Posts Tagged ‘Home Business’

 

July 5th, 2013

A Whole New World! What to Expect Your First Year of Internet Marketing!


A whole new world awaits you if you are planning to jump into digital marketing, but this is your time to test new waters. It’s exciting to start a home based business and it’s fun to learn new things,however, it’s wise for you to have an understanding of what you can expect your first year in business.

You’ll need to have a realistic view of what it takes for you to make it, how much hustling you’ll really need to do, and what you’ll be earning within your first 6 months into your first year of internet marketing. It’s so important that what you expect is real, so that you don’t set yourself up for failure and disappointment.

I am going to share with you what I know, and what I personally experienced so that you can do the same, and you’ll be ready to enter into a whole new world with your new business!

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Entering Into a Whole New World with a Home Business

When you choose to start a home business, you’ll find yourself planning for what seems like an eternity, and then you’ll find that there is a season of activity that needs to take place in order to make your dreams come to fruition.

Before you can even plan, an idea is born, and it’s one that grows from your deepest passions in life. This means that for each one of us our business could be something different, whether its:

  1. Skincare and beauty items
  2. Health and wellness
  3. Precious metals and collectibles
  4. Home decor and other categories

The options for home based business are endless, but once you have an idea you need to draw out a small plan for your business to get it started. This means planning for:

  1. Startup costs
  2. Logo
  3. Branding yourself online
  4. Creating an online platform to let people know you exist!

There are so many things to consider, but you cannot get anywhere unless you get started. So, your first year will involve some thought and planning, before you take action. It will take you about 3 months to do this if you are fervent and dedicated to spending time with this each day, and then when you are in month 4, you’ll find that taking action feels good and that you are more than ready.

While you’ll be part of a whole new world, you’ll learn by reading and studying about others that had success before you!

Don’t Freak Out in a Whole New World!

While you may be feeling overwhelmed already, remember, my position is that I am here to help you. Everyone that starts a home business and is new to the idea of being self employed may feel a little nervous at times, but it’s a great feeling to know that you will be working for yourself and doing something you really love.

Although you may have a full-time job now, you’ll need to give yourself some time to create and put this together. Be realistic about the fact that you’ll need to study and research before you ever run an ad of any kind via social media, or before you ever use email marketing. You’ll also want to follow top marketers in the industry, just as I did to learn what pitfalls you could encounter during your first year.

This is how I found Six Figure Mentors.  I didn’t have all of the answers when I started and I still don’t! What I do know is that if you surround yourself with knowledgeable people that have experience, and have had success in the online marketing sphere, you’ll learn quickly.

Do you want to start a new business, but you just aren’t sure where to start? Are you looking for a mentor for your business that can help you get to six figures? If you are ready to delve into a whole new world, and you would like a little helping hand, just go HERE to access the Six Figure Mentor 7 day bootcamp!

September 29th, 2012

5 Ways that Home Businesses Can Change Your Life for the Better!


Home businesses have been rising in popularity since the early 2000's. Have you been wondering how you can get a piece of this pie for yourself?

More and more women and men desire to have more freedom in their life and for them it means starting their own business in which they can work from home. I desired this same freedom, and since I took the plunge, I have NEVER looked back since.

I know how incredible it is to be able to work from home and raise my children, and I only want the same for you too!

I want to share with you the 5 ways in which home businesses can change your life for the better today and every day in the future!

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Home Businesses Help You Find Out Your Why!

Do you have something in your life that motivates you to get up everyday and attack life with everything in you? If you don't, then it's time to reconsider what you are doing right now.

Life isn't worth living when you don't enjoy it, and that asked me to really do some soul searching for what I wanted out of life. Home businesses ask you to look a bit deeper into your soul to really question what motivates you, to get you dig deeper.

This is the first way in which home businesses can change your life for the better. When I first considered starting a home based business, I asked myself these questions:

  1. Why do I work for someone else when I can work for myself?
  2. Why do I get up everyday to work and earn an income? To pay bills or something more?
  3. Do I believe that money creates options, or is it just a paycheck to me?
  4. If I don't go for my dreams what does that teach my children?

These are all important questions that we should all be asking ourselves, but for me these questions didn't get asked or answered until I decided I wanted to work for myself at home. This exercise helps you gain perspective on what is important in life and for your family.

Home Businesses Call Forth Your Gifts and Talents!

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Another way in which home businesses can change your life for the better is that they enable you to use your gifts and talents.

You can choose a home based business based on your gifts and talents or better yet something you are really passionate about. What do you enjoy? Are you passionate about health and wellness? Are you passionate about helping someone else have more freedom in their life?

If so, then use that passion to help you choose a home business, and use that passion to help you grow it!

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Home Businesses Stretch Your Creativity and Your Comfort Zone!

While it's true that home businesses can help you in many ways, they can also help to stretch your creativity and your comfort zone a bit.

This is because you will need to be more innovative in the beginning and tap into your creative side so that you can see where you can use resources you already have before you get into paid advertising.

You will also find that “home businesses” change your life for the better by challenging you to get out of your comfort zone! Talk to people you might not otherwise talk to, and get them to open up to you about other things first.

If you show people you care about them, then building a relationship is super simple! Make sense?

Home Businesses Will Change Your Ability to Earn More Money!

Just in case you were wondering, home businesses can really give you freedom, but you will be increasing your earning power.

Think about it; when you have your own business you will be able to set your own price in order to earn your own income. Just like anything else whatever you put into it is what you get out of it. Sound like a winning proposition?

If you want to learn more about having more freedom in your life, and how home businesses can help you change for the better, then CLICK HERE now!

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January 17th, 2012

Simple Tips And Strategies For Article Marketing To Make Money Online In A Home Based Business


Article marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote any website, bus

iness or blog. To get great traffic and rank highly on search engines particularly when you want to make money online in a home based business, you need the benefit of some great tips and strategies to use in your article marketing to help you on your way.

Although many strategies exist, one which is an absolute must as a starting point, is researching keywords or keyphrases as they are also known, and these should be included in your articles. A keyword or keyphrase can be just one word or several words in length but not longer than a sentence.

Let me just take you back to a year or so ago to when I used to work in a traditional job working in a college. I loved it and thought that’s how my life would be forever but due to the desperate economic climate affecting most parts of the world and like so many thousands before me, I was made redundant and needed to find alternative work. That’s when I turned to the Internet and decided to work from home and work online. As it turned out, being made redundant, although terrible at the time, has turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Until that point, I’d never known anything about keyword research before. Never had any need for it but all that’s changed now. It’s become a very necessary part of my daily routine and if you work online, maybe in an Internet marketing business or another type of Internet business, then a brilliant strategy to use is article marketing as it’s so effective in driving visitors to your site.

Finding the right keywords for your articles is absolutely crucial because they are the foundation on which the whole article rests and if not done correctly, will affect the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

Most people go to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing when looking for products and services. Keyword research indicates what words or phrases people are using to search for products or services in your particular niche.

There are several tools which can be used to conduct effective keyword research and one of these is the Google Keyword Tool. This is a great one to use because it shows what terms people have used to search for keywords on the Google search engine and it’s completely free to use. To get the most out of this tool, it’s best to make use of keywords which have very little competition.

Once you’ve completed your research and the keywords have been identified, go ahead and write your article and make it interesting and educational to the reader. Preferably both but make sure you incorporate your keyword in the both the title and the article or nobody will be able to find your article. Once your article is complete, submit it to EzineArticles.com to obtain their approval.

Conducting accurate keyword research is the foundation of the entire marketing strategy. If you don’t get your keyword research right, nobody is going to be able to find your articles and you will have wasted your time and effort. Get your keyword research right and you’ll find your article will show up in the right places. It will get your website and business known by those who already want to buy from you through these proven methods.

So if you want to make money online in a home based business and you implement these tips into your article marketing, you’ll soon get your target market reading your articles. Who knows, you may get lots of positive feedback and comments to them on your blog too. This is very rewarding and will spur you on to write more articles for certain. I wish you all the best of luck in your endeavours. If you’ve found my post useful, I’d be grateful if you’d share it with your friends and leave me some comments. Thanks!

January 6th, 2012

Why Women Working From Home Need To Consider Using Video Marketing – Part 2


How To Start Video Marketing For Women Working From Home

If you’re thinking of joining the ever-growing ranks of women working from home running an online marketing business and you’ve read my previous article about video marketing and are ready to get started, I’ve got some advice that I hope will help you on your journey.

Through a process of trial, error and frustration, I worked out a fairly streamlined process that I hope, will make your life a whole lot easier.

If you’re feeling daunted by it, don’t be – there’s no need. If right now you’re thinking you won’t be able to stand in front of a camera and talk for two or three minutes, don’t let that put you off. The benefits are huge if you can master the art of video marketing.

The more you practice, the more confident you’ll feel

It’s OK if you don’t feel confident at the outset. That’s how it is for the majority starting out and that’s quite normal. The only way this is going to get easier is to just jump in and get going even if you make mistakes and forget what you need to say.

So assuming that you’ve already done your keyword research around the niche that you want to target, then let’s get started.

Have you chosen a location to shoot your video? Do you have a tidy and light office away from noise or do you prefer an outdoors location? Either are fine but both have to show you in a professional way. You need to make sure you are neat and tidy too. If outdoors, you need to avoid a windy area and free from distractions for your viewers. They need to focus on you and not on the people playing games in the background.

Do you have a video camera and a kind and patient camera operator? You could use a tripod instead but it takes quite a while to set up. Better still and much quicker, do you have a smart phone with a video camera? They’re great and really easy to use and you just download your video onto your computer, edit if necessary and send to YouTube. Alternatively, you can record straight from your laptop and that’s fine too.

My preferred method is to get someone to video me using my iPhone, then I download it onto my Apple Mac. If no editing is needed, I just upload it to YouTube. Job done. Simple.

If you really can’t face the camera, then you can always do a slide-show with recorded voice over. You can use power-point on a PC or keynote on an Apple Mac and these work great too. An example of this can be found here

Punchy, interesting videos attract viewers – make the most of it!

Remember, video marketing is very popular and it’s a great way to get your messages out to your target market. Don’t forget your videos need to be entertaining, informative or educational or a combination of all. They must be attractive to the viewer and provide valuable content.

I aim to shoot around three minutes of video footage in total, preferably less, and if possible, without using any kind of cue prompter. A good method I recommend is to write an article on a topic you’ve researched or learnt for article marketing or for your blog, then read it a few times and do a video about it while it’s still fresh in your mind. This way you won’t need to read off a cue prompter or a sheet of paper and it’ll be much more conversational.

Listening to someone speak naturally even if they make a few mistakes is much more appealing that watching someone who is obviously reading. If you allow yourself to relax, you’ll find your words flow much easier.

Another tactic I use is to have a few large bullet points on paper beside the camera to jog my memory as I go. This keeps the flow natural.

Don’t forget you need to say your keyword in your video and you’ll need to put your keyword in the title too. You will also need to put your keyword and other related keywords into the ‘tags’ section and make sure you include a link to your social media or website in the ‘description’ box along with details of your video. I put the link at the top of the box.

If like me, you want to be successful amongst the army of women working from home, and if you implement some of these strategies, they should get you off to a good start. I wish you good luck. Do let me know how you get on. I’d love to hear from you.