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Home Based Business Owners Don’t Need to Advertise Their Home Address

Guest post by: Debra Gould

Article Overview: Intrepid entrepreneur, Staging Diva, advises home-based business owners to use a contact details other than their home address on marketing materials to protect their safety and to appear more professional.

Home Based Business Owners Don’t Need to Advertise Their Home Address

It’s a great freedom being able to work from home. If you work as a home stager, interior designer or in another type of profession where you visit your clients in their homes for consultations and projects, there’s never any reason why a client would need to visit you at your home office.

For this reason, there’s no need for you to advertise the location of your business – your home address. Besides, would you really want anyone and everyone knowing exactly where you live? Because that’s the case when you use your home mailing address on your website, business cards and other marketing materials.

There isn’t any need for you to publish your home address, but on your website it’s a good idea to have some sort of mailing address there if for no other reason than to help visitors determine whether or not you’re operating a legitimate business. One of the best indicators of an online scam is the lack of a mailing address. That’s why if you’re sending out mass emails (for example a monthly newsletter) you’re required by law to include your mailing address.

This being said, you don’t have to use your real address. I recommend you get a post office box or rent a mailbox from a local company that provides such a service.

That way, you’re not only shielding your privacy a bit better but a PO Box or Suite number looks and sounds more professional on your marketing materials than the average home address does anyway.

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