According to National Stats, there are more than one million women in the UK working from home and at least half of them are womentrepreneurs. Helen Hammond, an Aromatherapist and Indian Head Masseuse from Stoke on Trent, is a good example of a successful ‘Work from Home Mum’. Apart from juggling a husband and two teenage sons, she runs Scentsible Solutions, a website offering natural Aromatherapy products and services to both private and corporate clients.
A few years ago, whilst bringing up her two lads she was inspired by her stepmum in the states, who had created a programme of pure essential oil blends to target problems in Alzheimer’s patients for a local nursing home.
They proved to be so effective and popular that Helen begged to promote them in the UK. In the beginning she envisaged myself as a sales agent, but very quickly became fascinated and intrigued with the working of the essential oils. By now, so passionate was Helen that she trained and qualified as an Aromatherapist and Indian Head Masseuse.
Within four years she had an interesting, rewarding and satisfying career and business with her online aroma shop. Helen prides herself on tailoring products to an individual’s needs and not just selling what she has on the cyber shelves.
Now Scentsible Solutions is set to expand and include more products to help with a variety of ailments using natural ingredients. Although Helen and Scentsibles seems to be an lovely ‘home business’ it hasn’t been all uphill. Helen recalls having to persuade customers to purchase her products as they were an unknown brand.
Constant innovation in ‘pampering’ to individual needs won her and her products over and she is currently implementing a party plan and sales agents scheme, all work from home Mums of course.
And to this end, she called on Remote Employment, a website specialising in recruitment for flexible, work from home positions and home based jobs. Helen believes that her products would be ideally suited to working mums or stay at home mums who want to earn an income and maintain a career interest. Her position would be ideally suited to individuals with an interest in Aromatherapy and all that goes with natural cures to ailments.
Remote Employment Director, Paula Wynne said: “We are really happy to be working with inspirational women like Helen to help grow their business. Research shows that the structure of the labour market is going to be shaken dramatically over the next four years with remote working expected to almost double. It is really exciting to be at the forefront of the remote working culture.”
If you have any special needs or just want a good ol’ indulge, give Helen a call or try some of her hand blended essential oils and soothing products from www.scentsiblesolutions.co.uk. Or if you want to find home based business opportunities or work from home jobs browse www.remoteemployment.com.
8 April 2008
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How to set up a home office ...
Before you set up a work station at home, check out our Seven Top Tips on how to work from home:
Your Home Office
Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.
Pick your desk location
You should be able to see the door of the office from where you are sitting or at least more of your surroundings. Beware of facing the garden and the bird bath – too tempting to watch the world go by! A hard chair will give you backache so spend a little extra on a good one.
Working Hours
Working outside 'normal' working hours helps to balance your work and home life so don't feel guilty dashing off to take the lads to footie after school, as long as you get your work done. Catching up in the early morning or later in the evening works well, but also watch out for going OTT. Make sure you close down and walk away at some point or the family will go hungry.
Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.
Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.
Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.
If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.
Your Home Office
Ideally, you will have a spare room to create a home office. If not, a corner of another room, will be fine as long as you are not constantly distracted in the family fast lane. Set up your kitSet up your computer, files and phone to give you maximum comfort for long hours. Have enough plug points for PC, printer, phone, scanner, mobile charger, fax machine and answer phone. Even better get an all in once mod con to save on a jumble of cables and wires.
Pick your desk location
You should be able to see the door of the office from where you are sitting or at least more of your surroundings. Beware of facing the garden and the bird bath – too tempting to watch the world go by! A hard chair will give you backache so spend a little extra on a good one.
Working Hours
Working outside 'normal' working hours helps to balance your work and home life so don't feel guilty dashing off to take the lads to footie after school, as long as you get your work done. Catching up in the early morning or later in the evening works well, but also watch out for going OTT. Make sure you close down and walk away at some point or the family will go hungry.
Have a breather
No matter what kind of work you do or what home you do it in, you can go bonkers if you spend 24 hours a day at it. Get out, whenever you can, to clear your head and to see other people. Use lunch time as a good break to pop down to pick up groceries for dinner, step outside to feed the birds during your coffee break or walk the dog around the block to clear the cobwebs. This is also a great way to mull over a document or get inspiration for new ideas.
Keep in Touch
Have no fear that your social life at work comes to an end if you leave your office to work from home, in fact in some cases your relationship with your colleagues may improve. Email is instant but be careful of 'funnies' – they can eat up a huge chunk of time. Chat through business issues by phone and meet for a quick bite every now and then.
Goal scoring
Give yourself little goals and objectives and then reward yourself when they are complete. Make sure family and friends know your hours or days of working at home and stick to that. Don't be tempted to pop over for a coffee or cook a large meal. Give yourself this time as a reward for getting up early on a Monday to finish a long-winded report. Or if you score well with a new client take five to put your feet up before the school run. Whatever incentives work for you, use them to motivate yourself to balance your time around your other responsibilities.
If you have any suggestions on working from home, please submit your articles to grace@remoteemployment.com.
Remote Work
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