| One of the misconceptions that people have is that | | | | sold. |
| they have to run a home business all by themselves. | | | | Eventually, the whole thing snowballed until we reached |
| This is simply not true. There are partnerships all over | | | | a point where we had enough ideas and enough |
| the place. You just don't see them because you only | | | | people involved to make this thing work. Okay, so |
| get to see the end product and one company name | | | | what's the one problem you might face? |
| on the site. This article, through way of an example, is | | | | When you have a number of people working on a |
| going to show you how starting a home business with | | | | home business, you naturally have to split the profits |
| others is quite easy AND potentially quite profitable. | | | | evenly between all of them. So now it becomes a |
| Without giving away the actual idea (as it's still in | | | | question of whether enough profit can be made from |
| development) I'm going to tell you about an up and | | | | the idea to justify the number of people in on the |
| coming project that is going to involve quite a few | | | | business. If analysis shows that the potential profits |
| people. Somebody came up with a really crazy idea | | | | don't justify the number of people, you have several |
| for selling something. I'm talking about something so | | | | options. |
| outrageous that most people would laugh at it. The | | | | The first option is to scrap the project. That's the easy |
| first thing we realized is that since this something didn't | | | | way out. The second option is to go ahead with it |
| exist, we'd have to find a way to make the idea go | | | | anyway, taking less money, realizing that since you're |
| viral as it wouldn't be something your typical person | | | | doing a very little part of the work, it's probably still |
| would look for. | | | | more money than you would have made had you |
| So, given that, a bunch of people started throwing in | | | | dropped the whole thing. The third option is to ask |
| their two cents on the idea. One person went out and | | | | certain people who are making minor contributions if |
| bought a domain name. They then thought of another | | | | they'd be willing to take a lower percentage of the |
| person who they knew personally to contact about | | | | profits. This option usually doesn't work. |
| getting the graphics done. Okay, so far so good. Then | | | | Point is, and I hope I've made it clear, you DON'T have |
| we started coming up with ideas to make this thing go | | | | to do it all yourself. If you have a great idea with lots of |
| viral. There were quite a few. I came up with the idea | | | | potential, but it's too much work for one person, get |
| to go on BlogTalkRadio and start airing five minute | | | | help. |
| broadcasts about this new thing that was going to be | | | | You'll probably still be better off in the long run. |