Once you have caught the I-want-to-work-at-home bug, you
will become very anxious to find the best home based
business idea to suit your circumstances. You can't wait
to get started but haven't a clue what would be the best
thing for you to do. When you see the number of home based
business opportunities advertised on the Internet, you get
the idea that finding the right opportunity to suit you
should be easy. Actually, being spoilt for choice is no
help when it comes to choosing your first home based
business idea because everybody is different.
The number one worst way of choosing a home based business
is to make the selection on the grounds that it looks as if
it should make good money. Of course making money is
important, but it is not the best starting point when home
based business ideas are being evaluated. You have to love
what you do if you are going to be successful because you
are going to be spending a lot of time building up your
business, you will need to put in some hard work and you
will probably be risking some cash. If you don't love what
you do, you will be far less likely to persevere when
things get tough and more likely to give up easily when
obstacles arise. It is far better to think about what you
would love to do day in and day out and then find out if
there is a way to make money from it.
The second worst way to choose a home business is to pick
one just because somebody you know is making money at that
particular thing. You need to take into account whether
you are similar in circumstances and ability to that other
person before you start assessing whether the same business
opportunity would suit you. For example, think about
virtual assistance work. This is one of the fastest
growing home based businesses and there are many areas in
which a good Virtual Assistant can make good money. You
might even know somebody who is currently working as a
Virtual Assistant, who is making a lot of money and who
loves working at home. It all sounds great but, before you
get carried away with the idea and quit your day job, you
need to consider if you have the right sort of skills and
an acceptable level of expertise to become a highly paid
Virtual Assistant. Virtual Assistance is about more than
being able to do some basic keyboard work.
Other things you need to consider are practical things such
as family commitments and geographical location. If your
cousin makes money doing mystery shopping and everyone says
mystery shopping is an easy way to earn money from home, it
does not automatically follow that becoming a secret
shopper would be the best home based business idea for you.
For instance, if your cousin lives in a big city and you
live out in the sticks miles from any shops, you would have
to add travelling time into the equation to see how much
money you would be likely to earn. If your cousin has
teenage kids and you have young children, you are not
comparing like with like. With small children in tow,
shopping trips are probably enough of a challenge as it is.
The kids aren't going to be any less bored through being
told you will get paid to go shopping, so a mystery
shopping career should be put on hold until the kids are a
bit older.
If you have never worked at home, it can be hard to judge
which of the zillions of home business opportunities on
offer is going to be best for you. I can tell you what
home based business is right for me and I can tell you
about others that might possibly be right for you. I can
give you a whole list of things I wouldn't touch (either
because I know I'd hate them or because they are scams) but
the only person who can say what would be the best home
based business for you is yourself. Always remember the
words of J M Barrie: "Nothing is really work unless you
would rather be doing something else."
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Elaine Currie is the owner of the Free Work At Home
Directory at http://www.huntingvenus.com and author of the
book Ezine Article Writing - 10 Steps To Success. You can
download the book free of charge in pdf format at:
http://www.huntingvenus.com/free_ezine_articles_writing_eboo
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