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Starting your Home Business from scratch

Key factors that you need to start your Home Business

• Attitude: It is essential that you approach your new venture with the right attitude as it is attitude that will determine altitude. If you want to reach the stars you have to have a positive approach and have belief in what you are doing. Many people start off with the approach of "I will try this for a while and see how it goes" or "I will start off slow and see how it goes". Don't bother! The "I will see how it goes" brigade have already assumed that they will fail and, guess what, they will. Winners in all walks of life commit to their activity fully, no half measures, and plan to succeed. Starting a home business is no different.
  
  Starting a home business is something that you have chosen to do because it offers the possibility of changing your life. If that is what you want give it the attention and commitment you owe yourself. No one forces you to start your business so be positive and give your full attention and commitment and follow the steps in this article to gain the confidence that you will be successful.
• Passionate belief: In choosing your home business make sure it is something that you are comfortable with and that you can believe in. If you can become passionate about your business you will enjoy learning the new skills and find your days rewarding. We all start out with the objective of making some money but if you are to succeed it is much easier if you have belief in what you are doing. When you are just starting it is hard to be really passionate about the opportunity because you do not know enough about it yet but your sponsor does. Is your sponsor passionate about what he does or is it just a money making opportunity? If your sponsor has not got a passion for the business you are less unlikely to develop a deep belief and passion for your business.
  
  If you can find an opportunity that appeals to you as a person and you enjoy what you do you are likely to enjoy learning the new skills and so become successful. If you enjoy and have a passion for what you do this will communicate itself through your demeanour and voice and it will attract people to your opportunity. When you meet someone who is really passionate about something it draws you to listen to them and their enthusiasm is infectious.
• DMO: You have now found an opportunity you can believe in and be passionate about and a great attitude so what next? You need to determine how much time you have to devote to your business and when. When you have decided when you can work on your business you can establish a daily method of operation or DMO. This is something many people trip over and yet it is not difficult to master. Step one is to buy an A5 or A4 diary with a day per page or an electronic equivalent. The format depends upon you but choose one that you find easy and where you can quickly see where you have available time.
  
  The first thing you do is block out those times when you cannot work on the business. Most people who start a home business either have a full time job or family commitments and so you need to put these in your diary as you cannot do the business at these times. Whether it be your working hours in your job or having to collect the children from school these are events that must happen. Your home business time is equally valuable and also need to be put in your schedule. I call these periods red time and they are immovable. If you do not block the time out in your diary you will always find something else to do! This is the trap many new people fall into and they get through the week having done very little to progress their business and wonder why the business doesn't work. The business does, it is just that they don't!
• Goals and Targets: Having established when and how much time you have for your home business you can now put together a plan. A plan includes goals and targets. Everyone hates targets. Now they run their own business they think that they don't need them but the reality is you need them more than ever. People with targets achieve more and quicker than those without them. Life is a lot more fun if you go quicker. Always look for legitimate ways to go quicker. At the end of every major project people always wish that they had gone faster and this is no different.
  
  What is a goal? A goal is a necessary step on the path to achieving your dreams. Dreams remain just that unless you have goals and goals are achieved by hitting the targets required to achieve the goal. For example, let's assume that your dream is to live in your dream villa in the sun, pursuing your hobbies and not having to work. To achieve that dream you will need the money to buy the villa and have enough investment income that you do not need to work.
  
  You decide on the price of the villa and how much money you need to live in the way you want but that is still not your goal as it is missing the essential second ingredient of time. Let us now assume that you want to achieve this within 10 or 15 years. We can now define an monetary objective for 15 years time and you have now defined a goal. With this goal in mind you need to determine some intermediate goals, say yearly. As you have now set some high level yearly goals you can start to translate these into quarterly or monthly targets. The monthly targets can be further broken down into weeks. You are now in a position to start working out the specific activities on a daily basis that you need to do to hit your targets and these you can put into your diary.
  
  What does all this achieve? Well you have now got a diary which shows when you can work on your business and you know exactly the activities you need to be working on on. For example if you need to gain two customers a week and you are using flyers you can develop a plan for the week. Let us assume that you convert 50% of your contacts into customers and that you get 0.5% response on flyers. To have four people contact you from your flyers (you need 4 to convert 2) you need to distribute 800 flyers x 0.5% = 4. If it takes 1.5 hours to distribute 200 flyers you need to do 4 slots of that amout of time and you can put that into your red time allocated to your business in the diary.
  
  At the end of the week you can measure how many flyers you did and whether the response rate was as expected. Assuming you did the correct number of flyers if the response rate is higher or lower (and do not just look at one week but a few months of data) you can adjust the number of flyers needed up or down to achieve the target. It is this ability to measure results against the targets that will allow corrective action which in turn is what leads you to achieve your goals. Without the targets you do not know if you are doing well or not. With the targets you can gain confidence that you will achieve your goals if you take the necessary steps to achieve your targets.
  
  N.B. It is the confidence gained by establishing a DMO in order to reach targets that will build your confidence in what you are doing. As you know exactly what you are doing on any given day and you can check that it is delivering the results you have targeted. This will remove most of the apprehension in you new venture and increase the excitement as you start to see results.
• 90 Day Plan:
  
  It is important to run your business through a series of 90 Day plans. This is a long enough period to see the results of your plan and short enough to keep it live and real to you. A 90 day plan is just a daily plan executed 90 times. Do not make it over complicated but make sure you have clear targets and goals to be achieved by the end of it. This way you will be able to look back and see just how far you have already travelled along the path to success.
• The Price of Success:
  
  From the above it is implicit that you have to be organised, disciplined and be prepared to put in the work. The work has to be consistent and in line with your goals. Daily activity is more important than you may realise. 2 hours a day is better than 12 hours at the weekend. this is just the way it is so accept it and make sure that you do daily activity. You will get out what you put in so put in the most you can. Network marketing is not a get rich quick scheme but rather a get rich slow. In 10 or 15 years time you will not mind as you will have your dream but meanwhile you have to do the hard graft. That is why is is best to find a business you can be passionate about as then the effort is still fun while you are doing it. If you are not prepared to pay the price do not expect to live your dreams.
  
• Have something good to say:
  
  You need to become knowledgeable about your business. Read the manuals and literature provided and attend the company meetings. If you have something worthwhile to say and have a passion for your business you will attract people towards you. Make sure that you are equipped to promote you business with knowledge and enthusiasm. If you do not know what you are talking about you will not be credible and the benfit of the product or service that you are offering will be diminished in the eyes of the potential customers

Legal and Tax Formalities

You need to inform the Inland Revenue that you have started your own home business. The taxman will not inform your employer which is many people's concern. You should find a local accountant to help you prepare your accounts. They will advise you on what you need to do but in it's simplest form just keep a copy of all purchase invoices and expenses and receipts for all your sales. Put all these in a shoe box and the accountants will know how to deal with them. It is also wise to open a busness bank account so that you can keeep your business and personal affairs separate.

Legal structure. Ask your accountant and check with the company the correct business status for your business. It may be a limited company, sole trader or partnership.

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