Top 10 Reasons to Start a Home Business
1. Starting your home business (the I Inc. business) is the new "I am starting my own dotcom".
While corporate America is collapsing and asking for bailout money, home businesses are on the rise. Most of them started as a necessity - job loss or insecurity, extra income. Half of all American businesses are home businesses and together, they contribute $530 billion per year to the economy. That is 2/3 of the bailout money!2. Starting a home business requires only $10,000 or less to start.
Unless you need a minimum inventory to start with, most home businesses need few hundred to few thousand dollars in start-up money. That includes equipment, licenses, website, merchant accounts, ad words, and collateral material.3. No resume required. Only passion and a skill set.
Most home businesses are the result of people following their passion. And the sky is the limit: from homemade cookies and candles, to selling hotdogs online.
4. There is no age discrimination - you can be in your teens or in your sixties.
From teenagers designing backgrounds for FaceBook pages, to baby boomers who prefer an active retirement to golfing, home business owners are probably one of the most diverse group.
5. Now it is easier than even ever to start your own business.
Low cost of Internet access, inexpensive equipment, and lots of free software make it easy to start a home business either as a supplemental income or income replacement. Plus, the Internet gives you access to a true global village.
6. It gives you a sense of direction and the feeling that your are - finally - in control of your life.
Being your own boss is probably the most rewarding thing in one's professional life.
7. You can follow your wackiest passion and turn it in a pile of cash (travel agency for nudists anyone?)
Need to say anything more?
8. You bring individuality back to the individual.
Unlike corporate America, the focus will be on you - the individual, and not the team. Although teams play their role, sometimes they dilute individual contributions. This is your opportunity to do your own thing, your own way.
9. You help recreate communities - even if they are only online.
Interestingly enough, home business owner spend more time with like-minded people than they spend when they work for larger companies. The competition at the office sometimes prohibits good exchange ideas and creation of a communities.
10. You don't have to take orders from anyone - except, your cat.
You are the QUEEN! You are the KING! At least, this is what you think; your cat - I guarantee you - thinks differently!
PS Here is list of the 10 Things You Need To Start Your Home Business
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