HOW TO START A PROFITABLE HOME-BASED BUSINESSWritten by Todd Quinn
In these days, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating possibilities of starting their own extra-income business. Most of these part-time endeavors are started and operated from comfort and privacy of home.Most of these people are making extra money they need. Some have wisely and carefully built these extra income efforts into full-time, very profitable businesses. Others are just keeping busy, having fun, and enjoying life as never before. The important thing is that they are doing something other than waiting for government to give them a handout; they are improving their lot in life, and you can do it, too! The fields of mail order selling, multi-level marketing, and in-home party sales have never been more popular. If any of these kinds of extra income producing ideas appeal to you, then you owe it to yourself to check them out. But these aren't only fields of endeavor you can start and operate from home, with little or no investment, and learn as you go. If you type, you can start a home-based typing service; if you have a truck or have access to a trailer, you can start a clean-up/hauling service. Simply collecting old news papers from your neighbors can get you started in paper recycling business. More than a few enterprising housewives have found success and fortune by starting home and/or apartment cleaning services. If you have a yard full of flowers, you can make good extra money by supplying fresh cut flowers to restaurants and offices in your area on a regular basis. You might turn a ceramics hobby into a lucrative personalized coffee mug business. What I'm saying is that in reality, there's literally no end to ways you can start and operate a profitable extra income business from your home. The first thing you must do, however, is some basic market research. Find out for yourself, first-hand, just how many people there are in your area who are interested in your proposed product or service, and would be "willing to stand in line and pay money for it." This is known as defining your market and pinpointing your customers. If after checking around, talking about your idea with a whole lot of people over a period of one to three months, you get idea that these people would be paying customers, your next effort should be directed toward "detailing" of your business plan. The more precise and detailed your plan - covering all bases relating to how you'll do everything that needs to be done - easier it's going to be for you to attain success. Such a plan should show your start-up investment needs, your advertising plan, your production costs and procedures, your sales program, and how your time will be allocated. Too often, enthusiastic and ambitious entrepreneurs jump in on an extra income project and suddenly find that costs are beyond their abilities, and time requirements more than they can meet. It pays to lay it all out on paper before you get involved, and clearer you can "see" everything before you start, better your chances for success.
| | Online Business: Work Smarter, not Harder.Written by Keith Bryan
Online business is probably fastest growing market on planet. With over 34 million web pages out there and more being created every day it seems like an almost hopeless prospect for solo home business owner to achieve any sort of success. Think of competition.......right? Well, almost.For those of us that have been raised in a world where a small business owner works like a dog to keep their creation from going bankrupt it seems almost unfathomable to even think of competing with "big" companies. If you've ever known anyone that owns a business think back to first few years of their entrepreneurial venture. You've probably never seen anyone so tired/overworked/stressed/worried in your life. This is what most people think of when someone mentions "starting your own business". The beauty of modern online business is that practically everything can be automated. This is not to say that there is no work involved in starting a business on internet. The difference from business twenty years ago and business today is astounding! If you plan your online business well you can accomplish in minutes what just twenty years ago would have taken hours, if not days. Lets run through some of options available to you to make your online experience less stressful and time consuming. Let's find out how to work Smarter, not Harder. First things first....... We have to build a website. This alone scares many people. "I don't know HTML" or "I can't afford to have a page built for me" are things I hear all time when talking to people about online business. Let's get something straight...... you DO NOT need to know how to program better than top site designers at E-Bay in order to make a web page. I know many people with minimal HTML knowledge that have done exceedingly well in online business. There are many template systems out there that make building a completely functional web page as easy as copy and paste. One I frequently recommend is Powersite System (http://powersitesystem.com). It's simple and effective and lets new business owner focus on adding content, not scanning endless lines of code or constantly uploading your updated page to server from a desktop program. You'll need to pick key words for your site which can easily be accomplished with websites like Wordtracker. Pick key words that will get you some traffic but aren't going to be impossible to get your site ranked. More on this........ http://biz-whiz.com/article362.html
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