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69 Ways To Make Money Without Leaving Home - Business

By Thomas Griffin

1. Service Businesses: Things you do for others; repairs, cleaning, child care, etc.

2. Products You Sell to Others; Business cards, names, shoes (715-723-1871).

3. Products You Can Make and Sell to Others: handicrafts, ceramics, jewelry.

4. Advertising Representative: sell ad space in publications of others, charge % fee.

5. Alternations, Sewing, Cleaning: Sewing, cleaning, anything to do with clothing and what people wear.

6. Auto Work: Repairs, cleaning, polishing, tune-ups, etc.

7. Baking: Cakes, cookies, candies, etc.

8. Baking, Cooking Classes: Teach people what you know about baking, cooking, etc.

9. Bookkeeping, Accounting: Help others keep their books, accounting (800-223-4542)

10. Broker Services: Offer products and services of others to YOUR customers as a broker.

11. Business Consultant: Help others in running their businesses, guidance,, etc.

12. Business Skills Class: Teach others how to run a business, how to make and save money.

13. Childbirth Classes: teach new parents all they need to know, what to do and how.

14. Closeout and Odd Lot Items:Locate items that are not moving, buy at a discount.

15. Computer Services:Secretarial; services, typing, resumes, reports, manuscripts, etc.

16. Computer Training: Teach people what you know about computers.

17. Craft Instruction: Teach people what you know about craft-making.

18. Dancing Lessons: Aerobic classes;popular dances, teach in your home, etc.

19. Dealerships:Sell programs and plans of others, sell their products, etc.

20. Discount Printing:Contact small printers offer their services to others.

21. Distribution of Flyers, Circulars: Do it by mail for clients, charge a fee.

22. Editing,Advisor:Read manuscripts,reports. Edit them, re-word sections before publications.

23. Equipment Repair:Take in all kinds of appliances and equipment. Service and repair them.

24. Financial Services: Take in all kinds of appliances and equipment. Service and repair them.

25. Freelance Writing:Articles, Dramas, Poems,etc.

26. Garden Goods for Sale: Sell corn,potatoes,flowers,melons, etc.

27. Ghost Writing:Sell your 'way with words' to others; help them to get it in print!

28. Gift Ideas, Wrapping:People need help in these areas and will pay for that help.

29. Hair Salon: Washing, Cutting, Styling, Coloring, Perms, etc.

30. Hair and Beauty Classes: Teach make-up techniques, hair styling;cutting,cutting, etc.

31. Hobby, Gift Ideas:There are thousands of different items you can sell.

32. How-to and Money-Making Books/Plans.

33. Import/Export:Learn from the pros;; give it a try; buy low there, sell high here!

34. Issue Your Own Publication or Newsletter: Charge ad rates, Subscriptions, etc.

35. List People for a Fee: Offer to list their name as wanting something, charge a fee; etc.

36. Laundry Service: Washing, Ironing, folding, etc.

37. Locator Service: Locate Jobs, Bargains, sources, discounts, buyers, etc.

Mail Forwarding Service: Offer to forward mail, receive it at you address for others.

39. Mailing List Service: Compile and sell your customer names; rent and sell their names.

40. Mailorder Classes: teach people how to make money; save money; get rich' etc.

41. Multi-Level Opportunities: It's possible to make money this way, if you get enough people.

Parties in Your Home: Help others plan and hold them, charge a fee, be a clown, etc.

43. Pet Care: Training, Grooming, Boarding. Pets inn, (800-248-PETS)

44. Phone and Answering Machine: Telephone Soliciting; Answering.

45. Photo Studio in Your Home: If you like photography; have camera; dark room, etc.

46. Piano & Music Instruction: Teach pupils in your home; teach what you know.

47. Plant Care; Rental: Take in plants, care for them. Gardener's Supply, (802-863-4798)

48. Publicity Service: Help others get the publicity they need, news releases.

49. Publish a Cook Book: Get help from cooks; offer to list their recipes. Charge per book.

50. Reminder Service: Remind people about important dates, events, using cards, phone, etc.

51. Rental Service: If you got it, rent it!. A backyard, a patio, shrubs, tools.

52. Reading, Reviewer: People are too busy to read all they need to; charge them for summary.

53. Researcher: Charge a fee to research a subject; charge for a written report.

54. Scholarship Assistance: Help students get financing. School Services (609-727-1700).

55. Self-Improvement Classes: Teach people what you know about losing weight; etc.

56. Sell By Mail Order: Ad specialties; Booklets; Reports, etc.

57. Sharpening Service: Take in saws, knives to be sharpened, etc.

58. Speaking, Reading, Recording: Sell your talents as speaker, reader, on tapes for the blind.

59. Start a Club: Sell Memberships in it; Charge monthly dues, issue a newsletter, etc.

60. Tapes - Videos: Buy in lots; sell; re-buy; resell.

61. Teach Various Subjects: Classes can be on How to do something, How to stop smoking, etc.

62. Tutoring: In_home Teaching; help students to catch-up[; improve skills, etc.

63. Used whatever Store: Have used items for sale, take in; sell, re-buy, re-sell.

Wedding Planner: Help young couples to plan theirs; what to order, when, etc.

65. Weight Loss Classes: How to lose weight; exercise; Diet, weight loss (313-553-2626).

66. Wholesalers; Sources of Supply: Publishers: Get their names, contact them for info.

67. Woodworking: Carpentry; Antique rebuilding; Repairs.

68. Write and Sell Books and Reports: Type up, copy and sell your own; sell works of others.

69. Yard, garage Sales: Sell what you no longer need or want; people will buy your junk!

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Your Home Based Business - Part Time or Full Time Earnings

By Daton Caedea

If you think that just wishing for something to happen...it won't! You're better off with the lottery. It's not difficult, just tell yourself that your mind is made up and make that crucial first move. I was in a state of inertia for about xx years! See, I'm to ashamed to admit it. Scary or what!

I remember when I was a teenager and it seemed like I had all my life to waste. I was pretty good at it too. Chase the girls and out with the lads. Okay, it's good to party at that age but somewhere we have to start growing up. I can talk, when in my late 30's I was still behaving like a juvenile! Blimey!

If we want that fabbo life style it will not come the lottery (he said) or from some obscure deceased rich relative. That only happens in Hollywood. No, sorry pal, YOU will have to generate it your self.

Heck, all you have to do is employ that miracle worker between your ears. You know, that piece of technology that keeps us ticking over 24/7. It's pretty good at multi-tasking i.e. making money, eating, making money, washing, making...oh, you get the picture.

It gets even better when you don't have to bundle up like Nanook and step into that wintry blast to mush your way to the coalface! Alternatively you could be running your life your way by running your own tidy enterprise. Just look out the window and observe 'the damned' hacking their way to work.

Yes, have that log fire providing enough comfort to see how much money has been made this week so far. It's not difficult to motivate yourself when not only, you enjoy what you do, but...excel in it because you are good at it. The bonus is, it makes a good living and in the warm.

It's your thing and no one else's. You decided, because you like it. Because you like it you do it. You activate it. In short...ACTION!

So, don't get cocky...oh why not then. Nothing wrong with self esteem and it can only lead to better things. It has been my observation over the years that self confidence can be wrongly confused with arrogance.

People are attracted to you because of this. It's true. You are there as a shining positive beacon and they want to share your light that takes away the murk and gloom out of their lives.

Maybe, that's what is meant by having an "aura". Given the choice, methinks this is the path to take as the alternative doesn't bear thinking about.

Which leads me to what I originally set out to do here. That is to suggest and discuss various routes and devices we can use to discover what we can do...and enjoy as we do them. A Home Based Business. A voyage of discovery if you like. It's gotta be better than just drifting. You'll only bump into a reef or something and sink.

At first what most people do is look around and research what it is they would like to do. Something you feel that would be right for you as a person. Yes, a good place to go is the net where we are spoilt for information.

With the net, we can travel anywhere we want and do our reseach, then take action. About 15 years ago a lot of this technology was still developing and learning, (it will never stop) but we have come an awful long way since. We (you) do have the power! See you next time.

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Take Paid Surveys Now - We need Your Opinion

By Hailey Gates

Work at home moms across the country have discovered they can get paid taking surveys! This has got to be the easiest, most flexible job in the world - and you don't have to have any special training. Just be willing to answer questions about your shopping habits, and you can make money every day!

If your household is like most, you as the mom are doing a majority of the shopping. This means that you have to make daily decisions about what products will serve you and your family the best - and which ones will fit your budget! This actually makes you kind of a shopping expert.

Big brand name companies spend millions of dollars every year finding out which products people purchase, and where, and why. They need information from moms in every city and state so they can plan ad campaigns and find out what the consumers need. These companies will give you surveys to take, and pay you CASH for completing them!

Signing up with a few major survey sites online is the fastest way to find surveys to take. You shouldn't be asked to pay money to sign up - the survey sites will already be getting a kickback for providing the companies with people to take the surveys. You are supposed to being paid by them, not the other way around!

The short list of things you will need to prepare before you go looking for sites to register on include a new email address (to keep your survey emails organized) a username to login to sites with, and a random, easily memorized password for security purposes. Don't use a password you use for your personal matters.

You should receive a confirmation email that will verify your registration. If you are signing up for multiple sites, you should keep a list - clicking on links in unfamiliar emails can crash your computer, so you will want to be sure it comes from a site you signed up with. Once you are confirmed with the survey site you will be eligible to receive surveys to take.

One last step you might be asked to complete is to fill out some demographic profiles. These collect information about you so the survey site can qualify you for surveys to take. Once you have given them the required information, you can get paid taking surveys on a wide range of products. Just keep an eye out for notification emails that let you know a survey is waiting!

You might not make a huge amount per survey at first, but if you complete every survey you receive you will become known as a serious survey candidate and you will start being invited to participate in the more lucrative surveys. Continue to respond in a professional, timely manner, and you will continue getting surveys to take for a long time!

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You Can Make Money Online With Secret Commission Blueprint

By Richard Steaney

If you have a home business opportunity, you first need to find an area where you can promote a product or service. As you try and find this area of specialization, you will realize that you can generate personalized products for people who are zealous about a specific concept.

To build a home business which will bring you maximum profits in the long run for your effort, you need to do some research and commit your time to the business. Your blueprint should show you how to build a consistently profitable internet home business. Some of the important steps to setting up this business including on how to:

- find the correct niche market to market to

-devise a customized service related to that niche

-set up a website that will let you collect leads

-collect your profits and put them in the bank

This works no matter your level of expertise, and it will maintain a consistency that most people only dream about. It starts with the basics, giving you the four basic principles of all successful businesses.

It's easier to find an existing need and fill it than it is to try to manufacture one where it does not exist. Ask yourself what the needs of your target market are and how you can best fill these needs with a product or service. The best way to go is to market a high quality product with a proven track record.

So what's the best internet home business to begin with? The answer hands down is an affiliate program. These programs have proven their potential to generate a healthy revenue stream and are well known. Or you can look for products which offer either basic or master resale rights.

A product which has basic resale rights let you sell the product to consumers for their own personal use, while master resale rights allow you to sell these products as well as the right to sell this product to someone else.

In case of affiliate products, you join hands with a service provider, whose links you put on your website. When a consumer visits your webpage, and clicks on the link, he is directed to the merchant website. If he makes a purchase, you get a commission.

Out of these two types of business, affiliate marketing is by far the easier. There are typically many affiliates out there promoting the product already, making brand identification a non-issue. Reselling a product is a lot harder, since you usually have to work to establish the brand.

To use the Clickbank affiliate program successfully, you need to find a quality product with a good track record. This will make brand building quicker and easier for you - meaning the profits will start coming in sooner. If your product is target towards a niche market which is eager for new products and services, then you could choose either type and do well.

This is not to say that you couldn't combine the two. No matter how you choose to get into internet marketing, whether in reselling or affiliate marketing, use the system and set your goal that will get you on your way to becoming an affiliate marketing success story. This system will also show you everything you need to know to make big profits as a reseller.

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Chiropractic Marketing - How to Beat the Current Recession

By Matthew Loop, DC

It's only been a few years since I introduced Web 2.0 to chiropractors and showed them how social media could revolutionize the way their businesses market themselves. It's hard to believe it's only been three years, because Web 2.0 has already exponentially grown in this short time. And I thought it was impressive before! I started by marketing on MySpace, YouTube, and Facebook, and from there I've expanded all over the web. Web 2.0 has spread like a wildfire, and still does with every passing moment. Even as I sit here, my wealth increases with the power of social media, which never stops working. People are learning to not only expand their chiropractic practices, but also create multiple streams of income.

Chiropractic consultants were once able to help humble practices earn more money and market themselves better. Today, this is no longer the case. In fact, every time a chiropractic practice puts down money for one of these groups, they're completely losing that money. They'll never see it again. Why is this? Consultants today don't know a darn thing about Web 2.0 and social media, and the things they do know no longer work.

Quite frankly, my "economy" is booming just like the hundreds of other chiropractors that have started to implement strategic methods for social media marketing. A global shift has occurred and the question you have to ask is, "Do you want to be a part of this goldmine or do you want to be left-out in the cold?"

Here are just a few of the sites that can dramatically transform your chiropractic practice, and earn you phenomenal amounts of wealth and success 24 hours a day. Try YouTube.com, Digg.com, Squidoo.com, EzineArticles.com, StumbleUpon.com, Facebook.com, Myspace.com, Free-Press-Release.com, Wordpress.com, Photobucket.com, and eHow.com. These are the Web 2.0 powerhouses, and they're just the beginning.

There are actually more than a few hundred sites that can provide this same powerful marketing magic, but for the sake of time, here were just a few. When you're starting this new marketing strategy, it's vitally important to have a clear plan of implementation and an exceptional knowledge of what you're getting into. But, as a practicing chiropractor, you don't need to do this yourself. That's not your job and expertise! You can outsource this task to someone with knowledge and experience to do it for you.

Even the incredible time saving and leveraged-based tools I use and recommend can be easily shown to a CA or marketing director for use. The most important thing is to be coachable, as this may be a new language to many chiropractic marketing newbies and veterans.

When you set-up other ways of accruing passive income while you're marketing your chiropractic firm, you are making your business recession-proof. To achieve this you have to be innovative and think out of the box that chiropractor consultants still think inside of.

When you set-up other ways of accruing passive income while you're marketing your chiropractic firm, you are making your business recession-proof. To achieve this you have to be innovative and think out of the box that chiropractor consultants still think inside of.

Concentrate on providing a large amount of value to your existing and potential patients on the web. This medium allows you to put yourself in front of a local and global audience eager to hear what you have to say. Don't fret, you are an expert in your own right. Trust me, you have plenty to talk about even though you might not see it yet. You could take a specific aspect of your chiropractic practice (nutrition, personal injury, back-pain, etc...) and develop a YouTube video channel around it with a series of weekly videos, as an example.

Be creative and you will find this new, powerful virtual world will bring you boatloads of new patients, build social proof, and allow you to generate multiple streams of residual income.

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Revolution of supply chain management due to internet

By Zach Halon

The traditional vision of Supply Chain management represents only one dimension of a business environment that is growing increasingly multidimensional. Modern day Supply Chain Management is the e-commerce of manufacturing. With the emergence of the Internet, customers seek out specific products they want at the prices they're willing to pay.

Modern supply chains focus on the customer. Manufacturers need to precisely gauge what a customer might want, how to package it and where to ship it. There is no such thing as one size fits all. When the customer wants a change, they need to be prepared to shift directions quickly. As a result, business and manufacturing processes need to be just as agile and scalable.

Manufacturers who do not adopt proven methods to succeed today may be out of business tomorrow. The Internet supply chain will be a means of communicating and doing business with suppliers and customers. Fractured, unpredictable supply chains have become less and less tolerable primarily because customers will not absorb the associated costs and long lead times.

It is important to bear in mind that your customer is just a mouse click away from your competitors. Enabled supply chains assist companies to optimize business processes both within and outside the four walls of the enterprise and to more efficiently deliver the new products customers want, when they want them and where they want them. Supply chain has been viewed as an inflexible series of events that somehow managed to get products out the door. It often involved questionable inventory forecasts, rigid manufacturing plans and hypothetical shipping schedules. The Internet has changed all that. It has transformed this old-fashioned process into something closer to an exact science.

An Internet-enabled supply chain helps companies, avoid costly disasters, reduce administrative overhead, reduce unnecessary inventory, decrease the number of hands that touch goods on their way to the end customer, eliminate obsolete business processes, reap cost-cutting and revenue-producing benefits, speed up production and responsiveness to consumers and garner higher profit margins on finished goods Effective integration of an Organizations supply chain can save millions, improve customer service and reduce inventories.

The key to getting optimum value out of automating your supply chain is to make sure you have your internal systems working well before you start extending them out over the Internet. One should envision the business as a whole including its current strategy and where it wants to go. Supply chain strategy is increasingly being integrated with overall corporate strategy. The cost of training people to use new software should not be underestimated. Sending information around the world takes lesser time than it takes to get into someone's mind.

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To Do Article Marketing or Not To Do Article Marketing

By Brent Sweet

All you have to do is have an idea about what you are doing and you can make money from marketing with articles. I think any expert would agree that article marketing is the best form of marketing on the internet right now. It is free and it has a huge impact on search engine results. I use it to promote my websites all the time. I get results in the search engines from publishing articles and then move up. I think article marketing is a valuable use of your time. If you have some extra time, I would spend it writing and publishing an article.

You can get eBooks all over the internet to help you get started in article marketing. Some eBooks train you to write persuasive articles, while others teach you to use my methods. I let my website do the selling, but I use articles to help promote my website, especially to move it up in the results in the search engines. My articles are just informative pieces that people may want to use for content on their websites.

There is only one great way to drive free traffic to your websites and that is through search engine rankings. People get on search engines looking for information and then sometimes buy, either way it is a great way to build your brand. You can only get limited traffic from articles because there are so many on the internet. Article marketing however will allow you to promote your site in the search engines, so the writing is not a complete waste of time. If you are trying to promote affiliate links through posting a bunch of articles, however, without a website you are simply wasting your time.

I have been really rewarded doing article marketing. I recommend it to anybody willing to give it the effort to get results. One thing is sure you can write one article and expect it to deliver. I write several articles every day. Sometimes I feel like I work for a magazine. The neat thing is that I do see results of my effort though, and I see them faster than any other form of marketing. The key, write as many unique articles as you can, and submit them with efficient submission services. Be an expert in your field, and live with passion.

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Growing Your Home Business With A Website

By Thomas Griffin

As business grows, it can be a good idea to support your eBay sales with a website. The first step is building a web presence outside of eBay by creating your own website. Building a website is not a difficult task. These days you don't necessarily need the know-how to do it all yourself - there are plenty of people who will do it for you. Turnkey stores are an option, or you can have a designer create the basic design for a website and then purchase shopping cart software separately.

Either way, you need to think carefully about branding at this point. Branding is recognizable design features that are carried across your entire business from product to business cards, to your website and brochures. A brand helps your customers associate your products with an over-riding concept and identify them as part of their lifestyle. For example, some brands are associated with natural and organic concepts while others are associated with fine quality or a particular lifestyle. When establishing your online business, take care to make sure the branding you have already established on eBay remains consistent across your new website.

There are thousands of stores on the web, so to be successful, you'll need to do something to make people visit your site and stay there for longer. One of the most effective ways of doing this is by providing people with information about your products. For example, if you sell small kitchen appliances, why not add articles to your site on how to use each appliance, tasty recipes to make with each, how to fix problems, and so on? Not only are you giving your users a reason to come back to your site, you are also increasing your chances of being placed in the top search results for keyword searches relating to the items you sell. Search engines give higher priority to good quality, unique information, so this is an effective way of keeping rankings high and getting traffic from organic search results.

Another way of getting more traffic to your site is by carrying out link exchanges. Just remember to limit yourself to related sites, otherwise you may find that you end up with a lower rather than higher search engine ranking! Linking to sites not related to the content on your site can actually give you a lower search engine ranking, so stay away from sites that offer hundreds of links for a fixed price. The best idea is to link to other sites that relate to what you are selling. For instance, keeping with the appliance example above, a site such as this could exchange links with sites selling china, cutlery, linen or recipes.

Finally, you can drive traffic to your site through advertising. Your ebay listings are one way of advertising if you add your site URL to your About Me page. Google Adwords is another very effective way of getting traffic to your site. A targeted campaign can do wonders for your website. Done well, a website should increase overall sales, increase traffic to your eBay listings, and increase your reputation as an expert in your area.

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Email Marketing - What You Should Do

By Anson Hall

Nearly everyone will have at least one email addresses nowadays. Our email addresses have become something even more important than our physical addresses. This is because you can still access your email boxes when you are not at home. This is why email marketing becomes so popular currently.

There are a lot of people who will try to launch email marketing campaigns. First you all, you will need to understand that marketing is all about the connection between customers and merchants. And you are in fact using email to connect with your customers when you launch an email marketing campaign.

When you are doing email marketing, you do not just target on your current customers. You will also try to connect with other potential customers who have not purchased. You are trying to generate more sales by using email marketing.

If you have been working online for some time, you should know that it will be very convenient for you to start an email marketing campaign. Furthermore, such campaigns generally do not require any capital investment. Of course you will still need to take some time to create the emails.

When you are launching some traditional marketing campaigns, you will probably need to focus on your local market. However, it is certainly not the case when email marketing campaigns are concerned. You can do business with the whole world when you are doing email marketing.

Spamming should never be tolerated. As a result, you should never try to spam the others. You are trying to launch an email marketing campaign but not trying to spam. If you are hiring some other companies to help you to send the emails, you should make sure that they do not spam.

If it is possible, you should only send emails who subscribe to your email list. This will be the most perfect situation. And you can make sure that people who subscribe are people who are interested in your offers.

Of course you may also consider purchasing some kind of email list. It will not be illegal as long as it is an opt-in list for the purpose of advertising. However, the problem is that you may not be able to generate sales in this case since the subscribers may not be interested in your offers.

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How to Wash Your Hair Properly

By Jennifer Summers

Few people know this but there is a right way to wash your hair to get it properly clean. And by washing your hair properly will have a great impact on the bounce and shine of you hair. But the chances are very high that you are probably washing you hair all wrong, and consequently not getting the great looking hair that you could have.

Step 1. - To start. Start off by getting your hair brush and use it to brush your hair well before you even start to wash it. Brushing your hair will loosen dirt, prevent hair breakage and keep the number of hairs in the drain to a minimum. After you have brushed, it's time to get your hair really good and wet. It is hard to wash hair that has not been thoroughly moistened so make sure that you give your hair a good soaking.

Step 2. - Putting on the shampoo. Often most people go about this part all wrong. The usual thing is that they squeeze a big dollop of shampoo onto their hand, slap this on their hair then start scrubbing away thinking they are washing well. This is a big no-no. Start off by selecting only the best hair care products that are more concentrated and use the highest quality ingredients. With these products you only need a small amount of shampoo.

Step 3. - How to wash your hair properly. Massaging/scrubbing too vigorously and not leaving shampoo on long enough, are the two main mistakes people usually make when washing their hair. After you have applied the shampoo to your hair, the proper way to wash it is too gently massage your hair and scalp. Giving your hair a 'good scrub' will not make your hair any cleaner and could damage your scalp. After massaging your scalp, shampoo can be left in your hair for 5 minutes to get a good clean.

Step 4. - Rinse and Repeat. When you have finished shampooing your hair, you have to rinse away all of that lather, dirt and grime. Rinsing your hair is an important part of washing your hair properly. You need to rinse your hair thoroughly (and I mean thoroughly) as shampoo can still be hidden in hair that appears to be rinsed. After you have rinsed your hair thoroughly you can wash your hair again if you want to make sure that you get a proper clean.

You can make a big difference to the look and the feel of your hair when you begin washing it properly. It's easy to do, just go through the 4 steps outlined above and you will have clean and healthy looking in no time, every time. And if you use top quality hair products that salon a professional uses, you will really begin to notice the difference and be pleased with how healthy and clean looking your hair can become.

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Be Informative and Draw Traffic to Your Web Page

By Theo McLanahan

It is no secret that people seek out information on the internet. In fact, the internet has revolutionized the way people find information. Many people turn to the internet for their daily does of news, rather than television or newspapers. A decade ago, publishing companies published huge encyclopedia sets and hired sales people to go door to door in order to sell them. Today, people can turn on the computer and find what they are looking for.

Whether your goal is to sell tangible products, digital products, or increase affiliate commissions, creating information products is a great way to increase traffic to your site.

There are many types of information products to choose from: you can offer a special report, an e-course, audio or mix of all three. You can sell your information for profit or give it away for free and use it simply as a method for gaining traffic.

A special report is a smaller than an e-book, usually about 10 15 pages; these can be written rather quickly and work great as a marketing tool. Think about the things you have for sell, or the items you are an affiliate for. Pick a group of complimentary items and write a special report around them. For instance, if you sell cosmetics, create a special report about quick and easy summer beauty fixes. Advertise your own products within the report.

Write your report in a way that is especially appeals to your target audience. For example if you promote or are an affiliate for companies who promote skin care products write an article on women's health. In your article include a paragraph on the importance of healthy skin and include a link to your affiliates that will direct your readers to good skin care products.

Everyone loves a free gift. Make your special report a gift for signing up for your mailing list or newsletter. Your customers will be happy to receive free information. You will be happy to watch your customer base grow.

The information you offer does not have to be free of charge. For example, if you promote tools you might offer a few "how to" lessons on areas of home improvement. You could charge a small fee for the lessons and within each lesson refer your readers to tools that will make the job easier. Provide them with a link to your site or the site of your affiliates so they can easily view the product.

Everyone wants to be informed. If you make yourself an expert on a subject and provide them with reliable information they can trust, they will continue to visit your site and will in turn buy your product.

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Absolute Ways To Building Blog Traffic

By Chris Johnathan

Exceed our beginning stage of the quick and easy way to Building Blog Traffic is enough to do the blog posts than your competition. This makes absolute good sense just like completely various state of marketing. For example, a person who does marketing and submits Article 10 articles a day is still movement to get more traffic over the long pull than a person who is submitting only one article a day.The same holds to an absolute matter while it comes to growing blog traffic. If you are doing

* By doing blog article a day you are not going to increase as much traffic as a person who is doing many blog articles.To keep in the sense that the sight of blog posts you do can have a great join on the potential traffic you get not only today but in the later as well.

* One general fault that great bloggers make is they do not social bookmark their blog posts.Social bookmarking is a heavy standing to find traffic , as much as to cause search engine draught for potential search engine traffic. And the varied fact is social bookmarking is mighty easy to do, particularly if you have the right plug-ins and are using a Word Press blog.

* Submit to OnlyWire and other social bookmarking sites There is an increasing number of social bookmarking sites available today which provides massive potential for traffic generation. In order to submit your post to each of them requires considerable effort and time. Wouldn't it be a great timesaver if there was a tool that could automate this?With OnlyWire, this can be achieved to a certain extent. At the moment, OnlyWire allows instant submission of your post to up to 22 social bookmarking sites. You will still need to have your own account at each of these sites, and key in your account name and password into OnlyWire. But after that, all you need to do is to bookmark your post using OnlyWire, and it will help to submit your post to all the 22 sites and a global audience.

In brief the internet marketing opportunity using blogs as exceed path for building traffic are to increase the number of posts you are making, and then to be bookmarking these posts to the right social directories.These methods and many more will help for building blog traffic and drie Free Traffic to your Blog. All it takes is a little bit of stress and time. By learning these methods and committing to them you will have more Free Traffic coming to your Blog.

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SEO: Mysterious And Elusive

By Julie Johnson

Search engine optimization, or SEO, is still a mystery to people not in the industry. It is hardly a household word. But what is always fascinating is that even within the SEO industry, there is so much gray area on how it should be done and what is or isnt ethical.

Most everyone does agree on basic guidelines though. Guidelines like high site content, receiving and giving inbound and outbound links, proper meta tags and strong organization of the site. The problem is that there is no one formula that dictates the ratio or value of each of those things, so by its nature, SEO continues to be more of an art form than a scientific method. A good SEO provider is constantly juggling and balancing between all the factors as they carefully watch the movement of the website in the rankings.

Ask 10 SEO companies s to perform a site analysis, and you;ll get 10 different reports. Luckily most of them will have quite a bit of overlap. And luckier still, provided they are bona fide SEOs , most will not have any outright conflicting advice. But still, the finesse and attention to detail that a good SEO agent possesses will be evident in the varied responses you would see in these 10 reports.

The industry is an exciting one for SEO providers. Because there's no clear cut right or wrong way, much of their work is based on inherent knowledge, experience, and a whole lot of intuitiveness. Nobody has a secret plan that will work 100% every time, and every website is different in its needs and goals. Building traffic and improving rankings are the only way a SEO provider gets a "report card". And because SEO work takes time before the effects are seen, there's almost a magical excitement present that the suspense of not knowing brings.

For an individual to perform successful SEO work on their own website is nearly impossible because of all the nuances involved these days. And things change regularly, in fact so rapidly that only an experienced SEO provider with an extensive performance history is likely to be able to keep up with them. The best way to assure success is to check out providers and look at their track record.

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The Fun and Cool Cuisinart DCC-1100 Programmable Coffeemaker

By Dirk den Besten

When you get up in the morning, there is nothing like a warm cuppa. Coffee is the brew that everyone heads for to jump starting their day. Coffee tastes best when it is properly brewed and in order to ensure this you need to have the right coffee maker.

If you want the perfect blend, you would really enjoy the Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker.

You may ask, what's so special about this coffeemaker? The first thing is the quality. With this coffeemaker you get that perfect brew that you will relish with enjoyment everyday. The gold-tone coffee filter and charcoal water filter in the maker, offers you the best ever coffee taste. Enjoy sittings with your friends, family or your office colleagues with that perfect aroma that only the Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100 can make.

It features an ergonomic handle and a dripless spout and this enables you to handle it easily. What is so special about it is that you can put a quick cup for yourself, even while the coffee is still brewing Double fresh isn't' it and tasty too.

Now this is not all that's different about the Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100. As the name suggests, the Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100 coffeemaker is programmable. Use the 24-hour programmability feature, to set instructions for automatic brewing. This means you can set the coffeemaker to turn on and make your brew at any time you want.

It offers one to four distinct cup settings, so you can pour out only that much as you want and don't have to take more than necessary, when you want a small cup for yourself.

In case the power gets cut while you brew coffee, the 60-second reset feature continues right where it left off in the brewing process. This is the feature that really sets this coffeemaker apart from other similar makes or models.

The Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100 12-Cup Programmable Coffeemaker comes in a delectable pink color. This color really sets of the decor of the counter piece on which it is placed. Just look at how it completely transforms the coffee area of your kitchen with its splendid design and color.

Have the best taking coffee ever, with the Pink Cuisinart DCC-1100 Programmable Coffeemaker. You can make 12 cups at a time with it and it also comes with a 3-year warranty .

Now that the festive season is just round the corner, you can buy this coffeemaker at a discount rate. Buy it as a present for someone you care and have them enjoy that perfect coffee brew just as you do.

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The Greatest Marketing Idea of All Time

By Jim Spence

Being a skeptical Internet Marketer I never accept the claims of others without being wary. When I saw the title of a sales page dealing with Viral Marketing, I was skeptical of their claim. It was intriguing, so I started reading about a new Viral Marketing Idea which was about as different as anyting that I had ever seen.

The viral marketing strategy, starts with an e-book given away for free. They didn't even ask for your e-mail address or name. Almost unheard of in modern Internet Marketing.

Affiliate Marketing is one of the most popular ways of making money online. There are thousands and thousands of products that you can promote and sell. Many products have a generous percentage given to the affiliate. Some even 70-100% of the cost to the consumer.

The key to getting started with this revolutionary strategy is to pick an affiliate product which is something that would be considered to be an impulse type product that will solve a pressing problem for the end buyer. Once the niche and the product are chosen, other related and associated products are selected which have resale rights.

It used to be that you MUST be listed high in the Search Engines. Not anymore with this strategy. All marketing is done in a viral method. Free items are ALWAYS given away as an inducement.

You want to promote your affiliate products in a low key style by weaving the links to your affiliate products throughout the document.

Once you have completed the article, you will give this article away for free to many ezine publishing sites. The distribution will be viral.

This unique strategy will work even better with articles than e-books. Articles can be written in massive numbers and easily distributed. The article can pre-sell the e-document.

The specifics of this strategy, can be analyzed and implemented by downloading this free e-book.

Jim Spence, Viral Marketing Expert

Master-Affiliate-Pro.com

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Guide to Internet Backups; Data Backup Software

By Online Backup Software; Online Backups

Why Use a Data Backup Solution?

Scalable, Economical, Recoverable, Automatic, Off site

Usual techniques of data backup consist of tapes, CDs and DVDs, ZIP drives and floppies. All of these techniques have considerable problems. Backups are normally not automatic and even more importantly, someone has to physically move the media, for the data backup, off campus where it must be saved in a safe place. Fortunately, Internet technology has now permitted an exceptionally superior method of backing up: online backup. Online Backup (sometimes also referred to as remote backup has significant advantages over other computer data backup measures.

Digital possessions such as financial records, photos, documents and email is not only important, but irreplaceable. Why chance losing costly data to hard drive failures or virus attacks? Secure your computers with an inexpensive and reliable solution and know that your information is safe!

Items to look for in an Online Backup Service:

Encryption and Compression - Make sure your data is protected even when it's "backed up."

FREE Unlimited Support - Why pay for support when you shouldn't have to?

Easy to Use - Automatic; Set it and Forget it! - Find a service that runs automatically with little to no administration.

Inexpensive - Consider the old cliche "You get what you pay for." Roughly $6 to $10 a month should find you a solid online backup service.

Continuous Data Backup - Constant backup of all your information throughout the day.

Just ponder how much work and effort is stored on your system. A hard drive failure or virus infection could destroy years of information and irreplaceable digital items! Online Backup is a easy to use solution for just pennies a day.

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Tips - I Hate Writing Articles

By Marc Foster

Owning, running and maintaining an internet based business or a site needs articles. Plain and simple, every who has a site knows this. Even those who don't have sites but are frequent internet users knows this as well. Articles quench the thirst for information and knowledge of the people. Plus, the articles provides many other benefits for the site. The benefits that articles provide are putting a site high in the ranking in search results of keywords and keyword phrases that pertains or are relevant to his or her site. They also provide attraction to website visitors when they are appreciated and is linked to your site from another site or newsletter. Articles provide for the increase of the confidence and trust levels of customers to your site and company.

Many of the items are also beneficial to both company and its traffic. Your product or services would be much easier to sell when you know what you are doing and talking about.

So well, we have established that the items are very important for a site and for businesses. The articles are critical and to keep our heads in the game, a site must have an article, it is imperative. There is a dilemma however, not as many people writing articles. Many website owners who do not spend their time on something else and, unless you are a big company time, you do not have the resources to use in a group of writers article. Plagiarism or copy articles other is frowned upon and could easily get into trouble, the worst case, a senior fine and imprisonment.

So what are the other options? Well, for starters if you hate writing articles and you can't afford to hire people to write for you then don't. Get free articles. The first place to look at for free articles is the public domain. Here you won't have problems with copyright infringement and the following penalties and fines if you get caught for plagiarism.

Articles are in the public domain, free articles for the public for public use. You can do whatever you want with it. You can place it on your site, the name as yours, as in a newsletter to its decision. Always remember, however, that you should select items that are very relevant to your site. The disadvantage is that the public domain articles, as it is free for the entire world, many of its competitors can access them. It may also be necessary to edit them to put little more keywords and keyword phrases to make them better.

Another way to get free articles is to allow other sites which has the same subject or topic as yours to submit articles to your site. This would be only to augment your existing content or else all your articles would be leading to other sites since these articles would have resource boxes with them that could link or direct the readers to their site. That's why it is important to have your own articles; you cold use them to link your site to other sites as well.

But, to truly feel the impact of what a good article to you, go for original ones. There are many article writers who do part time and freelance article writing jobs that charges only minimal fees. You can get good articles that have all the keywords and keyword phrases you need and people are looking for. The investment you made for these articles would be worthwhile because you could use them for all the benefits you could offer. You hold copyrights to them and you will be able to use them anyway you want. As your articles help you in building your business and your site, you will have more articles to write and maybe then you wont be having second thoughts about articles.

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Is SEO Elite worth a Crap

By Brent Sweet

Seo Elite is a tool that anybody looking to rank organically in Google must have. I am going to keep this short and to the point so that you understand why I recommend this product.

The program has several features that will zallow you to get higher rankings in all of the search engines. There is a fantastic fetaure that you can basically spy on your competition, figure out what it is that makes them successful, and do it to your site. It is great to see what your competition is doing for offsite optimization, and this is really the only tool for that. The key to SEO is to remember who your competition is, it is the sites that rank higher than you, not the search engine itself.

Within just a few months of using SEO Elite you can see a dramatic increase in the type of traffic. SEO Elite will help you identify the density of Key words in anchor text of inbound links or "votes" for your competitors website. You can use this an match it and you should rank about the same.

The software also includes link building tools like assistance in filling out link exchange forms, submitting articles and more. You can also use it to track where your site is ranked on all the major search engines.

The best thing this software does is analyzes the sites linking to your competition and what anchor text is being used. You can then go out and contact these webmasters, which SEO elite will assist you in doing, and see if they will link to you. You will also be able to sort these by page rank so that you can get the most important links first.

If you have not seen SEO elite, I urge you to get over to their site, read about the program and look at the testimonials showing the traffic increase. This organic free traffic is what you need to become extremely wealthy on the internet.

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What You Need To Know About Wholesale Dropshipping

By Thomas Griffin

As ecommerce grows everyday, people are looking for ways to benefit from the great potential the internet has to offer. For new commers to e-commerce or ebay selling, the hardest step is to find legit and reliable wholesale products suppliers. Drop shipping is a quick and easy solution that can get you up and running fast, but you have to do it right or you can easily fail. In many cases, ecommerce startups fail misreably for lack of research and planning. My goal in this article is to explain how drop shipping works. I'm also going to explain the pros and cons of dropshipping, What you need to do before even contacting your first supplier, and how you can avoid the most common mistakes that beginners make.

But what is drop shipping anyways?

When you dropship products, you essentially have an arrangement with your wholesale supplier where by they ship your orders directly to your customers. In most cases, they will include your company name on the shipping labels instead of theirs. Some wholesalers provide this service for free while others charge a nominal fee for it. So, what does dropshipping mean for your business? Let me tell you!

Why Drop Ship Products?

There are many advantages of using dropshippers when selling online. Here are a few of them:

You essentially get customers orders before you order them from your suppliers. This means that your initial investment is minimal, and in some cases none.

No inventory to hold. This by itself is one of the big pros of drop shipping. You don't have to pay for storage fees, or invest in expensive merchandise, that might stay around for a while before it is sold.

You can diversify your offerings as much as you want. You are only limited by finding the right dropshippers for the merchandise you want to sell.

Sounds good you say, but is there any disadvantages? Well this is life, and as any other thing in life you should expect some cons.

Why Not Drop Ship?

Obviously, there are also some cons that you have to consider. here is an idea about some of them:

A lot of middle-men and scam suppliers. This is a big problem now, a lot of wholesaler wanna-bes are springing on the internet everyday. You have to watch out when choosing your drop shippers.

Inventory volatility. In some cases, you might get an order for a product that is out of stock. You have to either refund your customer or have them wait longer than usual if the wait is not too long.

Smaller profit margins. This is a major one as it directly affects your bottom-line. Like I mentioned before, many internet dropshippers are middle-men that are basically drop shipping to you! For that reason, they don't have the best profit margins, if any.

Customer service issues and returns. Your customers don't know your suppliers, they know you. When they have any issue or request such as a refund, they will direct it to you. In that case you have to deal with those issue transparently and professionally. This might mean losses for you at times.

You cannot control the quality, shipping times, customer service response of your suppliers. This might hurt your business at times, when you can't do anything about it.

What to DO Before Searching For Wholesalers

Well I didn't want to make things look so gloomy for your future online ventures, but a reality check is needed before taking any serious steps. Now you might ask, should I forget about drop shipping? My answer is NO. If done right, dropshippping could be a very effective strategy at least for jump starting your business. My advise is, if you are just starting out, and you don't have a lot of money up front, consider to drop ship your products. That doesn't mean that you jump at the first drop shipper that comes your way. You need to do your homework and find good quality products and good reliable and most importantly legitimate wholesalers that offer drop shipping services.

Before you jump into finding drop shippers, decide which products you want to sell. Go to ebay.com, shopping.com, and pricregrabber.com, and search for those products. Study your competition and pricing. Look how your competitors are pricing their merchandise. Record a price range for all the products you might consider selling. Also, try to read some product reviews, and merchant ratings if avialable.

On ebay look at how the sellers are laying out thier auction pages, and who's selling, and what kind of demand exists. This is an essential step before even looking for wholesalers. When you do this you will also be able to see how popular differnet products are. On ebay you can tell by the number of bidders. On comparison shopping sites, you can look at their popular products sections, which will give you an idea about what consumers are buying.

In conclusion, study your market and choose your products before you begin selling a single item. If you are on a shoe string budget, then consider drop shipping your products using reliable and legit wholesale suppliers.

If you have some capital to invest I would advice buy bulk wholesale. You will get better prices for actually buying the merchandise. On the other hand that also means arranging a storage space...etc. So, decide what you will sell carefully and test different products first, ad then move forward with an expansion startegy.

Good luck with your ecommerce ventures.

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Check Out This Website Review Site!

By Russell G. Stuart

Wouldn't it be great if you could find a website that offers reviews of popular sites, so you could know which ones were interesting to you? As it happens, I found a site that does exactly that, and thought it was worth sharing the information with you.

The variety of topics to be found on line is nearly endless. From aardvarks to zebras, acid rain to yellow fever, there is most likely a multitude of websites on the subject. Such endless variety is one of the most popular aspects of the worldwide web, but that profusion is also a likely cause for confusion when trying to find the perfect sites to add to your bookmarks.

The global community combines people from all over the world in groups linked by interests and beliefs, likes and dislikes. Through the use of reviews on website like this one, which are objective and helpful, you are able to find exactly the kind of information you want, and make new discoveries. That's why I wanted to tell you about this site, after all. You'll be surprised by some of the sites you listed on it, and the scope of information available.

If you, like almost everyone else, have a particular taste in music, or, which is better, an open mind to experience new things, you have got to check out some of the on line music websites that are reviewed at this place I keep talking about. Maybe you want to become a part of a musical band, share what you've already recorded, or purchase the newest hits songs from your favourite artist, the reviews here will help find what you're after!

I thought the reviews offered on this site were very helpful. I found out what the sites were about, how they looked, and even information about any products or service they offered. And there were even some easy tips about each site to help me navigate easily. I was able to find something that really interested me, and I knew exactly how to find it on the site. That was really a great time saver for me.

Seeing an image of a site's home page before I visited the site was very helpful, for my own security. I knew exactly what it looked like on arrival, and was able to go directly to the information I was looking for it. It is hard to find a website review that is so accurate, but this managed to pull it off, even telling me the steps involved in getting my information.

The reviews at this site are worth visiting for. From major information databases to music and video games, it has information about websites of all types. For a guide to find some of the best and hottest websites on the web, this is the way to go. Check it out for yourself, and you will see exactly what I mean. It is that good.

To find some great websites, try visiting a website review site like this one, and you'll be telling others about it, too. From furniture shops to on line music, it had something for almost every style. It is indeed a great place to find the latest website reviews, and have a clear idea of what is currently hot.

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Getting Your Name Out-the Best Online Advertising

By Don Bethune

Everyone can have a website these days, but it takes talent to get a lot of traffic without spending a lot of money. It is not all about traffic, but the right kind of traffic. It all starts with a well thought out marketing strategy.

There are many cheap and effective ways to increase traffic to your start up website. If like most start ups you are short on time too, things are a bit more complicated but still very viable. In order to get the most out of your time and money you need to take some specific steps.

When you first tackle advertising, it may seem that putting your name anywhere and everywhere is a good idea. However, quantity is not nearly as important as quality. Instead of putting your name everywhere, put it where your potential customers are more likely to be.

Don't spend your precious time trying to sell your home-made beef jerky to vegetarians. While they may applaud your enthusiasm and original use of spices, they are not too likely to purchase from you. Similarly, you wouldn't want to advertise to traffic on office supply sites; its just too random for some people. Knowing your audience will save you time and money, and that is the goal.

After you get a better idea on what kind of people you want to advertise to, you need to find them. One easy way is going to one of the hundreds of websites that collect lists of people by interest. Using one of those lists will help you save money and narrow your advertising to just potential customers.

List websites are quite easy to find, as their purpose is very specific, and are likely to fit in your budget. Quality mailing list sites will have their lists organized by purchase history, major life events, and data from surveys of publicly available. While the lists may be dated they usually come with a guarantee. If the contact information is incorrect, you will likely get your money back!

While this form of direct, targeted advertising can prove to be the most effective way to advertise online and increase traffic to your site, certain precautions need to be taken when participating in bulk emailing, due to the spam laws passed several years ago. A removal link at the bottom of each email will suffice to keep the legal requirements intact when you launch your campaign. Many times though, the amount of people requesting removal from your mailing list will be in lesser numbers than viable buyers for your product or services.

Mailing lists have proven themselves to be the quickest marketing technique to effectively increase website traffic. Advertising this way is the top method to get your name and brand to a large, specific group. It is also gives the best return on your investment.

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Worry No More, Paid Surveys are Here

By Hailey Gates

Sometimes the unexpected happens. An illness strikes, or there is a natural disaster and your retirement dreams fall apart. Finding a new job can be difficult, and you may not be in a state of health that allows you to take a job outside the home. Don't despair - there is an answer! If you are a senior, you can get paid taking surveys!

There are many companies whose target demographic is senior citizens. They are constantly looking for ways to reach out to their audience, and are willing to give you surveys to take and pay you for your time! All you need is an internet connection.

Why don't they use volunteers, or take polls, you might ask? Well, they have discovered that for many people who are paid, taking surveys suddenly becomes more important and they are inclined to think the answers through and fill the out more carefully. These individuals are also more likely to look for more surveys to take.

So how do you get started getting paid taking surveys? All you have to do is go online and register. There are plenty of legit sites that will match you up with appropriate surveys to take.

Get a brand new email for your new job, and use it to register at as many sites as you feel you can handle. It never hurts to have your bases covered, and this way you are ready to receive the maximum number of notifications and get paid taking surveys on a regular basis!

The real secret that hundreds who are getting paid taking surveys have discovered is that filling out profiles can pre-qualify you and get you on the list for the better, higher paying surveys. Some sites will give you a bonus payment for filling out multiple profiles that will be added onto your total.

There are many different categories, and you can pick and choose which ones you want to participate in. Many people choose to fill out all of them! This will ensure you get the maximum amount of invitations for surveys to take.

After you have registered and filed out as many profiles as you can, all there is to do is wait. Most systems will start immediately matching you with surveys to take, so get ready and keep checking your email. Soon the notifications will begin to arrive, telling you which surveys to take to start earning money!

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Online Business: Home Business Website

By Easy Tiger

These days, it seems like everyone is trying to find the right high potential home based job. A home based business opportunity could be a potent second income stream, or an opportunity that could change your future. We will show you a few of the opportunities that could be your new career.

Some of the highest quality home based businesses that can make you wealthy are internet businesses. A web based job has many benefits when stacked up against various other types of home based businesses. Making your business an online business, you will get some nice features that you won't have in other industries.

You will see that the most outstanding features of a correctly established internet based venture is that it runs 24-7. That one benefit, on it's own, makes an internet based venture a powerful answer when searching for a home based work opportunity. Just imagine how good it will feel owning a business that makes you income as you're out of the office.

We will mention a number of classic methods that an entrepreneur can pick from to be successful with an online business. We will split the list of opportunities into two separate lists. The lists are one, working for someone, and second, working for your self.

The initial list will have any type of job that you are hired, and get paid by, a company. We have found there are many kinds of online based, stay at home, employment possibilities you can be hired to do. This list most certainly will be comprised of, bookkeeping, telemarketing, and consulting.

There is very little needed to get just about all of these work at home jobs It will be presumed that, you must be educated, or willing to be taught, to accomplish the deeds required. You most definitely will need some type of phone service for most of these various jobs.

The last, and most obvious, item that everyone absolutely need is a computer. If you do good work, most companies love having a work from home arrangement. The company benefits not only from your production, and your equipment, but also saves office space.

The other list has online business options that are for those of you who want to be self-employed. The list of these businesses that are out there are composed of, website development, developing e-products, and marketing. This brief list is only the tip of the iceberg of the endless variety of ways to make a living that can be found.

In these endeavors, you have to be self employed. You have to choose your own work schedule, and you will be wearing all the hats in your online business. The rewards are great, but so are the responsibilities, when running your own business.

In most cases, it is very beneficial to begin your new venture as a supplemental income stream. This usually will reduce the stress during the time you start up this new business challenge. In the future, if you are successful, you will choose whether you will switch over to your new business full time.

Home based work opportunities seem to be the direction things are going. Do your homework, and discover all the best business opportunities that you can find. If you find your niche, you might be rewarded, and retire young and wealthy.

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Customize Your Site With Free WordPress Themes

By Joyce M. Stuart

A lot of people are setting up their own blog sites these days. The hard part is not to create your own WordPress site, but to develop a site that has a theme which really fits your needs. Let me tell you about a website I found a few days ago that has many different free WordPress themes to choose from.

WordPress is very popular with both amateur and professional website designers. It allows a level of flexibility that can't be beat, a long list of plug in modules that change the site to fit your particular desires, and layouts to personalize each site. These layouts are called themes, as you probably guessed.

One of the themes I saw on the site was financial theme. It was designed to be completely business oriented, looking similar to a news service blog. And it was only one of the many themes the site had to offer, covering a wide range of designs.

Customizing your WordPress site with a unique theme is an easy way to create a different look and feel. There are many, many options available to fully customize a WordPress site, ranging from what visitors can see, to how the site owner can manipulate how it works at all. Experimenting with your WordPress themes will teach you many things about how WordPress works.

Many people experiment with a few different themes before they are set on the one they like the most. Each theme provides a different appearance to the site, as well as providing different options to the webmaster or site owner. This allows every site to provide a unique experience, and offers many options in how information is displayed.

One feature of a professional WordPress theme is the ability to edit your meta tags, such as the page title and description. This is fantastic for enhancing your site ranking with search engines, and allows you to completely customize the basic definition of what your website provides to visitors.

Customizing your website with a new WordPress theme is a fast way to create a new look and feel. Don't be afraid to change your theme as you search for just the right one. You will find that there are many options available in various themes, some of which are highly useful to you, and others you won't need at all.

By now, you can see how important it is to have a user friendly, customizable theme for your WordPress site. It allows you to present a fresh new look without completely starting over from scratch. You merely plug in a new theme, and your website is automatically updated.

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How To Find Cheap Web Host That Are Reliable

By Danny Kajon

Finding economy webhosting that won't break the bank can be rather easy by following a few simple tips. Learn how to find and evaluate web hosting packages and hosting reviews and resources.

Even people who are on a tight budget can learn to shop for great deals on web hosting. But beware, not all cheap web hosting is a deal!

Successful businesses need reliable web hosting. That doesn't mean you have to break the bank on web hosting plans though! Finding affordable web hosting plans that fits your companies budget is an obtainable goal. One that is easier than you think.

1. Do you have multiple websites? Use a variety of hosting companies if you plan to link them together! As far as search engines are concerned, it will give you no seo value if two of the websites you link together are on the same shared server. This will allow you to have a little more long-term SEO benefits from your websites.

2. Multi year contracts brings down the cost of hosting. If you know that you'll be having your website for several years, then go ahead and purchase hosting for as long as you can get it. By signing a multi year deal, you can really bring down the cost of hosting. Web hosting providers want you as a customer for as long as they can keep you. That's why they'll offer you huge discounts for staying around for several years.

3. Don't get confused by all the web hosting companies out there. Not all are created equal. You should sit down and determine what you need from a provider. Every one offers somthing a little different to make them unique and give them an edge over the next guy. So it pays to determine what you need before you go shopping.

4. Do you plan on buying many domains for websites? Then take a look at what web hosting companies call Reseller packages. Reseller packages allow you to host many domains, sometimes unlimited domains, on one account. But beware, if you exceed your server space limitations imposed by your plan, you could get hit with a high penalty.

5. See what other customers of the web hosting company are saying about their service. Visit your favorite forum and ask for opinions from others who are using web hosting. Find comparison sites that rank web hosting companies and let readers review each company. Beware, many Webmasters write their own reviews trying to trick you into going with one hosting company over the other simply because one pays more in commissions!

6. It's a wise decision to email or call any web hosting company you are thinking about signing up with. You want to find out how they handle customer questions, emails and how honest they are. It doesn't hurt to ask a few questions that you already know the answer to.

7. Check their return policy. Look for little loopholes that will allow them to keep all your money should you not be happy. Some return policies state that the web host will keep all your money should you want a refund. Most will give you a pro rated amount back. Some will refund all your money. It pays to find out what happens should you ask for a refund!

By following these easy steps, you'll go a long ways in making sure you get reliable web hosting service from the provider you choose. The links below will help you make purchasing decisions. They are sites that have honest review by real users.

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The Trend Of Consumer Purchasing On The Internet

By Ryan Haiti

There is a very big trend shift in the conventional business practices. There are now businesses are coming on the internet or online to perform or sell their products. Despite the increase in use and popularity of the Internet over the last few years, the question of why consumers prefer to shop on the Internet for certain products and not for others still remains poorly understood.

Consumers' preference for shopping on the Internet has not been abundant. Until just a few years ago, the Internet had been relatively new to consumers as a shopping medium, and is still in a growth phase. Lack of familiarity with its use and the risk perceived by consumers in revealing personal information as a part of online purchasing has created uncertainty and wariness about untried e-tailers. In addition, the appeal and adoption of online shopping have been hindered by inferior Internet retail site design and functions. Finally, historical trends have not had sufficient time to accumulate to predict consumer shopping behavior.

The early years of online shopping has been replaced by more realistic and cautious projections of e-commerce sales. While use of the Internet for the purposes of shopping, information search, communication, interaction, and entertainment has continued to increase, the actual figures for e-commerce sales have not increased as rapidly as expected. As online retail sales continue to increase at a slower pace than expected, academicians and practitioners alike are searching for the product categories that consumers will shop for on the Internet. Consumers' preferences for shopping on the Internet may depend on the product type, which will in turn influence the need to obtain product information easily and cost-effectively, or to test or try products before purchasing. In addition, consumers' willingness to purchase on the Internet may vary depending on the attributes that Internet retailers offer for online-shopping (i.e., information and order services, privacy, quality of products, site quality, etc.).

In the brick-and-mortar retailing and catalog shopping literature, the published research indicates that the importance of store/mail-order attributes varies by product category. There is a discrepancy between e-tailers and customers regarding why customers visit a site. Retailers were reported to believe that factors such as convenience, reputation/trust, and customer service were most important, while customers were reported to list merchandise assortment and competitive prices as the factors that mattered most to them. The reason for the discrepancy is perhaps that the type of product purchased is influential in determining which attributes are more important in choosing a retailer to patronize.

It may also help Internet retailers understand which Internet retailer attributes are important to consumers for specific product types so that they can communicate to them with proper messages and convey the appropriate product-related information on their Web sites and in their advertising.

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Who Does Article Marketing?

By Rob Metras

In order to recognize who is an article marketer, we need to come up with a definition of an article marketer first. Based upon Wikipediaas definition, an Article Marketer is a business that advertises by writing brief articles that relate to their type of industry and distributing them. The articles also include a biography of the author and citations and ways to contact the author. Articles that are written well and distributed freely can make the author and their company more credible and create new business.

Article Marketers are individuals, companies, bloggers, writers and webmasters. They are simply smart business people who comprehend the need to make sure that their name and their product is known by as many potential buyers and business contacts as possible.

Letas look at yahoo.com as a perfect case of article marketing. You will find articles detailing various products or discussing various newsworthy items. The links take you to advertisements and a closer look shows that the articles are also ads. They are always trying to sell something.

Other great examples of Article Marketers are the Vacation Rentals and the Time Share industries. With the Internet they are able to post articles that talk about their business and the properties they have for rent or for sale. They can flood numerous websites and blogs with links to all their offerings.

One of the newest rages in the past few years are bloggers. You can use the game World of Warcraft as an example. The video game has a huge fan base because it is basically an evolving virtual world. The game never ends and continues. The fans are very loyal and there are many fan sites out there to help with tips in the game.

The genius of this is that Blizzard who produces the game gets free advertisement, links to their sight and self promotion from dedicated fans who blog about the game. Think about, instead of spending money on marketing everything themselves, they have their dedicated fan base do it for free. This is an ultimate example of successful Article Marketing.

Dell is another good example of a corporation who benefits from Article Marketing. Articles talking about Dell computers and hyperlinks to Dellas newest deals can be found all over the Internet. Each and every article represents a great piece of marketing.

Who is an Article Marketer? Once again the best answer to that question is smart business people. In this day and age, your business is nothing if your name is not well known. Get your name out there on a few well-written articles and just watch your sales grow.

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Wholesale Dropshipping For eBay Sellers & Home Business

By Thomas Griffin

Ebay is the 'BEST' opportunity you can use right now to make money online in the dropshipping business from the comfort of your own home.

Thousands of people just like you use eBay auctions on a daily basis to sell and buy products on the Internet; now it's your time to START your own dropshipping home-based business and succeed in the eBay auctions 'game'!

There are no special skills required for this dropshipping business, all you need is a computer, Internet access and some basic computer / Internet knowledge.

Dropshipping is when you sell products on the Web, forward the orders to the dropship supplier and, in return, the dropshipper ships the product to your customer (buyer).

You act as the middleman between the dropshipping supplier and your buyer. You can take orders by credit card, fax or any other method you can think of. You can sell via your own Web Site or even through e-mail.

Your profit is generated on the difference between your selling price and the price the dropshipping supplier charges you.

Thanks to dropshipping you can start making money 'instantly' without any investment in inventory, warehousing, shipping, equipment, employees or office space.

How do I find something to sell on eBay?

Of course, finding something to sell isn't hard. Finding something at a "Low enough price" to make a profit on eBay is much more difficult. That's because eBay is a price-driven model and buyers expect a bargain. If they don't get one, they're not buying.

So, the REAL question is:

How do I find something at a 'low enough price to sell profitably' on eBay?

Answer: THE LIGHT BULK WHOLESALE DIRECTORY

1. WWB has an entire research section in their Florida office that 'personally interviews' each and every wholesaler and dropshipper. Without an interview, no one gets into their directory. No one.

2. They have 'Very Exacting Criteria' for being listed. If the source doesn't meet those criteria, they aren't listed. For example, they must be 'genuine wholesalers' and they must be willing to Sell to eBayers in Low minimum quantities.

Most wholesalers want to sell to big retailers with huge budgets, so finding dealers willing to work with the little guys that's us isn't so easy. And, as you probably know, way too many so-called wholesalers are only 'middlemen'.

That won't happen with the new Light Bulk Directory.

Having products drop shipped by suppliers, allows you to concentrate on truly important aspects like advertising, sales and promotion.

Pay attention! There are lots of companies claiming to be 'Drop Shippers'. However, a legitimate drop shipper is a factory-authorized wholesale distributor, or sometimes the actual manufacturer of the product. A legitimate drop shipper should not charge you an 'account setup fee' or ask you to place a 'minimum quantity order'.

Make sure you find some legitimate drop shippers who have the product(s) you want to sell, talk with them on the phone / by e-mail and let them know that you are truly serious about doing business with them.

Customer support counts in the dropshipping business, so don't hesitate to contact some dropshipping suppliers before you want to work with them.

This will help you decide if you really want to do business with a particular drop shipper or not.

To succeed in the dropshipping business you'll have to LOOK for hard-to-find products that people desperately need and want to purchase.

The key is to sell products with little or no competition.

I suggest you RESEARCH for quality products & legitimate dropship suppliers, MONITOR the eBay auction listings to see if there's any competition and TEST the market (e.g. find out if people really want to spend CASH on the product you want to sell)

Remember! Dropshipping makes it EASY for you to start and run your own home-based businesses on a shoestring budget; and eBay is the 'perfect' MEDIUM to expose your product to potential buyers all over the globe!

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