Advantage of running an Internet Home Business

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Advantage of running an Internet Home Business
By © Arthur, The Online Biz Home

Don't be mistaken that running a home or online business means you can relax, sleep late or conduct your business with your bathroom slippers.

Usually, it means that you need to maintain the same professionalism and work harder or even longer than anyone else that are working full time.

One advantage of a home or online business is that, it does not require you to quit your existing job immediately as you experiment with running a home or online business PART TIME before you plunge into full time commitment once it is successful.

Running a home or online business requires as much planning, dedication and thought as in your Full-time employment.

With your own online business, you can enjoy it and take a day off when your enthusiasm wanes and get back to it after a day rest.

The Internet offers you the best way to make money if you can put in a little effort to un-learn some of your pass lessons and re-learn the online business techniques.

While operating your online business, you will also learn lots about internet marketing, website construction, exchanging links with other site, writing and submittng your own free articles, optimizing webpage for the search engine as well as affiliate system and product line.

With today's affordable personal computer and internet accessibility, going online is a better choice if you:
- have a limited budget,
- need more time with your family,
- want to earn multiple income streams,
- want to work at the comfort of your home and schedule,
- need a second source of income,
- want an unlimited profit potential etc...

The Net allows you to reach a worldwide market. Billions of people are surfing around the world everyday and it is still increasing at a rapid rate.

Everyday, more and more people around the world are using the Internet to search and purchase items which they can't find locally and they are not bother by where the product is shipped from as long as it satisfied their needs.

Imagined your business having the global world as your customers with just a computer and modem with internet access at the comfort of your home.

Copyright © Arthur "Opportunity are often shy, you just have to keep looking for them." Learning and putting what you learn into Action is the key to success in operating a successful Work At Home Online Business. Visit: http://www.sap-basis-abap.com/homebusiness/

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Security for Internet Users Deemed Weak

How safe is YOUR COMPUTER?


Washington, DC -- Internet users at home are not nearly as safe online as they believe, according to a nationwide inspection by researchers. They found most consumers have no firewall protection, outdated antivirus software and dozens of spyware programs secretly running on their computers.

One beleaguered home user in the government-backed study had more than 1,000 spyware programs running on his sluggish computer when researchers examined it. ...

Read complete article: http://www.tripinfo.com/ITM/Articles2004/ITM782.html

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Taking Feedback to Heart!

How do you feel about getting feedback from others?
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5 High-Impact Marketing Tips

5 High-Impact Marketing Tips
Copyright 2004 Bob Leduc
http://BobLeduc.com

Here are 5 high-impact marketing tips you can use to boost your sales quickly. All are simple to implement and they involve little or no new expense.

1. Promote Only One Thing at a Time

Promote only 1 product or service each time you advertise. Many people have difficulty selecting one product when their decision forces them to delay or reject buying something else they also want. When prospects cannot make an easy choice they often make no decision at all ...and you lose the sale.

Tip: Offer new customers a related product or service immediately after they buy from you. Many will accept your offer, producing an easy sale without jeopardizing the initial purchase.

2. Provide Multiple Ways for Customers to Buy

Providing choices of what to buy will reduce your sales. But providing choices of how to buy will increase your sales. Offer many different ways for customers to buy from you. The same method is not convenient for everybody. Prospective customers are more likely to act immediately when their favorite way of ordering is available.

3. Avoid Your Competitors

Look for some new niche markets you and your competitors overlooked. You may uncover a market you can dominate with little or no competition.

One quick and easy way to find profitable new markets is to sub-divide your current market into several narrowly defined niche markets. Then customize your advertising to the unique needs of prospects in each niche market.

Tip: You can narrow the appeal of an existing web site without losing its effectiveness with your main market. Just create customized web pages for each market segment you want to target. Then add a link to each of these specialized pages on your home page.

4. Use Alternative Marketing

Look for alternative media your competitors may be overlooking. For example, many internet marketers are beginning to use direct mail postcards to generate traffic to their web sites. It's a low cost way to bypass the heavy competition online.

A brief captivating message on a postcard with an enticing offer sent to the right prospects will generate a flood of traffic to your website - or a large number of sales leads.

Tip: Postcards are also an excellent low-cost alternative to email. People get so much email today that even legitimate messages are getting deleted unread. But they get few if any postcards. Your message is guaranteed to get their attention when it's delivered on a postcard.

5. Encourage Questions

You're walking away from a lot of easy sales if you don't encourage prospects to ask questions about your product or service.

Only interested prospects will take the time to ask questions. Many will buy ...especially if you answer their question quickly and completely. You can even include a promotion for your product or service as part of your answer.

Make it easy for prospects to ask questions when they are at your web site or in other selling situations where there is no personal contact. For example, provide a phone number or an email address they can use to ask questions.

Tip: If you find yourself personally answering a lot of questions, add a Questions and Answers section to your web site or your sales brochure. Include the answers to the most frequently asked questions. It will reduce the number of questions you have to answer personally.
Each of these 5 marketing tips provides a simple way for you to boost your sales quickly ...and for little or no new expense.

Bob Leduc spent 20 years helping businesses like yours find new customers and increase sales. He just released a New Edition of his manual, How To Build Your Small Business Fast With Simple Postcards ...and launched *BizTips from Bob*, a newsletter to help small businesses grow and prosper. You'll find his low-cost marketing methods at: http://BobLeduc.com or call: 702-658-1707 After 10 AM Pacific Time/Las Vegas, NV

Help Henry!

Failure - A Formula for Success!

Do you feel discouraged at times? Does your business not go the way you envisioned? Did you hit a wall and are you looking for ways to get around it?

Don't despair! Failure is a valuable stepping stone! Read on:

Failure - A Formula for Success!Break the cycle of compulsory perfection and safety and ..... Dare to Fail!

by Debbie Knapp

Failure - A Formula for Success! At least, having the willingness to risk failure. After all, every success, every accomplishment, every triumph - great or small - was proceeded by failed attempts.

Far too often throughout our lives we’re reminded there is nothing more dreadful than that big ole red "F" accompanied by "What were you thinking?” or “Why didn’t you work harder?” and our own inner voice echoing “You’re a loser.”

Parents, teachers, coaches, business supervisors, religious authorities, and critics of all sorts have been responsible for dulling aspirations and destroying dreams. Mistakes are often proclaimed failures and subsequently punished, leaving many of us afraid to take risks. Often times these disciplines and evaluations were misguided attempts to correct and improve the individual. FAR too often, the opposite results.

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The Power of Influence

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MasteryTV's CEO, Tom Wood, gives you specific strategies to have the greatest impact possible on the people you have learned to build rapport with and network with.

Today's Expert -- Jim Stovall
Despite being faced with the challenge of total blindness, Jim Stovall is an Emmy Award Winner, Co-Founder and President of Narrative Television Network and a well-known speaker and author who tells the touching story of the unlikely person who impacted him most.

Today's Impact -- Create Momentum
Tom and Jim will help you get people excited about what you are doing, follow your lead and take action with you to pursue your mutual dreams.

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The Power of Associations

MasteryTV's CEO, Tom Wood, describes what he calls, the "hidden blocker to success" and the philosophy on a reason why people have not experienced all they aim for in life.

Watch the following 12 minute video clip and learn.

Darren Hardy: a self-made millionaire by the age of 27, Darren has helped start, promote and turn-around numerous companies. After building a direct sales force of over 100,000 people he sold it and became one of the most sought after direct marketing consultants in the world. He, better than anyone, can relate the impact of your associations.

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New Rules in Business

We live in a relative world. What I mean is whatever we think, say and do is looked at in relation to our reality, our world. Early on as babies we learned to conform to the rules of our parents, and then as we grow older, we accept the rules of society and business, often without ever challenging them.

We forget, however, that everyone we meet and interact with does not necessarily perceive the same reality. A factory worker has a different frame of reference than the CEO of a Fortune 500 company on how a business runs. The software engineer in India lives in quite a different culture than the farmer in Iowa, and, I'm sure, both measure their level of happiness and well-being on a different scale.

As we the world gets smaller and literally everyone can reach out globally to others through the internet, be it for recreation or business purposes, we ask the question:

What is the right frame of reference I should adhere to in my life and business?
Answer: Your own inner core values must be the compass leading you through life!

Granted, this is not always easy. For example, in business, what if my values seem to contradict what the business world calls "the the right way" to be successful and profitable?

Too often, those rule do not apply any longer and businesses try to hang on to them with the hope to maintain those profits of yesteryears.

Business rules have and will continue to change. Look at the world of Network Marketing and how it has revolutionized distribution and customer relations. In essence, Network Marketing allows individual affiliates and distributors to define their own values and live them every day.
It allows them to pick the people they want to work with, work as much or as little as they want, or in other words, again, to live in the freedom to define their own values and live them every day.

If you are in an employment situation that allows you to keep and live your personal values and goals - that's great. If not, you owe it to yourself to look around and find a better match.

Brian Tracy, my favorite coach and speaker, summarizes the Law of Business with its first law, the Law of Purpose:

"The purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer. This takes precendence over making a profit. Profits will follow when customers are created and kept."

As your own best customer first, search for your values and express them. Others will see those values in you and will be attracted to you, be it for business or friendship.

Andy Uhlig
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4th Annual Digital Future Report

The internet undoubtedly has and will continue to change consumer shopping behavior. This 104 page report is very interesting. Take these facts into consideration when planning your own advertising campaigns.

Free Report:
http://www.smartecreation.com/articles/DigitalFutureReport-Year4-2004.pdf

Here are a few highlights:

- Multitasking gaining. 24.9% of users talk on the phone while surfing (add an 800# to your site and email campaigns pronto); and 27% listen to the radio while online (hey, radio ads are still pretty cheap, too).

- Only 9.5% of Net surfers think individuals' sites can be trusted to contain credible. So if you write a blog, include your reasons-to-trust-me credentials in your page template to reassure new visitors.

- 62.3% of users check email once a day or more (with 33.2% in the "more" camp), so if you send a daily newsletter, or put ads in them, assume a few issues will pile up in in-boxes. Also, maybe you should put a 48-hour deadline on customer alerts sent via email instead of 24 hours...

- Only 8.5% of users say they frequently shop in stores and then buy online. Compare this to 25.4% who frequently shop online and then buy in stores. Retail has nothing to worry about (unlike TV).

Free Report:
http://www.smartecreation.com/articles/DigitalFutureReport-Year4-2004.pdf

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