You’ll get tips on achieving work-life balance, discover common pitfalls (and how to avoid them) – even learn how to set boundaries with loved ones. Plus, if you’re searching for more opportunities, get the latest updates here.

Secrets to Service Partner Success

Working from home is a dream come true for most people, allowing them the flexibility and convenience to work and earn on their own terms. As a Service Partner on the Arise® Platform, you know all about work-life flexibility. We’re willing to bet it’s one of the driving factors that brought you here in the first place.

No matter where you are in your solopreneur journey — whether you recently started or you’ve been a Service Partner for years — check out our top work-from-home secrets.

How to Achieve Balance While Working From Home

Few things beat the feeling of working from your own space. As a Service Partner on the Arise® Platform, you know this better than anyone. But when the line between work and home starts to blur, it can become stressful to figure out how to work from home successfully and balance the rest of your life.

But when you’re equipped with the right strategies, you’ll achieve work-from-home nirvana in no time! Here’s how you can make it happen right now.

Productivity Apps Every Service Partner Needs to Download Right Now

As a Service Partner on the Arise® Platform, productivity apps should be your best friend. After all, you’re constantly managing responsibilities and obligations while also working hard to optimize your free time. That’s why you need something more powerful than the old pen-and-paper duo.

The good news is that being busy is doable when you’re armed with the right help! Did you know you can have a virtual assistant right at your fingertips? How about a financial advisor? There are countless free and inexpensive apps you can download now to your phone to make your life significantly easier — and believe us, once you’ve tried them, you won’t be able to live without them.

Check out these simple, tech-forward ways to streamline your life.

Mistakes to Avoid as a Service Partner

Goodbye corporate environment, hello home office! Since the coronavirus pandemic, many people have chosen to take advantage of work at home opportunities.

Now as a Service Partner on the Arise® Platform, you have the chance to improve your work-from-home game by following these pointers. Check out the five mistakes we are vowing to never make again!

How to Set Boundaries With Loved Ones

Work-from-home boundaries: We know them, we love them, but sometimes, it’s just so hard to follow them. After all, working from home is a dream come true for most people. But as a Service Partner, when you begin living and working under the same roof — often with loved ones, friends, or roommates around you — things can get complicated.

If you’re struggling to create and maintain work-from-home boundaries with family and friends, here’s how to get the conversation started.

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After all, working from home is a dream come true for most people. But as a Service Partner, when you begin living and working under the same roof — often with loved ones, friends, or roommates around you — things can get complicated.

If you’re struggling to create and maintain work-from-home boundaries with family and friends, here’s how to get the conversation started.

Step 1: Start An Honest Conversation

Whether you live with family, a significant other, and/or children, now is the time to engage in an honest conversation about boundaries while you work from home. Discuss what you need (a secluded space, quiet hours), as well as how your family can help ease your transition into working from home.

Here are some example statements you can use to start the conversation with your loved ones:

• “Even though I have the flexibility when I work from home, it doesn’t mean I’m not actually working. When I am working, I need you to treat me as you would if I was working outside of the house.”
• “I think it’s time for us to set some healthy boundaries while I’m at home and working.”
• “I love being able to work from home and spend more time with you… but when I am actually working, I need you to give me a distraction-free zone!”

Step 2: Set Ground Rules

Does your teenager blast music while you’re working? Does your partner have a tendency to distract you during the day? After you open the door with an honest statement about how you feel, now is the time to set ground rules.

Be specific when it comes to the behavior you expect from those in your household while you work from home. Request that anyone who’s in the house while you’re working is as respectful as possible.

Not to worry though: They can still enjoy music or television during the day without distracting you! Headphones should do the trick.

Step 3: Compromise

Working from home is definitely an adjustment for both you and those around you. Instead of locking yourself in a room all day while you’re working, make sure you take a few coffee breaks or enjoy lunch with family and friends. This way they’ll feel connected and you’ll get some much-needed, real-life social time as you work from home.

Since you may have family or friends who aren’t working from home or working at all, it’s important to keep an open mind. It’s understandable if your family and friends encounter difficulty following your work-from-home schedule. If your significant other prefers to sleep in on a Wednesday morning, consider moving your workspace to a different area of the home instead of forcing them to wake up. Alternatively, if everyone in your is working from home online or completing school, consider dividing the total space into specific office areas, with the kitchen and living room serving as pseudo “breakrooms.”

Step 4: Flexibility Is Key

Sometimes accidents happen. It’s OK if a family member distracts you for a few minutes.

Try your best to remain as focused as possible when you’re working from home. However, take comfort in knowing that there is no perfect solution to remaining completely distraction-free with others, especially children. Taking breaks is a necessary part of productivity. Instead of viewing family or friends as unwanted distractions, use them as a way to destress, clear your head, and avoid burnout while working from home.

Work-From-Home Boundaries Made Easy

Looking for more helpful tips about working from home as a Service Partner? Check out these five tricks to becoming the best customer support agent!

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The good news is that being busy is doable when you’re armed with the right help! Did you know you can have a virtual assistant right at your fingertips? How about a financial advisor? There are countless free and inexpensive apps you can download now to your phone to make your life significantly easier — and believe us, once you’ve tried them, you won’t be able to live without them.

Here are simple, tech-forward ways to streamline your life using four types of helpful productivity apps: 

Calendar Apps 

You’ll always struggle to stay organized if you’re not properly using a calendar app. You may prefer to write things down the old-fashioned way and keep a written agenda. However, calendar apps are a way more efficient option. They allow you to maintain your schedule and keep a close eye on the days where you’re free as opposed to the days you’re jam-packed. They even offer convenient reminders and alarms to your phone, so you’ll never miss a beat, an appointment, or a family adventure!

Whether you download a paid calendar app or simply use the one built into your phone, a virtual calendar is an absolute necessity. We suggest taking it up a notch by downloading a powerful calendar app that allows you to create events and schedules for every aspect of your life, from family obligations to personal to-dos and work reminders. 

Try some of our favorite free options (available for both iOS and Android): Google Calendar, Any.Do, and TickTick.

Budgeting Apps

Budgeting apps are a great way to have a financial advisor right at your fingertips. These apps offer tons of incentives, tips, and tricks to help you on your journey to financial wellness. Break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and finally start saving more money by expense tracking and diving into your personal finance goals. 

These apps are essential because they allow you to gain total control over your money. You’ll be able to see where every dollar goes in real-time. 

Try some of our favorite free options (available for both iOS and Android): Every Dollar, Mint, Good Budget, and YNAB

To-Do List Apps 

Do you ever have trouble keeping track of your tasks? Do the errands you need to run suddenly slip your mind just as you’re about to go out and run them?

In addition to downloading a calendar app, we have another simple solution to your problem: a virtual to-do list. Forget writing your errands on notepads and forgetting to bring your grocery list with you. Task management apps offer multiple ways to organize responsibilities, remind you of important deadlines and dates, and even keep your life in sync with your calendar. 

Pro tip: No task is too small for a to-do list. To be the most efficient, create to-do lists for anything and everything you need and want to accomplish, from grocery lists to workout goals and work assignments.

Try some of our favorite free options (available for both iOS and Android): Todoist, Remember the Milk, and Monday.com

Calling Apps 

Your regular phone plan may not cut it when you’re working from home all day. Apps like Skype or WhatsApp allow you to place voice and video calls for free — and who doesn’t love free?! Once you’ve downloaded them, you can communicate easily and freely with whoever, wherever, whenever.

Try some of our favorite free options (available for both iOS and Android): WhatsApp, Skype, and TextNow

Organize Your Life Like Never Before 

Everyone can use a little bit more organization — Service Partners included! Once you’ve had the chance to download and explore the apps mentioned above, you’ll be set to optimize your time like never before. 

Ready for more must-know tips? Check out our guide on work from home balance and tricks to avoid distractions while working from home.

The Arise® Platform does not receive compensation for these recommendations. They are provided simply as a resource to Service Partners. 

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1. Are You Tracking Your Expenses? Spoiler Alert: You Should Be!

Did you know the gig economy currently makes up a significant portion of job opportunities around the world? In fact, by 2027, 60% of the U.S. workforce will be independent. 

When you work a side hustle like the Arise® Platform, you may incur some additional expenses — from courses to supplies. Because you’re working for yourself, you should consult a tax professional in your area to determine if you can deduct some of those costs. In any case, keep meticulous records of your expenses, ensuring that you know exactly how much you spent, what you bought, and why it was necessary. 

2. Organization = Long-Term Success 

That brings us to our next point: Working a side gig requires major organization beyond tracking expenses. To be successful, you’ll want to spend time thoughtfully creating a schedule for your gig work. How many hours a week will you commit to it? Will you be working on weekends? What kinds of gigs and clients do you want to work with?

Asking yourself these questions is important when you start to organize a new routine around your side hustle. After all, time is money — so make sure you prioritize what’s important to ensure you’re getting the most out of the opportunity.

Take it one step further and assess the amount of time and resources you have available to invest in your side hustle in the first place. That way you’ll be able to narrow down how much time you can invest. If you don’t change up your routine, to include your new side hustle, you might hinder your success. 

3. Work From Home and Save Major Cash 

Research says people who work from home typically save anywhere between $2,000 and $7,000 a year.  This means if you’re working from home now, you’re able to save more for the future.

• Child Care. The National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies found that a family making the state median income spends an average of 18% of their salaries on after-school childcare. By working from home, you can eliminate the substantial cost of after-school care. That means more money in your pocket.
• Transportation. The average U.S. commute is about 26.4 minutes one way. This means most commuters spend nearly an hour of driving or riding public transportation each day. Clearly, this can put a large dent in your pocket. Whether you are filling your car up with gas twice a week or recharging your public transportation card. By working from home, you are making the choice to shave a large expense out of your monthly budget.
• Food. Research says that the average American worker spends $1,000 a year on coffee and $2,000 a year on lunch. Working from home gives you the option to make that daily cup of coffee in the comfort of your own kitchen and spend a lot less on your caffeine fix. Likewise, when working from home you’re less likely to spend that $15 on a garden salad for lunch!
• Office Attire. This may seem like a small savings when thinking of other large-scale items. However, when considering the amount of money you will save long-term when you don’t have to dress for a corporate environment and don’t have to budget the extra monthly bill of maintaining corporate attire through dry-cleaning fees and possible tailoring services, you start to see how you will be able to save money in the long run.

Service Partner Success

You know better than anyone that earning money for flexible work you enjoy doing is rewarding and exciting! Keep it going by checking out our latest opportunities for Service Partners here.

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But when you’re equipped with the right strategies, you’ll achieve work-from-home nirvana in no time! Here’s how you can make it happen right now:

Create A Realistic Routine — And Stick To It

You know the drill: Joining the Arise® Platform as a Service Partner is an efficient way to earn extra money, pay off debt, and do the things you actually enjoy.

That said, you don’t need to be strict to establish a routine that works for you. All you need is a bit of organization and patience. The first place to start is by learning to schedule and effectively manage your day, which will then allow you to allocate enough time to the platform without sacrificing other obligations you might have. 

Use the built-in calendar on your phone or another device, and organize your day hour by hour. You’ll soon realize how much downtime you can commit to the platform without affecting anything else in your life. Maybe that’s when your child is napping, or your significant other is at the gym. Once you identify what time is best for you to work, you can rest easy knowing that you can accomplish everything.

After all, you probably don’t realize how much of the day you spend engaging in activities like binge-watching a TV show, scrolling through your phone, or indulging in other distractions. If you pledge a few hours to earn extra money instead, you’ll be well on your way to balancing work and the rest of your life.

Become A Master of Motivation

Beyond establishing an efficient schedule and routine, you should set a few goals to keep you excited and engaged to continue your work on the platform. From paying off debt, saving up for a vacation, or buying yourself a fancy pair of shoes — set your sights on something and get to work! 

Don’t Lose Your Commitment

The most successful Service Partners on the Arise® Platform are those who stay committed. Do you want to work weekends? Will you spend your lunch break working? Think about what that commitment will look like for you, depending on your other responsibilities. 

Remember: There’s not a right or wrong way to handle this. There’s also not a magic amount of time you need or should spend working to be successful. All you need to give yourself grace and allocate enough time to reach your goals. 

Stay Accountable

When you don’t have a boss looking over your shoulder, it can become easy to create excuses to avoid the responsibilities associated with your work-from-home gig.

Prioritize your success! This is your journey, and you are your own CEO now. That means you have to act like it and remain accountable for the goals you’ve set for yourself and your business. 

Work-Life Balance Made Easy

If work-life balance is your ultimate goal, you already made the best decision by becoming a Service Partner! 

Don’t forget: You’re the boss here, giving you complete control — including when, where, and how much you want to work. Get organized, maintain a schedule, and tap into your ambition: Balancing work around your daily life is possible.

Looking for more tips? Check out the best tricks for Service Partners, plus ways to offer excellent customer service.

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From social-media pings on your phone to family members demanding your attention, working at home can be difficult. But it’s not impossible to tune out the outside world from your workspace.

Here are some tricks to keep up your sleeve as you provide customer service from home.

Pinpoint Distractions Before They Happen

Are you a Facebook addict? Does a messy house drive you crazy? Knowing what may become a distraction in advance can be helpful when planning your workday at home. Turn off notifications on your phone for any apps that are not necessary when you are servicing customers. Tidy up your house first thing when you wake up.

If you know something will make it difficult for you to focus, handle it before you answer your first call of the day!

Ditch the Sweatpants and Establish a Schedule

The thought of working in PJs makes some people very happy. But most successful home workers will tell you that loungewear is meant for lounging. Getting dressed in clothes other than pajamas and following a schedule (including a lunch break) is a great way to get your mind in “work” mode.

Create a Dedicated Workspace in Your Home

Designating a spot in your home from which you’ll work on a daily basis is a must. It doesn’t have to be fancy — and it shouldn’t be your bed. A nook in your kitchen, a desk in your bedroom, or preferably, any room with a door, can be the perfect place to set up a home workspace.

Talk to Your Family

Set some rules for dealing with interruptions. First and foremost, post your schedule so everyone can see it! And instead of knocking on the door or yelling out your name every time they need you, establish a texting or email rule (for non-emergencies). Typing out a message will make everyone think twice about why they’re trying to get your attention, and you’ll have time to reply at your convenience.

Ready to Start Using These Work-From-Home Tricks?

As a Service Partner on the Arise® Platform, you can generate income on your own terms by working from home when it best suits your schedule. That said, check out these tips on providing excellent customer support! Plus, if you’re in the market for more work, check out the latest available opportunities here.

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