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·The tax savings are enormous. Many of your current expenses will become tax deductible. For example your telephone, a portion of your rent or mortgage, your entertainment bill and many others. A recent study by Readers Digest revealed that a self-employed home business owner need only earn half as much as a salaried worker in order to have repparttar

same net disposable income. ·This position is ideal for a second income earner in a household.

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=> Get an anchor client or product

You need an anchor client. This is a client who brings in a quarter of your earnings --- you may need three or four clients to achieve this. These are regular clients, repparttar bedrock on which your business is based. They pay your expenses, and keep you in business.

If you’re a writer or designer, you may also have an anchor product. This may be a book which brings in royalties every six months, or artwork you've sold under license for which you receive royalties.

It's worth working sixteen-hour days for a few months to create an anchor product. Once you've created it, repparttar 117286 anchor product works for you.

=> Follow up on slow/ no payers

You can't afford to let people owe you money indefinitely. This means that you’re providing interest-free loans. Worse, if someone owes you substantial money, you're an unsecured creditor. If they go down, they'll take you with them.

Chase up slow payers. Send a friendly reminder email or fax once a week --- every week, until they pay.

=> Don't pile up debt

Try not to go into debt. It's not worth it. It's better to work part-time for someone else, or to cut back on expenses, rather than go into debt. You don’t know how long repparttar 117287 slow period will last, and saddling yourself with debt is a dead-end solution.

It IS possible to run your own business, and be relaxed about it, knowing that you can survive repparttar 117288 bad times. If you need to go and work part-time, don’t look on this as failure --- it's a win. You're doing what you need to do, to keep your business viable until repparttar 117289 sun shines and repparttar 117290 good times roll. You can do it.

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Writer, author and journalist Angela Booth has been writing successfully for print and online venues for 25 years. She also writes for business. On her Web site http://www.digital-e.biz/ she conducts workshops and courses for writers.

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