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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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.

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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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.

Tips to Avoid Being Scammed

There are many online work from home jobs that are available to you, no matter where you live and work in the world. However, just like with anything else online, some of them are just too good to be true. There are several things that you can do to make sure that you don’t end up beings scammed out of your hard work or money.

First of all, do your research. If you are offered a paying position or even a temporary job by someone online, do a search on their name or email address and see if anything fishy comes up. Try to deal with people who have good reputations, or at least who don’t have bad reputations. You should try to avoid people who send you emails from a free email address, unless they include a lot of business information that you can check and verify. Remember that you should always be on the look out for potential scammers, and this includes in the job market.

Try to ask as many questions of the person who is hiring you before you begin work. Make sure there is a work contract that you can sign and keep for your own records, so that you will have proof if anything goes wrong or if you do work that you aren’t paid for. The more information you are getting on the person who is offering you work, the better chance you have of staying clear of scammers, because often scammers will not give you very much information.

Another tip is to make sure that you are keeping very close records of your own work. Keep track of everything you do and how much you need to be paid for it, and be sure to keep track of when that payment has been received. If you can, try to keep records of all of the communications that you have with the people who are recruiting you to work, and make sure that they are always answering your questions.

Lastly, simply feel out a person before you take work for them. Make sure that you are able to trust this person, and that they have given you enough information so that you feel they are trustworthy. You should be able to know if you can really trust someone or not by the time you begin to work with them. The best thing to do is to avoid the places and the people who you simply don’t trust. If you don’t trust someone, you shouldn’t take work from that person. That is just a good rule of thumb to keep in mind. You shouldn’t be working for those that you do not trust, and this should go for all types of work, whether it is from home or not.

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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.

Tips For Starting A Work From Home Base Business

So you want to start a work from home base business. Now that you have made that decision, you might think that it is all smooth sailing and that there is nothing you are going to have to worry about as you make your way into the home base business work market. Not true! Working from home might be great once you get going, but in order to get to the point where it is going to be worth it, you are going to have to do some grunt work and do a lot of it, before it pays off.

The first thing that you need to do is make a clear decision about what exactly you are going to do. You need to have a clear idea about what market you are going to go after and you need to make a decision about how you are going to get that market and conquer it in the best way that you know how. Once you know what it is that you are going to do, you need to begin to be able to market yourself. Whether this means advertising your business or taking care of your portfolio, you need to make sure that people know what you can do and that you can do it well.

Don’t expect to be able to simply start in at a large paying work from home base business on the first day. It might take you awhile to fully get a grasp on what the job market is and to begin to make some connections when it comes to your field. The most important thing that you can do is to make sure that you have a good example of what you can do and that you have it accessible online. Whether this means that you are going to develop a website or an online portfolio, you need to get that done right away so you can start to apply for jobs or to find customers. So, the most important thing about finding a work from home base business is to make sure that you have a place where potential clients can look at what you can do and can hire you if they like.

After you know what you want to do and have taken steps to begin that process, you need to start to apply for jobs. This might mean that you visit many different job boards each day and apply for as many of the jobs that you think you can do as possible. Or, it might mean that you visit job boards and other boards and recruit clients for your business. Whatever it is that you need to do, the important thing is to get your name out there and to get started.

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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.

Staying Sane While Starting A Home Business

Starting a new business can be a harried experience. There are a myriad of decisions to be made, the budget needs stretching, the new secretary quits before the end of the first week: the struggles are endless. When starting a business from your home, you can add a slew of unique challenges to the list. Being aware of the potential pitfalls, and preparing for them can provide a way of preserving your sanity.

Friends and family members frequently assume that if you are home, you are available. Nothing can set your work back hours, faster than an unplanned visit from your mother. Setting clear boundaries regarding your schedule and availability for phone calls and visits can prevent misunderstandings early on in the life of your business.

If you are choosing to keep your small children home with you while you work, that carefully planned schedule can quickly become fodder for your three year old. Getting up early is often the best way to increase your productivity while those little angels are still slumbering away.

Having a contingency plan for days when the work load requires more attention than usual is an excellent way to head off disasters before they happen. Find local babysitters who are willing to come to your home to help out when needed. Recruit friends and family to provide occasional entertainment for short periods of time to allow you to work without interruptions. Anything that helps you keep focused is a good investment in preserving your sanity.

Running a business from your home has a few perks, especially at tax time. Consulting with a tax expert or accountant early on will arm you with the knowledge necessary to save you time and money when filing your first year’s business taxes.

Finding service providers that are both competent and trustworthy is a lesson in perseverance. The business directories, internet advertisements and even newspaper ads are clogged with scams and incapable providers. Seeking the advice of a seasoned home business veteran can be your salvation. Word of mouth will reveal strengths and problems with service providers.

If you find that you have chosen poorly and end up with a full sized, ten year old copier in your den instead of that sleek, all-in-one model with all the bells and whistles that you paid for, don’t despair. Don’t back down either. You can explain your dissatisfaction firmly and politely while explaining that the services were not acceptable. If after bringing the blunder to the business attention, you are still left feeling cold, you can report the offender to the Better Business Bureau: and call for legal advice.

Using good old common sense, a little street smarts and a lot of charm and honesty will help you achieve your business goals, while allowing you to keep your sanity and your home life intact.

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

A Look At The Home Based Business For Moms

More and more women are leaving the corporate world behind to try their hand at traditional homemaking. Being a wife and homemaker is a considerable responsibility in itself. Many women choose to work outside of the home to supplement their husband’s income and experience personal fulfillment through success in their chosen profession. The two income family is now the norm.

With the arrival of the first bundle of joy, comes many conflicting emotions and struggles. The wife and mother must now juggle attention to her husband, cooking, cleaning, shopping, errands, and motherhood with her career. Her desire may be to nurture and protect her children and husband but the expectations and time constraints imposed upon her often force her to compromise those desires. This can result in guilt and depression in the over burdened woman.

It may not be a coincidence that divorce has become more prevalent and children more delinquent since the rise of two income families. Women are often finding themselves drained emotionally and physically from the dysfunctional patterns of behavior that are imposed on them by today’s society. Many women are fighting back by starting a home based business for moms.

By working a home base business for moms, women can now set their own hours, save time and money and spend more time with their children. With a little help, work from home based businesses can bring in a decent supplemental income with less hassles than the corporate world offers. Mothers can hire part time nannies instead of full time sitters and can arrange for childcare to be done in their own homes. This allows peace of mind for the mother and a chance to squeeze in quality time with the children during breaks, have picnic lunches on the lawn and never miss another chance to kiss their little ones.

Hiring some childcare help during busy seasons in your business can help you keep your sanity. On slower days, the children can do quite well if they are kept in a structured environment and on a schedule. This takes preparation. Plan quiet times around favorite television shows, set up crafts and activities that require minimal supervision and intervention on your part. Prepare snacks and sippy cups in advance so toddlers can help themselves when hunger strikes. By keeping mealtime and naps on a schedule, you can be better prepared to give an estimated time for that conference calls or know when a meeting time is absolutely out of the question.

No mother wants a stranger raising her children. Deciding to work a home based business for moms can be a wonderful compromise that allows you to quiet those conflicting emotions of being torn between work and motherhood.

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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 home-base business. Click here to learn how you can start a work at home business for moms with Pre-Paid Legal Services.

Supporting Your Spouse As They Begin A Christian Home Based Business

Your beloved spouse comes home from another day at the grind and announces, “I’ve had enough! I’m going into business for myself.” Before you start hoarding food and stashing money in the mattress, stop and pray.

Remember that God is sovereign and that He will provide for you. This new venture may be exactly what God has planned for your life. Surrender your will to Christ and pray. He may give you a peace that calms your fears and alleviates your concerns. Anxiety is a natural reaction to change, but as Christians we are to fight back with God’s truth.

The changes that come about in your spouse may surprise you, especially if they are following a prompting from God to leave the traditional work force. Pray with your spouse and be honest about your feelings. Discuss your excitement over the possibilities that a new business can provide. Vent your frustrations and fears about the changes and instability that will come in days ahead. Keep the communication open, between you and your spouse, and you and God.

This does not mean putting on a smile no matter what happens and ignoring the realities around you. It does mean that you should live beyond your circumstances and trust God. Be supportive of your spouse through the ups and downs. Encourage each other, pray together, talk with other couples who have started a home business together.

Do some research in your spouse’s chosen area of business. Learn the associated jargon. Be familiar with the product or service provided by the business. Make yourself available to help with menial tasks like errands and printing shipping labels. Talk up your spouses’s bravery and professionalism every chance you get. Announce the birth of your new business at church, to your friends and family, to anyone who will listen. Be your spouse’s biggest fan. You will need to be knowledgeable of the business so that you can take calls on busy days and answer questions on the street when approached by curious neighbors and passers by.

Go to the library and research small business management and marketing, condense the books into a divided binder full of notes on the topics your have researched. You can present it to your spouse as a “business warming” gift. This information should be easy to read and condensed down to useful facts. You can even sneak in personal notes of encouragement, scripture verses or inspirational quotes.

Going the extra mile to show interest in what is important to your spouse will help hold you together through the storms of life and will allow you to build a strong, Christ centered business that can be passed down for generations to come.

Smart people start a part-time business for extra income

You need extra income to buy your children new school clothes, you need extra income to help pay your monthly bills, or you need extra income to help pay off your credit card debt. So want do most people do when they need extra income? Most people think about looking for a part-time job when they need extra money to supplement their income.

Is a part-time job really the answer to extra income? When you leave your full-time job and you need to rush to get to your part-time job, your time becomes very limited for yourself and your family. It will be hard to cook or have a good home cooked meal for you and your family until you have a day off of at least one of those jobs. Your family and friends will hardly ever see you. You and your spouse will be like strangers passing during the night. Having a part-time job will take away most of your free time. Eventually you will get tired of working two jobs, and you will most likely quit the part-time job. Then you will be back in the same situation you were in before you got the part- time job. Unfortunately, working one job for most people means living paycheck to paycheck or being just over broke, and working a part-time job for extra income is only a temporary solution for the problem.

It's much smarter to look for a part-time business opportunity that you can start for a permanent solution to extra income. You can start your part-time business working from home. A lot of people are working from home now. You may know some people right now who are doing it. If you work part-time from home, you can work around your other responsibilities and activities, and you can also still be there for your family. Your earning potential will be much greater so having your own part-time business could eventually free you from your full-time job which is not paying you enough money anyway. Your part-time business could eventually give you more time freedom to spend with your family, travel or whatever you want to do with your time besides work.

You don't have to worry about finding a product or service to sell because there are lots of companies offering legitimate part-time business opportunities and they will also train you. You just need to find the company you want to work with that has a product or service that you like and believe in. Once you have found a company that you may want to work with, try out their products or services first. If you like the products or services and you believe the company is sound and stable after doing your research, the next thing to do is apply to become a distributor. You will need to pay the required fee to get started which is normally a small amount of money. Some part-time business opportunities cost as little as $10 to $100 to get started. You may need to purchase some products, and then you are in business. You should work closely with your sponsor so you can learn the companies system for the best results.

Once you get started with your part-time business, go to the trainings and learn as much as possible about your company and your products. Attend as much training as possible. You can also attend any out source trainings you may find interesting because they can also be helpful for growing your business. If your goal is to eventually quit your job and work your business full-time, give your business time to grow before you start thinking about quitting your job. You should never quit your job and jump into a business especially if you do not have any prior experience of running a business. Keep your full-time job until you are sure the money is coming in to pay the bills, and you feel comfortable quitting your job. Read Rich Dad's Before You Quit Your Job by Robert Kiyoski before even considering it.

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

Stay At Home Moms

It is something many women dream of: the chance to be able to stay at home with their children and to not need to take their children to the babysitters so they can go to work.

It is hard to find a job that will allow you to work so you can contribute to your family's income and also allow you to stay at home with your children. Luckily if you are working online, there are many jobs you can do as a stay at home mom and still do your best to help your family make ends meet.

There are many different jobs stay at home moms might do. The important thing about working from home and being a stay at home mom is that you can set your own hours. This is very helpful if you have small children that are going to need your time. Instead of making your children wait until your work is finished, you can figure out a way to make your work wait until your children have free time so you can work. Being a stay at home mom and working is something that requires a little bit of structure but once you have figured it out, it is something that is easy to do. You are going to be able to stay at home and get your work done, and you are also going to be able to show your family you care about them by being there for your kids.

There are many things a stay at home mom can do to work from home. The most important thing you should do is figure out what kinds of work interest you. You should try to get a stay at home job that falls in one of your interests because working is something that is going to be with you for awhile. You want to be sure that not only are you working and doing a good job but you are also making ends meet for your family in a way that makes you happy. There are many stay at home moms who work only in their fields whether this is writing or marketing or other forms of art. You can find something you love to do, and you can find a way to do it at home so your children never have to be at home without you, and your family time can be spent as a family. Working from home is something that has become quite popular with families and with other moms. Try to find a way it can fit in your lifestyle as well.

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

Setting Up An Online Store

It seems like online stores are all the rage lately. There are many places online where you can buy things and where you can make other types of purchases. There are sites that sell new items, sites that sell old items, and sites that sell a combination of the both. If you want to work at home, and you are thinking of setting up an online store in order to do so, there are several things that you might want to keep in mind as you embark on this adventure.

First of all, you should choose goods that you have an interest in. If you are a big book reader, for instance, maybe you should sell new and/or used books online. If you have another interest, try to figure out a way to work your interests into your online store. This is important because you are going to be able to take control over your online store and make sure that you are selling what you want to sell, and if it is something that you are interested in, chances are good that you are going to find yourself more involved.

After you have decided what your online store is going to be selling, you need to figure out where you should get your products. Are you going to buy them around your town, or are you yourself going to order them online? Wherever you are getting your products from, you have to make sure that you are able to get products cheap. The best way to make sure that you are going to make a profit is to try to buy items in bulk so that you have many of them. Often you’ll be able to buy items much more cheaply if you buy a lot of them at once, and shipping costs will be reduced, as well. Then, you can sell the items individually to buyers online and make a profit that way. Since a person is only buying one item, they will pay more for it than you paid for it when you bought it in bulk.

Now you are ready to set up your store. You need an online space with a name that you can easily have people remember, and then you need to begin the marketing. Try to do as much as possible so that your name and your address are in as many places as they can be. Once you have started to get some business, you can continue to sell items and get even more business. The key to being successful is having a product that people want and being able to market it in a way that is going to make you money in the end.

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