Home based businesses are a trending concept that continues to grow despite almost every other business industry suffering depression and lack of growth. What gives? For starters, the setup cost for home based businesses are extensively less than that of starting your own business. Also, most home based businesses have a pre-set system or “vehicle” in which the business owner can leverage to market and promote their products/services quickly and effectively. Most home based businesses also have a training system upon which new businesses can learn the “ins and outs” of the business system to become well-versed in their new craft pursuit of entrepreneurship. There are also additional benefits of a home based business that I don’t have time to get in to right now but you can read it on your own time written by AllBusiness.com.
The advantages of owning a home based business has its caveats though, and that is what is really the truth about home based businesses. (NOTE: For the purposes of this post, when I refer to home based businesses, I am referring to the network marketing specialty of home based businesses) As far as the fundamental principle is concerned, it’s this:
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS EASY HOME BASED BUSINESSES!
Does that deflate “your mountain top”? If so, then that means what you are really looking for is a scam or pyramid scheme, because only those are considered and flaunted as “EASY” because the people that purport it as a “home based business opportunity” are just looking to dupe people in to paying them some sort of initiation fee. Then, they claim to “pay” you by basically taking someone else’s initiation fee and giving it to you as “commission”.
It’s a pretty low-life scheme if you ask me, but if think you can do that to other people and still be able to look at yourself in the mirror without an ounce of shame, then go nuts. Just promise me you will NEVER come back to my site again. We don’t want those kind of people reading our material; we only want to help those that want to genuinely be in business.
Look, owning a home based business and operating it to succession is not the most complicated process in the world. Is it easy? NO! But it doesn’t involve you deriving crazy algorithms and trying to outsmart systems that are already in place for your home based businesses.
What it does entail is that you need to put time and effort in it, just like any other business you would start from scratch. Home based businesses for the most part are much harder to get off the ground compared to a traditional brick and mortar business. However, you have to grasp the true concept of home based businesses:you are essentially setting out to work your butt off for a few years to fine tune your system and fill it up to a degree upon which once you step away, your system runs itself.
Sounds like the same deal as opening a series of chain stores of franchises right? Well, because it is! Home based businesses like network marketing involve the same ideals and concepts as that of a franchise, but with MUCH LESS CAPITAL INVESTMENT! The average home based business startup cost is around ~$500 – $2000, while franchises start at $50,000 up to $1,000,000 (for a McDonald’s, if you can find one for sale). If you are curious what your startup costs are, you can search for “Home Business Startup Calculators” on Google.
We are going to go “X-Files” on this deal and lay it down like it is:
- requires time (effective network marketers in the beginning will spend at least 8-10 productive hours per week dedicated to their business. If you don’t know what quantifies as productive hours, get with your team leaders and find out
- requires effort (you have to treat it like your baby in the beginning, and the best way to do that is to generate driven goals for yourself)
- involve continued capital: you will need to plan to spend extra on top of your initial investment to get some marketing and promo materials and strategies out in the open, especially if you plan to utilize advanced internet marketing techniques. Trust me, it’s not as much as you think… it’s peanuts compared to what you need to consistently put in to a traditional business.
- provide a training system that YOU must be committed to learning from. They are there for a reason, so leverage them to learn how to build a successful business from them and IMPLEMENT!
- are HARD WORK in the beginning because you are not on a huge budget like other businesses. You can either spend a lot more money to set up funnels and systems, or do it organically with your own blood and sweat. The choice is yours, but either way, you have WORK THE NUMBERS.
Hopefully, you don’t feel depressed about what we discussed in this post. We don’t prefer to sugar-coat things… and this time is certainly no different. Remember, you are an entrepreneur in your home based business. What that means is that you have two choices: work with everyone and pull your hair out trying to drag people along on your back, or dispense the information as it is and find the quality people that WANT TO WORK WITH YOU.