How to start the most simple small business at home with just a laptop and an internet connection.

It’s on everyone’s tongues lately and the hottest topic in 2021. How to start a business from home?

In this article, we will go through how to start a business from the comfort of your home and what it takes to succeed and finish what you started.

Let’s be frank with you, we started our online business in September 2018 with the goal to find a vehicle to financial freedom. We had been fighting all our life as struggling artists, sleeping in airports because we couldn’t afford the hotel room, sewing our own clothes because the atelier was too expensive and literally ate Mcdonald’s or instant nuddle cups for years. We have been through all types of jobs that you can imagine just in order to pay for the next dance class or the upcoming competition.

Living like this for years was so interesting. We never knew what was waiting around the corner, we just knew that if we kept pushing and stayed in discipline, we would succeed in our career. And we did. We are multiple Danish Champions, second in North Europe and Finalist at the World Championship. However, we knew that we would not be able to live like that forever, and we started feeling more and more anxious about what the future would hold for us.

How would 3K a month change your life?

As human beings, we do one of 2 things when we get anxious. Either we freak out, panic, and freeze up or we freak out, panic, and start searching for answers because the future as you vision it so far, simply scares the shit out of you.

We are the second type (luckily!) and we literally searched the whole internet and started to take action because you know the saying “Rome was not built in 1 day”. So we came across many interesting things but our choice fell on one education which helps you to get started online from scratch and build a business that you love and gives you the opportunity to create an income online.

So think about how 3k a month would change your life?

It maybe sounds too good to be true but earning 3k a month through an online business that you start from home is not that impossible at all. But let us go through how to do it and what it takes:

What it takes to start a business from home

1. Set yourself up for success
2. Create accountability
3. Decide your strategy
4. Take Action
5. Be patient

1. Set yourself up for success

Setting yourself up for success actually means preparing for everything ahead of you. Nothing in life is a smooth sail. Expect hard times, expect to feel incapable at some point, and expect to meet resistance from friends and family. Embrace the journey both the good and the bad and trust the process. Focus on what is important first and foremost and keep going. When starting a business from home it is important that you create a strong mindset that your business can grow from. If the sole purpose of your business is to make money you are better off finding a job rather than starting a business as you probably will not see money streaming into your bank account as the first thing after launching.

2. Create accountability

This is not a joke. We started off this adventure completely blind and by ourselves and it has been the single biggest mistake we could have made. Accountability is what keeps you on track and what makes you learn even faster. One thing for sure is that accountability creates discipline, but another factor of accountability that we didn’t realize, is that when you open up and share your experience with others, you both give and receive help which boosts your business and lets you grow as a person.

Opening up makes you understand that you also have value to give and you start to become addicted to service which ultimately will make or break your business. Your customer always comes first and if you want a successful business you must give and share in order to receive as a consequence.

3. Decide Your Strategy

Deciding your strategy right from the get-go is very important. Start by identifying what your resources and capabilities are.

Is time something you have lots of or not? Do you have some money to invest or is money limited? Do you love writing or do you suck at it? Are you technical or not at all? What about showing up on video? Is that something you love or hate?
Basically, you must understand which resources you have, and try to be as resourceful as you possibly can.

Once you have identified your resources and capabilities it’s time to find your strategy. You can do paid traffic where you pay to show your video ad, blog, or website in front of other people. This way will be faster because you quickly get more eyeballs on your content, products, and services and through them create customers. If money is not a resource for you, you can choose the organic route. This means you can create a YouTube Channel, a personal blog, an Instagram profile, or a Facebook page and share free content for your audience. Bare in mind that this way will take a lot longer and consistency is very important in organic traffic. Also leveraging your friends, family, and coworkers to get them to share your content and spread the word is a great idea especially when starting out.

No matter which way you go Paid or Organic make sure whatever you share gives value and helps your audience. The first purpose for all you do must be to help and be of service.

4. Take Action

It seems too obvious to even mention but trust us, we know so many people who talk the talk but never walk the walk. Taking the first step is always so scary, but remember that you are creating a new business in order to create financial stability for yourself. The reality is scary but the future if you do nothing is scarier by a lot! So it’s worth facing the fear and do it anyway. Once you have done the first blog post, the first video, or the first social media appearance you have successfully expanded your comfort zone, and doing the second one is not that hard.

So just do it as Nike says.

5. Be Patient

This one is probably the hardest. Being patient in today’s fast world can be a real challenge. No success comes overnight so patience and consistency are the 2 keys to success in any business adventure you start. Focus on your goal, focus on your customer and focus on what you give and we promise the money will grow in your bank account slowly but steadily.

Somehow we believe as human beings, that we deserve so much for doing so little. We think that we work hard and we expect results to roll in the door with minimum effort. If you lower your expectations and take consistent baby steps you will be far better off and you will actually enjoy the process rather than stress and struggle over smaller issues. Know that starting a business from home is a long process and if you accept that and say to yourself “I am in it for the long run” then success is inevitable.

How to start a business from home

So how to start you might ask?

There are hundreds of ways to start an online business and it might seem overwhelming when starting out. What we did was to find a community of people who were already successful themselves and then start learning from them.

We believe that if you want to get far in anything in life it is much easier to leverage the knowledge and experience of other people who have already done it themselves. Like walking in their footsteps.

We found this education which has proved to be the best investment we have ever done. They start by sharing exercises that go through your WHY. Why do you start a business, What is your ideal day, and where do you want to arrive with the business as a vehicle?

It’s important to understand that starting an online business from home does not have to be “homemade”. You can be extremely successful if you have the right mentor and the right education played out in front of you.

Then all you have to do is to follow along and add your own touch. Resistance will be inevitable and that is why having a mentor who has done it before you is crucial so they can guide you when you meet difficulties. If you do a homemade business instead, it is likely that you will stop at the first issue you face.

Closing words

We hope that we have been able to share with you some interesting facts about starting an online business from home. Doing it from home means being more flexible with your times and that you can use your free time on building your future stability rather than watching TV. Remember it does not mean that it has to be “homemade”. Actually, we highly advise against it.

Find the right mentor and community for you and follow in their footsteps. With the right direction, you will find that working on your future actually is fun and highly satisfying. Being proud of your own actions will fill you up and it will affect other areas of your life too.

We wish you all the best and if you have any comments or questions do not hesitate to ask below.