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Many people wish to become an entrepreneur and own their own business. While buying franchise has many upsides to it, there are also the downsides and risks that you take. It is extremely expensive to get a franchise up and running, so there are many things that you must consider before purchasing a franchise. There are many positives to owning your own business, but it is important to be cautious with a large investment such as buying franchise.

Buying franchise can reduce your investment risk by allowing you to work with an established company, but it does not come free by any means. One of the costs that are put on the bill is the initial franchise fee, which may be non-refundable and cost thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. That is why it is important to make sure you know what you are getting into before you make anything official.

Other costs that you may run into include costs to rent, build and equip the building, along with the initial inventory to get running. While the list goes on and on including operating licenses and insurance, you get the gist of it that it is expensive to starting a business and buying franchise rights.

It is important before investing in a franchise that you know how much money you have and are willing to pay to get the franchise running. When running a business there are always risks that you take, so it is important to consider how much money you can afford to lose in buying franchise. Sometimes purchasing a franchise with a partner can be beneficial to help reduce the high charges you will encounter. Not everyone can afford to purchase a franchise without some financing, so if you are a person that needs financing it is important that you know where to go before buying franchise.

As this is a big investment, don’t be afraid to shop around and visit several franchise exhibitors that you are interested in. Listen to the exhibitors’ presentation and ask questions to make sure that this is the franchise for you. By visiting several franchise exhibitors in the type of industry that interests you, you can get information such as initial franchise fee and additional start-up costs and other information from numerous companies. This will help you narrow your decision down and determine which franchise is best for you.

There are many risks that you will be taking by investing such a large amount of money into a business, but in the end there are so many benefits that outweigh the risks in buying franchise. You can wake up every morning excited to go to work knowing the franchise you own you are interested in. Just remember, it is important to know how much money you have to invest, shop around before buying franchise, and have fun with it as it is a life changing opportunity.

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Entrepreneurs must have a vision of where they want their company to be in the future. In addition, the entrepreneur must be able to communicate this vision in an exciting manner to employees and investors, so that they share the vision and are motivated to help achieve it.

Unlike a business plan, a vision doesn’t provide a specific roadmap for a business. Rather, a vision paints a picture of what the organization strives to become in the future. A leader with a strong vision motivates the team to achieve this picture, regardless of the action plan that will be employed.

Vision provides motivation to both the leader and employees. It gives employees something that they can believe in and rally around. While it doesn’t tell the employees what to do to achieve it, having vision instilled in them helps positively mold their decision-making when problems must be solved that don’t have clear answers.

A strong vision combined with a strong business plan is critical to the success of a growing venture. The vision motivates everyone to achieve success, while the plan guides them to where they need to go. In addition, the plan is significant in that it documents the vision. By “cementing” the vision on paper, the team gains more confidence that the vision will not be easily changed and that the organization is truly committed to achieving it.

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Nowadays, prototypes are made of practically all new machines, and prototypes are more commonly referred to as test machines. They are invented with the intention of demonstrating the qualities of a new product to clients and stakeholders. These people know that the prototype is an incomplete model of the final product, and is manufactured just to show the potential attributes of the final product. It can be said that no idea can actually be sold without having a prototype.

As prototyping is intimately connected with product development, there are many prototype makers who are involved in this process. Thousands of new items are offered in the marketplace every year. Each has to go through a number of steps to ensure their large-scale distribution. As there are numerous pitfalls to be overcome while attaining this, it is quite important to use the services of a reputed prototype maker. The prototype maker can also help you decide whether the expense of building the prototype and seeking patent protection is worthwhile, through a professional patent search.

As prototype makers know the connection between product design and prototyping very well, they help you while working together with you to enhance the likelihood of success of your invention. The prototype makers build prototypes at their own shop using the least cost. Most of the prototype makers help you by first building a good-looking and working prototype, with accompanying good packaging. The prototype maker then helps you obtain the appropriate legal protection, by producing the engineering drawings. They also help you generate manufacturing pricing data and secure positive feedback from potential stores. So make it a point to enlist the help of a prototype maker when venturing to create a prototype of your invention, as it saves on costs and time. Of course, to prevent future misunderstandings, their fees, and your deadline, have to be mutually consented and decided upon.

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What do you think is the number one wish of the average woman when it comes to her work/career life?

I recently did a survey of 100 women, single, married women/stay at home moms, and divorced women with children, in which I asked the question, “If could decide what your work life would look like, what would you choose? The overwhelming majority answered one of the following ways:

a) Start my own business, be my own boss, make my own schedule
b) Do some type of work that I could make a good living, and have the ability to stay at home with my children.

Their greatest wish with regard to their work/career lives was to have the ability to either run their own businesses, or have the ability to make money at home.

The married women/stay at home moms that I interviewed told me that their wish for starting their own businesses was to contribute to the household income, whether or not it was a financial necessity. The divorced women in the group, wanted not to be completely dependent on child support, so that if and when it no longer existed, they did not have to worry about what they were going to do for money.

According to the National Foundation for Women Business Owners, and the U.S. Census Bureau, “Between 1997 and 2004, the estimated growth rate in the number of women-owned firms was nearly twice that of all firms (17% vs. 9%), employment expanded at twice the rate of all firms (24% vs. 12%).”

Those are some incredible numbers. More and more women are starting their own businesses. It seems to be the way to go. Back in 2001, I started my first business. I’ve since started two other businesses, all of which I diligently work at from the comfort of my home office. Granted, one of them requires that I be ‘out in the field’ from time to time, but I wouldn’t trade it for a regular nine to five for all the money in the world.

I know many women who have started their own successful businesses. Most of whom started (as I did) as the result of a divorce. I have one friend in particular, who used to have constant arguments with her ex-husband about various issues. When they would argue, he would ask her loudly, “Should I call my lawyer?” Every time he asked that question, she would quietly say “No.” Little did he know she was working toward opening her own daycare center. When all of her ducks were in a row, they had another argument, at which time he asked his usual question, “Should I call my lawyer?” This time, she looked him dead in the eye, and replied, “Yeah. You should call your lawyer. Get him to call my lawyer. Here’s his card. We’re done.” She now owns and runs a successful daycare center from her home. She also has a 6 month waiting list of children, who are waiting to get into her daycare.

Are you interested in making your own money at home? From typing at home, to starting your own catering company, some of the best home based business opportunities exist right now! Do some research, choose one, and go for it!

To Your Success!

Melissa Harvey

Copyright 2006 Melissa Harvey All Rights Reserved.

Melissa Harvey is a divorced mother of two. She currently owns and runs two successful businesses that she operates from her home. Find more of Melissa’s home business suggestions at http://reallifeafterdivorce.blogspot.com.

From a home office standpoint, there are several legal issues to consider before using your home as the location for your own company. Firstly, is your home in an area zoned for business? Check out your local zoning and planning rules to ensure you don’t have to acquire any particular sanction or planning permission, or have any limitations on conducting business from your home. For instance, if your business necessitates customers or clientle calling to your home then parking may be a problem.

There are also the relevant tax issues of operating a business (or simply working) from your home. If you want to claim a tax rebate for a virtual home office, local government has often complicated matters to the point that you can’t use that taxable space for anything other than your work. So, if you’re working from your dining room table then you probably can’t take that home office deduction.

There are many advantages to using a virtual office for your business, instead of running it from your own home:-

- Environmental benefits from not driving a motor vehicle in slow-moving traffic and polluting the air Reduction in traffic congestion.
- Lessening of stress levels from not having to drive in congested traffic to and from work
- Time saved not commuting to an office
- Financial benefits from savings in car fuel, wear and tear on your car, business clothing, and lunches out
- Benefits from being able to manage your time more efficiently
- Productivity benefits from being able to work when you are most productive
- Health benefits of being able to eat a better diet that includes less fast food
- Ability to get physical exercise when required
- Reduced stress benefits
- Benefit of living a more balanced life
- A more relaxing work environment
- More opportunities to hire part-time or contract workers
- A larger pool of employee applicants because location isn’t as important
- Ability to work from home and share home chores and child care

If you want to make your ads and sales letters “monkey simple” to read, comprehend and understand…then listen to this:

The late, great copywriter Eugene Schwartz once said ad copy should be like a display window. It should be clear and not call attention to itself in any way whatsoever. With no smears, no cracks in the glass, and no distracting decorations around it.

And there are two extremely powerful ways to make sure your ads fit that criteria.

The first is to use simple, easy to understand words, phrases and ideas. In other words, if a child can’t understand it, you probably should not include it. (Yes, I realize there are exceptions to this, but it’s good advice no matter what market you’re writing to either way.)

And the second way to make your ad copy “display window clear” is to limit your paragraphs to just one — and only one — idea or concept.

For example, if you have a paragraph that says:

“Here’s the bottom line: These professionally produced DVD’s teach you everything you need to know about winning street-fights while standing up…in close quarters…on the ground…with weapons…and even against multiple attackers. With no tedious studying required. No long hours of intense training needed. No years of perfecting boring techniques that are useless in a real fight. And check this out: This set of street-fighting DVD’s isn’t the only thing I’m sending you. It’s only part one. There’s another part to this system just as important to your survival on the street…as the skills and tactics you’ll learn in the DVD’s…”

To make it totally clear and easy to follow, you simply break it up into several paragraphs — each containing only one train of thought — like this:

“Here’s the bottom line: These professionally produced DVD’s teach you everything you need to know about winning street-fights while standing up…in close quarters…on the ground…with weapons…and even against multiple attackers.

With no tedious studying required. No long hours of intense training needed. No years of perfecting boring techniques that are useless in a real fight.

And check this out: This set of street-fighting DVD’s isn’t the only thing I’m sending you.

It’s only part one. There’s another part to this system just as important to your survival on the street…as the skills and tactics you’ll learn in the DVD’s…”

See what I mean?

This way you aren’t cramming too many ideas and concepts down the reader’s throat all at once. Instead, everything is “bite sized” — easy to pop in your mouth, chew and digest.

And you know what?

That’s exactly the way information should be presented if you want to give yourself every advantage possible in your copy.

Ben Settle is an expert copywriter and direct marketer. If you liked this article then check out Ben’s website at http://bensettle.com — and get your hands on over 500 pages of advertising ideas, strategies and tactics just like this one — as well as rare swipe file ads and hot marketing information not easily found anywhere else.

Nowadays, more and more people are becoming a home based
business owner. If you make a search on ‘home based business’ at
Yahoo, it returned a total of 51,000,000. No, I didn’t put any
extra zeros. It’s 51 million! Most of them are promoting
business opportunities and others provide home based business
information.

The question is now, if you want to start your own home based
business, without having to go through all 51 million sites, how
do you find the perfect business that really suits you?

Let’s begin.

Basically there’re 2 types of business that you can run. I’ll go
through one at a time.

1. Selling a new product. If you’re a super genius who knows
what the market’s wants, that this type of business is for you.

Advantage: You will be the owner of the product which means you
control everything; from pricing to the product type. You’ll
become the expert and people will see you as genius who create
new product line.

Disadvantage: You will have to design your own marketing plan;
sales letter, website design, autoresponder email system and
everything. So, in other words, your business might no begin
within 1 or 2 month after you develop your product. Even you
already setup everything, your income might come in rather slow
since most people are afraid to buy new product.

2. Selling other people product. You sell other people product
and you earn income by receiving your sales commission.

Advantage: You don’t have to design any market plan (most of the
time). Everything will be provided to you. All you need to do is
using these tools to market their product. Since everything is
there, you can start promoting them almost immediately and so do
your cheque.

Disadvantage: You don’t have the power to change the market
plan, product or any tools. You have to use them whether you
like it or not.

Which one you choose is wholly up to you. But for me who is so
lazy of doing any thinking and working, I’d choose option 2.

Still, you have to make filter out millions of products that you
can promote for your business.

Here are the guidelines for choosing them:

1. Available marketing tools: Are they giving me any marketing
tools? eg. email ad, banner ad, sales letter etc. The marketing
marketing tools provided, the better.

2. Product is suitable for huge market: Choose a product that
can be use by many people and not only for certain group of
consumer.

3. Recurring commission: For me this is the most important
factor. Some product, you earn your comission only once when you
make one off sales. Normally, you earn a recurring commission
when you sell product that needs the buyer make recurring
payment every month. So, you will earn your commission every
month as long as the buyer makes the payment.

It is easy, isn’t it?

Let’s we summed up everything that we learn.

If you want to start you home based business immediately,
promote other people’s product. This product should have
excellent support, all marketing tools are provided to you, many
people use it and the buyers have to pay them every month.

There you have it. A perfect home based business for you (at
least it is for me ;)).