Tips For Starting Your Homebased Business

Written by Loring A. Windblad


Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

There are many reasons why people choose to start a home-based business. Some of these are:

1. Dissatisfied with your present employment situation. 2. Out of work due for whatever reason. 3. You need to be home to care for young children. 4. You need to be at home to care for an infirm family member or aging parents. 5. You really want to be your own boss. 6. You really could use an additional income source. 7. You wish to have more time to spend with family or friends.

Overrepparttar years I have learned to recognize two ofrepparttar 100212 most important factors in recognizing people who should not be starting a home based business. If a prospective entrepreneur says something like...

"I'm broke -- I need to make some fast money!"

or,

"I really want to start a home-based business but I don't want to spend any money onrepparttar 100213 business until I start making some money."

...it is certain that they have not addressed reality and, with that mindset, they will most certainly fail.

First, It takes a lot of time to successfully market and promote a new business and, if it is an internet business, a whole lot of “savvy” and information and resources you have probably never heard of. For a pretty good “first start” effort at setting up your internet business, see my article Tips For A Successful Internet Business.doc, also available through this resource – GoArticles.com. If you are planning a home-based business in order to spend a lot of time with young children or care forrepparttar 100214 elderly, a full-time business (and income) may not be a realistic objective.

Second, spend some time researching your business idea. The internet is a great source of information.

Third, learn as much as you can about small business. go to http://www.sba.gov/ and navigate torepparttar 100215 sections dealing with home based businesses.

Fourth, write a business plan. Beyond my own eBook on starting a Homebased Business, here are a couple of Small Business Administration website locations that should prove useful:

http://www.sba.gov/starting/indexbusplans.html http://www.sba.gov/library/pubs.html

Tips For A Successful Internet Business

Written by Loring A. Windblad


Copyright 2004 by http://www.organicgreens.us, http://www.organicgreens.ca (under construction), http://www.homebasedbusinessopportunities.us (under construction), http://www.homebasedbusinessopportunities.ca and Loring Windblad. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos.

Let’s take a look at Business and Business Philosophy. A business exists to 1) provide a service or product to customers and 2) to make a reasonable profit forrepparttar business owner.

Inrepparttar 100211 past this tookrepparttar 100212 form of two kinds of traveling salesman (the itinerant traveling salesman, working out of his wagon or truck, who brought otherwise unavailable products to places who simply could not economically travelrepparttar 100213 distance required to find those products….andrepparttar 100214 “drummer”, or “route salesman” who went torepparttar 100215 various “fixed location” businesses and sold them their “restocking supplies”) andrepparttar 100216 “fixed location” businesses (stores) who carried a selection of “most needed” products in their store for customers to come in, select from and purchase.

Pretty much this mode of operation stayed true fromrepparttar 100217 mid 1800’s torepparttar 100218 late 1900’s. But by 1990 there was a new inroad into this model of business – and business philosophy. Or was there? And just what was that inroad?

The Inroad was “The Internet”, in existence sincerepparttar 100219 1960’s, started “going commercial” by about 1990. It is now 2005 and this commercialization is an ongoing and evolving process. Business has changed and is changing. Many fixed location store fronts also have web locations and offer home delivery for online ordering, even for local customers. But how about “Business Philosophy”? It is changing, also? Or is it?

Right now internet businesses are proliferating at an alarming rate. I cannot count and possibly no one can countrepparttar 100220 total number of internet businesses inrepparttar 100221 world today. There are probably between 100 and 1000 “new” internet businesses starting every day somewhere inrepparttar 100222 world, and this figure could be much higher. There even is a “new category” of business which has evolved, sort of to keep track of those businesses.

No, it is notrepparttar 100223 electronic store front which offers products or services to customers anywhere inrepparttar 100224 world (though this is a major evolution from a standard “fixed location” real store front on your local street), nor is itrepparttar 100225 “hosting service” which electronically locates and “displays” your electronic storefront for customers to find. They are not unlikerepparttar 100226 building owner who sublets space for offices and stores. The new type of business isrepparttar 100227 “search engine” which “locates, catalogues and categorizes” all of these various business enterprises and allows you to find what you are looking for.

It is said that there are hundreds of different search engines out there, proliferating and multiplying like lemmings….and, like lemmings, falling byrepparttar 100228 wayside for various inadequacies. Except forrepparttar 100229 best and biggest. The number one “search engine” is probably Google. However, MSN is gaining and Alexa, All-the-Web, Alta Vista, AOL, Ask Jeeves, Lycos, Matilda, Scrubrepparttar 100230 Web and a few others may be consideredrepparttar 100231 “major” search engines, those which comprise, say, 95% or more of total search engine use worldwide.

There is possible a second type of “new business” brought to us byrepparttar 100232 Internet. This isrepparttar 100233 browser. In fact,repparttar 100234 browser andrepparttar 100235 search engine work hand in hand and are completely different entities. Basically, they generally are set to work hand in hand and mutually complement one another. In fact, in my mind,repparttar 100236 search engine is slightly more valuable but less independent.

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