50’s 60’s and even 70’s are still working to this day. Some of them have retired and realized they don’t have enough money to stay retired and some of them haven’t been able to afford to retire at all!

I don’t know about you but I do not plan on working well into my golden years. I want to retire and more than that, I want to retire and actually have the money to live the way I want to live.

If that sounds like what you want you’ll probably want to be one of the few people in America today who are financially independent. So how do you get that way? For me it’s with the help of a home based business.

Residual income is the thing that will allow you to work hard for a few years and be able to retire and retire in a big way. That’s because residual income is income that lasts virtually forever!

You can’t get residual income on a job and a lot of people can’t even get their head around the concept. However, once you do discover it’s power you’ll never ever worry about your financial future again!

So there are your options: dead, dead broke or financially free! Freedom with the help of a home based business is real, don’t wait until you’re ready to retire to discover it’s power start right now!