You need to ask yourself some serious questions before you venture into the home business arena. Although owning your own business at home may be one of your dreams, you first need to determine is you’re ready to operate one. You need to look at a business at home the same way you would look at any other business you’d be working. It must be something you are willing to do with loyalty, devotion, and zeal.
You must have a positive attitude in order to operate you own home business. You cannot take the attitude that you can work whenever it suits you. You need to be available when your customers need you. A home business can’t be treated like a hobby. You can’t simply devote the hours to it that you choose. There may be some businesses where that’s possible. However, if you have a product-based or service-oriented business where you deal directly with customers (i.e., accountant, hairdresser, cleaning service, builder/contractor), you will find it difficult to set your own hours. You need to be open for business and available when it is convenient for your customers. If you have more of a free-lance type of business (i.e., writer, editor,...