A mother who is a home-based business owner may feel like she always is at home, while her family thinks she always is at work. Neither is good for either family or Mom. Experts now say that a good “mix” for a home-based business allows the worker to do at least part of her work away from home. Two functions are served: the home is reserved as a refuge from the world of work, and Mom escapes the isolation that always working at home—Mother, Companion, Earner, etc.—can create.

How do I tell if an “at-home opportunity” is legitimate?

1. take products to consumers and
2. to demonstrate them.

One of the benefits of a home-based business is beginning by working it part-time in the time you have to spend on it. You don’t have the overhead of a typical storefront business. And you can take the time you need to build a strong foundation of customers who use your products every month. Do not be tempted by the promises of “get-rich-quick” schemes promising you will make as much in a month as you would expect to make in a year. Home-based entrepreneurs can be successful beyond their ambition and dreams…but the most fundamental ingredient of that success is constancy and loyalty to a vision and a commitment.

How much time should I commit to my home-based business?

How much time do you have to give it? How much time do you want to give it?  One of the greatest reasons for the failure of a home-based business is lack of discipline. This is another reason why from home businesses are more likely to succeed than at home businesses: the discipline required to make and keep appointments all by itself can drive success.

Sure, you want to earn an income from your home-based business!  But is talking on the phone all you really want from a career? What about the chance to interact with friends and colleagues, to build new relationships, to grow personally and professionally?  How about just getting out of the house for a while?  All of these are available to you when you work from home and not all the time at home!