What's stopping you from starting the business you've been dreaming about?

If your answer is, "Getting enough money to start the business," then maybe you should take a closer look at your plans. You may find ways to get the business rolling without spending as much as you originally planned.

For example, instead of buying a new computer and software, start with the computer and software you have now. Or, if you don't yet own a computer, keep an eye out for bargains. If you were planning to buy a maxed out multimedia PC, consider whether you need all those bells and whistles. If you're just going to be typing word processing documents, you can get by quite nicely on a computer that doesn't offer much in the way of multimedia capabilities. If you're planning to buy an expensive name brand computer, shop around at local discount stores and be willing to consider alternate brands.

Ask, too, if they have any "out of box" specials. These are computers that customers returned (but are in working order, or sometimes computer that were demo models (and are also in working order). We needed a new computer for the office and picked up a HP multimedia computer with a meg of memory and a big hard drive (tower only) for $330 a couple of weeks ago.

Looking for useable bargains like this could save you hundreds of dollars on a computer. Once the business is up and running and profitable, you can buy that high-end of higher-priced prestige brand computer with the profits from the business.

Look over every expense with the same eye for keeping costs down initially and you may find you can get that dream business off and running with the money you have available to you now.

Keep Startup Costs Under Control

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