How To Protect Yourself When Running A Business From Home

When you’re running a business from home, you’ve got the ability to add more flexibility into your schedule. Want to pop out for coffee with an old friend? Sure! Want to take the kids somewhere fun? Absolutely! However, there’s a huge difference between running a business from home opposed to running a business from a store or any other exterior location. Did you know that you might be at risk from theft or attack even more when you’re working from home? It’s a scary thought, but there are measures you can take to protect yourself. Take a look at how you can protect yourself when running your business from home.

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Never meet clients at home

You never know when you’re going to get a disgruntled customer, and welcoming them into your home to talk business is putting yourself and your family at risk if they ever decide to come and confront you. When it comes to meeting clients, make sure it’s in a neutral place away from your home so that you can avoid this dilemma from occuring. Doing this also makes you look much more professional, which will be a bonus for your business. It’s understandable that people will want to see where their product or service is coming from, and to solve this matter you can take pictures, or create videos of your workspace that they can check out.

Don’t risk your personal details

Another problem that you might run into is what contact details to list on your business card, websites, and even social media pages. For the same reason as above, you want to avoid putting your home address anywhere to protect yourself. So what’s the solution here? You can now purchase a registered office address to display as your contact information. Not only does it protect you and your family from attack, but it also instantly makes your business look more professional too! With features such as free mail forwarding and call services, you can rest assured that no one is going to work out where you live.

Install security measures inside and outside of your home

If someone does work out where you live, or knows you personally so all of your measures that are in place become voided, then what do you do? Installing security cameras and alarms on both the interior and exterior of your home should be your first port of call. Being able to see who you’re opening your door to will give you an extra layer of security, and if an alarm is triggered during the night, the police will be instantly notified to come and head to the scene.

Sometimes, it might not even be a problem with your service that could put you at risk. There are people out there that might simply want information from you, or even money. Keeping all important documents safe and out of eyes reach in something secure like a safe will ensure that everything you’ve worked for is protected from theft.

Take measures online to be safe

Finally, it’s likely that with your business you’ve created social media accounts to reach out to new and potential customers. While this is an amazing way of promoting your business for free, people are now able to track your location from certain social media platforms. Snapchat for example, can now pinpoint you to almost your exact location, so make sure that when you’re using social media, that you’ve disabled location services to ensure that you, your family, and everything you’ve worked for are safe and sound.

While it’s quite unlikely that any of the above will happen, it’s also very important to take these precautions in case they do. With a bit of common knowledge, you and your business can continue to thrive!