Cost of a home business vary widely depending on the business model and specific industry. We will outline some of the basic costs.

Cost Information to operate a Home Business.

What to expect from reading this post:

• Learn the Must Haves.
• Learn creative ways of cutting costs.
• Learn how to get a good deal.
• Learn tips on keeping costs low long term.
• Define “scalable”
• Learn the inevitability equation.
• Determine business model examples.

Mandatory Costs Associated with an Online Business.

I don’t like the word mandatory any more than the next entrepreneur, but lets face it, there is always a price to admission. The good news is than the costs of an online business will be much less and front row seats won’t cost much more than the nose bleed section.

Web Platform Free-$180 Month… Money does NOT equal Value….

First of, your going to want to think about a website.  I will make a series of recommendations at the bottom of this post as to particular options. This is the single most important piece of advice you will ever receive about starting an online business…. Pick a machine, a tool, a solution for your website. Do Not spend 5k on a beautiful website. The Internet is huge and certain web applications (fancy for website builders) will save you thousands of dollars and years of hard work. Actually, depending on your business model and service industry, the wrong type of website will guarantee failure! So get this part right!

Hosting: Free to $25 Per month. I pay $6.95 a month with a 3 year deal… I love it.

Once you pick a website platform your going to need hosting. I recommend you host your own website for a number of reasons.  Blog platforms like blogger and word press (free hosted version) are great if you want to share stories with family, friends and an online community but if your looking to draw in targeted traffic and build a web business don’t do it this way. Why? The biggest reason is that you don’t own the site, the owners at anytime can simply erase your site! Ooouch! You can expect to pay anywhere from around 6.95 per month and up to around 25 per month. Not Bad, right.

Auto Responder Service $10 to $30 per month. I pay $19.95

The next thing on the list for things you really need to have to get your online business rolling is an auto responder service. What’s that?  It is a tool that will allow you to manage your mailing list, create mailings, newsletters and promotions to send to your list of people who have subscribed at your website. I will make a recommendation here as well, later on in the post. Depending on your business and the web platform you choose to use, you may not need an auto responder right away. And don’t make monthly payment, by the way, on anything you don’t need or can do for free. Costs of an online business can skyrocket just like a traditional business. You must be intentional about keeping costs under control. Cost creeeeeeep is the profit monster, don’t let it eat up your PROFITS.

Creative ways of cutting costs in your online business.

The online services we have talked about thus far can all be used to maintain more than one site at no additional cost.  So if you smell what I’m steppin’ in here, you’ll realise the first cost saving idea. If you have another site or maybe a friend wants to have a website online, talk to them and tell them you can help them, host there site and provide an online auto responder service. You just cut your costs in half!

Another thing worth bringing up is your lack of knowledge online. You will bridge that lack of online knowledge with information between now and when your business is successful. Here is a tip…. Get your information free. How do you do that? Well your doing it right now. Learn a bit about doing things yourself. This can seem overwhelming at first but at the end of the day your going to be a webmaster, like it or not. Even if you outsource the web “stuff” you need to know what your talking about to hire and evaluate the online services your getting.

Keeping Costs Down Long Term And Scalable Business Practices.

Online business costs need to be scalable. This means that as you get more traffic, sell more goods or services, or basically become successful, costs must remain close to the same. All of the items we have talked about up to this point are scalable… Provided you use the right online web platform. Your expenses should not increase as online activity increases.  You can negotiate after you’ve been a customer for a while or your service providers may have an online affilliate program that can completely offset your costs all together.

The Inevitability Equation.

The what? The Inevitability equation goes something like this. ” If I keep doing thus and so, it is inevitable that I will become successful” Simple, right?  It comes down to staying in the game long enough to become great. And you will become great if you set yourself up for greatness. Don’t spend your way to a disconnected Internet connection in other words.

This post is a work in progress. I will add more at a later date. Any specific directions you would like us to go???  Leave your comments.

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Congratulations and welcome to the information age… Relax, I know your just getting started, you don’t know much, and that IS the key to create your own successful online business.

Creating Your Own Business Online.

You see the information age is different in many aspects compared to traditional business models. As you see traditional businesses and the products they offer become commodities, you will also see solo entrepreneurs, just like yourself, creating absolute fortunes online. 

What do I mean about “commodity” ?  Well, I’m glad you asked.  I started a brick and mortar business in the mid to late nineties. It was more specifically a concrete construction company.  One thing that I experienced the information age do in my own business experience is literally create a commodity out of what I offered. For instance, when I started in that business, the phone book listed 6 concrete contractors who offered similar services.  Eight years later that same phone book listed over 50, get that, almost 10 times more.

This example shows how the information age helped people realize that anyone could start a business, and, YES, anyone can.  No longer did relationships, quality, and service command a premium in that industry. It was price, price, price.

Now, the information age has made more possibilities for more people, than any other idea of our time. My name is Joe Crawford I am CEO of Create Liberty Enterprises. Create Liberty is an Online Business.  Through my research, trial and error, and plain old persistence, I have learned how to create a solid income online.

One Way to Create Your Own Online Business.

I am currently working on a project to help career professional earn an extra 30k to 50k per year. If you are a teacher, doctor, nurse, coach, administrator, social worker, marketer,or entrepreneur and think it would be nice to earn an extra 30k to 50k per year, then let me know. You may be selected as a part of that project. Find the form at the bottom of this article and tell me about yourself.

Why and what brought this project to light?  A need. Pretty simple, no?

I have friends in all these fields who each own a condo or a house a nice car, most commute, have cable, a cell phone, Internet, and a social life that isn’t free. This is my nice way of saying people are broke! 95% of people in America are so broke they call the house they live in an Asset and their Job security.  Just look at all the possible expenses that there are today compared to 10-15 years ago!  And last time I checked, people are not making much more than they were ten years ago.

So that is a project and an example of how you can create your own online business.  Find a need and fill it. Think about your current career. Certainly you see gaps in customer service, effectiveness, and productivity all day long. Could you create an idea or process that would directly address a specific need in the marketplace? Probably.

The Logistics of how to create your own business online.

I also operate a turnkey home business. The business model takes care of the heavy lifting for me. I utilize systems that allow me to spend minimal time usually 2-3 hours four days a week. This gives me time to work on other projects, some of which, I’m really excited about.  I enjoy the home business its profitable and fun and is the easiest way for me to help someone else start their own online home business. Most of the logistical stuff is taken care of for me and I love that about the business. I play a leadership role, help people evaluate the business and support the ones who get stated with me.

Any comments or questions Are always appreciated.

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Are you an entrepreneur who is looking for another or new business to start?  Are you open to considering a new business model?  Are you involved, engaged in, or curious about the information age?

Entrepreneurs are a special breed of people. Independent, out side of the box, and ready to go to work. I’ve been an entrepreneur since my early twenties and would have a difficult time doing anything else besides owning my own business.

Information Age Business Ideas.

The information age has made possible new business models that reward you, the entrepreneur. If you currently operate a business that returns less than 30% profitability, your not using an information age business model.

New Business Ideas Provide Options.

I operate a home business from my home office. As I go along more possibilities for new income streams present themselves. For instance, I have a couple websites or blogs online. Over time those websites have gained popularity and more specifically pages in those websites have gained popularity. So one thing I’ve done is look at some of those pages that get a good share of traffic and I look for ways to monetize the page. Is there a product relates to the content? When I find an affiliate product, I add it to the page. Usually it is just a link. Affiliate products have low payout, usually between 30 and 150 dollars but, here’s the thing, it takes five minutes to add the link…. then I just forget about it.

Now some people after reading the last paragraph will say, that sound stupid. I know I did when I first started a new business online. The cool thing is, when it made sense, after I had niche traffic naturally, I did it and get paid.

A No Experience Business to Start.

A common way to start a home businesswith absolutely no experience, no website, or ideas, is a turnkey home business. Here’s the catch though, a turnkey home business is not a guaranteed money machine, in fact there are no guaranteed money machines. If your a successful person or currently an entrepreneur you can have success with a turnkey home business. The upside to a home business is the profit margins. The turnkey home business I operate work with $1,000; $5,000, and $8,000 dollars and there are several residual elements.

While, in my opinion, it would be difficult to earn a six figure income, with that example, It is much more realistic and happen much more regularly with the right turnkey business.

Non Web-based Business.

I have talked mostly about webbased business ideas primarily because this is a website on the Internet. If I were speaking to a group of entrepreneurs I would add several other ideas. Consulting for one, is a lucrative business model if you have specialized knowledge in a field that you love.  A good consultant can command a mid six figure income and that’s a pretty good income. Earning 500k as an employee, or executive is tough, and the opportunities to do it via that route are scarce. Another point worth considering is how difficult it can be to replace a 500k income that is earned through a job. The average job span in America is 3.4 years.

If your here reading now and have some opinions or ideas would you care to share them with our readers? You can either add to the comments below or click the square brown box with the number in it at the top of this post. Thank You.

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Bob Proctor and Jack Canfield Conference Call on Dream Big.

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Bob Proctor has been in the industry over forty years and says the Jack Canfield dream big system, with vision board, exercises and gratitude program. There is also the dream big system that comes with a 2 plus hour DVD and a CD you can listen to in your car. A multi-media system achieving your biggest dreams quickly. Also with the Dream Big System you have 30 days of audio training.

Notes on the Jack Canfield Bob Proctor Call.

W. Clement Stone a Napoleon Hill student introduced Jack Canfield to the term: inverse paranoia- Stone believe everything that occurred in life was to help in specifically, the opposite of thinking the world was out to get him… Canfield  said on the phone that he believes in a kind loving universe that is full of ready benefits.

Canfield divorced thirty years ago and lost a lot to his ex wife. He noticed as that went on he realized he was resting in contentment and was able to see the divorce in the light that it inspired him to take Chicken Soup From the Soul to a whole new level.

Canfield mentions that asking for what you want is key. He noted that you can go to the ocean with a thimble or a teaspoon, or a bucket or a pipeline. Its not going to put the ocean out, right?

Jacks Program “Dream Big” is designed to help people dream and realise a bigger dream. As Jack stated on the call.

Jack Canfield on the Dream Big Program.

” I takes no more energy to dream big, so why not dream big”

You don’t have the capacity to dream a dream you can’t create… that was from Walt Disney. Jack Canfield has seen this truth in his life. Anything is possible. You may have to do some different alliances or different tactics, but you can do it. Dream big dreams and attract big people.

Jack went on in the call of all the people who have done extraordinary things that were accomplished by first dreaming big.

Proctor talks about big ideas and the fact he has not been bored in 50 years. Bob talks about taking personal responsibility and how responsibility is really the key to freedom.

Many people think of responsibility as a drag. It’s really not. When a person is 100% responsible you don’t have to think. You make a decision and you do it. Your responsible. You have to give up blaming, making excuses and blaming when your being personally responsible.

Complaining, you can complain unless you have a reference point for something better. People don’t complain about gravity because there is no option.  When we complain we see another option that we are not able to risk for. You can’t complain about a wife’s behavior is you don’t have an image of someone different.  The reality is you have an image of something you want that your not willing or havn’e decided to go after when your complaining.

Jack talks about E+R =O Event+Response= Outcome.

Jack talks about the dream big systemand how it helps to overcome the responses that keep you from realising your dreams. We have to change negitive beliefs, there are powerful and fast way to change this. Through imagry, correct imagery. People who have tried imagry unsuccessfully, are reminded that like a car that won’t run right, it dosen’t mean the car is junk, it means there is likely one thing that need tweaking.

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One of the best careers you can start from home is a home based business. The information age has ushered in many opportunities to start home based careers.

Most careers you start are going to require some specific skill sets.  The home based business industry provides a platform for people to use skills they likely already possess to earn a solid income.

Top Careers You Can Start From Home.

I operate a turnkey home business in the personal development field. I like helping others, this is a passion I’ve always had and the business gives me an opportunity to fulfill that passion.  I talk with many baby boomers who are looking for post retirement income and would like to have the flexibility to work from home.

Many people either put on hold, entertained briefly, or forgot altogether to do the things they loved to do because of demanding careers.  Starting a home based business is a great alternative to starting a whole new career for obvious reasons.  Working part time hours comes to mind as being on of the top reasons people look to the home based business industry for the next career move they are looking to make.

Lucrative Careers You Can Start From Home.

Home based careers can be extremely lucrative. When I was researching home business opportunities I realised that marketing was the key ingredient. I understood a little about marketing and decided the best business to market would be the one with products that had healthy margins. So I looked for a business I could operate from home that had high end top quality products. I figured if I have to market the business and products why not get paid well for it.

Different Careers You Can Start At Home.

Work at home jobsand multi level marketing seem to be plentiful online today.  There are all sorts of ill-legitimate companies and opportunitieson the Internet and I was a bit uneasy about this.  I found a great company that produces quality personal development products, there are three, and we make awesome commissions when we make a sale. We get paid first. That is a great way to avoid a scam. Get paid first. There are good network marketing opportunities that make money for the associates. The best network marketing opportunities are legitimate and offer a viable business model that many turn into a solid career.

Starting a career from home is likely going to involve using the Internet and a telephone. I suggest unlimited long distance ($15-$25) and High speed Internet.  If you or someone you know is looking to start a lucrative business working from home, get in touch.

We aren’t looking for everyone.

If you have had success in your life and are looking to create a significant income working from your home office get in touch we may have a business you can use to start your next career right from home!

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Need help enjoying a small business you once loved? We can help you transition yoursmall business into a multiple revenue source online business.  A separate entity with no employees, equipment, no workers compensation, etc. I said we can help. It will take a time commitment. One hour a day…

How we help you transition to a more information age business model.

Small business owners everywhere, I’ve learned are looking for ways to capitalize on a tool that has the ability to automate, presell, and inform their potential customers how and what to buy.  That tool is of course the Internet. More specifically the search engines that have the power to connect you with your target customer, automatically!  The major transition, though, happens to the entrepreneur instead of the business owner is what we find.

What we do is provide a comprehensive analysis on the goals of the entrepreneur, the current circumstances surrounding the small business in question, and the viability of the Internet and surrounding applications being a real solution.

For me the transition was two fold. (this is my experience)  There were two questions that really made me realize it was time to take a look at the tack I was on. The first was “What the hell am I doing” the second was “Why”? I won’t get into my story too awful much here but the ideas is, I was lost.  Seems I had my head down working, working, working for so long that it was automatic.  And man were we growing. Doubling, Tripling,… everything that is, not only gross sales, satisfied clients, successful projects, but also cost of production, payroll expenses, workers compensation, and stress, stress, stress.

Not knowing where to turn, who to ask or what to ask, for that matter, I retreated.  I immediatley retreated to a place of last known sanity. and began to evaluate what happened and why.  Over the next couple years I heard similar stories and met countless people living in the place they retreated too, still touched by what they had saw.

Standing in a multi million dollar revenue stream does something to a person.  More than anything in changes ”What is Possible”.

An affordable small business website that works.

Small business owners looking to trasition into a more information age business model can be save a ton of grief by asking questions, any questions, sooner rather than later.  Find an affordable small business web solution that delivers the results you want, its not a painting, looks are secondary.

How to increase free time as an entrepreneur.

Having an online presence is key in the small business world today for more reasons than one. The one reason that should matter most to an entrepreneur though, is options.  Most small business owners I’ve met, love options, they love freedom and the power to choose.  Are you looking to dramatically increase your free time as an entrepreneur?  Developing an online presence adds value to existing customers now and allows you the freedom to hand select the perfect customer in the near future. Saves a bit of time not dealing with people who have no business in your shop in the first place.

Best advice on getting a small business website.

Buying an affordable small business website is buying a business and small business owners don’t understand this by and large. They get on the phone and tell a web designer what they want in a website, WRONG! They wind up with a beautiful marketing brochure that they likely already pass out to uninterested people who accept it because that is the right thing to do.  They get the business cards reprinted with the new www. there is no reason to ever visit this website, ever, and you never will . com. 

So What, right?

Affordable small business websites.

Are really small businesses. This is key. A Business without employees or monthly bills! No electric,equipment,insurance, not even a cash register to buy!

A small business website is a business. Whether or not you treat it that way is up to you. If your looking to transition your business and your life as an entrepreneur a website will be the fastest, safest, most lucrative way you have ever seen to do that, that is legal. When and only when it is done Right!

What do you mean?

• A web site that gets first page number one rankings.
• A web site that maintains it ranking automatically.
• A web site that sorts and sifts through customers for you.
• A web site that delivers inquiries to one place.
• A web site that delivers sales, money, and peace of mind.
• A web site that adds value to the market place.

How can a website really help my small business?

For more information on a website that works…That is not another business expense leaving you will more of the same stress, head ache and unfulfilled expectaion, Get in touch.  And we can talk about a possible solution, depending on your business your goals, and your entrepreneurial spirit.

If your going to give it your time and attention, make it give you what you want. Period.

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WASHINGTON – In a stunning vote that shocked the capital and worldwide markets, the House on Monday defeated a $700 billion emergency rescue for the nation’s financial system, ignoring urgent warnings from President Bush and congressional leaders of both parties that the economy could nosedive without it. The Dow Jones industrials plunged nearly 800 points, the most ever for a single day….

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Thinking about starting a business of your own from home?  We help people who are starting a home base business using the Internet. From website creation to getting clients, customers and sales.

Congrats on taking the first step. Just to cover our bases.

• We will call and have a brief conversation (3-5 min)
• Based on that conversation we will decide if working together is a smart idea.
• If we decide to work together we will put a plan together based on your business idea, budget and time line.

Our experience shows us the single most important factor to success is a desire to change your current financial situation. Do you desire a significant income (no less six figures)

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 I thout this was a funny business story and video, what are some crazy business ideas you’ve heard of or thought about yourself. Got a start up story? We appreciate comments!!

Success Stories of Small Business Ideas on Video.

Can you Start a Business for A Few Hundred or Thousand Dollars?

Think again right, if you have watched the videoI’m sure your thinking, what the…. Yeah, I know. I thought it was a funny business video with the idea and how he stumbled into the business.  I guess he had a great business right under his nose!  But seriously,  I started a commercial construction firm in the U.S in 1998 and worked my tail off not to mention the astronomical risks I was willing to endure.

In the winter of 07 I bumped into a couple in their 50′s from New York who operated a successful home business. I asked them about it and found I could start a business and they would help me be successful. I took the gamble and it payed off.  This business provides what I really wanted as an entrepreneur. The traditional business model was just not working like I wanted and wouldn’t.

Now we help people start a business that focuses on you the entrepreneur. Not the product or customer. We help people literally build a life by design using three high quality top of market personal development products and systems that enable a person to earna multi-6 figure income right from a home office. In fact the business is mobile. I keep everything web based, I don’t even need to be at my pc.

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I recieved this email from my brother the other day and thought I would share it with you guys. Expecially you go getters out there.  You committed and loyal brothers in the fight who always give 110%. Wasn’t it Right Guard who talked about 110%??

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