Archive for July 2003
Home Based Business Opportunities: This lesson is designed to help you understand the different types of Web sites on the Internet. You will learn about content sites, promotional sites, portals and much more. It is recommended that you attend the class lectures to get a full understanding of this lesson. It is important to know [...]
Know Your Goals and Watch For Success
WAHM: We all dream about the way we’d like our life to be. If you’re reading this, there’s a good chance you dream of starting a business from home. Everyone has different reasons for doing this. Maybe you want to live in a nicer house, or drive the car of your dreams, maybe you just [...]
11 Reasons Why More Web Site Traffic Isn’t Always Equal To More Sales!
Home Based Business Opportunities: Any item or combination of items below might be affecting your chance of sales success. Here are my top 11 reasons: 1. Your web site can’t be found in more ways than one 2. Your web site looks unprofessional and detracts from your credibility 3. Your product/service has little appeal 4. [...]
How To Make Money With A Home Biz
WAHM: Is there a secret to making money with a home business? What about making lots of money? Are there just a special few out there that can only do this? Or can anyone make it happen? In my research of successful home-based business, I’ve found two essential ingredients to success. They are a good [...]
Home Based Business Opportunities: Do you use mini-courses in your online marketing? If not then maybe you should! Mini-courses are an important part of Internet marketing. A mini-course is a tool that enables you to provide valuable content to your subscribers and promote your own or affiliate products at the same time. A mini-course is [...]
FREE Tips For Making Money with Your Business Opportunity
WAHM: Bonnie Ansel is a stay at home mom of three children. She has tried everything to make ends meet, from cleaning apartments, ironing for 75 cents a shirt, and then day care for friends. One day a friend mentioned natural supplements for her son who was on Ritalin for ADHD. She scraped together the [...]
Home Based Business Opportunities: What do the key words represent? Key words – these are the words that the users enter in a given search engine to find services or products you offer. It is extremely important to know what key words they will use. Selecting the appropriate for your activity key words is the [...]
Are You Crazy? You Can’t Make Money Doing That?
WAHM: It sounds so simple, doesn’t it? Just do what you love and watch the money roll in. It makes sense, but many people get hung up in one particular area when trying to make this whole concept work. “What do I LOVE to do?” As busy moms, wives, PTA presidents, car-poolers, Sunday school teachers [...]
Using Your Website To Grow Your Business
Home Based Business Opportunities: A snowplow operator in a New Jersey suburb was hailed by a woman asking him to plow her driveway so she could get out. Wading through less than a foot of fluffy snow to her SUV, he asked her why she didn’t put it into four wheel drive and simply back [...]
What Is A Home Based Travel Agent?
WAHM: A travel agent books travel for customers and is paid by suppliers a commission on the booking. For things that suppliers do not pay a commission on, a travel agent also can charge the client a service fee for his/her time. An example is if you were to book a hotel for a client, [...]
Got a Small Business? Choose the Right Domain Name
Home Based Business Opportunities: Choosing a domain name can be daunting. Research the subject (after all, you’re the type of marketer who researches, right?) and you’ll be hit with a landslide of opinions, most contradictory. There are, however, two points that everyone agrees on: Pick your domain before you launch your business. This is especially [...]
Home Party Comparison Worksheet
WAHM: When you start your search for the perfect Direct Selling or Home Party Line business, here are some valuable questions to ask when comparing companies and opportunities: 1) What is their start up cost? 2) Is there a monthly minimum purchase requirement and if so, how much is the monthly investment? 3) Will I [...]
Internet Marketing and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Home Based Business Opportunities: I was just thinking about something I’d like to share with you, and hopefully it’ll give you something to think about as well. I was remembering when I took a motorcycle riding safety class when I was 23 years old. I had no previous riding experience, aside from a bit of [...]
Use Your Skills to Start a Home Business
WAHM: You want to be home with your children, yet you still want (and need) to work and make money. Perhaps it is possible to transfer your current skills to a home business. For some careers, writing for example, it’s easy to see how you can do your work from home. For others, however, you [...]
How Can I Market With Articles If I Can’t Write?
Home Based Business Opportunities: The shrewdest and most effective means of free advertising is through providing interesting and relevant information to your potential customers. You can do this easily by writing and distributing free reprint articles at various web sites around the ‘net. There are literally thousands of e-zine and web site publishers actively searching [...]
Ten Questions to Ask When Considering a Direct Sales Home Business
WAHM: If you need extra income, a flexible work schedule, and you like the idea of owning your own business, you might want to consider joining a direct sales company. There are hundreds of companies to choose from, offering a wide variety of products. But there are also things to watch out for, so use [...]
Without Conversion Rates You Don’t Know If You’re Mickey Mouse Or Mickey Mantle
Home Based Business Opportunities: I couldn’t agree more with the headline of this article and it’s one I’m afraid I can’t take credit for. I found this line in Paco Underhill’s book, Why We Buy — The Science Of Shopping, and found myself comparing many of the things he has measured in the retail world [...]
Should I Stay Home Or Go Back To Work? How About Both?
WAHM: Growing numbers of Moms are choosing home based businesses. Women multi-task, it is just what we do. If we weren’t doing 3 things at once plus thinking of 3 other things — we would feel guilty. Can we balance home, family, career, bills, life … etc.? Sure we can! On February 19, 2004 The [...]
15 Ways to Advertise for Free!
Home Based Business Opportunities: 1. Message Boards 2. Email Discussion Groups 3. Ad Swaps 4. Link Exchanges 5. Ezine Publishing 6. Write Articles 7. Guestbooks 8. Sigtags 9. Signature Buddies 10. Testimonials 11. Group Pop Unders 12. Welcome Letter 13. Announcement Groups 14. Group Subscription Pages 15. Online Directories
FreelanceMom.com: So, you’re ready to launch your own newsletter. You’ve heard that a newsletter (or ezine) is a great way to stay in touch with site visitors and to develop an opt-in list of your own to promote your products and services. OK, so far so good. And you have your first issue ready to [...]
Search Engine Optimization is Simply TEXT!
Home Based Business Opportunities: Small business webmasters often believe search engine optimization is a complex and mysterious art that they must struggle to understand and master. It couldn’t be further from the truth. SEO is basic and simple – TEXT. As a search engine optimizer, I’m faced daily with the errors of well-meaning webmasters who [...]
