I work at home and have SFI!
A self evident truth is that if you want to work at home then you need a really good business. You can create you own and have the usual heart burn of getting something built from the ground up. This approach might provide some positive personal development rewards - I've done it!! Yes you can shout this to the world, get yourself some business cards and show them with pride to your friends (those 'office bound people, hehe you think), lease that nice car and so on.
The secret to a good work at home business type is to find one that has been successfully executed and copy that idea. This is not cheating or illegal unless you copy the materials, products and logo etc. Most businesses have some level of copy cat activity. Look at all the coffee shop franchises or fried chicken franchises - are they really that different from each other? No, not really. The key to their success is that they offer a good product, reliable friendly service and make sure they have their customer relationships set in firm grounds.
One great advantage of building an internet-based home based business is the fact that you face very few bureaucratic red tap problems. Yes, you will still have to comply with the tax rules and pay tax on your income, but at the same time you gain some of the benefits of owning a business is that you can claim as a legitimate tax deduction a lot of the costs associated with your internet business and at the same time avoid the cost incurred in having a 'real' bricks and mortar business.
As you consider the options for your online business make sure you check carefully on the credentials of the people who might be marketing the concept to you. Just like in the days of old when many suspect people promoted multi-level marketing or MLM there are some shady characters in the online world too. And they are harder to find when something does not work out as planned.
Do not jump into the first thing you see. Search that great research aide, Google.com and seek out review sites for the product, business concept or offer that is being made to you. Look into the forums as a lot of good advice (and some bad) is provided in these areas that can make you better informed.
If you are developing your own business concept you also need to make sure it has wings. Try Google's adwords keyword tool (search Google and it will appear) and to some searches on keywords that describe your business. This will show you the country (and even local) and global interest and most importantly competition for your planned business.
Best of luck.
The secret to a good work at home business type is to find one that has been successfully executed and copy that idea. This is not cheating or illegal unless you copy the materials, products and logo etc. Most businesses have some level of copy cat activity. Look at all the coffee shop franchises or fried chicken franchises - are they really that different from each other? No, not really. The key to their success is that they offer a good product, reliable friendly service and make sure they have their customer relationships set in firm grounds.
One great advantage of building an internet-based home based business is the fact that you face very few bureaucratic red tap problems. Yes, you will still have to comply with the tax rules and pay tax on your income, but at the same time you gain some of the benefits of owning a business is that you can claim as a legitimate tax deduction a lot of the costs associated with your internet business and at the same time avoid the cost incurred in having a 'real' bricks and mortar business.
As you consider the options for your online business make sure you check carefully on the credentials of the people who might be marketing the concept to you. Just like in the days of old when many suspect people promoted multi-level marketing or MLM there are some shady characters in the online world too. And they are harder to find when something does not work out as planned.
Do not jump into the first thing you see. Search that great research aide, Google.com and seek out review sites for the product, business concept or offer that is being made to you. Look into the forums as a lot of good advice (and some bad) is provided in these areas that can make you better informed.
If you are developing your own business concept you also need to make sure it has wings. Try Google's adwords keyword tool (search Google and it will appear) and to some searches on keywords that describe your business. This will show you the country (and even local) and global interest and most importantly competition for your planned business.
Best of luck.
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