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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Here's How You Could Be Starting A Home Business

Did you ever wish you could get paid just to tell someone how to do something? That's called management, right? Well, it extends beyond that. You can't pick up a magazine today without seeing the phrase "Experts Say..." Who are these so-called "experts?" What makes them an expert? Webster's Dictionary defines expert as "having, involving, or displaying special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience." How will knowing this help you in starting a home business?

I bet if you think about it for a minute, you have a special skill or knowledge derived from training or experience. Maybe you know some tricks to making the perfect model airplane. Maybe you know the best way to get a used car for a great price. Maybe you even have a talent for explaining anything to someone so that they can understand it... say, providing instructions for "dummies"?

If you have this "special skill" or "knowledge" in a particular field, you might consider starting a home business as a consultant. Your target audience would be easy to determine, it's the people who do the work that pertains to your area of expertise. Now that you know what you have to sell, and who to sell it to, all you have to do is sell it. You might advertise in the paper, phone book or online. You can sell your consulting services on Ebay for a fixed rate.

An example would be to list an auction with a "Buy it Now" price of "x" amount of dollars for either a phone call, an email, a demonstration or what have you. Make fliers and pass them around town or put them in your local newspapers. Tell them why they need your expertise. Tell them how you came to know what you know and why they can't afford to not have your information.

Thinking outside the box when starting a home business is a huge part of your success. If you try to work at home selling the same thing everyone else is, or selling the same information as everyone else, you'll soon run into a wall that will never seem to remove itself. When starting a home business- be unique, be yourself, be successful.

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