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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Starting a Home-Based Business on a TIGHT budget

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business?

Have you wondered what it would be like to get up every morning and be in total control of your own future without having to depend on some other boss?
Maybe you simply want to supplement your income

You may be saying, "yes" in your mind and heart but your WALLET is saying NO! What can you do?...

Good News! There has never been a better time to start a home business and this is especially true for those on a little to hardly no budget. Why? 4 words:

The World Wide Web

The Internet has enabled millions of people all over the globe to start home businesses working from home in their pajamas. These entrepreneurs, with very little start up cash, can still compete in the global marketplace filling nitches and customer service gaps that the big corporations overlook.

Anyone with a service or something to sell can build a website and, using the available and sometimes free tools on the Internet, be in business almost instantly.

Setting up an Internet home business has much lower start up costs than the traditional "brick and mortar" alternative. IX web hosting has plans from only $3.95/mo + Free Setup - Click for details! With the old-fashioned business, there are significant ( $$ Thousands $$) overhead expenses which are usually due even before you can start making money including office rent, inventory, traditional advertising, insurance, employee laws and expenses, etc.

Starting an internet business has much lower start up costs because your store is in cyberspace and your office is in your home. You can find numerous low costs options for building websites online as well as suppliers who will ship your products to your customers as they are purchased instead of storing huge amounts of products which is expensive and takes up storage space

One of the best ways to get started on a low budget is by selling products on eBay. Millions of people are shopping on eBay every single day looking for just about every kind of product you can imagine. One of the reasons eBay is such a great place to start a home business on a budget is because the high traffic is already there and Ebay has already built a brand name and all you need to do is show up and post your products.

Once you have a website, one of the easiest ways to add revenue to your current income is with affiliate income. Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways to get started.


Many Internet retailers have their own affiliate programs that will pay you a high percentage of the final sale price to promote their products. Clickbank and Amazon are great places to get started.


Talk to you soon!