We can thank last major down cycle for taking stigma out of home enterprises. The early-to-mid 1980s saw corporations laying off while collar workers for first time. In earlier down cycles, while collar workers were immune to layoffs as companies trimmed blue-collar manufacturing jobs. The laid-off white collar workers became consultants and worked from home. Suddenly home enterprise was legitimate. Running a company from your spare bedroom no longer meant you spent your day holding Mary Kay and Tupperware parties.

The Internet increased allure of home-based start-up. Most shoestring e-biz companies begin in home, whether company trades in products or services. For a small Net-based business, there is little reason to rent offices. Besides, statistics from Small Business Administration (SBA) strongly suggest your odds for success are greater if you launch from home.

The SBA has found that 52 to 55 percent of all businesses are no longer active after five years. For those companies launched and grown in home, failure rate is 45 to 48 percent after five years. Placing your business in your home gives you a slightly better than even chance for survival. The improved odds most likely have to do with lower overhead of a home-based business.

With a soft economy and a growing number of laid-off workers who will naturally consider a business start-up when they discover their job prospects are dim, this is not best time to launch a new enterprise. But I can tell you from personal experience, decision to launch a business is not usually rational or logical. A home business start-up boom is likely in process right now. It's not because of opportunity; it's because of desire.

Off to web to find a Professional designer. Made a list and started checking out their reference sites. Whatever you do, check out at least twenty of their designs. Alright lets go site seeing. Mmmm...Nice....Ah OK.......Oh Gosh is that Elvis? I mean pink on black, who can even read that? YECH ! Pretty good. Gross. Eyes glimmering. Terrible.

The one thing I kept asking myself was, would I be PROUD to let my Mother see this? I mean I may not have greatest sense of color in world, but NEON on black??? Just so amateurish it made me wonder what in world these people were thinking about. Did they really think ANYONE would buy something from a HORROR show? Nuff about hunt for website designer. I FOUND them and they did a terrific job for me.

Well, I hate to tell you truth about this, but it truly took me OVER a year to find right combination of companies that has started earning me money. I found companies that offer great products and education. I combined them with a company that has everything you NEED to do business on web. The smaller investments have slowly but SURELY grown while I now have a PRO fessional website with which to advertise this combination of products and services.

My site has a listserver built in, so my newsletter subscriber list is growing very quickly. I have salesmanager software also built into my site. And I am proceeding to make adequate (for time being) money on Internet. Ta Da......I never really thought I would get rich doing this, just earn enough to retire from brick and mortar world.

Hopefully you understand that it does take HARD work and long hours to prosper on 'Net. If you think you can just get "lucky"........forget it !

Hopefully we will all realize our dreams of being financially independent, working from HOME.

Happy Marketing !

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