One of the reasons that people start their own home business is because they are sick and tired of working a job, where no matter how much they work, they bring home the same pay each week. While that certainly is one definition of a job, it’s not the only one. Truth is, even though you are running your own home business, you may still be working a job without realizing it. Not sure if this is you? Then this article might give you some answers.

Naturally, with your own home business, whether it’s a job or not, you at least do have the opportunity to make more money than you did at your previous employment. And that income can go up and down dependent on a lot of things such as the economy and YOUR ability to work. Oh yes…YOUR ability to work. See, job or not, if you don’t get yourself out of bed each day, where do you think the money is going to come from? Well, that’s not entirely true. And therein lies the difference between a work at home job and a real business.

See, a work at home job is one where, regardless of how well you’re doing with your “business”, if you don’t keep doing it, the income dries up. Take copywriters who freelance and write all these great sales letters for all these other work at home businesses. Guess what? They stop writing…they stop earning. This is why many copywriters are incorporating other models into their business because they don’t want to work a job the rest of their lives.

In order to stay out of that work at home job trap, what you need to do is set your business up so that it literally runs itself. This can be done in many ways. One is by putting up a site and bringing it to the top of the search engines, one selling an evergreen product that people are ALWAYS going to need. Once you’ve reached that stage, you are literally running on autopilot.

Another way to do this is by setting up a service that people are always going to need. Look at eHarmony. Do you think they’ll ever go out of business with all the people out there looking for mates? There are many business models that require very little physical work once they get up and running. After that time comes, you can literally just check in on them once in a while.

THAT is a business…not a job.

So take a look at what you’re doing and ask yourself this question. “Am I running a business or working a job?”

Hopefully, the answer you come up with will be one that you can live with.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

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