Watching your home-based business grow is thrilling, but with new growth comes new challenges. Many home-based business owners experience growing pains as they face the need to develop new ways of doing everything from storing stock to servicing increased customer delivery needs quickly and efficiently. When your business is growing quickly, here are some of the challenges you can expect to encounter and what you can do about them.
Challenge: Storage Space
When your business grows, you will need more inventory, but when you work from home, you have inherent storage issues. Sometimes, you simply need to be able to store more things than your home will accommodate, and as your success grows, so will those storage needs. Fortunately, you don’t have to give your house over to your growing inventory. Instead, find a warehouse space where your items can be stored in a secure, climate-controlled facility. You can reclaim your home and experience the convenience of having your stock organized in a single location.
Challenge: Delivery and Distribution
For many home-based businesses, growth comes with new levels of demand for delivery. Although many small business owners start packaging things up and making daily trips to the post office, success makes that impossible. Fortunately, you can use a distribution service, who can pick, pack, and ship your stock the same day, allowing you to keep your growing base of customers happy.
Challenge: Workflow
A home-based business that is a one-person operation can become a victim of its own success when workflow issues become overwhelming. As your business grows, so does the work that needs to be done to manage it, and keeping up with those tasks can make it impossible for your business to continue to grow. When you reach this stage, it could be time to think about an employee who can be trusted with business operations while you continue to focus on growth.
Whether you need storage for a few boxes or large-scale, daily distribution and delivery, Xcel Delivery Services makes it easy for home-based businesses to play in the big leagues. Get more information about our distribution centers in Tucson by calling (520) 355-4897.
