1. The most important tip that most home business owners learn is that you must treat your business like it is a business. You cannot treat your business like a hobby and work on it when you have time. You have the flexibility to set your own hours and work when you want, but that doesn't mean you should work whenever the mood hits. To be most successful, you should set hours and stick to them.
2. When starting a home business you'll have to invest a lot of hours and, in some cases, money, to be successful. You'll have to treat your business like a business and spend money to promote it before it will succeed. The main difference between a typical business and your own home business is that you reap all the reward.
3. Prepare to be extremely busy (at least at first) if you want to have a truly successful business. You will have to constantly learn and improve what you are doing. The best way to do this is to communicate with those who have already started their own home based business and are already a success story. These people more often than not are willing to help you because someone helped them when they were starting out.
4. Stay focused on what you are doing. To be successful you need to choose a business and stay with it. Do do not hop around to a bunch of different opportunities. You are not likely to find a business that is successful overnight, so give an opportunity time. You'll end up wasting a lot of time and money trying to look for quick success, so stay with an opportunity that you think is good and give it time to pay out.
