Home Business Start-up Checklist
- Set up a home office
- Establish working hours
- Complete Skills and Interests Inventory to determine what business is right for you
- Complete goal setting exercise
- Begin exploring business options and opportunities
- Check state, county, and city zoning code restrictions
- Discuss with neighbors if your business will involve any additional traffic, parking, noise, etc
- Make final decision concerning which business to launch
- Obtain necessary permits and licenses for operation
- Determine legal structure: (Sole Proprietorship, Limited Liability Corporation, Partnership or Corporation)
- Complete necessary paperwork (trade name certificate, partnership agreement or articles of incorporation, etc.)
- Develop a business plan
- Develop start-up and first-year operating budgets
- Develop a marketing plan
- Set up a filing system
- Set up a record-keeping system
- Open a business checking account
- Meet with your insurance agent to determine if additional insurance is required
- Register trademarks and logos
- Begin marketing campaign
Don’t wait for people to ask you to do what you know God has called you to do! A home business is NOT a default endeavor that “allows” you to be a stay at home mom/wife… that is an entirely different calling. Don’t mistake it and find yourself frustrated by not being able to “be” with your kids or “run” your business. (Working from home almost 20 years.)
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I am currently enrolled in a college entrepreneurship class. I am excited to see that you’ve included the very important steps of creating both a business plan and a marketing plan. Very comprehensive list.
Thanks. It’s basically the outline for my soon-to-be-re-released bestselling book, Homemade Business: A Woman’s Step-by-Step Guide to Earning Money at Home. Glad you approve 
I just purchased a copy of your book, Making Money from Home, at Family Bookstore today. I am interested in creating an infoproduct. Are you familiar with Sean Mize? He is a Christian internet marketing who teaches article marketing, since it is his primary method of generating traffic to his sites. Also, did you read Tim Ferriss’ “4-Hour Work Week”? It has been recently reissued in a new, updated and revised edition. I love the way he plans out the process of creating a business so that the outsourcing part is built-in, as are the time-saving tricks to keep revenue high and time commitment low. I often hear of women starting businesses at home and when they reach a certain level of success, their husbands are able to quit working outside the home as well, liberating both parents to spend more time with their kids. At least, that should be the ideal, but it involves not just making money at home, but doing so in an way that frees up more time as well as generates more income. Your thoughts?
Hello, I am interested in starting a administrative clerical type business at home. I like to type and use the internet and compter…maybe a billing business. The one question I have or maybe two, is one how do you do it with a low start up cost, next to nothing…i am unemployed right now to money is very tight and where I live it does not look like the job market is going to get better anytime soon. Does this book have anything on this or maybe some one who has been there can email me and let me know what i could do. I mainly have all, but hooking up a fax and to stock up on a few thing, ink, paper etc…