Starting a home based business and working from home can be exciting and fun, there are many people that have started a business from their hobbies. What was once was a past time of pleasure can turn into a full time work from home business. One industry that seems to keep growing by leaps and bounds across America is antiques and collectibles.There are many across America that start each year, for the simple reason, they were introduced by their Mom or Dad or a close relative, this hobby has an infectious way about it. Once you have a true desire to collect the treasure of the past, the desire will always be with you throughout your life, once you have been bitten by the bug there is no turning back and there is no known cure.There are many people that enter this business on a daily bases, not having been associated with anyone that can show them the ropes of how to go about it or to know the value of the collectibles and antiques. Many people start out collecting just one item, such as collecting dolls or collecting western gear and cowboy spurs or western prints etc.Many will start collecting as a team, that is husband and wife. The husband will collect the items that is of interest to him and the wife will collect what is of interest to her.• Where To Buy….If you’re a newbie to collecting, you might want to know where to start first in buying your collectibles. But, before you rush of on your buying spree, you need to learn a few things first, so you don’t get taken in on your purchases, not knowing to value of the items you buy can cost you a great deal of money in the end.• Buy Low, Sell High….You always want to buy with this in mind, buy at the lowest price you can negotiate, with a view of reselling at a profit, if you have the hope of starting your own home based business. To gain the knowledge of the value of antiques and collectibles come in various ways. Buy, collect and study the antique and collectibles appraisal books, always have the books with you for reference purposes when shopping for your treasures.• Starting With Garage Sales….Garage sales are a great way to start to learn about your collectibles you want to acquire. In order to get the best buys, it is advisable for you to line up your sales a day before they start, if they start on Saturday, make your list of ones that are advertising antiques and collectibles on Friday.• You’re Not The Only Dog in the Hunt….Be mindful that you’re not the only one looking for the great buys, there is a lot a competition searching out the garage sales. To get a leg up on the competition try to be at the garage sale an hour before they open, sometimes this works and sometimes it don’t. You will meet all kinds of people, some will let your browse around and others will flat out run you off if you are an early bird.• Trash or Treasure….
When mapping out your garage sales, always take the shortest distance between the sales. When arriving at the garage sale, if they have unpacked everything then you can make a quick scan of the merchandise and see if there is something of value in the collectibles category. Be aware, there are people that think they have treasures, but in fact they have trash and need to make a run to the dump.• Expanding Your Market….When shopping for the items you want to collect, you will invariably run across other valuable collector items, don’t pass them up, you need to expand your market, remember there is a buyer for each and every collectors item, the more versatile your inventory is, the greater your market will be. Your home based business can become a reality with patience and hard work.
Starting a Home Based Business – Turn Your Hobby Into Cash
How To Succeed At Online Product Creation The Easy Way
Product creation could be a frightening subject for a lot of Internet marketers to face. Some folks who get in the game with the intention of making a full time income are completely ignorant as to how an online business operates. One of the most profitable ways to create online cash is by creating a product that others are happy to pay for.
Product creation is legitimate method of generating money through internet marketing but many entrepreneurs get it wrong. They start by imitating their Internet marketing gurus by creating information products on Internet marketing in hopes of getting rich the way their heroes did. The problem is that they usually don’t know what they are doing and enter a highly competitive niche with very little marketing experience or connections.
Here are a few tips for effective product creation that may help you get on the right track:
Start by finding a profitable niche with low to moderate competition. If you conduct some rudimentary market research and keyword research, you’ll find many opportunities in areas that will surprise you. Amazon and eBay are two great places to brainstorm for product ideas.
Developing Your Product does not have to be a difficult project. You can find experts in the right field for your niche and pay them to write the material while an artist designs the packaging and website or blog. You can outsource the entire product creation part of the project after you conduct the research and testing to ensure profitability.
Sales and marketing strategies should be created while developing the product and learning about the market. Some experienced marketers use pay per click to drive traffic to their offer page; some folks outsource the entire marketing campaign to affiliates through ClickBank or other affiliate programs.
Product creation does not need to be hard, particularly when the merchandise is electronic. E-books, videos, audio and multi-media products sell very well. They are distributed immediately to customers electronically. Once you have a good feel for a niche market, try to service your customers with associated products and upgrades. If you want to earn money online through product creation, you must understand supply and demand. The majority of new online marketers fail miserably because they go after highly competitive markets or forget to research their chosen niche properly. You have to create your products according to the needs, wants and desires of the prospective customers.
Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up
One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.
However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.
Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.
But why?
In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!
So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)
The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.
Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.
Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.
By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.
You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.