| While working from home is the quintessential | | | | and advertise handmade dolls' clothing or whatever |
| American dream, financing the entrepreneurial spirit has | | | | other garments you want to make. As the profits |
| the potential to quickly turn into the prototypical | | | | begin coming in, gradually upgrade your equipment. |
| nightmare. After all, there is equipment to be | | | | If you cannot tell a sewing needle from a knitting |
| purchased, licenses or permits to be applied for, and | | | | needle, do not fret. If you know you way around the |
| probably also a fair amount of advertising that needs | | | | kitchen, you may have a promising career as a |
| to be bought and paid for. Some entrepreneurs have | | | | caterer ahead of you. Begin by catering small events |
| resorted to desperate acts of financial gymnastics, but | | | | for your friends or family. As you gain exposure for |
| more often than not these are too dangerous to | | | | your business, do not plan on making a lot of money |
| contemplate. Yet even in light of this bleak picture, did | | | | right off the bat, but instead focus on having the cost |
| you know that there are two home based businesses | | | | of the food paid for and perhaps make a little extra to |
| you can start with less than $75? | | | | put toward advertising. |
| For example, if you have a talent with needle and | | | | Prepare beautiful spreads that stand out, take copious |
| thread, if fabrics are your world, and if your eye for | | | | pictures, ask your friends for some quotes of praise, |
| colors, patterns and material rarely steers you wrong, | | | | and put together a professional portfolio. Print up |
| then becoming a seamstress and freelance fashion | | | | business cards and spend $75 to advertise in local |
| designer may be right up your alley! The odds are | | | | advertising directories. Start out small but try for the |
| good that you already own a sewing machine or - if | | | | slightly larger events, such as wedding receptions, the |
| you still stitch by hand - a well equipped sewing kit. | | | | church picnic, or your spouse's company party. The |
| Take $75 and put together a professional looking | | | | trick to this business is the gradual development of a |
| portfolio of your work and print up some business | | | | clientele and the word of mouth advertising that will |
| cards. | | | | cause your business to grow by leaps and bounds. |
| Include in the portfolio pictures of your niece's first | | | | Even as starting your own home based business may |
| communion dress you made, your daughter's holiday | | | | seem complicated and might even appear to be out of |
| outfit, the dolls' clothes you might have put together | | | | reach, remember that by deliberately graduated |
| and anything else that you have crafted as a gift or | | | | growth you will have the chance to make it big in |
| simply in your spare time. Shop around this portfolio to | | | | workable steps - none of which will require funds you |
| bridal shops, dry cleaners, and other places where | | | | do not possess! |
| clothing alterations may be needed. Start a website | | | | |