Setting Up a Small Office Home Office (SoHo)
As a trend, more and more people are starting a SoHo for their business. It may sounds easy but still it is a difficult one.
Let’s see what should we prepare to start a SoHo !
- Create Space for Your Small Home Office
Allocate some separate space as your small office or home office, it would be the best way to get a separate room but some of them who are not able to get a room, might have to cull out some space from living room, bedroom, attic or even garage! It’s time to show your creativity on interior design. Haha… And don’t forget about those little but important using tools, such as filing cabinets, shelves, tray, containers and etc., an old adage to be kept in mind – a place for everything, and everything in its place.
- Adopt a Professional Approach
A professional approach can helps to focus properly on the job at hand. Besides, creating an image of professionalism is more appropriate for the clients or customers to meet you if you are not doing an online business. Furthermore, family member should be supportive and be aware when you are working. This is a difficult issue especially if you have kids around that are uncontrollable.
- Time Management
Time management is one of the most important issues in business, but it is more obvious for SoHo as you might have to manage the household chores also. There are two possibilities, either work as a workaholic or work inefficiently, the result of too much freedom.
- Invest in Good Quality Home Office Furniture
Although this seems like not important at all but just think about it, how long are you going to work in there? The answer is a countless working hours. So it would be wise to make yourself work in comfort.
- Invest in Suitable Small Office Home Computer Solutions
It is really impossible to work without computer. It should be a must to have a basic computer workstation as internet is a super powerful tool which helps a lot.
- Invest in Essential Home Office Gadgets
Those essential gadgets would make your life easier. They help to enhance your efficiency and effectiveness which would save a lot of time for you.
- Suitable Lighting
Suitable lighting for various purposes to protect your eyes and it would affect your feeling for the environment too.
- Get Essential Office Supplies
Having a good relationship with these various knick knacks such as administrative supplies, computer peripherals, desk materials, filing options, business cards and other paper supplies might help to save some cost though.
- Small Home Office Software
This sounds important? Yes, it is important indeed. Time, money and labor could be saved. Grow and promote your business better. What a big advantages for business.
- Get a Small Business Website
Last but not least, it brings your business to the world. Without doubt, it widens the market of your business, more audience and potential clients and customers. Enable you to connect and communicate with your community directly and instantly.
Now, how to make your SoHo productive?
- Have a Separate, Well Defined Workspace
- Establish Set Hours of Work
- Make Yourself Comfortable
- Filter Out the Distractions
- Keep all Your Work in the Office Space
- Sufficient Storage
- Get Adequate Equipment
- Adequate Office Lighting
- Don’t Forget The Social Aspect
Anymore suggestions for setting up a SOHO??
Reference:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Setting-Up-a-Small-Office-Home-Office
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Set-Up-a-Productive-Small-Office-at-Home
Thanks for the informative post but I would like to add in my point.
ReplyDeleteSoHo may let people have a freedom of working hours. However, "Establish Set Hours of Work" may set the time and that lose the point of freedom of time. One of the reason why people go SoHo is wish to make their working hour flexible so that they may do other stuff and have unique lifestyle.
I do agree that invest in Good Quality Home Office Furniture and Suitable Lighting could be a essential point. As a suitable lighting may deduct the harm that we facing computer for a long time (I consider facing computer would be the main work of SoHo). Moreover, suitable lighting may improve work efficiency as people would no fall sleepy during their work. Also, good quality of home furniture could agree a psychological satisfaction that improve working efficiency at the same time improve the quality of the outcome.
Nevertheless, I suggest that beside working room, a meeting room could also be important. As SoHo may operate its business as partnership, a meeting room is needed. Instead of using living room for discussion, meeting room is more recommended as living room has more distraction and this will lead to work inefficiency.