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Re: Home-based businesses Sep 11, 2008 9:13 AM
I believe you should look at your own skills and abilities first, and what interests you or lights you up. What are you good at? What do you enjoy doing? Once you know these answers then you can start searching online to see if there are others running businesses using those particular skills or working in whatever area that is.
For me, I really enjoy secretarial and administration work so being a Virtual Assistant is an ideal choice. Nothing to do with joining companies, or signing up as an affiliate or anything like that. It's simply about using my skills and abilities to provide good client service and being really familiar with the software I need to use to do that.
On yahoogroups.com you'll find tens of thousands of discussion forums on every imagineable topic and you're sure to find groups that relate to the various things you are interested in. You can join those discussions and learn from others - the pitfalls, the highlights and so on.
Good luck on your search!
Kathie M. Thomas
Virtual Assistant Coach & Trainer