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When starting a home-based business, some people have the luxury of an unused room which they can convert into an office. This provides a private area away from the distractions of home and family, and keeps your computer and other office equipment out of your living space. However, if you don’t have a spare room, and you lack the financial resources for renovations, don’t despair. Read on to learn how you can create an efficient workspace in any home.

1. You don’t have to give up your guest room to have an office where you can see clients, if you replace the bed with a pull-out couch or day bed.

2. If your house has a landing, there may be enough space to set up a work area there, allowing you to keep it out of your living area.

3. For the living room, bedroom, or family room, attractive furniture is now available to suit every décor which allows you to put your entire desktop computer behind doors and out of sight when working hours are over for the day.

4. You may convert your dining room to an office by placing the table next to a wall and using it as a desk. The table can still seat up to three people when cleared, and can be moved out from the wall for a larger group.

5. Even if there is no space available to designate as your office, a laptop computer will allow you to work in any room. Keep your small office supplies in a briefcase or other portable unit that you can easily carry from room to room.

6. A filing cabinet or other storage unit on casters can be kept under the table or close at hand while you are working, and wheeled out of the way when you are finished.

7. A bookcase or shelves will provide plenty of storage, and baskets or other attractive containers can hold small office supplies and prevent your workspace from taking over your living area. A closed cabinet for larger office supplies is also a must.

8. When space is limited, a multifunction machine that serves as a printer, fax machine, scanner and copier, can be a great benefit.

9. A free-standing privacy screen can be used to reduce distractions and interruptions from other family members, particularly if you will be seeing clients in your “office.”

10. For additional home office ideas along with inspiring color photographs, read “Activity Spaces: Inspiration & Information for the Do-It-Yourselfer” by Laura F. Gross.

When creating your home office, you will need to consider not only the space available but the nature of the work you will be doing. Not everyone needs a large tabletop where they can spread out papers, but if you do, that may determine where you can set up shop. You will likely require access to electrical outlets and telephone jacks, and proper lighting is essential for any type of work. If you will be spending considerable time on a computer, it is imperative that your set-up be ergonomically correct to avoid repetitive stress injury or other computer-related ailments.

This may be one of many challenges you will face as an entrepreneur, but with the above tips and a little creativity, you too can have a home office!

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For many years before the internet, the place to pawn off old or unused merchandise was the local flea market. Flea marketers would typically be the type of person that was a collector of unique items that would not really sell well in the mall or just carried too small of a margin for most store owners to really care about. The flea market was great, you never knew what you would find, and at times, a bargain was most definitely just around the corner. There even was the odd or better than odd chance that you could be ripped off, so a degree of caution had to be taken with each purchase.

Today we have the internet, and the flea market has taken a backseat to the likes of eBay and other auction sites that have popped up all over the world allowing peddlers of this and that to connect up with willing consumers. So with all the attention taken away from the flea market, is there really still an opportunity for you to start a part-time business as a flea marketer? I think the answer is most certainly a resounding yes, if you have the patience and love for finding and reselling one of a kind items, out of date or out of style merchandise and maybe even a little piece of treasure (in someone else’s eyes). So will you become incredibly wealthy being an entrepreneur of the flea market business? The answer is just as resounding as before, but this time it will be no.

So why get into this business if you are not going to be wealthy? Well for starters, you will not have to invest a great deal into the business. On weekdays while you are at home, you could be travel around finding your inventory and then on weekends you can sell you items. If you are married and you are in a situation where you husband works during the week while you stay at home with the children then on weekends you will have the time to sell your goods at the local flea market while he takes care of the children.

If you are interested in getting started in the flea market business you will need to get some startup cash. You will need money for some inventory to start the business, unless you can make something to sell. Some people make jam, pies and cakes. You will also need money to reserve your table at the market. You will need a table for displaying your merchandise, an umbrella to protect you from the sun or even the rain and a chair to sit in while your customers are walking around. Also, make sure that you have a calculator to ensure that you give your customers the correct change, you neither want to shortchange them or yourself.

Before starting out, do some more research about flea markets. You can probably still find a good book at the local bookstore or even the library. Try to be prepared so that you will have a successful business and try to have a little fun.

This article has been written as a resource for stay at home moms who desire to start a work at home business while in the midst of raising their children. You can get more great work at home ideas through researching other websites, visiting the library, buying industry specific magazines or talking to others in your neighborhood who have already started businesses out of their homes.

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Remember always operate your business like any other business (online or offline). You must ensure that certain systems and checks and balances are in-place.

When you start your business, you may not know what your doing. You may do what I and countless others have done. When I first started, I was joining everyone's newsletters, trying to learn something for nothing. Then, I progressed to learning more by purchasing products, subscriptions, and memberships. Some were good. Some were worthless. Some were terrible rip offs. In any event, I had all these items to keep track off, even if I to want cancel or return the bad items. Paypal saved me for many of my purchases but not all of them. All this information was contained in at least six email accounts. No lie!! SO, you need to be able to keep track of all this stuff including receipt numbers, passwords, usernames, account numbers, and expiration dates.. You needs to systematize your business.

First things first, I highly recommend using an inexpensive tool like roboform at www.roboform.com. This will automatically keep track of your passwords and form information. It prompts you anytime you enter a logon and password. If it is already in Roboform's database, you can retrieve the information and automatically submit it. This saves tons of time and keeps you organized.

Next, keep a database that lists all those items I mentioned before: company names, dates joined, invoice numbers, logons, passwords, websites, email addresses, whether a once-off or monthly fee, and any additional notes. You can use a formal program or keep track of it with Microsoft Access or Excel, or consider OpenOffice, a free alternative to Microsoft Office, at www.openoffice.org.

Next, you need to keep track of your income and expenses. A simple way is to use a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. You can also use Quicken, Quickbooks, or more formal software. What should you be looking for besides just the figures? You need to use the data to identify trends in profits and losses. Look at your product or services in relation to seasonality. If you sold this item last year, how did it fare this year? Obviously, you need the figures for tax accounting. Just make sure you have a system in place to ensure you are always on-track . How will you know what is working and what needs changing? You need to see if you are getting a good return based on the money you are spending in your business.

The last system you need is something to keep track of your advertising expenditures and results. It is most effective if broken down by ad campaign. Without the ability to test and measure all of your advertising, you might as well just wear a blindfold. You absolutely MUST KNOW what is working and what is not working . They always say test small at first to minimize your advertising dollars. Keeping track of your advertising allows you to add more monies to the good campaigns and minimize or shut down the other campaigns.

A spreadsheet can include ad cost, number of subscribers (in an ezine), number of clicks, number of sales, cost per sale and ROI (return on investment).

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Bank like a business; keep your business and personal funds separate by having accounts for each. This will also make it easier to maintain records and save a big headache when filing tax returns. Find out what services your bank provides and do they have anything extra that can help your business run smoother. There is a huge selection of banks and you are not limited to just ones in your own country so make sure you get the best service and fees that you can.

Some banks also offer insurance and one you will need to look at is insurance in particular loss of income protection insurance. Every home business owner should have a policy that ensures financial ability to continue trading and meet expenses and cost of living due to circumstances of personal injury or other things that may prevent you from earning income.

Stay abreast of telecommunication advances as technology is changing rapidly and there may be more services you could utilize in your business, Such as answering services, wireless broadband etc. Install a separate telephone line for your business and make sure you have an answering machine or service. Don’t let people who aren’t involved in your business answer the telephone

Have set working hours and stick to them. Don’t overwork as this can lead to burn out and a loss in productivity more equals less; organize yourself so you can achieve more in less time. A balance of work and play is important otherwise you’ll end up feeling frustrated and more of a slave to your own business than working for another. Remember this philosophy in regards to any employees you have. They have not got the same vested interest in your business as you so its important not to overwork or place unnecessary burdens on them.

Home businesses that interact with more traditional type companies need to keep business hours otherwise you may not be taken seriously and you business considered as more of a hobby than a serious entrepreneur.

Always conduct yourself honestly, build a reputation of conducting your business affairs with integrity, you’ll build long lasting relationships if people know you are your word and endeavor to provide what you say you will. If something up expected comes up get in contact with your clients immediately tell them honestly what difficulties have arisen and any changes you need to make as a result. Don’t put this off it gets harder to fix problems the longer you leave them.

Lastly no man is an island and you shouldn’t conduct your business like one. Network with other business owners. Join related groups or society’s and know what local government departments are there that can assist you in your business.

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Any kind of works which is begin with certain level of plan and goal will be successful work. No matter what kind of work you are going to start, Plan and Goad make it easy going and it is proven strategy No any doubt on it. Today's concentration is guideline for Beginners and Intermediate Entrepreneur

Let's see how this Article will be helpful to those who are interested to start Home Business.

Successful Step 1 to select proper business:

Find some proven track record Home Business Company. Sign-UP 4-5 Free or affordable programs which has nice compensation and solid product and Plan to sell. Mostly you can received affiliated link URL from which you can earn money if, someone will purchase products or opportunity from your URL.

Success Step 2 Advertise your Business:

More people see your Link will be a more chances to sell your product or opportunity. You try to advertise your affiliate link more and more places to grab more chances. These days there are number of ways to send your link like Search Engine, Bloog, Article, PPC, Leads, Classified aids and many more ways. Do it which is convenient for you within your knowledge and capacity at the beginning stage.

Success Step3 Manage Your Time:

It is very important to get more profit in less time if your time management technique is based on sequence and priority. Set to do list each day for daily work, each week for weekdays monthly and yearly.. this is the great idea which will make you smarter and smarter every day.

Daily to do list: It includes like

a. Classified posting 2 hours

b. Go and surf website forum to get some help.

c. Chatting with Friends.

d. Sleep 1 hr afternoon after lunch.

and so.. on

Weekly Plan:

Sunday: No work rest, relax with friends

Monday: Website Design

Tuesday: Article Writing

Wednesday: PPC Campaign

Thursday: No work

Friday: Email Marketing Campaign

Saturday: Review all shortly...

Success Step 4 Set your goal

If, You really want success in your very own your private business you set your goal according to your effort and finance. How much time each day you give your business and how much expense a day, a week or a month that could help you for your goal setting in accurate way. According to your activity you may chance your setting aswel

Your Daily goad:

Weekly Goal:

Yearly Goal:

2 Years Goal

5 Years Goal

Your life Goal: and More and more...

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People may not be aware of it, but there are lots of chances of earning additional income or profits online. Since its inception, the Internet has become the breeding ground of small businesses.

However, in spite of the many financial opportunities that the Internet has to offer, not all of them can give you long-term achievements. So even if home businesses today can give you the quick cash that you need, it does not mean that you will consistently earn the kind of income that you want.

Just like any businesses, it takes a lot of determination, persistence, and motivation. Likewise, you have to consider many factors that will enable you achieve your goals.

There may be many successful home business tips that you can find online but not of them may provide you the pointers that you need

In May 2004, a survey conducted by the US Labor Department showed that 20.7 million Americans, 16 years and older, did some type of home-based work as part of their primary means of living. A significant portion of that, about 2 million, offered professional business services, which include data entry. More and more people are taking that bold step to strike a balance between family and work. The most common solution: online data entry job.

Online data entry jobs have been on the increase since 2001. Companies need to handle enormous deal of information on a daily basis, thus the need for data entry personnel to process them. If left untouched, corporations will need to contend with massive paperwork that tend to take up valuable office space. They may also lose data, information, and revenue in the process. By staying versed with all the information and keeping the records of their businesses, resort to the data entry industry to augment their labor and ensure continuation of their businesses.

The main equipment used in the online data entry job is a computer. It is a gadget which churns out words and numbers faster than you can imagine. If you have one at your home, then you are already riding the wave. However, owning one is not the key to being successful at data entry home business. You must be adept at using it. make sure proper training and practice especially on word processors and spreadsheet applications as well as audio processing software used in transcription.

Work of data entry differs from simple name and address entry into a list or database to more complex work as medical transcription. One thing is common in all of them: All can be done at home.

Data entry workers make lists of information like numbers, names, addresses and the like. The data is keyed into forms that show up on the computer screen. They are also tasked to edit existing information or spot errors in existing entries, like proofreading.

However hard work and perseverance is a prerequisite for all home jobs. If someone's idea of easy home business ideas means ideas that allow them to make money without a lot of effort, then for them there are no easy home business ideas. When we talk about easy home business ideas, the reality is that there are home business ideas that are easy to break into, to work into a home business that the owner can enjoy and make profitable, with a lot of time and hard work. The part of these home business ideas that is easy is the means for starting them. Make a living by doing the online data entry home business.

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Maybe you have a high school diploma. Maybe you are a college graduate. Maybe you are a dropout and feel like you've been looked down upon most of your like. When you're on the internet, all these distinctions disappear. You are the maker of your own destiny. Having a home based internet business is so realistic and doable that it boggles my mind.

I know people that are bona fide millionaires on the internet that were high school dropouts. Stephen Pierce grew up in Detroit Michigan and never graduated In fact, he's lucky he's alive with all the gang activity that surrounded him during his teen years. Stephen survived and started his own home-based internet business. Today, he is on target to becoming a billionaire with potential contracts with automobile manufacturers. Armand Morin used to be a vacuum salesman. Brian Keith Voilles, one of the world's highest paid copywriters on the internet, used to work with bricks.

You say sure. They were in the right place and right time. Really? Why are informed people starting and earning significant income everyday on the internet? It still works and you can be there too if you want to be. And you don't need to be Einstein with a PhD.

Today's employment outlook is not as rosy as it used to be. Even people that are working today tend to work many more hours than their grandparents did. After putting in all these hours, your employer can turn around and fire you in an instant. Everyone has become a throw away commodity.

Please consider having a home based business, even just to supplement your current income. Just get in the mind set of being a business owner and get started. We can never get time back in our lives.

When you become a business owner on the internet, you gain tremendous leverage over being just an employee. All of a sudden you have a great many more deductions you can take for income tax purposes. Startup costs can be minimal when compared with startup costs of non-internet based businesses also.

Even if you lack time, a home based business on the internet can still fit your wishes. Now, more than ever, people are automating much of their business. You see examples of this when ordering products, or services on the internet. A sales page leads directly to an order page which then feeds up a download page, in the case of a digital product. Human interaction is almost non-existent. In terms of marketing, you can set up an autoresponder to answer requested inquires for free reports instantly or send out ecourses at timed sequences freeing up your time for other aspects of your business.

This may seem like it is too good to be true, however, because everything across the internet is turning towards automated methods of revenue, it is the real thing.

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What’s the secret of creating an export company? Well, you don’t have to be a manufacturer, an importer or even have your own private products. What you need is knowledge, knowledge of where you want to export and how to contact the importers, distributors, stores or customers in that country. Once you do that getting products is the easy part. Just ask them what they need! Keep reading to find a quick overview of how to get started.

If you’re looking to make a little extra money or completely replace your current job, you will want to consider trying to begin an export company. However, many people think that this process needs to be difficult or time-consuming and that just isn’t the case. Instead of listening to everyone else’s reasons for not getting into exporting, why not listen to the easy process that will get you off and running?

Beginning an exporting business does not require you to have a lot of capital, meaning that you don’t have to have a lot of start up cash to get off and rolling – quite the opposite. What you do need is a lot of attention to detail and a willingness to work hard. There are few businesses in the United States that actually export to other countries, so you will need to figure out a way to establish yourself or maker relationships with those companies.

You might want to start by heading to the country that you wish to export to in order to set up business contacts. You can even start this process by taking to local contacts to see if they could refer you to anyone that might want to work with you and buy your particular products. Even if you meet with these referrals and they don’t end up being profitable, you may meet someone else through them that might work out well.

What you do have going for you is that fact that you are a minority in the field. This tends to sound like a disadvantage, but it really isn’t. When you’re unique in this respect, you will be able to draw more attention than you could with hundreds of other competitors. Try to focus on your uniqueness when you are trying to find retailers and show how you are different from the wholesalers they may already be using.

How are you different? This is the first question that any business should ask in order to establish their reputation. When you’re looking to be a prominent part of someone’s business, you need to show them what your value is. Think about what your product offers that other supplier products may not offer. If there are no differences, talk about your pricing and how much lower it is – assuming that it is. Maybe you can cut down on the delivery and shipping costs that other wholesalers might charge. Find a way to make yourself different.

Exporting also requires that you know a lot about moving goods in and out of the country. Sitting down with another local exporter can be a valuable lesson in what to do and what not to do. Or you can talk to your local government agencies to see how they might be able to guide you. It’s always better to research too much in this area rather than too little. A small problem with customs can lead to bigger problems with finding consumers that want to buy from you without running into issues.

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For many people, working at home is the penultimate dream. After all, many of us dislike our jobs; and perhaps we dislike the amounts we receive for doing those jobs even less. Some of us also have difficulty dealing with our superiors, who may or may not be good people. Given all these factors, working at home, in the peace and comfort of your own abode, seems like an incredibly good idea.

If you are thinking of working at home, then you must first consider all the variables that will be involved in your potential decision. Working at home, like working outside, carries its own set of advantages and disadvantages. It would be good for you to scrutinize each argument, and examine how much weight such arguments should have on your decision.

Some of the advantages of working at home include:

Being your own boss. Most people resent having to work for the benefit of someone else. We are all naturally selfish; we want our work to primarily benefit us. As an employee, your work primarily benefits the company that you work for, and your boss. You receive a salary, but the amount you receive does not correspond to the full value of the labor that you rendered.

Being in charge of your own time. It is frustrating to have your time subject to the whims of others. How many fathers have missed their son’s baseball or football games because they had to attend an important meeting? Working at home means that you are the only one who takes control of your time. You can do what you want to do, when you want to do it.

Possibility of large gains. As mentioned before, when you work for a salary, you only receive a portion of the value of the service you rendered. But if you own your own venture and are working at home, you not only receive the fruits of your own labor, you have the possibility of receiving the fruits of another’s labor. If your business takes off, then you have a chance to earn more money in a year than you otherwise would’ve gotten throughout your entire lifetime, had you stuck with your regular job.

Being able to choose your associations. Not being stuck in an office means that you won’t have to put up with people that you can’t stand. Instead, you can choose who you want to do business with, and ignore those who aren’t as relevant.

Now, working at home is not a financial cure-all in the beginning but if you stay disciplined and do the work that you have to do, you can expect your venture to grow, and your profits to grow as well.

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Every day I receive emails asking me about beginning a service based home business. Some folks want to offer an errand service. Some folks want to offer a cleaning service, and others want to offer a tutoring service.

The most common questions are “how do I start?” and “how much do I charge?”

By preparing a simple business plan, both of these questions will be answered. A few resources I always suggest taking advantage of are the SCORE website which can be found at www.score.org and the small business/home business section on the IRS site http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=99336,00.html These two sites will answer many startup questions.

The fees to charge will vary by state and even by city. I do have someone clean my home for me. The fee I pay her is much higher than the fee someone outside of California pays. The fee I pay is very average for the town I live in.

There are a few ways to find out what the average fee is in your town. You can start on the internet. If you want to run an errand service, look online and see what services are being offered at what rates by other people. If you can, find a few businesses in your town.

Next, if your town has a “services offered” section in the daily newspaper, look and see what others are charging. My own local paper lists gardeners, house cleaners, tailors, party planners and many other services. Often, the advertiser will put their fees right in their ads to save phone calls from folks simply wanting to know their fees.

My final suggestion is to actually contact the other businesses and ask what they charge. You can look in your local yellow pages for other businesses offering the service you wish to offer.

Service based businesses are very popular and can be quite profitable. The key is in creating a business plan that will be your roadmap to success!!

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People decide to start a home based business for a variety of reasons. Some people want to be home when their kids get home from school. Some people are caring for a sick parent and wish to be home. Some people just can not conform to the 8-5 mold.

When you work at home, you are in charge of your time. You will decide how much time is spent talking with customers, how much time is spent marketing your business and how much time is spent doing the laundry.

It is so easy to run out to the grocery store, or do a load of laundry, or finish up those dinner dishes; however none of those activities are contributing to your business.

One of the cutest stories I can share with you is the time I spoke with a woman who just couldn’t find her first customer. She and I had created a list of 50 activities she could do that would help her find that first customer. At the end of the week, she still did not have a customer. She was upset and frustrated. We began to talk about the list of 50 activities. She had not done one of them. What she had done was rearrange her office space twice, buy and put labels on several folders for the paperwork she knew she’d have down the road and read some articles on sales.

When you work at home, there is no one telling you when a project must be completed. There is no one asking you for your completed work. You have to have the desire and the motivation to take the steps needed to create sales for any business you start.

I am strong advocator of goals, both short term and long term. What is it that you want to accomplish today, this week, this month and this year? Put it in writing. If you want to find one new customer this week, that’s a great goal, but how will you find that person? Will you place an ad? Will you write articles? What steps will you take to find that new customer?

I know that sometimes we don’t hit our goals. That’s ok, rewrite them. Allow yourself 30 minutes per day to reread your goals, make a plan to execute those goals and if necessary, rewrite them. Remember there is no boss to tell you how to spend your time, but a goal sheet can help guide you through your days and weeks.

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When you work at home, if you want to be successful, you cannot have a "work for the weekend" work at home mentality. I have probably put my longest days into the weekend. As a matter of fact, I try to always work on my online businesses during the weekend. The worst possible attitude to have is that weekends are for pleasure. My attitude: Weekends are for making money.

Look at the weekends for an opportunity to continue to build your home-based business, time to do the small stuff that you may not be able to do as efficiently during the weekday. For example, my online business directory requires a lengthy amount of time communicating with local business owners. Generally, I am not able to do this during the weekend. This is when I take the opportunity to catch up on the little stuff.

I take the weekend to update my website and I do a lot of writing as well. I have to do these things completely clear of distractions, writing is not my strong point and must have complete focus on what I'm writing about. I like to take care of any accounting and re-organize everything as well. For me, many of the aspects of my my work at home on the weekend are much more enjoyable than what I do during the weekdays.

It helps me create a mentality that weekends are not always play-time. Don't get me wrong, I live for golfing on Saturday. Nonetheless, I always make time for writing and changing up what I do. My website, I am always trying to design the perfect website, I know it will never happen. But, I'm never satisfied, and always looking to improve. That is what creates success, get over the weekends are for relaxing and reviving yourself mentality. Weekends are what push entrepreneurs to the next level!!!

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What makes a home Internet business effective? Why is it that some people excel while others do not? The problem is that most people don't market their business properly when they start out or, worse still, don't market it at all. They just sit back and hope that potential customers, in the form of targeted traffic, will simply appear from nowhere.

Unfortunately, if you don't build it, people won't just happen to come. You need to market your home-based business effectively to drive targeted customers to your website. Often, online business owners fail to see the importance of online marketing, they simply wait for people to show up, if nothing happens over the next 2-3 months they throw in the towel and just quit.

Below are 5 essential tips to creating and marketing an effective home based business. Remember that marketing is the most important aspect of your business, without it you will fail!

1. Choose the right company that will give you the right support. This is best done by finding a well-established company. The longer the company has been around, the more chance there is that they will still be around in the next 5, 10 or even 50 years. This will also have a lot to do with the fact that the company has learned to adapt to the ever-changing market and technology in the online marketplace.

2. Set up a system that will automate your marketing process, for example, an autoresponder for emails, product fulfillment, inquiries and support. Autoresponders are vital. While you are doing all of the things that can be automated yourself, you are wasting your valuable time and, after all, isn't time money?

3. Sit down and write a marketing plan. Decide what you want to achieve over the next 6-12 months and set those goals so they can realistically be met.

4. Follow your plans religiously. Don't be put off or sidetracked by other unrelated businesses or products. If you really must buy something, make sure that it is related to or will help your current marketing plan.

5. Always be on the look out for like-minded people who could become partners. The people who you should have in mind are those who are like-minded to you, and will be easy for you to work with, if you find people like this work with them. Two heads are better than one.

Follow these steps over the next 6-12 months and concentrate only on the business plan you have set forth. Don't get side tracked by other new programs and it is very probable that you will be able to replace your current full time income with your home based business.

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A home based business is not necessarily for everyone, it all depends on your mental state, and way of thinking. A person who commutes to their job, day in and day out, are in a closed box mind state, because of the way they think. They get a pay check every 2 weeks, or on the 15th and 1st of the month, depending on the company you work for. And they lead relatively stable lives. Stable meaning they have a house, a car, and maybe even take a vacation once a year for 2 weeks or forever long they are able with their job.

This may sound great to some people, but to be honest, it’s not all that great at all. Having a J.O.B. is almost as risky as playing the lottery. Why? Well, because if someone smarter or with more experience than you applies for a position with your company, they have a big chance of taking your job from you. Or, what if the company is having some difficulties financially, and they decide to downsize the company, you could potentially be out of a job. And then all that time and money you have put into your J.O.B. is gone, and can never be gotten back.

What do I mean by “money you put into your J.O.B”? Well, think of this, gas money, insurance for your car, your car payments them selves. That can add up, especially with the price of gas these days. And if your commute is far, then you are probably filling up your tank at least twice a week, at about $40 a fill, that’s $80 a week, $320 a month, or $3840 a year. So, you were at your job for about 10 years, that’s $38,400. That’s about an above average years salary for most people.

Now, if you would like to have control over how much you make, how often you take a vacation, and how stable your job really is. Then starting a home based business would be the thing to do. All you have to do is find the right opportunity, and then go for it.

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Having a desk in your family room and calling it your office doesn't qualify as a legitimate home office. Learn what does qualify so you can get the most out of your expenses.

The number one rule to qualify as a home office is that it must be a separate room, used only as your office. Your kids can't come in and do their homework or any other activity. It's your office - plain and simple.

Now for tax purpose you'll need to know the total square footage of your house or apartment. (Yes, renters can deduct their office too as long as it is a separate room). Now measure the length and width of your office, multiply them to get the square footage of your office. Keep a record of this in your "Year End" file. This file is for all the papers you'll need to take to your accountant during tax time.

If you rent your house or apartment, you'll be able to deduct part of your rent and utilities. If you want to deduct phone costs, you'll need to have a separate business line put into your office. List the monthly phone costs as well as the installation cost under your "Phone" column on your expense spreadsheet.

The amount you can deduct for rent and utilities is the same percentage as the size of your office is to the size of your house or apartment. Let's say the apartment is 1,000 square feet and your office is 10 ft x 10 ft or 100 square feet. That means your office takes up 10% of your total living space.

At the end of the year, you'll be able to deduct 10% of your rent and utility expenses on your taxes.

Keep a copy of your utility bills each month. On each statement, figure what portion of the bill that belongs to the business. Note that amount on the bill and write it down on your spreadsheet under utilities. Let's say your electric bill was $85.00. Note that $8.50 of this bill is a business expense. Pay the bill in full with your personal checking account. And that's it for your monthly expenses.

If you own your own home and you have a room built for your office, you need to keep records of those expenses. Let's say you have a basement and you had walls added to create a separate office. Keep all the receipts (materials and labor) in a separate folder as part of your "Year End" records. These expenses are deducted over a period of time (usually 3-6 years). These are not recorded on your monthly spreadsheet.

So there you have the basics - the size of the office determines the amount of allowable expenses on your taxes, have a separate phone line and save all your receipts.

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So you've set up the basics - separate checking account, month end bank statement and duplicate checks (see "Home Business Record Keeping - The Simple Way" article for more details) - now how do keep your records? Let's start with expenses.

Use either a file folder or a large envelope. Write "Daily Expenses" on it. Every time you order something through the internet; print out your receipt and stick it in "Daily Expenses". If you go to your local office supply store, as soon as you get home, put your receipt in the folder.

Also set up either an excel spreadsheet or buy the old fashion spreadsheets at your office supply store. They may be old but they work just as well. You'll be recording your expenses daily and totaling your columns at the end of the month.

At the top left corner of your spreadsheet, write the month and year. Down the left side, you'll record the date of the expense and whom you paid. Use separate columns. For example: 05/15/2006 Media Marketing, Inc.

Across the top of the page, you'll list your expense categories starting with column 4 if you are using an Excel spreadsheet. Since you are running a home based business and you are a sole proprietor, we are assuming you do not have any payroll. How you pay yourself will be covered in another article.

Write the following categories in your top columns. It's helpful to list them from left to right with left being the most used category. Let's say you begin with Advertising. Then add the following categories (not necessarily in this order): Office Expense, Utilities, Phone, Vehicle Expense, Contributions, Meals/Entertainment, Travel, Taxes, Licenses and Permits, Bank Fees, Credit Card Fees, Legal/Accounting. Skip a few columns and at the far right list your next to last column as Income. List you last column as Total.

Now at the end of the day pull out your receipts and log in your expenses.

What about the good stuff? Your profit! If you are using a credit card service, PayPal or another online processor, you should be able to log online to check you daily balance. If they don't post transactions until the following day, just post it the next morning on your spreadsheet. If you receive checks in the mail, record the total amount of deposit. So at the end of day or the next morning write the date, "Income" and the total of monies received. And as always, keep copies of your records. Make copies of your deposit slips and print out your online processor statements monthly.

And that's the basic information you need to set up your expense and income report. If you are very familiar with software such as Microsoft Money or QuickBooks, go ahead and use them. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs buy the software and post expense (or what they think are expenses) into categories that may not be correct. When your Accountant has to straighten out these entries it takes his or her office time and that means more cost to you.

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Do you have a work from home income program that you currently promote?

Are you doing any affiliate program?

Have you achieved any meaningful success in the work from home internet program which you’re doing?

Do you desire financial security, freedom and success?

Read on, to discover how to succeed in any make money from home business program and create true wealth.

Most people are like the hound dog which lies on its back and howls all day because of pains and feels lazy to get up and do something about it.

They waste their time and lives in dead end jobs that they hate.

Some dabble in various work at home business income programs.

They seem to think that their lives are like a TV show which will have a happy ending.

So they stay in the same job for years, waste their lives and whine.

Like a hound dog.

Some of them will retire, but will walk around for the rest of their lives wounded and miserable because of the stress they accumulated from their jobs.

The others will get downsized, and end up in the skid row, where they will continue howling and whining for the rest of their lives, unable to figure out where their happy ending went.

You don’t have to be a hound dog because you can do something about your current financial situation.

Most people desire to earn money from home for various reasons.

Some people are tired of working hard at their jobs and desire to earn money from home in order to escape from the 9-5 job rat race.

Other people desire a work at home business income program so as to earn extra incomes to supplement the money they make at their jobs.

Other people desire work from home income opportunity because of the comfort and freedom of working from their homes and the power it gives them to control their financial destinies.

There are some people who have bought a work from home business program because they are retired and need something to keep them busy.

When the internet gold rush happened about 7 years ago, millions of average people all over the world rushed into different types of work from home business programs because they bought the internet hype of get rich fast.

Millions of companies were born overnight and they began to offer free affiliate programs.

Millions of people signed up with the mistaken notion that just by signing up and getting a free website to promote a work at home business program will make them rich over night.

This gave birth to various internet promotions and marketing.

One of the most annoying internet promotions was spa-mm-ing.

This in turn gave birth to anti-spam activism which has almost wiped out spamming.

After 1 or 2 years, most of these millions of people who rushed into work at home business income program had to admit failure because they were not making any money.

Their dreams of fast internet wealth were shattered.

As a way to console themselves, they started labeling every work from home business opportunity as a scam.

Most of these people will buy a work from home business program or e-book and after they download or receive it will claim that the work from home business program is a sc-am (even though they have not tried it yet and have no proof) and apply for a chargeback and a refund so as to eat their cake and have it also.

By so doing, they ripped off the sellers of these work from home business opportunities.

While some of the companies who promote work from home business opportunities may sometimes engage in deceptive advertising, it is not true that all work at home business income opportunities are scams.

Most work from home business income opportunities are valid and can make the buyer a lot of money.

The problem is that most people who buy work from home business opportunity are not capable of doing them because they are not business oriented.

Most of them don’t have a clue about marketing and internet promotion.

Most of them buy the programs or sign up in free affiliate programs and after they get the websites they don’t do any serious marketing.

A lot of these people don’t even know the difference between selling and marketing.

Some don’t even know how to write a simple business letter or e-mail.

They write an e-mail without beginning it with a salutation and at the end of the e-mail, they don’t include their names or phone numbers or physical addresses.

When they phone you and leave a message on your answering machine, they don’t even know that they have to state their names, the reason why they called and their own phone numbers and the best times you may call them back.

Most don’t even know how to create a folder or save or upload a file or install a software and yet they had signed up in 100 different affiliate programs and work from home business opportunities and had dreams of making a million bucks overnight!

Is it any surprise that these people fail miserably?

The least that any serious business person should know how to do should be how to write a business letter.

Most of the people who fail to earn money from home business internet program have no discipline and are disorganized.

They have the mistaken notion that working from home and doing a work at home business opportunity program means that they can wake up anytime they like and that they can choose whether to work or not and when to work or not.

They fail to realize that doing a work from home business program can be more demanding than doing a regular job.

Doing a work at home business program requires more discipline and competence than a regular job because you may have to do many different chores all by yourself because at the beginning, you probably will be working alone and may not be able to hire helpers.

This means that you may have to play many roles and do so many things all at the same time.

You may be forced to become a website designer, a copy editor, a sales person, a customer service person, a spokes person, an attorney, a book keeper, an accountant and a publisher all at the same time.

This is one of the biggest reasons why most people fail in work from home business opportunity because they are unable to play all these roles at the same time.

Another reason why most people fail in work from home business program is that they don’t spend enough money to promote it.

To attain success in any work from home business program may require that you spend thousands of dollars.

But most people spend $25 a month to place an ad and if they don’t make any sale, they conclude that the work from home business program doesn’t work and give up.

To succeed in any work at home business program may require that you do different types of marketing and internet promotions.

Your website must be optimized and competently submitted to both the major directories and the search engines on a regular basis.

You must have a link exchange program that is effective.

You may have to do pay per click campaign.

You may have to do both online and offline marketing.

You may have to do many press releases in order to get free publicity and generate free traffic to buy your work from home business program.

You may even have to do direct marketing to drive traffic to your websites.

This depends on what type of product or service that you promote.

You may have to go offline to find the targeted customers who need what you promote.

To succeed in doing this, you must know how to locate a targeted mailing list and how to test it.

You may have to do magazine and newspapers advertising too.

Above all, depending on the type of product or service that you’re promoting, it may take time for you to start seeing a return on your investment and to become profitable.

Unfortunately, most people that get into work from home business opportunity lack patience because they are looking for quick ways to make money.

For that reason, they don’t do enough marketing and internet promotion and don’t network and don’t spend enough money to generate traffic and so consequently they fail.

But when they fail, they are unable to admit that they are at fault.

Instead they blame the work from home business opportunity and the company who sold it to them and label all work from home business opportunities as sc-ams.

May these insights about work from home business internet income business programs open your eyes to the possibility of infinite wealth and success which can be yours.

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Affiliate marketing has become a popular method for making money online. By signing on to a company as an affiliate, you can sell their products and services without having to create any of your own. It usually requires little or no investment, and the overall risk is very small. You job is basically to promote and sell.

You can find affiliate programs easily. Go to Google and type in affiliate programs and you'll find pages of them. Check a few of them out. Be sure to look at some affiliate networks like Commission Junction or Clickbank. Most networks are free to join and provide a wide assortment of products to sell.

I think the best way to start is to promote a product that you actually own or use. If you've ever bought anything online you can check the product website to see if there is an affiliate program. If you're comfortable recommending this product to a friend of yours, you'll have little trouble selling it online.

In a typical affiliate setup, the merchant provides his or her affiliates with the tools and resources required to sell the product. The resources are usually some text, graphics, banners, instructions, and all kinds of things you can put on a website or into a blog. The merchant stands to gain from your success. They will usually help you in any way they can.

It's best to add a little bit of yourself into your sales literature. Tell your customers how you feel about using the product. What did it do for you? What will it do for them? Tell a story. Give examples. Let it come from your heart. If you put up a website or blog with the same sales letter as a thousand other websites, you're going to get lost in space. You need to tell your story.

Once you make a sale, you'll get a commission. Keep in mind that most merchants require a certain amount of commissions to be made before they cut you a check. They're not going to be sending you checks for $10. Be sure you find out the minimum so you avoid any disappointment.

Becoming an affiliate marketer is easy. To be a successful one is a bit harder. There is a lot of competition online, but that shouldn't scare you. Start small. You'll need to put up a small website or start with a blog. You can get a free one at blogger or wordpress. Learn about internet marketing as you go. You can start with the materials the merchant gives you. Keep in mind that there are millions of people using the internet. They can stop at your site just as easily as they stop anywhere else.

So there you have it. How simple was that? I'll leave you with one last thought. Even though you haven't started yet, think ahead. What does that mean? You want to be able to put yourself in a position to add more products and drop the ones that don't sell. This may mean developing a good content based website. It may mean several small mini-sites, or many blogs. Think about products that give you commissions every single month. Selling memberships to a subscription based website could give you ongoing commissions even though you made only one sale. Keep thinking and keep moving forward.

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