lk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job exper

FIND WHAT WORKS

Everything we’ve covered so far pertains to owning and operating a business, but if your only goal is to be able to earn your living from home there’s another, simpler option available to you. That option is to work at home for somebody else. Popularly called telecommuting, it usually entails you being hired to work some type of job that can be done remotely from home. You’re still an employee of some company, so if true financial independence is your goal, this won’t work. But if your desire is really just to avoid having to get up and face the daily commute, this might be the right option for you.

Telecommuting jobs aren’t incredibly easy to find though. Most likely you won’t be able to just answer an ad for a job and be allowed to work from home. Employers typically don’t trust their employees with that much unsupervised time, especially brand new employees who need to be trained. If you already have a job that could easily be done from home, you could try approaching your employer about becoming a telecommuter. This will usually only work if you have been a stellar employee and your employer has tremendous faith and trust in you, or if they value your services so much that they’re afraid to lose you. Even so, most employers are still not open to the idea unless the company already has some experience with telecommuters. It’s kind of a Catch-22, but this is probably the wave of the future, so if you’re willing to be patient about it, it might happen sooner or later. That’s about I’ll say about telecommuting, though, because our real goal is to talk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job experi

still an employee of some company, so if true financial independence is your goal, this won’t work. But if your desire is really just to avoid having to get up and face the daily commute, this might be the right option for you.

Telecommuting jobs aren’t incredibly easy to find though. Most likely you won’t be able to just answer an ad for a job and be allowed to work from home. Employers typically don’t trust their employees with that much unsupervised time, especially brand new employees who need to be trained. If you already have a job that could easily be done from home, you could try approaching your employer about becoming a telecommuter. This will usually only work if you have been a stellar employee and your employer has tremendous faith and trust in you, or if they value your services so much that they’re afraid to lose you. Even so, most employers are still not open to the idea unless the company already has some experience with telecommuters. It’s kind of a Catch-22, but this is probably the wave of the future, so if you’re willing to be patient about it, it might happen sooner or later. That’s about I’ll say about telecommuting, though, because our real goal is to talk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job exper

ically don’t trust their employees with that much unsupervised time, especially brand new employees who need to be trained. If you already have a job that could easily be done from home, you could try approaching your employer about becoming a telecommuter. This will usually only work if you have been a stellar employee and your employer has tremendous faith and trust in you, or if they value your services so much that they’re afraid to lose you. Even so, most employers are still not open to the idea unless the company already has some experience with telecommuters. It’s kind of a Catch-22, but this is probably the wave of the future, so if you’re willing to be patient about it, it might happen sooner or later. That’s about I’ll say about telecommuting, though, because our real goal is to talk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job exper

services so much that they’re afraid to lose you. Even so, most employers are still not open to the idea unless the company already has some experience with telecommuters. It’s kind of a Catch-22, but this is probably the wave of the future, so if you’re willing to be patient about it, it might happen sooner or later. That’s about I’ll say about telecommuting, though, because our real goal is to talk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job exper

lk about the great things you can achieve through your OWN business, not through somebody else’s business.

So, what kind of business are you going to start? The best way to find the answer to that question is to start by looking in the mirror. Keep in mind that a business, any business, can only sell one of two things: a product or a service. That’s it. Examine your own skills and job experiences to see what kind of services or products you might be able to capitalize on. Also consider what kind of assets you have readily at hand. Look for any tools, equipment or facilities you already have that can be profitably put to use. With that in mind, some examples of services you might could sell are:

· Word processing skills
· Sewing/Tailoring/Mending (have a sewing machine?)
· Tutoring
· Teaching music lessons (have a piano?)
· Swimming lessons (have a pool?)

Maybe you’d prefer to sell some type of product instead of a service. Essentially there are two categories of things you can sell:

1. Something you make yourself or have made for yourself, and
2. Something somebody else has made.

That’s it. It’s easier to start off by selling someone else’s existing product, because you don’t have to do all the testing, prototyping and market research to work out all the bugs. Eventually, though, you’ll want to start selling your own products, though, because you’ll make more money by selling your own products.

No matter what type(s) of products you settle on, you want to keep some basic things in mind:

· Choose products with accessory sales potential. In other words, whenever you sell something you want to create the possibility for an upsell with some type of additional accessory that will complement and enrich the original product.

· Choose products that have the possibility for back-end sales. This means you’ve sold a product, but at some time in the future your customer may need to buy something else to replenish