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I have to declare a loss for the home business, but have all my receipts and stuff for the business. Which is the most comprehensive program that will help me the most? THanks in advance!

A loss for a home business isn’t unusual. Any program that does tax preparation can handle this.

If your overall income is negative, be sure to carry that over to the next year’s tax return.

If you want to do a loss carryback, I would not try this at home. Go to a paid preparer who knows what they are doing.

Are there any work from home sites that really work?

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Anyone with an idea on where to find information on good Home Jobs/Business?

Or, does anyone have an idea of a good "work from home job", maybe on the computer or other?

Thanks you.

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You won’t get rich but you can make a realistic $500 to $5000

Is there such thing as a home based business that actually makes you money without a huge investment?

There are actually quite a few home based businesses that are legitimate. Here is a few key factors when looking through different home based business’s to make sure they are real companies that your getting involved in. Not one that is just going to take your money.
1. Are they registered with the BBB?
2. How long have they been in business for?
3. What did Inc 500 rate them?
4. Have they been feature in magazine’s?
5. Do they have a real product and or service? Not just some lame service that they proclaim to sale like Ivy leaves or something like that. (did that when I was 5, didn’t work out very well. LOL)
So many different things to look into. But these are the important ones.
Most home based business cost under $500. Some cost more depending on what it is you want to do. I don’t know what you like to do, what experience you have or anything like that. If you want to get involved with a business that will train you as you earn sort of thing, or just dive into something on your own. So I can only tell you what my husband and I started over six years ago. It well supports our family as well as a major funding source for our non-profit organization that we started up a while back with part of the income we earned. As well as it’s a funding source for other non-profit organizations.
Anyhow, we got involved in the telecommunications industry.
With a world wide company that’s over 15 years old. We’ve been featured in several magazines like USA Today, Success, Fortune etc. Inc 500 rated us the 22nd fastest growing company. They offer services that people use every day and pay for anyway, but now they can have a lower cost. Services such as local and long distance phones, Internet, digital phones, video phones (you can see the person your taking to live)VOIP, Satallite tv, and all the major cellular phone companies like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltell, Nextell etc. have partnered up with them too.
How many people do you know, or know of, that uses or has one or more of these services? How would you feel if you could save people money on services that they’re most likely already using, if not you can offer them the service, and everytime they pay their bills each month, you make a percentage off these bills every single month. Huge income opportunity. It’s incredible how much money is involved in this industry.
If you’d like more information feel free to email me and I’ll be happy to pass it along to you.

I also created a blog on my 360 page on home based business’s. There’s over half a dozen different ones to take a look at. Your more then welcome to browse through them. If you find one that’s interesting, contact the person who wrote it and they can point you out in the right direction.

Tiffany

I have been directed to so many at home work offers. But they all end the same, "to complete this offer for work from home please complete this offer my chosing one or more of the following. Once you have completed this offer you will recieve free information on work at home employment." I hate that. It says free but clearing its anything but.

The best home business that you can be sure is not a scam is one that you start yourself. It will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs.

The key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.

Dan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:

1. List 5 things you do best
2. List how others would benefit from what you do best
3. Find out how to give people what they want
4. Learn the value of your services to others
5. Find out who else offers similar services
6. Learn from the successes of others
7. Learn from the failures of others
8. Plan your own success
9. Make low cost mistakes
10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it

He then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:

Best Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills
- antique restoration
- auto detail service
- carpet cleaning business
- errand/delivery service
- housecleaning business

Best Service Businesses
- bed and breakfast operator
- caregiver
- catering service
- senior day care center
- tutoring service

Best Professional Businesses
- desktop publisher
- magazine writer
- import/export service
- income tax preparation service
- event planner

Some other home business ideas:

Top 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm
10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm
Low Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html

You can also check out the following books:

Turn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness
The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century
121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home
The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start
101 Ways to Make Money at Home

I am kind of interested in work from home jobs but I don’t want to have to pay a fee to do it and I want to make sure it’s not a scam. Does anyone know of any?

there really are a lot of places out there that will pay you to work from home.
a lot of people have had success with Tissa’s search engine program, which you can sign up for FREE here:
http://Acme-People-Search.com/signup.php?ref=1233634919JGTG

and i myself am a GDI affiliate, which you can learn more about here:
http://www.freedom.ws/rbuckley85

and there are no upfront fees there. so good luck with your quest. there really are scam free WAH jobs out there.

Im trying to find a job to where I can work from home and make some money. Doing any kind of internet work?

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http://work-from-home-training.blogspot.com/

Here you can get the best training course how to work from home with cell phones and make a realistic $3000 a month.

I am currently on medical leave from my job. It’s not a high paying job, I’m part-time and make $8.75/hr. I really love being home with my daughter, but I hate not contributing something to the family income. I have been looking at work from home jobs. I am just so confused though, which ones are for real? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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You won’t get rich but you can make a realistic $500 to $5000

Does anyone know how to set up a website? I think that I need to set up a website for a home based business that I’m trying to start . The problem is that I don’t know where to start, what is needed or how much it should cost. There are so many things ranging from $11 to $299 and I don’t know what is legitimate.

Geocities is really good and its fast and free. If your wanting more advanced business its good too just upgrade. Its still super cheap =] Vote me best answer plz!

A friend of mine started a biz opp about 2 weeks ago. The other night while I was having dinner with her, she got an email that said she made a sale. She’s never tried to sell me on it, but she did mention that she makes $500 - $1000 per sale.
What really gets me is that she never works on it. She pays for leads and the program includes people who close her sales for her.
From what I can tell at the site http://www.dsire2succeed.com it deals with the travel industry and I can’t find any negative information online about it.
I’d love to hear your experience and why I should or shouldn’t invest in it myself.

Please do not advertise your own opportunity, I’m not interested. Just looking for advice from those working the same business.

Thanks!
Lee R-I said I’m not interested in any other opportunity. Read much?

Who is Lee R? I don’t see an answerer by that name??

Here’s a few things that you should take a look at before getting involved in any company. I’m not trying to advertise to you what my husband and I do, but give you examples, using my own business, on what you need to look into with this business. Questions you should find out before getting involved. If you had of said that your friend has been involved for a few months and said she kept getting notices on a sale, and was getting paid,I would of told you to go for it. But being as she’s only been involved for two weeks, has she (probably not being as it’s only been two weeks and that’s not enough time for the account department to issue her a commissions check) but has she received any money yet? Do you have proof of that? (Not saying she’d lie about it either) Is it just emails being sent? Here’s some things you should check into, like I said using my business as an example as to what we’ve done before getting involved. Find out these things and if your satisfied with the answers then go for it.

1. How long have they been in business? We checked to see how long our company was around, at the time it was nine years old and now it’s 15. Do you know when they started?
If it’s under 5 and you have to put an investment down, it would be risky. When we checked out the business we chose, it was almost 10 years old, so the probability of it disappearing was fairly low.

2. Are they registered with the BBB. Ours is registered. I think this is important one.

3. Who’s involved with the company? Like in ours Donald Trump, Robert Kiyosaki has endorsed our company. We also have three former state attorney generals on the legal advisory commity. Do they have the legal backing?
Check to see if anyone has endorsed this company or is involved in any way with the company.
Also, meet with the co-founders. We’ve personally met our co-founders and found from our first meeting that they were incredible people with incredible visions. See if their’s a time where you can meet them. If your going to be doing business, there should be a time where you should have the chance to meet with them and find out what their goals for the future is, for their representatives as well as their company.

4. What is the compensation plan now, and what was it like before. See the history of the compensation plan. Has it ever increasedand never decreased in the company’s history. We checked with the records in our business and found that in over the years, the compensation plan had only gotten better each year. As long as we’ve been involved, we’ve now witnessed the compensation plan always increasing. Check the history on yours. Make sure the compensation plan is worth the time and effort.

5.Have they been featured in magazine’s? For instance our company has been featured in several magazines Like Success, Fortune, USA Today etc. Check to see if they have. You can get a lot of information on the company by reading about them.

6. Has Inc 500 rated them? This magazine had rated our company the 22nd fastest growing company in revenue in it’s first 5 years. Inc 500 shows the top 500 businesses in revenue growth. Check to see what Inc 500 rated the company your looking at. If their not on the list and they’ve been around for over five years, it would worry me.

7. Do they have a physical address that you can go to? Check for an address not just a P.O. Box If you can go to it, go and see the corporation. Asks questions.

8. Where are their headquarters? Do they have headquarters?Our world headquarters is in Farmington Hills Michigan, Personally been there, (If your here in the states) Other headquarters in Amsterdam, Sydney and Montreal etc. If they claim to be world wide, where are each headquarters located. Are they accessable?

9. What does the start up cost take care of? In my business headquarters takes care of all the billing for my customers, Inventory, Customer services, Order Entry, Employees, workman’s comp, Cross referencing, Licensing, Insurance, paperwork, accounts payables, accounts receivables etc.

10. What is the product and service you would be selling.
Is the product and service in high demand? For instance we offer services that people are already using every day and paying for anyway, but at a lower cost. Things like Local and Long distance telephone services, Internet, video phones, digital phones, cellular phones through all the major cellular providers. We make a percentage every single month they pay their bills. Everyone uses them and everyone pays for them. When money gets tight, would they keep your service or be able to run to the store and be able to purchase them on sale? Leaving you to have to wait until they run out of what they just purchased, or wait until their finances get settled? This is what I mean by high demand.

11. The product and services that you’d be providing, would you use and purchase yourself? Do you pay less then the normal person purchasing? ( you should have some sort of discounted rate being as your representing the company)

So many different things to check out in making sure a business is a good one to get involved in. If the business feels right to you, and all questions are answered with proof, then I’d say jump in. Running a business is different then a job though. You have to treat it like it’s your child and not just something your going to "try" you have to believe in the product and service and go at it full force. This is your future your talking about, no one else’s.
I hope my examples of what we looked into with our business helps you be able to find the same answers in your business. Forget about asking the common question and asking someone how much they make in their business to determine if you’d get involved in it or not. In a business, it doesn’t matter what one business is making over another. It only matters what you do in "YOUR" business. I hate it when people ask me how much I make. Because they’re not going to walk into and start up their business making what I make. I’ve been involved with my business for over six years. So yeah, I will make more then someone who just starts their business. If you tell someone how much you make, then it’s a psychological thing that they expect to make that amount in a week, and that is just not going to happen. Six years of building a business verses 1 day. So don’t even ask. Look at the possibilities for YOURSELF.
Hope this helps!
Tiffany