All of us who tell truth will admit to having fears. Many people live their entire lives with one fear or other, but Anne Block, discovered how to side step her fear factor into a home business reality.

Anne always dreamed of owning a home-based travel business, but fear of losing her savings kept her dream parked in neutral. Anne says, “finally a business associate told me how I could start it with no money, and to start looking forward not backward.” Well she started it in 1995, and her business is growing strong to this day.

7 Tips For Lowering Your Fear Factor

Having a Great Idea

By concentrating on why you want to start your own home business, and visiting like-minded websites, reading newsletters or trade publications to gather more knowledge about subject, will raise your confidence and simultaneously lower your fear level. Repeat after me, more confidence, less fear.

If you don’t have a great idea, visit site below for a free copy of “100 Hot Home Business Opportunities,” a survey of home business owners selecting best business opportunities to start-up in 2003. http://www.homebusinessfree.com/home-business.htm

Be Your Own Boss

Numerous surveys have confirmed this is number 1 reason why business owners decided to go out on their own. As you research competitors on search engines, and read their ezines, you will find your interest rising, and your belief in yourself increasing, to point of you saying one day, I can really do this. Your level of fear will definitely lower when I show you 5 ways to advertise – free. And read my previous article, ”12 Free Tools For Starting A Home Business With No Money, request a copy, mailto: bruce@ownsmallbusiness.com Paul Purdue, who founded iFulfill five years ago, with $100 leverages Web's free benefits, and said “I use top 10 search engines, to avoid need for spending any money.” Presently, Paul ships about 800 packages per day, and hopes to reach 1,000 daily by midsummer and 5,000 by end of next year. With no money needed to start-up, what are you waiting for? Here are 5 ways to get free advertising with specific links to follow:

1)search engines 2)articles 3)links 4)banners 5)press releases

Search engines are most important element to bringing not only huge amounts of traffic to your website, and with no money expended. You can submit your website for free placement on following search engines and directories:

http://www.google.com http://www.lycos.com http://www.altavista.com http://www.alltheweb.com http://www.about.com http://www.dmoz.org http://www.goguides.com http://www.allbusiness.com

The Freedom to be Creative

Many people in today’s workforce do not feel challenged or excited. The idea of working on your own interests, passions or hobbies, is very appealing. By focusing on what type of business you will start, and how you will start it, should help to lower your fear factor by one level. The 3 levels are: high, moderate and low. Lowering your fear factor just one level, to moderate or low, you should seriously consider starting your home business. Everyone has fears, but at this lower level should give you confidence to pursue your dream.

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According to Small Business Administration nearly 20 percent of Americans are working out of home at least on a part time basis.

The SBA forecast that number of home based business owners will continue to expand rapidly in next decade. Why? People hit by recent downsizing of their companies are searching for alternate ways to supplement their earnings.

Are you ready to take plunge and start your own work at home enterprise? It's rare to find a hard working individual who hasn't dreamed of quitting his 9 to 5 and striking out on his own.

But there are a few caveats average person should take into due consideration.

Although many home business owners have experienced success, working solo is not for everyone. It can be a hard road with almost no rewards in beginning. This translates to zero profits. It may take one to two years, or even longer, before they earn profits. Discouraging to say least. The prime reason why many home business ventures fail in first few years.

Well if you are still determined to forge ahead and start a home based venture...take a look at following important steps.

1. Select Your Business. Select a business you are sure you can do well in and that people are actually willing to pay you money for.