Over the past few years a large number of people have started with their own business ventures and most of these ventures fall under the ‘home based business’ category. Home based businesses have gained in popularity and given the current job scenario more and more people are looking to start with their work-from-home stint.You have a large number of options to choose form if you want to start working from home. The internet provides people with fantastic opportunities and those who make the most of these opportunities end up making loads of money in a short span of time. In order to be successful, you need to know what to look for and where to look. Depending upon your field of expertise there are a number of job opportunities that you can convert into a business in the latter stages.Various books and ebooks over the internet provide you with good information about the various options you have. These ebooks provide you with information on the various websites and forums where you can bid and find projects to suit your field of expertise. These books also offer tips on how to bid for a particular project and how to meet deadlines successfully.You can find a large number of tips related to home based business over the internet. These tips are written by people who have successfully managed to form a full-fledged home based business and have successfully run the business for a long time now. These tips prove to be very effective if you have to start from the scratch and have no idea about how things work in the world of internet.Once you read a book, you would realize the importance of those full-of-fun websites like twitter and
Facebook. You would come to know how these websites form an important part of the online marketing strategy of businesses across the world. You should also try to get your hands on information about web2 and how things work in the present era of online marketing.Initially you may find it tough to establish your name over the internet in a particular field. However a few months down the line, you would well be on your path to establishing a successful home based business. Once you get a few regular clients, you can look to expand your business and take it to a higher level.

While an online home-based business can be a very exciting endeavor, there are some pitfalls to be avoided if you are going to have some success.Some of these pitfalls include the following:* Getting distracted by other business opportunity offers;
* Getting distracted by other online based activities;
* Being bombarded with a tremendous amount of information that results in information overload.
* Being susceptible to a high level of business scam.Of course the above is not exhaustive but is enough to be cause for concern in running your online business.So how do you ensure that you at the very least avoid these pitfalls and get on with the task of running your business?The simple answer really is adequate preparation. Prepare yourself mentally in knowing what these pitfalls are for one, and the level of danger that they pose to the success of your business.Understanding how each of these threats can undermine your efforts at running your online home business is important in avoiding them and managing any attendant effects. For example, do you understand the danger posed to your own online business when you constantly pursue other business opportunities to you?Are you sufficiently aware of how allowing your enthusiasm to be driven by nothing but a slick sales pitch can negatively affect your mindset ultimately? Do you understand the linkage between this and the fact that you probably are guilty of jumping from opportunity to opportunity with no success to show?Do you understand the difference the importance of seeing yourself as an online home business operator and not an online consumer? Here is a clue – slick internet marketers love when you see yourself only as a consumer because then you tend to forget what your business is about. You become an easy sell.Businesses make rational buying decisions after careful thought and based on a good feel for how what they are buying fit into their business model. Consumers make decisions based on impulse and what they feel will bring them satisfaction.The lesson – you cannot be an online consumer trying to run an online home based business. You have to be a professional business operator.If you are going to have a good chance of running a successful online home based business, you have to get to understand the above issues at a very deep level. Just knowing that you should not waste time with e-mails or chasing other business opportunities when you should be doing something for your business is not enough.You have to have a deep understanding about these issues so that the negative consequences are drilled so deep into your consciousness that it becomes painful every time you even attempt to do anything like these that will undermine your own efforts. And we all know that most likely you will automatically seek to avoid the pain.That is your most effective approach to avoiding and dealing with the pitfalls that you are bound to face in running an online home-based business.

Many small business fear expansion right now, they fear hiring additional employees, and they are completely worried about the future. Should they be? We know that community banks are worried and there are not a lot of small business loans going on right now. Indeed, as a former franchisor before retirement it is my contention that I wouldn’t pour money into a small business right now, much less touch it with a ten-foot pole. Let me explain;Why would you want to start a business where you had to hire people with all the new Obama administration rules, and this latest AFO-CIO appointment to the Department of Labor is scary too, it’s going to be really tough on small businesses. Not long ago, I was explaining all this to an acquaintance who was buying an existing business and considering the hiring of a employees to help her in her business and she asked me; “tell me more. My guess is that I would have a couple part-time women.”So should my acquaintance start her business and hire two part-time employees? Don’t know, no one knows what was in that darn Health Care bill, small business doesn’t know, information flow sucks, the Administration hasn’t said, it’s all vague and NO Small Business Person in their right mind would risk going into business right now knowing they’d hire employees. The President got on TV and made some vague inane speech about how this would help small businesses? No details, none forthcoming, terrible communication job. Terrible – and quite frankly it’s completely and absolutely un-acceptable.This group of leaders doesn’t know what the heck they are doing. We need a better team, and some common sense behind it. These people have never had to make a payroll in their lives, it ought to be a pre-requisite for public office, how on Earth can anyone believe they can run things without working knowledge of the realities of running a business? Now then, I was reading in some trade journals in various industries all the phase-ins for health care insurance law compliance, it’s a mess.Worse, it’s going to be an absolute hardship on small business, and medical costs are still rising, and rising, and rising. Over the last decade these costs have outpaced inflation by 10:1 and they just keep going? Hard to say what fuel they are using but we need that for the Space Shuttle – seriously folks, this is a disaster for the business community, and it isn’t going to help anyone, only raise costs.And people wonder why jobs are not returning? 75% – plus of our jobs are through small business in America, but the politicians are too busy coddling lobbyists of large corporations to even worry about it. It’s all a show, it’s all BS, and until things change, I’d be leery of the unknown or future business risk taking. So, you asked me to tell you more? There you have it. Am I the only person in this whole country that gets it? What the hell are they doing?The Small Business Administration director hasn’t a clue. My god, this dog and pony show never stops, WTH is going on. And the media hasn’t helped, what small businesses are supposed to go pay an attorney and accountant to tell them the new law changes? Sure, pay the professional parasites to tell you about the “new rules” I mean, do these legislators (all lawyers) even hear themselves think? And as the economy expands and gets back to normal, which jobs come back first? Legal jobs of course, what a totally screwed up system.So, the business people have to pay lawyers, accountants just to prepare for the law changes, scared out of their wits they might make a mistake and the big bad government is going to fine them, jail them, put them out of business? How do I know this is how it goes? Because I set up 187 franchises serving some 450 cities, I know exactly how small business works and how business people think. Meanwhile, we have a perceived “small business hater” president who never explained the comments about his “joe the plumber” gaf, and although it was blown out of proportion.That indeed, was a definite psychological hit to small business, one we still haven’t gotten over and we must to insure small business confidence, if we truly want those jobs – I am beginning to think they don’t by the actions of the Obama Administration, but don’t doesn’t understand and Obama’s PR team there is unfortunately too “unwise” to understand, so they laugh it off, and ramrod some BS health care legislation with a 2800 page health care bill, and then Pelosi is on prime time TV and says; “Well, you’ll just have to vote for it to see what’s in the bill.” You have to be kidding me?Why should small businesses have to contact a lawyer to explain the health care rules? And may I ask with what money are they supposed to pay the $2,000 bill to set it up properly so they don’t get fined? Small businesses have been battling this recession for 35-months now, they are barely hanging on. If you own a small business and “Need the Money” well, get in line, every small business does and there is nowhere to borrow it. No one, me included, or any bank would be foolish enough to take the risk to lend money now. And no one knows what this Administration or Congress is going to do next?They are unpredictable, perceived unstoppable and willing to shove any 4,000 page bill down America’s throats. And don’t you dare argue with me, next could be Cap and Trade, and energy costs will skyrocket and you’ll be stuck in a business watching your energy costs go up 45%! How about that? Then you can expect shortages and mandatory “Energy Ultra Efficient” equipment which will be required, above your already efficient units, air-conditioning system, solar panels, computers, along with new lighting, above and beyond what you have.If you don’t you will be fined or shut down. If you cannot or do not want the presence of an attorney one will be appointed, if you want to stay in business the SBA will give you loans, GREAT borrow more money, as they destroy your business, go into more debt, is their answer, interesting, that’s the problem in the first place, the government is broke, now they want all the businesses to be as broke as they are and pay for all their mistakes in higher costs, taxes, fines, and fees. Enough already!And if you think I am blowing smoke, it could easily happen in the next six to 18-months, and I wouldn’t put anything past this Administration or Congress, they are absolutely out of control. Do you think that if your energy costs tripled in your business you could keep your prices at the current level? Of course not, and if you double your prices, 30% of your customers will not come back, and the others will come less often, easily taking at hit of 40-50% in revenues? Well, think it can’t happen?It did in CA when the government imposed rules, raised energy costs, had shortages then black outs, and it happened twice one decade apart. Now tack on health care costs for employees, yourself – mandatory let’s say, because I don’t know, no one does yet, can you then really make money> NO, NO YOU CAN’T. And so you work harder, lay off your employees who stop shopping – no money – and other businesses suffer because unemployment is so high. See what’s happening? Where we are headed?You want me to tell you more? Sure, I could go on for 48-hours straight, with examples in the real world of what happens when government gets a stick up their rear-ends into what is supposed to be a free market economy like the USA. End of rant, end of article.Please consider all this.