Six Tips for Home-based Start-up Businesses

For many of us, running our own business is the ultimate dream. We’ll often start following that dream gradually: working in whatever hours we have available and looking forward to the day when we’ve built a business strong enough that we can quit our day jobs!

To increase your opportunities for success, you need to plan your business properly: do your homework and make sure your business idea is actually going to make money. By doing things properly at the start, you’ll reduce the risk of heartache later on.

For those who are ready to take the step and start their own business, here are a few tips and hints to help you along the way.

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Use Local Connect to Turn your 1300 Number into a Super Number!

If you’ve visited this blog before, you’ll know that we’re big fans of 1300 numbers. For any first-time visitors, here are a few of the benefits these numbers provide:

• Route 1300 numbers to ring different landlines or mobile phones depending on the time of day, location of your caller, or how busy you are.
• These numbers aren’t tied to any specific landline or mobile phone, so you can move them with you as your business grows.
• The built-in reporting features of 1300 numbers provide a powerful tool for measuring the success of your marketing campaigns.
• Encourage customers to call by providing a national number that is the cost of a local call when dialled from any landline in Australia.

This blog post will explain how you can make these numbers EVEN BETTER by adding an Alltel Local Connect number (from just $14.95 a month).

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