Key Rules To Make Good Income Working From Home (Part 3)

 1. The Computer.
You should pay close attention to what computers can do for you in your plans to escape your job and make your work-at-home dreams come true. People who want to run a home business usually have a very small staff, in fact, a staff of one yourself! 

The rest of your needs are handled by independent contractors, depending on the kind of business you are in and the services you need. To run a serious, truly global home business, a computer is as necessary as oxygen is to life on earth.  

Those who try to fool themselves into thinking they will ever make a serious go of their home-based business without a computer are sadly mistaken. Computers give you two primary advantages: (1) They enable you to store large amounts of data and to sort by data field so that you can easily get the information you need.

(2) They enable you to develop a pattern document for every situation you'll ever be in in your business.  To run a home-based business successfully, you must anticipate just what situation will emerge and prepare accordingly. A business is based on a characteristic series of situations and a characteristic set of things that happen -- or that do not happen. 

 

You must be prepared with the proper document for each situation.  Once you have established all the protocols, and have experienced all the situations associated with your kind of business, the time will come when running your business is, in large part, a repetition of certain key tasks. 

 
 Computers are all about handling repetition swiftly and efficiently. But the computer is much more.  Today, by connecting a computer to the phone line with a modem, your machine becomes more than a data storage system and repetitive task handler. It becomes a multi-task, multi-level communications processing center that connects you to the globe. Such things as e-mail, on-line services, the Internet, the Web and more can't help but revolutionize the way business is done. 

 
 If you do not become a part of it today, you certainly are going to suffer for it greatly in the near future. If there is an effective way to market products on the Internet or any other on-line venue, no one has truly discovered it yet. The only people making money on Internet marketing are the people who are selling the concept of doing it. 

 If you have a product or a service and expect to reach millions of buyers through computer screens, you are sadly mistaken. The Internet is definitely where a lot of innovative things are happening. It's a great place to exchange ideas, find out what hot, what's not, and stay on the cutting edge whatever your particular business is.

 
2.  Your Business Hours
If you've been paying attention to the first four points, you're well on your way to becoming a successful home-based business owner.  Now we don't want you to blow it by thinking you can keep banker's hours. The global market is a 24-hour per day market, and a 365-day per year market. Let the others sleep late on Saturdays and take Sundays off. Those times could be your day to move and corner loads of customers that the others miss. You should get up earlier and quit work later. 

You should be open for business on holidays and be available 24-hours a day either personally or through your answering service. "But wait a minute!" you might be thinking at this point!  "I thought that working at home was all about freedom and an end to drudgery. This sounds like nothing but  endless work!" Well, here's the thing.  For most of you who quit your regular jobs to go to work for yourself, you'll discover something magical. Have a nice day and a great week ahead!. 

Read Part 1 Here.

Read Part 2 Here.