Observations of a home business newbie....

The differences between a 'work at home' job and an 'online home business' do get rather blurred.  Work From Home Job Vs Online Home Business Essentially a 'job', regardless of whether it's online or in a physical workplace, involves providing a service or doing some work for an employer and getting paid directly for performing that service or doing that work.   Many companies have resorted to providing their employees with work at home opportunities during the Covid 19 pandemic.   It's my bet that a fair percentage of these arrangements will remain long after Covid has gone.   This is a ' work at home' job . If you're providing a service / doing the work from home and you are not directly employed by one single employer you can certainly turn it into a service related home business. A resume writing or creative writing service is a good example of this type of home business. An online home business is basically an internet versio...

This seems to be a contradiction in terms - surely you need to be a good leader in order to be a successful team leader in an affiliate program ?? Well, not necessarily because quite often being involved in an affiliate marketing program can provide you with the tools and teach you how to become a great leader. Attributes Of A Good Leader A good leader invariably has learned the following skill sets: They do not waste their time on skeptics or on people who aren't motivated to work the program.  They learn to identify and concentrate instead on the workers, on the ones who want to succeed and have, or are prepared to develop, the mindset to succeed.  They communicate regularly and constantly with their team despite external influences and are constantly there to provide support and assistance. They continually motivate and teach their team members the core principles of duplication and motivation. This is the way their network grows and strengthens. They learn to com...

We've all seen those 'join for free, get started for free, earn online for free' opportunities being advertised out there.  Most of them are exactly what they say they are - they are genuinely free to join and they are genuinely free to start earning with.  How do I know this??  Because I'm fortunate enough to be involved with a couple of them and I can 100% guarantee that they are exactly what they are marketed as. So why doesn't everyone belong to them if they're that good ?? Excellent question and I really don't know.  I do have a theory though. I suspect that part of the problem is that people see the word 'FREE' and assume it means that all they'll have to do is set a few wheels in motion then sit back and watch the cash flood their bank account.  Sorry but that isn't how it works at all, or at least not the legitimate businesses that will stand the test of time. The Real Meaning Of Free! You see, the word 'FREE' simply ref...

Quite often whilst browsing through the comments on promotional blogs about various online biz opps / programs I see people asking questions like - are there programs like this available outside XYZ countries, are there any opportunities around which genuinely don't require any sort of start up fee, do you know of anything which doesn't require a credit card, can you really make a profit in your first week without spending a cent and so on ........  Invariably the blog owner assures the 'commenter' that 'no, there aren't any that s/he knows of.' Now I don't know if the authors of these blogs, who obviously have a vested interest in ensuring that as many people as possible who read their blogs and the associated comments sign up with their opportunity, genuinely think that there are no programs out there with those features people are asking about??  Or perhaps (way more likely) they're just taking the easy, and most beneficial for them, way out.  F...

One of Zig Zigler's most famous quotes goes thus - "You can get everything you want if you help enough others get what they want". When it comes to internet marketing, never a truer word was spoken.  Many people though make the mistake of thinking that internet marketing or MLM is about selling 'stuff' to people.  It isn't and here's a truth I bet a LOT of people don't know - network marketing is ALL ABOUT TEACHING AND MENTORING. Yup, believe it or not but the most fundamental product of network marketing is in fact 'people'.  It's people you should be studying - what do they want, how can they be helped to achieve THEIR dreams (not YOUR dreams)....   Build your business around people and you'll keep most of them.  People join people.  People aren't interested in joining companies where they're just treated as yet another number, another figure in the recruitment list. Every successful marketing company that has survi...

What is it about multi level and network marketing that makes people automatically think 'SCAM'? The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place . ~Guy Kawasaki Multi Level Marketing Or Pyramid Scheme If you think multi level marketing and pyramid scheme are one and the same thing, you're not alone.  Unfortunately the terms 'MLM' (multi level marketing and also referred to as network marketing , direct selling, referral marketing etc) and 'down line' conjure up a negative image with many people because they associate them with illegal pyramid schemes and scams.  Nothing could be further from the truth and if you know what to look for you can easily tell which is which.   A Pyramid Scheme requires you to pay a fee to 'start earning'.  Unfortunately though that is about all a PS consists of - the ' income' is solely derived from those 'join up fees ...

I came across these sayings the other week and it occurred to me that they apply to so many people, especially in the online business game. ·         Money talks or interest walks! ·         Show me the money or see you later! ·         Give me, give me, give me! ·         Money on a plate or I'm out the gate! ·         Instant gratification is the name of the game! You see, these days no one seems prepared to put in the work required to make a success of something, anything.  They expect it all for nothing and when that doesn’t happen, they claim it’s a ‘scam’ or ‘it doesn’t work’ and so on.  God forbid that they should actually have to work at something to earn.  There are online business platforms out there that are 100% legitimate businesses and if you have the mindset to make a ...

In today's economy a lot of people have started looking for alternative ways to secure their future. No one really knows for sure what the future of the job market is going to be either in terms of available jobs OR types of job opportunities. One thing that has become clear though is that one of the most viable options to working for someone else is working for yourself. And one of the most attractive 'work for yourself' options is the home business. Essentially a home business is a small business that operates from the business owner's home office. Some home businesses may employ one or two staff members, which are usually immediate family. Working from home is certainly a very attractive option for a large number of reasons: being your own boss flexible working hours less expenses (travelling costs, premises hire) greater rewards if you're prepared to put in the hard yards. Avoiding costly mistakes when starting up a home business: Starting a home...

A few years ago I investigated numerous 'work from home', ' home business' etc etc etc opportunities.  Needless to say I found that many (not all but a heck of a lot nevertheless) were either dubious, out of date in terms of search engine compliance or just plain uninviting.   Some Truths About Too Good To Be True Home Business Opportunities I discovered that invariably most of those 'get it now for only a fraction of the REAL cost' offers were in fact only being offered that cheaply because they pretty much no longer really worked.  The websites you 'purchased' with them were either no longer search engine friendly or they just plain violated updated search engine rules about key word stuffing, excess affiliate links, duplicate sites and so on.  Every so often the major search engines like Google, Yahoo etc have a major blitz and change the rules about what they will and will not allow.  If you have a non-conforming site, which a lot of early affiliat...

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 y...

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 (Searc...

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 ...

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!!