Make money working from the comfort of your own home! Part 2
By Bill Fletcher
In Part 1 I discussed the dream of owning your own business and the office politics of a job. I 
identified the growth of home based business from the U.S. Department of Labor. Also showed when it’s time to quit your job and your commitment. The average income for a work-at-home business is around $15,000. Good for extra cash but not enough to live on.
If you have not read Part 1…Click Here to start the two part series.
In Part 2, I will go a little deeper on “How To Make Money Working From The Comfort Of Your Own Home”.
As a short review, the subject of working-at-home is more than I can cover in short articles. Many books have been written on the same subject that can go into greater depth. My attempt here is to give you some basic ideas and thoughts. Within this blog you will find other articles and reports on “specific” areas. Look through the blog for more information and tips…..after all it is FREE.
Here is the Number 2 of the 5 steps in making money from home…
2. Eliminating the Home-Office Mentality
To move to a work at home, does not mean we eliminate every single thing about the traditional American office. Rather, we should select what is useful and what is not.
It’s a mistake to quit your job and go home with a “home-office” mentality. By this we mean thinking small, and believing that you will automatically sacrifice a decent income in exchange for your freedom. Please! Do not think small! You are the CEO of a million dollar business…the business just doesn’t know it yet.
To quote Jeffrey Lant again: “Too many home-based practitioners fail to understand the benefits that accrue because of the professional style they have selected. They focus on the “home” part of the business rather than the “business” portion, and as a result are doomed to small incomes.”
Working at home provides many benefits. You can work in your PJ, you can take time off without asking for permission, you work 3-4 hours a day or 12 hours a day, the choice is yours. You can take “breaks” whenever you want. With the right type of business, you can work at the beach, at the park, or anywhere.
Now one thing to be careful with your new business is the no “boss” idea. At work your boss told you what you need to do, when it need to be done and how to do it. You were given set assignments and your performance was reviewed by your boss when raised came do.
With your new business, you are the boss! That means that you have no one telling you when the task needs to be completed and how. You now have the responsibility to keep yourself on track and do what is necessary to earn an income.
For some this can be a problem with….”I can do it tomorrow”….attitude. To help, keep a log of your activities and what needs to be completed today. In the log, define what can be done tomorrow or the next day and so on.
The transition from a job to owning your own business can be very easy if you know what you need to do and to be discipline enough to do it or your new business can be difficult if you don’t have a clear objective in mind.
This again is one thing we can help with if you elect to join me. Another benefit, we can save you time and frustration with your new business by following clear proven strategies to a successful home business…..more on that later.
We can save a lot of time because we don’t need to commute and we have more control over our schedule. We can save a lot of costs because we don’t have the overhead requirements of larger businesses. We can cut your stress — and so have more energy — because we avoid many of the characteristic problems of life in the late 20th-Century office.
We can provide the coaching to get you to where you want to go. And we can get you to the income you desire through our expertise in building a home-based business. But again, more on that later.
3. Your International Headquarters
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant said that if you sit at home alone at your empty kitchen table, eventually, the “whole world will come to you.”
Well, today you don’t need the great mind of a philosopher to make the entire world come into your living room. What you need is a phone jack.
We live in a unique time in history. Satellites, fiber optics, the integrated circuit and other communications miracles. This all means that you can be just about anywhere in the developed world and establish communication with anyone. You can be an International business literally overnight.
The telephone, the fax machine, the computer, the modem, mobile devices, notebooks — all of these are not only affordable by any middle-class citizen; they are the key to eliminating your need to drive a hectic freeway everyday to get to a place of business outside your home.
With these devices at our disposal, we should allow ourselves to “think globally.” Too often, home-based businesses focus on the narrowest market, the neighborhood, the county, the city or state. This is fine if you are providing a local service and are content with a certain moderate level of income. But if you want the big bucks, you should not think small. Also, you should not believe that, just because you are home-based, you cannot compete with the big guys.
The purpose of any business is to seek assess and seek out every possible market for its products and services, to ascertain whether these markets have the ability to buy these products/services, to determine whether there is sufficient profit in these markets to warrant approaching them, and, once positive assessment has been made, to launch a sustained marketing campaign that gets a significant percentage of this market to purchase the product or service in question.
Your home telecommunications machines will not only enable you to do this, but they can also help you overwhelm larger, more cumbersome traditional businesses that are your competition.
You are able to make decision and react much more quickly and have better opportunity to provide one-on-one service.
As a home-based entrepreneur, you will not have all of the disadvantages of your more traditional competitors: no office rent, equipment or expense; no employees to pay salaries and fringe benefits for; no time wasted on meetings, employee problems, paid sick leave, etc.
All the money your competitors spend on heating the office and buying furniture could better be spent on the actual marketing itself.
As a home-based business, you will be positioned where the traditional business is currently struggling to move: toward the lowest possible overhead and the greatest possible concentration of dollars on products/service development and product/service marketing.
So, a home-based business takes full advantage of four major goals of modern business success:
(1) Vastly reduced overhead
(2) Easy access to a global market
(3) Full advantage of telecommunications
(4) Quicker reaction
To not have the basic telecommunications toys — computer, modem, fax, and telephones is impossibly stupid. Still, even in this day and age, many people strongly resist the one element that is undoubtedly the heart and brain of any successful home business — the computer. The computer is so important in fact, we have made it a category all itself.
And remember, learning to use a modern computer is easier than learning to drive a car, so you have no excuse not to plunge forward.
4. The Computer
You should pay close attention to what computers can do for you in your plans to escape your job and make your work-at-home dreams come true.
People who want to run a home business usually have a very small staff – in fact, a staff of one — yourself! The rest of your needs are handled by independent contractors, depending on the kind of business you are in and the services you need.
“Independent such as distributors in an Network Marketing Business or MLM Business. Affiliate Marketing in which you offer a product or service from another company. Or if you have your own product or service, someone who can help you where you need the assistance of an expert or “helping hand”. Again, we can help you in all these areas.
To run a serious, truly global home business, a computer is as necessary as oxygen is to life on earth. Those who try to fool themselves into thinking they will ever make a serious go of their home-based business without a computer are sadly mistaken.
….Real example: A family member though she could start a business without the use of a computer. After a few months, she had no idea of much money people owed her or how much product she had at a given price. At tax time, she was in trouble since she had to spend hours gathering all the “paper” to do taxes. She actually closed her door in less than 2 years because of all the time she was spending in your business with “busy” work.
Computers give you two primary advantages:
(1) They enable you to store large amounts of data and to sort by data field so that you can easily get the information you need.
(2) They enable you to develop a pattern document for every situation you’ll ever be in, in your business. To run a home-based business successfully, you must anticipate just what situation will emerge and prepare accordingly.
A business is based on a characteristic series of situations and a characteristic set of things that happen — or that do not happen. You must be prepared with the proper document for each situation. Once you have established all the protocols, and have experienced all the situations associated with your kind of business, the time will come when running your business is, in large part, a repetition of certain key tasks. Computers are all about handling repetition swiftly and efficiently.
But the computer is much more. Today, by connecting a computer to the phone line your machine becomes more than a data storage system and repetitive task handler. It becomes a multi-task, multi-level communications processing center that connects you to the globe.
Such things as e-mail, on-line services, the Internet, the Web, Blog site and more can’t help but revolutionize the way business is done. If you do not become a part of it today, you certainly are going to suffer for it greatly in the near future.
If there is an effective way to market products on the Internet or any other on-line venue, no one has truly discovered it yet. Marketing is just that, marketing. Some things work and some don’t. The Internet is changing daily and you need to keep up with the changes. Again this is where we come in to ease your marketing frustration. Don’t do it alone.
The Internet is definitely where a lot of innovative things are happening. It’s a great place to exchange ideas, find out what hot, what’s not, and stay on the cutting edge whatever your particular business is.
5. Your Business Hours
If you’ve been paying attention to the first four points, you’re well on your way to becoming a successful home-based business owner. Now we don’t want you to blow it by thinking you can keep banker’s hours.
The global market is a 24-hour per day market, and a 365-day per year market. Let the others sleep late on Saturdays and take Sundays off. Those times could be your day to move and corner loads of customers that the others miss.
You should get up earlier and quit work later. You should be open for business on holidays and be available 24-hours a day either personally or through your answering service.
“But wait a minute!” you might be thinking at this point! “I thought that working at home was all about freedom and an end to drudgery. This sounds like nothing but endless work!”
Well, here’s the thing. For most of you who quit your regular jobs to go to work for yourself, you’ll discover something magical. You’ll discover that when you are working for yourself, when you are building your own business, a lot of what you does not seem like work at all.
The great writer Jane Roberts said, “Inspiration is its own motivator.”
Running your own business is all about being inspired 24-hours-a-day. When you stop selling your body and soul to some company or corporation and start giving your energy to yourself, work has a way of turning into inspiration and play.
The perfect work for you is that which you don’t think of as work, yet doing it makes money and provides you with the bread and shelter of life. You’ll see what it’s like if you make a true commitment to being self employed, put all your energy into it, and stick with it for the long run.
I mentioned earlier that you can take time off, work 3-4 days a week and put in 4 hours a day and still make a lot of money. This is true, but it will not happen over night. You will find that you will put in many more hours to get your business started that you did working at your job. This is the nature of operating a small business.
Once the business is established, you will have the luxury to cut back and have the business run on “auto pilot”.
Summery
In this two part series, I went over “How To Make Money Working From The Comfort Of Your Own Home”. It is not easy as is anything at first, but soon the business will take on a form of it’s one.
If you have not read Part 1, I suggest you go to: Make Money Working From The Comfort Of Your Own Home Part 1
I talked about how Eliminating the Home-Office Mentality will help you move forward. Again many find this a challenge.
You can have Your International Headquarters from the comfort of your home.
I talked about the importance of having a Computer and how the computer can save you time and effort in operating your business.
Finally Your Business Hours. Yes you can operate your business part-time to make money. But the real money comes when you go full-time. However, don’t make the mistake of going full-time until your new business is making 3 time your full time job.
Many home based business fail because of lack of commitment, training and coaching. The failure rate is high but with the help of a mentor and proper coaching we can get you established and growing.
If your really serious about starting a home based business or expanding your current business all the help you need is waiting for you. Make the commitment and be one of the successful entrepreneurs who now work for themselves. Simply Click Here form more information about this powerful program that has created millionaires for many people. Again CLICK HERE
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