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Hello.

My name is Mr. Wicks2006 on this site(not my real name, but I will add additional info. later in my profile page) and my business needs your help! No experience is required to participate, here! Don`t expect perfect english or formal business entries in this talk.

I am look for some help starting my business from the kitchen table and I don`t know whether this will work. No Guarantees. Please help me start my business - won`t you?

O.k. I think you got it, we are starting with a skeleton startup and minimal cash on hand(about $100).

First Issue of the day: A business is not depended on - race, gender, age, sexual orientation, big cash reserves, formal education, past business experience, physical body characteristics, physical location, or dress. So lets remove these business barriers from our minds.

Do you agree that businesses have been started with and without these attributes? (please remember we are starting a real biz from the kitchen table - I need your responses to this issue and future problems! thanks.)

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I am no longer posting on this forum. A fellow citizen here suggested that I should Think before I add commitary to my postings. I thought he was wrong, but I am mistaked(not everyone digs Mr.Wicks) E

Welcome MisterWicks,

You are correct, some businesses can be started with almost nothing.  I started mine by writing a book on my husband`s laptop at a family reunion in Wyoming in 2001.  My start-up consisted of a Yahoo website and a handful of papers printed from my inkjet printer assembled into binders (my "book").  My early marketing efforts were purely word of mouth and by month 3, I had 40 clients.

So, go for it!  Sometimes a hundred bucks and a kitchen table is all you need!

~Kim

O.k. I am glad that someone is on the ball and gave some proof about conditions. Actually, i do have a computer here that i bought at public auction for $25(IBM - PENTIUM2). and the monitor was a second hand gift. Dial-up is free! but i have the compression dial-up at $14. per month.

I believe what `Scrapbiz` is saying - all we really need is some BRAINS!! alias: Human system or Imagination!! and this website gives us a chance to stretch ours. Question: Do you believe some people have more capability than others in business? (natural capability - how do I know that i am ready for a business objective?) Please help!

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I am no longer posting on this forum. A fellow citizen here suggested that I should Think before I add commitary to my postings. I thought he was wrong, but I am mistaked(not everyone digs Mr.Wicks) E

Welcome misterwicks2006!

To answer your last set of questions, yes I personally believe that some individuals have a higher capacity for starting a business and it BEING SUCCESSFUL! 

Does your business idea keep you up at night? Do you constantly observe everything and see what you can use from it to apply to your business idea? If so, you are ready to make something happen. Take your idea, write it out, plan it out and as the Sloan Brothers say "Start it Up!"  Best Wishes!

Ken~

I think you can develop those qualities if you surround yourself with smart people (like you can find here).  I am married to an MBA who is a serial entrepreneur at heart.  He has a day job that pays the bills, my business keeps us in family vacations and tax breaks.  I have learned SO MUCH from being married to him for nearly 20 years - he reads nearly only business books and loves to talk business.  I feel like I could walk into a business school, take a test and walk out with my MBA now - LOL!

I think brains and passion can create an empire.  Look at Hewlett Packard - they started in a garage...

~Kim

Dear Folks,

What i really like is how quick people are to assist an aspiring artist(i mean that in a positive way - not con artist!). Also, i have made some postings on others thread, too! I see that someone has rated me low (2 - score) but i understand that i am new here!!

Back-to-business: I successfully sold on eBaY from the kitchen table, therefore, I believe that it would be a good place to startup. In fact, you can search your homes for a few items to sell online and get good results(from eBaY). The money from the items sold could be used as startup capital for a new kitchen-table-venture(this is what i plan to do!). The downside with eBaY is that it takes a lot of commitment to be a Powerseller(lots of emails, etc.).

Does anyone have any advice on eBaY, or selling merchandise online(Amazon, etc.)? Do you think that selling others items at commision would be a good business idea for my kitchen table theory(boats,cars etc.)? Or am I acting smarter by leveraging the money into another online operation? I am excited about starting a business at home - can you share some thoughts?? Thanks.

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I am no longer posting on this forum. A fellow citizen here suggested that I should Think before I add commitary to my postings. I thought he was wrong, but I am mistaked(not everyone digs Mr.Wicks) E

 I only wish I had the business insight you and your husband share. I`m a  technology innovator. Don`t have any business experience other than spending money to buy on-line `marketing systems` (all outflow and no inflow).

 When I read your mention of the `Ink Jet Printer` I felt yet another pang in the gut. I designed the print head they use while working under contract to a VERY large computer company back in 1989. The director of the printer division was thrilled because it would provide higher resolution images than the old `dot matrix` rod and tape printers. Silly me. If only I`d had a contact like you back then - we might`ve gotten rich off that design.

 Bye; Larry

 

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The more I learn, the less I know I know - but I`m trying :-)

Mr. Wicks,

Based on your comments in this post, it sounds to me as if you are not quite sure what business you wish to start. There are some great articles available here at SuN you should read. Could help you clear up some of your questions in your own mind.

6 Steps to Choosing the Right Business

That`s just one good article. Review all here:

http://www.startupnation.com/pages/articles/articles.asp

R@

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Richard Arnold · Key Concept Writers · Business Communication: The "Key" To Success· Law of Attraction Blog · Life Ain`t Brain Surgery Blog

O.k. Responses -

`ExecutekSearch` brought up an important point that some people are more naturally gifted than others in biz. We see examples of leadership that works better than others. To what point their naturally gifted ability helped is hard to measure. Did you know that Albert Einstien, Thomas Edison and Steve Jobs all started their careers working in dead-end jobs.

`The Doctor(above) might be responding to another link, other than what`s posted here!!

`KeyCon` suggest that I tap the resources found on this site. I am really glad that he didn`t tell me to follow a list of suggestions(like: 100 Businesses you can start from Home Article). Yes, I do have an idea for a business,here! However, just like those examples found in Entreprenuer magazine - they don`t always make the grade!!

As-far-as chasing my passion - that`s a hard thing because our personal interest doesn`t always have a Golden-outcome. I think a better approach is to evaluate an idea that`s based on our personal needs(eg. I need a new car - How much money could I make a week to satisfy that desire, so that I don`t have to go flip burgers at nights to pay for it?)

Personally, I believe unless I am willing to earn two thousand dollars gross weekly - what`s the sense of working for myself?

When I talked about eBaY - its either `Powerseller` or just supplement money for investment purposes.

Here`s a list of biz ideas for kitchen table:
1. Profit consultant 2. eBaY Sales 3. Manipulate web resources(newsletter, websites, how-to)

Do you have any good ideas for great wealth? By the way, I believe that a home-based entreprenuer would be prudent to steal good ideas, because clues are all around us. Can you queue us in?? Thanks.

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I am no longer posting on this forum. A fellow citizen here suggested that I should Think before I add commitary to my postings. I thought he was wrong, but I am mistaked(not everyone digs Mr.Wicks) E

`ExecutekSearch`

Does your business idea keep you up at night? Do you constantly observe everything and see what you can use from it to apply to your business idea? If so, you are ready to make something happen.

that really hits home .

hmm profit consultant?????  give a little defination there please

 

mike