A home-based business is any business that you work from home. You can be working for yourself, or you could be working for someone else. Many companies today, supplying the equipment for the employee to work from home. This gives you flexibility to work the dates you want, but you’ll still have to work the hours that they tell you to work.
The advantages of working from home are:
- Tax breaks
- able to spend more time with your family
- able to take care of emergencies
- cut your expenses
Technology is influencing the job market today and how business is conducted. For instance, every brick and mortar store, whether they are a corporation or just a small business, also has to have a presence on the Internet. That presence is in the form of a website or storefront where people can purchase products 24/7.
This is a convenience for people who are homebound and can’t get out shopping for food, clothing, or necessities.
People are complaining today because they say there are no jobs, but the reality is there aren’t jobs it’s just not the same job you’re typically used to. Many people are used to an employment contract job where they work for someone else trading dollars for hours. We have moved into the performance based job era where people are paid by the project.
I met someone several years ago who was laid off from EarthLink when they cut 60,000 jobs. At first he was looking for a job working for someone else. When that did not work out he changed tactics. He decided to go into business for himself using the same skills he did working for EarthLink. He decided to build websites. Since he wanted to get out of the home more, and since part of his job at EarthLink was to keep up their computers, he advertised on craigslist. He would go to people’s homes that needed assistance with repairs on their computers. If you lived with in a 20 mile radius of his home he charged one price, but increased his fee to travel a further distance. Eventually he met a plumber who lost his job and offered to build him a website and market his services. He put together a contract with the plumber for a 65/35 fee split.
He was creative in coming up with a new way to use his skills and build an opportunity for employment for himself. We have come full circle from where we were at the beginning of the 20th century in the 21st century– back to the small businessmen. The only difference between what we are doing now and what our ancestors then is where we do business.
Our ancestors sold their products from pushcarts in the streets and today we sell our wares through e-commerce on the Internet. For someone who doesn’t know what to sell, there are many solopreneurs who have a affiliate positions where they need people to help them sell their products and pay them a commission on the sale.
Multilevel marketing or relationship marketing has been a rail for years. Amway proved that it could work. When you work for an MLM company, you are in business for yourself but not by yourself. Your sponsor is they here to help you learn how to build a successful business. Many new companies starting today or using the MLM concept to market their products to the public since it cut their overhead and keep their prices low. If the same companies would use salespeople to get their products into a store and sell them, the price of their product would be 2 to 3 times higher than the current sales price is.
For instance, many healthcare products are sold through multilevel marketing. Because I have a disability that limits my mobility, I have to use adaptive software to do my writing for me. When I answered the workforce it was still 15 years before the Americans with Disabilities Act became law, therefore, I had to look for alternative types of employment.
To promote my business, I was looking for software to help me generate exposure. I came across software that has multiple platforms and I can use to promote my business. As a Career and Personal Development Strategy Coach I utilized the Internet to not only market my business, but also to work with clients.
Talk Fusion was started by Bob Reina, because he was looking for a way to send a video he made of the home he was interested in by purchasing through e-mail. He found some software designers to help them build this platform. Since he had been involved in MLM and because he wanted to keep the price low, he decided to use this format to sell his product. This platform has expanded from not only video e-mail, but also videoconferencing, video auto responders, template for an e-subscription form, App your iPhone or android, and a template to send video newsletters. You can’t even brand your company with a personally designed template. To find out more about this product you can visit this link or contact me directly. For anyone who has a business and wants to personalize their message to their customers this is a great platform to use.
http://www.talkfusion.com/1310330
In future articles, I will discuss further how to earn an income from home using multilevel marketing or affiliate marketing.
Davida Shensky has owned her own business for the last 25 years since she entered the workforce 12 years and before the Americans with Disabilities Act became law. See her website at http://www.1personalcareercoach.com