Home Business - General Information

Being a homeschool family generally means being a one-income family. More and more, it can be difficult to make ends meet with only one income.

Fortunately, there are many, many opportunities to make a supplemental income on the side. Particularly with the rise of the internet, ideas and support abound. Not to mention convenience! You can practically obtain a business license and do your taxes without leaving your chair.

On the flipside of that coin, finding information on the internet can be a very frustrating experience. Why? The online home-business info-seeker (there's a mouthful!) demographic tends to be young people (generation X) - bored with work and looking for a quick and easy escape. As a result of all the usual supply and demand forces, the web is packed with "get rich quick from home" schemes catering to that demographic, and all you have to do is pay $49.99 for their downloadable e-book(!!!).

Unfortunately, that clutter makes finding legitimate information difficult. But it is there! And that is the purpose of this page - to point you in the right direction.

Be assured - there are great opportunities. But you need to keep two things clearly in mind to avoid getting stuck in a rut - or ripped off - on the internet.

1. You cannot achieve any kind of success in 48 hours.
2. You do not need to join some kind of network.

And with that, good luck!

Business Leads for Homeschooled Teens

The obvious, foremost question facing anyone desiring to test the waters of entrepreneurship is - "what should I do?" Finding something that you enjoy, is in demand, and is profitable is not always the easiest task!

For some - the answer to the question is obvious - they have a talent for which there is a market. For the majority however, that question can be a show-stopper.

Fortunately, it doesn't always have to be! It can take some digging, but there are countless ideas, suggestions and leads out there to help you jump-start your own idea development. Alternatively, for those who aren't quite ready to get their hands dirty in full-blown entrepreneurship, and/or would rather just focus on production or sales, there are opportunities out there in which the infrastructure has already been set up, and you are invited to a share of the pie, typically via sales commissions.

As mentioned above - regardless of whether you want to start a business from scratch or work with an existing infrastructure, finding good ideas and opportunities does take digging. And to complicate matters (particularly if your primary information source is the internet), for every legitimate opportunity out there, there are a dozen scams. So dig - but dig with discernment!

That said, we have a resource to start you off in the right direction. Compiled by an entreprenuerial, homeschooling mother of two, and geared towards homeschooled teens, we find this to be a valuable, legitimate resource, full of ideas and leads that will at least spark your own imagination, if not develop directly into an entreprenuerial venture.