Need some suggestions

SEO is the important thing, make sure that it is out there everywhere. Starting your own business will take a lot of time in the beginning. Discipline will continue to allow the business to thrive. Tell everyone and anyone you are acquainted with, so that they tell everyone and anyone they are acquainted with as well. Get the word out almost like live, eat, drink and breath the business and your business will be a full success. Good luck and I hope to hear, about your business soon.

The first and most important thing to consider when building a company is cost management. The moment you start, you should also start accounting your costs and efficiently maximizing your profitability by lessening your expenses. Don't go over spending and start off with cheap and affordable equipment and tools. Then when you have enough profits, replace them with better tools. Next, for marketing, it will literally depend on the product or service that you will offer. You can start off by spreading the word (by mouth) usually through your friends and your friends' friends will share them. etc.

believe it or not, the library would be a good place for you to start. they have lots of books on starting your own business.

good for you and your friend! But I am never start a business myself so I don't know but I hope that everything goes well for you!

Dora- Find out if there is a small business agency in your town, most have them run through the city. You may also wish to associate yourself with a womens group for small businesses ran by women. They can help you iron out all the kinks. You've already been given some very good advise thus far. Know your market, and you can do this by polling the area to find out if your product or service would be well met. If you need a loan, you'll want to have a business plan that shows profit and losses for your first year. These are all projected numbers and banks expect you to be in the red for the first several years of running a business. The services my husband and I offer are all home-based, so we do all our marketing ourselves. We purchase our business cards through Vista Print, and we do all our own flyers. We use word of mouth and face to face for all of our networking. We do use friend's websites to place up links, but we make use of all of our free sites to market-such as our Facebook pages. We then tell people in face-face contacts about the pages, and make sure they have our card. I would set up a business bank account at the start so that you can place all business related monies there and not have a cross-over. My husband and I have paypal accounts for our spiritual work, and any other monies are kept seperate from our regular finances. If you are going to be earning gross amounts from the start you'll want to fill out a 1099 for the IRS. Uncle Sam always wants his share. The general rule of thumb in making contacts (which is where your customer base comes from) is for every ten business cards you hand out face-face, you'll get 3 persons who are serious about your good or service. For every 100 flyers/brochures you'll get maybe 10 interested. If you are going to flyer I'd use the old technique of less is best. Create business card size flyers on canary yellow paper (the color does matter because in tests this color catches the attention). Write a catch phrase for your business and have your phone number and name larger then the catch phrase. With this type of marketing you'll want to have a phone script you use when people call you. Stick to the script. Whatever product or service you are selling, the goal is to commit them on the phone and not let them out of it. They called, their going to buy is what you must keep in your head. In terms of just the day to day, have a set time frame. For myself, I have certain times I tutor, certain times I do Tarot readings, and I schedule in my other duties. The reason for this, is that at times home-based businesses can slow or crawl because you get caught up in doing other things because of the laid-back nature of being "home". If you have an office, that is great-if not create a temporary office during "business hours". I have my dining room table set up as my desk when I'm working. I have a breakfast bar attached to the kitchen that I set my children's "office" up during work hours so that I can work, and they can work as well. So far it's been working great! Make sure to have your files set up as well. Again, I have no idea what sort of business you're trying to start so it's hard to give concrete examples. I'll keep an eye out for a response so I can give this more thought. Congratulations and blessings. Namaste-Anora

i don't have any suggestions sorry,i myself have been trying to think of a buisness to do from home for many years,i've had a few ideas but none any good,well not good enough to make any money,just a bit of pocket change,good luck with your venture

I need more info. Is this an at home type or store type business, are you sell a service or a product? Do you need a license, to be bonded, insured? Do you know enough bookkeeping to set up your own books. Remember seperate banking, and record keeping. Many people get into trouble by intermingling of business expenses and funds with their personal ones. Good Luck