Friday, December 9, 2011

Start Your Own Online Business

There are many reasons why you should look at starting your own business. Most important of all is, everyone wants to be his own Boss. No one ever wants to work under anyone and follow anyone's instruction or any employer telling him when to start, when to finish, how much you can earn and not etc. This is a common human mentality. There are again other reasons too like improving your lifestyle. Apart from all this though, one can't ignore the importance of having a job as it provides a stable income for living.

With job you should look for several other side opportunities for building up your own business. It will always act as a residual income and will be highly beneficial during global economic conditions like recession. You can look for an alternative online business that can give you the lifestyle that you want.

Global Financial Crisis has been a reason for many of us of being in distress, due to losing job or watching investment portfolio being decimated. Again the other reason may be everyone wants entrepreneurial freedom which is not possible when one is working under some employer. He needs to obey someone's orders and instructions like when to come, when to go, where to go, at what time etc. You have to even listen to your employer for things that you have not done and you are not even responsible for those acts.

If you are thinking of starting your own web based online business and yet you are confused following are few points that may help you to make a final decision.
  1. Work For Yourself Not For Your Employer
    When you are working so hard day and night, giving your 100% dedication to your work think once for whom you are doing all this and by all this who is going to be benefited at the end in terms of wealth and money. When you are working as an employee of someone at the end of each month what you get is a predefined salary nothing else. I'm not telling that you should ignore the importance of a job but you should think what long term benefit you are getting through it.

    You should work for something that makes you feel happy and wealthy. You should look for an alternative source of residual income that will give your long tern benefit and safety. In case someday you leave or loose your job then also your earning is continued and you can live a better lifestyle.

    You should think as if today you are going to work for yourself and build your own fortune not of someone else.
  2. Have a Passive stream Of Income
    For a service class person it is very hard to live a luxurious life. Whatever they earn, generally everything goes in daily expenses and needs. They hardly get time to think of their dreams and fulfill them. But you will have an alternative source of income, any online business to make money, then you can even think of running after your dreams and fulfilling it.

    Otherwise their entire life simply goes in basic needs and they don't even get anything that they could save for their future or retirement. By having a passive stream of income you can make your retirement plans and can save accordingly, enjoying your life fully. 
  3. Consider economic downturn
    When you are in job, there is always a fear if someday your boss will fire you without any reason then what will happen. Or during market downturn, recession thousands of people are released just like this without any prior notice, think if someday it happens to you then what back up is there for you to survive and for your family.

    You should always be prepared for the worst conditions and work according to it. Simply having  good job and working for your employer is not a 100%safety for you neither your family. You need to have some other way of source of income to survive and fulfill all your needs and dreams.
     
  4. Lifestyle and Tax Benefits
    Lifestyle is obviously one of the most important and boosting factor to start and build up your own successful online home business. Yet another most advantageous part of it is Tax. Its not like you don't need to pay tax or any sort of redemption you will be getting. But once you have your own online business then your your travel expenses, lifestyle expenses and business expenses now become legitimate tax deductions.
  5. Be more flexible and have time for your family
    Once you set up your own online business, think what quality time you will be able to spend with your family. How flexible life will be? You don't need to rush to your office early in the morning, don't need to listen to anyone. You can work anywhere anytime, while watching TV with your family or even while you are on vacations with your family.

    Today everything is possible with the help of mobile, Internet, Laptop etc. All these things had made our life so simpler, so flexible that everyone can work while moving. Our mobility has increased with the help of modern technologies. Today even large organizations like Apple, Google are empowering their employees by providing more flexible employment arrangements.
  6. Great sense of Achievement
    Though to start a online business is not an easy task. It requires full dedication and hard work. You need to learn new skills and you have to face such obstacles whose solution is not mentioned anywhere. Every time you have to find your own way out. That may be right or might be wrong. It is everything about test and trial. No fixed rules no fixed path.

    Always remember "It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."– Richard M. DeVos

    Once you get success in your new venture its sense of achievement is far far superior which can't be defined.
10 Legitimate Home Business Ideas
    1. Affiliate Marketing
      Affiliate marketing involves promoting products of other people and getting commission based on it. It is a hassle free way to start online business and requires no investment in terms of money, stocking products, process payment or shipping anything. If you feel like that it is a your type business then you can start it as your online business.

      Commission that you receive vary from products to products that you promote. Generally on digital products commission is very high say 50%. There are multiple affiliate networks running hundreds of affiliate programs. You can search one that suits you best and start earning right away. Check Affiliate Marketing
    2. Create Your Own Digital Product
      If you can create your own CD's, DVDs , any mobile application or anything then it is one of the most solid way to make money online. It is one time effort and through out your life you will make money out of it. People are sometimes very afraid of it but believe me its not as difficult as they think.
    3. Home Business Websites
      If you have your own home websites then you can make money directly from it. There are multiple ways of doing so. Most known one is affiliate marketing itself. If you have your own website then you can promote products directly on your site. You don't need to use any social networking site for doing so, or any other site that charges you for doing so.

      There are many other ways to earn from your own site like Adsense, Adwords, YouTube etc.
    4. My WorldPlus
      MyWorldPlus is both a business opportunity and way to save money on different things like Groceries, restaurants, shopping etc. Its joining fees is of 69.95$ and later $19.95 per month. With membership card you get discount card and access to their entire database that is full of discounts area wise.

      The Business opportunity pays instant commission whenever someone joins MyWorldPlus using your link and monthly commission based on all member that joined after you.
    5. Freelancing
      Freelancing means working for yourself. The topmost reasons to work as a freelancer are working according to your convenience, working from home and you don't need any boss. If you also feel same then freelancing could be the best business that you can start online. You can have it as full time as well as part time.

      If you have experience in particular area then you can start it as full time otherwise start as part time with your job and along with experience you can go for full time. Check How to start Freelancing.
    6. Google Adsense
      Adsense is a publishing program where Google allows each size website publishers to display targeted Google ads on their websites and earn money. Each time any user clicks on the ad displayed the website publisher earns his commission. Check Google Adsense
    7. Global Domains International(GDI)
      GDI is actually a company that provides and supplies a domain extension for business. The domains having extension of .WS is of GDI. It is a domain and hosting company with exclusive rights to market and sell the .WS domains. At the same time GDI provides customers with an opportunity to earn passive residual income using their recruiting or affiliate system.

      When you sign up with GDI you will get your own domain of extension .WS, hosting, website builder, professional website templates and recurring monthly commission. There is a free 7day trial and afterwards it charges around 10$ per month.
    8. Ebay Dropshipping
      In my earlier article of How to make money with Ebay i discussed about drop-shipping. What Dropshipping is? Ebay provides its sellers two ways to sell products. One is to stock products and then sell and the other way is to first dell and then get the products and ship it to the desired address. The second way is termed as Dropshipping. For more details check here...
    9. Paid Surveys
      Now days large companies use to conduct surveys to know the public's reaction related to their product. They use to conduct these surveys before the launch of new product so that they can improve their product and make it as desired by its end customers.

      For these they use to contract it with some company and they provide these surveys to people who are Internet users and for each survey filling they are given some commission. Surveys are free and paid both. Check Online Surveys
    10. Data Entry
      Data is crucial to any organization. In large organizations daily they have thousands of entry to make and without which there entire system could even fail. So, on daily basis they need hundred's of people for doing this data entry task. They even pay good money for this job. It requires hardly 1-2hours daily and you get your commission.

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