by Bei Maniago

Putting up a home-based business is never easy. From planning to advertising, every aspect requires your attention. Here are ten tips that will help you on your quest to make your home-based business a success.

1. Keep tight with your schedule. Working from home is powerful – but taking a nap in the middle of the day is more alluring. Setting a tight schedule for your whole day is critical.

2. Have an office area. Home based-business does not mean you have to work on your dining table or kitchen sink. Dedicate an area solely for office work and nothing else.

3. Be professional. Dress and act as if you are inside the office and just at home when it is time for work. Be up and ready by office hours – being late or drunk is not an excuse even if it is a home-based business.

4. Advertise. People still need to know that your home-based business exists. Even if you have a website, who would know it exists if not for traditional advertising means? Be creative on leveraging traditional advertising methods such as pamphlet distribution, commercial ads, attendance to trade symposiums, and the like.

5. Familiarize yourself with tax laws. Consult with an accountant or financial professional if you are not familiar with the accompanying legal obligations and taxation calendar when running a business.

6. Check with your zoning commission. Make sure that your home-based business abides with existing zoning laws for certain classes of businesses; else consider another location where your type of business would be allowed.

7. Have a sensible business plan. Have specific financial and strategic targets for your home-based business for specific periods of time. Let these targets be milestones for your business to achieve.

8. Get on the Web. The Internet is a great equalizer for home-based businesses and large enterprises. Do not just provide information about your business or marketing blitz on your website – use it primarily to sell!

9. Do your research. Know your business, know your competition, and improve on your business offerings. “Make a better mousetrap, and the world would make a beaten path to your door” - get started on knowing and building that better mousetrap. There are plenty of avenues for research such as workshops, interviews as well as the Internet.

10. Do not get discouraged. Running a home-based business requires intestinal fortitude and the will to move on despite a disappointing starting period.. Hang in there and do all that you can to make your business the success you know it can be. Finally, have your home-based business registered with the HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) within the next 3 months to avoid a £100 fine. You may also need to file Form CWF1 with the tax office to inform the HMRC that you are operating as a business and have the appropriate taxes processed right away. For more tips on growing your home-based business, visit http://www.businessonly.co.uk/home_based_business.html

by Len Hutton

It's no secret!! If you have your own product or service you can explode your profits exponentially by having your own successful affiliate program. The problem lies in the fact that people just don't have their program set up in the right way resulting in a poor amount of traffic and therefore sales from their affiliates.

If you want to take their online business to the next level. In this article I am going to outline some tricks and strategies that anyone with their own affiliate program should use in order to maximize their income

Always encourage People To Sign Up

Here's where most people go wrong. They set up an affiliate program and have a links that says "click here to sign up" and then that's it. You need to sell your affiliate program. Have a mini sales letter that explains the benefit of people signing up.

Always provide Affiliates With Marketing Materials

Site owners get people to sign up to their affiliate program and then just leave them to it. It's like they're saying "thanks for signing up, now go and make me some cash". That's ridiculous. You need to do all the hard work for your affiliates if you want to start earning the big bucks.

Provide your affiliate with email promotions, press releases, articles, banner adverts pay per click ads, and whatever else you can create that will enable people to promote your site to the masses with as little work as possible.

You could write an article and submit it to article directories all over the internet and do very well for yourself. However if you just had one hundred affiliates blasting that article all over the net you've just multiplied your marketing power by one hundred.

Can't write articles? Don't worry. If you can't write articles etc yourself hire someone to do so from http://www.elance.com but do provide your affiliates with marketing materials or your just setting yourself up for having a very mediocre internet business

Send out An Affiliate Only Newsletter

Here's a real cracker. Have an email list of only your affiliates. Each week send out a mini blueprint on how they can market your products an earn a commission. Inform them of new products you've just launched or new marketing materials you've just added to your affiliates area.

Have a weekly completion Another great method you can use with this is have a weekly completion. Each week your affiliate who earns the most get's an extra one hundred dollars or whatever you can afford. Mention the winner in each weeks newsletter and say things like "who thinks they can overtake Joe Bloggs as being my top affiliate? Come on guys I know I've got some great marketers signed up as my affiliates prove it and I'll mention you in next weeks newsletter".

This is great. Psychologically you are motivating your affiliates to promote your products like crazy to get recognition as being your "top gun". Often ego trips are just as motivating as money.

Motivate Your Affiliates And Explode Your Profits

I've been taking about what you need to do in order to earn a serious living online through having your own affiliate program. Done properly this could earn you more money than you could ever have dreamed of. To overcome the three barriers of starting an affiliate program You need to:

Encourage people to sign up

Make it easy for them to market

Motivate them to market fast and market hard.

If you can do this you'll be able to create a hugely successful affiliate program and sell a truckload of your products without any real hard work or any costs.

I assure you that if you just put one or two of these simple to implement strategies into place you will see a marked improvement on both your affiliate sign ups, and your affiliates actively marketing your products. Just give it a go if you want to make the big money!

About the Author

Len Hutton is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home based business. You can read up on how to create your own info products in one day without writing a single word by going to :-http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/lightningcash.htm

by Len Hutton

If you don't know where to look finding niche markets for info products can be an absolute killer Whilst publishing niche ebooks is a proven business that can make you a lot of money, finding niches to exploit can be both time consuming and disheartening if you struggle to find any good markets.

So thankfully there's hope. I'm going to show you a simple strategy you can use for finding as many niche markets to sell ebooks to as you could want. In this article.

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

Go to the above site. This is an amazing resource that won't cost you a penny to sign up to. Start typing in niche markets that interest you. If you had an interest in planes you'd type in " planes ". Then all you need to do is make a list of all of the sub niches within the general niche market of planes.

http://www.amazon.com

"amazon.com" The bookselling giants are an amazing resource for finding niche markets you'd never have thought about entering. Go the web site and in the search bar select "books". Then type in a niche you'd like to create a product around. For example type in "fishing".

When many people hear this technique they immediately think "wait a sec how can I compete with Amazon?". You won't be of course you'll be catering for a different market. As ebook publishers we can offer instant gratification as our customers get our info products straight away as a download.

Another great thing about downloadable info products is bizarrely they are seen to have a higher perceived value. If you sell a downloadable info product you can charge up to fifty dollars. While you might only be able to charge fifteen dollars for a book selling it via Amazon.Crazy but true.

http://www.dummies.com

Here is another fantastic research tool for the niche ebook publisher. The Dummies company you can find a ton of niche topics across all of the "...For Dummies" books. The Dummies company has made creating niche products an art form in its own right. Search through their titles in general niches that interest you and jot down potential ebook topics.

http://www.goarticles.com

Go Article directories are, in my eyes, the best way to find subjects to create ebooks around. The Go Articles directory is just one of many in which you can go to the site, type in a niche subject in the search bar and get literally thousands of ebook ideas.

When visiting these sites the key here is to just make a huge list of potential topics, and then when you're done go to http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ and type in your topics. If there people searching for information on the subject (at least five thousand a month) you've just found an ebook topic that could turn into a very lucrative home based business.

I want to quickly dispell a myth about the internet.. Many would have you believe the internet is just one huge get rich quick scheme. Don't for one second think you can just throw up a site, sit back and become rich. That couldn't be farther from the truth. Done properly ebook publishing can change your financial situation dramatically.

We want to build a network of mini sites that each make about 1K a month. We're not aiming to become a millionaire here. Being able to come up with an endless amount of niche product ideas is the key here, then all you need to do is create the product.

Freelance writers

I know just what you're thinking. "All you need to do" is create a product. They're hard to create right? Well no actually you don't need to write a single sentence of your ebook. You can hire people to do that for you at elance.com. For around five hundred to seven hundred bucks freelance writers will create the entire book for you.

You are an internet marketer, not a writer. Have one product created, write a press release, set up pay per click campaign and blast a few articles over the net on the topic of your ebook. Then have another one created, do the same, and just rinse and repeat.

To-day Multiple streams of autopilot income is the secret of wealthy entrepreneurs from around the globe. Now thanks to ebooks and the internet, anyone can set up streams of income that sends money into their bank account even whilst they sleep. Len Hutton

About the Author

Len Hutton is an information publisher specializing in helping people start their own home based business. You can read up on how to create your own info products in one day without writing a single word by going to :-http://www.nicheresidualincomes.com/lightningcash.htm

by Tony Coen

Tony Coen, the webmaster of GR8Riches.com, has voiced his anger at the rumors that have been going around the internet. The Internet Marketing world has been abuzz with the rumors for about a month now and they started just as Tony was announcing the opening of his latest website GR8Riches.com a make money online website.

The rumor, in essence, said that during the recent Internet Marketing Seminar in Singapore that Tony had been seen on more than one occasion masticating in public. Tony denied these rumors at the time and believed that they would then disappear but the rumors have persisted and seem to be growing in popularity along with Tony's new website.

"I believe that these rumors were started by my competitors in the cut-throat niche of make money online" Tony said today. "They are afraid of a little bit of competition and they think that my no BS style will be taking business off them and so they are out to discredit me". Tony went on to say that "he was approached in Singapore and was told that his site was only a get-rich-quick site and that the products on offer did not work".

I want you to know, said Tony, that my site should not be judged by the standards that these so called guru's have set (schemes that don't work) I have personally tried and tested everything on the site and recommend the site without reservation. He also said that "it took me over 40 years to be an overnight success and I don't see why I should show anybody how to do that in 5 minutes".

"So my site is definately not a get-rich-quick scheme because I have loaded all the instructions into my autoresponder and every week I will send out new information that will guarantee that you also will be an overnight success in 40 years" Tony said. "You can of course get the Titanium Service where I will send the information a little quicker but I will have to charge you money for that"

As far as the "masticating in public" goes Tony said that it was something that he did when he was younger and he was very proud of how well he did it when he was a teenager. "I get a lot of pleasure now from seeing all the young people all over the world enjoying themselves and sometime masticating in groups". But sad to say, now that I have reached 60 years of age, I just can't do it anymore as my body just isn't up to it. "I wish that I was a teenager again as I would have no hesitation in masticating in public, in the bus, on the train, in the office or even in front of my gorgeous wife".

And so the rumors just cannot be true because I witnessed today that Tony has lost his teeth and his days of masticating, both in public and in private, are over. He even told me that for the past 2 years he has been on a totally liquid diet because of his inability to chew. Tony said that his diet consists of 8 cans of beer three times a day and he just doesn't care about eating or chewing or anything else for that matter.

About the Author

Tony has worked for over 20 years in the finance industry and has specialised in technical analysis. Nowadays he is the webmaster for six of the leading websites offering customers ways to make money online. Further information can be found at Tony's blog http://www.gr8riches.com/gr8blog or contact Tony direct at tony@gr8riches.com.

by Yasir Wazir

Finding a job online is an easy ask these days and literally everybody can find a job that suits his/her abilities. We can divide the available online jobs into two types:

1. technical

The technical jobs are meant for computer professionals where they can find various jobs like webpage designing, designing a DBMS, software development and search-engine optimization etc. A computer professional can choose between these available jobs according to his/her abilities and knowledge. Webpage designing for instance can be a good option for those who can work in different computer programs such as PHP whereas software development is a good option for those who have a understanding of different computer languages specially C++.

2. non-technical

The non-technical jobs can be done by everybody who knows a bit about PC and can handle the basics of it. these days more and more people are getting themselves in touch with the PCs and use internet quite frequently. Non-technical work includes data entry work, copywriting and translation etc. these jobs are quite simple to do but require solid commitment and devoted time so that these could be done in specified time limits. One character of data entry jobs is that they are time consuming and can therefore tease you in this regard so patience is required in order to be successful in doing such types on jobs. Copywriting on the other hand are less time consuming but you have to be good at English in order to do them. Translation jobs are by far the most simple and easy-to-do jobs available online. All you need to do is to translate data from English to some other language or vice versa.

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by Yasir Wazir

These days the concept of online working and home working is gaining a lot of popularity and people get anxious when they hear about the idea. As it is a new concept and the nature of this type of work is completely different as compared to the traditional 9-5 jobs, there is a lot of potential in this type of work. One big reason of the success of this type of work is "cheap labor". Consider someone sitting in the US running a small software house in which he employs half a dozen employees in order to complete various projects of the firm's clients. The employer has to pay salary to these employees according to the local pay scale which indeed is very high.

What if the employer works alone or with only a secretary and makes the bookings of different projects from various clients! He then posts these jobs at a freelancing website mentioning all the details and the results that he wants from the freelancer. Those freelancers who can do the job will apply for it and make a bid for it. As there would be several potential candidates for the job, they would compete with each other by lowering their bid amounts. In this way the employer can select one of these candidates and give him/her the job. He/she will then complete the job as specified to him/her. Note that these candidates will do the job for much lesser amount. The reason behind this is that most of these freelancers belong to developing countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Filipina where pay scales are on much lower side and would therefore readily do the job for you.

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by Len Hutton

Without further ado let's get started. I'm going to show you how to create a hot selling info product in one day. And get this, you'll only have to write five paragraphs. Anyone on the planet can do that.

So now what we're going to do is use other peoples hard work to create our very own unique products. Sounds too good to be true doesn't it. However this is a very real opportunity that the top gun ebook publishers use time and time again to create products in lightning quick time.

Go to www.goarticles.com. Today we're going to use the content in them to create ebooks.

Many web site owners write articles and submit them to article directories so that they get free publicity for their sites. At the end of each article is a link back to their web site with a bit of information about their site for example. These site owners want people to take that article and market it to people so they get visitors to their site without spending a dime on marketing.

What we need to do at go articles.com is type in a niche in the search bar at the top right (make sure it's on "article content" rather than search by author). Type in your niche market. So for example type in "horses". You'll get thousands of result related to what you have searched for. Now what I want you to do is simply go through the results finding at least seventy quality articles related to the horses market and copy and paste them into notepad or some kind of word processing application.

Now as I've said make sure they are quality articles. If you create an ebook using rubbish you'll just get a sky high refund rate and it will all be a pointless exercise. Do it right from the off and you'll set yourself up for success.

You must try and tie all the articles together in one sub niche. For example a sub niche of horses might be saddle training your horse. So you could find articles on choosing a saddle for your horse, jump training that kind of thing. Use a bit of imagination when using this method.

Email Article Authors

You don't want to use any articles without the authors permission. Remember the majority of articles will have been submitted so the author can get visitors to their site without spending a dime. However you never want to breach any copyright laws. To avoid this email the authors of each article. Explain to them that you are creating an ebook aimed at their niche market. You'd love to include their article in your book and you'll include a link back to their site and information about them. Also ask them if they have any other articles you could include.

You can expert around seventy percent of authors you contact to be delighted you're going to include their article in your book. Then all you need to do is discard the articles from authors who you haven't heard from or who won't let you use their article.

Put all these articles in an order that makes sense and create a contents page. Use the titles of the articles as contents topics. You could even create chapters aimed at solving certain problems people in your niche have. So for example if you were creating an ebook on golf you could create a section on improving your golf swing, a section on the mind game of golf and so on. All articles would make up separate chapters.

And now finally write a short introduction and conclusion. These only need to be a few paragraphs each. Tell people what they can expect to learn and make sure you sign off using your name. Instantly you will establish yourself as an expert. You can also link to your back end products at the end of the book to increase your sales.

Finally you need to turn it into an ebook to sell. So go to http://www.primopdf.com/ and download the software. And don't worry it won't cost you a dime. Once downloaded all you need to do is in your word software hit "file" and then "print" and then select "primo PDF" as your printer. Olay!!. You'ev now created an ebook using other peoples hard work. The whole process can be done in just a few hours. Obviously you may need to wait a day or two for the article authors to get back to you but apart from that you're all set! Anyone can use this method to create any number of ebooks more ebooks than you'd ever be able to sell.

Is that's a great method? I mean it won't cost you anything to create a product yet you could sell hundreds if not thousands of copies and keep all the profits using other peoples hard work!

About the Author

Len Hutton is an information publisher specialising in helping people start their own home based business. Now you know how to create a product in one day learn how to market it by getting a no cost two hour video on niche ebooks at www.nicheresidualincomes.com

by Martin dekker

Tony and Deb (the owners of this revolutionized company) have been highly successful marketers for a number of years now and came to discover a very dirty little secret in the network marketing industry that was so imoral and shocking they felt a obligation to do something about it and so they did.

You see what people like us don't realize is that all these network marketing companies that spring up only have one thing in mind and that is to fill there own pockets with your money.

The reason why:

First off they don't actually believe in there own products they sell through there network marketing company and secondly which is the most concerning one is that they actually setup there company structure in such away for you to fail.

Yes you heard that right they make out in there advertising that you can make a huge income by joining there network marketing company, but then when you see there payment structure its virtually impossible for you to get to a point where you would start earning a lucrative income. And on top of that they never tell you how you should market your business. If they do they only ask you to go into some kind of rotating website link that never works and you pay a fortune for. Do you really think they use all that money from you to advertise with? Don't count on it.

These are just some of the things network marketing companies do to You to make you fail. They don't want everyone to succeed if they did the company would go broke. They have structured there payment plan in such away that makes a 75% failure rate if they did not have that they would go broke.

And this is why Tony and Deb decided to start there own company up. They wanted to create a network marketing company where by the members would make all the money and worked together to make it successful. They believe that the majority of the profit's the company makes should return to there members. And so the company Big Cash Express was born.

They created a Dual Matrix payout system that virtually guarantees you success. The First part of the Double Matrix system is it's 2x2 follow you sponsor matrix. Here you can sponsor people into the business and create a never ending $1200 check each time you cycle. What's a cycle? A cycle is when you fill up you 2x2 Matrix. So when you sponsor 2 people and they each sponsor 2 people you now have 6 people in your 2x2 Matrix and it's therefore full. Now you have cycled and you earn yourself $1200. And all you have done is sponsored 2 people and show them how to sponsor 2 people each. But it does not stop there. No the 2x2 Matrix is a follow your sponsor matrix so ones your 2 people cycle they will follow you into your New 2x2 Matrix and fill up your new matrix. Now you only have 4 spots left to fill. Just go back and read that again and let it sink in. Can you see how powerful this is?

The second part of the Dual Matrix is the 4x6 Company Profit Matrix. When you join Big Cash express you are automatically placed in both matrix. This 4x6 Matrix is filled up intierly by the Company alone. This is a No Sponsoring Matrix you don't sponsor a sole in it.

How does it work?

When Anyone and I mean anyone in the company sponsors people into there 2x2 Matrix they are automatically also placed into the 4x6 Company Profit matrix. You don't have to do a thing. This means your 4x6 matrix fills up automatically no matter who sponsors who they all get placed into the Company Profit Matrix after you. And you can earn up to $72,356 Per Month Passive Residual income. Even if you don't sponsor yourself. You can be totally passive if you please.

It's absolutely amazing what Tony and Deb have created here and it will forever be the New blue print for the network marketing industry. And I tell you not a moment to soon, you virtually can't fail!

So there it is finally a company build for it's members where the members make the most profits and the company is the driving force behind it. That's how it should be and always will be with Big Cash Express.

You can listen to Tony And Deb on a conference call, see the times below, you can also ask them question at the end of the call.

Monday thru Friday 1 pm eastern standard time USA Sunday thru Thursday 9.30 pm Eastern standard time USA Ph +1 347 534 1700 pin No: 8930#

PS: Next article will be on the product alone called Digital Gold it's so good that I will write a separate article about it.

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by Kanaga Siva

For those Moms who are very keen on working at home there are several popular work at home jobs that can be started with minimal costs. The problem is that most Stay at Home Moms are unaware that the talents and expertise they possess can be the nucleus for a variety of work at home jobs.

1. Data Entry Job:

Most Stay at Home Moms searching for Jobs to work at home will find Data Entry Jobs very attractive, since specials skills, training or previous experience is not required. What you need is basic typing skills, a computer and access to the Internet. It is ideal for stay at home moms and retirees who can spare a couple of hours a day.

2.Ghost Writer:

Ghost writing is another work at home job that is very popular among people who have the ability and talent to write. If you can write well and possess a good command of the language and grammar then Ghost writing can be a source of income for you. Ghost writing is actually writing Content or Articles for Website owners and Internet Marketers who do not have the ability to write or create it themselves.

3. Tutoring Service:

Starting a Tutoring Service is another way of working at home. You can start a tutoring service for helping students who have difficulty in understanding their class work or who do not concentrate sufficiently at school. You should be sufficiently knowledgeable in the subjects you tutor and you should possess a lot of patience to handle backward students.

4. Child Care Center:

Since a vast majority of the parents can't afford the expensive Corporate or Franchised child care centers, there is a great demand for reputed affordable home based Child care centers. If you love children and care about them this is one of the ideal work at home jobs for you as a stay at home mom especially if you have had experience or training in child development. To get started you will need to have adequate space in your house that is child friendly as well as accessible to parents to drop and pick their children.

5. Cake Baking and Decorating:

If you have enjoyed baking and decorating cakes for your children's birthdays and other events, then you can seriously consider making a living by baking and decorating cakes. A cake has become an important and integral part of most celebrations and functions and hence the demand for people with creative excellence who can produce beautiful and outstanding cakes.

6. Gift Basket Service:

In recent years Gift Baskets have become a popular choice among shoppers searching for something special to give friends and business associates. Companies too have realized that gift baskets are a great way to show appreciation to customers and employees. Your chances of success depend on your ability to design, assemble and deliver unique and distinctive baskets that can capture the hearts of the shoppers and business organizations.

Conclusion:

These are popular work at home jobs that can be started and operated with minimal costs and ideally suited for Stay at Home Moms. The success of your home based business will to a great extent depend on how motivated and passionate you are.

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