Creating a business with No Fixed Office

For many people the perception of a business is such that there is a range of requirements that are often needed. Many of these requirements they believe are there to make the business successful, are often the same things that make the business a failure, depending of course upon how they are used.

The ultimate issue comes down to the perception that many things are needed to make the business successful. Things like having a big office, having staff, and all the latest gadgets. These things are seen to be what is needed to make a business successful. The fact is that often these things are not what make the business successful, what makes the business successful is the people, and what those people do each day. Most importantly what the owner of the business does and how they do it.

Now of course as I have said previously there are some businesses that do need these things, to function at a level of consistency that is needed from them. Businesses that require a large amount of space, that are not easily portable, and that do have a need for some employee’s to expand to certain level’s that may not be achievable without an office. In fact there are many businesses that this is essential, for example banks, major retailers, and really any large company, that needs to deal directly with people.

While there are these businesses that do need an office, these are often the exact some businesses that are not the sort of business that people working with No Fixed Office want to be running anyway. There is a lot of incumbent politics to them, and tend to require a lot of time most every day of the week. As well as being extremely formal and often quite rigid.

So what does it take to create a business that works well with No Fixed Office. Well there is one large step that needs to be overcome initially, and that is changing your own mindset about what a business is. For some people this can be a giant challenge, however in the long term, unless you are really planning to create a massive company quickly, you are going to find this change of mindset to be more of a benefit then a problem.

Changing your mindset about a business, is something that is not easy. It means displacing some fairly hard seated believes about what a business is and should be. Some of these believes will differ from person to person, however following are some of the more common beliefs that need to be displaced.

YOU HAVE TO HAVE STAFF – While it is true that if you want to expand your business beyond a certain point you need to have some staff. There is also the fact that some very successful businesses, do manage just fine with few if any staff. Or at least direct staff as such.

YOU NEED ALL THE LATEST GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY – Again while some of these items are nice, and often can save some time, the actual need you may have for them is not as you really believe it to be, the perceived need often when you truly look at it is not of as much value as you may have initially thought.

YOU NEED AN OFFICE – The real reason this blog is online comes from this perceived need not being true. This is probably the most detrimental need for most businesses as well. Really you don’t need an office to run a successful business. Because having an office often leads back to the first item where you need to change your mindset and that is having an office brings you to believing you need staff to fill it. Both are things that just are not needed for a successful business as such.

These are really just three of many other potential mindset changes that you may need to make. Now the more difficult question when you consider the need to change these believes is what are some of the potential businesses that come from displacing these believes. Really there are more then you think, and it is some of these potential business idea’s that I want to share with you over the coming months.

Just for a small idea of some of the business that you could potentially get started with absolutely no need for an office. Things like consulting, this is often done on site with the client or via phone. Marketing, again needs no office, you can make full use of the technology available in laptops and the Internet to do all you need to do. Finally how about running a network of web sites, a blog, some information sites, etc. Could all be done from a laptop where ever you feel comfortable.

So take a little time out today and rethink your idea’s about what really does create a successful business, and keep reading for a kick start article in getting a simple business going with No Fixed Office.