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As with any business, customers want to contact you to ask questions about your bookkeeping service. Or to request a sample of the fabric for the upholstered furnishings you provide.
However, giving your home address and telephone number might cause people to call at inappropriate hours, disturbing your household. In the worst-case scenario, someone may find your address on your website and turn up at your door, thinking it’s an office or shop they can visit.
On the other hand, if you don’t put contact details on your website, you’ll have two issues; customers will think your company is untrustworthy. And second of all, your customers won’t be able to get in touch with you to ask questions about what you’re selling.
A home-based business enables us to be in the place we most enjoy. But if we’re not careful, it can also have downsides, causing our home and private life, which was once private, to become public. To protect and preserve your privacy and maintain a division between your work and personal life, please read the three tips below.
Use A Virtual Address And Mailbox
To maintain some privacy and prevent all of your business-related mail from being sent to your home. Think about using a virtual mailbox from a physicaladdress; this business will provide you a base for all correspondence to be sent to.
Any physical post will be scanned by the company and emailed to you online for you to address.
Virtual mail is also beneficial for business owners who travel a lot—enabling you to read your mail even when you’re halfway across the world.
Business Contact Number
Having a separate mobile phone to accept business calls is wise. It prevents customers, clients, investors, and so forth from contacting your home phone or personal mobile.
Moreover, you can allocate a set time to leave your work phone on. And once your “opening hours” have passed, turning off the phone will enable you to disconnect from work with ease.
Create A Work Email
Similar to having a separate phone, it helps to have a separate email for your company also. Plus, a business email will look much more professional to customers than a personal email.
Once you’ve created your new business email account, add your new email address to your website, and hand it out to new and existing contacts. In doing so, all business-related mail will be funneled into your business account.
Having a separate email makes it easier to keep track of work-related mail while maintaining your email for private use.
Other tips to help keep your details and home address private include advancing your work devices, such as downloading appropriate anti-virus software to your business laptop.
It helps to read more about protecting your information online to prevent your home business and personal life becoming an easy target online for cybercriminals. It’s also essential to be careful not to do business online on public wi-fi.
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