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Hello Guys,

I have been running a small home-based web business for quite sometime. I have a website and is in the process of renovating it. But, something hit my mind that got me thinking. Right now I am more or less like a freelancer. I want to hire people but I don`t have a space to setup my office and place people over there. So, how should I project myself? Should I project myself just as a freelancer or an entity that acts like a business and is interested in expanding itself and hiring people?

If I project myself as freelancer what can be repercussions of that? And likewise what can be if I project myself as a potential web business?

Please advice.

I`m thinking that perhaps the problem here is in the wording---the way you`re thinking of yourself. A freelancer IS a single-owner business. It`s not that you`re some vague "entity" that "acts like a business," your ARE a business.

It may be that you don`t yet have an office, nor that you can bring employees into this office. So what? In most Web development/design companies, everything`s done online anyway, right? Your employees would be working from their own homes or offices, and all you connections would be via telcom and the Web, right?

You should always project your self and your image as being a professional business. It doesn`t at all matter if you`re working at home, in your underwear, or if you have a multi-story building somewhere. Unless you expect to spend a lot of time working directly with clients, face-to-face, in an office, then the physical location and structure of your office isn`t really relevant.

Unless I`m not understanding the above question right, that`s my thought anyway. :-)

hmm,

the question you ask is of how to project yourself and/or the company. ha, well the no brainer is always from the moment you wake up until you are catching those zzz`s-is to be professional. always. it really doesn`t matter if you are an on-line or brick and mortar place. the image from others is to be what you create for them.

that will include when you step out the door of home until you close yourself off upon returning to closed doors of home.

okay, now to your question. doesn`t matter if you are an LLC or self employed, farm out to your vendors as independant contractors. thus at tax time, 1099 folks. come on, let`s be real-you are projecting an image of a business, so behave like one. or rather you are running one. working in one. a business that is. from there, the folks who you are pondering to give a 1099 at tax time, they will think and behave accordingly, since you have brought that on from you.

hmm, did we address your concerns and give you some food for thought? let me know-



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Christopher (the life coach)

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Thank you,
Tina Moore
Owner
PrimoSites.com Web Developers
"We make having a great website easy!"

Thanks everyone for your advices. Sorry for being late in this reply. I was down with some personal issues.

Your replies has really cleared my confusion. They are exactly what I was looking for and I am happy to say that I am soon going to come up with some good news. :).

Thanks a lot again :).