Title: The Home Business Journey: The Preparation Word Count: 649 Summary: Home Based Business is a very tricky concept. On the outside it seems like a very nice thing to have and could seem as very easy to accomplish. Once you are inside, you discover its true nature. Here we are going to prepare you for the Journey and get you prepared so as not to be surprised of what you are going to find out. Keywords: Home Business, Home Based Business, Online Business, Home Business ideas, Home business tips, Online business tips, online business ideas Article Body: You might now be tossing the idea of establishing your own business. You might be imagining freedom, and if you have a 9-5 job you might be saying to yourself that this kind of job was never meant for you. If you are a student you might be saying to yourself that you will never put yourself under somebody else's authority and generate profit for somebody else. If you are serious then you should prepare yourself for the journey. When you are going for a journey you start listing the things you will need. To have your own business then you must really be prepared. The first thing you need to prepare is yourself. Yes, you must prepare your mind as the journey will not be full of roses. The gardens of Eden are your destination and along your path. Because of the huge obstacles that are extremely difficult to overcome at this point in time in your life, you know that you will not have access to resources that will enable you to open a Franchise or your own offline operation. At this point your mind might be set at venturing into an online business because of the limited amount of investment needed for such a business. The first thing that you need to prepare right from the beginning is your expectations. A home business is still a business and all the rules of business apply. Why are we saying this? Most of the people who start searching for a home business get so excited when they read and hear about all the different opportunities available online. They forget that they have started the search for a business and they start expecting to get rich within few months. If that was true then you would have found all those big corporations are empty and out of employees. This fact should not disappoint you, on the contrary this means that you will be among the very few who understand the real nature of home business and it will enable you to continue the journey while finding others returning after a couple of hundred yards and sticking to their jobs. If you know this fact, then you will be able to mentor the people that you will eventually sponsor according to this fact. You will have an organization full of people who know the real nature of home business. This organization will have solid foundations and will be able to grow much better than most of the organizations in this field. The second thing that you need to prepare yourself for is that you will have bad days or even bad months. This should not mean that the business is not working. Your home business is an online business, and one of the major differences between online and offline businesses is the location. In an offline business you might be the only one who is providing this business in the neighborhood. In Online Business the internet is the neighborhood. In an offline business you might choose a location with high traffic with many by passers who would be able to locate you easily. In Online business you can only choose a product or service of high demand, but to create traffic is your own job. Accidental traffic is never something that you can depend on in online business. Therefore, the momentum of traffic has to be built one brick at a time, and this needs consistency, time and patience especially when we do not have enough funds to overspend on advertising. You need to think about those two things a lot, and you need to prepare your mind before you start your home business journey. The first is to Prepare and control your expectations. The second is to survive the bad times with consistency and patience. This way you are prepared to start your home business journey with the right mindset.