by Thomas Griffin
How many times have you heard that phrase, pitch,
advertisement, or whatever? Lots, I'm sure. It is used so
much because marketers know that staying home and making
money is the fondest dream of millions of people.
And why not? Did you know that the majority of fatal heart
attacks happen at 9 a.m. Monday morning? It's true. It
seems a lot of people would rather die than get back to the
old grind after a weekend of freedom.
So when someone offers an opportunity or plan for you to
take your job and shove it, yet still make enough money to
live and pay all your bills, it sounds blissfully
irresistible.
Of course, bliss and reality are always two different
things. Is it really possible to run a business from your
own home that is more than a hobby or source of part-time
income? Can you get rich working out of your own home? Can
you really trade your cubical and necktie for blue jeans and
the comfort of your own den?
Well, for your information, home-based businesses are one of
the fastest growing kinds of enterprises in America today.
As this is being written, some 40 million Americans are
doing at least some form of work out of their homes, and the
numbers are rising rapidly. According to the U.S.
Department of Labor, as many as 70 million people will be
working out of their homes by the year 2005. Government
studies have indicated that as much as 75% of all work done
in this country could eventually be moved home.
The overwhelming majority of home workers, however, are not
exactly getting rich. The average work-at-home American
earns less than $15,000 per year.
That may not be bad as a supplement to a spouse's full-time
income, but let's face it, fifteen grand in and of itself is
not much better than poverty.
As master marketer and author Dr. Jeffrey Lant said:
"Frankly, I never saw any benefit to staying home and being
poor."
Lant, without so much as a business card, became a
work-at-home millionaire, and is a perfect example of what
truly can be achieved if you are serious about chucking your
day job, staying home, and not settling for peanuts in
exchange for your freedom. You can have it all -- you can
stay home and make as much -- and more -- money than your
current job provides you.
In this report, we are going to outline and discuss five key
rules on how to work at home and make big bucks, no matter
where you live. After these five rules, we'll talk about
the most important aspect of any business, whether it be
home-based or a giant factory -- cash flow. Starting your
own business out of your home is all about attitude and
inspiration, but all the attitude in the world won't help
you without money!
1. It Takes Commitment
Is it any secret in America that most people detest their
jobs? Study after study proves that most people simply
dread going to work Monday morning, and they live for the
freedom of the weekend. But even that freedom is not pure
because we know that it is only temporary. It's hard to
enjoy a Sunday evening when the Monday morning alarm clock
is just a few hours away.
It makes sense that people hate their jobs. Everyday, there
is a lot of butt kissing that needs to be done. There are
endless meetings which usually accomplish nothing. There
are pointless interruptions, a lot of drifting this way and
that, and lot of idiot supervisors who do nothing but waste
your time and then dog you for not accomplishing your share
of work.
There are co-workers you hate, and who would stab you in the
back in a minute if it meant a raise for them instead of
you.
When you work for someone else, you live a regimented life.
Your body may not want to get up at 7 a.m., but you have to
be at work by 8 a.m. so you lurch out of bed with a head
full of sleep.
People who choose to work at home are doing more than just
escaping the yoke of their master; they have made a deep,
firm, life-altering decision which says that health,
happiness and prosperity depend vitally on the freedom to
work for ourselves, and in doing so in the comfort of the
home.
We want to really emphasize that fact that to be successful
in a work-at-home situation, you have to be nothing less
than a fanatic; a zealot, who is utterly committed to making
work-at-home not only a successful venture, but a profound
commitment for life. You must be convinced that a return to
an outside office job would be the equivalent of a spiritual
death sentence.
Many people hate their office jobs, but they have made an
inner compromise with themselves. They have convinced
themselves that their job is "not so bad," pays the bills,
and that they can stick out because they have to.
If you want to be truly successful at quitting your day job,
there cannot be any room for such compromises in your soul.
You have to take the attitude that to work any longer at
your hateful job is akin to fouling your inner being with a
spiritual cancer the will sicken and kill you.
2. Eliminating the Home-Office Mentality
To move our work home, however, does not mean we eliminate
every single thing about the traditional American office.
Rather, we should select what is useful and what is not.
It's a mistake to quit your job and go home with a
"home-office" mentality.
By this we mean thinking small, and believing that you will
automatically sacrifice a decent income in exchange for your
freedom. Please! Do not think small!
To quote Jeffrey Lant again: "Too many home-based
practitioners fail to understand the benefits that accrue
because of the professional style they have selected. They
focus on the "home" part of the business rather than the
"business" portion, and as a result are doomed to small
incomes."
Working at home provides many benefits. We can save a lot
of time because we don't need to commute and we have more
control over our schedule. We can save a lot of costs
because we don't have the overhead requirements of larger
businesses. We can cut our stress -- and so have more
energy -- because we avoid many of the characteristic
problems of life in the late 20th-Century office. We must
work these advantages to our profit.
3. Your International Headquarters
The German philosopher Immanuel Kant said that if you sit at
home alone at your empty kitchen table, eventually, the
"whole world will come to you."
Well, today you don't need the great mind of a philosopher
to make the entire world come into your living room. What
you need is a phone jack.
We live in a unique time in history. Satellites, fiber
optics, the integrated circuit and other communications
miracles means that you can be just about anywhere in the
developed world and establish communication with anyone.
The telephone, the fax machine, the computer, the modem --
all of these are not only affordable by any middle-class
citizen; they are the key to eliminating your need to drive
a hectic freeway everyday to get to a place of business
outside your home.
With these devices at our disposal, we should allow
ourselves to "think globally." Too often, home-based
businesses focus on the narrowest market, the neighborhood,
the county, the city or state. This is fine if you are
providing a local service and are content with a certain
moderate level of income. But if you want the big bucks,
you should not think small. Also, you should not believe
that, just because you are home-based, you cannot compete
with the big guys.
The purpose of any business is to seek assess and seek out
every possible market for its products and services, to
ascertain whether these markets have the ability to buy
these products/services, to determine whether there is
sufficient profit in these markets to warrant approaching
them, and, once positive assessment has been made, to launch
a sustained marketing campaign that gets a significant
percentage of this market to purchase the product or service
in question.
Your home telecommunications machines will not only enable
you to do this, but they can also help you overwhelm larger,
more cumbersome traditional businesses that are your
competition.
As a home-based entrepreneur, you will not have all of the
disadvantages of your more traditional competitors: no
office rent, equipment or expense; no employees to pay
salaries and fringe benefits for; no time wasted on
meetings, employee problems, paid sick leave, etc.
All the money your competitors spend on heating the office
and buying furniture could better be spent on the actual
marketing itself.
As a home-based business, you will be already positioned
where the traditional business is currently struggling to
move: toward the lowest possible overhead and the greatest
possible concentration of dollars on products/service
development and product/service marketing.
So, a home-based business takes full advantage of three
major goals of modern business success:
(1) Vastly reduced overhead (2) Easy access to a global
market (3) Full advantage of telecommunications.
To not have the basic telecommunications toys -- computer,
modem, fax, and telephones is impossibly stupid. Still,
even in this day and age, many of people strongly resist the
one element that is undoubtedly the heart and brain of any
successful home business -- the computer. The computer is
so important in fact, we have made it a category all
itself.
And remember, learning to use a modern computer is easier
than learning to drive a car, so you have no excuse not to
plunge forward.
4. The Computer
You should pay close attention to what computers can do for
you in your plans to escape your job and make your
work-at-home dreams come true.
People who want to run a home business usually have a very
small staff -- in fact, a staff of one -- yourself! The
rest of your needs are handled by independent contractors,
depending on the kind of business you are in and the
services you need.
To run a serious, truly global home business, a computer is
as necessary as oxygen is to life on earth. Those who try
to fool themselves into thinking they will ever make a
serious go of their home-based business without a computer
are sadly mistaken.
Computers give you two primary advantages:
(1) They enable you to store large amounts of data and to
sort by data field so that you can easily get the
information you need.
(2) They enable you to develop a pattern document for every
situation you'll ever be in in your business. To run a
home-based business successfully, you must anticipate just
what situation will emerge and prepare accordingly.
A business is based on a characteristic series of situations
and a characteristic set of things that happen -- or that do
not happen. You must be prepared with the proper document
for each situation. Once you have established all the
protocols, and have experienced all the situations
associated with your kind of business, the time will come
when running your business is, in large part, a repetition
of certain key tasks. Computers are all about handling
repetition swiftly and efficiently.
But the computer is much more. Today, by connecting a
computer to the phone line with a modem, your machine
becomes more than a data storage system and repetitive task
handler. It becomes a multi-task, multi-level communications
processing center that connects you to the globe.
Such things as e-mail, on-line services, the Internet, the
Web and more can't help but revolutionize the way business
is done. If you do not become a part of it today, you
certainly are going to suffer for it greatly in the near
future.
If there is an effective way to market products on the
Internet or any other on-line venue, no one has truly
discovered it yet. The only people making money on Internet
marketing are the people who are selling the concept of
doing it. If you have a product or a service and expect to
reach millions of buyers through computer screens, you are
sadly mistaken.
The Internet is definitely where a lot of innovative things
are happening. It's a great place to exchange ideas, find
out what hot, what's not, and stay on the cutting edge
whatever your particular business is.
5. Your Business Hours
If you've been paying attention to the first four points,
you're well on your way to becoming a successful home-based
business owner. Now we don't want you to blow it by
thinking you can keep banker's hours.
The global market is a 24-hour per day market, and a 365-day
per year market. Let the others sleep late on Saturdays and
take Sundays off.
Those times could be your day to move and corner loads of
customers that the others miss.
You should get up earlier and quit work later. You should
be open for business on holidays and be available 24-hours a
day either personally or through your answering service.
"But wait a minute!" you might be thinking at this point!
"I thought that working at home was all about freedom and an
end to drudgery. This sounds like nothing but endless
work!"
Well, here's the thing. For most of you who quit your
regular jobs to go to work for yourself, you'll discover
something magical. You'll discover that when you are
working for yourself, when you are building your own
business, a lot of what you does not seem like work at all.
The great writer Jane Roberts said, "Inspiration is its own
motivator."
Running your own business is all about being inspired
24-hours-a-day. When you stop selling your body and soul to
some company or corporation and start giving your energy to
yourself, work has a way of turning into inspiration and
play.
The perfect work for you is that which you don't think of as
work, yet doing it makes money and provides you with the
bread and shelter of life. You'll see what it's like if you
make a true commitment to being self employed, put all your
energy into it, and stick with it for the long run.
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Title: Make Money Working From The Comfort of Your Home
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