For those of you who already have your home business, you are aware of many requests that family and friends will make such as fixing their sink, driving them to their airport or watching their kids while they go to grocery store. If you are not already assertive, learn to be and learn quickly. Fortunately, I have had assertiveness to say, “No.”

If you spend your time being “go-for” for your family and friends, your business will fail. You are not at home to be at beck and call for your family and friends regardless of what they may think. Let them know that. I stubbornly refuse to assist family and friends with tasks during hours of 8 to 5, Monday through Friday.

Being a disciplined home business boss a giant leap towards creating and maintaining a successful home business. Remember that your home business is a real business. It is a real job. Most importantly, it is your livelihood.

The list is a long one and one I am not prepared to detail here. You have found your way onto net and if you have been surfing for very long at all you know it is a gigantic super shopping mall. Who to you think is making most money online? Aside from big corporations, most of web is made up of sites put up by little businesses people work from home.

I sell information and I love it. Most of products I sell are other merchants’ products. I just drive traffic to my site, provide information, and point to relevant products related to information I provide people looking for a way to make money online. I love helping people make their first few sales.

After that, they are always hooked and cannot do enough to learn everything there is to know about how to make money online. Many people I have worked with now have a couple to several websites selling everything from reports to hard goods that can be shipped direct to their customers. Most people start out to make money online as affiliates of certain products or authors. This is a great way to get your feet wet and learn what making money online is all about. People then either work to create their own products (which they get 100% of profits from) or expand their website into other related niches.

Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience.Free Home Business Tips Newsletter at: http://www.cashgroup.biz/biztipspop.html Website: http://cgi.tripod.com/lazaraus26/cgi-bin/index.pl