Low Cost Home Based Business Ideas
One factor that prevents individuals from starting a home based business is the start-up cost. There are businesses that can be run from home that require little or no cost to start up. This article will focus on a couple ideas that helped me and provide some helpful links to more free information. After you decide that you are ready to commit to starting your home business, then it is time to decide on what type of business.The first type of business is how I got started making money from home. I started an internet virtual assistant business. This was very slow at first, and I did not make much money at all, but it was a neat feeling to be bringing in a little extra money from something other than my day job. The other benefit was I was able to meet and work for people all over the world. The first virtual assistant job I was able to get was for the owner of a poker company that was based in London, England. I assisted him with scheduling, running his blog, answering some e-mails and checking his voice mail and alerting him when he needed to attend to something. I made about $50.00USD per week for working about 2 hours per day.This business had zero start-up costs and was extremely easy on my time. I as able to decide how much work I wanted to take on. That first job as a virtual assistant only lasted about a month, so I had to find more work. I used a couple different free sites to find the jobs, and most of the employers were really nice. In the end, I started hiring virtual assistants of my own and started delegating some work and easing my load.Another low-cost home based business that is similar to the virtual assistant job is to be an online research assistant. I think most people have forgotten how to research a topic these days. So if you are good at digging up information, then you might be able to flourish as a research assistant. I was hired through the same website where I found the virtual assistant job by an attorney to research some issues regarding landlord and tenant laws. The pay was really good, and I did all the work from home. When I finished, I just e-mailed the finished product to the lawyer and that was that. It was challenging and rewarding because I was working for myself.
