Its now a year later and what do you have to show – 150 subscriptions to your ezine and a couple of downline affiliates. You are disgruntled, dejected and more broke than you were when you started this venture. You feel that it is time to give up.

Don’t.

A major breakthrough leading to increasing success in your home business may be just around corner. Here are a few steps to take before throwing in towel.

Why did you start?

When you first signed up there were circumstances in your life that led you to look for a home business opportunity. These may have been due to a job loss, desire for more time with your family or need to supplement retirement income. Whatever reason, most likely they still exist. Write them down. Put it in big letters on a single page and post it where you will be likely to see it several times a day – on bathroom mirror, on refrigerator, on a kitchen cabinet, bedroom door – somewhere that you will see it and remind yourself of ultimate goal.

Focus

When you started you become excited about a product or service. But along way you have been bombarded with “next best thing”. It’s easy to get started but then but when it comes down to DOING what you start, it gets hard and doesn't happen as fast as you would like it to.

Jack Humphrey, in his article “Focus and Fear of Success - The Biggest Monkey on Your Back?” says “The problem lies with your focus and your fear of success. You must CHOOSE opportunity you are passionate about, or create a product you stand behind and love, and then hunker down for long-haul! Make yourself do everything you are taught to do to build your business and build it - all way or not at all.”

For this reason, your organization should consider adopting a hosted inventory management solution.

Because such solutions are web-based, adopting them is as easy as selecting processes you want to use or share, determining roles of your users, and, using templates, loading data. The biggest hurdle is usually getting correct data if it has not been collected before. You determine processes you want to map and vendor guides you through rest of process.

The primary reason such solutions can be implemented so quickly is that they are based upon an "on demand" or ASP (application service provider) model. This means there is no software or hardware to implement. This costly time consuming activity has already been done by vendor. As you pay only for users, this saves you a lot time and dollars. You determine process flows (what steps you want to use), import data into templates, upload information into application, and go. It really can be that easy!