With thousands of home business opportunities on internet, many entrepreneurs find themselves jumping into home opportunities solely based on amount they can earn.

But you have to remember; home business is still real world. If you have a degree in marketing, you wouldn’t even waste your time trying to repair computers unless you have a strong knowledge of subject. But entrepreneurs continually leap into home businesses that require a skill they don’t even posses.

What to do? Well, you need to first outline your strengths. Find out what you excel at and apply that to a field that would work from home.

For instance, your friend might be making $16,000 a month using MLM programs. You think, great, I’ll join under him and make $16,000 too! But your friend’s skills include a persuasive personality and a passion for talking on phone. You’re more hands on, and enjoy being a little more creative.

You take up your position under your friend and really crash and burn. Maybe landing is so hard that you tell yourself you’re never going to invest another minute in creating a home business opportunity.

But if you had played on your strengths, and instead wrote an ebook on crafting, you may have well exceeded your friend’s earnings if you’d only taken right direction for you.

But do your customers know that? Do they know that you are on schedule, that you gave them something extra, that you did exactly what they wanted?

"Okay, Dave, what got you started on this one?" you're probably asking.

We have some friends that hired a pet-sitter to take care of their two dogs and two cats while they were on vacation. When they returned, they found no evidence that their animals had been cared for as instructed. Medications looked as if they hadn't been touched. The supply of treats looked virtually same as it had when they left. True, animals were healthy and that's most important thing; to paraphrase Roseanne, "The animals were alive [when my friends got home], so pet sitters did their job!"

>From a business point of view, though, pet sitters didn't do so well. The evidence suggests that they did a 'poor' job. Or was it just a case that there was no evidence that they did a 'good' job?