Copyright © Annie Whitney, Your Internet Profit Partner
Many women make the difficult choice to forgo their hard-earned careers just so their children are not raised by nannies and daycares. The hardest job in the world is being a stay-at-home mom. In the blink of an eye, they will be grown - and you will look back on this time as SO rewarding, SUCH a blessing!
What if you did not have to give up that Most Important Quality Time with your kids? Wouldn't it be a breath of fresh air to make your own money again? Hurrah, thanks to the Internet, anything is possible!!
There are many ways for moms to be a part of the workforce via the Online Community. You can still drive your kids to soccer practice or make dinner while the baby naps; you have the Freedom to work when YOU want. If you organize your time wisely, you can be the momtrepreneur you’ve always wanted to be through your home-based business!
Blogging. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM). Telecommuting. Responding to emails for online businesses. Online mystery shopping. Advertising. UTubing. Generating traffic for affiliate marketers.
Representing direct sales. Freelance writing. Social Networking. The various online business ventures available for stay-at-home moms are endless. But, how do you know if you’re choosing the right one?
Talk to people. There is an amazing ''family'' of connected folks in the online community. You might want tostart out by doing some research before deciding to start a home-based business, or as a rep for a direct sales marketing company; if you’re chosen company is legitimate, it will appear on search engines. The next step is to track down people who’ve had experiences with the same company; again, you should be able to do so without a hitch -if the company is for real.
Make sure the sign-up fee (if there is one) isn’t too big. Anything exceeding four hundred dollars should be considered suspect. Granted, companies have to protect themselves by not giving away start-up packages to everyone out there, so a small fee may be justifiable. Nonetheless, go with your instinct – if it seems phony, it probably is.
Are you prepared to kiss a few frogs. You probably didn’t marry the first man you ever went on a date with. If you have had a career, you most likely did not stick with that same job the entire time. OR, maybe you found the right guy first thing -- and this certainly CAN happen for you.... But, be prepared to try a couple different online ventures before you find the one that is right for you. Just be cautious in how much time you put into any particular venture until you feel confident about it.
Finally, be realistic. You won’t make millions overnight - and if you think you will, get out now. An online home-based business is simple to start, but does take some time and patience. Setting aside time each day to develop your home business will take some diligent work. Your online business will be work, just as most everything is life is work.
You will be ''punching your own time clock'' so to speak, but YOU will be the boss and setting your own hours! What if you could spend 5-15 productive hours each week on your home business, instead of 40 hours at a job. Working from home can feel very safe and comforting!
If you keep the above steps in mind, you will likely see success in the world of online home-based businesses. Who knows what great things could happen if you worked at it really hard? You just might be the one putting food on that kitchen table. Start your home-based business today.
Annie Whitney and her partner, Paul Birdsall, teach online marketing through the FREE 7 Day Online Success Boot Camp. You can learn more about this fabulous online boot camp here: http://bit.ly/v93x2j
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Why you should start a home-based business
Copyright © Annie Whitney, Your Internet Profit Partner
Economic times are tough. Your credit card debt is taking you forever to pay off. You’re worried about job security. Your mortgage is high. Your bills are endless. You feel like you can never get ahead when you’re barely getting by. You need another source of income, but between your full-time job, family and other commitments, you just don’t have the time. The answer: start a home-based business. Being your own boss can be challenging, but the rewards are GREAT!
Welcome to the Internet. If you want to get out of debt, get ahead and create a secondary source of income for your family, the best way to do this is to start thinking out of the box and start thinking online. There are a number of ways to make money through the Internet, here are just a few:
Direct Sales Marketing: this is a form of marketing, usually unsolicited, which involves the seller directly sending messages to the consumer (through emails, phone calls, etc.). The consumer directly responds to the seller, such as by calling a toll-free number or going to a website. This is also referred to as direct response marketing, and it’s more personal than some other forms of marketing. Some online channels of Direct Sales Marketing include: email, Internet banner ads and pay-per-click ads. May sound scary, but with some training it can be fun, and definitely advantageous!
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM): this is also known as Network Marketing. This is a form of marketing that compensates sellers for both the product they sell and the sales from people they have directed to the company. Many disparaging remarks have been made about MLM, but I have been involved in one since 1973, and the Lifestyle Freedom it has afforded has incredibly rewarding!
Those involved with MLM are usually rewarded on a commission basis, through a trickle- down effect: a customer base is expanded through MLM, whereby each marketer is granted a commission as the network expands. Successful MLM results in a number of people receiving royalties from the sales of one person. Successful MLM utilizes social networking mediums such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The danger is to use these to do too much ''advertising'' before making friends - and becoming genuinely interested in the people who participate in social networking.
Affiliate Marketing: this is a form not too dissimilar from MLM, but focuses less on building networks and more on driving traffic to websites. Affiliates make money from their marketing efforts for the visitors and/or customers (traffic) brought to various websites. Some common channels for Affiliate Marketing include: search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and paid search engine marketing. This concept of revenue sharing is becoming increasing popular among Internet marketers.
These are only a few ways to tap into the world of Internet marketing. The best way to start making a solid secondary income is to begin a home-based online business, and Start Today! Whether it be selling products for a company, building networks, selling advertising space on your own website or being paid to drive traffic to various websites, the time to start is NOW. There are so many ways to tap into the online marketing world from the comforts of your own home. Join thousands of others just like you who have reaped the benefits of having a home-based business.
Annie Whitney and her partner, Paul Birdsall, teach online marketing through the FREE 7 Day Online Success Boot Camp. You can learn more about this fabulous online boot camp here: http://bit.ly/v93x2j
Economic times are tough. Your credit card debt is taking you forever to pay off. You’re worried about job security. Your mortgage is high. Your bills are endless. You feel like you can never get ahead when you’re barely getting by. You need another source of income, but between your full-time job, family and other commitments, you just don’t have the time. The answer: start a home-based business. Being your own boss can be challenging, but the rewards are GREAT!
Welcome to the Internet. If you want to get out of debt, get ahead and create a secondary source of income for your family, the best way to do this is to start thinking out of the box and start thinking online. There are a number of ways to make money through the Internet, here are just a few:
Direct Sales Marketing: this is a form of marketing, usually unsolicited, which involves the seller directly sending messages to the consumer (through emails, phone calls, etc.). The consumer directly responds to the seller, such as by calling a toll-free number or going to a website. This is also referred to as direct response marketing, and it’s more personal than some other forms of marketing. Some online channels of Direct Sales Marketing include: email, Internet banner ads and pay-per-click ads. May sound scary, but with some training it can be fun, and definitely advantageous!
Multi-Level Marketing (MLM): this is also known as Network Marketing. This is a form of marketing that compensates sellers for both the product they sell and the sales from people they have directed to the company. Many disparaging remarks have been made about MLM, but I have been involved in one since 1973, and the Lifestyle Freedom it has afforded has incredibly rewarding!
Those involved with MLM are usually rewarded on a commission basis, through a trickle- down effect: a customer base is expanded through MLM, whereby each marketer is granted a commission as the network expands. Successful MLM results in a number of people receiving royalties from the sales of one person. Successful MLM utilizes social networking mediums such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The danger is to use these to do too much ''advertising'' before making friends - and becoming genuinely interested in the people who participate in social networking.
Affiliate Marketing: this is a form not too dissimilar from MLM, but focuses less on building networks and more on driving traffic to websites. Affiliates make money from their marketing efforts for the visitors and/or customers (traffic) brought to various websites. Some common channels for Affiliate Marketing include: search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and paid search engine marketing. This concept of revenue sharing is becoming increasing popular among Internet marketers.
These are only a few ways to tap into the world of Internet marketing. The best way to start making a solid secondary income is to begin a home-based online business, and Start Today! Whether it be selling products for a company, building networks, selling advertising space on your own website or being paid to drive traffic to various websites, the time to start is NOW. There are so many ways to tap into the online marketing world from the comforts of your own home. Join thousands of others just like you who have reaped the benefits of having a home-based business.
Annie Whitney and her partner, Paul Birdsall, teach online marketing through the FREE 7 Day Online Success Boot Camp. You can learn more about this fabulous online boot camp here: http://bit.ly/v93x2j
Friday, June 12, 2009
Five Principles for Starting Your Home-Based Business Today
Copyright © Annie Whitney, Your Internet Profit Partner
In these times of economic uncertainty, wouldn’t it be nice to create a business opportunity that could provide you with a secondary income? This is exactly why most people enter the world of Internet home-based businesses: bills are piling up and they just can’t get ahead with their nine-to-five jobs.
What is the difference between the average Joe and the successful Internet entrepreneur? Time, patience, commitment and adherence to some basic principles to which anyone who wants to succeed at the world of home-based businesses should diligently follow.
What are these five tried, tested and true pieces of advice to Internet home-based business success, you might ask? Find a mentor, develop a solid marketing campaign, stay focused and committed, don’t jump the gun at false leads and be realistic.
Finding a mentor is not as easy as it seems. The Internet is still a fairly anonymous communication medium, which means that there are alot of scam artists out there. When choosing a mentor, do some digging. Are there bad reports on this individual with your preferred business regulation agency? Does this person have an established online presence? Is this person actually available for contact, or arethey little more than smoke and mirrors? Finding a mentor, someone who is available for continuing education, instruction and support, is one of the most vital components to your home-based business success – just be sure to do your homework so you don’t get duped.
Developing a solid marketing campaign is a multi-level process that is crucial to your online success with your home-based business.The most important thing about your marketing campaign is to be relentless and never stop promoting. A good mentor will advise you on such areas such as: content-based marketing, article and press release writing, promoting through social network mediums and other ways to boost your search engine status.
If you’re going to succeed in the world of home-based businesses, you have to work at it every day, on both your business itself and your marketing campaign. Staying focused and committed means setting aside time each day to work at your home-based business. At the beginning stage, this is easy – because you’re excited and eager to earn a secondary source of income. But, as time rambles on, you may find your home-based business sits on the back burner as kids, full-time jobs and other commitments override your Internet business in priority.
Don’t jump the gun at false leads. Again, your mentor should show you the dangers in paying too much for false leads. Also, watch out for home-based business opportunities that simply sound too good to be true. Trust your instincts.
Be realistic. If you’re one of many who honestly believe you’re going to become the next “overnight millionaire”, then turn off your computer and don’t bother turning it on again. People who feed into such tripe are the same people that make online scam artists millionaires….and the cycle continues on and on and on… In reality, it can take 2 to 5 years to become financially independent. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Look back on the last 2-5 years and ask yourself what you did to insure secure financial independence!
The reality is if you heed the advice given to you here, do your research and head into your home-based business with both eyes wide open, you are well on your way to earning a reliable secondary source of income. There actually are people out there who have quit their nine-to-fives due to their online entrepreneurial success– and you can become one of them. Get smart and start your home-based business today!
Annie Whitney and her partner, Paul Birdsall, teach online marketing through the FREE 7 Day Online Success Boot Camp. You can learn more about this fabulous online boot camp here: http://bit.ly/v93x2j
In these times of economic uncertainty, wouldn’t it be nice to create a business opportunity that could provide you with a secondary income? This is exactly why most people enter the world of Internet home-based businesses: bills are piling up and they just can’t get ahead with their nine-to-five jobs.
What is the difference between the average Joe and the successful Internet entrepreneur? Time, patience, commitment and adherence to some basic principles to which anyone who wants to succeed at the world of home-based businesses should diligently follow.
What are these five tried, tested and true pieces of advice to Internet home-based business success, you might ask? Find a mentor, develop a solid marketing campaign, stay focused and committed, don’t jump the gun at false leads and be realistic.
Finding a mentor is not as easy as it seems. The Internet is still a fairly anonymous communication medium, which means that there are alot of scam artists out there. When choosing a mentor, do some digging. Are there bad reports on this individual with your preferred business regulation agency? Does this person have an established online presence? Is this person actually available for contact, or arethey little more than smoke and mirrors? Finding a mentor, someone who is available for continuing education, instruction and support, is one of the most vital components to your home-based business success – just be sure to do your homework so you don’t get duped.
Developing a solid marketing campaign is a multi-level process that is crucial to your online success with your home-based business.The most important thing about your marketing campaign is to be relentless and never stop promoting. A good mentor will advise you on such areas such as: content-based marketing, article and press release writing, promoting through social network mediums and other ways to boost your search engine status.
If you’re going to succeed in the world of home-based businesses, you have to work at it every day, on both your business itself and your marketing campaign. Staying focused and committed means setting aside time each day to work at your home-based business. At the beginning stage, this is easy – because you’re excited and eager to earn a secondary source of income. But, as time rambles on, you may find your home-based business sits on the back burner as kids, full-time jobs and other commitments override your Internet business in priority.
Don’t jump the gun at false leads. Again, your mentor should show you the dangers in paying too much for false leads. Also, watch out for home-based business opportunities that simply sound too good to be true. Trust your instincts.
Be realistic. If you’re one of many who honestly believe you’re going to become the next “overnight millionaire”, then turn off your computer and don’t bother turning it on again. People who feed into such tripe are the same people that make online scam artists millionaires….and the cycle continues on and on and on… In reality, it can take 2 to 5 years to become financially independent. http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif Look back on the last 2-5 years and ask yourself what you did to insure secure financial independence!
The reality is if you heed the advice given to you here, do your research and head into your home-based business with both eyes wide open, you are well on your way to earning a reliable secondary source of income. There actually are people out there who have quit their nine-to-fives due to their online entrepreneurial success– and you can become one of them. Get smart and start your home-based business today!
Annie Whitney and her partner, Paul Birdsall, teach online marketing through the FREE 7 Day Online Success Boot Camp. You can learn more about this fabulous online boot camp here: http://bit.ly/v93x2j
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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