27 February 2009

Best Home Based Business Opportunities for Writers

As a writer, you probably already use a computer and the
Internet. You may maintain your own web site to showcase your
writing abilities. However, many other opportunities abound when
you have writing skills. You may want to consider a few of the
best home based business opportunities.

As an online writer, you can publish your own ezine or
electronic magazine. The Internet essentially levels the playing
field for writers as you don’t have to wait for a publisher to
discover you. If you have the desire to publish an ezine, you
can get started with very little upfront money. By using various
self-promotion techniques, writing your own ezine can become one
of the best home based business opportunities available to you.
Alternatively, you could publish your own weblog or blog. Pick
your own platform or just write to get your name out there. Your
possibilities are limited only by your imagination and time.

Another one of the best home based business opportunities for
writers is blogging or writing for hire. Many businesses and
individuals want to maintain blogs for different reasons but
don’t have the time or the experience to do so. They will often
pay a professional writer to maintain this aspect of their
business. They may also require other types of writing for their
web sites or offline needs. You can find out about these types
of opportunities in different writing magazines both on and off
the Internet.

And, of course, one of the best home based business
opportunities for any writer is freelancing. You may choose to
sign up at a site like http://www.elance.com where you can bid
on different writing jobs from all over the world. So many
different possible projects exist for a freelancer. You could
write sales copy for businesses, write business correspondence
or even ghost write books. The list goes on and on.

Many of the best home based business opportunities for writers
are available either on the Internet or through the Internet.
You just need to get out there and find the best one for you.

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26 February 2009

Home Based Business Tax Advantages

You already know how wonderful it can be to work from home, but
do you realize how many home based business tax advantages
exist?, many people operate home based
businesses just to take advantage of the numerous tax
deductions.

Claiming the use of your home in your business can give you some
hefty deductions on your tax return. As with anything
tax-related, you must meet certain requirements determined by
the Internal Revenue Service. However, if you use one room or
part of a room specifically for your business, you can receive a
significant home based business tax deduction. This can include
portions of your utility bills specifically related to that area
of your house as well as any relevant home improvements.

Your phone and other office services can also provide you with a
substantial home based business tax deduction. If you maintain a
separate fixed phone line or cell phone specifically for your
business, then all costs related to those phone lines can be tax
deductible. However, if you use equipment or services in both
personal and business environments, it is more difficult to
establish a tax deduction. Its not impossible, but you must
meet some fairly strict requirements and maintain good records.

Using your car in your business gives you the potential for
another good home based business tax deduction. Of course, you
must keep excellent records but you can deduct mileage and
car-related expenses that you incur while conducting your
business. With any type of business, other incidental costs come
up. You can also take deductions for purchases of items such as
office supplies, postage, advertising materials and expenses.
You can potentially deduct even more by hiring your children or
spouse to work as employees for you. This enables you to deduct
health insurance premiums and other typical employee-related
expenses.

In order to find out about the many home based business tax
deductions available to you, consult an experienced tax advisor.
With proper advice and good record keeping, your home based
business can become even more successful.

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25 February 2009

I didn't get any money this Month!

A man in a bar sees a friend at a table, drinking by himself.

Approaching the friend he comments, "You look terrible. What's the problem?"

"My mother died in August," he said, "and left me $25,000."

"Gee, that's tough," he replied. "Then in September," the friend continued, "My father died, leaving me $90,000."

"Wow. Two parents gone in two months. No wonder you're depressed."

"And last month my aunt died, and left me $15,000."

"Three close family members lost in three months? How sad."

"Then this month," continued, the friend, "absolutely nothing!"

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24 February 2009

Is Affiliate Marketing a Viable Business Model for Successful Businesses?

Some of the most popular "how to" courses, bootcamps and seminars are built around affiliate marketing as a business model for success. If you do a search on the Internet, you'll find literally thousands of E-books, Home study courses, and affiliate marketing products for sale.

But can you really build a business around selling other people's products?

Yes. And no.

The truth of the matter is, there is a specific formula that can lead to success if you decide to base your business around selling affiliate products.

But if you do it wrong, you may never make more than enough to cover your Internet connection and telephone costs each month.

Why is there such a huge disparity between the really successful affiliate marketers (those who make several thousand dollars each and every month) and those who are barely eking out a living?

Like with any business, it all boils down to creating solid systems that are scalable and can be duplicated to bring income from as many different sources as possible.

Here are some things to keep in mind when getting started:

Start with one product. Do your research. Find a market with a product that people want and are buying. Set up a system for promoting that product. (Think article writing, white papers, case studies, product reviews, e-books, workbooks, etc.)
Find additional and complimentary products or services that you can sell after you've started making a profit with the first one.

Create a squeeze page where you can collect names of people who want to find out more about the affiliate product or niche market.

Drive traffic to your Squeeze Page and offer them valuable information in exchange for their contact information.

Create a way to keep in touch with the people on your list, and continue to promote the additional products to them over time – but make sure that you're offering good solid information to them as well, to help build your credibility and their loyalty.

Once you've got your first affiliate product selling well, it's time to start cross selling and upselling. This may take you from a few weeks to several months – but like any other business, it's important that you are willing to spend the time and money necessary to build your affiliate business.

As soon as you've got the first product and cross sells operating at a profit, you can expand. For example, you could go into another complimentary niche. Or, I you want something a little more advance (and this one is a trick used by some of the Internet Marketing gurus in many different niches), go into competition with yourself.

That may sound a little crazy – but think of it this way: by competing against yourself – especially if you're able to grab onto the two of the top five positions – you're really just giving yourself a bigger piece of the pie!

If you're the type who gets bored easily, or is always looking for a new challenge, you might want to go into a totally new niche. Find something that doesn't have anything to do with your first niche.

Whatever you decide to do, just make sure that you're following the proven formula for success. Build each product or niche until it becomes profitable before moving on to the next one.

After that, you can just "lather, rinse and repeat" to your heart's content – and you'll be able to watch your bank balance grow too!

23 February 2009

How to Use Internet Marketing to Build Your Business

No matter what business in you're in, you can put the Internet to use for you and use it to help you build your business and rake in more sales.

The statistics on how many people are online now are mind-blowing. As of November of last year, there are over One Billion people online. This gives all of us an incredible opportunity to grow our businesses – to global proportions, if that's what we want.

However, the Internet is not without pitfalls and obstacles. In fact, if you make the wrong move, you can find yourself in very real danger of losing everything you've worked so hard to build.

Here are some things to keep in mind when it comes to using the Internet to market your business:

Create a professional-looking Web presence. These days with all the readily available Website templates, blogs and highly affordable Website designers who can be hired to design a custom Website, there just isn't any excuse for amateurish or poorly built Websites these days. Even when you add the cost of Internet access, hosting, buying the right domain name and the cost of having a Website built, starting an online business is affordable to almost anyone – and so even if you run your business from your home, it doesn't have to look that way!

Make sure that you've done your research. Find a hungry market that is already buying in your chosen niche. Choose a product that your target market wants to buy – the best way to do this is to choose a product or service that meets a need, takes away a pain or solves a problem. Competition is good – but make sure you choose something where you've got a good chance of getting close to the top.

Write a business plan. Even if your business is completely online, a business plan is your roadmap that helps guide you from where you are right now to where you want to end up. Business plans aren't just for people who are looking for venture capital or business loans. Include your plans for marketing and selling on the Internet in your plan. Be flexible and willing to adjust those plans as needed.

Start with the end in mind. Do you know where you want to end up? What are you going into business for? To make a little extra money? To build a business that you can later sell and live on the proceeds? Whatever your reason for going into business for yourself, decide what your ultimate goal is. That way you'll be able to direct your actions towards achieving it. Brainstorm as many different ways as possible that the Internet can help you to achieve your goals.

Create a vision board. Although some people call them hokey or old fashioned, having a vision for your business can help you to stay focused and moving towards what you want. Whether you believe in them or not, a vision board can keep you excited and motivated. If you do a Google Search, you'll find several companies that let you build a vision board online – and will even let you send it to your team, your mentors or other people who matter to you.

Have an action plan. Once you know your long-term plan for your business, it's easier to chunk it down and create shorter, medium and long term goals that will help you to achieve them. Write down your plan for marketing on the Internet and make sure that you take at least one or two actions towards those goals every single day,
Surround yourself with positive, supportive people who will hold you accountable when you need it, give you encouragement and keep you on your toes and stretching beyond where you think you can go. Thanks to the Internet, the people on your team no longer have to live in your town, your region or even your country!

Test, test, test. Whatever you're doing – whether it's banner advertising, using a newsletter, trying an AdWords campaign – or any other form of Internet marketing or advertising – keep testing your results. (But here's a hint – when it comes to your copy, don't waste your time on unimportant elements – only test the ones that are going to give you the biggest return on your investment.)

Spend your time where it's going to do the most good – making money. There's so much information available – and so much to do online, that it's easy to get sidetracked and involved in activities that waste your time. If you find yourself with lots of plans for what you're going to accomplish in the morning, but suddenly the entire day's gone by – and you wonder what happened – then chances are you're wasting too much time online. You can find some great time-tracking programs online – monitor yourself for a few weeks and you'll be amazed at all the ways you can find to turn things around and become more productive.

Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Develop a marketing plan where you're using offline as well as online marketing methods to grow your business.
Follow these simple rules for being online and marketing your business, and you'll end up exactly where you want to go.

21 February 2009

Could this be The Easiest way to Build a List

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19 February 2009

How To Make Money From Passions

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To make money online many people jump right in before they are properly prepared. You know that to be a rocket scientist, a doctor, a brick layer, a construction worker, an office worker, a teacher there are prerequisites, things you must learn, before you can be successful, you don't just jump right in unprepared.

The same applies to the Internet marketing industry even though there are unsavoury people out there who'd have you believe it's a "Walk in the Park" and requires no more than the belief that you can just do it.

And I'll have to admit, it is a walk in the park compared to what you have to put up with in the working world punching a clock being a subordinate to someone who does not have your interests in mind, but there are still rules you have to follow and pitfalls you must avoid to actually make Internet marketing work for you.

Most people will not make a dime online and yet there are others who will make more in one month than most people make in a whole year. Why is that?

My answer begins with the age-old chicken or egg question, "what comes first the chicken or the egg"? Personally I vote for, well never mind, each argument you or I make comes back to the same old conclusion - I have no clue and I don't think many of us do either.

But one thing I do have a clue about and know for sure is that to make money online you must first have Passion for the company products and/or service of any Internet business from which you expect to make money.

Passion in this sense simply means that you've researched and like the company and products or services. It is then that you translate that like (or Passion) into the education, excitement and work that usually accompany Passion.

I will have to say that many online entrepreneurs are so good at what they do that they ignore passion because they can sell anything. But I'm concerned about those of you who are not so knowledgeable at working an online business successfully.

Now, I'm not trying to make anyone believe that Passion is the only thing necessary. Because to be successful you must also have a good website, good marketing, widespread advertising, company support, effective keywords, and etc. Those things are often learned from the company you join - but sidestep Passion and you reduce your chances for success dramatically.

It therefore follows that, if you have no Passion for the company and the products and services provided by that company, again, you won't attempt to do the work you are being taught.

Internet marketing work is typically not all that difficult or time consuming but it does take motivation caused by Passion to get you off and running with a sustained effort so that you won't stumble.

You have a great resource in the Internet search engines to search about the Internet Marketing industry for business opportunities, USE IT!

Your research should uncover a company that you like and have confidence in. It should be solid, founded on great principles, and easy to understand with great products and services that are sell-able for which you can have Passion. If you don't find it move on,
You can find the right opportunity containing the attributes identified above.

Comments like, well, that one sounds good and the compensation plan is excellent so I guess I'll start that business - does not sound like a decision based on anything near Passion. And remember when you hear that an Internet "guru" does that, don't be tempted, because as I said earlier they are experienced and can sell just about anything, without being Passionate about the company products and services.

Note: By the way it's your goal to get to the point where you can sell about anything online. That end skill and goal is a worthy one indeed.

Remember, there are other steps you must make before you step into Internet Marketing but if you don't first find the right company products and services to be passionate about, all of those other steps may just cause you a lot of frustration instead of bringing you great success.

Not being Passionate about a company and products and services that has market proof that it will sell is a pitfall you simply must avoid.

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In this current economy, this question has come into everyone’s mind at one point or another.” How do I make money fast?” Luckily for everyone who has ever had that question come to mind there is an answer! There are several ways to make money quickly online, now we will venture through the online category.

3 websites to make money online.

1. Associated Content.
2. Cash Crate.
3. Forum booster.

Let’s begin with associated content. Associated content should be the number one stop for those people who frequently ask themselves, how I could make money fast. Associated Content requires you to write content, which in other words for those who aren’t familiar with the online language, content means articles.

Associated Content requires that you write articles for them, they will pay you anywhere from $3 to $40 for your content.

Most of the time however the bids that they place on your content are for much less than $10. However, this is still a great way to make money online if you can type several articles per day. You may be surprised to see how easy it has become to earn a part time income through writing for Associated Content.

The next site that we will talk about is Cash Crate. Cash Crate is a site that pays you to take surveys. They may pay anywhere from a dollar to possibly a hundred dollars, just for you to take a survey.

Doesn’t sound too bad now does it? The reason they pay you to complete surveys is that companies are willing to shell out loads of cash for in-depth information from their consumers to find out exactly what they word on the street is about their product or services.

They even have a daily survey on the homepage that is guaranteed to make you some extra income; the guaranteed survey on the homepage pays $0.80. It may not seem like much but do the math, over a 30 day time period. That is almost $30 extra dollars just for taking surveys.

Are you still asking yourself that question, how do I make money fast? Well if writing tons of articles and taking surveys doesn’t really sound like your cup of tea, there is always the alternative of Forum Booster.

Forum Booster is a website that pays you $0.10 for each post you make on a forum. This is great for those of us that would be searching and posting on forums either way, why not get paid for it? If you can post sixty posts in 1 hour, you can make $6, which is not that bad for earning money online.

It may not be minimum wage, but you have the advantage of being in the comfort of your own home. You can be in your pyjamas sipping coffee while working on posting on forums. Each post should be a minimum of 12 words, which is not difficult to do at all.

Overall there are tons of ways to make money quickly online but these are just the tried and true and the best of the best.
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