Working from home is the dream for many people, I mean, why wouldn’t it be…
- You get to work from the place you feel comfortable in.
- You are close to the kitchen where you can have food and drink on tap.
- You avoid all of the soul crushing office politics.
- You avoid all of the time-wasting chatting that happens at work.
- You work when you want.
- You can be close to family should they need you.
That last line sounds great, being close to family is one of the main reasons for people choosing to work from home… but it can also be a problem at times.
Unless you have set good boundaries and have a family who respects the fact that to need to be left to work, or have a workspace that is close but far enough away from your nearest and dearest to not hear them, being so close to family can be distracting.
Not only can you have family wandering in to your workspace to ask questions and talk to you about stuff that isn’t relevant at that time, they can be doing stuff around the property that is ‘noisy’.
- Children playing can be noisy.
- Teenagers listening to music or watching television can be noisy.
- Cooking and cleaning can be noisy… especially if the person cooking or cleaning listens to music while they work.
How much noise affects you is largely based on who you are and the work you do.
Some tasks can be done relatively easy with some background noise; others are best done when it’s quiet.
Anything that requires you to really focus and produce a lot of work will require quiet.
Creating podcasts, videos, and digital products to sell is best done without noise or people interrupting you.
In a previous article I talked about going away for a night or two to a hotel or an Airbnb so that you can work undisturbed on projects…
Another option is to rent an office space for the day.
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With advancements in technology and the Covid pandemic revealing that a lot of office workers can work from home, more and more offices have become vacant meaning that there is a surplus of empty offices that can be let on a short term basis.
I don’t know if many landlords have realised that there could be a call for day rentals, but I see potential here.
Offering office space hire on a day rate could mean that they make money from their empty spaces without having long term contracts which a lot of people no longer need.
For content creators, renting an office for one day a week or a month can be more than enough for them.
They do not need an office space for everyday of the week.
A good example of this is if you wanted to create video training as part of a product to sell, or record a series of podcasts to publish as a way to build a following.
Renting an office space where you can work away from family and distractions would allow you to concentrate fully on what you need to do and produce more content in less time.
For some people, just knowing that someone is wandering around outside their room can put them off while recording a video or a podcast. Their thinking is distracted as they listen to see if they are likely to bust in and start talking to them.
Working from home can be similar to working in an office full of people, you may be there for eight hours per day, but with all of the chatting that goes on between workers – or with family members in this case, you probably only do five or six hours worth of work.
Hiring an office space means that you are free from the disruptions and distractions of home and family and could mean that you have a product ready to sell a lot sooner than if you did it at home.
Renting an office for a day or two could also be cheaper and quieter than working at a hotel for the day. That depends on where the office is of course and whether there are other adjacent offices that are also being used.
Old hotels can often have paper thin walls which are no good for when you want to be quiet, plus, you don’t know who you will get in the neighbouring rooms or the one directly above.
Even the modern hotels with soundproofing can still be noisy with people walking up and down the corridors all day, and heavy doors ‘thudding’ shut every few minutes.
Renting an office for the day could really ramp up your efforts and allow you to get a lot of work done.
As I mentioned earlier, just having family milling around outside your home office, not knowing whether they are going to come and talk to you while you work, can disturb your thinking.
Disturbed thinking means that your productivity is affected.
One of the rules to success is to get products out to market quickly.
In many cases, that means putting the less-than-perfect version out (known as the beta version), and then improve and upgrade it later.
This also allows you to get vital feedback from customers and make any improvements and corrections that are needed.
Waiting for things to be perfect can mean that by the time you release your finished product, you either missed the market, or you have lost a lot of money.
Obviously, if the product is software that is doing a vitally important job – like balancing the day’s takings at post offices, then the beta version really needs to be virtually watertight and any bugs and fixes required need to be nothing major. (Fujitsu take note!)
Imagine that you spent a whole day in an office recording videos for a product and that you managed to record all that you needed, and get most, if not all of the videos edited (any unfinished editing can be done back at home) you could potentially get the product finished and released to the market within a few days.
Whereas doing it at home with people milling around you and popping in to talk could mean that you are still recording videos a week later… maybe longer.
As I say, it does depend on what boundaries you set and whereabouts you work in your home.
You may be completely out of the way and left to your own devices, which is great, but if you are struggling to get much done because of disruptions and distractions, hiring an office for a few days to allow you do the bulk of the work may be just what you need.
Remember, sometimes you need to spend money to make money.
If hiring an office for a couple of days at £200 meant that you got your £97… £197… £297 product up online and ready for people to buy within a week, you will be earning that money back… and a whole lot more besides.
As the saying goes…
Money Loves Speed!
The sooner you get products online for people to buy, the quicker you can earn back any money invested and start to make a profit… and profit is what it is all about.
The good news is that if you are able to remove disruptions and distractions, products can be created quickly and listed online to sell.
In this video, How To Create Profitable Content Quickly, Andi, our techy guy, shows you how to quickly create content that you can sell.
That content could be added to your own website as a standalone product or part of an ongoing monthly membership product by simply adding it to a webpage that is accessed only through a Stripe payment button on a sales page.
When someone buys your product through your Stripe payment button on the sales page, they are automatically sent to the product page once the payment is processed.
It is fully automatic and completely passive.
Other than send people to your sales pages, you don’t need to do anything more once the product and sales page are in place.
To discover how you can create multiple fully automatic passive income systems of your own, click the link below:
The 30 Day To £30K Challenge
Kind regards.
John Harrison.
PS… Depending on what your product is and is about, it could take less than a day to create and put live online ready to make sales.