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Do You Need a License for your Work from Home Business?

Review of Regulated Industries.

I once knew a guy whose great idea for a 'home business' was to run poker tournaments from his house. Needless to say, that didn't last long once the police heard about it.

If you think you've got an idea that's going to make you big money, there might be a reason why everyone else isn't doing it - and that reason could be related to the law. Many types of businesses are strictly regulated and controlled by governments.

Should Gambling be your Work from Home Business?.

However fun and profitable it might be to put fruit machines in your house, run a mini card casino or just invite the local old people over to play bingo, it's almost certainly illegal without a license. Gambling is an industry that's almost always strictly controlled - it might be fine to gamble privately with your friends (or, depending on where you live, it might not be), but as soon as you start running it as a business you're on very dodgy ground. You'll also find that most places have laws against for-profit lotteries - sorry.

Applying for a license to turn your home into a gambling premises is unlikely to succeed. If you wonder why, consider what would happen if people in your area could do that. It wouldn't be pretty.

Should Alcohol sales be your Work from Home Business?

Yes, it seems odd to some people that you need a license to serve alcohol - after all, you can invite people round to your own house for a drink perfectly legally, can't you? As soon as you start charging them for those drinks, though, the nature of what you're doing changes drastically in the eyes of the law, and you're going to need a license. If you don't get one, then you could be heading off to jail for quite a while.

Again, you're going to have trouble getting an alcohol license for your home, unless you're holding some kind of event there and the drinking is just incidental. Alcohol licenses are usually subject to appeals from people who live near the premises being considered, and you can guarantee that your whole neighbourhood is going to turn out to say what a bad idea it would be.

Should Medics Supply be your Work from Home Business?..

If you plan to do anything medical, then you'll probably need a license. When I say medical, I mean doctors, dentists, opticians, and even vets. You might think it'd be fine to turn your home into an 'animal hospital', but you need to be qualified and licensed. Of course, if you've previously been a doctor, dentist, or whatever, then you shouldn't have too much trouble getting licensed to do the same thing from home.

Should Looking after Children be your Work from Home Business?..

People get jumpy around children, and you're very unlikely to be able to look after any as part of your business without jumping through all sorts of hoops. Just to be a nanny, there are all sorts of courses to take and regular inspections to go through. If you ever wonder why there's a shortage of small-scale childcare, it's because it's so hard to keep within the rules while making any profit.

Should Food be your Work from Home Business?..

If you're going to sell food, you usually need to register, for hygiene and safety reasons - imagine if just anyone could sell you food, without any checks! For various reasons most local government agencies are especially strict if you plan to handle raw meat. It's usually fine to sell cooked meat, but raw meat is considered more dangerous. Food licenses aren't too hard to get, anyway, provided you have a relevant hygiene qualification and you're willing to have your kitchen and products inspected at regular intervals.

More.

This list is nowhere near exhaustive - it just covers some of the most common kinds of businesses that people think of. If you're planning to do something more unusual, then you really need to check your local laws.

Should I Bother?

Most home business owners don't know about the rules that apply to them, and don't especially care either. Every day you operate in a regulated industry without a license, though, you risk being shut down, or worse. It's only going to take one upset customer or neighbour to get you into big trouble - so unless you want to be worrying all the time, make sure you're properly licensed for whatever you want to do.

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Thought for the Day

Do you want Success? by Dave Vallieres

There are some things we can control about our future and there are some things we cannot control.

There are a lot of things out of our control: -

• The weather
• Natural disasters
• Terrorist activities ...

are just a few.

But there are a lot of things totally within our control...

• Our attitude
• Our habits
• Our thoughts and motivation

I want you to imagine yourself making more money in 2006 than you have in any other year of your life.

Can you imagine it? If you can imagine it, you can do it.

The only way to succeed is by changing ourselves.

If your habits, the things you do everyday are not getting the things you want out of life, it's time to CHANGE your habits.

Eliminate BAD attitudes, BAD habits, BAD or DISTRACTING desires by KNOWING what they are and HOW TO overcome them.

Let's talk about how your attitude and habits affect your ability to make money. There are certain rules for succeeding financially ... like 'golf' there are 'rules' ... and there are rules to winning the Internet marketing business too.

If you don't even know what the rules are how can you formulate a strategy to win? You can't formulate a strategy because you don't understand what the GAME is all about! And that's why you aren't successful ... yet.

Learn the 'rules' and win by playing the best you can play ... Now is the time to look forward. Look toward changing those habits that have kept you back... what are they?

IDENTIFY them! Name them and write them down! Then you can SEE them for what they are... BARRIERS to YOUR success! Kill them, stomp on them, HATE them!

• Do you tend to procrastinate?
• Do you ease up after succeeding?
• Do you fail to plan ahead?

All of these are BAD habits that must be broken.

How?

By DESIRING it... by WANTING success so bad you can taste it.

Stop settling for LESS, EXPECT more from yourself and 'feel bad' when you don't make money.

Feel terrible when you failed to DO SOMETHING to bring you closer to your goal.

Use your feelings to propel you forward... feel afraid of being POOR ...WANT MORE, WANT BIGGER dreams to come true, for you.

Then and only then will you have the motivation to succeed.

There's only one rule you need to know to succeed: If you want success you have to STOP doing what you have been doing and do something else instead until you reach your goals.

Your habits will FORCE you to succeed. To be more successful change your habits.

Learn MONEY-MAKING Habits.

That's all the news for now,

-Dave Vallieres
(c) 2006 by David Vallieres.
All rights reserved.
David Vallieres is the Editor and Publisher of "Little Known Ways To Make Money Online"
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