Small Biz Owners Vacation
The image of a serene sunbather on a tropical beach with cocktail in hand doesn’t scream out “small business owner,” and it probably never will.
It’s tough enough running any business but owners of small shops with just one or a few employees have their own special challenges – like taking a vacation.
Paige Evans is a micro business owner with an interesting perspective on the vacation dilemma facing many entrepreneurs — she runs a travel agency from her home office in Ankeny, Iowa, and a one-employee shop in Omaha, Neb.
Unlike many small business owners who wait for years before they’re comfortable leaving their livelihood for time off, Evans managed to go on a vacation by year two of her 10-year-old business.
Use technology: “As technology improves, it makes it easier,” says Evans. She transfers her Iowa phone number to the Omaha office.
She also has a deal with her husband that they take their laptops on vacation and agree to work only two to three hours in the morning and then they go offline.
“I advise my clients I’ll only be available at certain hours, and we manage to still be in touch with business,” says Evans. “If your business is on your laptop you can be in touch with both worlds.”
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Niubi on August 5th, 2009 11:30 am
Some really interesting points there. It’s really hard to take a vacation when you’re a freelance, or self-employed with a small business, since (if you’re like me), everything has to be micromanaged – and when things go wrong, well, who you gonna call? Not the Ghostbusters, for sure. But I have found that using a business model like the one offered here – http://www.dublinetwork.com has made my life significantly easier, by ensuring that many problems are no longer mine – but someone elses. Which does mean that vacations are no longer dominated by the specter of work!
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