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Maximizing Space and Success: Upsizing Your Home to Support Your Business Growth

As your business flourishes, you need to be maximizing space and success. Upsizing your home accommodates your growing enterprise and enhances your capacity to serve more clients and innovate. This transition, however, requires careful planning to ensure that your business operations remain uninterrupted and more efficient than ever. In this guide from Shippy Realty and Auctions, you’ll learn how to integrate business needs into your new living space, maintain professionalism, and manage additional responsibilities with a larger home office.

Assessing Your Business Needs

Identifying your business’s requirements in a new home is the first step to a successful upgrade. Consider the space needed for your operations, whether product storage or a quiet consultation room. Consider your technology requirements and whether additional rooms might be required as your team grows. Assess the accessibility for clients and deliveries, ensuring your new location supports a professional image.

Complying with Local Zoning Laws

Before you move, it’s essential to review local zoning laws that pertain to home-based businesses. These regulations can affect how you use your home for commercial purposes and may include restrictions on signage, client visits, and types of permissible activities. Understanding these laws can help you avoid costly penalties and ensure your business operates legally. To navigate these rules effectively, engage with a local attorney or zoning consultant.

Advancing Your Business Skills

Earning an online degree, such as by earning a doctor of business administration degree, equips you with leadership skills essential for advancing your business. This flexible learning format allows you to manage your business obligations while enhancing your acumen. Integrating education with your daily operations positions you effectively as a business leader; this could help you learn more. Pursuing your degree online maximizes your time efficiency and could help streamline your path to professional growth.

Establish a Professional Home Office

Maintaining a professional environment for client interactions is essential as your business address shifts to a larger home. Designate a specific area of your home as the client reception or meeting space, ensuring it is well-appointed and separate from personal living areas. This setup helps project a professional image while setting clear boundaries within your home environment.

Ensuring Professional Boundaries

Privacy is paramount, both for your family and your business. Implement measures such as soundproofing business areas or using privacy screens to delineate workspaces. Consider separate entrances, if feasible, to minimize disturbances to your household. These steps ensure a professional atmosphere and enhance concentration, benefiting business operations and family life.

Building Good Neighbor Relations

Communicating with your neighbors about your home-based business activities fosters good relationships and minimizes misunderstandings. Explain the nature of your business, anticipated traffic, and potential noise. Offering contact information for concerns shows consideration and professionalism. Such openness can also lead to local networking opportunities and community support.

Expanding your home to accommodate your growing business is significant but rewarding. By meticulously planning the integration of business functionalities into your new home, ensuring legal compliance, and maintaining a professional environment, you pave the way for continued growth and success. Embrace this next chapter confidently, knowing you are well-prepared to meet the challenges and opportunities it brings.

Whether you’re buying or selling, Shippy Realty and Auctions is here to help! Call 605-842-3212.

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Garden almanac

In the Garden this Week

I had to take a long time to mow in the garden this week because I had to pick up all the frogs and toads in the grass and put them in the flowerbeds. It is all good because they go after all the little crickets and grasshoppers.

Many people have noticed quite a bit of purslane growing in the gardens and flowerbeds this year. If you want to get rid of this, pull and remove it. If you toss it back on the ground, it will root again in the soil. It is also a food source used raw in salads, frying, or thickened soups like okra.

Purslane (weed or not?)

The bug of the week is the soldier beetle. Not all beetles are bad. These eat aphids and pollinate flowers. They are attracted to yellow flowers like goldenrods. The one we have in the state is the golden soldier beetle.

Golden Soldier Beetle

The needles on spruces dying and dropping off on the interior of the tree are normal. It becomes not normal if the tips are brown (with a purple tint) or the top of the tree dries up. This could be a sign of cytospora fungus. The fungus rarely kills the tree, however, will weaken it and the tree might succumb to winter injury. Follow the dying branch to a canker (a weeping area of resin) and prune out. The disease is more pronounced on mature blue spruces.

Spruce with cytospora fungus

This is the time to reseed areas in your cool-season lawn. Make sure you keep the area moist until the grass seed sprouts. If you want to try a buffalo grass lawn, seed in June or the first of July since it is a warm season grass.

Buffalo grass lawn

Talking about lawns, the brown patch is showing up. This fungus causes small patches in the lawn to turn brown to white. The problem is becoming worse since the humidity levels have been increasing during the past few years. Use liquid fungicide on the patches so they do not spread. They are also resistant grass varieties to plant.

Brown patch in a lawn
Garden almanac

This Week in the Garden

Tent caterpillars are showing up this week in the garden. The eggs hatch and the little caterpillars spin a group web on the end of a branch. As they grow the tent becomes bigger. They do this for their protection from predators and weather. The caterpillars become larger brown-reddish moths later in the season. They like fruit trees along with others like poplars and willows. You can break the web with a stick to open it up to the birds or spray insecticidal soap into the web.

A lot of people are having trouble with bitter cucumbers. All cucumbers have a substance called cucurbitacin which makes them bitter detouring insects. Some varieties vary in the amount of this substance having a lot of this bred out. Also, hot and dry temperatures increase the cucurbitacin. This is why wild cucumbers are so bitter.

The time to spray weeds in the lawn is coming up in late September and October. Fall is a better time than spring because the food in the leaves is being sent down to the roots for the winter.

It used to be that it was recommended to cut grass shorter in the fall. Now the thinking is to keep the height the same as the summer. This allows the longer grass blade to produce more food to be sent down to the roots for better winter health.

Check your local nursery for fall-blooming plants like mums and asters. Slip these into a container of plants that are tired or just given up. Also, it is time to plant spring-blooming bulbs like tulips and daffodils.

If you are looking for native fruit to grow in the area, try chokecherry, buffaloberry, honeyberries, elderberry (make sure you cook the berries and not eat raw), Juneberry, or Aronia (serviceberry). There are others but SDSU has had success in growing these native fruits. Other favorites are gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, mulberry, and Saskatoon berry.  Just make sure the berries are ripe before picking and add some for the birds.

June berry
Buffalo berry
June berry