10 POWERFUL Reasons Why You're Crazy NOT To Start A... Home Based Business In 2005

Written by Cory Threlfall


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Remember, you get to set your own hours for when you want to work your business.

6. It will make you a more confident person.

By setting out and starting your own business it'll make you a more confident person because it takes a lot of confidence to start something you have no idea whatrepparttar outcome might be andrepparttar 108629 risks involved, whether there financial or personal.

7. It builds a sense of pride.

Wouldn't it be great to be able to tell your friends and family or just somebody you meet that you're an entrepreneur and you run and operate your own successful 'Home Based Business'.

Pride also works as a motivator becauserepparttar 108630 more successful you getrepparttar 108631 harder you'll want to work in order to achieverepparttar 108632 goals you have set for your business.

8. It's all forrepparttar 108633 MONEY.

MONEY is a pretty obvious reason for starting a 'Home Based Business' because Why would you otherwise start a business if you weren't planning on making any MONEY.

It also builds a sense of security for your way of life andrepparttar 108634 things you enjoy doing becauserepparttar 108635 facts are... nothing for FREE. Everything has a price.

9. You get great Tax benefits.

You heard right, you get Tax benefits with running your own 'Home Based Business' because now you're entitled to home business tax deductions.

This is a category in it's own and getting a good CPA who has experience with home based business tax returns will be essential in order for you to maximize your return forrepparttar 108636 year.

10. Wouldn't it be great to retire early.

If your business turns out to be a SUCCESS and you invest and put your money to work for you, wouldn't it be great to retire early and dorepparttar 108637 things you've always dreamed of doing, but never hadrepparttar 108638 time or money to do so.

There you have it, "10 POWERFUL Reasons Why You're Crazy NOT To Start A... Home Based Business In 2005".

Now, if those 10 reasons don't get you excited about starting a 'Home Based Business' then I have failed to inspire you.

If you need to read through them again, do so now.

These arerepparttar 108639 very reasons I contiplated before starting my home based business and in my mind arerepparttar 108640 most common.

Write down for yourself why You would want to start a 'Home Based Business', I bet you'll come up with several ofrepparttar 108641 reasons I've listed above.

With that said, there's one more thing I want to mention and that is if you are seriously thinking about starting a 'Home Based Business', whether it be online or offline, make sure you put together a 'Step-By-Step' business plan onrepparttar 108642 actions you must take and make sure you start a business you enjoy doing.

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Disaster Proof Your Business

Written by Dave Collins


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In terms of what to backup, it couldn't be simpler. Imagine that your hard drive has just died, right now, and you can't access any ofrepparttar information on it. What do you wish you'd backed up? Now'srepparttar 108628 time to do so. Setting up a good backup system and routine shouldn't take longer than an hour or so. Doing so could save you days of work, chaos and lost income inrepparttar 108629 future.

If something critical happens to your main machine, and you can't fix it yourself in minutes or hours, what then? Having a separate "spare" machine might be worth looking into. It doesn't have to be a top ofrepparttar 108630 range powerhorse; an old 486 will be enough to at least deal with emails and process orders, while your main machine gets fixed. If you already have one or more in use, then you might want to look into how usable they are as a spare machine. Do you have some way of transferring your backup data into them for instance? A parallel-port ZIP drive is an odd shaped lifesaver, but it doesrepparttar 108631 trick. A little forethought can makerepparttar 108632 difference between an inconvenience and a full-blown disaster.

There's also no shortage of software to make your life easier. Personally I swear by PowerQuest's Drive Image, which allows me to make a complete image ofrepparttar 108633 whole of my hard drive. If my system dies unexpectedly and can't be fixed, I can use it to restore either a just-installed fresh Windows 2000, or my system as it was one or two months ago. This should take no more than half an hour - think how long it takes to format your hard drive, installrepparttar 108634 operating system, then all your software. Time and money well spent.

Is Your Web Connection Reliable?

The next link inrepparttar 108635 chain is your web connection. Almost all my work involves some use ofrepparttar 108636 web. Take away my internet connection and I'm blind, deaf and soon to be broke! Because of this I have a permanent high-speed connection with one ofrepparttar 108637 main phone companies in Finland. I also have a separate account with a different server, that can use my old 56 modem on a regular phone line. It costs me all of $9 a month, but if/when my permanent connection goes down, I can still work - a little slower, but it's certainly usable. I look at it as a very cheap form of insurance.

A few months ago I experienced a real-life nightmare. My website went down one morning;repparttar 108638 site was unavailable, and email was getting swallowed-up. That's right - not bouncing, but somehow vanishing. So anyone writing to me assumed I'd receivedrepparttar 108639 email but never replied. My server assured me thatrepparttar 108640 problem would be fixed within a few hours. It wasn't, in fact it still wasn't fixed a week later. This problem cost me dearly in time and income. It won't happen again.

I now have a backup site, on a different server. My main site is at www.sharewarepromotions.com, but if this ever goes down for any length of time, a letter will go out to all my clients, and everyone who has ever contacted me, telling them to userepparttar 108641 www.shareware-promotions.com site and email addresses. The site itself isn't yet finished but a basic version is already in place, andrepparttar 108642 email is fully functional. If I ever need it in an emergency it's there, and I even haverepparttar 108643 letter ready to go out. I pay around $4 a month forrepparttar 108644 web space, taking advantage ofrepparttar 108645 low price and reliability available from SWREG.ORG. If I never have to use it, I'll be happy. If my main site goes down, it'll be business as usual, and this time I won't lose any income. Again, a very cheap form of insurance. Be prepared.

A few final common-sense tips. If you have a large number of downloads each day, don't rely on one single location for your files. If they go down, you go down. Also make sure you haverepparttar 108646 contact details for your server. If your server's site also become unavailable, you won't be able to find their emergency phone number on their site either. Keep these details somewhere safe.

Think through every single problem that could happen, and work out exactly what you'd do if each should actually occur. Whilerepparttar 108647 chances of your office being hijacked are fairly remote,repparttar 108648 chance of you experiencing some sort of server or hardware problem are high. Ifrepparttar 108649 website is a critical component of your business, and your business a main source of your income, then you don't want to wait untilrepparttar 108650 server goes down before looking for a new host and registering a domain name. Be seen, be sold.

Dave Collins is the CEO of SharewarePromotions Ltd., a well established UK-based company working with software and shareware marketing activities, utilising all aspects of the internet. http://www.sharewarepromotions.com and http://www.davetalks.com Additional articles available for publication available at http://www.davetalks.com


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