When you work from home, it's nice to sit around in your PJs until 10:00 a.m. while it's business as usual, isn't it? That's okay, if you do that... if you don't have clients who come to your house... and if it doesn't affect your business attitude.
When you work from home and nobody can see you, it doesn't really matter what you wear, but what does matter is how you function. Remember in your corporate days if somebody called you after hours on a business matter? You were all efficiency. Maybe you hadn't changed out of your work clothes yet!
Well, what happens now when somebody calls you "out of hours"? Is your attitude as relaxed as your attire?
Working for yourself from home should result in no change to your business brain - the clothes may be different and YOU are the boss, but you still have a business to take care of.
Some people become very relaxed when working from home - it's almost as if they've never worked in business before. They become sloppy in their work habits, careless with their paperwork, and worst of all, they treat customers either with indifference or almost as if they are a nuisance to be endured.
Remember all the reasons you decided to set up business for yourself and work from home. If you want to continue to enjoy this lifestyle you have to make sure you have a business to sustain it... your customers are more important than ever before, because without them, you have no business.
So, whether you are sitting in your PJs, your favorite old blue jeans, or a business suit, even though your customers can't see you, they can read volumes by the way you speak to them on the phone and answer their calls or respond to their emails.
Terri Levine
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