Work from Home or Be Your Own Boss Ideas?

Question

I am wanting to start a work from home business and I cannot get any good ideas to help me out with. Please share with me your ideas!

Answer 1

Hello,

My name is Melinda and I have had a successful home business for a while now. I decided to get together with my self-employed friends and family and create a free website to help others start their own business (and avoid scams). If you are looking for more information check out our site:

Great Home Based Businesses

We have specific pages on:

- Hundred's of Great Ideas for Home Based Businesses by Category

- Resources for Selling from Home

- Resources for Providing Services from your Home

- Avoiding Scams

and a lot of other pointers.

PLEASE NOTE: we do not have a business or product that we want to sell you - our site is all about providing information.

My key pieces of advice in picking your business:

1. Do what you know and love.

2. Follow your instincts.

3. Figure out how to provide value to your clients.

4. Talk to successful home business owners that you know and trust.

5. Whatever you do - try not to limit yourself to one income source - one of the best ways to grow your small business is to open yourself up to other income streams. If you start a catering business maybe you could also teach cooking classes in your house, or if you start house cleaning business then you could also stage houses for sale. This approach has been invaluable to me - allowing me to get through slowdowns in my "core" business.

6. Accept that "get rich quick" schemes only work for 1 in every million people and generally require illegal activity - instead try to build a lasting business that will continually pay you a reasonable amount.

Anyhow - that's my two cents - Good luck with your business - I'm sure if you do your homework you'll be very successful!!

Answer 2

The work from home jobs that aren't scams actually require work on your part - and if you're in need of money soon then you're likely to be sorely disappointed in any of those as well. Most of the legit opportunities out there take time to build - so if someone makes an outrageous claim of income it probably isn't true ( and those that are true sure didn't make that kind of money when they first began ).

http://working-from-home-ireland.blogspo...

Time & effort required - but do your own research on what is best for you, don't take the advice of myself and others as gospel from this type of forum.

http://www.working-from-home-jobs.com/

I have other ideas that may help - one of them is an online opportunity but another is one that will require a little effort to market yourself - try some data entry for local businesses, many of them don't have the time to do it in-house and will gladly pay someone else to do it. Professionals are a good place to start, lawyers, doctors, chiropractors, etc - they need their "in-house" folks doing other things rather than busy work.

http://usa-work-from-home.blogspot.com/

Hope it helps!

Answer 3

Most of the things on internet is JUNK.

Answer 4

You are probably receiving a lot of information about possible work from home jobs. I have been in your shoes and have spent many hours online researching and trying to find the right one.  The one thing that I ended up figuring out is that there are no true work from home "jobs."  In a work from home job you usually start out working for a company and then for whatever reason, sometimes, the company will let you take your job home; thus work from home job.  

However, there are many work from home “opportunities.”  These opportunities provide you with the vehicle to work from home and build your own business.  The difficult or frustrating part about finding the right opportunity is that there are many offers that are not legitimate, but scams.  Theses scams make it difficult for the companies that truly offer a legitimate opportunity to work from home.  Usually, work from home opportunities have a small investment to start your own business.  These are okay as long as they are around $100, anything much more than that and I would stay away.  Also if they require a monthly overhead to run the business it should include things like your websites, training, back office system, and support.  Remember any business that you start and want to continue (whether it’s retail, restaurant, or home-based) will always have start up costs and monthly expenses.

I am a stay at home mother of 2 (ages 4 and 2).  My husband works 6 days a week and I do not have much help in the area of child care for my children.  On my journey to finding the right work from home opportunity I tried everything from selling vitamins, lotions and many other product based companies.  I also looked into processing information online.  What I realized with all these companies is that I usually put more money back into my business and ended up with lots of product I really did not need.  I also was very skeptical of some of those online work from home websites that really never got to the point of what I would be doing to earn income.

Finally, I was given information on a legitimate work from home company.  At first I was very skeptical and paid no attention to the information.  Then one day my mother needed to have some dental work done but had no insurance.  I remembered that I had some information on discount dental plans.  Once I researched the information I had been given, I realized that I could provide my mother with a way to pay less for her procedure and earn an income for signing her onto the discount dental plan.  I have been with the company since and am on the fast track toward building a residual income.

I work 15 hours a week (give or take a few) for a National Discount Medical Benefits Company.  The company has been in business for over 16 years and is continuing to expand!  We have been featured on "60 minutes", "The New York Times", "Wall Street Journal", "Time Magazine", and "American Medical Review" as one of the most reputable, legitimate home based companies.  We are members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Dental Plans and the owner of the company sits on the board of The Consumer Health Alliance, which we are also a part of their membership.

Our company addresses the number one problem in US, which is that 70% of Americans can't afford or can't get health insurance for whatever reason.  We are an alternative for people who are suffering with their health because of this issue.  Now to work for our company you don't have to know everything there is to know about Health Care.  Our company will train you on how to communicate our services to those who need it.  We have over 2 million members that use our plans and save money on their health care.

When you work for the company you are able to set your own hours and build a residual income while you work.  Because we get paid month after month, year after year for the work we do our income is always increasing and we get paid even when we don’t work.  The company also does not enforce a monthly quota, which was important to me.  I wanted to have the flexibility to work when I wanted and how much I wanted.   Of course the more you put into your business the more income you will receive.

Some of the benefits we offer are 401k, direct deposit, life insurance and a family benefit package for your entire household.  The next best thing is there is no cold calling, telemarketing, stocking of inventory, collecting of payments, and no home parties!  This was very important to me as I had the child care issue to deal with and wanted to be able to stay home and work without having to leave my house.

Another great thing about our company is that we all work together to as a team.  We are not out to compete with our fellow representatives.  Whenever I need advice my team is there to help me to be a success.  This was also very important as I was new to the business and wanted the team support you get working a 9-5 job without having to work the 9-5 job.   I have also made many friends along the way and still have the interaction with adults while taking care of my children at home.

I guess I could go on and on about what we do and how we get paid, but the best thing for you to do is research the company for yourself and determine if it is right for you.  

Check us out at www.AHomeBusinessThatPays.com.

Answer 5

For free data entry jobs, visit the below sites.

http://www.offlinetypistjobs.com

http://workfromhomejobs1.blogspot.com

Answer 6

http://ecommerce-times.blogspot.com

Answer 7

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I see this as being one of the next big home businesses since it is one of the first that uses Ebay. Most home businesses only last a couple of years but with the backing of Ebay I don't see how anyone wouldn't join this opportunity. I am already doing well making more money than the $29 so already in profit. I am a titanium powerseller so I let everyone know about the new free software and then I get paid anytime they buy something from Ebay even if it isn't from me. Here is the free software so you can check it out: http://www.myshoppinggenie.com/ultimatep...

Amazon and Overstock have now heard about the MyShoppingGenie and are working on an affiliate program just so they can be apart of this too.  Now can you start too see the power, technology, income potential with MyShoppingGenie - Ebay, Amazon, and Overstock does?

Answer 8

Here is one that is free online.

Answer 9

I was once in the same position- posting questions looking for suggestions on home based income. Believe me I know how aggravating this search can be. I did tons of research on different home based opportunities. There is real opportunities available they can just be hard to find. I really like helping others with this. Hope to save them some time (and aggravation:) Please email me for info. I would be happy to help!