How to Avoid Home-Based Business Scams

My sister-in-law recently stated that she wanted to open up a Starbucks. I started to observer Starbucks and other coffee houses more closely after that update. I find the coffee house clients quite interesting. Many people that love coffee are the bubbly type with an energetic loud personality. Some of those same people are grouchy to say the least before they get there coffee. Most say they are not the morning type. The other types that go there are those whom are serious coffee addicts.

Those are the people that really have no time for conversation. They go into the store with little focus on anything but the coffee. They focus on their phone or anything else with little time for conversation. I saw a few novices whom were not part of the Starbucks community.

Similar to me, they didn't understand why coffee had to cost so much nor was familiar with the lingo. The most interesting type to me is the home-based business sales person. It was funny that they would bring someone to Starbucks, but most of them did not even buy their soon-to-be-business-partner coffee. However this brought me to a few questions about the home based business.

When is a home-based business not for you?

If it's a home-based business, I want you to show me your home. Perhaps we can meet someplace other than your home to start. But if you are going to bring me in at the ground level then let me see your foundation. I have often wondered why home based business owners do no show it to you in their home.

I hold that if the business is great enough for you to have other come on board; you should have a business plan that you can show me. You should at least have and executive summary. I would hold that you will have something more than a pretty PowerPoint presentation telling me how this is the beginning of a new industry that is taking the world by store.

To let me see your home is one component of it. But give me an executive summary and scope of what the business mission vision and objectives are. Show me how I fit into the vision and why I should you my home as one of your satellite resources. I want to see the foundation and or the home of the home-based business owner.