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Date:    April 4, 2006

Welcome to This Edition




In This Issue:

Thoughts of the Day

Article 1:   Home business career – choosing a unique online opportunity
         

Article 2:   To Niche or Not to Niche
         

Article 3:   Finding the Best Home Based Business
         

Resources

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I hope all is well with you and your business activities. I seem to have so much on my plate at present that is keeping me really busy. That's a good thing - I hope!

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At present there is a lot of hype around developing Adsense websites. Setting up websites for Adsense income is great but the reality is that to earn anything you need targeted traffic.

That is one of the biggest challenges for anyone developing a website. Getting free traffic from search engines is the best option but to get this type of traffic you need to be adding fresh content to your site on a regular basis and getting one way links to your site.

I suggest you stay well away from "link farms" because although you get an exchange link to your site the search engines can penalise your ranking. Links from unrelated sites do not do you any favors. The ideal is that any link exchange provides added value to the website visitor.

All the best,

Bryan



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THOUGHTS OF THE DAY



You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
-- Alvin Toffler


The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
-- Richard M. Devos



ARTICLE #1

Home business career – choosing a unique online opportunity

By Alice Nero

Money making is easy very easy at this time when the world is at your finger tips. Get connected to the web and get your hands on a suitable home business career. Many of us run after corporate careers but lack the home based business idea that can build a corporate.

Sounds incredible? It may seem if you are still in the comfort zones of 9-5 career and accustomed to peer pressure and boss pressure. But if you are an entrepreneur and judge things on business prospective you will find a unique home based business opportunity suitable to you.

There are two ways to start a home based small business online.

1. Convert a unique idea to a top home based business. The first way will make you rock the world by storm if you can think out of box and offer the community some thing new. Not necessarily a product, it can be a service or simply an idea. With a few business tricks, you too can start your own successful home-based business.

2. Be an affiliate/member of a legitimate low cost home based business. It is no-risk way to start a home business, though the problem lies in how to choose one from the heap of scams.

Before starting one, let’s discuss what a home based business career is and how it differs from other businesses and corporate careers. Online home based business idea was originated for 4 things:

1. Financial freedom
2. Work freedom
3. Unlimited growth
4. Residual Income

Financial prospects in any traditional businesses and careers is almost mapped at the time you start, only very few achieve unprecedented growth and success. Besides, in tradition career you undergo peer pressure and boss pressure. You are always under someone’s command – it can be your boss, your buyer, your lender etc.

Low cost home based businesses, how small they may be, there is at work freedom and the rest – financial freedom, growth, residual income come afterwards.

Unfortunately, those 4 benefits have lead to scams. And you should be smart enough to choose a legitimate home based business.

Home based businesses are not restricted to producing some items at home and selling them by the roadside. Today when internet has become the most inexpensive mode of communication, you can take any business such as Data Processing, Proofreading, Direct Marketing, Dating, etc.

Some important tips for low cost home based businesses online:

1. Build as many contacts as many contacts as possible.
2. Maintain a database of your contacts.
3. Build a clutter-free website.
4. Optimize your website for major search engines.
5. Contribute articles and blogs to article centres and blog spheres. Indirectly refer you business in those articles. It will make your stand credible.
6. Send mailers to the visitors.

Alice Nero is an expert author on home based businesses: http://www.milanodirect.biz/start-home-business.asp related topics. Home based business idea: http://www.milanodirect.biz/home-business-career.asp

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alice_Nero



ARTICLE #2

To Niche or Not to Niche

By Alicia Forest

Are you like many enterpreneurs who are afraid to choose a niche for your offerings? I know there can be the fear that you're limiting your business if you narrow your niche down too much, but that simply isn't true. Believe me, it's so much easier and profitable to market to a smaller portion of the market (just think how many people there are in the world!) than to try to be all things to all people. And you'll be amazed to find out that you actually open yourself up to possibilities that would not have come up had your focus been all over the map.

Next let me say that lots of (particularly new) business owners struggle with this issue. All you want to do is give your gifts to the world, and making decisions that make you feel as though you are saying "no" to a segment of the world may not feel right to you. But by choosing to focus on a certain segment of the population, you are ensuring that your work actually gets out there, and you will be astounded at what comes your way.

For example, even though my niche is solo professionals, once I started defining my offerings for and to coaches/consultants, my business took off. Currently, I have about 50% coaches, and 50% other solo professionals as clients. Once I started focusing my marketing efforts on my niche, all these other potential clients (who are not specifically coaches/consultants) showed up. I promise this will happen for you.

And my niche is still too broad. That's another point I want to make. Your niche will continue to evolve until it hits a tipping point, where everything is clicking, including your bottom line. You'll know it when it happens.

In the meantime, if you keep in mind the infinite Abundance of the Universe, understanding that you can't (nor should you) serve everyone is a bit easier… :)

Think about the billions of people in the world. Even if you wanted to, you couldn't possibly serve all of them - and you certainly couldn't please even the smallest percentage. Trying to do so really dilutes your genius work, your best work, instead of allowing it to truly help those people you are meant to serve - your niche.

As I said earlier, many business owners, when they are just starting out, are concerned that they are going to cut themselves off from other opportunities, or that they are going to limit their success by only focusing on a small segment of the population.

But again, the opposite is actually true. When you focus your efforts:

1. Your marketing gets a whole lot easier.

2. It's much easier for people (your clients) to talk about you because they understand that you do one basic thing for one group of people.

3. It's much easier for clients and colleagues to refer you for the same reason as #2.

4. It's much easier to build strategic alliances/joint ventures/partnerships.

5. It's much easier to become and be considered an expert at what you do.

6. Other opportunities WILL present themselves.

When you focus your efforts and energy on one target market, you are directing the Universe to help draw those Ideal Clients to you. When you continue to put yourself out there with one clear message, those Ideal Clients will hear it and seek you out.

And the end result is a flourishing business, serving exactly the people you were meant to serve.

Exciting, isn't it?

Copyright 2006 Alicia M Forest and ClientAbundance.com

Alicia M Forest, MBA, Multiple Streams Queen & Coach™, founder of http://www.ClientAbundance.com, and creator of "21 Easy & Essential Steps to Online Success System™, teaches coaches, consultants, online entrepreneurs and solo professionals how to attract more clients, create profit-making products and services, make more sales, and ultimately live the life they desire and deserve. For FREE tips on how to create abundance in your business, visit http://www.ClientAbundance.com

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Alicia_Forest



ARTICLE #3

Finding the Best Home Based Business

By Chris Robertson

Increasingly, people across America are looking to get out of the nine-to-five rat race and launch home based Internet businesses to make money. Although some people may view starting a home based Internet business as a risky move, others embrace the home business online opportunity. It's difficult, though, to find the best home based business. A simple Google search of "home based business" generates almost 1.5 billion results. The question becomes one of separating the chaff from the wheat and finding profitable home based businesses that complement both your work style and your life style.

Some people decide to become involved with network marketing, also known as multi-level marketing. While you can reap financial rewards with network marketing, making money is difficult unless you get into the home business online opportunity when the company is in its infancy. Once several levels of network marketers are already in place, your efforts serve mostly to support your upline.

Similarly, many home based businesses require that you keep and sell inventory. Unfortunately, even with a terrific website, you still need to draw visitors to the site and convince them to buy the merchandise. With all of the competition in the marketplace, this requires an extraordinary amount of time and effort - with no guarantee that you will make money.

When searching for home based Internet businesses, it's best to look for those that provide you with an income opportunity that requires no selling, closing, meetings, or phone calls. A good home business online opportunity should have:

Turnkey Systems: Chances are, you're not a web designer or programmer, and don't have extensive knowledge about website hosting and maintenance. A home based Internet business that offers you a 1 step system that is professionally built, as well as hosted and maintained, will allow you to utilize your time and effort in other arenas.

Online Account Management: If you're not a whiz at business administration, look for a home business online opportunity that provides you with online account management tools. Often referred to as a back office website, this kind of support allows you to streamline your business operations and keep track of your profits.

Customizable Sales Tools: Home based businesses shouldn't force you to reinvent the wheel. Instead, they should provide you with a variety of sales tools - such as flyers, advertisements, brochures, and multimedia - that you can both use and customize with the name of your business.

Training and Support: The best home based business offers a variety of training and support opportunities. For example, they may conduct marketing teleconferences and online training events to keep you apprised of new products and best practices. You should also be able to contact your upline for guidance and advice.

Chris Robertson is an author of Majon International, one of the worlds MOST popular internet marketing companies on the web. Learn more about The Best Home Based Business or Majon's Business and Entrepreneurs directory.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Chris_Robertson



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