What is stopping you from taking your business mobile? This is a great question that many businesses are not taking advantage of. From mobile services like Botox injections, computer repair, laundry services, to public notaries, a mobile business can expand your market, depending on how far you are willing to travel, which have two major benefits.
The first major benefit of taking your company mobile is not only the ability to have flexible hours, but you can eliminate all of the overhead from having an office. The second being you can change regions or your coverage area easily.
Setting up your service area and prices can be done a number of ways, like flat fee or sliding scale based on driving time or distance. Consider the costs of your commute time, gas, insurance, and transportation ware and tare. The iPhone has an application that will count your mileage, such as Milebug, to make billing clients and tax time easier.
How can I collect payment if I am Mobile?
The answer is you cell phone. The iPhone along, with other mobile devices, now have applications like Merchant Warehouse that can run credit card transactions while you are at client sites.
Think you need an office for meetings with clients?
New mobile devices, such as the new iPhone 4, have video capabilities using Skype and even have applications for using WebEx for conference calls on-the-go.
Need access to your computer files?
Using Sugarsync allows you to sync to any of your computers at anytime and run back ups, for quick access to files on the go.
Need to print documents?
You can easily set up your iPhone to send documents to any printer at home or at a printing center.
So what is stopping you from taking your business mobile? You might find that you can cut that umbilical cord to your desk after all.
