COSE understands that running a business out of your home has a unique set of challenges. The clear line separating business and home can be fuzzy. Finding resources and information can be time consuming. Identifying peers to brainstorm ideas can be difficult. That’s why we’ve developed a network dedicated to addressing your needs. The COSE Home Business Network connects you to fellow home-based business owners as well as to resources to help manage and grow your business.

Learn more about The COSE Home Business Network in the About Us section.

Ease Business Pressures with a Peer Advisory Group
Did you start your own home business to get out of the corporate world like a fellow colleague Pat Pribisko did (Patricia W. Pribisko Co., LPA and Pribisko Properties, LLC)? Pribisko joined a COSE MindShare group as a ‘recovering corporate executive’, to help her approach the growth of her law and real estate businesses with a totally different mindset.

“My MindShare group has encouraged me to focus on developing and improving my sales and marketing programs from the small picture, rather than the big picture. They (MindShare group) have me going back to the basics, as simple as time blocking,” says Pribisko.

Get Results from a MindShare Peer Advisory Group:

• Sounding Board: The peer group functions as a combination board of directors and a peer team (what many of us need when coming from the “corporate world”). Your MindShare group will see you and your business in a very different light than you do. Openness, frankness and confidentiality are an integral part and will provide with unbiased feedback, advice, and criticism.
• Overcome Isolation: It can be a very lonely being the owner of a small, growing business. Have you friends and family heard all your issues and do not understand the issues you face?
• Improve Odds of Success: Business success takes vision and insight. Your peer group can help you turn your focus away from the day-to-day issues and look at the bigger picture that can have a major impact on your company.
• Accountability: Completing business growth and development assignments from one monthly meeting to the next is instrumental. Brainstorm new possibilities, and set up accountability structures, to help you stay focused and everyone benefits from the level of experience, skill and confidence.
  

Visit www.cosemindshare.org to read more about what your peers are saying. Pribisko has found her MindShare group to be an invaluable tool for her business success.

If you'd like to consider joining a COSE MindShare group, but have unanswered questions, please join us for a MindShare Test Drive at the COSE Business.