A potential business partner decided to enter into a relationship with you in your home based business. The next step is training them to be successful in their new opportunity. When you came into this business you were just tossed into the deep end of the pool without any help. Your mentality is if it was good enough for me, then it is good enough for anyone I bring into business. This is definitely the incorrect way to look at building a long term home based business.The foundation of any sound home based business is made up of a consistent training program. The learning curve for any business varies from person to person. They are people who require hand holding through the initial process of developing their business. You also have business partners who do not require any hand holding. You must design your training to cover the person who is in the middle of the spectrum. If you have a business built on a foundation of not training your business partner, then your home based business will not grow. You must give your new business partners roots and wings.Roots denoted solid skills and values while having wings to aspire in their home based business. The first step is a solid training program that strengthened the foundation of your business. Many home based businesses take the money and run. False promises of how fantastic the training will be. Once the check clears no phone calls are returned, the partner is left in the cold alone. The business will only work for the short term, but will fall flat in the long term. The people who are in business for the long term will invest the time and money necessary to make their business partners better.The fact that the training you received when you started was not perfect. The same training principles need not be applied to your new business partners. I once worked for a restaurant chain that told me I was in charge of my own training. I was given some company material and left to learn the business on my own. The General Manager never sat down with me to go over any of the exercises. My foundation at this restaurant was unstable and inconsistent. The managers who came in after me went through the same process. You must have a consistent training program for your new partner. The first 30 to 60 days is the most critical time in teaching your business partner the keys to success. A proven training system is the best way to put people in charge of their destiny. A well trained business partner will lead to a more successful home based business.
Best Rated Home Base Businesses: What Home-Based Business Is Right for You? Part 1
So… you are dreaming of working from home. Would you like to leave your old industry behind? Maybe, say goodbye to your boss? You know there are opportunities out there because millions of other people are doing it. Truthfully, there is a lot of argument about what is the best home-based business to run. This is because success or failure at any venture is a very individualized thing. What might be a perfect fit for one person will be disastrous for another; however, there are a few considerations that are universal and I am going to share them with you. If you follow them you will find what you’re looking for and take it from a work from home/ stay at home dad it will be worth it!Because I believe this subject deserves some in-depth discussion I have written a three part article series concerning it. This article will give you the main considerations that must be made before choosing any potential opportunity.Before you invest time and money into taking the jump into home-based entrepreneurship you must carefully analyze the opportunity and weigh it against others. Don’t make the mistake of jumping at the first decent one that someone puts in front you. Consider, just in the MLM industry there are currently 2,700 competing in the US alone! Taking a few weeks or even months to carefully education yourself in the area of home-based businesses is a smart thing to do. Make sure you do your due diligence before making any decision. It’s a sobering fact that over 97 percent of home-based business owners fail in their first two years! Here are some basic things to consider. I have shared them with many folks over the years and most have greatly thanked me for them later.Four Things You MUST Consider1) The product, Service, or Opportunity Connected to the BusinessesEverything else aside, what is the business you are looking into really about? What exactly are you going to be selling? Who are you going to be helping? What opportunities are you going to be building for others? If the business works out it will be your job. Make sure it is something you will really want to do for years to come. Is this opportunity something you can stay passionate about? If not, keep looking.2) The Start-up Money Needed Verses the Realistic Potential IncomeWhat is the realistic income opportunity? Do to the fact that millions of folks are attempting to work from home every year; there are thousands of opportunities out there they will cost you a lot of money and time, but may not have the income that is initially promised. Make sure you talk to people involved in any opportunity and see the facts concerning the income possibilities verses what you are going to have to spend to actually work the business.3) The Skill-set Necessary to Successfully Run the BusinessIf you do not have the needed skills, make sure you have a plan to get the training you need. Do this before putting tons of time and money on the line. If you are looking at joining an organization what kind of mentoring is available?Can you find the training you need through books or online?4) The Time Needed to Run the BusinessHow much time are you going to have to run your business? How much time are the opportunities you are looking at going to take? I certainly over estimated this when I took the jump. Between my family, church, and ongoing education I spend about 4 hours a day working at my home-based business. I went through three failed ventures before finding one that had the income potential I needed; and fit my skill-set and limited schedule. Map out your day on paper and be realistic about the time it’s going to take to build any new business. This easy step will save you a lot of heartache down the road.If these tips are making sense to you check out part 2 and part 3 of this article series. Rather than give you my personal opinion, or the opinion of some other so called “expert” my goal is to hand you the thought process that will lead you to what is right for you.
Your Online Home Based Business Reflects You
A few years ago I spent my professional life in what I thought was a comfort zone. This consisted of dressing in the standard “business casual” attire, commuting to work; tethering my head to a VOIP console inside a cubicle and retreading the same path back home at the end of an unfulfilled day. The unpredicted “great recession” brought an end to that dream as the software start-up venture where I worked lost customers and forced them to lay off many of us. Having gone through a corporate downsizing some years before, I had had enough. I was ready for something new. The thought of becoming an entrepreneur had always been a dream and there was no better time than now to grasp it. I knew I wanted low start up cost, low overhead, a large customer base and I also wanted to work from home or where ever I happened to be connected at the time. After much research, interviewing, calculating and recalculating I decided on a home based affiliate consulting service. Because of online home based business, I make a bit of residual income from it. But, my testimony is not the focus of this writing. The focus is what I learned from my own experience and through other people’s lives that is: WORKING FROM HOME IS AWESOME! Working on an online home based business allows me to enjoy working in the comfort of my own home. I wouldn’t be bother getting another job just to earn extra income. This would certainly help anyone who wishes to pursue a much better life.Prior to the 1990′s the phrase “Work At Home Business” invoked images of writers and accountants with stacks of 5″ ¼ floppies and 3.5″ disks. Home based artisans and craftsmen built samples and scaled-down models to amaze the potential clients. These demos of products and services and many others were hand delivered or sent via “express mail.” Then along came the high-speed networks, the World Wide Web and email. The evolution of this technology during the first decade of this millennium to where we are now has redefined the “Work at Home” and “Home Based Business” paradigm. Wireless technology is even reshaping this model as we speak. A “Work Anywhere” empowerment is available to anyone suited for this type of work environment. Down-sizing by large corporations, on a global scale, are forcing a new “breed” of workforce. “Necessity is the mother of invention” and I think we are seeing this invention/evolution take place before our very eyes. I read just today on one of the leading job-search forums that “2012 will be the year of the Personal Brand.” We’re seeing individuals marketing their skills, their ideas and their experience as products themselves. Programmers, copywriters, project analyst, designers and thousands of others are on the working end of their connection, where ever that may be, collaborating with whoever may need them.Working an online home based business, I believe has become a viable alternative for so many people. Making money is a definitely certain goal that most people are keeping achieving for. The amounts vary from business to business, though. But saving money on work wardrobe, business lunches, commuting costs, and headaches are the basics that most describe as my reasons for choosing the alternative. Having personal satisfaction, more quality family relationships, and fulfilled dreams are truly the benefits I and you can get out of this.