Home Based Business – Making Sense Of The Failure Rate
When there is such an enormous choice of ways to make money at home, it seems strange that so many people fail when they try to start their own home business. Do they all choose the wrong business for them or is there something inherently wrong with the idea of earning money working from home? The statistics produced in regard to home businesses say that 90% will come to an end within the first five years. Ninety percent is a frighteningly high failure rate. If we assume the statistics are correct, should we let them deter us from working from home?
Some people quote a failure rate of 95% or 98% for Internet based businesses but, for now, let’s assume the failure rate is at the same 90% level for any home business (online or offline). One thing that the figures don’t reflect is that five years is a long time for most of the people who start their own home based business. All sorts of people, for all sorts of reasons, decide to have a try at making money working at home. However, the majority of the people who decide to start a business so they can work at home are mothers of young...