31 Days to WAH Success
31 Days to Success Day 28: Protect What’s Yours
I once had someone steal my website graphic for use on his site. The was potentially disastrous for me as the site was promoting a scam and it looked like I (because it was my logo) was endorsing it. Another time, someone copy and pasted text from my website, including my personal story, to her [...]
31 Days to Success Day 27: Marketing Strategies that Work
Marketing is about letting others, who want what you have, know about your business. Here are some great ways to get the word out:
Tell your network of friends, family, and acquaintances.
Business cards…hand them out to everyone
Press releases
Article writing
Advertising
Blogging
Social networking online and off
Offer freebies such as reports, samples, [...]
31 Days to Success Day 26: The Key To Business Success
I talk to people all the time who tell me that home business just didn’t work for them. When I ask specific questions about what they did or didn’t do to build their business, I find that most failed to develop and implement a successful marketing plan. You cannot make money in your business if [...]
31 Days to Success Day 25: Sell Information
Information products are nothing new. They have been making people rich for many years. In the past most people sold them through mail order and infomercials. While these options are still used, the Internet has made information product creation and sales easier and more affordable than ever.
Information products include books, reports, training, home study courses, [...]
31 Days to Success Day 24: Selling Services
Are you good at organizing? Can you bookkeep? Can you write ads that get results? All these are examples of services you can provide to others. In fact, many if not most jobs can be turned into a service business whether its providing customer service, office support, social work, teaching, tutoring, writing, etc. Further, many [...]
31 Days to Success Day 23: Finding products to sell
Today its easier than ever to find products to sell particularly online.
1. Affiliate programs. Thousands of companies will pay you to refer new customers and contacts. These programs are free to join making them an affordable work-at-home option. Further they provide you with a website and marketing tools. Your job is to get people [...]
31 Days to Success Day 22: Products, services, information, oh my
Owning a business involves selling products, services or information…or all of the above. Taking your inventory results, determine what sorts of ways you can create/find products, services or information. For example, if you know bookkeeping you can:
1) Sell bookkeeping software and tools
2) Sell bookkeeping services
3) Sell information (training, coaching, ebook etc) on setting up bookkeeping [...]
31 Days to Success Day 21: Best Home Business for You
I get email everyday asking me what the best home business to start is. I interpret “best” to mean the fastest, cheapest, most profitable business. However, there is no one best business. That is because success in home business isn’t so much about what you choose to do (as long as you choose something legitimate), [...]
31 Days to Success Day 20: Why You Need a Home Business
It used to be that going to work for forty years would provide you with enough income to support your family today and a nice pension to support you in your retirement. Those days are gone. Financial gurus today are stressing the importance not relying on a job for your financial security. They are recommending [...]
31 Days to Success Day 19: Work At Home Job Contracts
I once did some work for a company that didn’t pay me when the work was done. Its a hard lesson to learn about the importance of a contract.
Whether you telecommute for your current boss, or you get a work-at-home job from an online business, never start the work without having a contract. Particularly when [...]
