Saturday, January 6, 2007

Starting A Low Investment Home Business

Starting Your Home Based Business on a Shoestring Budget

Copyright © 2003, Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy

http://www.jay-biz.net/pnp.html

Whether seeking a supplemental income or a full-time income,

many folks have undertaken the task to discover a viable home

based business solution to meet their personal needs.

For most folks who contemplate a home business, a low-cost or

no-cost solution is not only nice, but also very necessary. Many

also seek to find a home business that will permit them to

maintain their regular day job in order to protect their base

income.

Taking the cautious approach to a home based business and

keeping one's job during the start-up period is often a very

good decision. By maintaining one's job, one can maintain the

health of their personal finances while permitting their home

business grow healthy and strong.

Fortunately, most home based businesses can be started with

little or no cash, can be maintained on a shoestring budget, and

can be operated successfully with only a part-time investment.

One day, the business will be strong enough to support itself

and its owner. When that time comes, it will make good sense for

the business owner to leave his or her outside job to dedicate

more time to growing and maintaining their new thriving home

based business. You will know when that time has finally arrived.

The nature of a home based business makes it easy and very

realistic for most folks to take the plunge into home business

ownership.

Yet, many folks put off starting their own home based business,

because they have the misconception that they will have to risk

thousands of their own hard-earned dollars at start-up. Then

later, if their business fails, they fear they may be forced to

take out a second mortgage on their house just to stay out of

bankruptcy.

Are you one of these folks? Do you let your fears of failure

keep you from reaching for your dreams?

If so, then allow me to introduce you to a few home business

ideas that you can start for less than $100 and can be started

and operated very profitably as a part-time business.

THE LIFEBLOOD OF ALL SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES

First of all, let me advise you to search out a business model

that will deliver steady and repeat business. It is the one

thing --- above all others --- that will assure that your

company can survive the test of time.

HOME-BASED MAIL ORDER:

Home-based mail order is a good example of how one can quickly

grow a home business income. Mail order is a low cost start-up

business that can be launched for around $100 USD.

With proper planning, your home-based mail order business will

not require up-front inventory purchases. In the mail order

business, it is not uncommon to rely upon drop-shippers for

product fulfillment services.

By utilizing drop-shippers, we can sell the products, collect

the money and then purchase the products from the wholesale

outlet. The wholesale outlet will then put a return address for

your company on the product packaging and deliver the product

directly to your customer.

By using the following link, you can explore the drop-ship

directory, which will let you explore the drop-shipping

companies that will enable you sell 500,000 products from over

1,000 brand name manufacturers:

http://www.home-business.com/dropship.html

Your primary expense in the mail-order business is advertising.

Classified advertising tends to be a relatively inexpensive form

of advertising with thousands of outlets available to the small

business owner.

WHOLESALE BUSINESS:

Buy low --- sell high. You can acquire high quality,

top-of-the-line merchandise for a fraction of the retail cost.

Starting a wholesale business would require a Wholesale Dealers

Directory as your source for merchandise, such as the one above

or the one listed here:

http://www.home-business.com/auction.html

AUCTIONS:

Auctions can be an excellent source for buying cheap and selling

high. Both government auctions and Internet auctions can lead to

some excellent profit opportunities. Auctions are an excellent

tool for both acquiring and selling merchandise.

MAKE AND SELL YOUR CRAFTS:

Crafts are a hot seller at country fairs, swap meets or anyplace

where people gather. Make your own crafts and sell them for a

tidy profit!

SELLING INFORMATION:

Selling information by mail is another good example of an

inexpensive home based business start-up. One can gain the

resale rights to information for usually about $50 USD. Other

costs will include printer cartridges, paper and postage. There

are plenty of free classifieds sites on the Internet, in which

to successfully advertise your information.

WRITE INFORMATIONAL BOOKLETS:

Write and publish your own informational booklets; sell them at

a high price! All you need is a little know-how, a printer,

paper and stamps. This is a GREAT home business idea! You can

also sell the resale rights to others, for extra profits. In

this age of the Internet, you may also take advantage of the

fact that selling information is one of the most profitable

endeavors one can pursue online.

OFFICE SERVICES:

Offer office services for hire in your local paper. You'll be

surprised at the amount of regular office business that can be

gleaned from one little classified ad. Word processing, typing,

accounting, data entry, proofreading, transcription, promotional

letters and newsletters. All these tasks can be accomplished

right from your own home office.

AVON REPRESENTATIVE:

Yes, Avon's been around for eternity, hasn't it? Then it's not

such a bad prospect as a home based business, is it? I once knew

a woman who did so much business as an Avon rep. that she had

people calling her and knocking at her door wanting to order

products at all hours of the day and night! Once you are an

established Avon representative, you, too, will turn a good

profit.

CONCLUSION:

On your search for the ideal home based business, try not to get

caught up in any scams that will run off with your money. There

are thousands of scam artists out there just waiting for the

next sucker to come along. Remember, if it sounds too good to be

true, then it probably is. Just use your good judgement and

invest wisely in proven methods of earning extra income.

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