Friday, July 27, 2007

How To Be Your Own Boss In A Home Based Business

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Does the idea of being your own boss, making your own hours and your own business decisions sound incredibly attractive to you? But does it seem like a pie-in-the-sky dream? It doesn’t have to be. There are lots of ways to be your own boss and make a respectable living with a home-based business. One of these ways is to get involved with mlm opportunity work.

What is mlm? It’s multi-level marketing. Don’t worry; though they have similarities, mlm opportunity work is not the same as pyramid schemes. No one is being defrauded. You become an independent consultant or distributor for a product, one that has true value for the purchaser. These products can range from cosmetics to herbal supplements to distinctive cookware and gadgetry for the kitchen.

One of the benefits of mlm work, other than the whole being your own boss angle, is a low start-up cost. This type of home business can be started for as little as a few hundred dollars used to purchase a sample kit of the products you’ll be selling. Using these samples, you start developing contacts and taking your new home business on the road. Talk about your mlm opportunity with both potential customers and others who might like to get into the business on their own. If you sign them up, you earn part of the commissions on their sales. They’re making money. You’re making money. Everyone’s happy in their home-based mlm business world.

What are some of the companies that provide home business mlm opportunity work? Familiar names like Arbonne, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Pampered Chef, Herbalife and Longaberger come to mind. These companies have been around long enough and have good enough reputations that you don’t have to deal with the ugly reputations attached to some companies. Thousands of women use Mary Kay cosmetics every day. And Longaberger baskets are holding fruit and magazines in homes around the world. The products are high quality, which helps your home business thrive because people want quality products for their hard-earned money.

Once you’ve decided which company looks most attractive to you, learn all you can about that company so that you feel comfortable in your new home-based business endeavor. You’ll also be able to answer any questions that come from potential customers. You don’t want to be faced with a question you can’t answer. This doesn’t reflect well on you as an independent product distributor or the company whose products you are selling. After you’ve made the decision, done your homework and actually made the capital outlay for a sample kit, it’s time to hit the road to showcase the product and generate the first sales in your new home-based mlm business.





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Monday, July 23, 2007

3 Steps To Understanding Your Home Based Affiliate Business Opportunity

Copyright © Michael Laleye
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If you've recently joined a home based affiliate business opportunity on the internet, then the chances are that you have alot of new information about the company that you should read over and learn if you want to be successful. While you might not be able to grasp all of the features of your new business venture overnight(let alone make tons of cash), you can start the foundation of long term success. Here are 3 steps to help you get started.

Step 1:
The first thing you should understand about making money online is that it's never going to make you rich overnight. It can make you rich, and you can make money overnight, but the odds of you getting rich overnight are about equal to you getting sent to prison for fraud, embezzlement or the like. Knowing this right off the bat is going to put you in a better mind set than most people who try to start a business online.While you may be desperate for cash, desperation is not going to change these facts. If you need a large amount of cash overnight, look somewhere else. But you can start earning income quickly with affiliate programs.

Step 2:
After you've joined an affiliate business program you will be given a user name and a password so that you can login to your member's area where all of the important information about the company is stored. Information such as your sales totals, how much money you've earned, the company's compensation plan, frequently asked questions, and marketing aids to help you advertise can be found here. Take your time and read over everything your affiliate company makes available to you. Don't only skim through it once, but read it in detail often or until you feel comfortable that you understand what your responsibilities are when it comes to making your business profitable for yourself, so that you know where your payments go, and so you know how the compensation plan works.

Step 3:
Do independant research on how to promote your affiliate business on the internet(start with google). Most affiliate companies that you join will have alot of ready made marketing and advertising tools ready for you to use in your online promotions. Don't just stop there though, take the time to research the basics of affiliate website marketing and even go as far as creating a file for all of your new discoveries so that you can start to put together ideas. There are many free resources and step-by-step guides that practically teach you how to succeed if you only practice the teachings on a consistent basis.

At the end of the day, the proper use of time and a long term mind set are the keys to success when you are just starting with an affiliate business opportunity. The best ways to make money with affiliate programs are not at all hidden, it's only that some people don't take the time to fully commit to the process of learning how to make money with them, even if it's only on a part time basis. Using the tips and tools provided by your affiliate company is enough to realize your goals in this business. As a beginner relying heavily on them is a great way to start. Over time you will realize that you are in the middle of growing a very lucrative internet business of your own.



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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Posting To Chat Forums Can Bring In Business…Here’s How!

Copyright © Michael Laleye
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If you're a frequent visitor to chat forums, you can use them to your advantage without worry about spamming anyone. That doesn't mean that you have to go in there with the sole intention of promoting your business, but there are a few things that you can do in a subtle way that can possibly land you some new customers. It can be one of the easiest ways in the world to draw business to your website, and you don't even have to do any work to accomplish it.

Most chat forums allow registered users to add a signature line underneath their name. This information shows up each time you post a message to the forum, and can be advantageous to someone who is looking for any of your products and services. Some forum posters don't bother looking at the websites of users unless they are regular users of the forum, and then they might get curious. Another thing is if there was a discussion and you just happened to mention that you have a website, and some people may decide to check it out just out of curiosity. It doesn't matter why they chose to do it, the important thing is that you provided enough interest to make someone want to check your website in order to obtain more information.

Another way a chat forum may help you draw traffic to your website is to casually weave your business into conversations as appropriate. For example, if you distribute parts for race cars, and someone is discussing where to find a particular part, and you know that you can get it for the poster at a better price than he has been quoted, you can casually mention that your company has that part at a lower price and let the poster make the decision to go to your website or to ask you’re the question specifically. You don't want to make yourself a nuisance, or you will find that the forum owner or moderator will remove you from the forum. Some don't care but others are very choosy about the subjects that are discussed in the forum, especially if it's a specialized subject forum.

A third way to bring in business using a chat forum is to search for one that is specific to the type of products or services you provide. Although this may not always be possible, it's an avenue worth researching. It will definitely allow you more freedom in saying things that will draw attention to your website than a generalized forum. The key is to get the word out that you have a business and what it involves so that you generate enough interest for posters in the forum to want to visit. You don't want to blatantly advertise unless the forum was created for that purpose. You just want to drop subtle hints and undetectable invitations to visit your website.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Pay Per Click vs. Traditional Advertising Online

Copyright © Michael Laleye
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Pay per click advertising has been slowly gaining speed as the way to go in online advertising since its start in 2002. The minimum cost to set up an account has really come down which some believe makes pay per click advertising one of the most cost-effective ways to advertise online. Other forms of advertising online, including regular search engine inclusion, banner ads, cross-linking and listing with directories, can have decent result but few are as effective and affordable as pay per click. This doesn't mean you should choose pay per click and avoid other forms of advertising, a good combination is always the best decision for any business, whether on the net or in the real world marketplace.

Minimum deposits on pay per click account vary greatly but are usually between 5 and 25 dollars with a $50 minimum in order to keep the account open. The way PPC usually works is that you will link a credit card or bank account to the pay per click account and when your balance hits a certain amount the money is withdrawn automatically from your payment source. Other traditional forms of online advertising generally expect full payment up front for a certain amount of time. This can be a little daunting when trying an advertising method for the first time and you're not sure what kind of results you're going to get for your money. Unfortunately, advertising is often a trial and error system.

The major benefit of pay per click advertising is that you don't pay unless a visitor clicks your advertising link. This usually means a higher percentage of your advertising budget actually leads to customers. Read the terms of any pay per click site that you're considering since some guarantee clicks as an incentive. People who are getting paid or getting advertising from the company usually produce these clicks. These are not beneficial to your business and should be avoided. Other forms of advertisings may not take as much time to perfect as pay per click advertising. With PPC you can expect to spend an amount of time every week reviewing your keywords and revising your ads and the keyword they are linked to.

Both pay per click and traditional online advertising have their strengths and their weaknesses. Pay per click advertising may cost less but it also takes up more valuable time. The results are targeted to an extent but may not necessarily lead to interesting customers so weekly revising is needed for each keyword account. Traditional advertising may cost more but are usually intended for superior targeting of customers. The traditional forms of advertising online don't call for quite as much upkeep as PPC advertising requires.

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Thursday, July 12, 2007

Internet Home Business Basics: Search Engine Optimization for Newbies

Copyright © Michael Laleye
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So you’re searching the web for something that you need information on, something that you want to buy or just searching for the heck of it. You go to one of the handful of search engines out there, type in what you’re looking for and receive a ton of different sites to visit. Well, what if you want your site or business to be on the top of that list? This is where search engine optimization comes into play. Simply put, search engine optimization gives your site several different ways to be looked up on the net whether it is by keywords, local searches or even images. Are you interested?

Keywords are the most important part of search engine optimization. Otherwise known as tags, keywords are descriptors of your business or site. Let’s say your business is agriculture. Possible keywords, or tags, could include farm, farming, animals, plants, garden, gardening, farm machines, and weather. And these are just to name a few. The more keywords you purchase means more possible hits for your site. And in some cases the more keywords, or tags, that you have, the better the chance is of having your site at the top of the list.

Search engine optimization increases the traffic to your site through search engines in a more mathematical way. It works on the theory that the higher your site appears on the list, the more it will be visited. Search engine optimization gives your site different ways to be researched as well. Instead of working off of keywords alone, you can use your business logo or various pictures on your site to promote business. Images can be searched just as easily as tags or keywords.

Using a local search can be highly beneficial to both you and the person searching. Local searches narrow the results field and oftentimes, if you have a unique product selection, your business can be the only result that shows up. Internet marketing can be a wonderful tool for your company as it gives you more options than just putting an ad in the paper, phone book or doing pricey commercials.

Another option of search engine optimization is using a vertical search for your company. While the larger search engines provide quality service, certain keywords that you have chosen can also lead to other links and sites. By going with a vertical search engine, you can almost guarantee that you will be searched by people who are looking for your products or services specifically. For example, there is a site dedicated for searching up dental products that only brings up things related to your search. Search engine optimization, or SEO, may sound complicated but it makes your business’ life easier.

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Sunday, July 08, 2007

Making serious money online isn't as easy as turning on a computer

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Some people would like to tell you that making money online is as easy as turning on your computer. They might not say it like that, but they'll tell you something like "This is the only program you will never need." Or, "We'll give you everything you need to make money at home." They never tell you up front how much time it's going to take, how much money or how much knowledge. These things are all items you need to know before you start to try making money online.

It's not to say that programs that make these types of claims aren't good or even great, but you should know what you're getting into. The first thing you should understand about making money online is that it's never going to make you rich overnight. It can make you rich, and you can make money overnight, but the odds of you getting rich overnight are about equal to you getting sent to prison for fraud, embezzlement or the like. Knowing this right off the bat is going to put you in a better mind set than most people who try to start a business online.

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You don't have to have one source of income, or even one type of income. You may make some money from affiliate marketing, you may make some money taking surveys or selling items on ebay. Just remember that making money online can be done in many many ways, but it all takes time and effort to really bring in the revenue.

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