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by Josephine Mendez, Jos

Home based entrepreneurship is perceived as invisible by mainstream economics because its theoretical anatomy is still prone to risks and uncertainty. A sizeable number of new businesses flop because the entrepreneurial venture seeker fails to contemplate on the specific challenges that confront entrepreneurial innovation.

The U.S. economy is continuously transfiguring into a more entrepreneurial-structured industrialism. The past century featured a host of entrepreneurial innovations, such as the personal computer and softwares, which radically changed the world's social and economic landscape. That's why even the government is looking at ways to ensure innovative entrepreneurship.

Statistically, 90% of home based businesses crash in their five years. And if you count yourself among the burgeoning entrepreneurial community, you have the responsibility and must have the ability to grow your business. A home business may have a simple initiation phase, but it demands a serious perspective. It's not hard to launch one, but your utmost time and effort are required during its ripening stage. Still, having a home based business is one of the easiest wealth creators.

Assess your potentiality to be a successful home based entrepreneur by asking yourself the following questions:

1. Are you making effective and efficient use of your current resources?

A vast majority of home based entrepreneurs kick off their business with scant funds. Stick-to-itiveness is a major ethic you must cultivate especially if you know that excess is your Achilles heel. For instance, if you have an online business, don't splurge on advertising expenses or redundant marketing tools. Create a modest budget and stick to it. Refresh your business plan and make sure it embodies the exigent elements you need to propel your business to progress.

2. Are you flexible?

The voguish entrepreneur is not content with status quo; he adapts to the ever growing sophistication of technology that will amplify the chances of improving his economic welfare. If you are into Internet Marketing and you are petrified by the Internet browser or the Internet search engine, you are definitely in the wrong field. You must allow yourself ample room for expansion and better opportunities.

3. Are you in entrepreneurship by default? Did you happen to convert yourself involuntarily from an employee to a business owner because the company you were working for had downsized?

If you are, you must continue to work in a disciplined manner as you would as a corporate worker, and at the same time, harness the entrepreneurial spirit of dreaming to become BIG.

4. Are you consistently appraising your market potential?

Be well aware of your niche market and develop a marketing strategy that will keep your competitive advantage in a comfortable level.

5. How effective is your marketing strategy?

A huge traffic to your website does not necessarily convert into dollar sales. In Internet marketing, conversion value is of paramount importance. Marketing response rates yoyo from hour to hour which catalyzed the creation of the concept of conversion optimization on the web, a methodology that reinforces the chance of transforming the web visitor into a customer.

6. Are you identifying your strengths in financial management?

If you are not a hobbyist, then profit is your business motivator. A home business may be small scale, but it is not a trivial undertaking. You still need to evaluate its profits and losses. Fundamentally, as a business owner, you must have accurate information about the financial health of your company with the goal of forming internal business projections and decisions. Pay yourself a salary; this is a real overhead expense and must reflect in your income statement.

7. Do you have personality quirks (behavioral and emotional) that are impeding the progress of your business?

Greater to overcome than the financial hurdles of a home based business, are the business owner's personality kinks that would handicap his profitability potentials. Are you easily overwhelmed by stress? Are you organized? Do you lack patience? Are you focused on your objectives or are you scatterbrained?

Inventory your strong and weak points; hone the former, tame the latter. Conclusively, the longevity and vitality of your business are perpetuated by the amount of time and effort you infuse.

OK, so you were tired of the commute and office politics, and you wanted to make more money and have more time to enjoy life. You decided to get out of the rat race by starting a home-based business. You searched carefully, did your due diligence and found a really good one. Congratulations! You're on your way to time freedom and financial independence… if you can build it successfully!

Now there are many factors involved in building a successful business—home-based or otherwise. Timing, funds, desire, persistence, focus, patience, discipline, company, product, compensation plan, system, training, support, and the big “E”, to name a few. (Too many people forget about the big “E” and it's costing them dearly… but we'll get back to that later.)

In the title of this article, I used the word TIPPPS; it's not a typo. It stands for Thoughts Ideas Principles and Practices for Professional Success. Today I want to share with you a very good Practice that will help you achieve more of that business success you desire and deserve. I would even go as far as saying that it is a fundamental Principle for success—professionally as well as personally.

As far as building your successful home-based business goes, I want you to imagine the following: you are standing on the shore of a wide, slow-moving river (like the Mississippi River in Louisiana). Success as you've imagined it when you decided to start with your new opportunity (whatever level of achievement “success” means to you) is on the other side of that river.

I've got a question for you: how will you get across to the other shore, where success awaits? We'll take a look at my favorite answer in a minute, but first, let's see what many new hard-working home-based business owners tend to do while they're still gazing across to the “success” shore.

They're walking back and forth along the river, checking out all the various ways to bridge that river: cantilever bridge, suspended bridge, draw bridge, etc. They're trying to find the ONE method that will take them safely across to the other side, to success. Hopefully, the ONE will be inexpensive, easy to build and provide fast access. They're looking for some sort of Holy Grail. I feel sorry for those poor folks because frankly, I think they're doomed. Unless they change their approach, they will stay on the starting shore forever.

I'm here to tell you that there's NO Holy Grail . There's only one sensible way to cross that river: build a floating bridge. Have you ever seen one? Pretty clever actually. The Army Corps of Engineers builds them all the time. They put an inflatable rubber boat in the water near the shore and secure it in place. They use that one to attach another one next to it, in the direction of the other side of the river. And another one, and another one. When they've put enough of them side by side, they reach the other shore. All they need to do next is to lay some planks on top of the rubber boats and bingo, they have a bridge.

And that's the strategy you must use too if you want to build a successful home based business—any business in fact!.

It's time to tell you the name of that river. It's called the “E” River, short for Education River. The big “E” I mentioned earlier is Education. Education River is what stands between where you are today—on THIS shore—and where you want to be—the OTHER shore. You want to succeed? You need to cross the Education River, plain and simple.

Now, what do those rubber boats represent when it comes to building a successful home-based business? They are books, ezines, books, newsletters, eReports, books, teleclasses, eBooks, articles, books, special reports, eCourses, teleseminars, books, boot camps, recorded calls, webinars, live seminars, more books, conferences, conventions, etc.

Multiple tools, just like rubber boats for the engineers; the engineers can't take one boat and stretch it to the other side. They must use many of them if they are to succeed. Same thing for you and your home business. The sooner you understand that, the sooner you'll reach the other side. Stop looking for the “one” thing that will do it for you, that will “save” you, that will transport you in comfort to the other side, to success. There ain't none!

Here's the key to success in two simple words: earn it! Get ALL the education you can on marketing, advertising, copywriting, prospecting, sponsoring, interviewing, training, etc.

As a personal example, I recently needed to add one more “rubber boat” to get closer to the other shore: Google AdWords. So what did I do? I bought three (THREE!) programs from three Google AdWords gurus, for a total cost of over $200. Why three? Because although 80% of the content in each program was just like in the other two, 20% of each program presented original ideas, suggestions, tricks and tips.

The result? Within a week after educating myself thoroughly on how to submit and manage AdWords, I doubled the number of visits to my website, at a very reasonable cost. A pretty wise investment of resources those three programs turned out to be. That's what good tools do: they save you money, they save you time, and they make things easier—even difficult things like online marketing and lead generation.

So find as many “Educational” tools as you can (there are lots of excellent ones, including many FREE ones like our eBook WHY Should They Do Business With YOU? available on our website—the link is http://www.the-best-help-for-home-business-success.com). When you find good tools, buy them, learn from them, implement the lessons (remember that the goal of Education is not knowledge but ACTION), work your butt off, and I'll see you—and celebrate your success with you—on the other side of the river. Promise.

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