Why build a business from home? 2nd job??

As I'm trying to get my mind around the purpose of blogging, I keep feeling that I need to explain a bit about why I do what I do...

I have a full-time job with Keller Williams Realty as the MCA (Market Center Administrator). Believe me when I say - it's a FULL TIME gig!! We currently have 135 agents in the market center - that's a lot of folks to support!

I sort of "fell into" my home-based business opportunity by accident. Long story short - I was a client and using the products for about a year, before I realized the opportunity to build a business. I needed a few products and called the person I usually ordered from - paying RETAIL! She informed me that the business wasn't working for her (read - she wasn't working the business) and she would refer me to someone else. At that same time someone in our office held a "party" and I attended in order to get my products. THIS is when I learned that I TOO could build a business!! If you've read my profile - you see that entrepreneurial blood runs through my veins!

During this time my senior in college daughter became engaged, with a set wedding date, my son was a senior in high school and actively searching for his eventual college home and my husband and I saw $$$ RUNNING OUT the door!! My full-time job does not offer many opportunities to QUICKLY increase my income - what job does? So...the light bulb went off in my head, that the products I already use and love, just might provide that extra income we were suddenly in need of.

So...August 2008, I launched my home-based business. Yes, it's a 2nd job, and yes I love doing it! It's meeting needs in my life (and not just financial) that my day job does not meet. I actually have a found a great tie-in to the two businesses which allows me to work the two in tandem (somewhat) and without a conflict of interest at my full-time job - VERY important to me! I do NOT like being taken advantage of and I WON'T mis-use or abuse my full-time job. They have hired me to do a job and I am their employee when at work - I believe it's very important to be a person of integrity and not cross that line.

Different people start home-based businesses for different reasons, like:
- supplement current income (me)
- raise money for giving (me - more on that in a future post)
- stay at home mom's or dad's - able to work and take care of kids
- ability to set own schedule - flexibility
- be own boss
- control own destiny
and on and on...

I find that our business training mirrors what Keller Williams teaches quite a lot. Which tells me - business is business is business - just the products are different. No matter what you do - you have to show up, be present and do the do!

OH and COMMIT! My business partner and I have committed to being successful - NO MATTER WHAT! There will be challenges and no matter what - we ARE doing this business!

If you bring the same attention and committment to your venture - you WILL be successful!

Success from home