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Should You Work from Home?

By Pamela Vu

Key questions to consider if you're thinking of starting a home-based business.

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Home is where the heart is, but for some 10 million people it's also where the job is. The steady rise in home-based businesses is due not only to corporate layoffs but also to Americans wanting more flexibility and time for the kids. If you're thinking of taking the leap, here are some questions you'll need to consider:

Why do you want to start a home business? Is it to do something you love -- or to get away from a job you hate? "The clearer your focus, the more successful you'll be," says Paul Edwards, Pine Mountain Club, CA-based coauthor of The Entrepreneurial Parent.

Do you have the right personality? Will you miss the social life that an office provides? A self-assessment will help you decide whether you're suited for entrepreneurial life.

Will you have competition? Consider what makes your product different. On the other hand, no matter how good your idea is, your business will fade fast if there's little demand.

How will you handle childcare? Whether you'll work part-time or full-time, you'll need some kind of supplemental childcare if you have young kids.

Can you legally operate a business in your home? Check local zoning ordinances. If your homeowners' insurance doesn't cover damages to your home office, you'll need additional coverage.

Copyright �  Reprinted with permission from an issue of Child magazine.

I think most legitimate work from home/online money making method is designing your own website and then turn it to a host of money making activities. Web site is ultimate money making machine, it earns even when you are sleeping. Today, the Web is an intensely commercial medium, offering plenty of ways to make money. So your best strategy is to earn as much money as possible.

I have enlisted simple & sure ways to earn cash with your website.

ADVERTISING ON YOUR WEBSITE : The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your website is using advertising. Internet advertising is on an ascending trend, which shows plenty of potential for the near and distant future.

1. Contextual Ads : The popular search engine - Google has introduced a dramatic new contextual advertising service called AdSense which allows virtually any website owner to make money without having to do too much. AdSense is a program in which you get paid for targeting your readers to another websites product or service. Google AdSense simply requires the host site to paste in a few lines of HTML code on their pages where they want those ads to appear. This code creates the ads that you see and when someone clicks on one of these ads they go to the advertiser's site. The advertiser is then charged for the click by Google and Google shares the money with you.

Sign up for Google Adsense and place Google ads on your site. Google will display the most appropriate ads according to your content and you will get paid for every click on an ad. People are making thousands a month with this.

2. In-Text Ads : When you mouse over one of these doubly underlined sponsored links you will be presented with a Tool Tip describing an advertiser's product or service. If someone click on the key-word and it will act like an ordinary link taking visitor to a page belonging to the advertising company. For every click on a highlighted key-word, you will receive a small payment.

In-Text Advertising solution lets you monetize your content in real-time, enabling an incremental increase in ad revenue by providing a new source of untapped ad inventory that does not compete with the other ad programs running on the site. Thereby providing you with a new revenue stream from the content within your site. Intellitxt and ContextWeb provides in-text ads to websites.

3. DISPLAY AFFILIATE PROGRAM'S LINKS & BANNERS : Another method of monetizing your traffic by putting links/banners of affiliate programs on your website. Concept is really quite simple. Every thing is based on paid referral system. Visitors come to your website, you introduced them to product or service from a third party vendor through a banner or text link and you get paid a commission by merchant in various way: a. Paid per click, b. Paid per lead, c. Paid per sale. You can choose affiliate networks where different advertisers offer their banners codes and links that will display their banners on your site along with tracking of your sales and leads. Best affiliate networks to get affiliate programs are :

4. SELL AFFILIATE PRODUCTS : Another profitable way to earn money is to sell affiliate products. You simply direct traffic to their Web site and earn commissions when people buy products.

** A good way to start with affiliate products is to sign up with ClickBank. There are well over 10,000 different Digital info products. Write up some reviews and recommendations and send traffic to the ClickBank merchant, and if the product sells, you get commissions sometimes as high as 75%. This type of Web site is very simple to setup, however, it requires a large amount of visitor traffic to earn significant money. It's easy to complement an existing Web site with affiliate links for offering related products to your visitors and, at the same time, earning money.

** Make money selling other company's products through affiliate programs. They'll give you a link to track your sales. Amazon.com is great place to get HTML codes for various products to promote and earn commission. Thousands of people are making a full time income just by driving traffic from their site to merchant sites, never touching or shipping a product.

5. Charge a fee to access a section of your site : Provide free access to main sections of your website, but you can charge a fee for an access to members lounge where more lucrative information is often available. If your content is unique and valuable, you can make money charging for it online. People will pay for access, if it's useful to them. Your members lounge could be a forum, downloadable software, eBooks, listings, etc.

6. Collect and Sale Information : Creating a information database isn't just a good idea - it's good business. e.g., you can compile listings for free classified websites, ezines, directories, work at home websites,etc. Put a price tag to download them.

7. Sell your own services to your target audience : Like if you have a web site on "making money online" and you are a web designer, you can make an offer to design web site to your visitor, so that they can make money from website. You want to be able to take credit cards (at least with PayPal if not otherwise) on your site and deliver your product to your customers as fast as possible.

There are many more methods to make money, but above enlisted methods can generate substantial amount of money for beginners and let us leave rest for expert guys.

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Traffic Generation For Bloggers

If you are a blogger and you want to be successful, writing great material, unfortunately, will not get you to your goal.  You need traffic to your site.  Without traffic, no one will read what you write and this is a challenge to many bloggers out there.  How does one generate traffic for his or her site? 

There are various online services and sources you can use as well as tips to generate the traffic you need to get recognized. 

The services and sources that you can use are on the websites Digg and Stumbleupon.  Digg.  They allow you to get your material on the web and generate popularity that way and then you can bring fellow bloggers over to your own site.  Digg works in the following manner:  First you upload an article, a story, a commentary, whatever you like.  Digg will put your entry onto its upcoming stories page where fellow visitors will check out your upload. 

If visitors like your submission then they can Digg it.  By doing this, you will gain popularity.  If you reach the number of popularity hits then Digg will put your submission on its respective homepage and if it continues to be successful there it will further be placed on the top ten list.  Digg also has a forum for you to add and meet friends who are interested in the same topics and you can discuss what Digg items you find.  This way you will build a network that you can direct to your own site.  You can also advertise your site on Digg. 

The other service is Stumbleupon.  Stumbleupon helps bloggers in the same way as Digg.  Based upon good and bad commentaries, while you are trying to stumble upon a website, the stumble search that comes up is generated from stumble friends and other members who have the same preferences and tastes as you do.  Therefore, if Stumbleupon members enjoy your website that you submitted onto the site, you will have good ratings.  The more ratings you have, the higher up on the Stumbleupon search engine you will be on.  Between Digg and Stumbleupon, these are the two top ranked services that will help you launch your website.    

However, even though you use services sometimes they are not enough.  It is one thing to have people to come to your web site, but it is another thing to keep them coming.  You want to generate buzz about your website so you are going to have to make your blogging skills top notch.  The following are a list of blogging tips to generate traffic to your site.

The first piece of advice is to follow your blog and the commentaries that are left.  If people are responding to your website, to your pictures, to your opinions, etc. you need to respond back. With these responses you will create more buzz plus you will be telling your readers that you care what they think.  It also creates a conversation flow. If you start to run out of ideas, hop onto your respondents websites and regenerate conversation on your blog.

Then you can research other blog websites that are similar to yours.  Start conversations on other websites with a similar premise and leave a link to your website.  You know that the people leaving commentaries there are interested in the same subject as you, so it should not be hard to win them over.  Once again you will have to write something catchy on someone else's blog to make others want to follow your link.

Try to offer something that visitors need.  If you have quality writing you will keep your readers engaged.  If your blog is pure opinions regarding nothing, there is not much there to keep the attention of your readers.  If you write how to articles, news articles, movie reviews anything that is new and fresh that offers your reader more than you not liking a celebrity because of how that celebrity acts.  You have to have substance or else your blog will not survive.

If you are fascinated by rocket science, physics even mechanics, the general population does not understand that language per se.  It does not mean that your potential audience is unintelligent, it just means that they are not adept to it because what is the point of reading something that one does not understand.  Therefore, make your passion readable to all viewers.  Use ordinary terminology to explain complex ideas or issues.  Write directions, a bibliography or have a special vocabulary section to help your readers.

While writing make your blog special.  If you right plain, in between material that does not make a statement no one wants to read it.  Think of it this way.  When you read a headline that makes you sick because of the content it is suggesting such as racism, doesn't it make you want to read it that much more?  It is not because you are in favor of the article, it is because you cannot believe that someone would say something so horrible.  It is provocative.  If you do not make a statement, if you are not provocative, you will not generate traffic. 

Jazz up your website.  By revamping your website you will please the senses of your regular readers as well as possibly attracting new ones.  You can submit your newly designed website to a CSS gallery which will have a back link to your website.  This will create more traffic to your site.  You can also add a translator to your page.  By adding this feature, you can attract non native English speakers.  The translation may not be professional, especially if it is a free translator, but it will at least get your message across and generate traffic from abroad.

If you need more help generating traffic to your site, now you know exactly what to do.  The Digg and Stumbleupon services will provide you with the starting point that you need while the tips in this article will capture the rest of your audience and catapult you into the spotlight.

Happy Blogging!

10 Things You Must Do For 2009

With all the scare-mongering that is going on in the media at the moment surrounding the downturn, recession, depression or basically badly blown out economy (or at least as they would have you believe), you could be forgiven for pulling down your blinds and hanging up the 'out of business' sign in your shop front. That is if you've even managed to hang on to your premises for this long or even have a physical store front since the advent of the internet. But just like when I am running a business or marketing consult session with a client, I tend to encourage people to stop focusing on the negative or problems at hand and start coming up with possible solutions....

With all the scare-mongering that is going on in the media at the moment surrounding the downturn, recession, depression or basically badly blown out economy (or at least as they would have you believe), you could be forgiven for pulling down your blinds and hanging up the ‘out of business’ sign in your shop front. That is if you’ve even managed to hang on to your premises for this long or even have a physical store front since the advent of the internet.

But just like when I am running a business or marketing consult session with a client, I tend to encourage people to stop focusing on the negative or problems at hand and start coming up with possible solutions. A simple brain storm BEFORE the pressure really hits or even in the midst of a crisis is a good way to remain optimistic about the year ahead (and to bring out my inner hippie, a little positive energy all around never hurt anyone).

By focusing on some specific tasks that will put you in a better position, or give you a position in the first place if you are a new businesss on the block, you should begin to see real results.

My first posting this year is therefore 10 possible ‘solutions’ or suggested marketing activities/strategies that will suit most businesses that I encourage you to consider implementing in the interest of battening down the hatches.

And whilst it is certainly better to do something rather than nothing, I would strongly encourage you to employ multiple strategies so that if you find one doesn’t work, you can put more into the strategies that you are finding ARE working for you. Like everything in marketing, to some degree it’s a little bit of test, measure, refine then repeat.

So without further adieu, here’s what I recommend you get busy with in 2009:

1. Have a website that has been created post 2005, which you can quickly and easily updates yourself and that is search engine friendly. If your site is all of these things but has not yet been search engine optimized, get this into play pronto too.

2. Have a blog that syndicates content in multiple locations every time you make a new posting be it audio, video or word content. There are whispers that audio and video will increase in their level of importance when it comes to performance online in 2009.

3. Have a company Facebook page and depending on what you do, be exploring the capability of running demographically targeted ad campaigns through Facebook.

4. Get key company documents i.e. templates, forms, contacts, procedures and policies ONLINE utilizing technology such as wikis, Google Docs or otherwise where you can share and collaborate online and mobilize your business. If things are quieter than usual, there is no better time to get this key documentation for your business in place.

5.Explore other social media realms and possibilities i.e. digg, LinkedIn, twitter, You Tube etc

6. Make sure that in all your marketing material it is explicitly clear what you offer and what action you want them to take. If it’s not, change your marketing to something that is powerful and effective.

7. Know down to the lead and the last dollar what marketing activities out there are generating you in terms of inquiries and sales and stop or decrease all marketing activities that are not providing you with a good return on your investment.

8. Have a bullet proof data capture system for all incoming inquiries be they walk ins, fax, phone, email or otherwise whereby you ask for their name, contact number, email and how they heard about you. Ensure you have a system in place that you follow them up systematically until they convert into a paying customer.

9. Revive your de-activated clients – that is people who have not spent money with you in some time. Most businesses are sitting on a gold mine of information and ‘warm’ leads from people who have done business with them in the past, but who they have never since contacted to see if they can get an upsell or cross-sell from a re-contact or even a referral.

10. Set up a Google Alert so you are the first to know when mentions of your company, product or service are made online, be it good or bad coverage. You may also like to careful eye on your competitors through Google Alerts and other tools online to see how they are weathering the potentially rocky economic storm.

There are potentially way more than 10 things that could be on this list. I’d be interested to hear what items you think should have made a top 10 list when considering best practices for businesses of all sizes and across industries. Feel free to tell me what YOU think should be on the list, you can contact me via the below link.

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The Advantages Of A Work From Home Business

A work from home business is becoming an increasingly popular trend for many people and companies. It has a number of benefits for both the employees and the employers, and whether you are an existing business owner or an individual thinking of starting your own work from home business, you should be interested in some of the many benefits that working from home can bring.

One of the main reasons why companies adopt a work from home strategy is because such work is cost-effective. They are able to save huge amounts of money because they do not have to pay high overhead costs. They do not need to rent big office spaces since all their work processes can be done at home, and because of this, they do not have to pay bills for electricity and water. Employee benefits, like transportation benefits, medical benefits, insurance and others, are also significantly reduced.

For those people who work from home, one obvious advantage is that they will get to spend more time with their families. This is especially advantageous for mums who have kids. They can now say goodbye to daycare centers since they can look after their children while they work. Staying at home means that you can spend more time with your family while making an income.

Freedom and flexibility are also part of the reasons why a lot of people choose a work from home businesses. You can now make a living while enjoying the comforts of your own home. Doing your job at home can be very comfortable compared to being stuck in the office. You can be in control of your time and you can get more sleep since you do not have to wake up early to go to the office. If you need to do any household chores like laundry and cleaning, you can do them anytime of the day. No more boss or manager to keep an eye on you, which greatly lessens the pressure on you. Also, you do not need to adapt to the corporate culture.

Many people working from home are able to save a lot of money compared to going to the office everyday. With the convenience of getting up from bed and going straight to your desk, you can save time, gasoline, and other transportation costs. Nor do you need to buy office clothes, since working at home means you can wear anything, even your pajamas. Although though most companies that use a work from home strategy do not provide employee benefits, the great savings that come with working in this way will compensate for the benefits that are offered for office-based jobs.

Another benefit of a work from home business that can help to compensate for the loss of employee benefits that are offered to those who work in offices is the tax advantage. You can deduct expenses such as operating and depreciation costs if you use your home as a workplace. You should ask your accountant for proper evaluation, but it is a significant saving.

And lastly, work from home reduces stress. If any of your family members become ill you do not have to file for a vacation leave, but can now balance the demands of your private life and work life. Also, you can forget office politics which can cause so much stress to an individual. However, there is a downside.

While you are not pressured to get work done within tight schedules, you have to retain a degree of responsibility and put a full day's work in each and every day. You should set deadlines for yourself, or else you will not earn enough to support your living. If you perform badly, you should expect a low pay. On the other hand, if your performance is satisfactory, then you can look forward to satisfactory earnings.

Your earnings greatly depend on your own performance, and while this can be a good thing since you are in control of how much money you want to make, you should make sure that you don't take advantage of having no boss to keep an eye on you. You have to instill a degree of self-discipline to be successful.

In fact, with the growing number of people getting into this work from home trend, it means that it works for them and they are satisfied with the

benefits. So try it now, whether full-time or part-time, and see if it is the right thing for you.

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