Working from home is it just a dream?

I have been thinking about my online venture over the last six months and I must confess. I took a real job. I could not help it. The money was to good to turn down. It has also me me aware of how much I want to have the freedom to work from home. Right now I work 6 days a week and 10 hours a day. With a one hour drive both ways. This leaves me very little time for anything else. Iam looking at this as a way to get everything I want and then some. Also putting money away for a rainy day. I use my daytime job as inspiration to make this dream come true. The thought of not having to get up at 4:30 in the morning and not getting home until 6:00 in the evening and doing what I want to do everyday is overwhelming.

Over these last few months I have thought about what I have done as far as to make this dream come true.I have made some headway,but not enough.I have 8 blogs and 2 dot coms. Most of my older blogs,like this one have not had much attention. I do apologize for that.The dot coms are running Wordpress and I have to say"I Love Wordpress".It beats blogger hands down.They are making money.Very little around .50 a day.My girlfriend just laghs when I tell her,made 34 cents today."wow thats amazing".She doesnt get the fact I can do that every day.To me its just cool.The fact that I created something once and it can generate income over and over day in and day out,just blows my mind.What if I had 20 dot coms and 50 blogs.What could I make in one day or in a week.

The method I use to make money online is Google Adsense.That is the only thing I do.I trust Google.It just works.Slow but it works.I believe the day will come when I can ditch my job and do this full time.Right now thats all I need is time. I would say around one year.With my present schedule.

The one thing I have figured out is in order to make money you must post articles everyday. There is no secret to making money with adsense. If you post good articles and do it often, you will make money.

Four Reasons Why You Should NEVER Use Animations In Your eBay

Inexperienced auction sellers, or those lacking in confidence, often want to make their auction listings more dramatic and exciting. They dread the possibility that buyers will be bored by their auction and turn away with indifference.
Therefore, they reason, they will spice up their auctions with some "animations" - graphics that blink, change colors, spin, and travel around the web page.
Or the seller may be a tech person who loves toys and is proud of his ability to create unusual effects.
Regardless of their reasons, animated elements on an auction page are almost never a good idea for the following four reasons:
1. Rather than attracting attention to the merchandise in your auction, your potential customer may watch a spinning ball or follow Santa and his reindeer through the sky. We want the customer's total attention on that all-important question: "Do I want to buy this widget or not?" Distractions are not good for your wallet.
2. Animations can make the load time of your auction listing much longer. I have been using DSL four years and have forgotten (happily!) how horrible it is to use dialup. However, for many places on this planet, high-speed connections simply are not available. For these folks, loading your page might take forever, and you can be sure they won't wait. Experts tell us that the average user spends only 7 seconds at a webpage before departing for greener pastures. If your sales page is still loading, no sale for you.
3. It takes time for you to figure out how and whether to use animations. This is time that would be better spent on writing more exciting and dynamic copy - copy that will turn a prospective customer into a real buyer. A smart business person will treat time as her most precious commodity and spend it on what is most likely to bring a sale.
4. Many of these animations are just downright annoying. I personally do not enjoy looking at screens that are twirling, whirling and blinking. Two particularly irritating animations are an inescapable message that follows up and down the left side of the page, regardless of where I'm looking, and "trails" that follow my mouse.
A huge majority of people feel the same, apparently. Sellers need to make it as easy as possible for people to buy, rather than throwing obstacles in the way.
Are there any occasions when animated pictures are of any value in an auction listing? Possibly. For example, if you are selling to graphic designers then animated elements might be appropriate. As always, testing, testing, testing is the only way to truly know.
But for the rest of us folks - forget the glitter and focus on your merchandise. That's what makes us buy.

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Starting an Online Business

This One is Easy and Builds Wealth Quickly

If you are thinking of starting an online business, the one enclosed is a low cost business which requires no selling and is a great online business, anyone can use to build wealth quickly.

What is the business?

It's becoming a currency trader from home - HANG ON! You may say I couldn't do that - well the answer is you can, anyone can.

The opportunity to trade online and use small stakes to make money quickly is open to all. Here are the advantages of this business and there are a lot of them!

- You can start with a few hundred dollars

- Got a computer and an internet connection? That's all you need

- You don't need staff, stock or premises

- You don't need to sell or find clients

- You can learn this business in a few weeks

- Trading takes 30 minutes to an hour a day

- There is never a recession and profit opportunities occur every day

- You can leverage your stake invest $500.00 and trade $100,000

The advantages of this business are huge.

If you are starting an online business, this one offers more potential, for less work and on a lower capital stake, than almost any other.

The Power of Leverage

The reason this business offers such huge profit potential is that it allows you to leverage your money.

Leverage simply means you can invest more than you have so put down $500.00 and your broker will allow you to leverage 200:1 and trade $100,000 - no credit checks needed, this money is granted to you as soon as you open an account.

Of course where there are big gains to be made, there are big risks too and the challenge is to seek big gains and control risk which you can do.

This business offers you the opportunity to build a lucrative second income or even a life changing one if you get the right education and have the right mindset.

How to Win

So how do you make money in this business?

Let me ask you a question:

Can you spot recurring patterns on a graph?

Of course you can, if you know what to look for and have some practice. The best way to make money therefore is - to use forex charts and simply follow trends up or down and lock into them for profit.

Charting is a learned skill. Anyone can learn it and this is the easy part of currency trading, the harder part is being disciplined.

The Key to Big Gains

In currency trading you must cheerfully take small losses and run your profits when you get them.

You will take a lot of losses but if you run the big trends with leverage you can make a lot of money over time. So discipline is the key to making leverage work for you and if you can be disciplined you can win.

The Challenge and the Rewards

Being a currency trader from home is one of the most exciting and lucrative business opportunities you can be involved in and is a challenge, it's an exciting one and if you consider starting an online business in currency trading you have a life changing opportunity.

There is no other business like it in terms of profit potential to effort and if you have a desire to succeed and to learn it you will be well rewarded for your efforts
Author: Monica Hendrix

Starting An Internet Business In Hours With These 9 Proven Secrets

by: Aaron Herman





With the right guidance, an Internet business can start generating income almost immediately. A home internet business can be very successful for people who have the dedication, skills and patience to await agradual increase in business and income. There are several ways how an internet business can be started. However, no matter which internet business is being initiated, it won't make an impact at first.

The start up costs for an internet home business are next to nothing compared to the offline world of business start ups. In fact it is a lot more simple to start and grow a business on the internet. Of course you need some knowledge to begin your internet home business enterprise. But you don't need a "Bacc" to do business on the web.

All you need is some computer knowledge and some internet marketing basis and a good dose of determination.

Here is some basic tips on how to start an internet home business.

== 1.Write Your Business Goals ==

It is important to set goals and objectives and then take action to accomplish them. This will be your Business Plan.

Here Are Some questions you should ask yourself:

- Why do I want to start up an Internet Home Business?

- What product or service can I provide?

- Do I have the knowledge and expertise to provide this service?

- Do I know enough about the competition?

- Where will my customers come from?

Take the time to write down your questions and answers and thoroughly research your chosen market.

== 2. Choose A Product or Service To Sell ==

On the internet you can find hundreds of product or services to sell.

You can sell your own product by creating your own, or purchasing resale rights or being an affiliate with a good internet company.

Don't put your personal gains first. Make sure that the product will deliver what it promises. When you promote a product that leaves the buyer dissatisfied, you' ll only be ruining your business. So sell solutions and the money will come.

== 3. Business Domain Name ==

One important first step is to choose the best domain name you can. Keep it as short and simple as possible.

Think of domain name like " Google " or " Yahoo ". They are short and easy to remember.

I know that some people say to use keyword in you're domain name. But if you choose " Internet Business " there is million of site with this term.

So are you going to use for example "AprofitableInternethomebusiness.com" it might be a nice name but it is too long and not simple.

== 4. Your Business Web Site ==

Having A good business website is essential to succeed with an internet home business.

Here is the thing you have to plan to build your website

A) Decide on the website design (color schemes, buttons, special effects etc). However, you may have a preference for a certain color or look. To help you choose a design, you may wish to check out other people's websites or work with your web designer's pre-set templates.

(b) The content. There are many items you may wish to include on your website. The most common ones include:

1 Products And Services

2. Contact Information

3. Pricing

4. Testimonials

5. Frequently Asked Questions

6. Resources & Articles

7. Refund Policy

8. Privacy Policy

9. About Us

10. Site Map

11. Useful Links

12. On-line store

== 5. Choose a Web Hosting Company ==

What is a Web hosting Company?

A Web host is a company that provides server space for your website. You can think of a web host as a commercial building. The web host provides space for your website just as a commercial building provides space for your shop or office.

What are some of the things you should look for when choosing a web host? The criteria for choosing a free web host and a commercial web hosting solution are slightly different although they do overlap.

A) Web Space

Does it have enough space for your needs? If you envisage that you will expand your site eventually, you might want to cater for future expansion. Most sites use less than 5MB of web space. Indeed, at one time, one of my other web sites, thefreecountry.com, used less than 5MB of space although it had about 150 pages on the site. Your needs will vary, depending on how many pictures your pages use, whether you need sound files, video clips, etc.

B) Bandwidth allotment

Nowadays, many free web hosts impose a limit on the amount of traffic your website can use per day and per month. This means that if the pages (and graphic images) on your site is loaded by visitors beyond a certain number of times per day (or per month), the web host will disable your web site (or perhaps send you a bill).

It is difficult to recommend a specific minimum amount of bandwidth, since it depends on how you design your site, your target audience, and the number of visitors you're able to attract to your site. In general, 100MB traffic per month is too little for anything other than your personal home page and 1-3GB traffic per month is usually adequate for a simple site just starting out. Your mileage, however, will vary.

C) Reliability and speed of access

This is extremely important. A site that is frequently down will lose a lot of visitors. If someone finds your site on the search engine, and he tries to access it but find that it is down, he'll simply go down the list to find another site. Slow access is also very frustrating for visitors (and for you too, when you upload your site).

How do you know if a host is reliable or fast? If you can't get feedback from anyone, one way is to try it out yourself over a period of time, both during peak as well as non-peak hours. After all, it is free, so you can always experiment with it.

== 6. Shopping Cart ==

No e-commerce website is complete without a secure shopping cart. There are many shopping cart options. Many e-commerce business owners make the mistake of using Pay Pal to accept payments, which immediately tells visitors that their company is very small and not professional.

A good alternative to Pay Pal is a remotely hosted shopping cart. Remote shopping carts take the burden of maintaining security and credit card numbers off your shoulder and places the responsibility on another company. Remote shopping carts can usually be configured to look similar to your website.

In fact, your customers may not realize that they have left your website to place an order. The remote shopping cart provider will give you the HTML to add to your website. When your potential customer clicks on the Buy Now button, he or she is taken to the remote shopping cart to enter the personal information and payment details.

Depending on your choice of a shopping cart, you may or may not need a merchant account to process transactions. Some shopping cart services allow you to use their merchant accounts for a slightly higher fee.

== 7. How To Promote Your Business Website ==

Write An Article: Write an article promoting your site or product. Write an article on a hot topic many people would like more information on and submit it to various e-zines. How do you find out what's hot? Visit a few of the message boards and see what questions are raised often.

Search Engines: Thousands of search engines exist on the Internet. But, you should only be concerned with the top eight or ten. You should manually submit to the top eight: Alta Vista, Excite, Yahoo, Hotbot, Lycos, Northern Light, Infoseek, Webcrawler, and use one of the FREE automatic submission services like *SubmitPlus* to handle the smaller search engines.

Directories: List your site here too. Directories organize sites into categories. Good examples of Directories: Yahoo, Magellan.

Ezine Listings: If you have an e-zine to promote along with your site. Why not list it with one of the many e-zine services on the Internet. E-zine Library is a good one to start with.

Free Classifieds: You will have to submit to a ton of FREE classifieds to get any significant traffic. Why? You are competing with thousands of other Ads. Remember to work on your Ad copy and make it attention grabbing. Go to one of the popular search engines, type in Free Classifieds, and surf to the top 20 classified sites for beginners.

Often, these sites will lead you to several other Free Classified Sites. In response you'll get a stack of e-mail thanking you for listing your site while barking their promo. Best to get one of those free email accounts. Hot mail is a good one. So is Yahoo mail.

FFA Pages. Free For All's are worth a try. Be prepared for a avalanche of e-mails from FFA web site owners. If your title is attention grabbing you will get a few clicks. Good Attention grabbing headlines, FREE, Limited Time, Limited Offer, Proven, Secrets, and many more if you brainstorm. Check out the sales literature delivered to you by regular mail. Check and see what headlines grab your attention. And why? Incorporate them into your Online Ads.

Tell Friends And Family: If your friends, family, acquaintances, have an Internet Connection, e-mail them telling them about your new website, and ask them to visit often. Offer a FREE incentive if they tell a few friends to surf over. Perhaps, a FREE Ad in your e-zine.

Leave Business Cards or Flyers: Leave these promo pieces with small businesses in your community. All relevant contact information; email address, URL, telephone number, should be included. Offer a freebie to anyone who visits your site. A free e-book, report.

== 8. TRACK YOUR MARKETING ==

Here are some questions to consider:

1) How many unique visitors come to your website?

2) How many visitors opt-in to your mailing list or order your products?

3) When you send emails, how many are opened and how many people actually click through to your website?

The reason these question are so important is because if you don't know these stats, you won't know what to improve. It could be different things; like your headlines, the content or navigation on your website. You won't know until you start checking all your marketing offer.

== 9. YOUR BUSINESS IN CONCLUSION ==

Think of your first six months primarily as a training period. Don't expect large earnings until after you've educated yourself.

Even the most dynamic, highest-earning entrepreneurs in the industry took MONTHS to begin seeing an income of any real significance with their internet home business.

Don't be a negative thinker and don't let the negative attitudes of others (even if they're family members, friends, or peers) influence you.

All the great men and women in history had to overcome the naysayers who said it couldn't be done and then went out and did it. Think for yourself!

As long as you think positive and focused on your internet home business target you re on the right way to a rich life, which is directed by you and it will lead you to tremendous success and personnal satisfaction.

Building an Internet business can be very rewarding when you start making money online out of the comforts of your own home. If you've always wanted to be self-employed and be your own boss. Then having an internet business will open this up for you. You just need to work on it.

The Top 7 Overlooked E-bay Success Tips

by: Jamie Sloan

Last year alone, millions of people made a profit on e-bay. Some were just selling odds and ends, while some ran huge businesses exclusively on e-bay. The amount of commerce done on the internet is only expected to increase, making prospects for e-bay users bright. You very well may be one of the people who's discovered the great benefits of making money from e-bay auctions. I myself have been an e-bay user for a little over a year and have had great success with my auctions.

When my friend began her business on e-bay selling high end purses, it started out quite rocky. Her auctions weren't getting the hits she wanted and usually sold off of one bid, instead of creating the bidding frenzy that beautiful bags like she had should have!

So, she called me up knowing I had been successfully using e-bay for almost a year at the time. She gave me her login information (we're best friends- she trusts me!) and asked me to check her her sales and current auctions and see if I noticed where the problem was. When I saw her current auctions, alot became obvious!

So, I compiled a list of things that I had used which had made me successful which I suggested she implement into her own auctions. I even revised the auctions she had active at the time. One of those auctions- a gorgeous brown Coach purse- sold for $546.00. She had listed it for $125.00. It was her biggest sale yet and she was thrilled.

The funny thing is, the methods I use are not some internet guru secrets. They are just things I picked up during my time using e-bay, but seem to be overlooked alot of the time. Here are what I have found to be the top 7 overlooked tips for successful e-bay auctions:

1. The Importance of a Good Title- When you're creating a title for your auction, you've gotta think like a buyer. When I checked my friend's listings, she had a beautiful, brand new brown patchwork Coach purse titled as 'coach purse'. This is way too general! A buyer knows what they want; in your title, include color, any brand name, main keywords that people will search, and condition is possible. I changed her title to "Brown & Beige Patchwork Coach Purse-Brand New". By the next day, it had over 100 new hits. Previously her auctions were hardly even reaching 100 hits throughout the whole 5 days.

Another mistake people often make is writing things like 'The best wristwatch ever!!!!" Even if you do believe you're selling the best wristwatch ever, is this really what a buyer is searching for? Of course not. Use a more descriptive, detailed title like 'Gold Armani Wrist Watch w/ Leather Band-New".

One more thing when it comes to titles: make sure keywords are included. For example, whatever the item you're selling actually IS, include that in the title. On e-bay, I mostly sell high end women's heels. I always make sure to include in my title 'Womens Shoes" because this is a common keyword. An example of a title I would use is:

"Brown Marc Jacobs Womens Silver Stud Pumps Shoes"- I know that 'pumps shoes' sounds awkward, but many women will search for "marc jacobs womens shoes", and I want to be sure my item shows up in the results. Use these tips when creating your title and you'll be sure to see increased traffic to your auction.

2. Give honest descriptions- Sure, that stain, tear, or other defect may be sooo small that it's almost impossible to notice. Still, mention it in your auction. If you send an item out and a buyer realizes that the item has a defect that you didn't mention in the auction description, they will be disappointed and very possibly leave you negative feedback. Anyone familiar with e-bay knows that feedback is everything. It is what makes people feel comfortable buying from you and proves that you are a trustworthy, reliable buyer.

It's best to provide a photo of any defects so potential buyers can see what they're getting. And believe me, if you say that there's a defect but don't show a picture, people will e-mail you asking for some. I have sometimes had a defect so tiny on a shoe that I couldn't even get it to show up in a picture. If that's the case, say it! Provide a picture of the area where the defect is and also explain in your listing that it's so miniscule that you can't get it to show up in the picture. Buyers will trust you much more and be way more willing to buy from you in the future. You also won't have to deal with an unsatisfied customer who can damage your feedback rating and make future potential buyers hesitant or even completely dissaude them from buying from you.

3. Offer International Shipping- So often I see sellers who are providing great products but don't offer international shipping. Let me tell you- about 30% of my sales are to international buyers, and very often international buyers will pay more for products. I never understood why people are restraining their own sales potential by not offering international shipping.

Remember, the buyer is the one who pays the shipping, not you!! Even though international shipping is expensive, you are not paying it! And don't be discouraged thinking sending things internationally is difficult- it's super simple and not much different then sending things within the country. If you use USPS (the method I find most efficient for prices and service), you may have to fill out a short customs sheet that takes no more than a minute. Don't be lazy! Offer international shipping and see your sales soar!

4. Send a Thank You card with your purchase- You can get packs of black decorative cards from any general store, WalMart, or even discount chains like TJ Maxx. Buy a couple packs and with people's packages, send a nice thank you card.

You don't have to write a dialog, just a simple "Name of Buyer, Thanks so much for your bid! Enjoy your purchase, and I hope to do business with you in the future! Your Name or Business Name" If you want to really go all out and rake in some super feedback, include a small free gift. When I sell a pair of shoes I usually include a free headband or pair of earrings. If you'd like to try this out, try to find something that compliments whatever it is that you're selling. You could also include a little bag of candy or some tea light candles (go to the dollar store for great knick knacks and free gift ideas). Use your imagination to make your customers satisfied and loyal!

5. Offer combined shipping Buyers love combined shipping. If you offer a good combined shipping deal, and have more than one item they're interested in, they're ten times more likely to buy both items. Some people choose to determine combined shipping depending upon the two items the buyer is interested in, while others have set shipping rules. A good example is to charge $_.__ for the first item and offer to send the second item free, or for $1.00-$2.00 more. Usually the additional weight of the package isn't much so it's possible to offer combined shipping without losing any profit at all. Determine your own rates depending on the weight of the items you sell and the shipping service you use.

6.Keep communication with Buyers open and offer more pictures upon request. Of course in your listing you must include good pictures to attract buyers. Most people include 2-4 pictures per listing, depending on the size of the items and any special details you've got to show. I always include at least 3 pictures, and more if I feel the item needs more pictures of some detail it has that is unique.

Even though you have already provided your buyers with good pictures, it's helpful to write in your listing "Contact me with any questions or for more pictures. (with your contact info)" This is another method that makes buyers instantly trust you more and feel more comfortable placing bids. They feel that the communication lines are open and that they can get more info on the item if needed. And don't be discouraged thinking that you'll spend the whole day responding to e-mails requesting more photos; If you've already included good pictures, most people won't bother asking for more. Of over 50 listings where I've written this, only one person ever asked me for additional pictures. Check your e-mail though at least once a day to see if you've got any questions, people love quick responses and will reward you with good feedback for your effective communication.

7. Always use Delivery Confirmation- This is a biggie! Make sure that when you post your shipping costs, delivery confirmation costs are included so buyers aren't questioning the extrra expense when they receive their invoice. Delivery confirmation is a cheap effective way to ensure both your own and the buyer's investment.

First of all, you do not want to get scammed. What? Scammed? Yes, it happens. I know that most of the scamming referred to on e-bay is about sellers who scam their buyers, but don't be naive; we sellers are also at risk. Although the majority of the e-bay community is good people who are just trying to conduct legitimate transactions, there are those rotten apples which make it hard for all of us.

The usefulness of delivery confirmation was brought to my attention my an acquaintence of mine who does some selling on e-bay. He sold some very high quality digital remote for around $250.00. He shipped the item using delivery confirmation, and after about a week told me he received an e-mail from the buyer saing she'd never received the product. She filed a whole complaint with e-bay and made a big fuss about it. GOOD THING he had the delivery confirmation number and was able to prove that the product had been shipped to her address. Don't let one of these scammers get a chance to cheat you out of your money.

Making delivery confirmation a requirement is also something that will make serious bidders trust you more and see that you're a legitimate business person who wants to secure shipment. Think about it; if someone requests NOT to use delivery confirmation, you can guess where their intentions are. The extra .75 is not breaking anyone's piggy bank, so don't feel bad about it.

There you have it! Use these highly useful yet highly overlooked tips to generate more traffic to your auctions and enjoy higher sale prices. To e-bay success!

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Creating Your Own Home-Based Business

Creating Your Own Home-Based Business
by Elena Fawkner


If you're looking for a way to make money from home and you've been online for any length of time you will have quickly become aware of the preponderance of business opportunity sites and ads for many and varied business opportunities. In particular, you've probably been bowled over by all the promises of the fabulous internet riches that can be yours, if you only join so-and-so's innovative new groundfloor opportunity that everybody who is anybody wants in on.

This week I received an email from a subscriber asking for my opinion on a particular business opportunity. She was asking what I "really thought" about it because she had been "burned so many times in the past I just don't know who to trust". Sound familiar?

I've received several emails like this over recent months from people who have been dudded by the charlatans who seem to come out of the woodwork at the mere whiff of a victim, er ... prospect. This latest one though got me wondering exactly why it is that so many people seem to be looking to make a profit from promoting or participating in someone else's business opportunity or product rather than creating their own, using their own ingenuity. And this applies not only to scams but to legitimate business opportunities (yes, they DO exist). After all, no matter how legitimate the opportunity, at least some of your hard work and effort is going to benefit someone else.

Now, admittedly, promoting someone else's product (such as by way of affiliate programs) is a good way to get started in your online career, but it's not going to make you really serious money. By "serious" I mean sufficient money to represent a worthwhile return on the investment of time and effort you must expend to earn significant commission income. By spending the same amount of time and effort promoting your OWN business, your return must necessarily be much greater. After all, you keep 100% of the profits for the same work!

Why is it that some people, let alone those who have already been burned, keep looking for someone else to deliver the answer to their prayers rather than creating it for themselves? Or worse, give up entirely? I'd be willing to bet that, for a goodly proportion, the answer is "I don't have any products of my own to sell" or "I don't have any good ideas" or "I don't know where to start".

Now, it may be that you're just dabbling with the idea of an online business and, for you, promoting a few affiliate programs while you gradually get more involved is a good place for you to be right now. Many of us started out doing exactly that. But for those of you who are ready to get into this in a serious way, have you thought about doing it for yourself? Why not let go of the idea there is a perfect opportunity out there with your name on it if only you can find it, and instead devote your time and your energy to creating it using your own brainpower?

I believe, absolutely and without equivocation, that ANYONE can make money with their own business. The key is to make sure that what you choose for your business is something you are passionate about. If you are passionate about what you do, your natural enthusiasm and motivation will lead you to develop ways to exploit that passion in a way that can generate income.

Let's say one of your absolutely favorite things in the whole world is gardening. You've always loved to garden, you have ever since you first got your own place and you do it every chance you get. Think about how you might translate that natural interest into a profitable business endeavor.

Here's just one suggestion how you can turn your green thumb to your financial advantage: start a gourmet herb business! You could indulge your passion for gardening by planting a herb garden in your backyard, drying and packaging the herbs you grow and marketing them to a niche market. Your niche may be the gourmet market, for example. You might decide to experiment with various combinations of herbs to come up with some exotic gourmet herb blends that are truly original.

You would need to invest in a small greenhouse perhaps and learn about how to dry herbs and all the other facets of a herb business. But once you've mastered that, and experimented with various blends to create a unique product, it's simply a matter of packaging them attractively for your market.

As far as marketing's concerned, this would take place both online and offline. You will, of course, have your own website from which you offer your exotic herb blends for sale. Your website would contain a profile of all the various herbs, what they are good for, recipes and other resources that your site visitors would be interested in. In time, you may even expand into producing herbs for the homeopathic market! You could supplement your website by publishing a weekly or monthly newsletter devoted to all things herbal, including hints and tips for your subscribers wanting to grow their own herbs or who are interested in the health benefits of herbs.

Offline, you could approach local businesses in your area to stock your products and attend weekend markets to build your profile. By placing advertisements in local newspapers and taking an active role in your local Chamber of Commerce you would make the contacts that you need to become known within your local community. Other ways to indulge your passion for gardening while at the same time operating a profitable business venture include: growing your own vegetables to produce gourmet pasta sauces; starting a packaged seeds business or a garden design consultancy service. It doesn't matter. Just make sure it has something to do with what you are truly passionate about.

Gardening is, of course, just one example. Perhaps your passion is sewing, needlecraft, woodworking, computers, sports, parenting, travel, automobiles, leadlighting or any one of a million other things. There is absolutely no reason in the world why you cannot take that passion and convert it into a money-making enterprise, particularly with the internet as a marketing medium.

So, for those of you looking for the right business opportunity "out there" somewhere ... STOP. Let go of the coat-tails, reach inside yourself and grab the one thing you are TRULY passionate about above all others. It is your ticket to a profitable, home business of your very own. And best of all, it's 100% all yours.




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What Is An Ebay Professional?

For many people, the first time they realized that there was such a thing as a person who will sell other people�s items on the Internet was while watching The 40-Year Old Virgin. In that movie, one of the main characters owned a store from which she took the unwanted items that other people had and sold them on the world� hottest auction block.

In fact, this is a service that has been around for quite a while, as enterprising individuals saw an opportunity to offer a service that would require an element of expertise and could appeal to people by taking some time off their hands.

These are both key concepts to remember when you consider selling any of your own materials on eBay. Professional sellers are just what they seem- people who make a living by selling items on eBay on commission, usually at a percentage of the selling cost of the items. Others may give people a flat fee for their product and then sell it on eBay, keeping any profit for him or herself.

Either way, an eBay professional may be the best way to go if you are new to the eBay system or simply do not have the time to figure it all out for yourself. EBay professionals are already very versed in the eBay system, a system which can sometimes leave newcomers feeling lost and befuddled about how to go about listing their items. As an Internet selling association, eBay sellers are also highly susceptible to customer suspicion, and many customers will look at feedback ratings before deciding to purchase an item. Rookie sellers will not have as much feedback, and are less likely to find buyers who will pay optimum prices because of that fact. EBay professionals have likely sold hundreds of items on the site, and therefore they should have solid and multiple feedbacks that will allow them to move the product with greater speed.

A professional eBay seller will also know what price a given object will be likely to sell at. You will most likely be able to gain a price that is more than what you could get on your own by enlisting the services of a professional who is familiar with the market. There are many eBay professionals who deal in specific areas, so if you are considering a certain item you may want to check around for professionals who specialize in that area.

There are many good reasons to consider hiring an eBay professional when you want to sell an item on the site. An eBay professional will cut down on the time you spend in shopping your product, will likely have the connections necessary to sell your product quickly, and it is also highly likely that the price you get for your item will be higher than if you tried to sell it yourself, which will more than compensate for the price of the service.

About the Author

Jeff Jackson maintains a website dedicated to helping people master buying and selling on eBay.

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What Products To Sell On eBay And Where To Find Them

There are more than one million people visit ebay every day. These people come to eBay not just visiting, they are looking for something and ready to buy when they found the items they are looking for. If you have something to sell online, eBay obviously is the best place for selling your stuff. You can sell almost anything you can imagine on eBay. Here are some tips and ideas that can help you start making money from eBay.

Sell High Demand Products
To find out what products hot in eBay, you can study eBay Hot Categories report at http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/hotitems.pdf which can help you decide what kinds of hot items you want to sell. After deciding what items to sell your next question is where to buy these items for reselling on eBay. You can buy your stocks from wholesalers, but you usually need to order in bulks. Thus it will cost you several hundreds to thousands dollar to buy the stocks at the beginning. One way to start your eBay business with minimum cost is deal with drop ship wholesalers. Drop ship wholesalers allow you to list their products for sale on eBay and other auction sites without paying upfront to stock products. You only pay to the drop ship wholesaler when an item is sold and the drop ship wholesaler will ship the item on your name to your customer. You don't store any inventory; package and ship merchandise.

Garage Sales and Flea Markets
You can find inexpensive items for reselling on eBay from garage sale and flea markets. Take some time to shop around for the items you wish to resell on eBay.

Sell Returned Items
Another way to get things to sell on eBay is buy returned items from stores and retailers. Usually the retailers will not resell returned items again so they have to do something with those returned goods. You can try to approach store managers and ask them whether they can sell the items to you at below cost.

Trade Shows
Trade shows are another way to find products for reselling on ebay. Lots of merchants gather in one place to look for resellers. You can find trade shows in a particular industry by contacting trade associations and industry publications.

About the Author

Alan Liew is the webmaster of online4income.com which provides information, tips and ideas of how to make money online.

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Buying Tips For Maximum Profits On Ebay

Buying on eBay can be lots of fun and profiting. If you love bargains, and am yet to see anyone who doesn't, i stand corrected, if there is anyone one out there who doesn't, then eBay is the right place for you. 24 hours a day and the whole year through in the comfort of your own home, you can find and profit from lots of bargains.

From eBay antiques to eBay motors, real estate to sought after event tickets, consumer electronics to collectibles, there is something for everyone on eBay. And these are just a few of the categories i have mentioned. At any one time, eBay has hundreds of thousands of items for sale on its network of sites.

Items are organised into categories on eBay, and these are listed down on the left hand side of the screen. It's amazing what's on sale on eBay. Rather than moving through all this categories, it's a better idea to use eBay�s search facility.

Because eBay has such a massive number of items for sale, its very likely you will be presented with hundreds if not thousands of items when you search for items to buy on eBay. The first thing to have in mind, when you need to buy on eBay will of course be the price.

EBay is supposed to be the bargain warehouse, but over the years, there have been so many items that have exchanged hands for way above their retail value because of the bidding frenzy that comes with certain items offered for sale on the auction site.

It's always a good practice to compare bids if you are involved in an auction, and if this has already exceeded the pre - determined amount you are willing to pay, don't be tempted into a bidding war, just move on and find similar items with a different seller, you are always bound to find these because remember there are thousands of items available for sale on eBay.

Items you buy on eBay will be mailed to you unless stated otherwise, so be very wary of postage and delivery costs when determining the amount you are willing to pay for an item. When you have decided on these, also consider the condition of the item. EBay is an auction site, and as is the case with all auctions, there are always old and new items for sale. So be very careful, usually the seller�s description of the item should give you an idea about its condition.

When in doubt you can always email the seller through eBay's mail system. All good sellers will answer questions regarding their items.

Some auctions come with a "Buy It Now" icon, you can end the auction immediately by paying for the advertised price using the "Buy It Now" icon. I suggest you should only do this if the "Buy It Now" price is within the pre - determined amount you are willing to pay.

Copyright � David Nettey

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David Nettey is the webmaster of http://www.sourceneeds.com and http://www.cbmallincome.net, websites dedicated to starting an Internet Home Business and How To Create Wealth Online.

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The Sure Fast Way To Make Money On eBay

If you are looking to make some extra money from home, or even looking to start your own business, you will want to look into eBay. There are thousands of people who are making a good living off of selling items on eBay.

But before you get started you will want to do some research on the subject. EBay may sound easy enough, but it can be slightly complicated for a beginner. The first thing you may want to do is buy a book on how to make money selling on eBay. These books offer eBay selling tips from people who have been successful in the industry. If you do not want to purchase a book, there are also hundreds of articles online on how to make money selling on eBay. These articles are a great source of information for anybody who is getting started, and needs help getting their business off the ground.

Opening an eBay shop is also something that a lot of people take advantage of. Again, you will want to do some research on this aspect of the business before starting. The basic gist of opening an eBay shop is that you will have your own store on the eBay site that outlines all of your products, etc. This will allow interested parties to visit your shop, and see exactly what you are all about and what you have for sale at that particular time. If you decide to go this route, you will then want to put a plan into effect that will drive traffic to your eBay shop. There are many tools available on eBay that will help you market your shop to potential customers.

When you are looking for information on how to make money selling on eBay you will need to also consider what product(s) you want to sell. Many people prefer to turn their hobby into their business. But there have also been many successful people have been able to start up an eBay business that fills an open niche in the market.

When you are finally up and running, you will want to continue with your research and try to find some eBay selling tips. There are many people who make a lot of money in this industry, and most of them are willing to share their tips with you. The eBay community is very friendly, so finding eBay selling tips should not be too big of an issue.

Overall, learning how to make money selling on eBay can take a little bit of time. But over the long haul you will begin to become comfortable with the system and it will become second nature to you. And after a while you will be the one giving out the eBay selling tips!

Copyright � David Nettey

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David Nettey is the webmaster of http://www.Profits-Web.com For a FREE Internet Home Business Ebook that trains you and Top tips to drive traffic to your Internet Home Business Website, visit his website, How To Drive Endless Traffic To Your Website

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How to Start Making Money Online 101

How to Start Making Money Online 101

How can I make money online? That's the question I wanted to answer before I took the plunge into the online business world.

It didn't take long before I found the answer. It was really quite simple.

In every case of failure I studied, people started off with the wrong strategy. And… as they say in the venture capital business, "If you start with the wrong strategy, no amount of effort will succeed, short of changing the strategy."

Strategy - the steps you take and the order in which you take them… to accomplish a given goal or objective.

Someone… like you, with little or no capital, can now start a business that will make as much, or more, than companies that were started with millions of venture capital dollars and teams of talented people. This is truly a revolutionary time in business history.

Here are some options for online wealth:

Create an Online Store – There is no need for a physical retail store with an online e-commerce store. There is no need to pay rent or employees or even to buy product. The automated software is thirty times CHEAPER and works 24 hours a day and takes no vacations. Now that's smart – doing more work with less effort! All you need to do is make a deal with a company for a particular product and have them drop ship the product directly to your customers. You simply pass the order details to that product distributor and you make a commission on the sale of that particular product.

You will have the ability to build a website that operates twenty-four hours a day, displaying an online product catalog that automatically takes orders over the Internet, collects the money online from credit cards, and forwards the orders to the product distributor for mailing to the customers. But best off all, instead of having a potential market of people who live within 25 miles of your physical store, your potential market has expanded to the hundreds of millions of people on the Net, from all around the world.


Create Your Own Products - People like you can create new businesses, selling information products aka e-books to customers around the world, with little or no capital. If you have knowledge about a particular topic you can write a book about it or hire someone from sites like www.Elance.com or www.Guru.com. There are thousands of writers willing to do the grunt work for you. You simply pay them a couple hundred dollars. Then once the book is completed set up a link checkout system with sites like www.ClickBank.com. Once people looking for the information you have written about land on your site or someone else's site that is selling your product and then purchases your product, you get paid! Think about it, this is an automated process. Once you set up everything once, you never have to do it again. All you have to do is get the traffic and sales then sit back and collect your checks! And best of all, you can make as much money, and in most cases a lot more, than the same 'offline' bookstore business that requires 75-to-90 percent more capital to start. This has never been possible before.

Join an Affiliate Program - An affiliate program allows you to earn a commission from a sale of other people's products simply by placing an affiliate link on your website. If a visitor clicks on that link and makes a purchase, than the affiliate makes a sale but also the person promoting that affiliates product will make a commission from that sale simply by refering that visitor to that particular link.

Starting to make money online is attainable if you have determination, persistence and faith. Are you beginning to see why online information businesses are your best prospect for making some serious money to transform your financial outlook? Now you're beginning to understand the power of the Internet and why so many people are going online to seek their fortunes.

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Wayne Van Dyck is a former venture capitalist and builder of offline technology companies. He is the founder and developer of Simple Money Machines. Simple Money Machines is all the money making technologies in one, easy-to-use, hosted application… enabling non-technical people to set up online businesses in less than 30 minutes. It's made for people with 9-5 jobs, retired folks, stay-at-home moms and college students. To get a FREE copy of "STARTING A HOME BUSINESS MADE SIMPLE", go to: http://tinyurl.com/ykyoqx.

Day Job Killer Is Finally Here

Well the long awaited sequel to the incredibly successful affiliate project x is finally here.It is called day job killer and is released on February 6th. The author Chris also released another hugely successful product called adwords miracle. You will understand my anticipation when I tell you that the previous two products increased my online and affiliate profits no end and this came at a time when I was getting very frustrated and considering giving it up and sticking the more reliable but less lucrative adsense.

So what exactly is day job killer? The product is aimed at the problems affiliates have in 2007, not being able to make money online, wasting money on Adwords, not finding good affiliate programs, wanting new advantages over the market. The author has found the solution to these problems, re defined them with cool names and put them into an e-book you can download,read and take action with in one evening. He even successfully tested it on some guinea pig newbies. He claims to have stolen most of the ideas from the super affiliates but I think maybe he should give himself more credit.

I actually sent him an email asking Why he called it day job killer his reply was that it was the most appropriate name he could think of. He did not want to go for billion dollar minute or something similar because it is not about that. It is aimed at the grass roots type who want to make their first $1,000 online. The cannot succeed but will not stop newbie who would die to make $1,000 a week. It is about day job income and the freedom to do what you want with your life by being your own boss. And as for the killer please you know it is going to be brutal, ok so maybe he is not so modest!

Day job killer is effectively a collection of techniques that he took from underground affiliates, six figure renegades and cash rich outcasts. It is a collection of advanced power play techniques that he has focused, repackaged and improved upon. All serve to get you out of your day job, by showing you what the affiliates who are making money are doing. And not an ounce of fluff in the 24,564 words sitting on my desktop.This is definitely the case as with his other products Chris definitely does not go for fluff!

So does this replace affiliate project X and adwords miracle or does it stand on it's own? Chris claims nothing will replace either of his other two guides. I have to agree in my opinion Adwords Miracle is still the number one Adwords package, and Project X was a perfect compliment to it. Day job killer is definitely a one of a kind product in my opinion is not a replacement for either of these packages. Some other marketers out there are calling it affiliate project x 2 but I do not agree. While it does use and elaborate on a couple of concepts from the others you do not need the others to benefit, although I would recommend them.

As a prequel to the launch Chris actually released a free video which showed how he used a specific niche and took it from zero to hero using day job killer. I am not going to give you the exact figures but it was huge. The incredible thing is that he showed you everything and actually said go out and copy it word for word if you want, I did and it is already bringing in hundreds of dollars. What other so called guru would actually do that! Like his products Chris is pretty unique and perhaps a little bit crazy!

About the Author

Richard Henderson runs his own internet marketing business from home and enjoys publishing articles and reviews for websites as well as his own customers. You can visit his website which is about the newly released blockbuster Day Job Killer from the author of adwords miracle. http://www.dayjobkillerreviewed.com/

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Social Bookmarking and the Online Home Based Business Opportunity

Those of us who have been in Internet Marketing for awhile know the value of link popularity for an online home based business opportunity webpage. It is the webpage with he most relevant links that usually does the best and gets the coveted #1 spot in the search engines. There are many ways to develop the number of links necessary to beat your competition. Many of these are yet to be discovered. There is one very powerful idea that has come to the forefront that may be just as important as the stalwart blog and ping. It is called Social Bookmarking.

The mechanism of social bookmarking for any online home based business opportunity is a simple one. It involves submission of multiple blog posts, articles, webpages, and even links to forum posts if that is what is desired. It is much like submitting an artile to an article directory. It is much, much simpler. The accumulation of outgoing links from a Social Bookmark account profile is where the PR (Priority Ranking) is developed over time. Of course the posts are relevant to the web pages they point to. They act just like a link page, accept you never have to go out and look for the link partners, and you do not need to reciprocate. They are just like articles, one way links.

Popular Social Bookmarking Sites include:

30daytags
BlinkBits
BlogHop
BlogLot
BlogMarks
BlogMemes
BlogPulse
BmAccess
browsr
Fark
CiteULike
clipclip
clipmarks
Complore
Connectedy
Connotea
de.lirio.us
del.icio.us
digg
diigo
fantacular
Feedmarker
Feed Me Links
Furl
Gibeo
GoKoDo
Google Notebook
IceRocket
Kaboodle
linkaGoGo
linkfilter.net
linkroll
Listible
Lookmarks
ma.gnolia
Netvouz
Newsvine
openBM
RawSugar
reddit
Rojo
Rollyo
Scuttle
Shadows
Simpy
Sitetagger
Smarking
Spurl
StumbleUpon
taghop
TailRank
Ticklr
unalog
Yahoo My Web 2.0
yoonoo

As multiple groups of pages accumulate for your account as a result of your consistant contributions, more of these accumulated pages are created that link directly to your web pages.

Then they get discovered by others. This is the social aspect of Social Bookmarking. Take digg.com for example. You perform the initial post, put in some comments, and, not in the case of Digg but in the case of other sites, put in some keyword tags. What you have is a very large collection of news items and articles all rolled into one large site. It is kind of like having a thousand or more article directories in one.

In comes the surfer, like me, looking for content, and he/she finds it. He/She wants to include it in there own personal collection because of relevance, and add it to their bookmark collection. It does not take PR away from your webpages, it feeds PR to your webpages, and lots of it.

So now, not only do I have the post in my own profile page, it now occurs in someone elses, and it points from their profile list of social bookmark posts directly to my webpage. This can occur thousands of times in a Social Bookmarking Site. When it does, there is a great deal of power generated back to your webpages. The number of links increase as a result of the effort of others, PR increases, and so does SE placement. Can it get any simpler to promote any online home based business opportunity?

About the Author

Leonard Bartholomew, B.S. Computer Science. Find all of the elements of the best home based business on the internet.

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Adsense Decoded Review

Adsense Decoded is the latest adsense guide to hit the somewhat overflowing adsense market. Adsense Decoded claims to cover all the steps you need to take in order to make your adsense campaign successful. It consists of a series of videos hosted on the main website which you access with a user name and password. However you can download the videos to your hard drive and watch them at your leisure. For those of you who have been around the internet marketing scene for a while this may sound familiar, it should because the format is remarkably similar to Michael Cheneys Adsense Videos product which was released last year with a recent update.

Adsense decode comes with 10 videos the majority of which are at least 15 mins in length so there is certainly plenty of content. Video 1 shows you how Patrick's (the author) traffic and revenue increased by 100's of percent in just a couple of days.
It also introduces the 3 main concepts you must improve to achieve success.

Video 2 discusses adsense ad formats, what they are and which are the most profitable
formats colors etc. It also covers the rest of your account settings which is very useful.
Video 3 explains the huge importance of adsense tracking, how to do it and how to use the results to improve your stats. Video 4 I found very interesting as it shows you how the best results are obtained from placing your adsense in the best positions (some of these I had never seen before) and then rather cheekily suggest that you might not want to use these as they are too successful at taking people away from your site! I guess what he means is use these on adsense only sites.

Video 5 shows one of Patrick's adsense sites and takes you on an in depth tour of what makes it so successful. He then goes on to summarize the 20 best practices tips he has showed you so far. Video 6 goes into great detail about adsense's Smart Pricing concept. Obviously this is his opinion as Google do not release details about this but his ideas make more sense than many I've seen before. Video 7 discusses creating or obtaining content and ad targeting. For me this is one of the most important concepts in adsense revenue and he does an excellent job highlighting how to do this correctly, a very novel and refreshing approach.

Video 8 is all about pay per click traffic and shows you 7 different programs which he uses to increase his profits. This was another good video as so many of the gurus just talk about adwords which I actually find very unreliable for adsense and having actually run test on some of the sites he suggests I can verify that they do work and much more successfully than adwords. Video 9 covers additional revenues you can get from your adsense pages, which are and which are not allowed by googles adsense tos.

Video 10 covers traffic generating methods, opt in mailing lists and other miscellaneous information. So what is my overall verdict and how does adsense decoded compare to Michael Cheney's adsense videos? Well I don't think I can compare the two as although they are very similar they do both contain different techniques which do actually work according to my tests. I think if you are looking to learn how to either start your adsense campaign or improve one that is not making you as much as you want then either of these products will work for you. They have both worked for me that is for sure so the decision on which one to buy is up to you.

About the Author

Richard Henderson runs his own internet marketing business from home and enjoys publishing articles and ebooks for websites as well as his own customers. You can visit his latest website which reviews the best Adsense Guides or visit the two products in this review Michael Cheney's Adsense Videos and Adsense Decoded.

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What's the Best Home Based Business for You?

Have you ever wanted to start a homebased business, and need to decide what's the best home based business for you?

You're not alone!

Many, many people have wished for their own work at home business. But of course the "dreaming" is easy. Choosing exactly which and what kind of business to start is quite different.

But it's not really that hard. It's much easier when you can examine the many choices by examining the advantages and disadvantages of each.

If you haven't decided yet here are a few factors to consider that might make your task a little easier.


1. Startup Costs

One of the disadvantages of many home based business opportunities is the initial expense.

No doubt you've seen lots of "business opportunities" that claim to get you started for "free."

Don't believe it for a minute! There are always costs involved.

Look for a possible home business with low initial expenses. But veer away from those opportunities where initial costs seem unrealistic.

Examine these offers carefully.

2. Time to Become Profitable

A new home business isn't like to be profitable immediately. In fact just recovering your initial investment can sometimes take months.

Of course the time needed to recoup your investment will also depend on just how great that initial investment was.

But in any event you'll usually do better to choose a business that will begin turning a profit sooner rather than later.

3. Ability to Start While Maintaining Your Current Job

The problem with a lot of business start-ups is they put you in an untenable situation money wise.

No matter how quickly a new business becomes profitable, there's still a period of time when there'll be no profits coming in.

If you're depending on your job to pay the bills, you can't quit your job until your business lets you earn enough money to pay your living expenses. But at the same time your job doesn't allow you the free time necessary to start your business!

The best home based business option then is to find a business you can start and operate part time while continuing your job, until your business becomes successful enough to quit and devote full time to your business.

4. Operating Costs and Profit Margins

Not only will you need startup capital, you'll also need money to operate the business.

Do a careful analysis of what it will cost you to operate the business of your choice. Choose one that will allow you a comfortable profit margin AFTER operating expenses.

5. Demand for the Product or Service

Regardless of any other advantages a business may offer, you'll never enjoy success if there's little or no demand for the product or service you're selling.

Make sure there's a sizable market for your product or service.

6. Continuing Demand and Economic Conditions

Our economy is always changing. Businesses sometimes fail because of changes in the economic "climate."

You could be making good profits one day, and the next day be watching demand for your product "dry up."

It's best to select a business that's not prone to fluctuations in the economy.

7. Learning Curve

Depending on your choice, it could take a long time to acquire the knowledge needed to conduct your business.

Look for a business with a short "learning curve" or for one that you already know something about.

8. Income Potential

Every business "opportunity" promises you high earnings potential. But sometimes those promises just aren't realistic.

Always remember the old adage "If it sounds too good to be true ... it probably is!"

Try to evaluate every opportunity dispassionately and choose a business that offers high but REALISTIC earnings potential.


9. Time Freedom

Starting new home business can place a great deal of demands on your time. Lots of entrepreneurs work 10 - 12 hours a day at least, as well as weekends and holidays, getting their business up and running.

Realistically assess the time demands whatever business you choose, and make certain you'll have enough time to devote to running it.

10. Satisfaction

"Satisfaction" is a personal matter, and one you should carefully consider.

Whatever business you pick, you're more likely to be successful if you take personal satisfaction in what you're doing, to feel that what you're doing is worthwhile, something you can feel good about and be proud of.

In conclusion, you should start your search by listing of all the potential choices that appeal to you.

Then look at each one subjectively based on the factors mentioned above. The best home based business for you is already out there ... you just have to find it!

Good luck in your search!

About the Author

Jim Eastman is support contact for www.Best-HomeBased-Business.net. For information on an extraordinary work from home business opportunity visit http://www.best-homebased-business.net for a free eBook and email course.

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How To Make Money

Something that is never taught in all our years of education is how to make money. Yet this is a complex subject. Your life and well being depend on it.

The more you study of it, the more you will have of it. While it is not possible to talk in detail here about how to study money or the many ways that one can make money, it is possible to grasp the direction you need to take.

The starting point is to make a study of it. Then you have to practice what you have studied. It doesn�t matter where you begin your study�whether it is learning how to manage your money, or how to invest it, or how to create an enterprise that will begin to attract more money into your life.

Then you have to get rid of any money issues that you have�any subconscious blocks about it. If you don�t have enough money, there is some way that you are resisting having more and even repelling it. Since money is such an emotionally-charged subject, most people have huge resistance to getting more. While they claim to want it, they also hold contradictory and conflicting beliefs about money. You have to get clear that you want more money.

As in most things in life, you can�t get anywhere unless you take a position. You have to take a position in relationship to money. If you are trading stocks, you have to take a position�do you want to go long or short in a given market? If you hold a job, you have to take a position on it�do you want to rise in your company or look for another opportunity? If you are an entrepreneur, you have to take a position�what do I want to sell, to whom, and for how much?

The position is a point in space and time. The ideal space is here. The ideal time is now. In other words, you have to be fully present to your opportunity here and now. When you think of the past, you have to relate the events then to where you are now. When you think of the future, you have to relate the imagined events to where you are now. Here and now, then, is your only point of power.

How do you get what you want? You have to do something. And in order to do something, you have to be something. This, then, creates what you have. If you do like a professional marketer, for example, then you will have the rewards of that profession. Similarly, if you do little or nothing, then you will have little or nothing. Your action determines your results. And your actions spring from who you are as a person. You have what your actions bring you.

Who you are is actually a highly-intelligent and capable being, and if you come from that position of personal self-acceptance, then you will learn what to do, begin doing it, and start having more of what you want. When you set your intention, you will perceive your vision in three-dimensions, and you will begin to act in ways that bring you more of what you want.

Do you see how simple it all is? Why then do people struggle with money? It is because they do not study and practice it; they do not have enough emotional clarity about money; they do not take a position in relationship to the marketplace; and, they do not believe that they are worthy, do not act, and, consequently, do not get what they want.

About the Author

Saleem Rana is a psychotherapist in Denver, Colorado.
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Is Your Home-Base Biz Affiliate Friendly?

By Eddie Watkins



What do I mean when I ask is your Home-base Biz affiliate friendly? We all know that in order to have a successful on line biz, you must have a downline. You need to have employees, or in other words affiliates. You need to have affiliates dedicated to helping themselves, all the while they are helping you.

You have probably joined programs, as I have, that promised great things. Programs that promise Financial Freedom. Work at home in your pajamas. Make enough Money in 3 days, to fly around the world forever. Such programs may have great products with a great sales page, with some great benefits. But they don't provide you with any training.

After you purchase the package, that's where the promises and the program ends.

For your home-base biz to succeed, your affiliates need to be trained in all aspects of the business opportunity they are promoting. They need to know what the benefits are, for the person who purchases their products. Affiliates need to know, and feel that their products are superior to the next guys products. And most of all, your affiliates must know how to market their product. To me, knowing how to market your product, is the most important thing of all.

You can have a hundred million affiliates, but if they don't have the training necessary to succeed. They are completely useless to you or your home-base business.

It is your job (The Sponsor) to make sure that your affiliates are provided with all the tools and training, that's necessary for them to become successful. Their success means your success. This means we all need to help one another.

Here is a little (tip) that has been tested by me over and over again, and it has always worked in my life.

Have you ever had a difficulty or problem going on in your life, that's really been a thorn in your side. It's been messing up your head for a couple of days , and you just can't come up with a real solution. (Try This)

Forget about your situation or problem, and go help someone else. Your help may come in the manner of just listening to another person's problems. Or it may consist of helping your neighbor with his yard work. It doesn't matter what it is, just help someone else.

What I have found, when I help someone else. Is the solutions to my problems, will
mysteriously appear. And in most cases, the problem disappears all together. There is great power in getting off of my little pity potty and helping another person.

In my opinion (and it's greatly debatable) one of the main reasons we were put on earth was to help one another.

Here is great secrets that was revealed to me. If you want your luck to change. Do a good deed for someone else. You must not let that person, or anyone else know about your good deed. When the deed is done, sit back and watch the great rewards that you will reap. What happens is amazing.

The bottom line is that if you have a home-base biz. You need to train your affiliates. You need to build relationships these individuals. They need to be able to contact you via email or telephone. You need to take them by the hand and walk with them, until they can walk on their own.

And always remember. Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.


For any business to be successful.
It must provide all the tools and
training, for it's affiliates
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How Blogs Can Help You With Your Online Business

1. With a blog, you can easily brand yourself as an expert in your subject area and promote yourself all over the net. Blogs have taken a life of its own, and there are many blog directories springing to life.

Each blog directory is classified according to various topics of interest, and you can submit your blog to the major blog directories.

You can then easily attract readers to your area of specialisation, and slowly brand yourself
as the expert from the many readers who visit these blog directories each day.

2. Search engine will rank your web site higher if you have a blog on your site. This is because search engine "spider bots" like fresh content, and with a blog, you can just spend 5 - 10 mins per day posting what you want to share for that day and that's it.

Do that on a consistent basis, and the search engine spider bots will come back to your site more
often. Having a blog on your own site is so simple my 9 year old cousin can do it, and you will
learn how in my multimedia course.

3. Blogs allow you to build and foster a closer relationship with your visitors and readers,
building trust and rapport. Blogs allow readers to post comments, and it promotes interaction.

With good relationship with your readers it will be easier for you when it comes to recommending
products and services because they trust you.

4.Blogs are a one stop push button publishing system.
You can easily set up a blog with Google's Blogger in three easy steps. Likewise, now that Wordpress has offered free Wordpress blog accounts, you can again easily set up your free Wordpress account.

With a blogging account, you can easily publish anything online, unlike the usual way of publishing where you have to create and edit the page using some web site editing software and uploading it to your hosting account.

And with Wordpress, you can instantly link all your posts and pages together, unlike your standard web site where you have to link web pages manually.

Blog saves time and is a quick and easy way to build an online presence.

5. Incoming Links
Blogs, especially Wordpress blogs has a feature called trackback. Trackback basically allows someone to post a comment on another person's blog with a link
pointing back to your own blog.

This is one way to get incoming links to your site. And we know that the more incoming links you have to your site, the higher your site will rank for certain keywords.

These are just some of the powerful ways Blogs can help with your online business.

These are just some reasons how blogs can help you in your online business.

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Brandon is blogs & rss author. He'll show you business strategies to get more responsive visitors, more sales, plus obtaining quick listings in Google, MSN, etc with Blogs and RSS.
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Six Linkbaiting Ideas To Get More Traffic To Your Site

There�s been a lot of talk about LinkBaiting in the blogosphere, and I�d like to weigh in.

First a little background: Google gives more ranking weight to what they call authoritative sites and pages. It defines those sites as having many outbound and inbound links. So now having links to your site is important to your success online. More simply, inbound links also drive traffic to your site.

So now we have link exchanges and link sales and link finding software. We have free articles on anything you could possibly think of that all contain links back to the author�s site. There are 437 free articles in my Inbox right now, including Rubber Floor Mats or Carpet Floor Mats and The Lowdown on Laminating Film.

LinkBaiting is viral marketing for links, and we love viral marketing. Like all viral marketing, the goal is to get people to write about and pass around your link so that you get free exposure and traffic. You need to give people a reason to mention you in their blog or on their website, and you need something newsworthy or at least write-worthy to get a news source to mention you.

The best treatise on LinkBaiting comes from Nick Wilson on Performancing.com. Nick says that all good LinkBaiting relies on a hook, and he�s come up with different hook categories:

News hook
Contrary Hook
Attack Hook
Resource Hook
Humour Hook

The goal is to offer something so unique and mentionable that other sites will link to your site for free. Other sites will see that mention and add their own in true Viral Marketing fashion. Making you think? Me too.

Here are six LinkBaiting ideas:

1. Come up with a simple free tool for people in your subject area to use, and spread it around.
2. Watch the RSS feeds like a hawk. Jump on and cover a good news story. Comment on a blog or two to get things rolling. This has worked for me.
3. Write a funny list or post in your subject area.
4. Find some funny pics related to your subject area.
5. Come up with some original research (the 10 Most Profitable Programs on Commission Junction This Week was the most popular post on my blog).
6. Give away a free web template, WordPress plugin or graphics file.

Whatever you choose to do, remember that Viral Marketing needs an index case. So go plant the virus somewhere, like at a prominent blog site or two in your niche, or at a forum site, or both.

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Matt DeAngelis runs Affiliate Blog. Matt is the former CTO of Modem Media, a pioneer in the Internet ad space. As a foot soldier in the Internet revolution, Matt devised the technology behind many of the most successful ad campaigns of the time.

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Traffic Generation Secrets Through Tagging

Traffic Generation Secrets Through Tagging

Have you picked up all the buzz about Tag and Ping? Tag And Ping is the most recent craze hitting the internet - bringing instant exposure and back back links to sites. A whole new system of getting information, and a whole new ballgame for webmasters to play!
Tagging is a new system to mark things on the internet. In the ancient days search engines would spider a web-site and determine what it was about; with tagging, people determine what the content is about and "tag it". This tag then serves the purpose as a short description of a webpage, or the category it fits in.

This brings about a whole new way for web page owners to find out what people are searching for, and then creating pages that are deserving of attention, and easy to find. Bookmarking pages are a great method for web page owners to do research. Just take a look at popular tags and then look at what pages are being bookmarked the most. Pay attention to those pages to get an idea of what you should be writing about. Put a new twist on it and you will find that your web page will gain in popularity as well. Bookmark pages are also great for figuring out new subjects to write your own information products about. They are also good for figuring out new niches to jump into.

After you have tagged info you ping the tag-search-engines and they rapidly come and index your pages according to the tags. You then appear at the top of the listing until somebody else creates other pages for that tag.

No more relying on old obsolete search engine algorithms. Real individuals tagging real sites bringing real targeted traffic. No more squandering time looking through search engines for relevant information. Just enter your key phrases and see what other individuals have found interesting!

The growth of tagging has brought about the term "Social Book-Marking". individuals are now starting to create bookmarks on central websites, instead of on their private computers. individuals surfing the web "tag" the sites they find newsworthy and they then appear on bookmark search engines. Other individuals interested in the same subjects can then come and find real pages, voted for by real humans.

If you are creating a web-page for a "hot" tag that everybody is searching for, you'll get instant highly targeted traffic! Not only this, but the main search engines pick up on the tags and you will get back back-links from the engines with the tag listings!

If you missed out on the "blog and ping" wave you will want to get in ahead of time. Tag and ping is going to be a massive trend and is shifting the face of the web forever. Find out more about the technique that has all the underground experts in a dizzy tizz: Tag And Ping Site

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JDE Enterprises is a leading web development & training company.

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