Owning your own home business
Do you know anyone who owns his or her own business? How did it happen? Did someone come to them and say "Hey, you look like a nice person, I like you, you don't have to pay me anything, here's the key to your own business, go and make money now"? Or did they possibly scrape for every penny, probably even got a business loan to buy equipment, staff the business, advertising, marketing, etc. etc. etc.? The latter would be my guess.
Did the business see a profit in the first year? The second year? How long did it take? Was the business still alive five years later? How many hours per week did these people have to work to jumpstart the business? Just a few minutes every day? Or was it more like 100 hours per week at first? How many hours do they work in their business after a few years?
So why would you EVER believe that the Internet is any different to own your own business?
The single worst problem with people starting home based businesses today and failing is due from being LAZY — plain and simple. When you start a home-based business, you should develop your OWN product. Finding a company who does all the work for you shows a complete lack of loyalty on your part. If you don't want to work (even when the chips are down) — don't start a business!!
People tell you on the net that you can have our own business, FREE at that, and make $40,000-$100,000 in a month. Or you see ads all over the net telling you that you can make money and a lot of it, doing absolutely nothing. If you can make money doing nothing, why are they posting ads all over the place? Is that what you call doing nothing?? Right! And a lot of people believe that. That is beyond me! If that's what you want, buy lottery tickets. Your odds will be much better even if you have to pay to buy the tickets. Or play lotteries online for nothing!
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A business is like giving birth to a new child. If you are going to raise that child properly, you must take charge and control of the situation. You wouldn't have a baby and give it to an unknown company president in Chicago to raise for you would you? Then why do you want to give your company to an unknown company to make money for you? Isn't the reason we started a home based business was because we wanted to be our own boss? Control our own future? Be in charge? Then why in heavens name would you have any desire to do anything but develop your own stuff and sell it at a fair market price? That, my friend, is the best advice I can give any home based business person.
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My best to you!
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Victoria Ring, WebPrint Publishing, PO Box 09654, Columbus OH 43209-0654 is a writer and publisher. She is available for authoring, editing and publishing services and can be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view itI have relatives who sell Amway (no, they're not annoying anymore!). I know for a fact that they need a business license to sell their products, which they have to pay for themselves. They didn't start their own business for free. Sure it didn't cost them a fortune, and they didn't need a business loan. But the fact is that it wasn't FREE. Are they successful? One is, big time! The others do okay to better than average. Not one has failed and they've been at it for more than 10 years, the successful one has been with Amway for 20 years! She started very young, early twenties, as a housewife with 2 small children who needed something to do that would bring in extra income. Over the years Amway became her business. Today, she makes more money working just a few hours a week than I made killing myself working in an office in a month! But it didn't happen overnight. She worked hard, very hard to get where she is. But it paid off. The thing is, even a home business needs a lot of work and TLC to get off the ground. If you think you can sit back and do NOTHING and just watch the money coming in, please don't quit your job just yet!
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