Article 29 - Does Your Work At Home Idea Cover All Seasons

Does Your Work At Home Idea Cover All Seasons

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas

When you are first starting out you may have a home business idea of what you want to sell, but you might not have thought of the changes in the seasons and other important factors that can affect your sales, and ultimately the success of your business. Hence, it is important to consider whether or not you can really consider your business an all-season business or not.

One good example of a business idea that may struggle throughout the year except for one month is a costume store. During October and around Halloween, these businesses can make huge profits, but during the other eleven months, they may struggle just to keep the doors open.

On the other hand, an example of a year-round business is an interior design business. People are always looking for new ways to decorate their homes, especially as the seasons change, so if you have the skills needed, this could really be the best decision you've ever made.

To decide whether or not your business can be considered all year-round, think about the different activities, services, and products you partake in throughout the year. If your business idea falls into only one or two seasons or months, then expand your plan, or modify it.

For instance, if you wanted to open a business selling skateboarding gear, you should know that it is useless to try to sell skateboards while there is snow covering the ground. However, you could always expand your business plan to include both skateboarding and snowboarding gear so you are covering the entire year.

Once you have an idea of what it will take to market your business throughout the year, you can start to create a better plan for operating your business. Having all of your ideas set out from the beginning, it is a lot easier to plan ahead for possible downfalls and scenarios, and adjust for them accordingly.

This will save you a ton of trouble when you otherwise might have realized at the last minute. It is much better to be prepared than to be caught blind and grasping for strategies to keep you above water.

In the end, knowing what it will take to keep your business productive through all twelve months is one major key to starting a successful business. If you have a plan ahead of time, and you budget for the costs of integrating all of your business plans into one, you will be much more successful during the months that your primary product may not be bringing in the money.

Make sure you think about all of the factors that can affect your sales throughout the year, not just the change in seasons, and make sure you have a plan to counteract their harmful effects on the productivity and growth of your new business.

Elston Tuitt has a flair for writing articles on a diverse range of subjects. He helps anyone who wants to build a successful proven home business. He is a business owner, entrepreneur and a website owner. Elston recommends you visit his Blog and Home Business Ideas Website

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Hot Topics - 4 - Work At Home Ideas To Save Money On Your Energy Bills By Switching Supplier

Work From Home Ideas To Save Money On Your Gas bill And Electricity Bill

Working from home will mean using more energy on things like your computer, lighting and heating.

Many people who work at home do not realise how simple it is to implement an energy saving plan. Just by switching your energy suppliers you will save a considerable amount of money on your gas bill.

If you work from home in the UK you are free to choose which company supplies your gas and electricity. There are no changes to the pipes, all that changes is the price you pay and who you pay it to.

What do You need?

To get a quote takes just a few minutes and the entire process is very easy. To give you the most accurate savings quote, it is necessary you have an indication of the amount of energy you use, or the amount you pay per year for your energy. Your bill will give you a good idea if you don't have this information to hand.

How does the service work?

This excellent service saved me £179.00 by comparing the tariffs of all major energy suppliers. Results are ranked strictly in order of the savings you make.

All you need to know is who your supplier is, approximately how much gas and electricity you use, or how much you spend per month or per year. All of our data comes from the energy suppliers directly and is regularly updated to ensure it is accurate.

What happens after You submit an application?

The company will confirm your application by email and automatically forward your details securely to your chosen energy supplier. The supplier will start processing the switch and will contact you to confirm when your new service will begin; this may take up to 50 days.




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Hot Topics - 002 - Breaking The Silence Of The Web

Breaking The Silence Of The Web

What if your Website could talk?

An Audio Generator has just been released to the general public.

In 1895, Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio by sending the first talking signal in Italy. And by 1899, he transmitted a talking signal across the English Channel.

Two years later, the Italian inventor sent the first transatlantic talking message from England to New Foundland. this marked the birth of voice communication and made a huge impact on trade and commerce.

* * * FAST-FORWARD 101 YEARS * * *

About a month ago, my colleague hooked-up with former Microsoft employee, Rick Raddatz to develop a brand new online technology that has even more commercial potential than the radio!

I know this sounds crazy. But when I made a visit to Armand's Website, his FREE TRIAL DEMO made a believer out me.

Armand has discovered that Website visitors are more willing to listen to sales messages than reading them.

No matter how long your audio message is, Audiogenerator is designed to play the moment you click the “Play Button” … even if you’re on dial-up.


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Article 28 - Affiliate Marketing – Learn The Basics

Affiliate Marketing – Learn The Basics

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

Many people are surprised at the number of sophisticated ways advertisers try to reach them. Most Internet surfers could identify a banner or text ad, but the majority could not tell you about performance marketing also known as affiliate marketing and pay-for-performance marketing.

Affiliate Marketing is one channel of marketing products and services online. It traditionally includes a retailer and a publisher, sometimes known as an affiliate.

For this article, we define a publisher, as an independent party that promotes the products or services of an advertiser in exchange for a commission on leads or sales.

An affiliate displays ads, text links, or product links on its Web site, in email campaigns, or in search listings and is paid a commission by the advertiser when a visitor takes a specific action, such as filling out a form, making a purchase or subscribing to a service.

A merchant, also known as an advertiser or retailer, is a Web site or company that sells a product or service online, accepts payments and fulfills orders.

If you place an ad or link to the merchant's products and/or services on your Web site and the merchant pays you a commission for leads or sales that result from your site.

What it Takes to Succeed

Those publishers suited best for affiliate marketing have some consistent characteristics:

They must have a Web site designed for a specific niche of consumers or audience. While not all affiliates have content sites, it is a simple way to enter into the affiliate marketing industry and a solid foundation to build upon if you later branch out to other marketing channels such as search engine marketing.

You should have basic HTML skills to be able to insert and track advertisements such as banners, buttons and links.

A set amount of time per day to dedicate to the program depending on number of Web sites.

Now Learn the Language – Affiliate Marketing Speak

Just like in any industry, affiliate marketing has its own language. Don't be intimidated; pretty soon these terms will be second nature.

Application Service Provider (ASP ) – An ASP is an online network that is accessible through the Internet instead of through the installation of software. It is quickly integrated with other Web sites and the services are easily implemented and scalable.

Commission Payout – An amount of income received by a affiliate for some quantifiable action such as selling an advertiser's product and/or service on the publisher's Web site.

Click-through Ratio (CTR) - Also known as a click. The action a consumer takes when they are referred from a Web site through a link or advertisement and is taken to another Web site. Click-through ratio is the percentage of click for the number of advertising impressions displayed.

Cost per action (CPA) - A metric for online advertising where a rate is set for every action that is taken by an end-user. It is also known as pay for performance.
Cost per thousand impressions (CPM) - A metric for online advertising where a rate is set for every thousand impressions.

Conversion rate- The percentage of visitors who take a desired action. The action that determines conversion is determined by the advertiser and may be a sale on the advertiser's Web site, a completed lead form, or another action.

Impression- The viewing of an advertising banner, link, or product.

Search Engine Marketing (SEM ) - The act of marketing a Web site via search engines. This can be done by "natural" or "organic" search which refers to all unpaid search results based on relevance in the content site or "paid" search which refers to all pay-per-click advertising (such as on MSN, Yahoo! or Google).

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)- The process of increasing the amount of visitors to a Web site by ranking high in the search results of a search engine. Varied techniques are used by content site affiliates to improve their web page's results.

Elston Tuitt has a flair for writing articles on a diverse range of subjects. He helps anyone who wants to build a successful proven home business. He is a business owner, entrepreneur and a website owner. Elston recommends you visit his Blog and Home Business Ideas Website


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Article 27 - How To Profit From Internet Marketing

How To Profit From Internet Marketing

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

With the Internet continuing to grow at a phenomenal, there is a whole new way of marketing a business. Especially for businesses who perform most of their transactions online. When reaching for online customers, internet marketing becomes the main target for your marketing efforts as it will attract the customers in your demographic – online users.

We have at our disposal two distinct styles for online marketing, one is business marketing, the other is website marketing. With web site marketing the goal is to have people searching for particular services or products find your web site while conducting an online search through the major search engines.

There are many facets involved in web site marketing and once a business is able to get them all clicking together, there is a good chance they will experience a major influx of new visitors to their web site.

One the other side are businesses that heavily promote their availability aimed at the internet users more so than the search engines. Buying internet advertisements, sending out emails and other promotional marketing materials that are designed to bring visitors to their online web sites, are just a few of the online marketing strategies being used today.

One of the things to remember with online marketing is to consider your home page as a billboard along the side of the road. If there is little traffic along the road, there will be few people who will see your billboard so your efforts should be focused on getting people on the right road.

Looking at it from another perspective, there may be over a thousand people selling a certain brand of personal care items and they all have a web site, many provided free when they signed up and they all look alike and have the same enhancements.

If a person searches for the brand by name, there is no telling whose web site is going to pop up in the search results. If you own one of these thousands of sites, specific marketing will need to be done to guide that potential traffic to the site you own. To do this you can use pay-per-click advertising that you pay for based on the number of visitors who click through to your web site.

Affiliate marketing is also a popular method of bringing visitors to your site. As a business, you agree to pay a certain percentage or dollar amount of a sale to another site, an affiliate, who drives the traffic to you. Essentially, you are gaining free advertising and only pay for it if your site makes a sale.

While some link exchange programs have been successful in the past, having thousands of unrelated links to your site may turn search engines against you and lose your information from their engines and as a result from their results pages. If your links continue to be inconsistent with your content you can even lose ranking.

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Hot Topics - 001 - You Can Now Create Your Own Online Shop And Earn Extra Income even If You Don't Have Anything To Sell!

Did You Know You Can Now Create Your Own Online Shop And Earn Extra Income even If You Don't Have Anything To Sell!

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You can now have your own online shop to personalize as much as you want and select products from a database of over three million - the only really tough thing is to think of a good name for the shop!

All you really need to do, now, is to advertise your shop to other people and let them know about it. You get a commission (2% to 15%) every time someone buys something from you! You never need to handle the items yourself - all of that's dealt with for you!

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Article 26 - How To Follow A Budget

How To Follow A Budget

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

Follow a budget can be very difficult at first. This can be a big concern if you have been use to spending money freely. First step of course is setting up your budget and some guidelines to keep within your budget. Be sure that all expenses are accounted for. Don’t forget to include fun money or entertainment funds if able. Once your budget is put together carefully you are ready to set up some guidelines to assist you in keeping on track with your budget.

Create a spreadsheet to keep track of your expenses and update it regularly.

One of the best ways to keep you on budget is to stop carrying cash. For most of us while shopping when we see signs offering miscellaneous items for ninety-nine cents we can’t resist. It’s just a dollar here and a dollar there. Those dollars add up fast and before you know it the thirty pounds in your pocket is gone. By not carrying cash you can help stop impulse buying. If you still prefer to carry cash, your best bet is to only take what money is necessary to spend. Give yourself an estimate of what your groceries will cost you. Take only that amount with you. This will help curb the need to purchase excess items, knocking you off the budget track

Always shop with a list to help prevent unnecessary spending. If you make a weekly or biweekly grocery list, you will only be purchasing those needed food items. Or create a list of cleaning supplies and stick to those isles only. If you allow yourself to wander aimlessly around a store you are allowing yourself to be tempted for other purchases. It can be very hard to stay on budget when tempted by those objects that surround you in a store.

Become a thrifty shopper. It can’t hurt to look through coupons. Even a few saved cents per purchase can really add up on savings in the end. Searching through clearance sections in stores is another way to find items you need and save money on as well. You may be pleasantly surprised to see how much you can take home, and still have money in your pocket on your way out the shop.

Keeping yourself on a budget is about self-control. It’s fighting the urge to buy what is not needed. If you have a difficult time curbing your shopping habit, keep a friend or relative with you on shopping outings. Someone you can trust to steer you away from temptation. As long as you lower the temptation for purchases, make a list and stick to necessary isles you will prevent yourself from loosing track of your budget needs.

And finally, once you conquer your shopping demons, you will become proud of yourself for doing so. It’s a good feeling to be able to shop and stick to a list of items and not cave to those savings signs. You’ll feel a great sense of accomplishment as well. So don’t be overwhelmed, grab that pen and paper and make a start on that budget plan today.

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Article 25 - Starting A Work At Home Business With Your Spouse

Starting A Work At Home Business With Your Spouse

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

While on the surface this may seem like a good idea. After all you will both share the same goal of making money for the family, you are used to each other’s little quirks and if the business is based out of your home, the cost of getting to work can be a great savings on the family budget.

However, two people learning to live together as man and wife can be tough enough without spending all day, everyday together. Before joining hands and taking the plunge into the work at home pool, you will need to take a hard look at some of the potential obstacles.

The first item on the list of possible challenges is the fact that you will be spending almost every waking hour with your spouse. While compatibility in a relationship can hold it together just fine, you must determine if that compatibility can withstand another eight hours a day.

Making the change from business partner to husband and wife every day can be a tough transition. You will not be able to leave all of your work problems at the job and home problems at the door.

Make sure your goals for the company are in line with those of your spouse. By sitting down and discussing the goals of the business you may learn that your idea of what to expect from the business may be contrary to what your spouse is looking to achieve.

You may want to eventually expand and franchise the business while your spouse wants to simply make enough money for the family to live comfortably. If your goals are not aligned, your business will probably fail and so might the marriage, so make sure the business plan (Palo Alto Business Plan Pro Premier 2007 (PC))is agreed.

One of the most important aspects of entering into a business partnership with a spouse is having clearly defined roles in the business. Determine up front who will perform what function such as accounting or who will handle incoming orders and packing for shipping.

Look at the strengths and plan individual roles that best complement the strengths of each partner. It is not a good thing for one partner to believe that while you are the boss at work, they are boss at home.

Resist the urge to let customers know your business partner is also your spouse. While this may seem unimportant, it can possibly cause a customer to hold back if they have a complaint against your partner.

You also need to deal with business issues in a professional and constructive manner. You should never personally attack your partner for a business decision. Instead, address the situation and ways to fix it instead of addressing your partner.

Never mix work and family issues when on the job. You need to have a set schedule for work and the rest of time can be spent on family issues. Trying to mix the two will almost guarantee failing at both. If you both want it to work it will.

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Article 24 - Work At Home Online Training

Work At Home Online Training

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

It’s important to remember that the Internet is a very fast moving and complex environment. There is the common myth that it is easy to make an income online and newcomers to the work at home opportunity arena are not always familiar with what it takes to make extra income and therefore fail to look for an online home business opportunity that provides online guidance and training or to fully commit to the first vital step of completing and implementing the training plan.

Experienced Internet marketers never stop learning. They continually keep themselves abreast of new developments in technology, Internet marketing ideas, work at home online training and affiliate programs.

Those failing to take advantage of the training that is provided with legitimate online home business opportunities, contribute to the high percentage of people who quit a program before they have hardly got started or waste a considerable amount of money jumping from one opportunity to the next looking for that non-existent get rich quick program.

If you start a work at home business it must be treated like any other business. There is always a learning curve while you learn the ropes when you start a new job or open up a normal business, so why fail to take advantage of the work at home training
when you start an Internet home based business?

When you start an online home business you are going to need all the help that you can get. You need to give yourself every chance of success so why skip the opportunity to learn what is required to build your business? Such as learning html in order to make changes to your website, how to launch a blog and start attracting free traffic, write good adverts, write and publish articles, use an autoresponder, start a linking campaign, optimize your website for the search engines to achieve high rankings and attract free targeted traffic, learn successful internet marketing tactics as well as have access to a forum where you can get all the help you need plus access to valuable online home business marketing tools and advice.

I have only outlined a few of the many things you will learn when you fully commit your time and effort to online training guide provided with the online home business opportunity that you choose to join. My advice is to go through the training thoroughly, do not try and rush it, lay a solid foundation on which to build your business. The 30 Days to Success step-by-step training guide that I was provided with when I started my own online home business has been the reason I have been able to build my business to what it is today.

To give yourself the greatest chance of success online, it is important to join a program that provides you with a comprehensive training guide, complete it thoroughly and implement the strategies in order to build a successful online home based business that will provide you with extra income.

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Article 23 - How To Protect Yourself From Internet Home Business Hype and Misconceptions About MLM

How To Protect Yourself From Internet Home Business Hype and Misconceptions about MLM

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

The most unfortunate and damaging misconceptions about work at home business is that the extra income can come very quickly.

I urge You to acquaint yourself with these three myths, and protect yourself from the Internet hype and misconceptions.

Are they saying "People who join after me have less chance of making money than myself or "The organisation will be useless in two to three years time
It would be heart breaking to take a year or two to build a good residual income, only to have that income disappear over night?

And what would happen to the poor suckers who join in six or seven months time?

To be honest a good business opportunity should actually improve with time and exposure. It should be based on products (or services) - and delivering more in the product value than the pound amount people are paying for it.

Yes, it IS possible to find such companies on the internet. I know a few of them.

Make A lot Of Sales and You Make loads Of Cash

MLM works best when a large number of people each help each other to make a small numbers of sales.

Let me give an example of what I mean:

In an offline business we were in, someone joins the organisation who is an awesome direct mail marketer. Soon he put together a masterly direct mail campaign to promote this opportunity. He invested a lot of money then unleashed his packages. In six weeks he had several hundred people in his downline, and was earning several thousand pounds per month.

But within three years he had dropped out of that company.

Why is this you may ask?

You see almost none of the people he brought in were able to duplicate what he was able to do. So he was unable to help them grow their businesses (and possibly had no time to help 500 newbies). And since the monthly purchase requirement was £70.00 in this particular company they soon started dropping out.

The point you really ought to understand is this:

"REMEMBER In MLM, you DO NOT make much money from making sales - You Make A Lot Of Money From Building An Organization!"

This brings us nicely to the next and final misconception:

It’s Best To Build From The Top Downwards

Many people feel that you "come in at the top", then bring people in "under you". They reflect this in their attitude to the job.

Be Smart and know better.

It’s IMPORTANT You Build From The Bottom.

In the beginning, there is no one in your business. You just have a dream, and help from your company and upline.

You find three people and place them in your foundation. Then you physically support them from below. Yes, they are a bit heavy at first, but you what is reguired - you continue to support them.

One morning you wake up and there are nine people in your structure. From the three you started with.

You�re supporting the nine people structure now, and because you do, your oranisation continues to grow. Eventually, when you look up, you find that you have a solid building, based on "below support".

Can you see this?

The bottom people you recruit and assist to take their first steps as marketers of your opportunity. When they help other people, your organization expands.

The point is that the engine that drives lasting MLM growth is people helping other people, in small numbers, and everybody making sure they do their share.

At the beginning your job is to sponsor a small number of people and support them, and encourage them to make sales... encourage them to encourage other people in the same way.

Once you build a small group of people and the helping culture takes hold, you will start to develop a rapidly growing organization... that grows rapidly and wildly with a momentum that’s impossible to stop, even if you tried to.

You will have an Internet home based business to be proud of.

Elston Tuitt has a flair for writing articles on a diverse range of subjects. He helps anyone who wants to build a successful proven home business. He is a business owner, entrepreneur and a website owner. Elston recommends you visit his Blog and Home Business Ideas Website


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Tips To Start An Ebay Business

Tips To Start an ebay business

I guess I shouldn't have been surprised when I started getting
bombarded by questions regarding ebay

After all, who WOULDN'T be a little skeptical to hear about
a man who made $22,000 A DAY on average selling everyday
household items on eBay.

I mean, that's more than some people make in an entire YEAR!
Anyway, people have been calling and e-mailing practically
non-stop, asking me to reveal the *exact* system Brandon
Dupsky is using to make his fortune on eBay.

Some of the more common questions have been: "What is this
guy selling?", "How does he turn his auctions into bidding
wars?" , "What is his secret for driving TONS of traffic to
his auctions?", and so on...

Brandon's system is SO extensive, and SO in-depth, that I
can't possibly do it justice in a brief e-mail like this one,
but I CAN tell you this...

It has nothing to do with selling junk from around your
house, scrounging stuff from flea markets or pawn shops and
reselling it on eBay, or spending endless tedious hours listing
a mountain of items that earn just a buck or two of profit!

Rather, it's a tried and tested method that you can use to find
in-demand products that you can buy for cheap and resell for
massive profits... attract TONS of bids and make HUGE profits
on every single auction you list... create stunning ads that
grab the eyeballs of eager bidders... and much more!

And now you can duplicate Brandon's system to start your *own*
highly profitable eBay business, and earn up to $100,000 in
your first year!

To review Brandon's entire system for profiting on eBay, just
follow this link:
EBAY AUCTION TIPS

Elston Tuitt's Special Announcement

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I invite you to take a look at a new search engine that is on the rise. From what I have read so far it is going to be huge. Although I cannot say this search engine is going to be the next Yahoo or Google, I can see it becoming one of the Top 10 search engines in the world within the next year. And who knows, it may be the next Google!

Take a moment to check it out. If you like what you see, then get signed up for a free account HERE

Like Google the site doesn't look that much, but it offers a wealth of opportunities once you get your free signup. Keep an eye on this one.

Elston Tuitt has a flair for writing articles on a diverse range of subjects. He helps anyone who wants to build a successful proven home business. He is a business owner, entrepreneur and a website owner. Elston recommends you visit his Blog and Home Business Ideas Website

Article 22 - How to Research The Right Home Business Opportunity For You

How to Research The Right Home Business Opportunity For You

Copyright © Elston Tuitt
Work at Home Business Ideas and Opportunities

With today’s job market being diluted by outsourcing, many people are suddenly finding themselves out of a job. Sitting around the house all day worrying about what you will do when your savings is gone is not a good for you, and with the number of opportunities available for operating you own home based business continually growing, many find themselves looking at the possibility.

However, finding a business you can operate from home will take some research and should be aligned around YOUR interests, knowledge and experience. Once you begin a home business, you will need to work it as a traditional job because income from that business is what will pay your bills and keep you from going hungry. It will also consume a lot of your time and energy so it needs to be something that you like.

Most people hear, as they are growing up, that the best job in the world is the one you would do for free if you didn’t have to worry about your bills. The same holds true for starting a home business. It should be something you like to do and are willing to work at in order to pay the bills. Otherwise, it’s just another job.

For example, a person who has a lot of experience working with their hands and building things out of wood or metal may find a home business performing furniture repair or refinishing suited to their hobby. They can also create and market woodcraft items, selling them through local retailers or at craft markets, effectively having their own home business selling things they make in their home workshop.

Another example could a person who has worked as accountant for someone else for years who suddenly find his or her job has been eliminated. They can open their own accounting service performing billing and invoicing for other small businesses. Many new businesses cannot afford to hire a full-time accountant and by working with several small companies, you can create several income streams to help make ends meet.

Simply drawing on your experience and knowledge learned while working for someone else can often lead to ideas for starting a home business. In many cases, most of the work can be done at home, telecommuting with clients. In other businesses, you may have to travel to meet with clients or attend shows at which to sell your products. Either scenario will provide an income earned through your home business while paying the bills.

Elston Tuitt has a flair for writing articles on a diverse range of subjects. He helps anyone who wants to build a successful proven home business. He is a business owner, entrepreneur and a website owner. Elston recommends you visit his Blog and Home Business Ideas Website

Article 21 - Stay At Home Moms Targeted By Scammers

Stay At Home Moms Targeted By Scammers
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When the kids are back to school and mom has a little more time they may begin to consider ways to work from home and earn extra income. Spending time on the internet searching for work at home opportunities can often be rewarding, provided you understand that there are many scams being offered, many targeted for the stay at home parents looking to make money.

Working from home is an inviting concept and many opportunities exist that present a legitimate means of finding work. Unfortunately, there are plenty more where the only ones who make money are those offering the opportunity. Beware of headlines such as “Learn how to crack the code to internet riches,” and “I was a victim of 37 scams until I stumbled across this opportunity.”

When looking through offers for an internet business opportunity you need to ask yourself some serious questions about the offer. Many will carry a similar theme indicating they have found a way to make bundles of cash online and want to share the secret. You need to ask yourself, why? Here is a perfect stranger, willing to share with me the secret they use to make millions of dollars online. Of course this secret is not going to be free, and sometimes it is available for a limited time price of just $19.95 and you will receive their complete information package of how you can make money.

Why aren’t they sharing this information with family and close friends so they can have an entire family of wealthy relatives? Why are they offering this opportunity to strangers? Possibly because their family and friends were suckered into their last get-rich-quick scheme.

One of the most prolific scams online is signing up to be a secret shopper. There are many companies that do use secret shoppers to visit stores and restaurants and turn in a review to the company informing them how a particular unit is performing. To claim this company can hook you up with many companies where you can get paid up to $40 an hour doing things you love to do and keep everything you bought, is nothing more than a scam.

Yes, these companies have the names and addresses of the companies that use secret shoppers and that is what you will be buying. Once you send in your payment, which varies from $19.95 to $39.95, you will receive a list of companies that use secret shoppers and instructions on how to fill out their online applications. If the company is looking for more shoppers they might contact you for a future interview. Most of these offers carry no guarantee that you will ever be chosen to be a secret shopper, let alone get paid $40 an hour for going to a restaurant. Please be careful, be VERY, VERY careful, take your time.

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Article 20 - Residual Income From Affiliate Programs Makes A Huge Difference

Residual Income From Affiliate Programs Makes A Huge Difference
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In my article How Many Affiliate Programs Should I Promote I said choosing the WRONG programs to promote can literally spell out the difference between success and failure. In fact, many people who would have succeeded in affiliate marketing did NOT succeed simply because they chose the wrong programs to promote.

Let's get into this idea a little further.

There are affiliate programs that pay out a lion's share of the commissions to affiliates, for example one affiliate program pays $20.00 out of a $24.95 sale.

As an affiliate, you need to work with companies that put YOU first. After all, you're the one driving the traffic to their site and they don't have a lot of risk since they only pay you when you generate a sale.

But a lot of affiliate programs don't understand that. In fact, many programs out there are paying 5-15% commission on products they should be paying you a lot more for.

But there is another extremely important factor that determines success or failure as an affiliate marketer. That is whether or not the company pays you one time or pays you residual income for a single sale.

This is a HUGE,factor you need to consider before you join ANY affiliate program.

If I was promoting products from affiliate programs that only paid me one time for a sale, I'd still need a job somewhere else to cover my basic living expenses. But I realized from day one that I needed to work with affiliate programs that paid me residual income.

On the Internet, residual income is basically selling a "subscription service" so that when someone buys the product you get paid UP-FRONT one time and then each month when that person's subscription renews with the company, you get paid
again and again, and again... EVERY MONTH for as long as that person continues using the service.

As crazy as it sounds, 90% of the people I see fail at generating any significant income from affiliate programs are promoting products that do NOT pay a substantial residual income.

So just as you might put on a pair of sunglasses to filter out UV rays, you should put on a pair of mental glasses that filters out ANY program that does NOT pay you residual income.

Affiliate programs that pay only one-time for a single sale can be BAD for your financial health. Think about it... It takes the same energy on your part to promote something that pays you ONLY one time as it does to promote something that pays you EVERY MONTH forever.

So would you rather spend a day to make a sale that you get paid for that day and that day only or would you rather spend a day and make sale that pays you for the rest of your life?

There is only one RIGHT answer to that question.

Unless you're just a hobbyist and don't care how much you earn from your efforts, then you shouldn't touch an affiliate program with a ten foot pole that doesn't pay you residual income.

You should ONLY focus on programs and products that pay you residual income.

Here is an example of an affiliate program that pays residual income?

1) Hosting Services

Everyone who wants to have their own website on the Internet needs a good web host. I discovered early on that web hosting sells like crazy and you can make a fortune selling hosting services as an affiliate because the demand for hosting is so high. So I did my research and partnered with a hosting company that offers a great residual income.

Promoting website hosting services is a great way to generate residual income online.


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Article 19 - Promoting You Home Business

Promoting You Home Business
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When you start a home based business, it is essential to gain an edge over other competitors offering same products or services in the market. In order to attract customers to your site you will have to promote your site through advertisements. If you do not advertise, you will end with nothing done.

Even though there are a great range of products in the market, new products and service are conceptualized day by day. Even if the quality of the product or service you offer is the best, it will not gain attention from the customers.

Without advertisement, there will be no sales and no revenue. This is the reason why the companies spend millions of dollars over advertisements. A product, which is not advertised, can easily get lost in the competitive market.

The small-scale business establishments, personal trades and home businesses are often under constraints of advertisement budgets. However, it need not always be so because, nowadays advertisements that are both inexpensive and expensive are available to your choice and needs.

The basic idea is to get the attention of the public. Nowadays there is a definite trend for digitalization. You can create a domain with an attractive dot.com and file your site to free web directories. This can add great value to the products and services you are offering.

One effective method for advertising home based business on the Internet is to try Shared advertising. Here you need to find out people who are also in need for product exposure at least expenditure, and merge your advertisement along with their product. This method gives definite benefit as long as you differentiate your product well from the others.

This method of advertising can be less expensive. Here you can be convinced that any surfer to come to visit the other product or service will definitely have a look at the one which you offer. Shared advertisement is very common on the Internet as they appeal to the same target audience. The more advertisers you share with, greater the exposure of your product.

The Internet has become the best choice for people to conduct business. There are many cost-effective methods for advertising through the Internet. Effective advertising methods are essential for promoting a product on the Internet because here the customers cannot virtually see and feel the product.

Using banners with good designs can prove effective. Well-designed banners can attract more attention from the customers and provide credibility to the product. Advertisement through ezines and blogs can also attract the attention of customers to a great extent.

Whichever method you follow, it is essential to see that the advertisements are clear and impressive. It should state all the qualities of the product in a clear and crisp manner to attract the attention of the customers.

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Article 18 -Google AdWords vs. Free Search Engine Rankings

Google AdWords vs. Free Search Engine Rankings
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What are the merits of buying clicks on search engines with AdWords, vs. getting free visitors with what's called "search engine optimization" - loading up your web
pages with strategic keywords so you can get ranked No10 or No3 or No1 on Google's free search.

Well at first glance free is certainly better than paid, but there are some big IF's that you need to consider first!

Remember: you can only optimize a website for maybe ten words and phrases - not hundreds - so you should choose very, very carefully. But the most important thing is choosing the RIGHT words and phrases to optimize for.

Now here's the kicker:

If you don't use a pay per click strategy to determine which words and phrases actually attract paying customers first, you will almost always choose the wrong keywords. The words you initially think you want are almost always different than the ones that actually work - believe me, I've made that mistake many
times.
Considering it can take 30 days to several months to see results when you're playing the search engine optimization game, you CANNOT afford to target the wrong keywords.

When you do pay-per-click campaigns properly, you'll see that there are almost always a few really productive words and phrases that only 2-3 people are bidding on, instead of 10 or 20 bidders. What that means is that those people are not optimizing their websites for those same keywords either.

Well just like pay per click, search engine phrases have varying degrees of competitiveness. If you want a No1 ranking for the phrase "Digital Camera" it's going to be a LOT harder than getting a #1 ranking for "Kodak DX6340" which is a popular digital camera. And the traffic will be much more targeted, too. When you do search engine optimization, you must pick battles you can win.

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Article 17 - Popular Business Opportunities

Popular Business Opportunities
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Business opportunities are everywhere but there are some businesses that stand out more than others because of customer demands and the market trends. It is actually hard to predict where the business environment will be going a few years from now because every year, more businesses are closing while at the same time a lot of businesses are opening up. However, there are some businesses that never go out of trend because it sells commodity products. So here are some suggestions on the kind of businesses you can put up in the near future.

1. Food businesses – obviously, every individual needs to eat whether they like it or not so getting into a food business is bound to be profitable if you know the taste and preference of the market. There are several ways you can enter this business, the first is setting up a food stall or a restaurant where you will sell the products yourself on a daily basis. The second is to manufacture the food and distribute it to retailers; think of cereals and potato chips which are packaged and ready to be consumed.

2. Agri-tourism- this kind of business has been generating a lot of attention lately because of its focus on nature and lifestyle. Agri-tourism enables people to enjoy themselves through picnics and other activities while being close to nature at the same time.

3. Personal catering – this kind of business has been around for years, yet, only a few people had taken advantage of this opportunity because they think that the market is already crowded. But the truth is there is a high demand for personal caterers who will organize and prepare food on special occasions. You can also offer services such as packaged lunch or dinner for busy individuals, be sure to provide healthy and affordable food though so that customers will continually promote your products. This business will surely be a hit if it is marketed properly.

4. Financial planning – a lot of individuals want to invest their money in the right investment vehicles but they do not know where to start. You can become one of the financial planners that give these individuals the advice they need to get started on their investments. Likewise, you will also profit from this endeavor because you will charge a certain fee for your advice.

5. Pet care and pet grooming – many people love their pets but they are too busy to look out for them on a daily basis. However, they want to make sure that their pets are in good hands. This is where you will come in, you can establish a business that look after these pets while the owner is away. In fact, you can offer related services such as pet grooming and training to derive better profitability.

These are just some business opportunities you can get into; there are many more opportunities you can explore on your own to start operating your own business now.


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Article 16 - Making The Most Of A Business Opportunity

Making The Most Of A Business Opportunity
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The Internet is home of the business opportunity ad. While some are not legit, others do have the potential of netting you a pretty penny. Once you have found such an opportunity, it is important that you make the most of it but to do so wisely, you will need to observe a few tips and tricks that will not only help you to earn money, but also protect you from losing any of your hard earned cash in the process.


When you are starting out in pursuit of your business opportunity, you will need to juggle your full time job and your extracurricular pursuit. While it might be tempting to throw caution to the wind, quit your job and pursue the opportunity full time, it is extremely unwise to do so. You will still have bills, and if you have a family, it is unfair to expect them to suddenly make do without the little extras they have come to appreciate. Instead, go ahead and work your regular job while expanding on your business opportunity. This will prevent you from having to give up after a few unsuccessful months with maxed out credit cards.

Building a business takes time, and if you involve friends and family, you will probably be able to do so a lot faster. Of course, this should not mean that you try to peddle your nutritional supplements that are part of the business you are building at every family reunion. Instead, you might be able to involve some family members in the business end itself.

Do you need help with taxes? Maybe an aunt is good at doing them! Do you have questions about licenses and insurance? If you have a stay at home dad who is willing to do some work in exchange for a bit of money, these headaches could be taken away from you. In short, rare is the entrepreneur who makes money all by her or himself from the basement, yet plentiful is the entrepreneur who with the help of friends and family succeeded!

Your business opportunity requires exposure, yet there is more to advertising than paying for a three by five ad in the local rag. Instead, attend trade shows, hand out flyers, print up business cards (not the free ones that carry another company’s logo on the back) and network with other entrepreneurs.

Do not stay home when you are trying to build a business, but instead go to where the business world is located and get out the word! This ensures that you will truly make the most of your business opportunity without having to spend money you may not yet have earned on costly advertisements that may not be as effective as you had hoped.

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Article 15 - How To Survive In An Online Business

How To Survive In An Online Business
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If your company does not offer its services/products online, then you're definitely living in the Stone Age. Businesses today realize that in order to stay competitive, they have to communicate with today's audience who do business primarily online
Running an online business means that you have a global audience. And having a global audience means that your store is up and running twenty four hours every day and seven days of the week. While your customers from New York might be sleeping, those from Tokyo would surely be awake. Therefore an online business is one that never sleeps. It is one that is always on call by customers. As such, an online business must be manned at all times, keeping a close watch on potential business.

In managing an online business, communication is important. Using email and instant messaging as a form of communication between you and your staff will surely be beneficial. There are also different technologies such as the VoIP that enables you to talk with your business partners and your staff from all over the world quite easily and cheaply. But since you and your associates live in different time zones it is important to set up a specific time of the day when you can communicate with them about the updates and different issues that your business face today and what they need to do about it. You should make sure that they follow your instruction and schedule strictly.

Meetings are also a must for online businesses. Meetings are where you'll know the issues hounding your employees and problems that the business is facing. To be able to save on time and effort, online businesses today can meet in an online conference room. This will eradicate the need for physical space and manual preparations.

Another way to survive online is to build up your brand! Yes, brand is important even though you're on the Internet. Building your brand means providing good products, fast services, and pleasant experiences to your customers. Yes, you'll definitely want your customers to have pleasant experiences. Remember, word spreads fast on the Internet. If you have one customer who had a not-so-good time in dealing with your online business and spreads the rumor, then chances are your name will be ruined.

Don't forget that your website is the face of your online business. Surviving in the online world means that your online business must be able to keep up with the latest technology. And in designing your storefront always keep navigation in mind. A potential customer would not want to visit twenty different web pages just to buy a certain product.

Surviving your online business is tough. Everyday, there are thousands of companies going online and millions of individuals setting up an online business. Ultimately, the key is to success in this endeavor is to love what you do. After all, not everyone gets to touch lives in a global scale.
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Article 14 - Is Direct Marketing Worth All The Hype?

Is Direct Marketing Worth All The Hype?

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You maybe looking at marketing a product or good and trying to decide on what kind of marketing you should proceed with. You have seen direct marketing and maybe wondering if it is worth the all its cracked up to be. Let us take a look at direct marketing to help you decide.

What is direct marketing? Direct marketing simply put is marketing that delivers a promotional message directly to potential customers on an individual basis. There are many benefits to direct marketing a few of which are; providing targeted information to a demographically targeted audience, easily measure the amount of marketing you pay for and who it reaches.

By targeting a specific group of people your marketing dollar is spent wisely. You are not wasting money on marketing to people who have no desire in your products. A well thought out and planned direct mail marketing campaign can bring in many buyers. You can test market without spending a lot of money and you have more control over how much you market spending as little or as much as you need to. Direct marketing allows you to develop a distinct personality for your business. It can be used to help enhance the image of your business, to give your clients and customers much needed information about your company, and to help persuade them to order from you.

There are also disadvantages to direct marketing and they are not always something you think about when considering marketing your product or goods. One of the main down falls to direct market mailings is that people often consider it to be junk mail; junk mail is often thrown away never read meaning that your money was wasted in your efforts to gain business. Your direct mail is competing with dozens of other companies who are using the same kinds of marketing as you are. There can be a relatively high cost per contact in direct marketing if you are unsure or do not have marketing plan.

Every business can increase their profit and make more sales by marketing. The key is to find a way to market as relatively inexpensively as possible. Your success will depend on the method of marketing you use and in the way you present your information about your company. With direct marketing you will want to define your target group. This is the group of people you want to target mail to. This can help you to directly target groups that will be interested in items you want to sell.

Direct marketing can either be good for your company or bad for your company. It will greatly depend on you. Your marketing strategy and what kind of research you put into it before you go about your marketing.

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Article 13 - Internet Marketing At Its Best

Internet Marketing At Its Best
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With the continued growth of the computer age, there is a whole new way of marketing a business. Especially for businesses who perform most of their transactions online. When reaching for online customers, internet marketing becomes the main target for your marketing efforts as it will attract the customers in your demographic – online users.

There are two distinct styles for online marketing, one is business marketing, the other is website marketing. With web site marketing the goal is to have people searching for particular services or products find your web site while conducting an online search through the major search engines. There are many facets involved in web site marketing and once a business is able to get them all clicking together, there is a good chance they will experience a major influx of new visitors to their web site.

The other side are businesses that heavily promote their availability aimed at the internet users more so than the search engines. Buying internet advertisements, sending out emails and other promotional marketing materials that are designed to bring visitors to their online web sites, are just a few of the online marketing strategies being used today.

One of the things to remember with online marketing is to consider your home page as a billboard along the side of the road. If there is little traffic along the road, there will be few people who will see your billboard so your efforts should be focused on getting people on the right road. Looking at it from another perspective, there may be over a thousand people selling a certain brand of personal care items and they all have a web site, many provided free when they signed up and they all look alike and have the same enhancements.

If a person searches for the brand by name, there is no telling whose web site is going to pop up in the search results. If you own one of these thousands of sites, specific marketing will need to be done to guide that potential traffic to the site you own. To do this you can use pay-per-click advertising that you pay for based on the number of visitors who click through to your site.

Affiliate marketing is also a popular method of bringing visitors to your site. As a business, you agree to pay a certain percentage or dollar amount of a sale to another site, an affiliate, who drives the traffic to you. Essentially, you are gaining free advertising and only pay for it if your site makes a sale. While some link exchange programs have been successful in the past, having thousands of unrelated links to your site may turn search engines against you and lose your information from their engines and as a result from their results pages.

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Article 12 - Is It Possible To Run A Home Business And Work At The Office

Is It Possible To Run A Home Business And Work At The Office
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Many people ask themselves if it is really possible to run a home business and still continue to work at their office job. The answer is yes. This may surprise some people. How do you have the time? That’s too much to do at one time. How can you manage?
All of these comments and questions are involved in juggling home business and an outside job, but the key is that it that you are capable. Here are three main things you want to keep in mind in order to have it all.

Drive! The want or desire to have a home business is what really matters. If you want to keep your current job as well as begin your own home business you truly have to be focused on being able to do so. Without a strong want that will drive you to do what is necessary you will lead yourself to failure. If you believe that you are ready to commit to both jobs, and do whatever is necessary to maintain both than you are taking your first step in the right direction.

Time! You aren’t just given a pocket full of time. Everything in this day and age is about rushing and stretching what time we have. This is still very true with juggling outside work and a home business. You have to be willing to make time. What this means is you must be willing to use whatever free time you have from your office job and apply it to your home business. Weekends, evenings as well as holidays can be spent working on your home business. As long as you are applying the time you have to your home business, you can work both. It all goes back to having the drive to do what is necessary to have what you want.

Patience! This is something we all need more of. You will need to build patience when running both your home business and outside work. You will indeed be frustrated at times, waiting for packages or updates on business progress. You will be frustrated with customer or clients from both jobs. By building patience and also some understanding you will help ease some of the stress that comes from working both jobs.

Drive, Time and Patience all go in hand when working home business and outside office work. You have to be efficient with your time and manage it wisely. Keep focused on your goal. Don’t lose track. Be patient, because success does not happen overnight and unfortunately not everyone you will encounter in your job is patient or understanding. As long as you make the effort, you can in fact run a home business and work in the office to.

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