The type of business you choose will be affected a lot by how much cash you have to get started. Service based businesses are a lot less expensive to start, depending on your skill set.

Digital products don’t cost much more to develop either, again depending on your own skills and whether or not you’ll need to outsource some of the work such as website design or product creation.

You can start a work at home business for relatively little money compared to a bricks and mortar business.

You don’t have the high rent, utilities and so forth to pay with a work at home business that you do with a bricks and mortar business.

Therefore, your startup costs can be a lot lower, but you still have startup costs.

Work from home startup cash

Business License Fees

• You need to get a business license in most states and counties in the USA to run a business from your home.
• Usually the cost is very low, so don’t allow yourself to be afraid of finding out the costs and rules in your area.

Technology Costs

• You may already own a computer and the technology that you need, but you may need to invest in some extra software too.
• Today you can “rent” software on a monthly basis which makes it a 100 percent write off like other direct expenses.
• For example, it costs $9.99 a month to rent bookkeeping software though GoDaddy. That is a cost you can write off as an expense.

Contractor Fees

• You may need to hire help such as marketing professionals, virtual assistants, web designers and others to help you get started and maintain your business.

• But, there are also deductions you can count on when running a business from your home.
• If you can set up an exclusive area of your home to be the home office you can get quite a large home office deduction that makes everything even less expensive when starting a home business because these expenses you can deduct won’t go up, such as utilities, electricity, internet and so forth.