Trouble picking a new domain name

Working from home can give you amazing freedom to spend time with your family, it can also give you more free quality time to spend as you please, but the one thing that working from home doesn’t give you is a work based support network.

What is a work based support network? And why do I need one?

When your working for someone else and you’re having a bad day there would usually be someone that you can turn to either for help or to blow off a little steam, but when your working from home, alone, who do you turn to?

Again, working from home, alone is, as the name suggests lonely - there is no social interaction with other co-workers, no leaving parties, Christmas parties etc.. - so if this website is here to promote working from home, why am I being so negative??

The answer is that I’m not, I’m here to try to help anyone who feels that way from time to time. I’m sure that we’ve all felt a little lonely or frustrated occasionally and the answer is as simple as if you were working in an office with 100 other people. Whether people are sat at the next cubicle or at the opposite end of the planet they can still make a big difference to your day and there’s plenty of ways to find them as well.

The first obvious choice would be to find a forum specific to your niche, i.e. if your a webdesigner then somewhere like DesignersTalk would be perfect, if you make scale models to resell then somewhere like Scale-Models might be a good place to start, you get the idea! Failing niche forums you could find yourself a nice general Work From Home Forum!

Also don’t overlook local support - almost every part of every developed nation now has business clubs, Chambers of Commerce, small business assistance groups all of which are excellent places to make new industry friends and contacts, go to as many events as you can - be sure to have loads of high quality business cards to give out and make sure to get as many back in return as you can - you never know where that next big sale will come from!