When starting a home business, many people concern themselves with growing revenues. New business owners want to figure out how big they can get their business in terms of new customers, products sold, or gross revenue. It certainly can be good to grow revenue, as it means your business is growing.

However, it is extremely important to look at profitability. Because, when you are growing a profitable business, you will be able to use those proftis to grow your business further. Plus, by growing as a profitable business, as you get bigger, you can better help yourself continue to be profitable. Granted, sometimes it is faster to grow a business without learning about profitability - but then some of those businesses are never able to turn a profit.

So, if you grow your business to be a profitable one, even if slowly, at least you will be making money. And, that money, can be used to grow further. And then, as long as you continue to stay profitable, growth will always be a good thing. On the other hand, if you keep growing your business, and it isn't profitable - well then you may never be able to make it profitable. And, some of the added growth may do more harm than good.

So, yeah, sometimes its tough to be patient and limit growth in exchange for profitability. But, working for yourself ain't easy - and when you can actually turn a profit - its a good thing!