This is the sixth in a series of seven articles that tell you how to sift through all the home business opportunities you hear about every day, and find the PERFECT home based business for you.What makes an opportunity P.E.R.F.E.C.T.? In the first five articles in this series, we learned that the “P” in PERFECT stands for “Profitable”, the first “E” in PERFECT means “Easy”, the “R” stands for “Real”, the “F” means “Fits With Your Desired Lifestyle”, and the second “E” stands for “E-friendly”.Key Number Six-
The “C” in PERFECT stands for “Competitive”. Can your home based business be competitive? Can you win your share of the business, or even be a market leader?In your PERFECT home based business, you will offer products that are better, different, provide more value, or are offered in a different way, allowing you to compete effectively and get your share of the profits. Don’t make the mistake of thinking that “cheaper” means being competitive. Sometimes trying to be the cheapest product is a losing proposition for you, and also for everybody else trying to compete with you.”Competitive” means:• You have a unique selling proposition (a unique or better product or service, or one that is offered in a unique or different way). This gives you a way to answer your prospect’s question “Why should I buy your product, and why should I buy it from you instead of your competitor?”.While it’s great to have a better product, sometimes just having a better product is not enough to be competitive. According to another marketing expert Mark Joyner, you need to find a way to make an “irresistible offer” to your prospects, one that makes them feel like a fool if they don’t take you up on your offer. Then, you’ll really be “competitive”.If you create your own products based on your knowledge, experience, and personality, this will contribute to your unique selling proposition. Nobody else can offer your unique perspective on the subject matter you create your products around.• Your product and market enable you to be a big fish in a small pond.If possible, you want to be able to control the market in a smaller niche, not just get your small share of a larger market where you are one of many “same old same old” suppliers. Still, there’s nothing wrong with getting a small share of a very large market, if you can do it with your own irresistible offer. It’s just harder to be competitive in a large market.• Having a high publicity potential (news worthy, new, novel, popular fad or trend).This is certainly not the most important factor, but it really helps if your PERFECT home based business or product does have a high potential for publicity. You can get thousands of dollars in free publicity if you can get press coverage and internet coverage by writing “news worthy” news releases and articles.• Rapid, wide distribution can be accomplished.The first to market with a new product often wins the highest profits and gets the highest market share. Whether your product is “new” or not, you need to get the word out about it quickly to the broadest audience to be competitive and remain competitive. Sometimes the best protection you can have for your product, even better than patents or copyrights, is to make sure the whole market knows about it first and fast.We’re almost there. The PERFECT Home Based Business must be COMPETITIVE. And, it must be PROFITABLE, EASY, and REAL. It must FIT WITH YOUR DESIRED LIFESTYLE, and must be E-FRIENDLY.

Many have been said about how good it is to have a home based business. The advantages and benefits of having a home based business can really be overwhelming and tempting. However, like the old saying goes, “nothing is black and white” and “it’s all shades of grey”, home based businesses also pose some disadvantages and sad to say, many of those who ventured into home based business fall into the pitfall of distractions, separating home tasks and business tasks, isolation, endless work, and lack of self discipline. Nevertheless, these must not be a reason for you to change your mind especially now that you have already taken the first step to this very rewarding business. It is just important that you know how to get yourself ready for whatever you’ll be facing on this business. So to help you in this venture, here are 5 useful tips on staying focused on your home based business. Happy reading!1. Break Large Tasks into PiecesHome based businesses often involve large tasks and projects to handle. This seems overwhelming so it is always easier and helpful to break these large tasks down into smaller components. You will find it easier to focus more because you will not feel so overwhelmed. For instance, your home based business is more on writing for clients and you were given a bulk order of 100 articles due in a week’s time. Instead of always thinking how to complete the 100 articles in a week’s time, why don’t you think of completing 20 each day?2. Be Organized – Keep a “to do” listOnce you have divided the large tasks into smaller ones, it’s time to do some planning and organization and note the plan down on your “to do” list. Using the same example given above, you can decide to do research first thing in the morning, building up ideas for your articles, then finally writing and forming these ideas into a complete article.3. Schedule your TimeSchedule is very important when you have a home based business. Before you end your day, make sure to note down your schedule for the next day, giving emphasis on what you really have to accomplish.4. Set your GoalsYour goals are perhaps the best way to keep you focused on your home based business. Visualize what you actually want your business to become in a week, in a month, six months, a year, two years, and so on. How much profit would you want to have in a month’s time? How many clients are you targeting to win next month?5. Say Yes When You Can and No When You Can’tYou’ve got to be assertive and learn how to carve out your time for your projects. Assess yourself, how many more can you do? If you think the project being offered can still be done on a timely manner without compromising quality, say YES; however, if it’s beyond what you can handle, never hesitate to say NO and explain to your client why you can’t handle this task. Who knows, you might be able to negotiate on time.Having your own home based business is not at all bed of roses. There are some things that you have to go through to successfully overcome the challenges of having one. Of course, like any endeavor, you have to understand that the odds may be stacked against you but if you are really determined to succeed and if you play your cards right, you will definitely love your new home based business!

A property manager is a person or an organization that handles, operates and maintains a particular real estate property for a fee or charge if the property owner has no interest in handling it themselves. He serves as a contact between the property owner and the tenants that resides in the property. This also serves as a balancing action as the manager must guarantee that the property is always rented to function for the owner’s and tenant’s sake and preserved ideally to maintain the convenience and satisfaction level of the tenants as great as possible. The usual types of properties that managers typically handle in behalf of the owner are categorized in five groups which are residential, multi-family, association, commercial and resort.

The property manager’s daily duties are usually dealing with the tenant’s issues and concerns, property repairs, property management, filing and recording properties for rent, marketing properties available for rent and negotiating lease agreements between the owner and the tenant. Sometimes, managers also serve as rent collectors when the tenant falls late on payments and arrange reports for the owner with regards to the property’s status and the allocation of tasks to third party vendors depending on the owner’s requirements.

Reliant on the contractual arrangement between the owner and the manager, the manager may be obliged to be involved in handling the outsourcing of all management jobs associated with the property. This includes checking out standard property service businesses that are decent and reliable and that will demand a reasonable rate in exchange for their services. It is actually an important skill for the manager to master to be able to protect the owner’s investment in the property by lessening any extra costs that are superfluous.

The most crucial duty of a property manager to the owner is keeping the property occupied with tenants, maintaining a great level of occupancy at all times. Managers should evaluate the rental rates that should be charged to the tenants and they should also increase the income being made from each property in the portfolio by doing a comparison analysis. The comparison analysis not only determine the physical variations in the subject property opposed to its competitors, but to identify the value of each feature so that the manager can conduct the needed adjustments to the subject property’s rental charge, up or down, depending on the outcome.

For the tenants, property managers should guarantee the tenants a calm enjoyment of the premises. Comfort and security is one of the most crucial expectations that should be provided to the tenants to keep them satisfied. The tenant’s safety is another major duty of the manager where tenants are allowed to live or work in a place that is free from any structural errors and defects or conditions that may be harmful to personal health or property.