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Do you love children? Do you enjoy taking care of other people’s kids? Then opening a daycare center may be the perfect job for you. This is a business that requires little investment to get started, can be operated at your home, and is in constant demand by parents who work and need childcare.

Family day cares can be operated by a single individual out of their home. There may be occasions when more than one individual cares for children in a family childcare home. This can be a stay-at-home parent who seeks supplemental income while caring for their own child. There are also many family childcare providers who have chosen this field as a profession. Local legislation will regulate the number and ages of children allowed per family child care home. Some localities have very stringent quality standards that require licensure for family child care homes while others require little or no regulations for childcare in individual’s homes.

Family childcare may be less expensive than center based care because of the lower overhead in family childcare. Many family childcare providers may be certified with the same credentials as center based staff.

Franchising of home day cares attempts to bring economies of scale to home day cares. A central operator handles marketing, administration and perhaps some central purchasing while the actual care occurs in individual homes. The central operator may provide training to the individual care providers. Some providers even offer enrichment programs to take the daycare experience to a more educational level.

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Do these three words echo in your head? — “Start Own Business.”  Perhaps you’re unemployed sitting at home watching reruns of Matlock - “I should start my own business.” Or maybe you’re sitting at a dead-end job hoping for something better - “Start my own business.” And in today’s economy with record levels of unemployment and underemployment, your best road to economic success and job security is to start your own business.

So what business should you start? This is where you need to do a little research to make sure you make the right choice. Consider the following items:

• PERSONAL EXPERIENCE - What jobs have you held in the past that could turn into a business? If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, perhaps you’d like to open your own restaurant. If you’ve ever been an administrative assistant, you could open a secretarial service. If you’ve worked in construction, perhaps you could open a handyman service.
• PERSONAL INTERESTS - What makes you happy? Do you have a hobby that you’d love to do full time? Do you have interests that could become a business? If you work at something you love, you’ll never have to ‘work’ another day in your life.
• MARKETPLACE NEEDS - You may be passionate about a potential business, but if there’s no one who wants to pay you for that it will never be successful. Or on the opposite side of the spectrum, there may be too many people already offering the service. You may dream of being a florist, but if there’s already 27 florists within a mile of your house, there’s probably not a lot of room in the market for another florist.

A great way to get your brainstorming started is to read our “101+ Businesses You Can Start Today!” report. Then get to the business of starting a business!

Say “I Do” to a Profitable Wedding Photo Business!

It’s the happiest day of their life, and each wedding can become a happy day in the life of your business as you photograph the bride and groom for fun and profit!

There are two primary approaches to wedding photography that are recognized today: Traditional and Photojournalistic. Traditional wedding photography provides for more classically posed images and a great deal of photographer control and interaction on the day of the wedding. Photojournalistic wedding photography takes its cue from editorial reporting styles and focuses more on candid and unposed images with little photographer interaction. These are two extremes and many of today’s photographers will fall somewhere in the middle of these two styles.

A third style that is becoming more popular is a fashion-based approach. In contemporary/fashion-based wedding photography, photojournalistic images of the events of the day are combined with posed images that are inspired by editorial fashion photography as would be found in magazines like Vogue or Vanity Fair.

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A mid-life crisis used to mean you’d go out and do something totally senseless — buy a Corvette, leave your family, live as a surfer dude on a South American beach — but in today’s economy a mid-life crisis is less about the crazy things you do to yourself and more about the crazy things that are done to you.

So many mid-lifers now find themselves in an unenviable situation… no job, no savings, no retirement plan, no hope, no options, nowhere to turn. The employers aren’t hiring.  Those that are don’t pay at the level you’re used to. So where do you go when you don’t have anywhere to go? That’s when it’s time to return to that question from your childhood — “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

Did you really enjoy that job you were downsized from?  Were you stressed every day wishing you could do something else? If you were doing something else, what would that be?  What was your dream job as a kid? Perhaps it’s time to follow your dreams.

The silver lining to the dark economic cloud that has thrown many of our lives into turmoil, is that it is forcing us to follow our dreams. The best way to find a job today is to create your own job by starting a business. With your experience and knowledge, now is the time to turn that into your dream job.

What business will you start?  We have over 101+ ideas at EntrepreNecessary.com.

This month’s job numbers came out today and they’re being heralded as good news. Seems the economy added 162,000 jobs last month. Sounds great after months and months of negative numbers. It was actually the best showing in three years. So the politicians are out there taking credit and praising the good news. The President praised the jobs report and said that we are turning the corner.

But what is reality and what is smoke and mirrors.  When you look at the numbers behind the numbers, it’s not quite as pretty. 48,000 of those jobs are temporary government jobs for the Census. Another 40,000 were temporary jobs in the private sector. So 54% of these exciting new jobs are temporary positions, that are typically low paying and won’t last long.

On top of that, the potential labor force (those 16 and older) increased by 851,000 in the first 3 months of the year. So just to stay even with the changes in workforce population, 551,000 would need to gain employment, and you can see we’re nowhere near that.

So the bottom line is you don’t have to dig very deep into the numbers to realize that the employment situation is still very, very bad. That’s why the best way out for many unemployed people still remains the option to start their own business. To find over 101 start up ideas that EntrepreNecessary has compiled, visit our listing at 101+ Startup Ideas.

It’s amazing to watch the Olympic athletes, the best in the world at what they do. When you think about the years of training and complete dedication it takes to get to that level, each one has a story of sacrifice and absolute focus.  That’s the same attitude you need to start your own business.

As the employment situation remains bleak, and improving unemployment statistics are only due to more people running out of unemployment benefits and they fall off the statistic screen, the best way out of the jobless mess remains the option to start your own business.  But starting a business is much like working toward an Olympic gold medal - it takes dedication, sacrifice and focus.

Perhaps it’s no coincidence that February is also “National Start Your Own Business Month.”  Now is the time to evaluate your skills and abilities, then decide how you can capitalize on those to turn them into a successful business.  To browse through a list of business ideas, visit our guide to 101+ business ideas at EntrepreNecessary StartUp Ideas.

Enjoy the Olympics. Get Inspired. Then go for your own personal gold with your new business startup!

When you’re thinking about how to start a successful business, a great exercise to go through is to look for ways to reinvent your chosen industry. Are there different ways to do what has become the standard operating procedure for everyone in your field? That’s where the little guy has an advantage. Big business is slow to adapt and adopt new methods, while as the small guy you are quick and nimble, able to change your approach with a moment’s notice.

Patti Hill started Blabbermouth PR three weeks after 9/11 shocked the nation. She said,”Downtowns are not interruptions; rather opportunities for confident decision-making.”

She tooka different approach to the PR world, offering only senior level employees.  That’s a great idea, because I know from my experience, the owners and senior level executives of an agency come and sell themselves to you, then when your company becomes a client all the work is done by interns and junior level employees. Patti knew there was a new way to approach business that would be attractive to potential customers.

“Realizing the necessity of creating a business model and a service offering that catered to the needs of all types and sizes of organizations, we broke with prevailing tradition by creating a new model for the PR industry, offering solely senior-level representation and electing to stock her firm with executives–skipping interns, trainees and junior-level representatives altogether. This senior-level practitioner model translates into a host of other differentiators: Only BlabberMouth offers the accountability, efficiency, strategic thinking, and agility to represent diverse industries that naturally arise from 100 percent senior-level practitioners.”

Blabbermouth PR took off and became successful. Their growth took them to a new level where they felt a name change was necessary, but that success came from taking a new approach to an old business model.

How can you re-invent the business model you’re about to enter?  It gets back to the age-old saying… Build a better mousetrap and they will come!

For many years, 7-Up has built their brand by being the “UnCola,” suggesting that it’s better to break out of the pack and be something different than all the other cola products out there. Their message invites you to drink something different, unique, individual – breaking away from crowd of mindless, faceless followers.

So if there’s such power in being “Un” in the cola world, how does that translate to being “Un” in the employment world?  To really tap into that power, we have to shift our thinking about unemployment.

When you first lose a job, “Unemployment” really means “UnJob.”  I’ve lost my job so I have no employment. It’s a very negative perspective. No job. No income. No insurance. No security. No inner peace. Looking at it that way, un-employment is a very bad thing.

The flip side to “Un” in the employment world is to look at it as freedom.  Without the constraints of working for someone else, I am free to start my own business where I’m the boss. No more timeclock. No more asking for a raise. No more being told what to do. Now your success is all up to you.

This positive way of looking at un-employment is unconventional. For those who view unemployment as a negative, it’s also unbelievable. But if you have an entrepreneurial spirit, you know the potential of running your own business is UNLIMITED!

If you’re looking for ideas of businesses you can start, check out our start-up ideas at www.EntrepreNecessary.com/101_Business_Ideas.

On a whim, I sent the President a bill for my lost earnings.  Do you think I’ll ever receive payment?  Thought you might enjoy reading it…

Dear Mr. President,

I know you are used to signing bills, but I have a different type of bill for you. Consider this letter an INVOICE for $100,000. What is it for? Let’s just call it a Family Stimulus Plan.  When you took office in January, I was happily employed earning six figures a year in an executive position. Five short months later in May, as the economy spiraled out of control and your administration began a wreckless spending spree, my company downsized to save money and I was suddenly unemployed. Now I’m just one of 15 million Americans who have no income, yet have families to support and bills that need paid every month. Your promise of “Hope and Change” has become “We HOPE we find enough CHANGE in our house to pay the bills this month!”

I know you claim you can’t just write checks, but you sure are good at spending money. A hundred thousand is regarded as spare change in Washington, so this shouldn’t be too much to ask. Last week I heard one Senator call 56 Billion too small of an amount to worry about in the big picture, so $100,000 is nothing more than a rounding error. But to my family, it will bring peace and security and help us start our own business, which seems to be the only option for many today as it will take years for companies to create 15 million new jobs.

Just forward my bill over to Tim Geithner at Treasury, and he can take it out of the stimulus money. I know he’s very focused on collecting taxes (as long as it’s not his own), so the great thing for the government about paying me is that I’ll turn around and give half of it back to you in taxes.

To make this easy for you, feel free to send my $100,000 payment through Paypal. Please send it to david@entreprenecessary.com.

One last thought – you’re trying to sell the country on the idea that Healthcare is the number one problem. The reality is the number one problem is the economy, which results in huge unemployment. Fifteen million voters are unemployed, and many, many more are underemployed. There is so much uncertainty that businesses are not hiring.

15 million is an interesting number to think about. You only won the election by 8 million.

I look forward to receiving your payment.

Sincerely,
–David

David Archer
www.EntrepreNecessary.com
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The one job sector that is growing right now is the government.  Everyone talks about having a government job and being set for life - you’ll never be fired, you have great benefits, and you receive a great retirement plan. But is that always true?  Perhaps not.

I went to the Oregon Employment Division website the other day, and much to my surprise they had a big CLOSED sign on the site. It seems the employment department, along with every other non-essential state office, would be closed on Friday as part of the state’s budgetary cutbacks to save money. This was the first of 10 days throughout the next few years of mandatory unpaid days off.  And Oregon is not the only state that is cutting into their employee’s wages and benefits to meet budget deficits. We’ve all heard about California’s woes, and the list goes on from there.

So even those cushy government jobs are not without uncertainty. That’s why the best solution is still self-employment. Starting your own business, while full of it’s own stresses and uncertainties, is the best way to be in control of your own destiny.