Are You Looking For The Best At Home Business To Start?

By | August 14, 2019

In today’s economy, it is so important to secure the future with a growing income. If you are looking for the best at home business to start this article will help you. We can no longer count on our government for making sound financial decisions that will secure our retirement. We must devise a plan to do it on our own. This article will discuss an approach in securing your future by creating a home business for you to prosper.

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What Kind of Business Is Right For You?

Making A List of Businesses You Can Do At Home

Where You Find Products To Sell

Learning The Skills To Be A Success

Conclusion

 

What Kind Of Business Is Right For you

With so many choices on what home business to start where do you begin to fulfill this desire? Where does one start to begin their research on what business is best for them?

One place to start to get an idea of what you might like to do is read How To Start An Online Business For Free.

Finding what you are good at is another place to start. Another key would be what are your passions? What really gets you excited when you do something? This would be the area that you want to focus on.

If someone asked your friends or family members what you do best, what answers would they get? Think about that for a moment. What are you really good at? Make a list of these qualities.

Do you have any experience with something that you really have a passion for? If not, do you know where you can go to learn how to do what you have a passion for? I would suggest finding people that do the something that you are interested in so that you can learn from them.

These are the questions that you need the answers to.

When I started my home-based business in 2006 I didn’t know what I wanted to do either. I knew I wanted to make retail sales online but I had no idea what these items were going to be.

I went to my city and legally filed for a business license and to the State for a tax certificate. This made me became eligible for tax deductions on my business.

With no knowledge of building a website, I decided to open an eBay store. I found a website that claimed to be a wholesaler of different products. I listed many of these products in my eBay store. This website would drop-ship the merchandise to my customer.

I soon found that I couldn’t compete with the stores selling electronics. These stores were selling items cheaper than I could buy them to sell. I finally found a product that had enough markup to it for me to make a little profit. It was Metal Detectors that you see people using to find buried treasure.

The best part about this learning experience was the tax deductions on my business. I didn’t make much profit from my business sales but my tax returns were much healthier than before.

Today, anyone can build a website, even a child. I’m talking about a WordPress Website. So no longer does a newbie to online marketing have to start an eBay store. For around the same costs as eBay, you can have a website, make affiliate sales, and make a very good income.

 

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Making A List Of Businesses You Can Do At Home

I recommend making a list on a sheet of paper. On one side of the sheet list your experience and what you are good at. On the other side list your passions or what you would really like to do for people. Then draw a line from what you are good at to what you have a passion for. This line represents a match.

You may have to do this several times to get your top three choices. Once you have selected your top three choices search on Google to see what kind of business best matches your three choices. You are narrowing your focus down to the best business that matches your experience, what you are good at, and what you have a passion for.

Once you have your top three selections and the best business match, now you want to search on Google again to see what kind of competition that you will compete against if you started a business at home.

This is where a keyword tool really comes in handy in finding competition, search volume, and traffic that you can get to a website. One of my favorite keyword tools to use for this is Jaaxy. You can use it for free by clicking on the button below.

Jaaxy keyword tool

NOTE: Competition in the marketplace is good. As you will find in Google, some markets have more competing businesses than others. Don’t let this intimidate you from starting a business. Remember, there are over two-billion people online every week. There is plenty of shoppers to sell your products to.

My recommendations are for you to follow your heart and do what you feel is right.

Where You Find Products To Sell

If you want to have actual products to sell and ship to customers then you will want to get the list of National Wholesalers from WorldWideBrands. This is the only business that specializes in REAL wholesalers and not a middleman.

WorldWideBrands has a database with all legitimate wholesalers licensed to sell in the USA. Find a wholesaler of a particular product, there may be two or more. Contact the wholesaler. Each one is solely independent and some will open an account with you and others won’t. Some do online sales and others don’t.

Having products to sell is much more complicated than being an affiliate of the same products. As an affiliate, all you do is put a picture of the product on your website, write content about the product, get visitors to your website and they click the link to the product. The link takes them to another website that actually has the product. If your visitor buys the product from your link, you get paid a commission. Very easy. No shipping, no inventory, No buying.

The best part about affiliate marketing is that your website never sleeps. It is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It never gets sick or takes vacations.

 

Learning The Skills to Be A Success

Having a business at home can seem like a daunting task, especially if you have never run a business. The difference between a brick and mortar business and a business that you operate at home, besides the location, is in how business is conducted.

A store waits for customers to enter their store and hope they buy. A business at home is done online.

Knowing how to get customers to your website does take some skill but it can be learned fairly easily. A good reference article is the Complete Beginners Guide To Affiliate Marketing.

There are two approaches to operating your home-based business online. You can teach yourself or learn from an experienced online marketer. What I did and I recommend this approach is to get the basic training – for free – from an online university. They give you ten free lessons, two websites, and a keyword tool.

This approach works best because there are no costs involved to start. You learn as you go.

The university I am talking about is the Wealthy Affiliate. I have been a member since 2014. I learn something new almost daily. This is my number one recommendation for anyone to learn how to be successful with online marketing.

Regardless of the business, you will still need knowledge of how to set up your website and get traffic to it. What better way is there to learn in the shortest amount of time?

To learn more about how you can “earn while you learn”, click on the button below.

Wealthy Affiliate link

 

Conclusion

The point to this article is to provide information based on how to secure your future with a business you operate at home. The future is not guaranteed and nor is employment. To be safe, it is wiser to have more than one stream of income to live on than having only one stream.

I hope that I have provided you with enough information to be able to make a good decision about starting a business at home.

There are many directions that one can go with a business online which is more than this short article can cover. I have provided the basics of deciding what kind of business you start at home, how to get it started, and where to go to get more training.

If you have any questions about this article you can direct your questions to me in the comment section, or submit your question on the contact form to this website.

I look forward to your reply and any comments, suggestions, or recommendations are gladly accepted.

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8 thoughts on “Are You Looking For The Best At Home Business To Start?

  1. Dave Sweney

    I hear from people all the time that are looking for the best at home business they can get started, and it often requires a lengthy conversation to first understand what they may be looking for (besides money) and then to point out the options that are out there today (there are many, as you point out).

    One of the top recommendations I will make is affiliate marketing, because it is inexpensive to get started and build, and it is one that is cumulative over a period of time when it comes to time versus money earned. I mean by that you will put the work in initially, and that work will earn you money again and again.

    You end up spending far less time to earn more than with some online businesses and the payout can go on month after month. I have seen affiliate marketers scale their business up to 4 figure and more incomes per month. It is possible. I like this model a lot and use it and others for my online businesses. 

    The drop shipping model will also work and maybe faster (affiliate marketing does take time to develop), but there is more work involved and it can tie up more cash as you scale up the business from my experience. I would always recommend starting with affiliate marketing, then expanding if desired to other marketing segments once you have some skills… 

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      Every word you said, Dave, is exactly true. Personally, drop-shipping didn’t work for me because I wasn’t using a real wholesaler. But Affiliate Marketing does work for everyone that commits the time and work to get it started. Thank you for sharing.

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  2. RoDarrick

    Interesting information you have provided here. Following the suggestion you have furnished, I was able to bring out two areas to which I look to major my business online and they are writing and tutoring for money. When I searched on google, I saw varieties of ways to earn writing gigs, such as being a freelance writer or being a blogger. While on tutoring, I saw quite a lot more opportunities to tutor online. I guess if I was to major in blogging, because of its lucrative nature, I would need to learn about affiliate marketing and that’s great. Following your expertise, I am going to venture into affiliate marketing. Thank you for the tips!

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      You are welcome, Ro, I hope your affiliate marketing business is a complete success.

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  3. Dave

    Hallo there Kenneth, 

    I am so grateful I found this post. It is exactly what I was looking for. Someone telling you that it is possible to start a home based business and actually showing you how to get started and find something you love that you can work with. I saw this post and I asked myself, “Where has this post been all my life?”

    I am following step by step your guide and what to use to create a profitable business. I have already bookmarked it so that I go through it again and again until I get it right. I will also be following your website for new insights. For your immense help, you have just gained a loyal reader of your website.

    Looking forward to more of your help. Thanks heaps.

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      I am glad to be of service to you, Dave, and don’t hesitate in asking me questions about something you don’t understand. Cheers

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  4. Letha Kitchens

    Great article with some great suggestions. I am so happy I found this article because I just started in the affiliate market. It’s an awesome idea to make money and prepare for the future especially when you can start with a program such as Wealthy Affiliate. I just joined their platform and already I have a website. I am so happy to belong to a university such as Wealthy Affiliate because you can earn while you learn.

    I feel that having a business at home is the best way that I can earn an income and still take care of my children. I see where it’s working, but you have to spend time with it before it starts making money. 

    Thank you for sharing this article.

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    1. Kenneth Merrick Post author

      Thank you, Letha, for reading my article. You are right about the Wealthy Affiliate University. They have a great training facility that includes many online tools such as Jaaxy keyword tool. A million-plus number of members can’t be all bad.

      Reply

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