Starting a Home Business on a Budget

Written by Suzanne Morrison


Have you ever dreamed of starting your own business? Have you wondered what it would be like to get up every morning and be in control of your financial destiny without having to depend on a job? Perhaps you enjoy your job and you simply want to start a part-time business from home to supplement your income butrepparttar problem is you have very little extra money to invest in a new venture.

If this is your dream then now isrepparttar 100372 time. Never before in history has there been a better time to start a home business and this is especially true for those on a limited budget. Why is this so? The answer is simple. The World Wide Web. The Internet has enabled hundreds of thousands of people to start home businesses working from home with very little start up cash. It is now possible for individuals working from home in their pajamas to start businesses and compete inrepparttar 100373 global marketplace onrepparttar 100374 same playing field as large corporations. Anyone with a service or something to sell can build a website and usingrepparttar 100375 available and often free tools onrepparttar 100376 Internet be in business almost instantly.

Setting up an Internet home business usually has much lower start up costs thanrepparttar 100377 traditional brick and mortar alternative. With a traditional business there are significant overhead expenses which are usually due even before you can start making money. These expenses include: rent for office or store space, inventory to stock your store if you are planning to sell retail products, advertising, liability insurance, andrepparttar 100378 list goes on. In fact it can costs thousands

Starting an internet business has much lower start up costs because your store is in cyberspace and your office is in your home. You can find numerous low costs options for building websites online as well as suppliers who will ship your products to your customers as they are purchased instead of storing huge amounts of products which is expensive and takes up storage space

One ofrepparttar 100379 best ways to get started on a low budget is by selling products on eBay. Millions of people are shopping on eBay every single day looking for just about every kind of product you can imagine. One ofrepparttar 100380 reasons eBay is such a great place to start a home business on a budget is becauserepparttar 100381 traffic is already there. Ebay has already donerepparttar 100382 advertising and all you need to do is show up and post your products. If you were to build your own website you would need to market your site and buyers would need to find it before they could buy from you. Secondly, eBay has takenrepparttar 100383 expense and difficulty out of building an Internet store. For a low monthly fee you can build an Internet store on eBay complete with your own logo and a shopping cart system. This is actually very similar to setting up shop in a mall inrepparttar 100384 brick and mortar world.

The Zoo Keeper And The Monkeys

Written by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons)


Did you ever watchrepparttar Zoo Keeper working inrepparttar 100371 monkey enclosure?

I can recall watchingrepparttar 100372 Zoo Keeper when he was sweeping outrepparttar 100373 big monkey enclosure. He was industriously sweeping up dead leaves and twigs andrepparttar 100374 rest ofrepparttar 100375 litterrepparttar 100376 monkeys had made and he was taking no notice at all ofrepparttar 100377 antics ofrepparttar 100378 noisy crew of monkeys. I guess he was used to their racket. Suddenly one ofrepparttar 100379 monkeys swung down from a branch and snatchedrepparttar 100380 Zoo Keeper’s cap right off his head. The Zoo Keeper hardly had time to react to what had happened before that monkey was out of reach inrepparttar 100381 higher branches ofrepparttar 100382 tree.

The Zoo Keeper looked up,repparttar 100383 monkey bared its teeth in that special grin monkeys have and chattered quietly. The Zoo Keeper pantomimed a shrug for his audience: no point in him even thinking of climbingrepparttar 100384 tree after that monkey. The Zoo Keeper carried on with his cleaning up and ignoredrepparttar 100385 chattering monkey.

The monkey triedrepparttar 100386 cap on for size, on his head, then on one foot, then he sniffed hard at it. The crowd laughed butrepparttar 100387 Zoo Keeper didn’t bother to look up. The monkey dropped fromrepparttar 100388 tree just a few feet behindrepparttar 100389 Zoo Keeper, screeched in that way monkeys have and flourishedrepparttar 100390 cap whenrepparttar 100391 Zoo Keeper looked round startled. That sure got his attention!

The Zoo Keeper stood, hands on hips. The monkey didrepparttar 100392 same, putting its head a little on one side as if he was waiting for an answer. The Zoo Keeper took a slow step towardsrepparttar 100393 monkey andrepparttar 100394 monkey just stood there holdingrepparttar 100395 Zoo Keeper’s cap. The Zoo Keeper took another cautious step towardsrepparttar 100396 monkey and this timerepparttar 100397 monkey took a step back. The Zoo Keeper tried another step,repparttar 100398 monkey stepped back, turned, let out a screech and leaped intorepparttar 100399 lower branches of his favourite tree. The Zoo Keeper grabbed at his cap but he was no match forrepparttar 100400 monkey’s swiftness.

By now a crowd of children had gathered and they giggled asrepparttar 100401 Zoo Keeper looked up atrepparttar 100402 monkey who had again perched out of reach chattering loudly and wavingrepparttar 100403 cap inrepparttar 100404 air. Whatrepparttar 100405 Zoo Keeper didn’t know (butrepparttar 100406 children did) was that another monkey had removed a small shovel fromrepparttar 100407 Zoo Keeper’s unattended cart and was marching about wavingrepparttar 100408 shovel inrepparttar 100409 air as if he was conducting some invisible monkey orchestra.

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