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1. Basic money-management skills. While you don’t need to have a lot of money to start a business successfully, you do need the ability to make the most of the money you have. Being able to focus on the bottom line and pay attention to the numbers is as essential as the ability to price your products and services, manage your cash flow, and make sure you collect payment for the work you do. If you are lacking in these skills you can get training in business courses, books, and so forth.

2. A marketing mindset. You aren’t truly in business until you have business. No matter how much your product or service is in demand or how great a job you do, if people don’t know about you, you won’t have much business. You must be able to make your business visible to the people who need it, and this means understanding marketing.

3. Self-management skills. To make it on your own, you must become a goal- directed and self-motivated individual. You must be able to get yourself started each day, stick to business, and close the door on work at the day’s end.

4. Time-management skills. In your home business, you will need to wear many hats, from chief executive officer to janitor. You’ll have to do the business, get the business, and run the business. This means you’ll need to manage your time effectively to make sure the most important and urgent things get done in a timely fashion.

5. Basic office organization. Since one of the roles you will probably play is that of your own office administrator, you will need to be able to organize, equip, and manage your office space so that you can work effectively in it, having a place for everything and keeping everything in its place so that you can find it easily when you need it.