How To Run Your Business On About $100 a Month

If you’re a new mompreneur, the cost of running your new business can be seem daunting. With this approximately $100-a-month budget, you’ll need to work from your home office, local Starbucks or library. However using these cost effective tools, you can effectively run your business on a very small budget.

Phone service: Free!!!

A lot of people set up a separate phone service for your business, but a business phone and personal phone seems expensive and unnecessary. You’re already paying for your personal phone service, so just add on a Google Voice number that forwards to your mobile phone. You can check voicemail online, receive text messages, plus a separate voicemail box and best of all it’s totally free.

Website: $10-16/per month

The number-one turn-off for me as a consumer is a poorly designed, ill-maintained website. If you want something clean and easy to update, you really can’t go wrong with Wix for a simple landing or informational page. Try Squarespace, for $16 a month, you get unlimited pages, galleries, storage, and even a fully integrated e-commerce feature that sells up to 20 products. It’s easy to use, so you can edit and build your site without having any real tech savvy.You will also have to pay for your domain, which should run you about $10 for the first year. Chump change.

Accounting software: Free While there’s no shortage of quality low cost software out there, Wave is 100 percent free. Wave gives access to unlimited accounting, invoicing, and receipt management, plus you can upgrade when you need more advanced features.

Legal services: $30.00/month From simply starting up your business to document reviews and consultation, it’s a good idea to have a lawyer on hand. For less than 25 bucks a month, LegalZoom or PrePaidPlans.com will give you a bevy of legal services to cover all aspects of running your business.

File storage: $15/month If you’re generating a lot of files (or sharing back and forth with clients), give yourself unlimited storage space through Dropbox. At this price point, you can allow five users access to your storage space.

Meeting space: $15/hour Nowadays, clients are fairly receptive to meeting in restaurants or coffee shops, but let’s say you want an occasional formal meeting. Sites like ShareSpace or Liquidspace rents out meeting and conference rooms all over the country starting at $15 an hour. If you take time to search the site, you may find free rooms to book!

Virtual assistant: $29.99/month It’s hard to delegate when you’re a one woman empire, so hire yourself a virtual assistant. You can check out sites like Elance or oDesk to find hourly assistants, or buy a monthly membership from Fancy Hands. A bargain of $29.99 gets you five requests per month.

As you can see Boss Moms, it doesn’t take a fortune to make a fortune. You can run or business efficiently and professionally without breaking your budget.

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