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March 31, 2007

Affiliate Marketing Programs Must Be Constantly Monitored

From a website owner’s point of view, affiliate marketing programs can add to your income as well as improve your credibility among your visitors. Signing up for affiliate programs should involve as much thought as the types of information you offer on your site, whether you sell products or services or simply have a blog site.

For example, if you have a personal blog concerning dogs or cats and you place affiliate links for a pet products company on your blog, you are more likely to earn sales commissions than if your blog promote vitamin sales. The products offered by affiliate companies should be related to the primary focus of your site.

With the number of affiliate marketing programs available, there is no doubt you can find an appropriate site with which to be affiliated. You will want to know ahead of time the commission structure and when payments can be expected to avoid disappointment in the future. Most companies will also keep you informed of any program changes, which would include changes to commission structure or other payment options that may affect your continued affiliation with them.

When you are working with companies as an affiliate, simply placing their link on your page does not end your involvement. Many offer seasonal merchandise or services and keeping your links up to date can make your website more credible to your visitors. If someone visits your site in March or April and you are still promoting free Christmas delivery, many will believe your site is outdated and may ignore your other links.

Many times companies will have sales offering coupons you can place on your site as links, but you need to constantly monitor the coupons for going out of date or for offering products or services that maybe you do not want to promote on your site. For example, if the focus of your site is for children’s education, you may not want to promote an adult oriented site or a gambling site. This can happen when some of the smaller sites lose their domain name and another company picks it up and promotes products other than what you were used to seeing.

It has happened where a company will go out of business and their name is bought by a gambling or a dating site and all links to that name now are pointed at the new site. If you are not keeping track of your affiliated sites you could unknowingly be promoting a site that goes against your primary business focus.

If you are going through an affiliate marketing corporation that manages the programs for many companies and one goes out of business, the links on your page will typically disappear. However, if you are affiliated with a company and their program goes out of business, the link may remain but will give your visitors an error message. Another indication could be that your site may be out of date.

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March 30, 2007

Starting An Internet Business

When starting an internet business, there are certain notions that will require conscious thought. Things like how to market your products or services, and where as well as, who do you need to help get it off the ground. While starting an internet business may seem like a daunting task. It is no different than starting a traditional business.

While traditional businesses require advertising, it is usually done with a shotgun approach. You shoot advertising all over the place and hope to hit someone with your message. By default, your advertising for a traditional business will be focused on the geographic area in which your business is located. You must also adjust pricing to meet what your market will bear.

When starting an internet business, your market can be less focused on location since your business will be global. You will also need to be more descriptive in your product presentation as people will not be able to touch and feel the items and will have to rely on what you say about them. You not only have to market the what but also the how and why. Getting people to part with their money through an internet business involves selling the business as well as an individual product or service.

Many old-style sales people know the biggest part of sales is selling yourself. People who can make a potential buyer feel comfortable with them have a higher success rate. Those who simply sell the product can usually experience a certain success if they are selling a worthwhile product, but experiencing growth may be limited.

Once you have chosen the type of business you want to start and the people who will work with you, your marketing plan will need to be executed. Once you have made your announcement and made the promise of what you will do, you need to do what you have promised. Customer service needs to be more than a promise, it needs to be a way of life. Unlike a traditional business, on the internet you will never be the only game in town. If you make mistakes with customer service there will be hundreds, if not thousands of other businesses ready to take your place.

Many traditional businesses eventually fail because they are not willing to change with the shopping habits of their customers. The product mix may become stale or new competition may offer merchandise the old store does not and since success has been around for years, many do not see the need to change.

With an internet business, changes are required almost daily and there is no real harm in looking at your competition to see what they are offering and some of the ideas may be worth mimicking. However, make sure any new ideas you implement are filled with you personal touch to keep your customers satisfied with you.

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March 29, 2007

Internet Affiliate Marketing Can Also Go Offline

You own a website and have teamed with many others on the internet through internet affiliate marketing in hopes of earning sales commissions on products and services they offer. It only makes sense that the majority of your affiliated sites also offer online transactions since the web surfer is the target of your marketing.

However, there is no reason you cannot use internet affiliate marketing to work with service businesses that conduct their business offline. For example a used car lot may have a website that lists and displays a portion of its inventory and you guide potential customers to the site. The customer then wants to call the dealer to verify the availability of an advertised vehicle. Using affiliate software that can track calls, you could still get credit for the sale and earn a commission.

Additionally, some service companies do not have an online presence, such as hair dressers or even attorneys. Working out an affiliate agreement with them, a small card could be printed out on their home computer with information linking the coupon with your site. By including a map to the business along with other pertinent information, it can be taken to the business and they would know from which site the lead came from for proper affiliate credit.

However, the majority of affiliate marketing is conducted through other internet businesses that utilize software tracking automatically assigning you a tracking number. When a person visits your site, clicks on an affiliate link and makes a purchase from the affiliated site, you receive credit for the sale and earn a commission. Since most buyers are already online, making the transition to another site is simple for them and tracking is automatic.

As a business, there are many advantages to joining in the affiliate marketing craze as it can greatly enhance your presence in cyberspace. The key to success for any online business is being able to be found on the internet. Having thousands of other websites posting an ad for your business, for which you pay only if you get results, adds to your traffic and your sales.

An advantage to the affiliate websites is that it appears to have advertising on it from other website. Visitors viewing an affiliate site have no way to determine if the referrals are paid advertising or not, which can add a degree of credibility to that site as well. You will also receive points from internet search engines for having additional links to your site. Although graphic links do not garner as many points as text links, the more quality links you can obtain, the better.

Affiliate marketing programs are a win-win situation for both parties as the site gets additional exposure and traffic and the affiliate can earn money through the commissioned sales.

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March 28, 2007

Everyone Looking For Ways To Earn Extra Income

If you are like most people, you are constantly trying to figure out how to earn extra income and still be able to have some free time to spend with your family and friends. The ways to do this are varied and will depend on your skills and your desire and most of the ways to earn extra money will require time and effort, commensurate with the amount of extra money you want to earn.

Unless you come up with new get-rich-quick scheme and con a bunch of other people out of their money, which is illegal, there really is no way to make a ton of money in a short period of time as may be promised in some ads you receive in your inbox. Remember the old axiom that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.

Unfortunately, if you want to earn extra money, you are going to have to work for it and how much extra money you want will depend on how much work you are willing to do. There are many legitimate methods of earning extra money at home, using your computer and your skills for which people are willing to pay. While many of the opportunities may offer lucrative promises, breaking into the fields may be a little tougher.

For example, trade shows and even county fairs generate tons of sales leads for companies and in order to send out promotional information, all the entry forms used for daily drawings will have to be entered into a data base. Typically, a company’s staff will not have time to do this so they hire outside help to get it done in a timely fashion. This company will probably seek out help from someone they know, being reluctant to hand over all the potential sales information to a stranger, not counting how willing they may be to mail it out to someone they do not know.

There are ads that promote becoming a medical transcriptionist but what the ads do not tell you that medical professionals will want to work with someone with a proven track record for accuracy. You should find out if there are any companies near your home that hire transcriptionists so you can get a start once you complete the intense training. It is more than just typing what you hear on a tape.

Online businesses are great and can produce good extra income if you become fluent in marketing from the internet. Understanding the best way to promote an online business before you start your own can make a crucial difference in your success at creating extra income. Letting your business be known is critical, as is excellent customer service to keep your customers but do not expect overnight riches.

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March 27, 2007

Home Income Opportunity Work Requires Excellent Service

There are very few people who would not like the chance to find at home work that came with an income opportunity, especially if the money earned could support the family and possibly improve the quality of life. While there are many places offering the opportunity to do this, you must understand that no one is going to hand you money for doing nothing. They all basically advertise the same message that you get out of the business, in terms of income, what you put into it, in terms of effort.

Affiliate websites are a great home income opportunity work and with some effort on your part can reap financial benefits from several sources. As an affiliate marketer, you are advertising someone else’s website and the products or services they are selling and receiving a sales commission on each sale generated by your site. The advantage is that you are simply pointing people to the affiliate site and that company handles all the billing and shipping and sends you the check for your help.

You are still going to have to participate in marketing in one form or another, and in order to make any money from commissioned sales people have to buy from websites they reached by going through your site. There are differences of opinion on the best sites to become affiliated with, but a common thought is to choose a few big names sites, but focus on the niche merchants.

For example, it would be okay to become an affiliate of Target or Wal-Mart in the retail sector but customers looking to buy from them can simply go straight to their websites and cut out the middleman, which in this case is you. No, their price will not be any better by eliminating you, but then the big company will not being paying you for bringing them in the front door.

The advantage of the big names is having your visitors see how you are affiliated with the big guns, as well as offering them the opportunity to see what is available from the not-so-well-known sites as well. If you are looking to makes sales from your site to other businesses, then business-related sites should be your focus of affiliates. If your website focuses on a specific theme, motorcycles, for example becoming affiliates with motorcycles parts and accessories sites can be to your advantage.

Believe it or not, it is okay to send people to another store for something you do not carry. They call that customer service. By taking care of a customer’s immediate needs, they will remember who sent them to get what they needed and may return to you to get what they want. It is all about marketing and getting your name in front of your customers in a positive light.

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March 26, 2007

A Professional Home Base Business: Pre-Paid Legal Group Division

If you have experience in professional sales or have an interest in a professional sales home base business, the Pre-Paid Legal Group Division may be perfect for you. The group division of Pre-Paid Legal involves marketing the Life Events (Family) Legal Plan and/or the Identity Theft Shield as an employee benefit. This division of Pre-Paid Legal is great for someone who is very professional and enjoys calling companies and meeting with HR, business owners, and school district superintends.

A few Pre-Paid Legal (PPL) associates start their PPL business in the group division. Actually, the group division at one time was the only division available during the early years of PPL over 30 years ago. Many PPL associates prefer this division because they do not have to recruit anyone to make a 6 figure a year income with PPL. Their primary focus is to market a lot of memberships by opening accounts with several different companies and/or school districts. Some PPL associates (aka groupies) only go after small companies with less than 50 employees, and other associates only go after the larger companies with up 100 or more employees. Either way, the income potential in this division could be very lucrative.

A PPL groupie may spend their Monday mornings calling companies and school districts to schedule appointments to go and talk to them about offering PPL services as an employee benefit. Their goal is to fill up their calendar with appointments for the week or possibly the month with potential clients that may turn into accounts. Once the PPL associate gets an approval for a new account, they schedule time to go and talk to the employees and enroll them with a PPL membership. One company enrollment could mean enrolling up to 50 or more employees. This one enrollment could create a huge check with on-going residual income for the PPL associate who opened the account and got the enrollments.

The group division is pretty much like working professional sales position but you do not get paid by the hour. Like all the division in PPL, you only get paid when memberships are written and processed by Pre-Paid Legal. The group division is not for everyone but if you have experience as a professional and you can discipline yourself to do the work required to get paid, the Pre-Paid Legal group division may definitely be for you. PPL associates who wish to go into this division are required to attend a 2 day training class and they encourage to repeat the training as often as possible.

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March 25, 2007

Home Business Opportunities Abound On The Internet

There are so many home business opportunities available that it could be hard to choose one. Depending on how much work you want to get involved with, there are several home business opportunities related to the internet that can help provide income streams while most of the work is performed in the comfort of your own home.

Many seek out home business opportunities, looking for a way to avoid the morning and afternoon transit to a job. Being able to work your own hours and establishing your own dress code are also attractive alternatives to working in someone else’s office.

The problem faced by internet neophytes is their belief in anything that sounds too good to be true. They may believe that everything on the internet is accurate and everyone saying they can make big money quick must be telling the truth. Any home business opportunity may be able to make you money if you follow their program exactly, but most times following the program exactly will cost more money than you may be willing, or capable, of spending.

Advertising and marketing cost money. There is no question that for any business to be successful those are two necessary expenditures that a company must plan for if they hope to grow. Actually, just surviving will require a certain amount of advertising to realize enough business to keep them afloat.

Look carefully at every offer for home business opportunities and, hidden as they may be, there will be clues as to its honestly. When a site claims that you can start making money within an hour of signing up, it is not telling the truth. Is it possible? Only by accident. Is it probable? You may have a better chance winning the lottery with a losing ticket.

There is money to be made on the internet, but many home business opportunities fail to mention that you will need to market your site to gain visitors. You see, visitors are those pesky critters that may attack one site and ignore another. Without visitors, however no web site will last. Visitors determine your sales, which determines your profit, which determines your future.

Home business opportunities involving internet marketing, provided you know how this advertising method works, you could make decent money with this type business. Since websites are hoping to make money from website sales, targeting the web surfers is only logical. Although, attracting potential customers with offline ads can add to the customer base, allowing for a bigger cut of the market share.

When you have decided on a home business opportunity, you should be prepared to spend the time and effort needed to bring your business out of infancy. Make a budget of time and money, promising to spend only to the limit and no more, and give yourself so many months to grow the business to profitability or find another way to make a living.

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March 24, 2007

Find Legitimate Businesses To Earn Money From Home

You have probably spent a lot of time thinking of ways you can earn money from home while the baby is growing up, or the spouse is recovering or you recently lost your job. The decision to stay at home can be a tough one and it will take time to determine the best and consistent means to earn money from home before you completely commit to the idea.

In many areas of the country it is a tight job market and with specific in-demand skills a lot of workers are finding themselves with few prospects. This often sparks the decision to try to earn money from home, and unfortunately, also can lead to making desperate decisions that may not allow you to make the most of your situation. Many companies prey on desperate job hunters and take their money when they do not have the cash to give up.

Searching for the right opportunity takes time and effort and a willingness not to let that voice of reason get lost in the chatter of lofty promises. Deciding to start your own home business is a decision that not only affects you, it affects your family as well as your bill collectors. If you do not make money, they will not care that you had to pay extra for additional training and may not be long before you do not have electric to keep the computer up and running.

Look objectively at your skills and before you send money to join a million dollars a month opportunity that requires no education or specialized training, ask yourself what you will be doing to earn that kind of cash and who is willing to pay it. The two answers are usually nothing and no one, and that should tell you where your cash is going. One of the most lucrative means of making money online is scamming others into sending you cash and when the voice of reason is silenced, the scammer’s voice is often heard loud and clear.

Assembling products at home can be a good way to make money as long as you are associated with a legitimate company. Those making the offer requiring you buy specialized tools and parts in order to assemble the product are only selling the tools and the parts. There is a 100 percent chance that no matter how well your products are assembled the company will reject them for quality reasons, typically not being up to their standards.

There are, however many companies who will pay a third party to perform assembly from home work, and depending on the product they may even want to inspect your facilities to insure they are not wasting their time with someone who can produce a few a week when they may need thousands.

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March 23, 2007

Extra Income Opportunity Working At Home

Working at home has a nice ring to it and many see being able to set their own hours as a dream come true. For those who have little or no self-discipline, that dream can quickly turn into a nightmare. There may be times when a deadline is approaching as well as your favorite sports team on television. Without the discipline to set your priorities to your work, your home business will fail.

When you make the commitment to work from home, you are telling your clients or customers that you are ready to do whatever it takes to get the job done within the promised time. When you continually fail to do that, you are telling them that you do not care about their needs and your time is more important to you than their project.

When you work from home, if there is no one around a majority of the day, then there should be no distractions to keep you from getting your work done. When you first begin working at home, the first few days may be wasted as you get up in the mornings and think about not having to go anywhere. How nice it is that you can work whenever you feel like it. Soon, however, you may find yourself struggling to hit deadlines and having trouble finding new projects.

One tip about working from home is that while you can work in your pajamas, until you are settled into your routine of working at home, get up in the morning and get dressed for work. Hit the office at a specified time and establish regular hours. Once acclimated to getting your work done on time, then you can play with your schedule and your dog during the day and finish your work in the evening.

Many clients will not care whether you are working on their project at seven in the morning or 10 at night. Their only concern is that the work is done to their specifications within the time that was promised. It is up to you to accomplish this.

Other than discipline, organization is a key ingredient in working from home so that little details, or big jobs are not overlooked and forgotten. Other than not getting a project completed on time, the worst customer service you can offer is telling a client that you forgot to do their work. Telling them they are not important enough to remember will likely not bring you any additional business from them or their friends.

Once you are organized and disciplined, you can be prepared to work more hours than normal. At least until you have established yourself in your business and become acclimated to the amount of work you need to do. Another tip is to finish all the hard projects at the beginning so if you get behind, the easy ones can be done quickly.

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March 22, 2007

Making Money With Home Business Income Opportunity

There are many ways to make money with a home business and some of them even live up to their promises. No matter what type of work you do there is a home business income opportunity for you. Whether you work at home or from home, you can find a line of work that you can do and make money doing it.

Multi-level marketing knows no boundaries, in fact when was first developed it was referred to as distributorships and a few companies were able to experience tremendous growth due to these home base business income opportunities. Companies like Fuller Brush, Amway and Avon are a few of the bigger names that used multi-level marketing in their sales plan. A sale representative would work in a territory, developing other sales representatives and then they would become area managers, supervising and helping those they trained.

This representative would earn a small commission on the sales of the people they helped develop, all the while working from home. This enabled these companies to develop a national sales team with minimal expense to the company itself. This method also assured that the company’s approach to sales remained consistent as each sales representative used the same sales pitch, injecting it with their own personality, but the main pitch was written by the company and followed by everyone.

With online businesses, the process is similar with one person developing an area and working with others to become sales representatives for a company. The first person in an area will earn income from the sales of others working under them. One main difference is that with many multi-level marketing plans, there is a limit to the number of persons they can recruit to work under them.

Affiliate programs are the newest rage and they can produce a steady income stream. Many companies use affiliate marketing almost exclusively, shying from traditional advertising venues, paying only for responses from advertising. It works since you own your website and place ads on your site for other companies. When a visitor to your site clicks on one of your affiliate ads and makes a purchase, you receive a commission on the sale. If no sales are made, the advertiser does not pay for the space on your site.

For a company, having all of their ads on affiliate sites works in their favor in two ways. First, it gives their advertising visible on thousands of websites. Secondly, one of the methods used by search engines to determine ranking is the number of quality links to a site. With affiliate ads, especially those with similar content linking back to them, they can achieve a higher ranking on search engines, increasing their odds of attracting more visitors.

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March 21, 2007

Earn Income At Home With Internet Business

Just about anyone can earn income from home and with an internet business you can make money working at home. Many companies are willing to warehouse products for you and drop ship to your customers. By launching your website, gaining sales and developing your market you can earn a good living online.

For example, you find a source for printer cartridges that you can sell 30 to 40 percent below retail. When an order arrives, you send it in with payment, along with the address of where it should be shipped and put the balance in your pocket. Other companies may allow you to direct the customers to send their order directly to the company for processing and at the end of the month or week, the company will send you any money you earned.

Just as every person is different so is every internet business opportunity. They are not designed to be acceptable to everyone and not everyone is designed to work at home with an internet business. But once you decide to make the plunge, pretend you are on the side of a pool. It is okay to dip your toes in the water and check the temperature but at some point you will have to get wet. Some will do this by slowly walking into the water while others will close their eyes and jump right in. It may be acceptable to examine a new opportunity, but at some point you are going to have to jump in and get started, or walk away from it and go back to your daytime job.

Like any business, it takes blood, sweat and maybe a few tears before you can sit back, take a deep breath, and 15 or 20 seconds later get back to work. There is no one looking over your shoulder, and no one with a checkbook to bail you out of a financial jam. It is all on you. Whether you succeed is determined by how much determination you have to make it work. Once you have decided on an internet business and have made the plunge, give it every opportunity to grow into a successful business.

Do not be afraid of change. Many people embark on a new business and after a time figure out it is not the right one for them. When this happens you will have two options. One is to grin and bear it and stay in an unsatisfying field on another job you are not happy with, and the other option is to cut your losses and find a different role to fulfill. Finding an opportunity that makes you happy with your work can more than repay you for any losses you may have suffered.

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March 20, 2007

Consider Talent And Experience For Extra Income Ideas

With escalating prices across the board and most incomes failing to increase at an even pace, many people are looking for extra income ideas and there are a few ways to improve the cash flow into your house. If you put some thought into your hobbies and activities you enjoy you can certainly figure some way to turn a hobby into a part time income.

For example, a person who likes to build things such as small pieces of furniture or birdhouses or squirrel feeders can take them to one of many craft shops who take consignments for sale. They will usually collect at least 10 percent of the selling price as their fee and some will offer rental space for you to display your work for sale. Rental of your booth plus the percentage you pay is generally covered by sales of your products, but they handle everything, including paying your state’s sales tax, is applicable.

A person who likes to sew and is good at it may be able to bring in extra income by offering repair service for clothing or alterations. Many dry cleaning companies subcontract alterations to tailors who work out of their home and by contacting them in your area could bring in some part time business. There may also be a market in specialty window treatments. If people have trouble finding the right fit for curtains they may be interested in your services to create a special look just for them.

There are places online that offer reminder services for upcoming events and important days such as a spouse’s birthday or anniversary. These flourish due to the hectic schedules of many people who do not remember a day until the morning of the event. You could offer to send people an email a day or so ahead of time as a reminder of a special event approaching. Most people would appreciate getting a gentle reminder in their email box to make sure the day is not forgotten.

Many small companies will send out special advertising pieces throughout the year and often have their own staff involved in addressing the pieces to their customers as well as stamping them and taking them to the post office. A service can be created that will maintain their mailing list the computer, which can be printed out on labels, or directly onto the cards, to reduce the time spent addressing them. While most projects would be small, your income from this type business from one source would be small, but if you can contract with numerous businesses you may be able to realize a decent part time income.

Consider your talents and consider your resources and determine the type of part time business you could work from your home in order for you to earn extra income.

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March 19, 2007

How To Start An Internet Business

Wanting to work from home with an internet business is a great goal. Many companies operating today started with that same dream and found success. Some by trial and error and others due to planning and knowing how to start an internet business. In theory, there is no difference in starting an internet business than in starting any other type of business.

There is an old saying that goes if you fail to plan, you are planning to fail and that is true when starting a business. Having enough cash to last while you get the business up and running to pay the bills is one of the primary things that you need to consider. Not just for the business, as unless you maintain another source of income while starting a new one, you will also need living expenses.

A website will be the crux of your internet business and you can either build one yourself or pay someone to put together a quality site for you. It may not need to be earth-shattering with all the bells and whistles some sites are saturated with, but it does need to present a level of professionalism to agree with the presentation of the business you are offering.

If you are offering retail sales, then a secure shopping cart will be necessary and will need to be integrated into your website. Customers who cannot find a simple way to pay for purchases will simply become visitors.

Getting people to your site will be your next consideration because the phrase build it and they will come only applied to the baseball field in the movie. It will not work in business. Unless you are prepared with a large budget for advertising and marketing, you will have to look at alternative methods of letting the world know you are in business and ready to help them.

Marketing on a shoestring can be done, but you will need to be prepared to do a lot of things on your own. Helping out at community events when volunteers are needed, wearing that new shirt you had made with your company name and web address on it, can be a boost to the awareness of your business. Become known as the person to call for insight on information in your area of expertise. Get to know reporters and editors of your local newspaper, offering your services if they need information about whatever field you are involved in and when they do call with questions, take the time to give them answered and let them quote you in the paper.

Once you have everything in place, do not be afraid to announce your business. Many small town newspapers are willing to give you a free plug as a new business opening in the area and if they do, do not make the mistake of promising them advertising in the future, as most editorial staffs do not mix with advertising.

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March 18, 2007

Work At Home Moms Work Through Distractions

Other than any children that may be present, work at home moms are more susceptible to distractions than anyone else in the work force is. Family and friends will stop in just to see the kids, or to say hello and that day’s work is going to get further behind. That does not count the natural distractions of the children you are probably staying home to care for.

Fortunately, there are many opportunities for work at home moms so that they can remain at home and care for their family while still being a productive member of the work force. Most work at home opportunities allow for liberal working hours, providing deadlines are met, as well as have a relaxed dress code. Most work at home moms believe that if it was not for the lack of dress code, they would have trouble getting their work done.

The pre-internet envelope stuffing scam still proliferates through cyberspace, with the difference being how fast the scammer can get your money. Probably the hardest thing for a work at home mom will be deciding which opportunity is worth of their time and effort. Home assembly of products, which if connected to a legitimate company, can offer lucrative earnings, but unless you can zip through product assembly like a hot knife through butter, is probably not the right at home job for you.

Typically, work at home moms have a large network of other work at home moms where they discuss ideas of keeping busy and making money while staying home and taking care of the kids. This type of brainstorming can create numerous new businesses based on the needs of this group. For example, a few stay at home moms started a website designed to help moms work at home. They have researched many different work at home opportunities and only talk about the ones they determined were not scams.

Additionally, with moms in constant communication, if one is getting behind on a deadline another may be able to jump in and help them catch up. The favor will be repaid later, but all jobs can get done by deadline when they help each other. They can also help in trading babysitting services if one is really behind in their work. Watching a neighbor’s child today can help you out tomorrow if you get really busy.

Another advantage of networking with other work at home moms is they can share information about which opportunities offer the best income potential and which ones a fraudulent. They can protect everyone in their circle from making the transition from work at home mom to victim. You can also share success stories with others to help them achieve the same income level you may be enjoying.

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March 17, 2007

Free Work At Home Opportunities May Come With Costs

Regardless of what the advertisements may promise, finding free work at home projects may be next to impossible in many lines of work. While many companies advertise free work from home opportunities, their definition of free may not be the same as yours.

A majority of free work at home opportunities are nothing more than franchise opportunities, in which you put your name on their page and promote it. In a lot of ways, this makes sense. The company has spent a lot of money and a lot of time developing their web site, along with the replication software enabling you to have the same website with your name on it. They have also spent a lot of time and money developing the service or product mix for sale on that site.

Like any traditional franchise, a new entry in the field can take advantage of the name recognition, products and reputation of the existing company. The existing company is selling the exclusive use of their name and products, in hopes that more customers will be the result.

The main trouble with internet businesses is that customers come from all over the world and if there are 1,000 people with 1,000 websites all exactly alike, getting people to visit your site so that you get credit for sale is where cost may enter the equation. Sure, you can set up a free blog site and talk about nothing but the products on your site, using your unique URL to draw people in. You may actually get one or two people reading your blog. Maybe they will visit the site. This is free.

If you ask any person who has achieved the slightest bit of success in business, internet or traditional, they will tell you that advertising or marketing is required to get people to your website or into your business. Without it, the only people who will know about your online business are you and your service provider, and they won’t care as long as you pay your fees.

In order to boost your page’s ranking, you may have to spend some quality time and money to make your site more attractive to internet search engines. In business, time is money, so your free work at home opportunity is getting more expensive as you go along.

Additionally, many of the companies offering free websites, amazingly also can recommend a marketing company to help you get your site noticed. That will not be free, but the returns from increased sales may pay for the advertising. Of course, the company, whose free website you promote, is going to be an affiliate of the marketing company and will receive a percentage of your outlay for the advertising. While there may not be anything illegal or even unethical about these arrangements, you should be aware of what you are getting into before you spend the first dime.

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March 16, 2007

Work At Home Ideas Can Confuse And Fluster

If you look into all of the work at home ideas available today you could end up confused trying to figure out the best one for you. When looking through the long line of opportunities there are some questions you can ask yourself to help make the decision easier.

Since many of the work at home ideas involve multi-level marketing, if you are not the type of person that wants to sell products to your family and friends, then this is not the opportunity for you. One of the ways people make money with multi-level marketing is to sell products, but the main way to make money is to recruit others to sell the products for you. Hence the name multi-level marketing as there are multiple levels of distributors, each earning a percentage of the sales of everyone working under them.

The person at the top will be making the most money. Although there are opportunities in this type of business in which you can make money with your own internet business without having to sell to friends and family. Some companies offer a commerce website that for a small franchise fee, you can offer a professional looking and functioning online retail store and make money off every sale made from your store.

Additional expense may be required for marketing to get people into your store, but that is similar to advertising for a brick and mortar store and a part of doing business. You may be able to increase your payout if you recruit others to also open stores, but it is not required in order to make money.

Becoming an affiliate marketer can also provide income. You simply join with other companies and place ads for them on your website. When your visitors click on their ad and buy something, you get a percentage of the sale. Again, promoting your website will bring in more visitors and more potential sales through your affiliates.

Working at home ideas also include order processing, where you will receive email or snail mail orders for products, enter the information into your home computer and transmit it to a main company, which then processes the orders and sends out the products. These are legitimate opportunities for the right companies, but may involve a small fee to get started.

One of the newer work at home ideas is for people to fill out forms online. A potential customer may email information to a box you are in charge of monitoring and when information is submitted you enter it on a company’s form and forward it to the company. It is easy enough work but it will take a lot of forms to make any money doing this.

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March 15, 2007

Looking For Honest Ways To Earn Extra Income

Everyone who is looking for ways to earn extra money knows it is not going to fall into their lap. There are many honest methods of earning extra cash and if working outside the house part time is not an option for you, look to the internet for new methods.

Everyone has heard about the big money to be made through online auctions and some people actually earn a living simply selling merchandise at auction. Many more, however, can pick up a few extra dollars here and there, but if you want to make the big bucks, you will be doing this on a near full-time basis. Getting connected with a company that supplies the products for you to list on your auction site, and then handle the billing and shipping can create a lot of profit if you pick the right items to sell.

If you do not find the right merchandise and your listings do not sell, you will go broke paying listing fees for merchandise still sitting in the company’s warehouse. Before you get started in a full time auction business, become fully educated on the type of merchandise in demand and remember it will change with the seasons and at the whim of the customers. What sells good today may languish in a warehouse tomorrow.

Affiliate marketing is about the easiest way to make extra money today. The only work required on your part is placing another company’s ad on your site. When visitors on your site click on the add, it automatically tracks the referral and when they make a purchase you earn a commission. If you do not have a website, these ads can be placed on your web log, known as a blog, and if the ads relate to the subject of your blog, you can earn even more money.

Selling online can also bring in extra cash, but for this you will need a website or at least get connected to an existing website that will let you post your merchandise for sale. There are some craft or antique malls that rent booth and floor space in which you can display your products. The mall will handle all the marketing for the entire building without focusing on one tenant, ad in addition to the monthly space rental will also charge a percentage of the total sales.

Perhaps website can be constructed that will also showcase all the vendors of crafts or antiques and allow online sales. If you allow vendors to place their ads for a set amount, you can eliminate the need for collecting a percentage and just maintain the site for them. You and they both can receive additional income from this type of endeavor.

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Online Affiliate Marketing Improves Product Offerings

One of the advantages of online affiliate marketing programs is that your visitors are already online and are willing to look and shop online for many items. Whether through necessity or with discretionary income, online shopping is gaining ground each year and more people are spending more money online than ever before.

As online security continue to improve using credit card numbers or checking account information is being more freely entered and in order to tap the online market, internet sellers need to have what their visitors are looking for. It is unlikely that any one site will be able to offer everything for everybody, but by using online affiliate marketing, you can probably come pretty close to that goal.

Even if you only carry one item on your own website, visitors will probably not come back if they are not specifically looking for that one item. Additionally, if it is not a disposable item, repeat sales may be few and far between. Instead of adding products to your mix, you can become affiliated with other online stores to offer a wider variety of products and services without the expense of carrying them yourself.

It is considered good business to have any affiliates you sign up with be relevant to your core business to entice your visitors to look at the additional offerings. If they are coming to your site for a specific type of product, seeing offering for similar offerings gives them more of an incentive to click on the ads for the other sites.

Not only will it give your visitors something else to consider, if they end up buying something from the other sites, you receive a sales commission on the purchase, which will improve your bottom line. Different online affiliate marketing plans exist that offer a different type of payout, but commissioned sales leads the pack for profitable offerings.

Some sites will pay per thousand impressions, meaning every time your page with their ad on it is loaded, you get credit for an impression. Other offer a small payment when someone clicks on the ad and visits their page and still others will pay you if your visitor goes to their site and fills in specific information. The majority, however offer the incentive of giving you a percent of the total sale, not including tax and shipping, to give you a reason to get more visitors to your site.

The benefit of online affiliate marketing to the sites is that they get advertising that they only have to pay for if it results in a sale. This performance-based advertising is unique to the internet as costs to put an ad on the site is minimal, and since most website owners are promoting their site anyway, adding another graphic or text link can be done virtually for free.

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March 13, 2007

Market Your Home Business To Assure Business Growth

You would not open a brick and mortar store without advertising and hope to grow, and there is no reason to believe that starting an internet business without advertising will not suffer the same fate. When you build a website and place it online, you and your web host are the only ones who know about it. Without proper marketing, that is how it will stay until you finally get frustrated and shut it down.

The internet is not the Field of Dreams and if you build it, they will not always come. If they do, it may be accident if you have not let anyone else know your site exists. Many people fail to properly budget for advertising and once their site is up, they are caught in the middle. They have no money to advertise unless they make some sales, and they cannot make any sales unless they advertise. Most take that as a good reason to give up.

Having T-shirts imprinted with your business name can be done fairly cheap and some places will do them on your shirts for as little as $5 or $10 each provided you stick to the basics. Wearing them to public events gets your name out cheaply. Volunteer as an “expert” in your area of expertise. For example, if you are a carpenter and a heavy storm has caused a lot of damage in your hometown, contact your newspaper and offer precautions homeowners should take while looking to get repairs completed. Quoted with you name in your local newspaper is advertising that no amount of money can buy.

Most home businesses just starting out are usually stingy with their money, and they should be. Throwing money out the window will gather a lot of people in the short term, but once all the cash is gone the crowd will also disappear. Marketing your business on the cheap can be an exhausting exercise but with less money to spend, you will have to do more of the work.

Try talking to your local small restaurant about working a deal with their placemats. Better yet, gather a dozen or so other small businesses in your neighborhood about putting together an advertising placemat for your group. They can be as plain or as fancy as you can afford, but each business can have its own ad on the placemat and once printed, give them to your community restaurants to use. There are few small restaurants that will say no to free placemats.

If you can afford it, sponsor a local sport team and supply the uniforms, with your name on them of course, and reap the benefits of the advertising. This is a more expensive proposition, but perhaps your can work with the uniform supplier on a bartered deal to exchange some of the service costs for the uniforms.

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March 12, 2007

Your World Can Revolve Around Internet Marketing Home Business

If you are knowledgeable at internet marketing, home business opportunities abound for you and if not, there are at least a dozen experts who can help you out. Of course, their expert advice often contradicts one another, but with most service related activities, you try them out until you find one that works for you.

In today’s global market, just about everyone has a website and are in need of marketing. A website without a marketing plan is a hobby and few people can make any money and be successful with their hobby. It really involves a simple formula that shows that zero marketing will equal zero customers and everyone knows that zero customers equals going out of business.

Bringing customers to their site is every business’s goal and a well executed internet marketing plan can do just that. You can have a good home business doing internet marketing for many customers and you can start with your own home business. When companies see your advertisements and contact you, they want to know how good you are. The short answer is that they were able to find you through an unsolicited means.

Before you get started you have to understand that old style marketing involved getting your name in front of people who were in need of your services. In this case, it is just about everyone with a website. The old saying of not caring what they say, as long as they get the name right, was focused on the shotgun approach to marketing also considered playing the odds. Sending information to everyone you could think of and hoping for return percentage large enough to justify the expense.

This approach rarely works with an internet-based business as surfers have so many companies to choose from that inundating them with information often turns them away. A targeted approach often can get their attention and get you noticed. While some believe that a one percent return on 10,000 ads is good, that is still only 100 expressing an interest and if you close on 10 percent that comes to 10 sales out of 10,000 contacts.

By focusing your effort on only the 1,000 businesses that actually use your service, a one percent return still equals 100 and a 10 percent sales rate still equals 10 sales, but you saved the money for 9,000, which would have otherwise been wasted.

Another form of marketing, guerilla marketing talked about in 1984 in the book Guerilla Marketing reveals how to achieve marketing on a limited budget. This type of marketing is ideal for small businesses and it extols the virtue of customer service and quality. The company uses personal contact and sales the person, not the product, and delivers a product or service on time that performs the function that it was promised to perform. Word of mouth takes over from there.

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March 11, 2007

Knocking On Door May Be Internet Business Opportunities

When opportunity knocks you should not be afraid to open the door and that is why the peepholes are so popular. Without being able to see what is on the other side of the door, too many times opportunities are available but they cannot be seen.

Numerous internet business opportunities present themselves every day and unless you can see the chance to become part of something special, you will constantly be on the lookout for an opportunity that have already passed you by. With every opportunity that arises, there is someone willing to take a chance. If you are not that person, then finding the right opportunity will never come your way. The internet can be an exciting place on which to do business, but many of the internet business opportunities will involve taking risk.

Many business people will tell you that success is an attitude and other will say that success is a choice. By having the right, positive attitude you can choose to make your business opportunity grow or you can choose to allow it to fail. However, the first choice you have to make is in taking advantage of the opportunity.

Not all opportunities are readily identifiable. What may seem like a fleeting thought may actually be a fledgling idea that if nurtured and thought completely through will emerge into an opportunity for growth and success. There are some online businesses offering people the chance to create their own business, following their model and business plan, which could be considered an opportunity. A lot of folks are reluctant to take them up on the opportunity to own their own business based on their unwillingness to follow someone else’s direction.

Franchises are one of the internet business opportunities that some folks shy away from because they will not have complete control over the business. However, a franchise is based on a proven method of doing business and a successful business model. Without the need to re-invent the wheel, you can have a business up and running in short order, or you can go against the grain and attempt to start over from the beginning.

When you see what may be an opportunity, you should study it and do the proper research to insure it is not one of the many scams available online. Once you have made the determination that the opportunity is genuine and you are willing to exert the energy and put in the time, then it is time to take advantage of the chance to see success.

Imagine where you would be today if the people from Microsoft, Apple or Dell Computers had missed their opportunity and failed to take the risk in starting their respective companies. Not only did their lives change based on their actions, so has the lives of everyone with a computer.

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March 10, 2007

With Research You Can Start An Internet Business

You do not have to wander around town looking for real estate to get into business for yourself. You can always start an internet business, provided you can offer a viable product or service, or take advantage of opening one of many available franchises. Your abilities, desire and financial resources can help determine the type of business and how long it may take to get it started.

When considering starting an internet business you need to determine the type of business you want to be involved with. You have the choice of selling products or services as well as whether you want to sell your own product line or someone else’s. The same can be true for service-related businesses. There are several companies offering services that you can resell and make a profit and if you find any of them useful, you may want to be involved.

You can also choose to sell a combination or products and services to take advantage of different aspects of the online shopping venture. While niche marketing and focusing on one product line has proven successful, so has being able to take advantage of different needs for different customer bases. Niche markets are more focused while a product mix reaches more of your targeted audience. You can also offer backend products, such as printer paper and ink to go with printers.

Working capital is a serious consideration in starting any internet business and probably the biggest expense will involve marketing your business. A good business plan can help you determine your target audience, which in turn will help determine where you will focus your marketing. This plan should be part of the overall business plan as without a specific market to target, you could end up simply throwing money into the wind and hoping it falls where it will do the most good.

Sustaining growth is another planning process and depending on your product line can be a viable exercise. Every business that sells merchandise should plan to offer products that are considered disposable. Items that customers will need to replenish or replace when used to gain the possibility of repeat business. Some businesses, such as home mortgages, are only able to sell to the same customer once, or maybe twice so they are constantly on the lookout for ways of generating more customers.

A business offering disposable items do not have to continually focus on new customers, rather good customer service and quality products can provide continued growth based on repeat shopping by the same customers. For example, if you sell digital cameras, it may be years between sales to the same customer. However, you can bolster your sales by also offering memory cards and printing services or supplies to bring in additional sales to existing customers.

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March 9, 2007

What Is Your Why?

It has been said by many industry leaders over and over again to succeed in your home base business you need to have a big “WHY”. Your reason why you want to work from home is very important. If your reason why doesn’t make you cry, it is not big enough. If you do not have a big why, you probably do not have what it takes to stick and stay with your home base business. As soon as business gets stuff, you will probably quit if your reason why is not big enough. It will be too easy for you to give up because you do npt have a big why to go through the hard times. Believe me. There will be hard times. All businesses have them so will your home base business.

So lets talk about some reasons why you may want to work from home. You may want to be a stay at home mom so your children don’t have to go to daycare or to someone elses home while you are working. Most new moms would love to be a stay at home mom for this reason. They hate to think about leaving their new baby with someone else to care for them so they could go back to work. You may want to be a stay at home mom so you can home school your children, or just be there to raise them and be there whenever they need you.

You may want to quit your job or fire your boss. There are a lot of reasons you may want to quit your job. Maybe you hate your boss, hate your job or both. Maybe you are tired of the traffic and drive time to and from work, or maybe you want to retire early so you can start traveling more. Maybe you just can not see yourself working a job until you are what they call retirement age. Who said you have to be 65 or older to retire? Retirement has nothing to do with age. It has to do with money. If you work a home base business, you could make much more money than any job could ever pay you. The income is unlimited!

Another reason you may want to work from home is to spend more time with your family members. You may need to take care of an elderly parent, sick spouse or child. Working from home could give you the opportunity to work on your own schedule so you could do these things while working. Whatever your reason why you want to work from home may be is it big enough that it makes you cry? I mean real tears!

Before or immediately after you start your home base business, sit down and write out the reasons why you want to work from home. Make a list of all the advantages you would personally have by working from home and prioritize your list. Write until it makes you cry. When you’re done with your list, post it somewhere so you can see it and read it often, like on your refrigerator, or a wall, or on your bedroom or bathroom mirror. If you look at your reasons why often, it will help you go through the hard times with your home base business and help you stay focus on succeeding with your home base business. Know your why.

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March 8, 2007

The Advantages Of Operating A Home Based Business

Many nine to fiver’s are bucking the system by starting a home based business. Confinement to a cramped cubby hole in a perpetual maze of dividers is a thing of the past for these entrepreneurs.

So what are some of the perks to having a home based business? To start, you can keep your own hours. Your schedule is as flexible as you are. Need to see the dentist? Make your appointment for whenever. No more waiting around for that first appointment of the day or trying to find an office open after five. Kids have a mid-week soccer game? Not a problem. Better yet, you know that cable repairman that says he’ll show up sometime between 11 am and 4 pm? You can tell him, “That’s perfect.” and really mean it because you’re home all day anyways.

Working from home means that you can now embrace that chronic insomnia that made you late for traditional jobs and left you dozing off during meetings.

Just think of all the money you save by working from home. There’s no need to buy that new suit and impressive pair of heels. Your cat doesn’t care how professional you look. You can work naked if the urge strikes you,( just make sure the blinds are closed or you might get unsolicited visits from your neighbors).

You can save a bundle by eating last night’s leftovers for lunch and buying snacks in bulk at the grocery store instead of making trips to gas stations and fast food joints. Pay on average $0.35 for a soda instead of $1.19 and watch the saving add up in a year’s time. You might even save enough to buy your own cappuccino maker and say goodbye to your local $5-a-cup coffee shop.

Remember the last time you took your car in for a tune up and the mechanic told you to start car shopping, immediately. Just think of how long your vehicle will last without those daily trips to and from work. Save gas money, get your oil changed twice a year, never replace your tires again! All great perks of a home based business.

The government also gives home businesses fringe benefits in the form of tax breaks. Now, buying that computer you’ve been ogling for months is actually good for business, it can mean better tax breaks at the end of the year. Get money back for your telephone bill, rent and other overhead expenses. And believe it or not, it’s completely legal.

The benefits of basing a business from your home are nearly countless. If a traditional office environment is leaving you stagnant, a home business may be just what the doctor ordered.

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March 7, 2007

Leverage Is Everything In Your Home-Base Business

If you are not consistently enrolling new distributors in your home-base business, you are not creating a business that could set you financially free. Building leverage is the key to success in any business including your home-base business. Leverage is using the efforts of other people (OPE – Other Peoples Efforts) to help grow your business. When you have leverage in your business, you can gain time freedom and become financially free.

Here is an example of having leverage in your home-base business. Lets say your company pays you $100 whenever you personally make a sale, and your company also pays you $10 on every sale made from someone on your team. Now $10 does not sound like much but what if you had 100 people on your team and 20 of them make a sale. That is 20 sales and you get $10 for each one which gives you $200 earned from other peoples efforts. One of the best parts about this is you had nothing to do with the sales. You probably were not even there when the sales were made but you received a check for them. How awesome is that!

This is what we call passive income or surprise money in network marketing. You made $100 on your own efforts and $200 on the efforts of other people. It is not uncommon to make more money in passive income than your own personal sales when you have leverage. This type of income can become very, very lucrative, would not you agree? You can only earn passive income if you have leverage in your business; therefore, you must always be enrolling new distributors to build the kind of income you desire for you and your family.

Building leverage does not happen over night. You will find that you have to work hard your first couple of years in your home-base business before you start seeing a nice passive income. But over time if you keep building, that is adding new distributors, you will start having more money and more time to enjoy it as your sales force gets larger. You would have also taught your new distributors to build leverage as well so you will have more people building besides yourself. Wow! Now that is true leverage and duplication. Your business will be well on its way to creating the freedom and life style you and your family may want and deserve.

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March 6, 2007

Can $500 to $1000 extra income per month get you out of the rat race?

You just got paid from your 9 to 5 and after paying your bills you have just a little left over to go shopping for food, clothes, and maybe catch a movie. Then you're back to the state of, "I can't wait until payday"! This cycle goes on and on for years for many people. This cycle is known as the "rat race". Unfortunately, many people are caught in the rat race and don't even realize it because their too busy racing.

Another thing about the rat race cycle is the yearly bump that keeps you in the race. You get a little bump up with a 2.75 to 3 percent raise every year. You're really considered lucky or promoted if you get more than that. So what are you going to do with the little extra cash? Put it in your gas tank I would imagine. It's just enough to get you back and forth to work for about a week or two. You see the rat race was design to pay you just enough to keep you in the race and enough to keep you from quitting. It is not design to move you ahead.

So how do you escape the rat race? You say you want to quit the race and then someone out of the blue approaches you and ask you, "can you use an extra $500 to $1000 per month"? Most people would say, "yes, of course". They think about they could use the money to pay off their credit card debt, to start saving for their children's college education, to help their retired parents, or to take a nice family vacation. People could think of a lot of things they could do with an extra $500 to $1000. Then you tell them they could earn this extra income from home and they can hardly believe it.

Now people are not going to think this kind of extra income could make them wealthy or change their lifestyles very much but it actually could. By helping and teaching other people how to make $500 to $1000 extra income per month and teaching them how to teach others to do the same, could create a substantial amount of money for you and those you teach. This is how many people are becoming six figure income earners and quitting their 9 to 5 jobs. They are not working any harder but working smarter to increase their incomes. They are breaking free from the rat race and getting ahead in a work from home base business. They know how many people they need to help to produce a certain amount of income. Some of them say you only need to find five people to make you rich. They really mean five people who want the same things you do and that they duplicate what you do. That is, they find their five people, and then they do the same...and it goes on and on.

It's a simple duplication process that works! If you're ready to break free from the rat race, you only need to make the decision and start digging your way out of the rat hole the same way they did. Go find your five.

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About the Author:
Sheila enjoys working part-time from home. She also enjoys sponsoring and mentoring others, and helping them find success with their work from home base business. Click here to learn how you can start a work from home base business with Pre-Paid Legal Services.

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