Home Business Tips – Would Your Children Approve Of Your Business?
I have a sneaking suspicion that this article is going to hit a few raw nerves of quite a few home business owners. Personally, I have a 21 year old daughter and today I thought to myself…”If I told my daughter exactly what I did with my home business, would I be proud of what I do?” The answer for me is a resounding yes. In fact, I talk about my business a lot to my daughter…not that she listens. LOL. Point is, from what I’ve seen, there are a lot of business practices out there that I think would disappoint a lot of children. Is your business one of them?Look, let’s be honest. It’s rough out there. Running your own home business is not easy. Nobody said it was. And nobody promised any of us a successful business. Certainly nobody promised me anything. In fact, it took me five months just to make my first $28 online. No, that’s not something I was proud of, but at least what I was doing was ethical.And then I see people who cookie stuff to steal commissions of others, spam blogs and forums and do just about anything that they can to make a buck. They’ll promote products that they know aren’t worth spit. If you think I’m kidding, pick up one of the big sellers from one of the big affiliate marketplaces and tell me if it’s worth as much as the digital paper it’s printed on. And yet, people blindly promote this garbage without blinking an eye…as long as the money keeps coming in.I can’t help but wonder if these home business owners who were doing all these less than desirable things to bring in an income, if they were to tell their children exactly what they were doing, what would their children say? Would they be proud, or would they say “Daddy, that’s not very nice” and give the dirtiest look that they ever gave to anyone? My money is on the latter. Of course with some families, who knows? And don’t get me wrong, I’m not passing judgment on how parents raise their kids. That’s not my job. I leave that to a higher authority. But really…some of you folks give new meaning to the term “stretching credibility.”Anyway, I’m not your conscience. That’s not my job either. All I’m suggesting is that it’s actually possible to run a home business without taking advantage of others. I read about all these back hat and gray hat tactics and I can’t help but thinking…”How come I can make money without pulling all this crap?” I think it’s a question that a lot of people should be asking themselves before they cross over that line and have to tell their kids that it’s none of their business what they do with THEIR business.Just saying.
