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Home Care Business Tips

Now is as good a time as any to make resolutions for the New Year.  Here are some to consider:

• Above all else, a small-business owner’s top 2010 resolution should be to invest in continued education, and making a point of setting aside the needed time to research and better take advantage of available resources. At the pace the commercial world moves in 2010, and given the flurry of information startups are now hit with 24/7, it’s easy to get overwhelmed in day-to-day dealings and not see the forest for the trees. But failing to periodically pause, take a step back and look at how to best take advantage of all the resources available to you and optimize processes around them, and you are ultimately costing yourself more in the end.

• Become more comfortable with social media and social networking. Commit to improving your use and knowledge of social media by 5 percent each month. Sign up for a free webinar, take a class, hire someone to coach you. If you do this each month, at the end of the year, you’ll know 60 percent more than you did at the beginning of the year.

• Monitor and guard the cash position of your home care business like it was your first-born son. Question all expenditures by using the golden rule – are you absolutely certain that this expense will produce more gold.  Once you are certain, jump on opportunities passed over by your competitors. Live your life in a spirit of gratitude for all the blessings that come to you as the owner of a business in America.

• Resolve to make 2010 a year of full self-expression, and take a series of actions that will increase your likeability factor. The one-way sales pitch is long gone. Corporate speak will only isolate you. People do business with people they like. And, when people like the source of a message, they tend to trust the message or, at least, try to find a way to believe it. Thus, your likeability and full self-expression has an enormous impact on your bottom line. Strive to be your best, most authentic and likeable self and you will be well on your way to becoming the obvious choice for your potential clients.

• Home care businesses designing a website for the first time, or those who are altering their existing site, should resolve to build it to the lowest common denominator. Just because your office has a dedicated T1 line, which makes surfing the Web and loading your graphically intense website a snap, doesn’t mean your customers can do the same. Know your audience well enough to know if Flash and video get in the way of your pages loading in an acceptable amount of time, and be reasonable enough to know if anyone but you really cares about a slick presentation. While you’re at it, resolve to never allow video on your website to play without someone first clicking the play button!

Submitted by: David Goodman, President Companion Connection Senior Care, the leading “no royalty” membership organization serving the non medical home care & licensed home health business communities. The need for home based senior care is soaring! We will help you start your own highly successful Home Care Agency business. Earn an excellent income while helping others with their activities of daily living. Contact us today for your FREE Business Info Kit… 1-800-270-6949