6 Business Blunders You Can Make From Home
Is your boss trying to drag you back to the office? Are they luring you with tantalizing treats of on-demand foot massages from the HR staff and fun team-building events such as Free Dental Floss Fridays?
With perks like these, no one could blame you for bending the knee. Fortunately, there is another answer -- start your own business, where you will be your own boss, and you can work from home until the cows come home. (Yes, cows like to work at home, too.)
If years of corporate servitude have dulled your entrepreneurial instincts, a brief review of home-based businesses could open your mind, and blow it, too. That's what happened to me when I read "20 Ways to Make Money from Home," a Genevieve Northup article on Indeed.
If opening 20 new businesses sounds like a lot of work, rest assured you don't have to start them all. Pick the right one and you could become the Warren Buffett of your bedroom, the Mark Cuban of your living room couch.
So, relax. I'll guide you every step of the way -- to certain bankruptcy.
No. 1: Become a virtual assistant.
"A virtual assistant (VA) provides clients with administrative services from a remote location," explains Northrup. Think about it: the scheduling snafus. The suspicious expense account entries. The snarky emails and scary texts. All the mistakes you now do for you can also be done for someone else. And you can charge top dollar. In fact, you are so good at being bad you will could get celebrities to hire you. Gwyneth doesn't have time to schedule her plastic surgeries on the wrong day and for the wrong body part. Justin is too busy to schedule a private jet to fly him to Paris, Texas, when he wanted to go to Paris, France.
Mistakes such as these have held you back in the ordinary business world, but they will make you a must-hire virtual assistant in celebrity circles. (I may hire you myself. Those Botox appointments don't make themselves.)
No. 2: Sell your possessions online.
Don't just sit there. Start selling everything you own. Begin with items you won't miss -- your exercise equipment and your bathroom scale. Next, sell items with an emotional connection, such as your basset hound (Floppy will miss you, but, hey, it's only business).
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