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You — owning a home-based business? Sure, why not? In fact, welcome to the club!

Let me be one of the first to congratulate you. You are probably very excited over this decision, and perhaps even a little bit scared. Don’t worry; being scared is perfectly normal, so let me just reassure you: Yes, you can do this. With some guidance, good advice, and hard work, you will be well on your way to successfully being self-employed in a home-based business.

And trust me, being self-employed in a real home-based business is the greatest feeling in the world. The benefits include the following:

• You make the rules (ice cream at noon)!

• You set your work schedule.

• You can bring your kids (or your pets) to work.

• You can spend more time with your family (or not; it’s your choice).

• You can call your boss an idiot and get away with it.

• You can earn what you are truly worth, not what someone else thinks you are worth (and they never seem to think you are worth all that much, do they)? If you succeed, you will certainly earn more than you would at a regular job.

There is nothing like working for yourself. No successful home-based entrepreneur I ever met would want to go back to a regular job. That should tell you something.

And no matter what type of home-based business you want to start, this book can really help you. It doesn’t matter if you want to work from home using a computer; make a product and sell it; run a business servicing the local area (like a contractor, computer service professional, etc.); or you want to have a business in your home (like a daycare) — I can help you become successfully self-employed.

Running a successful home-based business is something you CAN do.

The key is actually doing the right things and knowing which mistakes to avoid. This is where experience comes in. To be blunt, I failed in my first two home-based business attempts. Why did I fail? Because I did things that now seem so stupid that they astonish me. I made mistakes I’d never make now, because I now know better. And here’s the funny thing — I see so many beginning home-based business owners make the exact same mistakes.

I wish somebody could have sat me down all those years ago and talked to me about the prices I was charging for my product. Or about how my invoicing practices were crippling me. Or how I needed to really focus on my business more and take it seriously. Oh, I thought I was serious, but in hindsight, I was about as serious and focused as four unemployed guys sitting in a garage saying, “Man, we should start a band” after draining the keg.

But I definitely learned from my mistakes, and today I run a full-time, successful home-based business that I started from scratch. I’ve operated all kinds of businesses: I’ve run a local professional service, I’ve sold a product from my home, and currently I work from home on my computer. I’ve failed, come back, and succeeded. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot of things. In fact, I learned just as much from my failures as I have from my successes.

And I’ve put everything I’ve learned into this book. Start & Run a Real Home-Based Business will help you by showing you both what to do and what not to do. If you’re serious about owning a real home-based business, then this book is for you.