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Before starting to write about home business, I had nothing to write about. However, once started, there was nothing to stop me!
Planning For Every Expense.
Making a budget for a home business start-up is more of an art than it is a science. No matter how exactly you think you plan and pin down all your expenses, I can guaranteed that more will appear that you either forgot or just had no way of predicting.
Things Break.Remember Murpheys Law and plan for it. That is, any equipment you buy can go wrong, no matter how expensive or high quality it was (this is especially true of anything IT related.) When things break, you may need to buy a new one, get it fixed or at minimum, have to wait for the manufacturer to replace what broke. This can lead to days of lost or less efficient business, and cost you money. Budget for equipment failures. Think about your car or some other item in your life. Ask yourself "How much does it cost to maintain?"
People are Unpredictable.When you hire staff, you have no way of knowing that they wont to let you down. You might have worked out that it takes $200 to train one new staff member, but what do you do when that newly trained staff member quits and moves to France after three weeks at the job? You have to train someone else and take the loss. Budget for staff turnover.
The World is Against You.Or at least it can sometimes feel that way. Just when everything is perfect, someone sets up a little construction site next door, and drives your business away. Or maybe it rains for a few weeks, so there is just no demand for your bouncy castle hire business. Whatever, you need to budget for times when there are no customers and make sure you have something else to be getting on with in the meantime. I find it is a great opportunity to catch up on administrative tasks, marketing or my favourite, Planning for Expansion
Customers are Out to Get You."The customer is always right", right? Well, yes, but their "rightnes" can sure cost you a lot of money. You have to be prepared to take huge losses to pay off complaining customers. Remember that one unhappy customer can undo hundreds of dollars worth of marketing efforts. If you have an unhappy customer, your options are to take a loss fixing the situation or to take an even bigger loss when they tell everyone how you failed them. The only way to avoid this expense is to please all of the people all of the time, which is just not possible. So, budget for unhappy customers.
Competitors Kick You When You are already Down.If one of your competitors spots a good opportunity to take some business from you, they will go for it. You need to have a "war chest" ready to make aggressive offers and marketing efforts, and be prepared to get into a full scale price and advertising war with the competition. It really is massively frustrating to be in a position where your rivals are getting all your business simply because you already used up your marketing money for this month. Budget for war.
Double Your Budget.Whatever happens, remember that under budgeting is the worst mistake you can make. This is known as "under capitalisation", and is generally thought of as one of the quickest ways to kill a business. Anyone who would have be willing to give you finance will just think you are a fool if you have under capitalised your business, and might even refuse to lend to you.
Most home businesses budget only a few thousand dollars for their expenses (if they even make a budget), thinking that they already have everything they need. People forget how quickly little costs like having some business cards made or getting your suit dry cleaned start to add up. This is not true for other kinds of business, but if you are like 99% of home business starters, you really ought to double your budget. If you doubt me, start adding up all your little expenses over a year, and see what happens.
Budgeting for every expense in your initial plans shows that are the kind of person who thinks and is a practical businessperson who knows, that anything that could go wrong probably will, and you plan to make a profit anyway. There is a difference, after all, between arrogance and cool headed determination, and that is what people with the money want to see.
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