A little while ago I was thinking about starting up my own company.
It seems to run in the family as both my brother and sister own their own companies, so in all honesty sometimes I feel like the odd one out.
I wanted a venture that I would enjoy and preferably I could run from home. I had a few thoughts about what I would like to do and my favourite idea was to get a website up and running where I could sell filled children’s party bags.
Even though my children are now grown up, I can still remember what a complete nightmare it was organising party bags. It would appear that nowadays children are pretty fussy about what they like in their party bags. In my day a piece of cake and a few pens and paper was ample, but things have moved on and children unfortunately expect a great deal more in their party bags.
I began to research potential suppliers and found some fantastic wholesalers. I put in a small order and organised four different party bags, which were aimed at children aged between 3 and 8 years old. Then I was thinking that the party isn’t just about party bags, but I could get a website built that covered the whole party event. I could sell balloons, cakes, accessories, even games for the children to play.
Now it just so happens that my brother’s business is web design and they specialise in search engine optimisation, so that saved me a whole heap of problems searching around for a reliable company to start me on my way to my first million.
My sister runs a local newsagents, so as well as selling everything online, the potential was also there to sell items from her shop.
Gradually everything was coming together and my future was looking really exciting. However, as with everything in life, money was the key element and to get the business up and running would have cost at least 15K. As I had been unemployed for a couple of years, finding this amount of money was going to be quite a task.
Then out of the blue my brother’s company offered me a job, which was very welcome. With me now in full time employment, my plan for a website is still simmering in the background, and I am sure that within the next couple of years I will be able to get it back on track, but for now I am happy being at work and enjoying the extra freedom that money brings.
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Hi, this is Eric Tan from Singapore! I'm a self-motivated Internet Marketer as well as a Web Designer, who's been making money online for many years out of my cozy 4-room flat home with my HP laptop.
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