One of the toughest challenges that many newbie marketers face is: how and where to get advice on starting your home business. If you are outside of USA, chances are that you know very few people who have started their own home based business (in my city, there are only a handful of internet marketers out there). So if you don’t know anyone else who has started a home business then how do you get advice on starting your own?

If you don’t know, the internet itself is a huge source of information. Simply a quick search on Google will show you different articles and newsletters with information and advice on how to start your niche business (tip: if your niche is weight loss, and you are searching for articles on weight loss, simply put this phrase in the search box: “weight loss” articles). There are also a lot of message boards, forums and blogs related to your niche. You can read blogs and forums, ask your questions in message boards and get advice, etc. Also, do you visit your local library?

Libraries generally contain a wealth of information on home business. Your librarian should be able to help you with this. You might also consider visiting your local bookstore.

Find a mentor who you think will help you in your business. Mentors are of two types: volunteers who have years of experience and are willing to give advice to new businessmen. There are another group of mentors who charge a fee for their consultation. If their fee is within your budget, go for it! You will be benefited in more ways than you can imagine by having an experienced mentor by your side, and you will surely make your original investment back by at least three-to-four times. I would like to tell you of another good resource…

The SBA. The Small Business Administration provides a lot of material on starting your own business.

Depending on where you live, you might be able to get free tips and advice from local government agencies. Check out the listings for small business center in your locality.

When you were thinking of starting your home business, probably the very first place you went to was your local bank. While it is true that they are no match for professional business accountants, most banks often have their business advisors to help you open a business account. These business advisors will be bale to advise you, especially on the financial and technical aspects of your business. Just as business advisors, lawyers also form a necessary part of any business, online or offline. Here is why.

Lawyers know about the legal aspects of starting a home business. It would be a good investment to pay for one hour of your lawyer’s time and ask him every sort of question you can think of regarding your business. Look around and if you are lucky enough you
might be able to get a free consultation! I would also suggest that you hire a professional accountant for your business.

Just as lawyers know about the legal aspects of starting a business, accountants know about its financial aspects. Accountants are less expensive than lawyers. If you want to make your business profitable accountants can help you out by drawing a comprehensive budget for your business. If you don’t yet have your accountant, you should get one for yourself! The next thing you need to do is to find investors!

Look for investors who are willing to invest in businesses like yours. They invest capital in businesses for a living. If you think your business idea is attractive then approach them with the details of your business. If they find your business plan attractive enough they would do a quick setup to have your company up and running as quickly as possible.

Visit your local business universities. There you can find business students who spend their time learning and discussing about business. Many of them would love to start one real business off the ground. Business students can really be a profitable source of free help and advice.

Remember that regardless of whatever industry you are starting your business in, there should be some kind of association,union or ‘society’ whose members have business as in the same industry as yours. If you can find one such association, join it immediately and take advantage of the resources the association has to offer to its members.

So you can see that there is no dearth of places where you can get advice on starting your home business. What you may not know, however, is where and how you can find profitable business opportunities.

Have you ever thought how much easier life would be if you didn’t have to travel to work and back home again? Does the idea of not having to get up at dawn to fix breakfast for the family or to catch an early train to work appeal to you?

There are many people who work online and who earn money from home who don’t have to face early morning traffic or rush through the kitchen preparing food while keeping an eye on the clock before rushing out to get to work. You can make good money when you work from home and feel better about yourself because most people who become self employed usually choose work that interests them.

For the most part, starting an online business to earn extra cash occasionally starts as a part time endeavor. What most people suddenly find out whether they work at home uk to earn some extra cash or work from home because they have no need for a boss is that there is a way to earn money from home just by having a home computer.

Working from home online has many lucrative rewards as well as many physical comforts since you have the free use of your home to take a break in or to fix meals. The most rewarding part of working from home online is the privacy of your home office in the security and comfort of your home. There are many self employed people who have learned one lesson in being gainfully employed by themselves. They have learned to value their own judgment and to set their own hours.

If the idea of being gainfully employed by yourself at home interests you but also leaves you confused as to how to start and where to look for the right online business, you might just need to be guided by someone who is already working online from home. Someone who is willing to share with other mums and dads or single people how to make the first step into fulfilling a wish that most employed people have, that of being their own boss.

Finding the right online mentor to help you to leap through the initial stages of finding the right work from home opportunity, can be the quickest way to start working online making extra cash or becoming self employed. It only takes a desire to work for yourself to make your online work a reality.

A desire to work for yourself coupled with the right online mentor is a sure combination to break free from early morning dashes to work and exhausting end of work day rushes back home to begin your next job of taking care of family and yourself. Working from home lets you decide when to work and for how long, each and every day that you do online work.