Business & Income - 4 real Jobs that you can do from home, Part 2
Liz Pulliam Weston from MSN Money wrote another great article for MSN Money and also for us. Her article, “4 Real Jobs that you can do from home†is really a great article to read if you want to start a home base business or building your income from home. Here is the first job that she recommends to us:
“Start a Web business
Paul and Alison Martin, who met while they were students at Stanford University, decided to launch their own Web-based baby product business shortly after the birth of their twins, Ainsley and Sierra. The couple launched Noss Galen Baby in February 2004, just before Paul graduated.By May 2005, Paul said, the site was profitable enough to support the family.
The Martins had some distinct advantages. Paul had programming and start-up experience from a stint at PayPal, so he built and maintains their Web site. The couple also moved from expensive Menlo Park, Calif., to more reasonable Albuquerque, N.M., which keeps their living costs down.
Perhaps even more significant, the couple was able to capitalize their business with stock option money from Paul’s time at PayPal. But Paul said initial inventory costs were just a few thousand dollars, and he could have gotten a small business loan or worked a part-time job to keep the venture going until profits came in.
“The most important thing is to have the mindset that you’re going to make it work, that you’re going to learn from your mistakes,” Paul said. “It may take longer than you think. … There were difficult times when we were wondering if we were ever going to turn the corner.”
If you find a concept that works, you might make additional money teaching other people what you know. Tamaira Sandifer of Sacramento, Calif., launched a service called Fun Mail for Kids that sends customized packets, complete with stickers, personalized letters and crafts projects, to kids via the U.S. mail. Once that was a hit, she wrote an e-book, available for $25 on her site, to teach others how to run similar businesses on the Web.
As with any small business, it can help to draft a business plan. The Small Business Administration has a free business set-up guide at its site.â€Â
This part is a really cool part for this article. It talks about how we start an online business. We heard a lot of successful story from the web or maybe from your friends that online business is really a way to earn you money and make you rich. With a simple idea, through internet, you really can make a new legend for your life. In my plan to financial freedom, internet business is one of my part time business that going to support me to move towards financial freedom. However, one thing I learned recently is that, running a web business is not as easy as you can think about. Sometimes you have to make a commitment to yourself and get ready to learn and take action no matter what happen. This is what I learned from those guy who really success in online business.
Source : MSN Money