Observations of a home business newbie....

FACT - if you are new to the online home business world or haven't yet been very successful then, unless you are one of those fortunate people who instinctively 'know' how to make it all work (or you're independently wealthy), you are going to need a primary income source to pay the bills until your online business venture is making enough for you to live on.  For many, this primary income is a job of some sort.  If you're fortunate, it will also be an online one which allows you to work from home. Read more....

Are you risking your future by messing around with your present?  If you’re jumping around trying every new get rich quick opportunity that presents itself, even though it’s a well known fact that 99.9% of them are nothing more than elaborate scams, then yes, YOU ARE doing EXACTLY that. You ARE wasting valuable time (once today is gone you never get that time back) if you’re messing around with BS, second rate offers that promise the world but deliver absolutely nothing.  You ARE wasting valuable time if you believe that programs which promise to pay you over and over for doing nothing or very little are actually feasible, long term, sustainable strategies.  Ditto for the ones that actually sell nothing more than the promise of making $$s when you get others to also join and pay - those are actually pyramid schemes. Check out the definition of a pyramid scheme some time . Sure, they cloak it well with fancy terms and promising descriptions but come on....!  If you are earning mone

Joined a MLM or home business recently?? Don't know how on earth you're going to get that down line built?? Well.............appears that this is not as difficult as it sounds because ....... GOOD NEWS!!! .....sign-ups can be purchased!! There are any number of businesses out there offering sign-up packages for quite reasonable prices. There are packages for global sign-ups (sign-ups from anywhere in the world), packages for country specific sign-ups (sign-ups in some countries such as the US are better value because more of them are signing up because they are actually interested in your offer and not because they're being paid to do so but more on that below).... However, there are a number of things you really do have to watch out for if you choose this method of building your down line. I've listed the 3 main types of sign-ups available and exactly what they are: The first type is the Web Generated Guaranteed Sign-Up. This type of sign-up is basically en

Network marketing has its origins in plain old 'word of mouth' recommendation and to this day this is STILL the number one method of endorsement for products and services.  If you want to find out how good, bad or indifferent something is the first thing you do is find someone you know who has used or bought it and you ask them for their opinion. Network marketing simply uses this 'personal recommendation / word of mouth' networking to promote particular goods and services.  In return, those who promote and recommend are rewarded for their services by receiving a share of the proceeds of sales that result from their PR efforts.  This share is part of normally what would otherwise have been spent on advertising. Of course, if this concept is going to work to its fullest potential it does require that those who recommend and promote the products should actually have first hand experience of them.  Otherwise it just becomes yet another 'hard sell' which doesn&#

Advertising, promotion, marketing etc that makes use of the internet and other electronic media to drive sales via electronic commerce (e-commerce) is referred to as Internet Marketing or online marketing.  It also encompasses sales leads from Web sites or emails.  Typically, internet marketing and online advertising are backed up by traditional types of advertising such as radio, television, newspapers and magazines. Types of Internet Marketing There are several specialized types of internet marketing Web marketing,  Email marketing  Social media marketing: Web marketing: The massive e-commerce sites like Amazon, TripleClicks, Clickbank, Ebay etc come under the web marketing banner.  Also in this category are affiliate marketing sites like Secure Future International (SFI), Avon etc and promotional / informative sites (Wikipedia is the stand out example in this group).  Web marketing also covers online advertising on search engines and SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Email

Network Marketing (Multi Level Marketing) businesses invariably come in one of two guises - ones that occasionally work and ones that work exceptionally well because they have systems in place which train members how to be successful and, more importantly, how to train others to also be successful (the power of duplication).  Needless to say, the second type is the one that invariably makes more money and is more successful.  There are two components of any successful MLM business:. Learning the business (knowledge) Building the business (action) Learning the business: There are a number of basic skill sets required to grow any business.   Presentation skills to sell and promote your business.   Leadership skills so that others are happy to follow in your footsteps.   Teaching skills so that you can teach your teams how to follow in your footsteps.   You learn how to do these effectively by reading, listening and hopefully attending a few courses.  Now, obvi

As my profile photo clearly shows, I have horses :)  Not just any old horses either.  I own, and occasionally breed, cream dilute Australian Stock Horses.  If you want to know more about cream dilute horses, check out this website ( www.dilutesaustralia.net) . Anyway, because of my horses I decided to take the plunge a few years ago and start working from home so that I could spend more time with them.  Mostly it has worked out quite well but as with any new adventure there are always pitfalls as well as up swings.  If you're interested in reading more about my horses and how I came to be involved with these particular ones you can visit my stud website where there are also plenty of photos :)   Enjoy!!