3.Find a good accountant, someone who is proactive and forward thinking. (See “10 Things To Ask Your Accountant”)

4.Find a mentor. Either your accountant or other business advisor, someone in same field who has done it already or perhaps someone from local enterprise agency.

5.Research your market. Make sure there is demand, but also check pricing and packaging options.

6.Write your Business Plan.

7.Decide where you are going to work.

8.Make sure you know how you are going to finance your new business. Have you plans to survive first 3-6 months whatever happens?

9.Open a bank account. Keep all your business transactions separate from your personal ones.

10. Read The E-Myth Revisited By Michael E Gerber. It has to be THE book for new business owners.

As I said, this is not a comprehensive list, there are probably hundreds of other things that people might add. But this should give you a good base to start from.

Julia McDaid www.startupright.co.uk

Julia McDaid is a business coach and author, specialising in helping business start ups. The first 10 readers to contact her on coach@startupright.co.uk will receive a free Kickstart coaching session and the first Module of her eprogramme Start Up 101.

For more information see www.startupright.co.uk

There is NO business that will MAKE YOU rich.

It does not exist. I’ve heard many people talk about it, and many network marketers will say they have found business that will, but reality is that no business on this earth will make you rich. It is up to you to make yourself rich. No matter what program you join or team you become a part of or even starting a traditional business, if you don’t put in work to make it successful, then it will not be successful.

Those home based businesses and mlm programs out their that claim you can work part time, and make a six figure income your first year, and all that other hype, they have people at top of those programs. Those pictures you see of people standing beside a nice car or house, with testimonial that they’ve made it. Those are all real stories, and all real people, but not a single one of them got where they got working part time a few hours a week. In fact, it’s more likely that most if not all of them put in at least 50 to 60 hours a week into their business, with many people pushing 80 or 90 hours a week.

Why would they do this? Because sacrifice of time back then was worth reward they have now. Because they sacrificed that time they have given themselves more time to enjoy their lives now, and will probably not have to worry about money ever again.

I hope people reading this are starting to realize that it doesn’t necessarily matter which business they pick, there are a lot of good ones to pick from, for any situation, but no matter which one you pick, you need motivation to stick with it.

And that brings me to another point. One of things you should look for in an online business or a home based business is something that interests you. If your business has a product or philosophy or maybe just way they do business, and it’s something you can get really excited about, it will help you greatly.

Take me for example, without going into too much detail. My business gives me a lot of reasons to get excited about it. One of biggest things is that I make my money by genuinely helping people. I sell and network market health products of various types, and products themselves are another source of excitement for me. When I was first introduced to this company I’m with, I had never seen products that even compared to what I was seeing. And of all numerous research I’ve done from before I actually joined with company to now, I have yet to find a product that compares to any of my products that I sell.

Many of my products simply don’t have competition. Another thing that excites me is I don’t have to sell my products to sell them. And to explain what I mean by that, all I have to do is show my products, let my customers and prospects try products for free, and product will do all selling for me. When I ask for product back, they basically say no and give me money instead.

I could go on but like I said I didn’t want to go into to much detail. My point is that I have found a business that excites me and gives me numerous reasons to work hard at it everyday. And I recommend everybody looking at business opportunities to examine opportunity and see if it has anything that excites them, and try to find something other than them saying you’ll make $10k a month or something like that.

And again when you find an opportunity that excites you, go after with full steam. If you fail just get back up, examine why you failed and make adjustments, and go back at it 10 times harder. If you can do that you will be successful.