Starting a home based business is easy. The savings is apparent in the absence of overhead expenses. Your home serves a dual purpose of shelter and for providing a place for you to set up  a business. After you have written up the business plan, which is the most difficult part of starting a business, then your other expenses are taken care of.

Your business plan is the map of what you want to sell and who are your prospects going to be. The easiest way is to start an online business using eBay as your source of supply. Become a member of eBay but you do have to pay small listing fees and you must be serious about mailing your wares to the customer. Your inventory as most eBay books will direct you, includes jewelry pieces or other items that you have in your garage that other people may want to purchase. You also will need a digital camera to get photos of the products that you want to sell on line.

Read all the free information you can about starting a business on eBay including offline sources at major bookstores and department stores. These books will instruct you to start small by selling what you already have around  your home. List you items after photographing the product with your digital camera.

Jewelry is a popular item but you may have to pay a search engine optimizer to get you website in the forefront of Google if you choose not to use eBay. That is why Google is not suggested as a place to start your jewelry businesss or any business that you are interested in that provides products. The best way to sell jewelry is in an open market environment like a swap meet or a flea market. Flea markets are becoming more popular because of the state of the economy so as long as you have protection against the inclement weather, flea market is a good place to start.

After you have exhausted your wares around the house, the best thng to do is to get inventory by attending local auctions as well as online auctions. Your first priority should be local auctions because of the shipping charges that online auctions have to place on purchases to get your sold items to you. Overstock.com and eBay can provide inventory also, but you need to make sure that you select only the products that include free shipping. Ebayers and overstock.com members sometimes put exorbant shipping charges on their items to get a profit. Beware of the vendors who charge shipping charges that are unreasonable.

Use your profit to purchase more items using 20% of the profit to purchase new items. You must be certain not to pour your household funds into your jewelry or flea market business because then your venture becomes a hobby instead of a business. Most entrepreneur's goal is to make their hobbies into businesses not the other way around.

Follow these steps supplemented with resources for eBay and Overstock.com help modules. Read as much information possible about starting your own home based business. Jewelry is more lucrative because of the "sell itself" appeal but is difficult to advertise on line without online SEO. You can make up to $500 a week in profits if you choose to sell jewelry and with no overhead if you choose to make your business home based.