Just because your business is small doesn’t mean the image you portray should be.

This excellent article by Newsday covers some of the image issues you should be dealing with to make your home or small business come across as professional. Professional spaces to meet clients and good looking letterhead are important, as is a dedicated business line to interact with clients:

 ”The number-one mistake home businesses make is they don’t want to spend the extra money for a business telephone line,” says Fairbrother. If you want to portray a professional image, you need a dedicated business line with a good voice-mail system.

If you’re on the road a lot, you may want to use your cell phone as your business phone.