Home Based Business Types

1. Work from home business
2. Work at home jobs
3. Independent contractors

Work from Home Business

Managing a business where you are your own boss and your ability to earn money is based on your website’s contents, products and or services. You put your marketing strategies and technique together and do your thing by yourself. You do not get paid unless you make a sale and you do your own thing the way you like – the quality of your product or services, the values you provide to your customers and your marketing know-how will dictate/determine your income.

Some business require more education or some special training especially in the area of legalities (State and Federal Laws) that covers them in this category is debt collection, real estate, accounting etc. Having an existing knowledge working in the area or working with an agency will be the best hand-on experience before you can go solo.

According to the Business week magazine, small biz section, organizing garages is one of the best opportunities presenting itself for the home business market in 2007, Amazing!

Work At Home Jobs

This is where you work from home for a company and the company will pay for your services. You will get instructions as to what is expected from you in other words, the company you work for will give you terms and conditions, as well as, their expectation relating to the deliverables for each project – they will be specific and straight to the point. This is like going to work without the commute; you work at the comfort of your home.

Finding a legitimate work at home employment is not an easy task, with all the scams of high paying rate and get rich quick on sales pages, weeding through the scams would be almost impossible. But there are some not so many that are genuine locating them can be a little difficult. The easiest way to do this would be to negotiate with your current employer on a part-time or full time basis. Some profession like programmers have the opportunity to work from home through a process called telnet where they can access their office database through assigned ID and password

Some employers would base your opportunity to work from home on previous performance, proven relationship and capability in the area of ability to handle responsibilities they’ve had with the employee in the past. Some of the work-at-home part-time jobs are commission-based or pay a lump sum for a completed project. Some provide full time work at home jobs with basic benefit like health insurance, pension, vacation time and other benefit packages.

Bottom line is, finding a full-time work at home with full benefit package is very hard to find, but not impossible. Secondly, finding a legitimate work at home company is now becoming an ACT. There are organizations dedicated to solving weeding out the charms and linking talented candidate with genuine company through investigation and research.

Independent Contractors

Business from home as an independent contractor is in-between the first two types of work-at-home because you own your business and rely on other businesses to get jobs which always comes with terms and conditions. Your work is done when the project is over and you can get another project with different terms and conditions.

Customer service and efficiency is extremely important to get a repeat business from the same company. Some company may try your service just to check you out, if you provide service that are above and beyond their expectation, they may retain your company for other projects that relate to your services and they may even ask you to help them find someone like you for other projects that are not related to your services, where you can get referral commission.

With all the constant changes in the world’s business economy, business environment are finding ways to adapt and keep up with the changes. These have made many companies to come to the realization that is more cost effective and efficient to contract with professional individual outside of their company rather than absorbing the overwhelming costs associated with overheads and benefits – this is where work from home come as an independent contractor place a great role.

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Once you start your work from home business or as your business progresses, you will discover that you would have to do this as well – because there are some things you do not know how to do or that someone else will do faster and cheaper than you so you can concentrate on building your business.

Any competency that you cannot afford to build in-house or that you choose not to establish in-house should be outsourced to save time and unnecessary headache.

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Most company that use individual, work from home, contractors do provide strong support and assistance to make sure their products or services are done correctly and meet their quality control and or standard.

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WORK AT HOME LIST

Everybody needs something to live a meaningful life. On the same token, every work-at-home business will always need something that you cannot produce or manufacture directly and you rely on someone else or something to get it done. No matter the work from home business you are into, you will need to buy, borrow, rent, contract or hire someone else to do something for you.

The fact that we all connect in one way, shape or form makes the world meaningful and more interesting – this is one of the things that will guarantee your business from home more business opportunities.

No matter what you’re good at or where your business is located online or offline, you can use the internet to promote and educate people about your product or services and then direct them to where they can take action – this is where having a great process like auto-responder takes a place once you have it set up properly…

• You can sell to individuals (books, e-book, trainings etc)
• You can sell business-to-business (B2B) example is selling to fitness trainers, selling to consultant etc or general
• You can sell business basic needs and services (phone, internet, accessories etc.)

No matter what you are selling or where you fit in the market place, there will always be a need for your work from home service and product. Your ability to perform above measures and over deliver will guarantee you a repeat business and provide your business the viral marketing that you need to grow through word-of-mouth. We all need each other and rely on other people to help us out – In fact, business is a lot easier when the most labor-intensive parts of the sales process or the things that doesn’t come easily to you are done for you.

How-To- Step-by-step

Step #1. Watch out for the need in your niche area and try to figure out how to solve that need

Step #2. Once you figure it out, create your content page to tell your story about the problem and how you want to solve it

Step #3. Make sure your story is true, do not sugar coat it, but highlight all the benefits to convince your visitors about your product

Step #4. Create a sales process from getting just information to actual purchase

Step #5. Specify your refund policy and your guarantees ,be specific

Step #6. Get a great Hosting company with great features and capabilities to host your internet business site

Step #7. Set up an auto responder for follow ups

Step #8. Send a Thank You letter to show that you appreciate their business

Possible Work-at-home list

Following are some work at home jobs to give you an example, there are lots more other businesses you can do from the comfort of your home.

• Affiliate marketing/Programs
• Articles, Reviews or Reports of your choice
• Baseball information
• Bowing
• Business coaching
• Business to business products
• Candle making
• Car Transportation / Auto Transportation
• Care consulting
• Carpet cleaning services
• Catering Services
• Child care services
• Child development
• Cleaning services
• Cleaning services
• Closet organizing
• Computer repairs
• Consulting
• Content provider
• Copy writer
• Create your own product or sell your own services
• Create your own products by turning your software or info-product into physical products
• Custom jewelry creation
• Dating services
• Debt collectors
• Debt Consolidation
• Dietary consultant
• Dieting
• Digital Photography
• eBay auctions – post your auctions on eBay
• eBay consultant – ?Business to Business?
• Email mini courses
• Financial
• Financial planners
• Fitness instructor
• Franchise opportunities
• Furniture maker
• Garage organizer / makeover
• Gift baskets organizer
• Gift Tips and Ideas
• Golf School and equipments
• Google Adsence
• Graphic Design
• Guitar lessons
• Home inspection
• Home makeovers
• Home Renovation services
• Home Schooling information ? tips, forum, dos and don?ts (opportunities that will allow parents to share their experiences and kids can communicate with each others)
• Independent Contractor
• In-home beauty services
• Interior design
• Interior design
• Internet Marketing
• Investment
• Kids innovative and educative products
• Legal transcription
• Life/business coaching services
• Loan appraisals
• Making money
• Medical claims billings
• Medical transcriptions
• Motivational speaker
• Multi-Level Marketing (MLM)
• Music lesson teacher
• Natural medicine
• New age development
• Niches and hobbies (parrot lovers, artists, golfers etc)
• Organizing garages
• Personal memoirs
• Personal shopper
• Personal trainers
• Pet care or grooming or training
• Pet-Based products
• Pet-sitting
• Photographer
• Professionals
• Promoting Physical products (TV’s, DVD, Digital Camera, Athletic shoes etc)
• Real Estate
• Recruiting services
• Remodeling
• Sales/Marketing services
• Scholarship Requirement
• Self improvement (physical walkout fitness or mental)
• Service provider (cell phone, satellite, internet)
• Sewing and alteration services
• Soccer
• Training
• Tutoring
• Virtual Real Estate
• Web Design
• Wedding consultant / planner
• Work-at-home moms
• Yoga instructor

Work at home ? Jobs (outsourcing):

• Accounting
• Bookkeeping
• Customer service and support
• Data entry
• Human resources
• Sales
• Secretary
• Telemarketing
• Typing

No matter what you are doing at home: work-at-home jobs, work from home business, or operating your internet business as an independent contractor from home. As long as you are doing something you like and love that gives you the freedom you so much desire and the ability to be with your family.

All that matters is the joy and satisfaction you’re deriving from your business.

I wish you all the best of luck in your work from home adventure. Have FUN!

Best wishes to your success,

Abby Lawal

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