IWS-70 : 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed in) for Under $1,000: How to Choose the Best Home Business for You Based on Your Personality Type

Description

This revealing book on home-based business shows you how to acquire an independent source of income, to make more money than will ever be possible in a routine job, to have more free time to spend with your family, to build up a bigger retirement nest egg, and to take vacations where and when you want. This is a classic from Tyler G. Hicks that is as relevant today as it was when it was first published. Some of the verbiage regarding technology may have changed, but the potential and practices remain the same. Join the home business revolution by learning from the best . . .

What This Book Will Do for You

Are you out of work? Strapped for cash? Having trouble making ends meet? Fighting with a complaining spouse who spends faster than you can earn? Do you hate to go to work because your boss is such a pain? Want to stay home to care for someone? If you answered YES to any of these questions, this book is for you. Why? Because this book shows you how to:

• Pick the best business for yourself
• Start your own home business for under S1,000
• Build your fortune in a business you like
• Run a business by not leaving your home, or
• Run a business from home while working outside the home
• Profit from unusual business ideas
• Get to know the earnings potentials of hundreds of home businesses
• Finance the business of your choice
• Use the latest technology either in whole or in part in your home business, if you wish to do so, or
• Make use of familiar “low-tech” postal mail, typewriters, and traditional phones to run your home business at a comfortable pace that brings you the income you seek
• Advertise and promote your business
• Comply with the various rules governing home businesses in your area
• Get a merchant credit card account so you can accept credit card charges by your customers

Any home business has many advantages over a busi­ness in which you rent space to conduct your profit-making activities. Most home businesses have no, or very little, overhead. This means that more of every sales dollar stays in your pocket because you’re not paying money for rent, storage space, or other occupancy needs.

And there are plenty of other savings for you in your own home business. Costs of commuting will be mostly non-existent. And you won’t generally have to spend money on expensive go-to-meeting clothes. Nor will you need costly luggage, or plane or· train tickets.

More importantly to some people, a home business gives you independence. You can almost always choose your work hours, be they early or late. You don’t have to conform to someone else’s rigid schedule. You make your own sched­ule.

What’s more, if you don’t like a potential customer, you can casually decline to do business with him or her. Try that with a boss when you’re working for a salary!

Today, there’s even an acronym for small home busi­nesses: SOHO — meaning Small Office/Home Office. An entire army of suppliers is ready to serve the SOHO mar­ket: office equipment vendors, phone companies, com­puter manufacturers, fax-machine sellers, cell-phone dealers, and so forth. And with the Internet providing a worldwide market at your fingertips, the sales potential for your home-based products or services has zoomed far beyond customers in your local area.

Truly, a home busi­ness is today’s ticket to a safe, secure financial future for you and your family.

Since most people are scared at the thought of start­ing their own home business, this book does lhe follow­ing for you:

• Shows you why you should start your own home business, and the many benefits you can derive from such a business
• Helps you choose the best home business for yourself, based on your likes and dislikes, skills and experience
• Gives you the 27 easiest home businesses to start any­where in the world
• Shows you the 32 home businesses that will produce the quickest cash flow into your business checking account
• Details the 26 simplest stay-at-home businesses so you don’t have to leave home to earn your fortune
• Outlines the 26 most profitable go-out home businesses, where you work outside your home but still have a home business of your own
• Sketches the 26 most popular “people” home businesses where you work with others to build your fortune
• Shows you the 26 most private “non-people” home busi­nesses where you have little, or no, contact with others
• Explains 50 unusual home businesses that can make you both happy and wealthy

For each of the 199 great home businesses in this book (any of which you can start for under $1,000) you’re given these key details:

1. Name of the business — that is, what the business is usually called by its owners.
2. What you do — the duties you perform, to earn the income you get from the home business. The description of the duties will tell you whether the business is for you, or if you should look for another business.
3. How to find clients — and every business needs clients or customers, and we tell you how, and where, to find them for your business. This is a crucial item for any successful business.
4. Money required to start — the cash you need to get your busi­ness going so you start to earn a profit. Since any of tl1ese businesses can be started for less than $1,000, you know in advance that your outlay will be low. (Where special equipment is needed for your business we assume that you’ll rent it at the start, rather than buying, to keep your startup costs small.)
5. Earnings potental — how much you can earn from the busi­ness on an annual basis. This is before your direct expenses, but these, in most cases, will be little more than postage, telephone, Internet, and fax costs. A range of earnings is given, from starlup income to all-out full-time work income for the experienced home wealth builder. The income range given represents actual numbers achieved by the some 3-million home workers in business for them­selves today.
6. Time for first earnings — this tells you how long you’ll have to work before you receive your first income payment. For folks interested in a fast cash flow, this section of the busi­ness description will be importanL
7. Equipment needed — tells you what basic equipment you must have to start your business.

The 199+ businesses recommended for you in this book combine the unusual and the seldom-thought-of activities I’ve encountered in more than 35 years of advis­ing Beginning Wealth Builders (BWBs). I’m certain that there’s at least one business in this book for you! If this business isn’t exactJy the one I recommend, then it’s a vari­ant of one recommended.

When thinking of a home business, remember that you may find it profitable to run two or more activities from your home. Why? Because this can ensure that you have income in both up and down economies. Your goal in opening your own home business is to have an independ­ent income. Anything you can do to ensure a steady, suffi­cient, and dependable cash flow is worth the effort!