Elena has made some very good points in her article about home business. As an entrepreneur of home business, I too share her thoughts. I wrote an article,"Home Biz Tips", some time ago, that merely skimmed surface of home business. Now going into my second year of business, I found some new experiences to add to my list and Elena's. Elena places home business realities into three categories: financial, personal and situational. I will add my comments for each below:

Personal Realities:

>Commitment: That's exactly so, either you're into it or you're not.Your business must be top priority over anything. You must dedicate yourself to succeed.

>Risk Taker: If you are not ready for a downfall, don't try a home business. It will fail many ways before it succeeds. Secure and stable,it is not for some time to come.

>Self-Motivation: You are number one "Boss". You must do it, like it or not, even stuff you hate to do.There is no one else there to do it.

>Self-Discipline: Distractions? You bet and lots of them! I cannot name number of them within a span of one hour. Be prepared to stay focused.

>Patience: It is a virtue! Believe it. You are not going to make money right away, kudos to Elena! Absolute truth.

>Reasons: Want to work from home? Yes....and help with income? Yes...Buy for your home, children, and spouse? Yes..Remember your reasons.

>Flexibility and Adaptability: Jack of All Trades,"That's You!" Just like those many household chores you do without thinking. You will learn to do things you never realized, that were associated with working at home.

>Willingness to Sacrifice: Long hours on computer are a must.Can you sacrifice time and can your family live with it?

>Work Ethic: Does need to work exist in you?

Many of you reading this article will already have been suckered into believing that you can run a real "business" selling ebooks from your site and may have even spent countless hours creating a you-beaut site to showcase ebooks and various other forms of informational products you have for sale. Why have your sales been so disappointing?

Quite simply, you're wasting your time.

Granted, Internet IS an information medium. Granted, information products DO sell very nicely indeed online. But not if all you're doing is selling someone else's product in isolation. You will not generate an income from promoting latest Internet marketing guru's "insider secrets" marketing course. Sure, you may make a sale here or there but you'll also be spending a fortune in advertising. Don't believe them when they tell you you will make thousands promoting their products, if that's ALL you're doing. Despite what "gurus" would have you believe, it just ain't gonna happen!

Why?

Because people need to have a reason to seek out your site.

How do you give people a reason to seek out your site?

Provide them with information they're looking for. In other words, in order to sell information products from your site (or anything else for that matter) you must first create a content-rich site that contains sort of information target audience for what you sell is looking for. Then, and ONLY then, will you have even chance to sell information product.

There are a number of products out there that have done EXTREMELY well for their authors by being bundled with resale rights. In other words, if you buy product, you then have right to resell it to others. These products typically sell you on notion that you, just like author, can make thousands of dollars each month reselling book.

There's just one teensy bit of information author neglects to mention. Although he "gives you" a website, just like one you visited when you bought book, if you want it you must host it with author. For a monthly fee.

The product contains links to other products and sources that you can't change. Guess who gets commission every time one of these links is used to make a purchase? You? Hah! Author again.