THE ADVANTAGES OF HOME-BASED INTERNET BUSINESS
One of the many advantages of owning your own home-based
business, whether it is on the Internet or not, is the
satisfaction experienced when you realize you have created
something for yourself and it's working. Those first few dollars
are oh so sweet. It doesn't matter that you may have spent 100
hours to earn that first dollar, or that you may have spent $10.
Someone has listened to your story and has spent money to buy
your product or service. It's a beginning, a glorious beginning.
It's energizing, and you know you will move ahead to success.
Another advantage is that you can't be made redundant. You might
fail, but that is something that is in your own hands. No one
can decide you are too old, or that you don't fit the new
corporate plan, or that your job is to be eliminated. You
control your destiny, not someone else whom you may never have
seen. It's why you can feel such satisfaction when you succeed,
however small those first successes may be; they are your
successes alone.
Sky's the limit
And there are no limits to your success. In most jobs, those
held by most of the people we know, it is almost impossible to
earn $100,000 a year. Six- and seven-figure incomes are achieved
by many home-based businesses on the Internet. You don't even
have to dream up the business, if you choose not to. Plenty of
reputable businesses need people to work on their behalf,
marketing on the Internet (or off it). In many businesses, you
don't even need to know much more about computers than where the
on/off switch is.
Instead of working as a clone in a cramped cubicle, you can make
your surroundings whatever you want them to be when you work
from home. Need to lie down to think? Go right ahead; you know
where the bedroom or couch is. Coffee? Snack? A TV break, even?
You can do all these things...but there is danger in this, too.
To guard against wasting time and failing to get the necessary
tasks done, you will need to develop discipline, far more
perhaps than when you work for someone else. Time truly is money
when you work for yourself. You get paid only when you produce.
Chatting with neighbors delighted that you are home, mowing the
lawn, taking the dog for a walk, are not activities for which
you get paid. You don't get paid for thinking about you
business, either, even though it is clearly necessary. You get
paid for doing productive work.
Your hours are your own
Your hours are your own. No one will tell you that you have to
be at your desk at 8 a.m., or that you should go home at 5 p.m.
Whether you work part-time or full-time is entirely up to you.
Many successful people who work on the Internet make extremely
comfortable incomes from their laptops while they laze on the
beach. But they had put in effort and the hours to get to that
point.
Running a business from home (or the beach) on your computer
means freedom, freedom to choose in ways that are impossible if
you are an employee. That does not mean you have no bosses. Your
customers or clients are your bosses...but you can fire them if
you wish. You have the freedom to choose.