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This is a special printing of a recent article found in the Home Business Network…

You probably don’t believe there are really any opportunities for a free at home business when you think about starting a business. Well, the good news is that you’re wrong! Ideas for free at home work are everywhere—if you know where to look.

And the first thing you should take a look at is what do you like to do. Love to mow lawns and trim shrubbery? Own a lawnmower? Bingo! You now have one of your own free at home businesses. A great place to look for places to put your expertise to work is in your own neighborhood for free at home jobs. Ask your neighbors if they need a helping hand with their lawn care. Next, ask them for referrals. This is a business that can grow more quickly than you ever imagined—especially if you do leaf and snow removal during the off-season months.

Now, do you have a computer? Great. You now have one of your own free at home businesses. You can do anything from typing for companies in your area to writing ad copy for companies in Japan. Do a quick Google search, and you’ll be blown away by all the opportunities available for your free at home businesses.

You can also get paid to do Internet research, answer surveys, and many, many other things with your free Internet home business. You might even mix and match your online jobs to add some diversity to your daily routine. Probably the easiest free at home work would be answering surveys. This is something you can do in your spare time. I know, I do online surveys myself.

You can also catch one of the hottest trends around if you choose online auctions as one of your free stay at home businesses. Not only can you get rid of things around the house that you no longer need or use, you can sign up with wholesalers and distributors and sell products for them.

Many of these charge nothing for you to do this, and some will even do all the shipping and handling for you. This type of stay at home business can require a lot of work at first, but is usually easy to run once you get it going. And the profits can be, and often are, tremendous.

No matter what sort of free stay at home businesses you’re considering, you need a business plan. And you need to follow it. Find out everything you can about the business you want to start and what the competition in your area is up to. You’ll also want to check into any special licenses or permits you might need. Some other things to put on your list of things to look into are:

• Need for the service/ business in your area
• Zoning regulations
• Accounting needs
• Hiring needs
• When and how to incorporate if you decide you want to
• Equipment or items needed for your business
• Amount and quality of competition
• Tax information

Other Considerations to Home Based Business…(editor)

Another major thing to consider when starting a free stay at home business is your family. Because having an at home business of any kind will impact your family members. They need to be supportive and understand that even though you’re home, you’re actually working. They need to be respectful of this, and in return, you need to be respectful of their feelings. This way you can be successful at one of the free at home businesses you have chosen.

So be smart, and talk about the effects having a home business will have on your family before you open up shop. Kick things around with each other, and make sure everyone’s on board. This can save you major headaches down the road. As well as ensure you have the support you need when starting and running your stay at home business.

Starting your own free stay at home business is an exciting adventure. Just don’t let your enthusiasm and eagerness distract you from attending to all the little things that make free at home businesses successful. Because, after all, that’s the goal of any stay at home business—to be successful.

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Randy is owner of Profitable Home Businesses. Randy owned and operated a very successful storefront/mailorder business from 1988 to 2003. Currently full time owner/operator of several online businesses. © Copyright Randy Wilson, All Rights Reserved.

This article was written by a ‘business ideas’ writer - who, in my mind, is brilliant for coming up with one home based business idea after another…

This will be a regular column on this site and hopefully will ’springboard’ you into finding or designing the right work from home opportunity to suit your needs.

Resume Faxing Service
James J Jones — Publisher

If you live near a college or university you’ll have plenty of prospects for this business. What you do is FAX resumes for job seeking college students to businesses looking for employees.

Here is how it works:

Get a copy of the Sunday newspaper for every large town or city within a hundred miles of where you live. Look in the Employment Classifieds and make a list of every company along with their fax numbers.

Divide your list into the appropriate categories such as:

• Computer Professionals
• Engineers
• Medical Professionals
• Accountants
• Banking
• etc.

Then advertise your service with flyers on college bulletin boards and ads in the college newspaper. In your ad you offer to fax the students resume to 30 or 40 companies who are looking for employees in their field. You can fax their resume to companies in only certain areas or, if location doesn’t matter to them, you can fax to companies all over the area.

The going rate for similar services is 75 cents to $1.00 for every fax sent. You could create package deals to send out, say, 40 faxes for 35 dollars. The great thing about this business is your costs are so low, most of the money you take in is pure profit. With only 10 clients you could be making $350 - $400 a week for just a few hours work.

Another idea would be to get a fax number compact disk and target companies in specific cities. That way, if you had, for example, a C programmer who wanted to work in Miami you could charge him $100 to send his resume to 100 computer consulting firms in the Miami area.

The possibilities for this type of business are endless.

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Working From Home On Your Own Business

The online world today is making money by setting up niche market websites in your area of interest and selling products, digital goods and advertising to small focused groups of people who are interested in what you have to say.

One of the easiest ways for a non-technical person to do this is with a blog - more on blogs another day.

If you find a niche to sell to and your target market responds, your quickly in business and can now devote your day to your online business (i.e. quit your day job). It doesn’t always work out that way, but there’s a chance, and it’s a start to becoming free of the Monday to Friday, 9-5 grind.

How will you know if the niche market you choose is lucrative? You have to perform a few tests. Don’t pass the testing phase or you could be working for months without a break!

If you don’t know what Niche Marketing is and want to know more, you can find a free online course over at Learn Niche Marketing .

Get started today. Whatever you decide for a home based business there is no better time than right now. Begin today, this minute just surfing around and evaluating existing products and services geared to your niche. Try to come up with something unique.

If you need help with ideas, check out this finding ideas resource.

If you’re already running a home based business you probably ask yourself this question every now and then, but this article is actually for those thinking of the reasons why they want to work from home…

If you want to work from home to provide a little extra income or to replace your current job, you should be aware early on that you are not creating a business, you are creating a job.

On the other hand, this type of job does have many merits. It allows you to be independent, work when you want to, determine your own lifestyle (you only get out what you put in), you only have to answer to yourself, and you get to write off more of your normal household expenses in the process!

How to know whether you are creating a job or beginning a home based business….

If you haven’t included a profit margin into your business plan, if you are not performing standard business and accounting protocols there’s a good chance you aren’t a home business owner - you are simply self-employed. With some planning you can turn this around and have the business that you’d dreamt of right from the start of your venture.

Why A Home Based Business?

Consider why you want to work from home at your own business before you take the leap. It will help you stay dedicated and focused through the rocky roads - and there are bound to be some rocky roads!

Here are a few reasons to run a home based business:

• To protect yourself into retirement or against down-sizing.
• To own your own time, space and direction.
• To see the fruits of your labor - in your bank account, not the corporations.
• To fully enjoy your work.
• To lessen stress.
• To shave hours of travel off each day.
• To work the hours you want to work.
• To feel the self-satisfaction only felt by having achieved a goal independently.

And the number one reason many people want to run a home based business…

To lose the egocentric, idiot, insecure or butt-kissing, spineless boss.

Home Based Business Start Up Considerations

There are few important items to pre-consider and will assist you to get your home based business up and running quickly.

PROJECTED GOALS

Goals are necessary to roadmap your success. You can spend just an hour at this and draft up a mission statement or mandate for your home based business. Don’t strive for perfection. This can be re-written at any point in time, but you must have a frame of reference to work from while your business grows.

FAITH IN YOUR BUSINESS

If you’re really excited about your new business, you’re on the right track. Trigger points shouldn’t be all about the dream of riches. Your belief and faith in what you’re about to accomplish will carry you through. Sometimes it helps to write these very personal reasons out and keep it with your goals and mission statement. Stay on course and your faith will remain strong.

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Whenever you start a new home based business you’ll no doubt be dreaming of the future. Things you do and learn to keep your business and yourself growing. Learning on a regular basis will always serve you in the end. As you learn new techniques and concepts, apply them right away to your business and the training will embed in your working style much easier than if you’d learned and didn’t take any steps at all.

GET MOVING
Nothing beats inspired action. Don’t wait until all systems are in place, projections made and forecasts planned out. Just get busy in your business! Momentum is a wonderful thing and nothing can beat it compared to this start up time!