Home Business: Why Has A Work At Home Paradigm Shift Occurred?

Why Has A Work At Home Paradigm Shift Occurred?

Written by Dean Shainin

Copyright © 2005 Dean Shainin

Now, more than ever, we are seeing a new revolution of people starting their own work at home Internet business.

Why are so many people leaving full time jobs, (just over broke) and starting a work at home Internet business?

Just take a look at repparttar news. With down-sizing and corporate lay-offs, people realize they do not have a secure job when they see a co-worker of 25 years shaking their hand good-bye.

Another reason, is high speed Internet access and marketing tools that were not available just 5 years ago. To start your own work at home Internet business, you would have to spend a fortune.

Now we have email, autoresponders, search engines, websites, affiliate programs, marketing experts, all of which are now free and instantly available.

Think about this for a moment. Five years ago, starting a work at home Internet business would cost at least a few thousand dollars. Now you can start a home business on repparttar 149414 Internet for under one hundred dollars.

A (brick and mortar) or traditional business that I owned in repparttar 149415 year 2000 cost thousands per month for rent, employees, insurance and inventory.

Another factor is job dissatisfaction. Part of this paradigm shift is that people want to own their own life. They don't like repparttar 149416 idea of being just another number for repparttar 149417 bottom line of a big corporation or company.

Here is repparttar 149418 BIG one. The Information Age. Instant access to anything you want within seconds using search engines. No more waiting days or weeks for information on starting a work at home Internet business. Within seconds you can find anything. Yes, anything!

How To Start a Telephone Answering Business

Written by Jose Valdez

A telephone answering service business is relatively inexpensive and is a home based business that you can operate without having to leave repparttar

comfort of your home. It offers great money making potential and is one repparttar 149413

easiest to operate.

Any business that relies on repparttar 149414 telephone is a potential customer. However, your target market will most likely be small businesses and professionals with a busy schedule that relies on incoming telephone calls yet cannot take these calls themselves during certain periods of repparttar 149415 day. Some of repparttar 149416 best prospective customers to target are small businesses and/or professionals that operate long or odd hours. Examples of such professionals and/or businesses are repair service businesses such as plumbers and electricians. The needs of an answering service business will vary from one business to another. Most answering services only receive incoming calls on behalf of repparttar 149417 businesses or professionals for whom they are working. There are some answering services that offer services beyond this, such as doing some administrative tasks and/or making outbound calls. A business may want or need to have a telephone answering service handle repparttar 149418 telephone calls that it receives during a certain period of repparttar 149419 day or 24 hours a day. You should choose in advance, repparttar 149420 hours that your business will operate and repparttar 149421 services that you will provide. This will help you better determine repparttar 149422 needs of your business. Setting up Your Business If you will be operating a telephone answering service business by yourself, it may best to solicit repparttar 149423 business of businesses and/or professionals that need such a service during only certain time of repparttar 149424 day. For example, you can choose to have your hours of operation be from 8AM to 6PM. This will allow you to more easily operate your home business by yourself. You should also choose in advance repparttar 149425 number of clients and repparttar 149426 services that your business will be providing for them. If all that you will be doing is receiving inbound calls, this will make it easier to handle repparttar 149427 responsibilities of more than one business at a time. If your business will be providing The number of clients that you will take on and repparttar 149428 services that you will offer will determine how you will set up your home based business. Phone Lines The way most home based business telephone answering services are set up, is for there to be a separate phone line for each for each client. Each telephone is then marked with repparttar 149429 company name to help you identify which client phone line is ringing. Having separate phone lines installed should run you $100 to $200 each. There will also be an additional monthly charge of roughly $35 to $40. You can buy repparttar 149430 telephones at a local store. If you intend to expand your home based business into a small business, you will want to lease a switchboard and possibly move to a small office. This allows you to take on a higher volume of calls and therefore more clients. For repparttar 149431 purpose of this article however, only repparttar 149432 aspect of starting and operating a home based business telephone answering will be discussed. Switchboards An alternative to having multiple phone lines installed, is to lease a switchboard from your phone company. You will want to carefully consider repparttar 149433 location of repparttar 149434 switchboard. Once a switchboard is set up, it can be costly to move due to repparttar 149435 penalty fees that phone companies will charge to relocate repparttar 149436 service. If you plan to have someone else to help you receive phones calls, this may be a better option for you than having multiple phone lines.

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