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Make Money At Home-Start Here First© 2004 Jeff D. Schumanhttp://www.Team-Schuman.comSo you want to make money working at home! You are notalone. According to a recent search I did the term makemoney was typed in almost 100,000 times in one month. There are a lot of people wanting to make money working at home.I was one of them and now can excitedly say I do just that.No more traffic jams, bosses, co-workers, 8-5, Mon-Fri., 2weeks vacation etc.Don't get me wrong! A J.O.B. certainly is needed to pay thebills and provide for the lifelong essentials for millionsof people.But it is interesting how many people have figured out thatthere is more than one way to do that. And making moneyworking at home is one of them.What proves to be a little harder is finding a job workingat home. There are a lot of companies that are willing to sellyou information lists that claim to have companies lookingat work at home employees or sub-contractors.My own opinion is that the only one who makes out on thismethod is the person selling you the information. My adviceis Do Not Pay To Buy Information On Companies Looking ForWork At Home People.How about this.....Start Your Own Home Business providing aproduct or service that there is a need for. Finding aniche in the marketplace is not as hard as it would seem.The best place to begin is with a topic you have a personalinterest in. If you are going to be doing this everyday youmight as well like doing it.In my case I chose 2 topics. The make money at homeopportunity seeker and the small business sector. I likeworking with people and I understand how small businessesoperate because I have personally worked with smallbusiness owners for the past 20 years.Next is to choose a product that could fill a need to yourmarket you are going into. Make a list of everything thatyou can think of. Nothing is to off the wall. I have evenheard of a farmer in Kansas who sells colored tumbleweedsall over the world.One thing I have found helpful is to see what people aresearching for on the internet. A really good tool for thatis the search term suggestion tool with Overture.http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestionGo ahead and type in words and phrases and see what peopleare looking for relating to a topic you might be interestedin selling a product for.Next I want to look at what the competition is doing. Doinga search on Google is a very good way to see what websitesare out there relating to your topic.http://www.google.com Do not be afraid of competition, but do expect to workharder if you want to make money working at home in acompetitive field.You don't need a lot of of tools to start making money workingat home. In my case I use a laptop with high speed internetaccess, an email account, a second phone line separate frommy personal line, a printer, and efax to receive faxes.You could get by with just a good internet connection and adecent email provider to start. Don't use a free emailaccount like hotmail or yahoo. Be professional!I learned how to build simple websites for my products, howto advertise the products both online and offline, and howto use my telephone for follow-up.This took a while and I have found that joining a goodaffiliate program can provide you with products, trainingmaterial, marketing tools, websites and more to help youget your make money at home business off the ground as youare learning.There is no doubt the biggest obstacle you will encounteris finding prospects, customers, traffic, or whatever youwant to call it.This is the number one reason people fail working fromhome. You have a great product or service, now how do youtell the world about it!!My advice is to zero in on a main marketing strategy andthen branch off from that. I'll give you an example. When Istarted my small business website design company I decidedthat signing up affiliates in various large metro areas andproviding them with a pre-written telemarketing script andobjections/rebuttals list was the best way to attract customersinexpensively.Pay them a handsome commission and residual income andsupport them with an excellent product and back-end service.I branched out into internet marketing and advertising fromthere. There is always more than one way to skin a cat, butfocus on one method before you add another. Do not become ajack-of-all-trades and a master of none when it comes tomarketing your business.I would close this article by saying this. You have tobecome a sponge and spend some time and money learning howto make money working at home. Subscribe to as manynewsletters, publications, etc. as your time allows you toread. BUT....Do Not Get caught up in the trap of learning,but not earning.Take what you are learning and get in the game. Knowledgewithout action is a waste. If you will apply what you learnyou will reap the rewards of the rapidly growing number ofpeople who are happily making money working from home!