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!

Marketing includes matters such as pricing and packaging of the product and creation of demand by advertising and sales campaigns. There are other options, of course, like product creation, resale rights marketing, joint ventures and the likes, but they are merely secondary to the above.

If you take the freelance route, it is important to ensure that all rights to profit from the final product, or any materials produced in its making, remain yours. Bookkeeping, physical product creation or delivery of goods can be done better with specialized help. Determining the purpose of the product is vital in niche product creation.

Implementation of Methodology – The choice of implementation of Six Sigma methodology depends on whether development is required on existing processes (DMAIC) or on new process/product design creation (DMADV). Determining what you really want to sell, something that you can be relaxed selling is the first step at the creation of a niche product. With the technological advancements in the hosting industry, from automated control panels and scripts that simplify creation of accounts; to complete turnkey solutions, there is no excessive need to worry about spending time on the actual product sold to the customer.

For instance, you should be prepared to either perform yourself or to subcontract the completion of the following tasks:- Product idea research (are there any existing products or patents already existing for this idea)- Product specification document training (what it will do, how it will look, how will it be powered, and how the user will interface with it)- Marketing study (what it will be named, who would buy this, how much would they pay, how will we get customers to purchase the product)- Schematic or electronic circuit design process- Creation of a bill of material or BOM and an approved vendor’s list or AVL for each component in the design, preferably with multiple sources identified, with a BOM and AVL for each assembly level in the product- Printed circuit board layout design process (single sided board, double sided board, or multilayer board; size of the PCB; board material)- Mechanical packaging design with user interfaces (displays, buttons, switches, key. This removes all product creation costs from your budget as a marketer.

No other database of affiliate programs offers such a possibility for profit on either the affiliate side or the product creation site. Your chosen niche should allow for the creation of more than one product or service.

There are several marketing strategies that are necessary in the creation of a successful e-commerce web site – Email marketing (broadcasting) of prospects/customers – Effective use of auto responders (generate automatic email messages) – Online Newsletter – Online Form / Survey to capture your prospect’s email address – Electronic Product Delivery (if you sold a digital product) – Advertisement (Ad) Tracking – Back End Sales – Affiliate program etc.

Lots of people are interested in being an entrepreneur. One of the most appealing things about being an entrepreneur is having the ability to control your time at work. You see, when you are an entrepreneur, you don’t have to work eight hours a day, for five days a week, in order to profit. With regular jobs, you have to stick with a strict schedule in order to earn money. However, with a home based business, you control your time. Sometimes you’d need to work more, but after that there would be long spells of not having to work much.Moreover, entrepreneurship can bring your bigger earnings over time. Entrepreneurship is traditionally hard. However, thanks to technology, there is now a way to be an entrepreneur without doing all the traditional things. Home based businesses are basically business ventures that can be operated from home. Most home based business entrepreneurs base their business online, and have an official retail website. As compared to traditional entrepreneurship, home based business is a lot easier to do. This is because unlike with traditional business-making, you don’t really need a degree on this to succeed.All You Need Are the Basics and Some TrainingHome based business works in such a way where you manage very little of it as soon as everything is well-established. Obviously, for you to earn a lot in a fast and hassle-free way, you first have to make things well established. You do this by planning out your business properly. Figure out everything you need to do on paper. After all is planned out, start putting the plan into action. After all is put into action, start marketing your business.Of course, you cannot market an online-based business using traditional marketing techniques. What you need to do is employ techniques like SEO marketing, ads marketing and social media marketing to prosper. Your goal is to drive website traffic. This is because website traffic drives earnings; your chances of earning more are directly proportionate to how many people visit your retail site.In order to learn more about what you need to do when it comes to running home based businesses, you should read. Thankfully for you, there are many articles available online on this topic. For something more specific, you can opt to watch instructional DVD, which can be purchased online. These are more in-depth tutorials about online business and new entrepreneurship.These can be very helpful, especially for people with no business background. Truly, with the help of these, one could be an entrepreneur in no time. Having a self-sufficient business based from the home is possible if everything is planned out well. All you’ll need to do in the long run is to check on things to make sure everything is functioning right. But once you properly establish your home based business, you’ll have ownership over your time. You’ll have plenty of leisure to for yourself once you get to plan and manage your online business well.