Work from Home Business Manual

The main reason most businesses start from home is the cost savings. Sure, the flexibility of working your own hours and and leaving the daily commute behind is fantastic, but let's be honest, the main reason businesses start from home is to keep the costs down.

It's much cheaper starting a new business from the kitchen table or study while using the home phone and a lot of hope. This is often referred to as a micro business and later we will show you some great micro business opportunities which can be started and run completely from the kitchen table or home computer.

But first we need to check what steps you need to take to fulfill your legal obligations as a home based business and what is required from a business persons point of view to get your work at home business to be viable. Our manual will guide you on a step by step basis what you need to address to make your home based business legal and profitable.

The best piece of advice we can give you right up front is to find a good Accountant. They can advise on cashflow, profit, taxation and legislative compliance. For good Accountants in your area click here www.nia.org.au or visit www.lakewoodaccounting.com.au

Most work from home business tend to start as a sole trader, that is, you are the sole owner and sole person responsible for the running of the business. A partnership is where there are two people who join forces to start and run a business, especially work at home type businesses. A partnership in Australia is a separate legal entity to a sole trader and needs it's own Tax File number and Australian Business Number. If you are considering running your home based business via a company or family trust then the extra complexities of these two structures make it well outside this website and specific Accounting and Taxation advice is highly recommended. Again, your Accountant can give you better advise on these options.

Before you register your Australian Business Number (ABN), you will need to decide whether you wish to register a trading name for your work at home business, but what do we mean by a trading name. Let us illustrate via an example: if you wish to trade with just your name and your own bank account then you do not need a trading name, an example may be Joe Bloggs, Work at Home guru. If however you decided to setup a home based business selling digital cameras online and you wanted to call your business Digital Cameras Online then this is a business name. You could refer to your work at home business as Joe Bloggs trading as Digital Cameras Online and you could open a bank account as this. This means that clients could make cheques payable to Digital Cameras Online and you will be able to bank these chequesinto your trading bank account.You can search to see what trading names have already been taken refer to this site www.asic.gov.au If your work at home business name idea has not been taken you may register it here www.cav.vic.gov.au for Victoria. For other States please refer to our links page for the relevent state authority. If your business name is similar to a currently registered company the company shall take precedence Australia wide and you should not try to register your work at home business name. If this happens please refer to an Accountant. You should also check whether someone has registered a trade mark on your work at home business name. You can check for trademarks here www.ipaustralia.com.au A trademark is the highest legal protection within Australia and if someone has a trademark similar to your work at home business name then you need to refer to an Accountant (or seek legal advice). The easier option is to choose a different business name.

You will need an Australian Tax File Number (TFN) before you can apply for an ABN. IF you already have a TFN you can register your work at home business name here www.abr.gov.au If you need a TFN you can apply here www.ato.gov.au

Most local councils will allow you to operate a work at home business from home with few problems or legislative requirements. Generally, a work at home type business is able to employ one (or maybe two) employees but you may need to check with your local council for their individual regulations.

The Australian Government Small Business Development Corporation is an excellent reference point for any start up business and is especially relevent to a small business that is starting from home www.sbdc.gov.au

The Victorian State Government provides a similar reference site here www.business.vic.gov.au

So, now on to the business opportunities that we have identified. From using your digital camera to make money online, or getting paid to play computer games right through to a full blown online business, we have identified some fantastic work at home ideas and have catagorised these opportunities into 3 categories according to cost.

As business owners, Jason & I are constantly bombarded by people wanting to take just 5 minutes of our time to help them do a survey,for free, yet we know that large companies will pay you for your opinion. This is a very low cost option to work from home, all you need is a computer, an email address and a few hours per day. Now, please do not get conned by the hype some of these salespeople would have you believe. Doing surveys online will not make you thousands of dollars per week, however it can certainly generate a few hundred dollars per week. We have used the money generated from online surveys to fund this website. What will $100-$300 EXTRA per week do for you?

The best tip on making money online using surveys we can give you is to remember that the survey companies only get paid once they have surveyed their quota (a certain number of surveys). In other words the quicker they get the surveys done, the quicker they get paid. So, if you want to earn good money from surveys you will need to be a good survey person on their list. We shouldn't need to state this but if you are reliable, prompt and honest in your answers then you will become one of the first people that they will send surveys to. IF you are unreliable then obviously you will not get the better surveys and eventually you may even drop off their email lists. Please, as with most things in life, you will only get out of this what you put in. If you are serious about working from home using paid surveys you will need to devote a few hours per day every day. If you do, it won't be long before you can tell the boss to shove his job. Follow the links below for some fantastic survey sites:

EMAILCASH- A well known site and free to join. A great place to start as you will get plenty of surveys. You can join Emailcash for free by clicking the link below:

QUALIFIED OPINIONS - Another great site. These guys are always on the lookout for new surveyees. Feel free to click the link belowto join:

PAID BIG CASH - A great US site that is free to join and pays in US dollars. Double bonus here! The US survey companies have many more multinational companies looking for surveys and they pay in US dollars, so every dollar you earn is effectively $1.20 Australian. What are you waiting for, click below to join:

If you want to earn money from paid surveys then do not proceed any further until you have joined all the above sites. If you move forward in this section without joining the above then you are not really serious about making money from home so stop wasting your time. You are a procrastinator and you will never make money working from home.

If, on the other hand, you have joined the above then please move forward to earn more money from paid surveys.

The next step for earning money from paid surveys is to join many different survey companies. The above links will generate up to $200 per week approx, which in the overall scheme of things could be considered chicken feed.

Is doing paid surveys a work from home business opportunity?

Absolutely, but you will need more than four sites to earn an income sufficient to replace your current employment income. As with everything in life some survey sites may suit you, and some will not (and your profile will suit some sites and not others), so you will need 15 -25 sites sending you surveys every week. By now, you should have already been earning some income from our free links and you will know whether this is a work from home opportunity that suits you. If it is, we suggest that you reinvest some of the money you've already earned in the following sites. The following links are paid sites but will introduce you to over 50+ more paid survey companies.

OPINION OUTPOST - This is a US site with many multi-national companies looking for your opinion, plus they pay in $US. You can join by clicking on the link below:

SURVEY SCOUT - Another great US site with many great contacts. Click Here! to join.

SURVEY INCOME SYSTEM - A fully systemised money maker from paid surveys. Click Here! to join.

PAID SURVEYS - A paid survey site with an Australian bias. This site has over 30 great free survey companies within Australia. You can join for approx. $39 by clicking the banner below:

With PC's, Xbox, Playstation etc being a must have in a modern home it is no wonder gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry. The computer guys who write the programs perform rigorous testing of their programs before releasing their product to the market only to find many errors and flaws in their programs. To alleviate this, the computer companies will pay you to beta test their programs. They understand that not all bugs will be found out by programmers and their games will be better tested if gamers play the games rather than programmers.If this sounds like you the following site will tell you where to go to find the companies that pay you to play computer games. Click Here!

If you already have a good digital camera, we have made buckets of money from this site (one of our best earning photos was taken by Peter's 6 year old son on a $270 10mp digital camera) It is a beautiful photo of a fig tree with an above ground root system that looks like a curtain made from wood. Click Here! to earn royalties from submitting photos.

A good free submission site is www.triond.com Try it. We think you'll be surprised!

This is truly amazing. Another brilliant idea. All you need to do is find a product for sale on Ebay that you think you can sell, create a website (using their web builder software), promote the product and if a purchase is made from your website you earn a commission paid by Ebay. You don't have to stock or ship the product. You don't have to take the money. All you need to do is promote the product that you choose from Ebay.

For more information on how to set up your own Ebay niche store click on the banner.

If you are not already an Ebay member click on the banner below to join for free.

Now we get into some serious money making opportunities, and while we state that these opportunities will cost over $500, the initial cost of each program is far less with The Rich Jerk costing less than $A20. The next 3 work from home opportunities are online business opportunities. Each program is similar in many respects but we found that each separate program provided two or three extra bits of information that completed the whole picture.

Our number one recommendation. This program is fantastic. Of all the programs we have seen this is the best. A complete money making system. Click Here! to view this for yourself.

It's part of this guy's sales pitch to be obnoxious and self promoting. Once you get past that, you will learn all you need to know to set up your own web based business. You will learn about setting up a website, where to get products to sell, how to get your website seen by the major search engines, how search engine optimisation works, finding domain names, etc. For $US14.95 the knowledge you will receive is priceless. Click below for The Rich Jerk

Similar to The Rich Jerk but Australian contacts for domain names, website hosting, etc. A very comprehensive program. Over 80 pages of information for $A79. Please note that for a short time only we are offering a $10 discount of the purchase price of The Rich Pom. Simply email your receipt and address to us and we'll send you a cheque for $10, no strings attached.

PLEASE NOTE: Disclaimer - Individual results may vary and the amount of money you earn is solely based on your OWN efforts and we cannot be held liable for any activities you undertake recommended from this website.

Work From Home -

A home based business manual which includes some great work from home opportunites including getting paid for submitting photos from your digital camera and getting paid to play computer games online.