Whether seeking a supplemental income or a full-time income, many folks have undertaken task to discover a viable home based business solution to meet their personal needs.

For most folks who contemplate a home business, a low-cost or no-cost solution is not only nice, but also very necessary. Many also seek to find a home business that will permit them to maintain their regular day job in order to protect their base income.

Taking cautious approach to a home based business and keeping one's job during start-up period is often a very good decision. By maintaining one's job, one can maintain health of their personal finances while permitting their home business grow healthy and strong.

Fortunately, most home based businesses can be started with little or no cash, can be maintained on a shoestring budget, and can be operated successfully with only a part-time investment.

One day, business will be strong enough to support itself and its owner. When that time comes, it will make good sense for business owner to leave his or her outside job to dedicate more time to growing and maintaining their new thriving home based business. You will know when that time has finally arrived.

The nature of a home based business makes it easy and very realistic for most folks to take plunge into home business ownership.

Yet, many folks put off starting their own home based business, because they have misconception that they will have to risk thousands of their own hard-earned dollars at start-up. Then later, if their business fails, they fear they may be forced to take out a second mortgage on their house just to stay out of bankruptcy.

Are you one of these folks? Do you let your fears of failure keep you from reaching for your dreams?

If so, then allow me to introduce you to a few home business ideas that you can start for less than $100 and can be started and operated very profitably as a part-time business.

THE LIFEBLOOD OF ALL SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES

First of all, let me advise you to search out a business model that will deliver steady and repeat business. It is one thing --- above all others --- that will assure that your company can survive test of time.

HOME-BASED MAIL ORDER: Home-based mail order is a good example of how one can quickly grow a home business income. Mail order is a low cost start-up business that can be launched for around $100 USD.

With proper planning, your home-based mail order business will not require up-front inventory purchases. In mail order business, it is not uncommon to rely upon drop-shippers for product fulfillment services.

By utilizing drop-shippers, we can sell products, collect money and then purchase products from wholesale outlet. The wholesale outlet will then put a return address for your company on product packaging and deliver product directly to your customer.

By using following link, you can explore drop-ship directory, which will let you explore drop-shipping companies that will enable you sell 500,000 products from over 1,000 brand name manufacturers:

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Thanks, Claudette Rowley ==============

Got Career Blues? Step Outside Box! Claudette Rowley Copyright 2004

"Above all to thine own self be true." - William Shakespeare

Clients often come to me saying that they want to change careers or jobs, although they have no idea what they want to do. Most of us look for a new job or career through a specific lens or paradigm, that limits scope of possibilities considerably. Here are some ideas to widen your view, and strategies to help you step "outside box."

- If you are currently employed, how does your current position make you feel? Valued? Uncomfortable? Competent? Incompetent? Excited? Depressed? How have you felt in past jobs?

- What do you like and not like about your current position? If you're not employed, think back to previous jobs. Make a list of "likes" and "don't likes." Next, expand your list of what you like to include ALL of your skills, abilities and talents. If you're an accountant who likes to garden, put gardening on your list.