Home-Based Business

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I'm thinking of starting my own home-based business and working at home cause I don't have a liscence and can't get to work. I need to think of a product to sell. I'm interested in entertainment, movies, music, celebrities, etc. That's the kind of area of work I want to to go into. Any ideas on what I could do? Do people with Asperger's Syndrome do well with their own home-based business. I read that they are so I figured that would be good for me.

The economy is a bad at the moment so you really have to think hard to find an innovative product or service to offer. The scope of it will depend how much money you wanna spend/earn. You basically have to study your market, product, do some kind of business plan beforehand. Unless you do craft, you might have to run an inventory which is pricey, so you have to have "love money".
The product or service to sell will come from your own experience, interest and research. Nobody can really help you for that. You can start your brainstorming by putting skills or service/product ideas in front of your interest.

Usually asperger do well with mail order, craft and computer related activities but it takes lot of effort to succeed. No easy road to success and be prepared to loose money in the short run.

Ok.:/ Well, darn. So I don't know what to do then.

I'm just trying to show you entrepreneurship is no easy road. Like anything it takes time, commitment and education.

Community college may have a class on entrepreuneurship or how to run a home-based business. Those classes are a good place to learn the basics of running a business once you got an idea before committing funds.

Ok. Thxs for your help.

Maybe you could start a professional blog about the interests you mentioned? They're all pretty similar, so you could include all of them in your posts. You could post reviews and things like that, maybe some news, although a lot of people seem to do news.

No, it won't be easy and you won't make money right away, but perhaps you could build up a reader base over time. There are a lot of entertainment blogs out there, so I think you'd have to stand out by doing something unique. Put your personality into it.

Here's an article on monetizing your blog: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/0 ... your-blog/
And here's the first article on a series about creating passive income, but I haven't read through the whole thing because I have slightly different goals at the moment. http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2012/0 ... me-series/

Just...you know...be sure to take his words with a grain of salt, and analyze your own abilities and circumstances before jumping into anything. He tends to write in a very direct and commanding voice.

I suggest avoiding any of those "work from home" adverts that appear in spam or on fly-posters etc. Most (all?) are dodgy and you would either end up working for next to nothing or get conned into paying for startup materials etc and never even break even let alone make a profit.

One of the annoying work from home scams is getting some poor sod to sign up to lots of internet forums such as this one just to post links to various websites. i.e. paid to spam. I spend quite a bit of time deleting such accounts on this site every day. I think it is mainly third-world wages though - maybe 1 cent per every 100 accounts you create or something silly like that.

I want to try to start a home business too but I don't have any money to get it started and the money I'm waiting for seems like it's never coming.

My plan was to make and sell t-shirts. Part of the reason I chose this is that when the money does finally come I would like to make t-shirts for myself and then it would be nice if I could expand it into a small business. I would need a t-shirt press, iron-on printer paper, a printer, and blank t-shirts before I could start.

I work from home doing freelance graphic design, but it was no easy road to get here. I had to get my bachelors degree and pick up literally years of freelance jobs (mostly for free or next to nothing) on the side of my everyday jobs before I could understand the in's and out's of self employment (taxes, book keeping, secretarial work, etc.) and make enough connections to actually provide an income after my expenses. When I started college, I started it with the goal of becoming self-employed and kept that goal in front of me the entire time.

That being said, it is great being able to work from the comfort of my own home, but I do spend quite a lot of time talking to my clients and their staff. I have to have conference calls and go to in person meetings, and I'm probably going to start doing web-cam meetings too, so the lifestyle isn't completely without outside contact.

Also, I should mention that without my husband providing the bulk of my income, it would likely be impossible for me to have done this at all.

My point is, it's very possible to do, but it's not always easy to start.