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Why Home-Based Businesses Need Contracts, Too!

Why Home-Based Businesses Need Contracts, Too!

By Nina Kaufman, Esq.

The alarm goes off at 6:00am. Fifteen minutes later, coffee in hand, you walk into your office and turn on your computer. You are clad in a Boston Red Sox T-shirt, your husband’s Fruit of the Loom® boxers, and a pair of AniMules fuzzy giraffe slippers. Is this the perennial nightmare that you’ve shown up to work in your pajamas? No! It’s part of the home office dream, where you can earn money without having to dress up or put on a pretty face. But there’s one area where home based businesses and other independent professionals (who work from home) often go awry: letting casual attire translate into being casual with other areas of running the business. And nowhere does that crop up more often than in not having, and using, the right written contracts for your business. Before you dismiss me as a legal fuddy-duddy, let’s look at the benefits: The right agreements help you systematize your business. Many home-based business owners (or people working from home) fail to develop dependable systems for how…

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Nina Kaufman

Flying solo doesn’t have to mean going it alone.

I’m Nina Kaufman.

I know first-hand that running a knowledge-based service business has unique challenges. It’s so much easier when you have an advocate in your corner. Over the past 25 years, I’ve worked with thousands of New York business professionals who want a legal advisor to guide and support them as they navigate the business world.

With wide-ranging experience as a business attorney, strategist, and media authority, I bring the added power of a business lens to the legal issues my clients are facing.

And because I’ve been a business owner myself, I’ve lived through the soaring highs and devastating lows – like when my first law firm failed. So I understand what’s involved to serve great clients, detect business risks early and build a true legacy.

I can’t get those 12 years back. That’s why I have made it my mission to ensure that business professionals like you can become wise and discerning leaders, build a solid business, and live your best life.