A World of Home Based Business Opportunity

A Home Business Article Contributed by Sarah White

A World of Home Based Business Opportunity

There are many options to consider when looking for a home based business opportunity. With all the Web sites, magazines and books devoted to starting a home based business, it can get pretty overwhelming. How do you begin coming up with ideas for your business and how do you know what is viable as a real home based business opportunity?

There are several basic categories into which your home based business could fall. Considering each of these should give you a handle on which kind of home based business opportunity is right for you.

Selling Products: the Basic Home Based Business Opportunity

Most people, when they first think about starting a business at home (or any kind of small business they run themselves) think first about selling products. You might make a great salsa that your friends all love and you want to share with the world, or you might want to write books, bake cookies or make and sell crafts. There are many possibilities in the arena of selling goods, and its a great place to start because often you don't have to have a lot of space in order to make your product.

You will need some kind of shop (either your own or somewhere you partner with such as a restaurant, gift shop or antique mall)in order to sell your goods and eventually you will need a place to store goods if you make something nonperishable.

Selling Services: the Ultimate Home Based Business Opportunity

The service industry is the ultimate home based business opportunity because you don't need any space to set up in. You'll just need a computer and office supplies and some clients, who you can meet at their home or place of business (or even at your house if you have a little room). You don't even have to have an office! You could work as an at home copy editor, desktop publisher or typist and not even have to meet clients face to face.

Or you could work as a personal trainer, life coach or consultant and deal with clients constantly. If you have space in your home and love kids, you might even be able to open a small day care right in your home. As you can see, there are many options. If you don't have an idea for a product you can produce a lot of quickly and cheaply to get your business off the ground, consider a service you could offer the public as your business.

Other People's Home Based Business Opportunity

The third basic option is that you base your home based business on someone else's business, that is by selling products or promoting the services of someone else who has already started their business. There are a multitude of sites on the Internet that will direct you to this kind of opportunity, and some of them can be quite profitable. Of course this is a lot closer to working for someone else than the other two options, but if you don't have a product you want to sell and you aren't sure what service you could offer, this kind of business can be a good option.

These are only the most basic options; the most successful home based businesses are likely some combination of these three possibilities.