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Have you started and running a successful home business? If so, what do you do and how are you doing it? Thnx?

Would be more interested if you have started one within the last five years. Did your revenues and profits grow every year? What did you do to make your company grow? What business do you do?

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1. I am a web designer and that is all I do. I design my own websites and then offer advertising on them. The advertising alone in the past 6 months has been enough so that both my husband and I can live off of and have a very nice amount in savings. So far the income has grown (besides December and January which both were my highest months to dates) every month or so. To make it grow I just kept adding websites and interesting content and I try to get them all somewhat known around the web.
2. My husband and I started an online magazine for home businesses (see my profile) in 1999. It is an advertising-based model and we earn mainly through advertising. The growth of our profits the first two years was slow as we were still building traffic and determining how best to monetize our website. We were still learning, for example, how best to sell books for Amazon.com and other affiliate programs. We hit a serious bump in 2001 with 9-11. Advertising is a business that's very good when the economy is doing well, but a major hiccup such as 9-11 scares the advertisers away. 2002 was pretty steady, but the business finally took off in 2003. By then, we already know how to sell our site to potential advertisers; we have enough content; we got to the top of the search engines for our keywords; and we expanded the way we monetized our site moving from advertising to combining advertising with ecommerce as we started selling ebooks. In 1999, we only earned about $5,000 for the year. In 2005, we earned $5,000 in a week. It is not a quick and easy climb, especially if you are a home based business with limited capital. But if you have patience, you continue to learn and understand the business, and give customers what they are looking for, you can succeed.
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