What to Look for in a Home Based Business Opportunity

Written by Dee Scrip ©All rights reserved


When you were younger, did you ever dream about having your own home business? Were you sidetracked somewhere alongrepparttar way and now find yourself caught inrepparttar 136709 40-40-40 rut?

40-40-40 Plan (Rut)

40 minutes going to and from work 40 hours of work per week 40 years of life spent working slaving away for someone else?

When things get unfairly tough at work, do you still dream about your own home business – what you would do, how you would run your own home business, how you would treat your employees, what kind of money you would make, what product you would sell? Then when you decide to make a change in your life, do you look for another 40-40-40 job, putting your dream of your own home business onrepparttar 136710 back burner again for more ofrepparttar 136711 same?

Do you knowrepparttar 136712 end results ofrepparttar 136713 40-40-40 plan? 1% are wealthy enough to retire in comfort 3% are barely able to survive 27% are dead 69% are dead broke

Do you want to be inrepparttar 136714 top 1% that is willing to do something about it now, before it is too late? Being a former Human Resource Manager, I knew these statistics all too well, and I decided to take preventative measures.

Since you are still reading this article, I am going to assume you are looking for a change, moreover, a change as quickly as possible. So, let me share some ofrepparttar 136715 wisdom I have gleaned from looking for a home business opportunity.

The two major focal points when looking for a home business opportunity are ones that will:

·optimize your efforts and time ·produce optimal financial rewards

Below are seven simple criteria to consider when looking for a home business opportunity:

1.Look for a business opportunity that offers a product or service that is, or will be, used daily by every household and/or business…

Think about products or services in your house that probably everyone aroundrepparttar 136716 globe uses on a daily basis. For example, services such as utilities, communication, appliances, etc., or products such as shoes, clothing, soap, etc.

Now think bigger – a product or service used on a daily basis AND that would represent a paradigm shift. For example, a paradigm shift was created in global communication when Alexander Graham Bell inventedrepparttar 136717 telephone. Before 1885, no one had a telephone, nor had they ever heardrepparttar 136718 word “telephone”. Today, how many people do you know that do not have a telephone or cell phone?

Another paradigm shift was created whenrepparttar 136719 first flight was made byrepparttar 136720 Wright Brothers in 1903. Today, man has already stood onrepparttar 136721 moon. Make yourself a list of products or services in your house that you can research to consider for a business opportunity.

2.Search for a home business opportunity that offers a product or service that has a global market…

It’s a small world. Plain old common sense would tell you that a home business opportunity with a product or service that has a global market would produce warp speed revenue when compared to one that is only within a local, regional, or national area. For example,repparttar 136722 revenue produced from Microsoft with a global market is light years greater than that of a local shoe repair shop.

In addition, as you research this global home business opportunity, you will want to make sure that you are not required to stock products. It is time consuming to order products, receive and send outrepparttar 136723 products, manage backlogs, etc., not to mentionrepparttar 136724 additional costs out of your pocket for shipping and mailing. You also encounter product changes or upgrades that makes your stock obsolete. So, avoid these types of home business opportunities likerepparttar 136725 plague.

3.An absolute must! Find a home business opportunity that incorporates leverage in its pay plan…

A business opportunity that incorporates leverage in its pay plan providesrepparttar 136726 best of both worlds. Leverage is a relatively simple concept. The best example is probably Ray Kroc and McDonald’s. Ray Kroc set up franchises for McDonald’s that agreed to pay him 3% of their profits.

In essence, McDonald’s sits back and collects 3% ofrepparttar 136727 profits resulting from others exerting their time and their efforts. Let’s say, just for discussion purposes, that Ray Kroc sold 100 franchises and each produced profits of $50,000 that year. 3% would have produced $150,000 for Ray Kroc, yet he personally exerted no effort or time himself. What he did do though was brilliant, as he applied leverage by selling franchises, and became quite a wealthy man as a result.

Leveraging your home business will minimize your time and effort while maximizing your financial rewards. In a relatively short period of time, your home business will take on a life of its own, and you will be onrepparttar 136728 fast track to healthy wealth.

To find a home business opportunity that will rocket you into financial freedom,repparttar 136729 company should incorporate leverage, not only in their business plan, but also in their financial rewards, preferably on a weekly, monthly, and annual basis – one of which should be residual. Residual is important because you want some form of steady income that you can depend on.

Empower Your People - Give Them Some Control

Written by Martin Haworth


Empowerment and control, so important inrepparttar lives of our employees; our people. For with these two a whole new flowering of capability opens up for them.

Ultimately you too, for that involvement and intimacy with your business, be it small or large, will makerepparttar 136708 difference between failure and success.

Here's why...

It's been a pretty good domestic weekend aroundrepparttar 136709 place - not done a lot, but I have done what I've wanted to do - and that makesrepparttar 136710 difference.

I changed my role when I first leftrepparttar 136711 employed world. Having been a manager for over 25 years. I became a true employee with a manager breathing down my neck. It wasrepparttar 136712 most difficult thing to accept. It wasn't because I could do it better (although, then again...!), more it was that I had just no control at all. And I realised that most people who have jobs are total employees and have little say in what they do or how they do it. They are 'done to' rather than deciding for themselves and getting creative and involved.

Sadly I didn't realise this until I was a manager no longer, but what I did realise and share with you now is that to be totally disempowered in your role is demoralising and depressing.

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