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How to Live Entirely off Free Grants
If the lagging economy has left you out searching months on end for an income to support your household, maybe the problem is that you’ve been looking in the wrong places. Perhaps it’s time you start considering free grants from the government and private institutions.
One problem you may have is that you’ve been led to believe that people who take this route are poor. Another myth that you may have bought into, is they are also unambitious. Well just turn on the news today and you can see how successful wealthy people all up and down Wall Street are now taking the easy way out.
If you can’t beat em than you may as well join em and your first priority should be to get your household and living expenses financed for free. After you accomplish that, then your next step should be to get your business financed with free government money.
Whether you’re single or a struggling single parent, there is easy money out there and cheap low income housing too. Nice housing in upscale apartment complexes. Wouldn’t you like to live in a first rate three bedroom apartment and pay less than $200 per month?
Look up the offices for welfare or SSI and head on in. Of course they’ll try to make things difficult for you but never mind that. It’s just part of the game they play. Remember that you don’t have to be outwardly disabled to qualify for SSI. You can have an eating disorder, be depressed or hear voices. Be creative!
Then your next stop, is to join the ranks of the many who get section 8 free grants for housing. Of course you’ll have to spend some time on a waiting list but it passes in a handful of months. Then after you get settled in and you have you’re SSI or welfare and food stamps coming in, it’s time to start focusing on getting a government grant to start a small business, so you’ll have something to do during the day.
How to Prepare for Government Grants to Start a Business
The fact is that the US government gives out billions in government grants to start a business each year. Sound like a lot of money? Well would you believe that the federal government gives away a total of $25 billion in domestic business aid, all together each year?
However; the truth of the matter, is that in spite of there being such a large available pool of money, competition is stiff. This of course means that the people who are the most prepared and knowledgeable, generally tend to walk away with the lions share.
The First Thing to Do
The very first thing that you need to do is to come up with a complete and comprehensive business plan. Not just a good plan but rather, an excellent plan. Consider using the Internet to conduct your market demand research.
Your plan should also demonstrate your complete familiarity with all the products involved in the business you are proposing. You should also be able to demonstrate a complete familiarity with employee wage scales for the type of labor performed in the course of your business.
The Second Thing to Do
The second thing you can do, is to begin to work on your presentation skills. You see, you have to understand that aside from all the paperwork you’ll have to submit, there will be personal interviews. People you will have to convince that your plan is viable.
The Third Thing to Do
The third thing that you will need to do is to familiarize yourself with the entire process of getting government grants to start a small business. This is no time to learn on the fly. There’s just too much at stake. Consider paying for the services of a consultant.
1) Before you start applying for grants, make sure that you have your business planned meticulously. Be prepared with an excellent business plan, with the exact amounts and figures that you require in every aspect of your business such as overhead, manpower, facilities and other expenses. Once you have the figures in place, add an extra 25-30% to this amount as a contingency measure to safeguard you against unexpected expenditure. A well-planned business plan could work wonders towards you obtaining a good grant to help you with your business.
2) Engage in the services of a consultant to help you find and obtain a small business grant. Although this may prove to be slightly costly to you, but the experience and knowledge that the consultant brings for your grant application could prove to be priceless, and may be the deciding factor in you obtaining it, or failing in your bid.
3) Use the internet and available website to good effect. Visit relevant sites such as the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) where you could find a list of small business grants that you could apply for, as well as the Small Business Administration (SBA) website where you would discover all the information required in regards to grant applications here. Other useful sites especially for women entrepreneurs include usagovernmentgrants.org, and of course grants.gov, a government-linked site where your grant-seeking activities could bear fruit.
4)Do not forget to work on your presentation skill as well, as you would be required to present in front of a grant-awarding committee. Thus be prepared to impress them with your proposal, and all the best in obtaining the small business grant for yourself!