Bringing Success Home: 19 Principles for Starting Your Home-Based Service Business

There are many reasons why you may want to pursue your own home business. Perhaps you’re one of the many people who have been downsized recently. Or, maybe you’re a stay-at-home parent looking to start a flexible, part-time business that will allow you to increase your family’s income while doing work you enjoy. You could also be someone with a slow-burning passion that has finally bubbled over, and you want to channel this life’s vision into your own company. Regardless of your reason, there has never been a better time to start your home business with today’s fast-changing economy and the tight job market. And, there is no quicker route from launch to success than a home-based service business.

A home-based service business requires the lowest amount of start-up capital. Service businesses are an excellent choice of home business because people will purchase services they can’t do themselves, as well as the services they either don’t want to do or don’t have time to do. People will also invest to learn something that you do or know, so classes, lessons and training in your area of expertise are an ideal service business. With the deep cuts in company budgets and workforces, many companies are outsourcing work to independent service businesses.

Are you just starting a home-based service business? Is it everything you had hoped it would be? Will it provide the income you need and the personal satisfaction you desire? Have you designed a home business lifestyle that fits you? You, too, will find inspiration to do just that in this book.

The 19 principles cut through the information overload. They address the challenges faced by home business owners and offer key strategies that are crucial to your business success. In these pages, you will read examples applying the principles to various home-based service businesses, and these case studies will give you guidance, ideas and inspiration.