Archive for April 2003
Tips on Winning a Virtual Assistant Position AND Keeping It
Home Based Business Opportunities: Although still considered an uncommon profession, the Virtual Assistant role is fast becoming the best recognized choice for companies, particularly web-based companies, to pursue nowadays. A Virtual Assistant (VA) is much like a traditional Administrative Assistant in many ways. VA’s handle correspondence, scheduling, customer support, website updates, writing and design projects, [...]
Beginners Guide To Herb And Spice Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: Grow, process (if necessary) and sell fresh, preserved and dried herbs (seeds, parts, plants). Examples are dill, basil, cumin, celery seed and cilantro (coriander). It is surprising that with so many gardeners and the high prices of herbs on the shelves of the supermarkets, that many more haven’t gotten into the [...]
How To Avoid Work at Home Scams and What To Do When You’re A Victim
Home Based Business Opportunities: As more and more people opt-out of conventional jobs and instead choose to work from their homes, the number of work at home scams has also increased. Each year thousands of people find out the hard way that opportunities which are too good to be true usually are but not before [...]
How To Start Your Own Carpet Cleaning Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: There are two fairly new, and very important conditions existing in the world today that have not only made the carpet cleaning industry a “billion dollar business,” but also practically guarantee your success as an entrepreneur. First, almost all homes and office buildings built since 1960 have wall-to-wall carpeting. Secondly, the [...]
Masterminding Your Way To Greater Success
Home Based Business Opportunities: Napoleon Hill coined the concept of the mastermind alliance in his classic book Think and Grow Rich. He believed that a group of like-minded, achievement-oriented individuals could dramatically leverage each other’s success. The old adages still hold true today, “the sum of the whole is greater than its parts” and “two [...]
How To Start Your Own Paper Recycling Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: One of the easies—and in fact one of the oldest ways of making extra money–is by collecting old newspapers and selling them to a recycling plant in your locale. Believe it or not, you can develop a very respectable income collecting and selling paper to the recycling centers. It certainly does [...]
Home Based Business Opportunities: Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir your blood… MAKE BIG PLANS. Aim high in hope and work. So wrote Daniel H. Burnham in the last century. The big plans are important. They capture your vision. The next step is to break them down into “do-able” chunks, chunks [...]
How To Start Your Own Day Care Center
Home Based Business Opportunities: There’s a definite need for day care centers as more and more mothers of pre-school age children are forced to find jobs outside the home. This is due in part to the current economy, and unfortunately, to the high divorce rate, which means mothers who might ordinarily stay at home and [...]
Home Based Business Opportunities: Would you like to realize your goals? Maybe you’d like to run your own business, expand your material possessions, or succeed in the arts. There is no one path to the pot of gold, but many people of all backgrounds have successfully found it. Whether you want to follow the ways [...]
How To Start Your Own Auto Tune-Up Shop
Home Based Business Opportunities: This business idea is one of those recession proof opportunities that can put you on “easy street.” When the economy heats up and inflation increases the cost of living, people become “do-it yourself” conscious, looking for ways to save money. Whenever the economy falters, people again are searching for methods of [...]
Do You Really Want To Be Rich? Take This Revealing Quiz And Find Out…
Home Based Business Opportunities: The good news, as a recent survey has reported, is that there are approximately 1,600,000 millionaires in America. The bad news, as survey after survey discovers, is that the average person has only accumulated retirement investments of about $35,000; $25,000 in a retirement plan and $10,000 in other personal savings. Worse, [...]
7 Steps To Writing Articles That People Just Have To Read
Home Based Business Opportunities: Step #1 – Define Your Topic and Set Goals. Step #2 – Research and Order Your Material Step #3 – Write Mode Step #4 – Edit Mode Step #5 – Polish Mode Step #6 – Submit For Publication Step #7 – Start Again
Find Your “Happy Place” For New Year’s Success!
Home Based Business Opportunities: You may call me crazy. but it’s true. When I recently saw one of my favorite movies, “Happy Gilmore” staring Adam Sandler, I realized that this movie has an extremely important success principle that you should know about to achieve success in the new year. Let me explain: In the movie, [...]
Starting Your Career As A Writer – A Submission Guide For First-Time Authors
Home Based Business Opportunities: Starting out to publish your book is no different than starting out in any other profession. You can’t get hired if you don’t have experience, and you can’t get experience if no one will hire you! Book publishers prefer to read manuscripts submitted by literary agents. Literary agents don’t handle unpublished [...]
Entreprenuer.com: “Which is more challenging–marriage or business ownership? We asked two successful women entrepreneurs to discuss moments when marriage and business conflict and how they deal with it.”
Learning How To Fall … You Have To Learn How To Fall Before You Can Ride With Confidence!
Home Based Business Opportunities: About a month ago, I was hit by a car while riding my motorcycle. The car side-swiped me and took off. My bike bounced off the car, shot out from under me, and I rolled under the car. Amazingly enough, I stood up, picked up my bike, and got to the [...]
How to Discover your Primary Market
Home Based Business Opportunities: Here’s a Check List for your Target Audience: What are these people’s biggest concerns/challenges? What do these people need and want to have a better life? Where does this person work? Where does this person live? Where does this person play? What type of store does this person buy from? What [...]
How to Motivate Yourself and Stay Motivated
Home Based Business Opportunities: What motivates us to do the things that we do? Why do we think and behave as we do? What influences people to do what they do? Is is all because of that one word MONEY, which drives us to do what we do? I think not. The word “motivation” means [...]
Achieve Fame And Fortune As A Publisher Of A Trade Magazine
Home Based Business Opportunities: It should be interesting to note that in a country of about 250 million people, nearly everyone is seeking some kind of part time income, business starting ideas, news and views on financial matters, moneymaking ventures, a profitable cottage industry… or a way to enhance their lifestyle in some way. One [...]
Develop a Theme That Inspires You
Home Based Business Opportunities: As the New Year begins, it’s inevitable that your thoughts turn to the changes you want to make or the things you want to achieve this year. You may have thought about New Years’ Resolutions, even though you know they generally don’t work. A New Year is like a clean sheet [...]
Government Markets For Writers
Home Based Business Opportunities: The 34,000 U.S. Government offices and other facilities scattered throughout the United States and our possessions are spending about $14 billion per year, at current budget rates, for what might be described as editorial services. And there is a good reason for so describing them, although the bulk of the effort [...]
