By Brian S Watkins Independent Associate
Id # 394943
When you start working from home,
getting support from a Family Members is very important. Unfortunately not all Families
are willing to give you the support you need. When I first started my small
business, my family was not very supportive for various reasons. Fortunately I
learned several things that helped me get the support I needed to make my
dreams a success and now I will share them with you.
Here are five ways to get support
from your family, for our at home business.
1. What Is The Future
Potential
Your family may not understand that
you have an actual business. It could be making jewelry, taking pictures,
talking to people; my business is using Watkins Natural Products from cooking, cleaning,personal care and pain care. One might hear “those are hobbies not actual work”.
“Sure you may get some pocket change from it, but this is fun stuff”.
In this case, you need to sit down
and explain what exactly you do, what the potential payoff is the market
strategy, and the number of customers you have or will have.
Pretend you’re going to the bank for
a loan, have everything laid out, don’t undersell yourself but don’t oversell
either. Keep it realistic. When you show your Family that you are treating this
like a business, and you have a good plan, that can be enough to get at least
some support for your business.
2. Show Me The Money
This is related to the first method.
If your business is not producing money, or is only making a few dollars a
month, you will not be able to convince your family it’s an actual business.
This is a big problem for many who need to build up a portfolio, and can be a
problem for other people as well.
However, With
Watkins products using the products daily saves you money, because you buy all
these products at full retail cost, each month at local Stores. But with Watkins
you receive a membership discount of 25% right away and could also use the advantage
program and Save 30% and get free shipping so showing the money in this
business Starts when you do.
1.So you need to make money.
Yes it would be easier to make the
money if your family gave you the support, but life is not fair. When you make
a sale, if it’s for a small amount, don’t go running and say, “See I got paid!”
I did this a few times with my Sister when I started using Watkins and the $10
or $20 I made didn’t seem impressive. Instead, I show her my shopping list and
compared it to hers THAT WORKED! J Then, I build up the money, build up my customers,
until it reaches a decent amount, (my goal was $250.00 extra a month at 1st)
how much is up to you. Then go and say you just made this much money! You don’t
have to say it took you a month or two to do it, just lay it down on the table
and say your business made it. I told my sister I made $300 at my 1st
Watkins show she was impressed.
When there is money to be made, most Families
will become a lot happier about helping out.
3. Show Your Work
When you work at home,
there is a belief that you spend all day in your underwear relaxing. To help
prove you don’t do this, make a schedule of your day. This will not only help
you stay on task, but you can show it to your husband, friends and family,
letting them see what you actually do.
If you back this up by showing the
work you accomplished that day, it’s a lot harder for your Family to believe
you spent the entire day relaxing. Even better, you can ask your Family if they
would like to help you out a little, and point to exactly where you need the
help.
Remember people work best with a
schedule, so give them one and they are a lot happier about helping.
4. Share your work/have an
emergency
Most people like free items. People like
feeling important. Give them a job that
only one can do, and one will do it for the praise/or some free natural
products and to make them look good.
.
Even if you can fix the problem, if
it involves something your family is used to, and knows how to fix, get them to
do it. Then when they’re done THANK THEM with a big smile or some free product/samples,
they will feel awesome, and the next time you need help, even if it’s something
not as fun, they will be more likely to do it again, because being the hero is
fun.
5. Incentives
You’ve tried everything else and your
Family still refuses to help out. There is one last thing you can do that
should work and doesn’t involve a fight.
Use the products at Holidays, get
together times: One will need the dishes washed one night use Watkins dish soap.
Offer to cook your Families favorite meal, using Watkins spices, herbs gravies,
and pudding mix. You need the kids out of the house for the afternoon so you
can talk to a client, prepare a really nice lunch and help pack everything (Sun
screen, Lip balm, food, first aid kit with Watkins natural products) up for your Family
and kids to have an all-day outing.
If you do this a few times with most people,
at least one of these should work to show your business off whatever it might
be. It may take a bit of time for one to get into the swing of things, but once
we know that something is important and are given a clear idea of how we can
help most people will help.
Just remember they are helping they’re
not working for you. If one start feeling like unpaid labor, or that they’re
being taken for granted the help will stop. But with regular Thank you’s,
pleasant smiles, and an occasional reward, that shouldn’t be a big problem.
Get you Family involved, with your
home business, mine is Watkins and it works
Watkins/The Summit Group is a
motivational and productivity coaching team who helps Watkins become your small
businesses and people who work from home find a proper work life balance. You
can find out more about us at my website www.tsginfo.com/kb4432a the free
Summit group site I was given as a Watkins member under the Summit Group, great
beginning, to a fulfilled life.
~ Get Motivated, Get Happy, Get Watkins
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