An aromatherapy home based business is one of the better make money at home ideas for artistic, heart-led types.Scent blending is an intuitive process – more of an art than a science.An aromatherapist spends her days enveloped in natural fragrances. While the perfumer works at blending the essential oils, the oils work their therapeutic magic on the perfumer.Before You Start An Aromatherapy Home Based Business*Make sure you really know how to work with perfume oils. If perfume making is your hobby this probably isn’t an issue for you. But, if you are a fragrance newbie, you may not realize just how much knowledge, skill and practice it will take to gain enough proficiency to successfully run an aromatherapy home based business. There are hundreds of different plant oils. You will need to understand the effects of each one. Beyond knowing what each oil does, you’ll need to understand how to blend them into nose-pleasing, effective combinations.   There are online courses which can get you up to speed in both these areas.*Develop a unique product line.   Practice will teach you which kinds of personal care products you most enjoy making. You can offer perfume oils, body butters and lotions, bath salts, lip balms, hair dressing oils, shampoos and conditioners, lip balm… More is better as the greater the number of offerings you have, the better your chances are of making a sale to any one customer. Just keep it manageable. Leave off anything you have difficulty making as you will end up making tons of it.Remember to differentiate your line. Think about how many lines of body care products already exist. I’ll bet you can easily tell me the differences between them.  A copycat line will not be well received by the marketplace. What is it that sets your body care products apart?*Find and work with only the best suppliers. The quality of the oils is not uniform across all suppliers and it makes a huge difference in the quality of your finished product. Additionally, you’ll want to obtain the best available prices. You will also need attractive packaging and quality printing for your labels.Only after all of this is in place will you be ready to go into production.Marketing Your Aromatherapy Home Based Business*Sell your products online through your perfume business website. This kind of website is not hard to build. It only consists of 5-10 pages. You can do it yourself.   Or, you can outsource this project if your budget allows.*Do in-home parties. You don’t have to have them in your home. Other people will let you use theirs in exchange for free products. Be sure to have free samples and a price list for each party guest to take home to encourage reorders.*Another thing you can do at home to promote your aromatherapy business is teach a perfume blending workshop. If space is a problem, rent a public space. Most local libraries have meeting rooms that they will rent to you for very little money. Churches and recreational centers are alternate options.

If you’ve ever found yourself bored of the same-old work-load, same old people, and same old miserable boss, day after day, you’ll know that you’ve been in the corporate grind for too long, and the creative of us out there have even sometimes pondered about how much better being your own boss could be, but few people act on this! Why? Because they don’t know the amount of advantages opening a Home Based Businesses has to offer.You don’t have to be an entrepreneur to start your own business at home. More and more people are doing it, whether they’re looking to spend more time with friends and family, or just to escape the rat race, and if this sounds like you, you could be making the right decision with a Home Based Business.One of the main advantages to taking this step, is the amount of independence and freedom that you gain simply by getting the time back that you spent journeying to and from work. The average American worker spends an incredible 348 hours a year travelling to and from work. With a home based business, you’ll be surprised about how much time you suddenly have on your hands! And of course, being the owner, you make the decisions, so no uniforms, no set working schedules, anything that used to grind you down at your corporate job you can abolish! Within reason of course!Of course, in order to successfully run your home based business, you need a strong personal drive, control and of course, time management, but all these can be easy acquired when you’re earning your own money! The will to work is stronger when you know that the harder you work, the more money you can earn! Because lets not forget that you get to keep whatever you earn, which eliminates the bore of waiting for that promotion at work, or badgering your boss for that raise. A top tip here however would be to not over-work yourself! Yes earning money is fantastic, but you won’t earn any less by taking time out for yourself, and besides, taking an hour out of your day to get away from work, prepare yourself some lunch and watch a little TV can be a brilliant way to break up your day. And by doing this you’re saving yourself the money spent on getting food at work, and spent money on gas to get to work.You could also save money on your taxes. Yep, that’s right! By owning your own business at home, you could actually deduct part of your home’s expenses as your business expenses. This could include anything from property tax, insurance, mortgage or even your household maintenance!If you’re family orientated, you will know how difficult it can be missing out on your children’s special moments by being at work, but with a home based business, you can be there for them a lot more, especially if your children are young. You could see them off to school for example, because you won’t have to leave early for work, you can be there when they get home because you won’t be stuck in traffic, and if any of your children get sick you can be there for them without the hassle of calling in sick yourself to bosses who sometimes just don’t understand the importance of family, so if anything unexpected happens, you can be there to handle it, which also largely reduces stress.A home based business could be just what you need if you’re a creative person. It can be an amazing opportunity for you to finally live out all those passions and hobbies, and actually make money out of them at the same time! We all know if something interests us, we want to do it, and time will fly when we are. You’ll find yourself waking up every morning feeling refreshed and raring to go, and you could actually be someone who loves their job.With so many benefits to home based businesses, you would be crazy not to take advantage of what a home-based business could offer you today.

My husband is a work from home dad and whenever I tell people that he gets to work from home the first response I get is how wonderful it must be. A lot of people I talk with would love to work from home and have a home based business. Some of their ideas of people who work from home include sleeping in until you are ready to get up, going to work in your pajamas, or not having to work for a boss that controls your every move. Some of these things are true for my husband’s work, but the reality of a work from home job and having a home based business sometimes out weighs the luxuries.There are definitely perks to a work from home job and running a home based business, but the challenges should be looked at and understood before taking the plunge.One of the most important qualities of a person who can work from home effectively is SELF-MOTIVATION. A person who can motivate themselves to work on something even if it is not the work that they want to do at the moment will have a huge advantage. Being able to go from one attention grabbing task to another is important. It is very difficult to stay focused when your attention is being pulled from what you need to do to want you or someone else wants you to do.Additionally, running a home based business also requires educating yourself continually on the business you are involved. Watching TV sometimes seems like an easier alternative than learning more about what you need to do for your work from home business. To help with this it is best to have a home based business you are interested in. In other words, don’t get involved with selling candles if you have no interest in them.Another important quality of a person who can work from home effectively is that they are WELL ORGANIZED AND TASK ORIENTED. Knowing what needs to be done and getting it done within a reasonable amount of time are very important for managing a home based business. There are a lot of activities vying for a person’s time (i.e., the laundry needs to be done, the bills need to be paid, the yard needs to be cleaned up, etc.) This is true even if you are working for someone else. However, when you are working for someone else you are a little more conscience of what needs to be done, because you don’t want to lose your job. When you work for yourself you need to establish priorities and keep yourself accountable to do them.Procrastination can be a huge enemy if you want to run a home based business, because there is not a given deadline for everything and if you continually put off the work that needs to be done until it must be done you won’t make a dime. Creating deadlines and having another person hold you accountable may be the extreme you need to go to keep yourself working.Another enemy of running your own business is having too much to do. A person who comes up with idea after idea for their home based business can quickly become overwhelmed by what they want to achieve. The best way to keep you moving in the right direction is to write down your ideas and prioritize them. When a new idea comes write it down to be reviewed later and work to finish the project you are currently on.Having a WORK-LIFE BALANCE is very challenging when running a home based business. When you work outside of the home you can escape from the workplace to the comfort of your home, but when you work from home it is a lot harder to find a place to escape to. Another challenge is knowing when to leave work, especially when you have children at home who want you to play with them or help them with their homework. Having a work-life balance can be difficult because of the amount of work that needs to be done. Even an established home based business person can find themselves inundated by their work. Knowing when to stop and take a brake is very important. One way to accomplish this is to give yourself business hours or create a schedule and stick to it or have one particular area to work in and another to live in.One of the biggest challenges when you work from home is the FINANCIAL OBLIGATION that comes with having your own business. It is difficult to not have a regular stream of income, because most people have bills and debts that need to be paid regularly. Some ways to help meet this challenge are to make more money than you can ever need (not the best reality scenario), reduce or eliminate the amount of debt you have and become very thrifty with your money, or keep a part-time regular stream of income to meet the regular bill need.Anyone who runs a home based business needs to become a good accountant. Not only do have to run a home based business but you have to have a part-time work from home job. Documenting your income and spending must become a habit. If you have a hard time keeping receipts pay for everything with a credit card and pay it off at the end of the month (make sure you have a designated business only card). The best way to document your spending is to use a program like Microsoft Money or Quicken.The last factor for financial obligations, when running a home based business, is taxes. When you work for someone else they have to pay part of your social security and medicare taxes, but when you work from home and for yourself you get to pay both parts. You also have to pay taxes to the federal government quarterly. Learning about taxes, tax write-offs and having an accountant can help you with this factor.By knowing the challenges of running a home based business you can determine if a work at home job is for you. If you do choose to work from home enjoy the perks when you can!