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If you are planning on beginning a business, your best bet is to start out part time while you are earning a full time income at your present job. If you are like most people who are existing from payday to payday – you don’t have a lot of money to invest in a full time business. No need to worry! Just use your favorite hobby as your business base and grow from there! There’s no telling where you will be 2 to 3 years down the road. Perhaps you can even tell your present boss to “take that job and shove it” Wouldn’t that be great? Using your present hobby or favorite pastime as your business base has many benefits.Why? Because any business you decide to become involved in should be doing something you love – something you believe in – something you would work at no matter what income it would generate. This will give you the stamina to see your business through the beginning hard times and times when there is more work to do than you can handle. We all know we can give it 110% of our abilities because we procrastinate getting through it and just want to get it over with. That’s why it’s vitally important to dearly love the product or service you have chosen to build your business around. Do you like cooking? Start a recipe newsletter for others who like the same thing and sell your recipes by publishing a simple booklet. Do you enjoy making crafts? Sell them by mail order or through the internet (Be sure to mark up the price for shipping and handling). Do you enjoy working on cars? Print and distribute flyers in your neighborhood listing your prices. Write a small booklet or how to manual and sell it through mail order. Do you enjoy computer programming? Write a program and sell through shareware groups or even to mail order computer owners. Yes – just about anything you love doing can be magically transformed into a business opportunity for you. Some items might only sell well in your neighborhood, while some products and services do well in mail order or the internet.If you decide to sell through mail order, all you need to do is write a simple ad and have it typeset. Start out with a smaller 1-inch, 2-inch or 3-inch ad. Ask the customer to send a “first class stamp” or “$1.00” for more information. When they write you, include an 8X11” sheet detailing your prices. Make sure you have a small order form to make it easy to order your product or service. And of course, include a cover letter stating that you appreciate their inquiry and look forward to doing business with them in the near future. You’d be surprised how many sales have been lost because a business didn’t take the time to write a cover letter and personalize the mailing.Also, start educating your self by reading and researching other home-based businesses. Before I opened up my business I read national publications like “Small Business Opportunities”, “Spare Time Magazine”, “Entrepreneur” and “Home Office Computing”. Although there was some full page ads in there filled with hype (Claiming to make me $1 Million dollars in a month) – the articles are excellent. You should use these publications as well as books. on starting a business to further your knowledge. As with any hobby, it will probably take time (probably many months) to see a profit but think of it this way: Most people that have a hobby know they have to spend money to take part in their hobby. It only makes sense to invest money in advertising your hobby to others so you can eventually make some of that money back in sales for your own business!
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Ronnie Altamirano is a mail order dealer of many different products and services. Also publisher of many different mail order publications. You can find some great mailorder/small business opportunities from many dealers at mailorderbusiness.biz
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