Now is the perfect time to start your own business.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990).

Since the start of the recession, people are beginning to realise how vulnerable they are when they are employed – and are increasingly starting to take control of their lives and start their own business. For some this is a part-time venture, to grow alongside their regular job; for others they launch into the business they’ve always dreamt of, full-time.

If you want to start your own business, then you might be surprised to discover that starting a business during bad times can sometimes be the making of it! Without easy credit to borrow it makes you think carefully about your decisions and work harder to ensure success. Some of the country’s greatest businesses have been started during lean times.

More and more of you want to start your own business in the next 6-24 months. And now is the best time to start! Get ahead of the rush. With the growth of the Internet you are now in the right place at the right time.

Stuck for ideas? Maybe reading about somebody else’s business will get you thinking and coming up with your own ideas. Reading Case Studies can be useful for this, or inspirational books by entrepreneurs.

Top Business Ideas

For top business ideas, just look around you. What are other people doing? You’d be surprised how you’re surrounded by top business ideas without even realising it. Think how you can start a similar business, but with your own twist!

One source that’s untapped as a great source of business ideas is eBay – there are usually a few hundred ready-made businesses for sale there – which you could either buy yourself, or use the idea to set up your own business locally. Some are retirement sales, others are due to people’s change of circumstances. I find just trawling through ebay is a great way to come up with ideas with people.

You can discover the most popular eBay businesses by watching what auctions are being watched by the most people. This is a great way to do your new business market research.

An Online Business or Offline Business?

These days you’re lucky enough to have more choices of what sort of business to run. With the Internet there are plenty of new businesses available to you, that simply didn’t exist 10 years ago.

Think about whether you want to run a business entirely online – or perform a useful service to people either locally or nationally. Do you want/need a physical premises, or can your business be run from home in a spare corner of a room?

You could sell things, or make things, market things… there are 1000s of great business ideas – and they say the best time to start a new business is during tough times!

Essential Marketing For Your Business

Every business needs to do some marketing, marketing is simply finding ways to let people know that your business exists, to let them know what they could buy from you. Marketing would include writing adverts and press releases maybe.

Many small businesses don’t have a large marketing budget when they start out – they need to find economical marketing methods. Here are some great marketing resources:

Don’t know where to start? Not sure how to do it?

Look at the people who are running their own business. There is NO magic secret to starting a home based business. They aren’t special, just they have an idea they believe in. Did you click the Ideas & Case Studies link above?

You can quickly be doing the following for your business, starting now and building up in the next couple of weeks giving you the foundations of a successful business:

  • Build yourself a super profitable niche website that people want to visit
  • Deliver Super Content to your website visitors
  • Drives lots of Targeted Traffic to your site (these are people that BUY)
  • Pre-sell to warm, willing customers who are ready to buy
  • Monetize your site visitors into sales – that’s hard CASH

All you have to do is find the right niche.

Real Work at Home is a FREE home business info site that highlights the best in real ideas for a home based business that you can start straight away. We will provide you with information and ideas so that you can quickly get up and running … and earning a living online or offline!

If you haven’t got an idea yet of what you could do, bookmark this site – there are lots of super and achievable real ways to earn a living on this website. Come back regularly as we keep updating the information, ideas and resources.

All you have to do now is make the decision to start your business today. So your first task is to start actively looking at ideas. If you didn’t look earlier, check out this Ideas & Case Studies page

Start now and you’ve already got a head start over those starting tomorrow.

There are no Get Rich Quick schemes here, because there is no such thing. But, there are ways to consistently build upon your success and start to earn an income and work at home that increases every month. If you are working full-time already, it won’t be long before you are seeing a good 2nd income being generated. And if you aren’t working at the moment you can really get your teeth into starting your own business today.

Check out our Work at Home Ideas page(s) for some more business ideas, We will be adding 1-2 new ideas a month.

If you already have a business of your own, you might like to check out the information on this site too. Maybe you can find a complementary product or service to market to your existing customers.

Good luck with your task today: to identify a great business idea and to take the first steps to success now! Don’t know where to start? Not sure how to do it?

Look at the people who are running their own business. There is NO magic secret to starting a home based business. They aren’t special, just they have an idea they believe in.

Top Business Ideas for You at Ebay

eBay is a fabulous resource to investigate for ideas on starting your own business. You’d be surprised just what businesses there are which you can start quite easily. Of course, many people run fabulous businesses purely on ebay – but I like to look at ebay for ideas for offline businesses too.

Take one popular niche: selling makeup. You can sell makeup on ebay, you can create your own website to sell makeup, you can set up a stall on a local market or yard sale or car boot sale to sell makeup, you can create your own party plan business selling makeup .. and those are just a few of the ideas that might fit your lifestyle. eBay is a great source of wholesale products too. You can find everything you need, from goods through to the packaging materials, labelling and presentation boxes – all in one place.

Take a look at some now for ideas.

Last updated January 2017