Is it really a free home based business opportunity? Can I make money without paying anything at all? – Those are about the most often repeated queries put forward by people who are hoping to find a way to make money at home online. People who see an advertisement for a free home based business opportunity want to be reassured that “free” means it will never cost them a penny to run their home based business and that they can easily make money at home online without investing anything. I’m amazed they could even start to believe such a thing could be possible.When people ask me the “is it really free?” type of question, I give them an honest answer. The answer to both question is usually “yes, but…” and they tend to be disappointed and feel that they’ve been tricked and that the advertisers lied when they offered a free home based business opportunity. It is true that fortunes can be made from a free home based business on the Internet and it can be easy to make money at home online but that is not the whole answer.I am completely anti-hype but I don’t think all Internet advertising is as misleading as people often claim. If you consider the average Internet advertisement, its wording is no worse than the standard “up to 50% off” claims we take for granted in offline advertising. We know that only a selected few items will actually be reduced by 50% and we don’t feel at all cheated if we find a bargain with just 20% off its usual price. The thing is, people see things differently when they are searching the Internet for ways to make money at home online, their expectations are far higher, they are more willing to believe improbable claims and their disappointment is, therefore, quick and keenly felt..If you tried to tell the same people that they could make money at home with an offline business without incurring any costs, they would laugh you out of the auditorium. However, the Internet is a strange environment and people need to get acclimatised before they can recognise a legitimate way to make money at home online and to understand what is “free” in the context of a free home based business opportunity. After just a small amount of experience, people will realise that the free home based business opportunity is going to cost them money one way or another if they want to see profits accumulating at any significant rate. The ones who persevere also eventually realise that the cost of running a free home based business online is far less than the cost of running an offline business.Let’s think seriously about starting a business. First, how about an offline business. Suppose you decide you want to open a shop and sell dresses. Before you see any profit at all, you will have to pay out for premises (rent and taxes), services (fuel, water, phone), stock, insurance and advertising. If you are going to continue with your current employment while you build up the new business, you will also need to find staff and add wages to your list of expenses.Now let’s think about our free home based business opportunity on the Internet. You need to budget for a product (the equivalent of the stock of dresses), a website (the equivalent of the shop premises) and advertising. The list is shorter and now the Internet home based business opportunity is looking like a much better deal by comparison. The products can be obtained either free of charge or for a small price, the cost of a website is small change compared to the cost of premises, this will be a home based business, so you won’t incur any additional service charges or insurance. An Internet home based business can be set up to run 24/7 with just a couple of hours work a day, so you can continue to earn money at your currently employment without having to spend anything on staff wages. That just leaves advertising costs.Advertising your free home based business is the thing that’s going to take up the biggest part of your budget. If you were opening your first shop on a limited budget, you would not be able to afford large premises in the prime part of the busiest shopping district where you would benefit from passing trade. You would have to be content with a small side street based shop and, to make customers aware of your business, you would have to advertise. In order to get a steady stream of visitors to your shop, you would need to advertise consistently and continuously. You would need to place your advertisements where they can reach your target market and you would need to make sure your advertisements appeal to your prospective customers so that they would be prepared to make the detour from the main street to check out your products.The Internet works in the same way. Nobody will know about your new free home based business unless you tell them. You can have the best website in the whole word but, if you don’t advertise it, it would be like keeping your shop door locked, the blinds closed and the lights off. No visitors means no potential sales and that inevitably means no profit. You have no advertise, simple as that. There are many free advertising resources available online for your home based business but you need to be selective as, although there are some very good free advertising resources, the results to be obtained from the free companies are not always as good as paid advertising. Another factor to consider is that using the free advertising resources can take up a lot of time and you need to place a value on your time and decide how it can be spent to best effect.A free home based business opportunity does sound like the ideal thing for the numerous people who are looking for ways to make money at home online but are unwilling or unable to spend any money to do it. Many people leap into the first free home based business opportunity they see advertised and just as quickly give up when they find out they need to invest time and money in order to make money at home online with an Internet based home business. If these people would think things through, they would realise that starting an online home based business is far less costly than starting an offline business and the stage of getting into profit can come very early. Even if a free home based business it is not entirely free to run, being your own boss rather than being someone else’s employee is priceless.
Legitimate Home Based Business Opportunity – 3 Key Ingredients
There are many advantages and benefits for owning one’s own business and I believe an Internet home based business has to be the best. The benefits of home based businesses are becoming clear to many in the US and across the world as more and more people set up to work from home. Working the hours they want. Working around a young family and tax benefits are just some of the great benefits to working from home. The World Wide Web is an easy accessible location to start searching for a home based business opportunity. The Internet is full of business opportunities, you just need to type in the correct key terms into your Google address bar to see millions of opportunities that come up and that may change your life. It can be very overwhelming to see that you had not realised how many different online businesses there are.Your job is to evaluate the business opportunities that are right for you from the BAD. From my own experience I know there are many bad businesses out there. This is where you need to put some time in to doing your home work before you go ahead and join any business. Here are 3 key tips for your success with your own home based business opportunity.DO YOUR HOME WORKThere are millions of opportunities out there on the Internet but you have to make sure you pick the right one for you. You need to decide whether the business is going to be part time to give you an extra couple of hundred dollars a month or is it going to be full time to replace your current income or even greater to give you freedom of time and to give you the opportunity to do the things you have only dreamed of doing.PRODUCTSProducts are the key to any business and you have to ensure that your products are in high demand. Will you get repeat orders? Do you have a lot of competitors? If there is a lot of competition for your products, so why should a customer buy from you and not your competitor? You now have your products, now you need to market them, and the best place to do this is on line. Traffic to your web site is key to your success and you need a lot of traffic. The more you get the more money you earn. It’s that simpleCOMMISSIONYou need to ensure that you are getting a healthy commission from the products you are selling. You need to find a home based business opportunity online that will pay at least 50% upfront commission with a strong residual income on the backhand. I would advise you to look out for a company with a top tier direct sales system. Top tire direct sales companies often allow for a larger commission, between 1K and 15K per sale! This shows that you do not need to make between 50 – 100 sales a month to earn a very decent income.So let’s look at the key points, first do your home work, take time to look into the masses of opportunities that are out there for you. Second make sure you pick the right product; this can be the difference between success and failure. Lastly your commission has to be enough to cover your expenses and give you a very good profit. Implement these steps and you are on your way to a successful and profitable future.To your success, Nigel Warner
Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up
One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.
However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.
Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.
But why?
In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!
So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)
The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.
Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.
Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.
By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.
You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.