Archive for August, 2007

by Dennis Duber
Conventional Wisdom says email Business to Business on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday and Business to Consumers on Friday. That sentence could very well comprise this entire article on home business product promotions. However, it would be short changing you, my revered readers.

Swimming against the tide of Conventional Wisdom is what we do as home business owners. It is in our blood, it is our nature! If we went with conventional wisdom, we would be stuck in a drab cubicle, deep within the bowels of a leviathan organization as anonymous cogs in a wheel, taking orders from a bozo boss and putting up with idiotic co workers. But we do not do that! I applaud all you casual wear CEOs for your decision, determination and fortitude as you pursue profits in your home business endeavors.

The hard truth about the best day to email home business promotions is that there is no definitive answer. There are just too many variables to factor into the BEST DAY TO SEND equation. This is a question you have to answer for yourself. However, I do have some insight on the subject for you. So, let us start swimming!

There are two overriding concerns: Open rates and Click thrus. Generally with a product promotion you will be after Click thrus. That will be the focus of this article. (An article about the best day to send newsletters for the highest Open rates can be found at the Big Bucks Blog, address below.)

The most comprehensive study I have found on the subject took place over a 12 month period. It involved 2,000 organizations of all kinds, tracked 160,000 campaigns and 800,000,000 emails! The results were interesting, surprising and unfortunately, inconclusive.

When you are after Click thrus with your home business product promotions, here are the best days to mail. Sunday is the best day when you mail in January, February, March, June, July, August or November. Monday is the best day when you mail in May or September. Saturday is the best day when you mail in April, October or December.

These are not hard and fast rules to determine when you mail your home business campaigns. They are guidelines. At least you now have a point of reference. The best thing to do is to test your list against these guidelines. After all, no one has the same list with the same offer.

For more information on email marketing success strategies, take the time now to follow the links below.

Dennis Duber is a Health and Wealth Advocate, home business owner, internet marketer, former brick and mortar business owner, real estate investor, single digit handicap golfer and published author helping home business owners create quality leads and long term residual income.

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by John Hughes
There seems to be a movement in today’s workforce that is leading people to quit their day to day jobs in search of a small home based business opportunity. The idea is rather attractive. For example, you could devote more time to your family and friends, take a day off when you need to, or even take a spur of the moment vacation just for the fun of it. Not to mention making your own hours and not having to sit in traffic to and from work everyday. By using the internet, entrepreneurs have several small home based business opportunities to choose from.

Selling items on eBay is one of the many popular small home based business opportunities. If you are a person who can sniff out something valuable at rummage sales, yard sales or in the attic, putting these items for sale on eBay can be a very profitable small home based business opportunity. This is a great way to get started but, the real money on eBay is in creating your own store and buying hot products wholesale.

Once you have your own ebay store there are several wholesale websites that can provide you with the hottest products selling on ebay. Some like WorldWideBrands.com and NAWCA.org even do drop shipping so you don’t have to handle inventory or shipping your self.

Another great small home based business opportunity is to own a website. Owning a website gives you numerous options to create income. One of the easiest ways to earn passive income from a website is by placing google adsense ads on your webpages. With google adsense you earn money every time visitors click on your ads.

Use your website to promote products that will pay you a commission if a visitor follows a link from your site to the product and makes a purchase. This is commonly referred to as affiliate marketing. Become a member to websites like Clickbank.com and Commisionjunction.com an choose product that fit into your websites theme. This will increase the chances of the visitor being interested in the product enough to check it out.

If creating a website is too advanced for you try starting a blog. You can start a blog for free at Blogger.com. Once you have your own blog account write about things you are interested in and place google ads on your blog. Another way to make money online with your blog is to place affiliate links to products you want people to buy.

There are small home based business opportunities like the Ultimate Wealth Package that will give you a free website so you can start earning money with Google Adsense and affiliate products. The Ultimate Wealth Package also discusses in further detail how to maximize your Ebay stores earning potential along with a host of other small home based business opportunities.

John Hughes is an internet marketer specializing in the research of online money making programs. The objective is to help people discover which programs actually produce results and are worth the investment. Visit the #1 small home based business opportunity online.

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by Fiona
Many people decide that they would like to open a daycare center at home. Many of these individuals may work in a daycare center. There are many who are stay at home parents and wish to supplement their income. There are many different types of people in numerous situations that want to establish a child care service business in the home. However, most of these people never succeed in doing so due to the funding that is required. What many of these individuals do not realize is that there is hope. In this article, you will be introduced to methods on how to obtain financing when you want to open a daycare at home.

The first method that is involved in obtaining financing when you want to open a daycare center at home is to develop an effective business plan. Every business has to have a plan, even if it is a business that will be operated from home. A business plan is basically the methodology behind your daycare business. It may include the general purpose of your daycare, how you plan to separate your home life from your business life, how you will use your home effectively to operate the child care services that you will provide, as well as how much money you expect to gain from your daycare at home.

The second method involved in order to obtain financing when you want to open a daycare at home is to structure your business appropriately. It is important to detail how much it will cost to prepare for the daycare center, how much the supplies for the center will cost, and how much it will cost to open the doors for the first time. Many people also include the expected continual expenses that are associated with operating a daycare in the home on a consistent basis. This may include utility costs, food costs, and costs related to games and activities that may be provided in your daycare.

The third method involved when it comes to obtaining finances when you want to open a daycare in the home is to invest as much as you possibly can first. If you want to start your own business, it is important to be able to provide at least a certain percentage of the costs out of your own pocket. This will make lenders more likely to provide you with the money that you are requesting for your new home business. Many lenders find home businesses a high risk because each year millions of them fail, however, if you are willing to front some of the costs associated with the daycare, they are more likely to find lending to you appealing.

The fourth method in obtaining financing in opening a daycare center at home is to offer some sort of collateral. This is a very important, yet risky step. You must be certain that you are confident in your ability to own and operate a daycare at home prior to handing out items for collateral. This is especially true because many of these items are high priced — such as the home itself, and vehicles. However, many lenders are comfortable in financing a business if they have a promise of something in return if the home business fails.

Fiona Lohrenz drew on her 10 years experience of running a day care to found ChildCareOnly.com and produce a ‘How to Start a ChildCare Business’ DVD guide. Fiona can be reached at her website:http://www.childcareonly.com

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by Network Marketing Consultant - Scott Rogers
Well, I know the last few articles/entries I have posted here on the blog have been lengthy and serious, so today I want to lighten things up a bit and keep it short

Now, building a network marketing business is serious and needs to be approached from a professional business mindset, BUT that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy it and have fun doing it!

Let’s face it:

If you don’t enjoy what you do on a daily basis, then you probably need to change careers or find a better, more enjoyable way to build your network marketing business.

The reality is that most people spend most of their time trying to FIND good prospects, and therefore only have small bursts of time with someone who is actually interested. They spend most of their working time stressing to find people who will listen to their pitch.

This creates frustration because they know if they don’t find enough people who will listen, then they won’t have enough people who will sign up; which in turn, means they won’t be able to make the money they need and want to make if this doesn’t happen.

What this does is make the prospecting and sales process a stressful event that may not be fun unless that prospect does actually sign up. If they don’t, you look back and realize all the time you spend trying to get in front of them or present to them as a waste of your time (and rightly so).

This type of frustration is what can lead to distributor burn-out and drop-out, and nobody likes that.

Solution:

First of all, if you are not enjoying the process, your results are not up to par AND your prospects can sense your stress and urgency to sign them up.

So, RELAX!!

There are plenty of fish in the sea (with more being thrown in all the time), and there is no need to create this false sense of urgency to the prospect. The prospect will get involved in their own time, not yours. If you try to force it, they will either shut you down right there OR they will get buyers remorse and drop out a few months or even weeks later.

Sure, you need to help that person to see what’s in it for them, but you don’t need to hard core close them or hype things up to make it more exciting for them.

If you have a proven, results-based marketing system in place: You can generate a ton of your own high-quality leads that are responsive to your message and have the time to consult with them in a relaxed, non-sales type of environment and get better results.

Doing this will free up your time so you are spending 80%+ of your work time with interested prospects and signing people up, and only 20% or less finding them.

This will also allow you to relax more because you are not stressed about having enough interested people to talk to, AND (if you have an effective marketing system in place) you are able to make passive income while building your long term residual income.

A big killer in MLM is that initial commission you make in the form of a sign-up bonus or first product sale. Don’t put your focus there: Put it into building the residuals and start using an effective marketing system that will allow you to earn passive cash every time you generate a lead. This upfront money will keep you going while your residuals grow.

Last, but not least: Enjoy the time you spend with prospects and team members. Don’t be thinking of ‘how can I get this person in’. Just relax, ask questions to determine their specific needs and wants, and if your solution fits their situation - present it to them in a consultative manner and look to improve their end throughout the conversation.

Doing business like this gets you much better results; and better results is always fun!

You can and should have fun in building your network marketing business IF you are using the proper tools and if you know how to truly attend to people’s needs and consult, not sell.

Here’s a Marketing System That Will Allow You To Put The FUN Back Into Your Business!
Scott Rogers is a Network Marketing Consultant/Trainer/Independent Marketer who Specializes in Helping Network Marketers Truly Succeed in Their Chosen Businesses by Providing Resources, Education, and Tools for Effective Business Building and Marketing.
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by John Hughes
Finding a legitimate home based business opportunity may seem like a daunting task given the internets reputation for online money making scams. Do not lose faith though, there are legitimate home based business opportunities that can help you become successful. To help ensure that you do not get taken advantage of I have put together a small guide to finding legitimate home based business opportunities.

When you come across what appears to be a legitimate home based business opportunity read through the sales page and pay attention to what kind of words they use to describe their program. Obviously if they are claiming to make you a million dollars overnight or while doing practically nothing you may want to consider leaving it alone. There are however less obvious words that can tip you off to an internet scam. If the sales page uses the words, quick, easy, no work, work in your under wear, multi-level marketing etc. proceed with caution. Do some back ground research on the company. A good place to start is posting questions on forums asking if anyone has ever bought the program and what were their results?

A legitimate home based business opportunity will offer it’s members full support for the products or information they are selling. So always look for things like 24-hour phone and e-mail support and a 100% money back guarantee. A legitimate home based business opportunity knows that not everyone will succeed with their business model because some people are just plain lazy and want to believe that they can make money doing nothing. Why do you think there are so many get rich schemes in the first place. An honest business will give you your money back if it isn’t for you because they do not want to ruin a good reputation.

Another way to test if it is a legitimate home based business opportunity is by contacting them and saying that you are interested in buying their product but you want to know what sets them apart from other money making opportunities. If they really are a legitimate home based business opportunity they will respond within 48 hours. That is a good sign that they at least value you as a customer and will probably help you in the future.

Lastly you should read as many articles and reviews as you can about the program. Do a search on Google or Yahoo and read only the organic search results not the sponsored listings. Sponsored listings are paid advertisements and will only give you one sided information depending on whether the advertiser is promoting the program or trying to sell you something else.

I hope you this guide will lead you to finding a legitimate home based business opportunity. Just remember to be resourceful, make contact and don’t buy on hype. Take your time and investigate whether it really is a legitimate home based business opportunity.

John Hughes is an internet marketer specializing in the research of online money making programs. The objective is to help people discover which programs actually produce results and are worth the investment. Visit the internet’s #1 legitimate home based business opportunity.

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by jorchav
To get paid cash for online surveys to get money, the only requirements are that you be a consumer, 18 or over, have access to the Internet and have the technical skills necessary to send and receive e-mails. Everyone who eats and wears clothing is a consumer, so, as you can see, it’s easy to qualify.

The beauty of getting paid cash for online surveys is that you make money from home or anywhere. There are no rigid hours, you work when you want. The pay is good, typically $10 to $25 for 5-10 minutes spent giving your opinion. It’s ideal for retirees, work-at-home moms, anyone who wants to make extra income.

Paid online surveys exist because big companies need to know the thinking of the ultimate consumers of the goods and services they produce. They hire market researchers to find out and these market researchers make surveys among consumers to get the answers that their big company clients need.

To make sure there are enough volunteers to take the surveys, about 20% of the survey makers pay the survey participants in cash. The other 80+% may say that they pay, but actually, they do not. They have drawings, offer discounts on merchandise and use any one of dozens of tricks to keep from actually paying.

If your goal is to take paid online surveys and get paid cash your first challenge is to find the survey makers that REALLY pay in cash and avoid wasting time and effort on the rest, the low-pay/no-pay pretenders.

The challenge to find the good ones is complicated by the fact that the pretenders have high turnover and must constantly recruit new survey participants. To do this they pay recruiting fees to agents to find and send them new recruits.

The 20% who pay do not advertise much (they don’t need to) but the 80+% pretenders and their agents advertise a lot. The result is that 95-98% of the recruiting ads you see on the Net are for the pretenders.

The best way to find the good survey makers is to join a good, honest paid survey site that maintains lists of good survey makers. For a small one-time membership fee they will let you have a copy of their current list. You make that fee back with 2-3 paid surveys and greatly shorten the time needed to get started.

To find a good paid survey site, look for a STRONG 60-90 day money-back guarantee, backed by a bank or financial company. Within those that have such a guarantee, look for a low refund rate. The refund rate will tell you what the recent clients of that site thought of their services.

A low refund rate means happy clients that were making money before the guarantee period expired. A high refund rate means unhappy clients who were steered to low-pay/no-pay survey makers and made no money. Look for a low (3-6% refund rate and avoid any with refund rates that are unknown (means high) or as high as 9-10%.

That will winnow it down to about the good 5% of the total paid survey sites which will find the good 20% of the survey makers. With these survey makers you can make money. Take two surveys a day for $10 and $25 and you could make over a thousand dollars a month!

For more information on getting paid cash - online surveys money, follow the links below.

For more info on how to get paid to take online surveys, visit: paid cash online surveys money To learn more about refund rates and comparing paid survey sites to pick the best one, visit: Paid Online Surveys
Jorge Chavez is an experienced paid internet survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.ya23.com

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by Sean Milea
Home Based Business Tips For Entrepreneurs

There are more people who want to start a home-based business than there are hours in a day. A home-based business is a great way for anyone to contribute to their household. For stay-at-home parents, or people who aren’t able to get out of the house, a home-based business can provide a sense of satisfaction, as well as a professional outlet. It takes more than a great desire and a great idea to run a successful home-based business, though. There are common mistakes that all would-be home-based CEOs make, and it’s important to be aware of them and avoid them.

Here are some lessons learned from other home-based entrepreneurs:

1. No entrepreneur is an island. Yes, you’re the CEO of your home-based business. But you still need some support. Research and find professional organizations to join; other members can provide great tips and moral support. Professional organizations are a great way to network and learn more about others’ experiences with your target market.

2. No entrepreneur knows it all. You have to have appropriate training in running a home business. There are tax-deductions, record keeping, and general accountability practices that can’t be a mystery to you. The more training you have, the more success you’ll have at the mechanics of running a home-based business.

3. No entrepreneur should be a novice in their field. Don’t start a business that deals with a subject matter you’re unfamiliar with. Just like training, experience is key. If you don’t have any, you’re adding another unknown variable to your formula for success. Become an expert in your field so you can run your business smoothly.

4. No entrepreneur loses hope. Take the time to train and become an expert and don’t lose confidence in yourself. In the age of instant gratification, it’s important to have patience. Don’t expect instant, huge results. Trust yourself, your training, and your plan.

You can get a free copy of our latest ebook The 7 Keys To Business Marketing Success by clicking here: http://www.BizRaves.com . Sean Milea is a writer for BizRave Inc.

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by Joe Shaw - The Family Business Guy
Most network marketing businesses fail. By saying ‘Fail’ I mean that the business does not make money. I know this isn’t profound but if you’re not making money, then you do not have a successful business. I think there’s really 4 reasons why people fail to make money, but don’t take my word for it. You can vote for your own Top 4.

The Top 4 Reasons People Fail in Network Marketing

4) Lack of Desire — A lack of desire to succeed is high on the list for many people. It means that people don’t have a big enough ‘why’. I have to say that I personally disagree with this. My opinion is that most people have the desire, they just don’t want to hassle their friends or family. If they had a way to work and make money while they were doing it, they would.

3) Lack of Quality Training — By quality training I don’t mean motivational talks. There’s an abundance of motivational trainings in this business. Quality training will help you get prospects and make money. If the training doesn’t help you get new people or better help your team enroll people, it’s not training that builds your business.

2) Lack of Support — For many of us, this is really the number one challenge. There’s no one to actually work with. People in this business are terrible for promising training and support, but it’s really just an illusion. Support has come to mean “Just go sponsor people”. Yea thanks for the help. A Quality support system will actually give you a small group of people to plug into who are building a business like you. It’s a place where you can ask questions, work through issues, and brain storm for solutions.

1) Can’t get Prospects that are Truly Interested or Qualified — In my opinion this IS the number one reason people don’t make money. You don’t want to call a names list of people who aren’t interested. It’s a hard sell to have to talk to people who aren’t interested. You need a way to build your business that doesn’t involve pestering people. You need a way to create highly qualified, interested prospects that are hungry for what you have. If you had that, you wouldn’t need any motivation. If you have people coming to you, then you have a business that you’ll make money with.

Those are my top 4 reasons people fail in network marketing, but don’t take my word for it. Make up your own top 4 list, and then get a game plan together for what you’re going to do about it.

Joe Shaw invites you to Cast Your Vote - Why People Fail In Network Marketing at http://familybusinesstips.com/vote.html. While you’re there be sure to pick up a copy of The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing at http://familybusinesstips.com/7Lies.html - It’s my gift to you, just for visiting.

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by jorchav
There are tons of paid survey business being conducted on the Internet. Every week there are thousands of surveys being made. Every month tens of thousands of participants who take online surveys for cash get paid to take surveys and receive checks in the mail.

Not all of the surveys being made are actually done on a paid basis, although almost all survey makers claim that their surveys are paid. In fact, only about 20% of the 700+ survey makers in the U.S. and 3,000+ worldwide actually pay their participants on a regular, equitable basis.

It’s the old “80-20 rule”. 20% of the survey makers pay out 80% of the cash or equivalent that is paid to survey participants.

If you plan to make money, to take online surveys for cash and get paid to take surveys, you need to locate and apply to this 20% of survey makers that really pay.

The big companies that commission the surveys to get answers to their questions agree to fees charged and send the money out to the market researchers who pay the survey makers. The problem is, that while about 20% of these pay the participants in cash, the rest try to “play games” with it so they can keep more of the total fee.

Those that pay in cash have low turnover, keep their same participants and almost never pay recruiting fees. Those that don’t pay, the low-pay/no-pay survey makers, have high turnover and have to constantly recruit new participants.

There are a number of paid survey websites, both free and paid, that you can turn to for help in getting started with paid surveys. Both types have lists of survey makers to which you can apply.

These sites make money either from membership fees they collect from their members or from recruitment fees they collect from survey makers, or both. To find the survey makers that pay you want to pay your own guide to take you where YOU want to go; avoid the guides that someone else is paying to bring you to them!

Look for paid survey sites with a STRONG 50-90 day money-back guarantee, backed up by a bank or financial company. Within the group that meet this qualification, look for one with a low (3-6%) refund rate. Avoid all with refund rates that are “unknown” (generally means high!) or that are as high as 9-10% or more.

The refund rate tells you what the previous clients of that site thought of it. A low refund rate means that they were satisfied, happy and making money - the list of survey makers they received worked. They were able to take online surveys for cash, to get paid to take surveys.

A high refund rate indicates many unhappy clients demanding their money back. They are saying (by demanding refunds) that the list was useless to them.

Whether this was from the list being poorly maintained or from the site “double dipping”, sending them to survey makers who paid the site instead of them, is not important. What is important is that a high refund rate means trouble; stay away!

When you pick your paid survey site and get your copy of their list, apply to all the survey makers on the list. When you begin to take online surveys for cash and get paid paid to take surveys you should easily make back your membership fees with the payment from the first 2-3 surveys taken.

Depending on your demographics your diligence and the number of good survey makers you sign up with, you should be able to make good money. Many report average incomes from paid surveys of $1,000 or more a month from a just few hours spent filling out survey questionnaires each week.

For more info on how to get paid to take online surveys, visit: online surveys for cash get paid to take survey To learn more about refund rates and comparing paid survey sites to pick the best one, visit: Current Rankings
Jorge Chavez is an experienced paid internet survey expert at: http://surveysentinel.ya23.com

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by Aniko
1.) Article Marketing

Article Marketing is a great way to demonstrate your value and knowledge to your target audience. Articles can be published in article directories, ezines, other people’s sites, etc.

The content will make it’s way into newsletters as well as other publications. For a home business owner and entrepreneur this is a great resource to have more links pointing back to your website.

Take out 15-30 minutes daily and write an article that you would like to pass on to assist readers with the specific topic of interest that you feel will deliver great value and content.

The following are great article directories and resources to publish your articles.

www.ezinearticles.com
www.goarticles.com
www.ideadashboard.com
www.ideamarketers.com

2.) Press Releases

Press releases are another great resource that can be utilized to drive free traffic to your website and have more links pointing to your site. The press release should be stated as it is coming from a third party making an announcement about yourself, company and services.

For example you may have just launched a new website and/or product and you may have an announcement released to the public regarding the latest news.

There are free sources as well as paid services to distribute your press release. Do a search for press release sources on the internet to release your announcement. Two sources are www.prweb.com and http://www.free-press-release.com to distribute your press release and latest news.

3.) Exchange Networks

www.TrafficSwarm.com is one of the largest traffic exchange networks on the internet. Go to Traffic Swarm today and set up an account. This is completely free if you choose the basic membership.

Follow the instructions to have the website open up everytime you open a browser so you can accumulate free points. You have an opportunity in your account to set up as many 3-5 line ads describing your website with the link. Your ad is placed on a rotator based on how many points you have accumulated by clicking on other advertisements.

Implement this today as another marketing source.

Articles, Press Releases and Traffic Exchanges are three additional sources of marketing that can be implemented as free or inexpensive if you choose to pay for some of the services.

Marketing is fun. Enjoy consistently implementing the methods mentioned above.

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Aniko’ Fekete is an Home Business Coach/Mentor & Marketing Expert. She assists people to implement a marketing system that generates endless free leads for their network marketing and home business. To find out more how this system can assist you in exploding your business click here: http://dash.magneticprospectingmachine.com/Aniko’ coaches serious entrepreneurs in a six figure enterprise by using the G.P.T. home business/networker’s model: http://www.MagneticGPTModel.com

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