You may have a dream of starting a “Home Based Business” but wondering about the set up expenditure that involved in starting such a business. This Business set up expense has stop many of us from having a business. You approach the Bank with your plan, they review it and say to you what a great application you have, but your application for the loan was turned down, because you could not get your “Great, Great Grand Mother”, to co-sign with you.Meanwhile, you are going to work daily pinging away on your Boss computer, without realizing that you can use a PC to get your business started without the big over-head expenditure, associated with the traditional business. All you really need is a computer to turn things around.You may have been thinking about opening a conventional business, but all you have to do is to swing your focus to the Internet and start your business there. The World wide web has supplied a platform for anyone who want to start a business, to do so, with very little overhead expenditure. You can promote physical goods and services, or you can sell digital products.Opening your “Home Based Business” does not have to be that pricey. It is much less expensive to start your business from home, than to be renting office or shop space. You already have all the “fixtures and fittings” in your home, and as I said before, all you require is a “Lap top” to get your “Home Based Business” Rolling.Even though the Online world has made it dead easy for you to start your own “Home Based Business”, there are still some expense involved. You can not escape from that if you are thinking about starting a respectable “Home Based Business”. But this expenditure is negligible!To set up your Business properly, you will require a:Domain Name
A Website or Blog
Web hosting
An auto responderThese are the four major tools you will need to set up a legitimate “Home Based Business”. And your over-head expenses is less than $200.00.You may be saying to yourself, this is all well and good, but I do not have the experience. You may not have had the experience for your current job either, but you were given a chance to work, and you learnt as you went along. You became proficient in doing the Boss work.There are numerous step-by-step video courses on the web that will get you started without delay and have you making money within 30 days. I highly recommend the “Affiliate Code” by “Michael Jones”. This course shows you, step-by-step, how to make money online, without spending any money at all. A great video course for learners or those who have not made any money as yet

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

Starting a home based business is a good option for those who want to have a great work life balance. Care should be taken to make sure money is not poured down the drain in the name of starting a business. People preach the many pitfalls that can be avoided and the wise do take heed and tread with caution.Is it all Doom and Gloom?The fragile world economy features in the news everyday and so does how things are expected to get even tougher. A lot of people are anxious about how to support a decent lifestyle. For most families it is almost impossible to cover expenses on two salaries with increase in food costs, household bills and other basic needs. A home based business is a great consideration for anyone who wants to supplement their income or create flexible working hours to meet family demands, get rid of unemployment or solve other issues.Working from home is a great way to earn some extra income and for some people their entire income comes from their home business. The best thing about this type of set-up is the low start-up costs. A home based business is not as easy as it sounds though; it requires a lot of planning with the right knowledge and skills.Pillar 1 – If It Is Too Good To Be True It Probably IsYou probably have seen a lot of adverts online about how someone made £10,000 in one day. We will all like to strike it lucky and find that deal of a lifetime. But beware, if you are thinking of working from home, do not get sucked into these false claims of making millions in a few months. There are businesses that generate a healthy profit but think about it, if those claims were true everyone will be doing it.Consider the risks involved before you take up any offer for a home based business. Carry out adequate research about the business before you commit funds to it. Search yourself, if this is what you really want to do or if you are doing it for the love of money. Remember the love of money can only satisfy temporarily.Pillar 2 – Start with Minimal CostStarting a home based business should not cost the earth. Just because you are not renting an office space, does not mean you should blow your budget on a state of the art computer system, an executive desk and a recliner chair with a built in massage service. Manage your budget effectively especially when starting off as money may not come in immediately but bills still need to be paid. Beware of the stationery habit; it can spiral out of control especially for those who work from home.Pillar 3 – Dream Big Start SmallDon’t bite off more than you can chew when starting a business from home. Consider your working hours, family schedule, space within your home and other important factors before you commit to your customers. Do you have the space to store the raw materials for your products? Can you manage more than 10 clients a month without impinging on family time? These are some of the important factors you need to consider when you start your home based business. Remember your business reputation is at stake if you do not deliver on your promise.Pillar 4 – Easy MaintenanceMany people who choose to work from home are probably tired of the status quo. So why complicate things even further by setting up a home based business that is too complicated to run. This opportunity should give you the chance to follow your passion and run a business too. Working from home should be a pleasure not another daunting task you hate to wake up to. You should set things on your own terms and within certain guidelines. If you intend to laze about the house and pretend to be working, you might as well stay in your current job. It takes a lot of dedicated hard work to get any business off the ground – a home based business is no exception.All these pillars might sound like child’s play when it comes to starting a home-based business, but one wrong turn can lead to a frustrating experience. Make sure you follow your passion when starting a home based business and understand the basics of running a business. Consider the 4 pillars stated above in addition to other relevant information when starting out to help you stay on the right track and enjoy the process.