How To Start A Home Based Gift Basket BusinessWritten by La Tunya Sifford
How To Start A Home Based Gift Basket BusinessMany of us dream of working from home, spending more quality time with our families. I decided to do just that. Yes i was afraid of failing, not being able to handle pressures of running a business, and looking after my family at same time. So i began my search for right business to start, GIFT BASKETS! I use to give them for gifts to family members, so I thought why not make money while doing something I loved. STARTUP As with any new business,you will have to make a number of decisions. What types of baskets will you offer? If you are working from home do you have enough space for creating your baskets? What is your target market? And most of all how will you reach them? If you plan to start on a shoestring budget, start slow and work from home. running your business from home will allow you to save on overhead expenses. Income Potential Your income potential depends on how hard you work and market your business. Industry insiders estimate potential revenues to range from 10,000 annually working part time from home. Your Gift Baskets You can either offer a wide selection of gift baskets, or focus on a smaller market. Some of common gift baskets being offered include following: Gourmet/Food Gift Baskets. These are most popular gift baskets businesses give to their clients, friends and family. Bath And Body Gift Baskets. These are very popular! Ingredients of these baskets include toiletries like scented soaps, fragrances, olis, lotions, and aromatherapy products. These are just a few selections of gift baskets offered, list goes on.
| | Are You an Entrepreneur That is Starved for Time?Written by Vishal P. Rao
Being an entrepreneur and running a successful home-based business is stressful at times, and can be hectic. Success within a home-based business though, absolutely demands time management skills, or chores that need to get done will be left undone, and procrastination, as well as a serious "personal time deficiency" will occur. Several studies have shown that many first-time entrepreneurs spend too much time on "non-essential" activities within a business, activities that have nothing to do with business, or that have little impact on business success. At end of each business day (when it finally ends), they are left feeling stressed out, burned out, separated from their personal lives, and worse yet, with a feeling of non-accomplishment and inefficiency. You probably have met entrepreneurs like this occasionally in your own life. They constantly seem "busy", yet they are constantly late for appointments, don't ever have time to attend personal activities or outings, and are always stressed out about what still "needs to be done" each and every day! A "personal time deficiency" occurs when an entrepreneur seems to spend all their time either working on business, or thinking about business. The entrepreneur can neglect family, friends, activities and personal pleasures, in pursuit of business functions. This is not only counter-productive to business (creativity shines through when entrepreneurs also schedule time away from business), but personal losses can occur to entrepreneur. Horror stories abound about divorce among entrepreneurs, shattered family lives, and personal ruin. What causes "personal time deficiencies"? A variety of factors: 1. An entrepreneur does not sufficiently plan every activity during working day, with a pre-set amount of time allotted for each business activity. Without an active "work schedule", an entrepreneur can feel unrestricted, and therefore spend too much time on some activities and not enough on others. All activities should be done "on schedule" if possible and within a certain amount of time. Too much "fussing" over each activity will lead to very little accomplishment each day. Neglect of other activities will lead to a sense of little accomplished. 2. An entrepreneur becomes distracted quite easily during business day. Personal phone calls and activities need to be kept to a minimum. If an entrepreneur were working outside their own business, for someone else, they would not have luxury of "dropping everything" and going shopping or out to lunch, if time were not allotted for this! Also, family members and friends could not drop in and "visit" whenever they liked. A work-at-home business needs to be viewed as any other type of employment, where personal distractions could not, and do not exist!
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