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Home Based Business - You Work It But Who Owns It?

For those of you who currently operate, or are considering taking the steps to operate a home based business, this article was written for you. The key is to recognize that some home based businesses put you in charge, but do not make you the owner. Often times people think because they signed up for a business, and received a website stating their name, or that of their company, they own the business. As you will discover throughout this article, many of these individuals are mistaken.

While living in the home based business world, perhaps you have come across offers to join a company, and run your own business. Although your name, or the name of your company will be prominently displayed on the website, the real business is still owned by the main company. Unfortunately, with such home based businesses, you are nothing more than a distributor for their products or services, and have no choice but to following their business model. Essentially you are selling their products at predetermined prices, and earning what the company says you are going to earn.

As negative as this may read, it is not to say that such home based businesses are necessarily a bad thing. Rather, I am simply pointing out that many people who join these companies fool themselves into believing they are business owners, when they are really distributors. As a distributor, you will not be able to make any changes on the website. Further, you will not be able to sell anything that is not from the main company, and in a majority of these businesses, you will not be allowed to even remotely adjust pricing. The only thing you can control, is how much money you spend on marketing this new distribution venture.

Where I do see a substantial benefit to such an arrangement is when it comes to franchising. Investing in a franchise can be a great arrangement for a business owner as doing so provides the owner will an infrastructure, as well as name recognition. This is true irrespective of whether the franchisee is operating a traditional or a franchise. The franchisee will pay franchise fees to the parent company to cover the costs of advertising, support, and of course, for the name recognition. Supplies for the franchise are only to be purchased from vendors who have been authorized by the parent company. Once again, an individual operating under this business model will only be denoted as the franchise owner, not the business owner.

You must know all of the facts surrounding your endeavor prior to concluding that you are, or will be the owner of a home based business. If you have the desire to operate without the restrictions of a parent company, knowing this fact will be of the utmost importance.

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