Archive for September, 2008

Work From Home Tips: Tip #1 – Set Up Your Work Space

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
by Steve Mitchell

Do you already work at home? Or is it something you’re considering doing in the near future?

In my experience (and I’ve spent 20 years successfully working from home) the idea of working from home is one many aspire to, with the ideals that it brings a healthier quality of life, which it certainly can.

But in order to make it work and create a successful business working from home, you need to GET ORGANISED from day one!

Once you’re organised you can conquer the world, or at least stay happily on top of your own little corner of it.

With this in mind, this is the first of a few articles relating to giving you some simple but key tips on how to successfully work from home…

Tip 1 Set Up Your Work Space At Home

First, you need space. Somewhere that’s yours, even if it’s temporary! Thankfully, working from home means you can be creative and flexible. If your home doesn’t have a dedicated office or study, then think about where else could you find space? Are there a few square feet to spare in any of these?

Loft or Attic Basement or cellar Under stairs Walk-in wardrobe Corner of living room or bedroom (you can even use a simple privacy screen if necessary, to give you more of a private area) Foyer or lobby Hall or landing Garage Garden shed Laundry room, utility room etc…

Once you’ve decided where your home office will be, you need to be set up right with the correct equipment to get the job done.

Key things include:

- Desk (or any flat surface ie kitchen table, where you can work). – Computer – desktop or laptop/notebook with Internet access, ideally broadband which provides much quicker internet access, and allows you to use the phone & internet at the same time. – Printer – Phone (using a digital cordless phone gives flexibility, in case you have to move to another space) – Answering machine – Filing system (cabinet, crate, box, concertina folder) – Comfortable (important!) chair – Good lighting (equally important if you’re planning on working late) – Basic office supplies (pens, highlighters, folders, stapler etc.)

But (and it’s an important “but”) – do not go out and spend a fortune on a whole bunch of ‘stuff’ immdediately… learn to start with what you have, and add only what you absolutely need. Once the money starts to come in you can spoil yourself with new ‘stuff’ but do that only when your business begins turning a profit and you can afford the extras.

As you purchase things and create your workspace, keep in mind the need to be flexible and efficient. Your computer is crucial. Make sure your computer is ‘man enough’ to do what you’re asking of it – there’s nothing more frustrating then having to continually wait while your computer opens files, connects and/or reboots.

One other thing – ensure your software up-to-date, and you’ve installed adequate anti-virus and firewall protection (something I’ve learned the painful way!). Make sure you do regular backups of your data. Your data is your business’s lifeline… protect it above all costs.

Using a laptop or notebook computer and wireless Internet means you can work anywhere in your home, even outside in the garden! If you are a stay-at-home mum or dad and you have small children who can’t be left unsupervised, a wireless laptop is ideal. You can work wherever your kids are.

A notebook with wireless also lets you work outside your home wherever there’s wireless Internet… in local restaurants, coffee shops, hotel foyers, airports, etc. Having the option to “go out and work” can make a tremendous difference to your quality of life and productivity.

Another great tip to maximise your budget, space and time is to combine functionality. If you need a printer, look for a model that includes a printer, copier, scanner and fax machine… all-in-one – there are some great ones available at very reasonable prices.

No matter how small your work space, enjoy creating one that is just for you, by making it personal to you. I love my work space – and you need to do the same, after all you’re going to be spending a fair bit of time in ‘your space’…

…so make it a ‘space’ you really enjoy being in – your work-from-home business will thank you for it!

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Making Money Online Doing Surveys

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
by JD Penn

Thanks to today’s online job resources, we can easily locate jobs that interest us, such as being paid to read emails, do data entry, processing, etc. All of which are free. Completing paid surveys online is also an option for those seeking to work from home for extra money.

Many marketing research firms that conduct online free paid surveys. Have been paying users to participate in surveys, focus groups and such for some time. But the Web has granted them a more-effective way to accumulate data. Thatas why, many now have legit, online paid surveys and other types of paid programs,and online marketing research.

Completing paid surveys online is a simple way to earn additional income. The biggest draw to this type of the work is the convenience of being able to work from the comfort of your own home, and on your own schedule, much like running your own home-based business.

After you have signed up with one of these paid survey companies, you’re able to be paid for doing diverse surveys. These companies hope to be able to increase the value of their products as a result of your opinion. Marketing products and services without the opinion of the customers can be ineffective. Therefore, your opinion as the consumer is valuable.

Each online paid survey site will have its own method for paying its members. Most pay by check, Paypal, direct deposit to your bank account, but some only compensate with sweepstake entries upon completion of the survey. There are also cases in which you are hardly compensated at all unless you recruit others, as in pyramid schemes.

During the course of our review of online paid survey sites, we found some that paid pretty well in cash. The majority of them, if not all of them, also promised not to share any personal information, or not to share without your prior consent. Legitimate market research firms are bound to uphold this industry established rule.

There were reviewed sites that did not make either promise. If they did, it was in a limited or unfortified manner. In most cases, these were membership sites which act as unsanctioned go-betweens, which don’t operate under the same standards of the marketing industries established privacy rules. Please be careful when dealing with such sites.

All in all, you can make money from the comfort of home doing paid online surveys. Make an effort to check out the site’s legitimacy prior to signing up. Beyond that, all you need is a computer, internet connection, and an \”I believe this can work\” attitude.

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Residual Home Income

Monday, September 29th, 2008
by Joe Cotroneo

The concept of owning and running a business from home is to be able to earn enough money to afford the desired lifestyle of your dreams. To achieve this many people work extremely hard at becoming a success, and quite often put in lots more hours working for themselves from home, than they would when employed by someone else. The main factor that people seem to overlook is that they could do to be earning a residual income from home.

Residual income from home is money that you are making on a consistent basis with little to no work. You build your business, and you acquire customers and clients. What you sell them is a product or service that they will need to buy again and again. If you can set this process up to be automated it cuts your work down even more. By selling something that is disposable, which means they will have to buy it over you are creating a residual income from home.

There are many different programs out there that you can use or buy into to help you build a residual income from home. Subscription services like prepaid legal, member sites or newsletters are all subscription services that are paid monthly in order for a person to keep them. You created the sale the first time, and now they pay every month to maintain the service. This is one type of residual income from home.

Independent sales can also be used as a way to build residual income from home. Melalucea and MonAvie are two types of companies that you become an independent distributor for and in order for you customers to make purchases they sign up and become members in order to buy the products. The membership usually includes an autoship, which means that regardless of whether the customer has an order that month or not they are sent what they selected to have in their autoship and they are billed for it. The autoship helps to ensure that you have residual income each month.

Another option which is fantastic in assisting you in building a residual income from home is affiliate programs. Affiliate programs are whereby you sell items for different companies by recommendation. You are simply required to refer people to the company in order to purchase products or become members. You are not in actual fact selling anything yourself.

Whether building residual income from home is easy or not really depends more on you then it does the product you are working with. Building a residual income from home requires time, work and effort on a consistent basis. Remember that nothing happens overnight, you need to be diligent and persistent. If you can do that you can build a nice residual income from home and live the life you have dreamed of.

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The Value of Residual Income to You

Monday, September 29th, 2008
by joe cotroneo

When you make money, but there is no direct connection between your current income and the work you do – you are receiving residual income. This kind of money is generated with the help of assignments (like sales) that are repeated on a continuous basis. For instance, affiliate marketing is an example of this, as it involves the process of an individual placing ads for a product that is situated on a parent Internet site. When a client activates an ad on the affiliate’s site and purchases the product – the affiliate receives commission. This is a procedure that continues to take place over time. When an affiliate is linked to more than one parent site, they soon experience a growth in residual income.

Selling e-books and articles is another way that one can produce residual income, where another person renames the material, places it on their website, and resells it. This practice is called private label marketing, which is a continuous process that earns income over and over again. Nowadays, it is said that people who receive residual income between $300 and $500 dollars are unlikely to enter bankruptcy.

The Internet is a big place and it is growing bigger everyday. Many people start new websites and businesses everyday with the hope of striking it rich. In order to create a better product that more consumers need, it is necessary to work longer and harder than the competition.

A creative affiliate can draw the consumer to their website with captivating ads. The consumer becomes curious and once on the website, more often then not, will end up subscribing to the affiliate’s newsletter. A creative affiliate will offer free gifts for subscribing. Once the affiliate’s subscriber list is big enough, he or she will send an email to subscribers with information on new products or services. The affiliate may also offer to post information regarding the subscriber’s products or services so they can start creating residual income also.

Another thing that affiliates do is to recruit people to sell the same things that they are selling. If any of the people are successful the affiliate will be taking a portion of commission that they make on any sale. This means that the affiliate is making more residual income. This is known as MLM or multi-level marketing; it is frowned on in some quarters, but it is still used by a good number of people running small businesses online.

It is critical to the success of the recruit that he or she understands what the importance of website traffic is and how to obtain it through the use of search engines. When you train your recruits correctly, you are ensuring that the both of you will succeed in making money on the Internet. It makes good business sense to provide your recruits with all of the necessary tools to succeed as an affiliate.

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Best Site Builder Software For Websites And Blogs Is WordPress

Friday, September 26th, 2008
by Dave Jones

If you want to design, build and maintain your own website using the best software available then use WordPress. Despite being the most popular blogging software on the planet you can us WordPress to build websites too. It is super easy to use and it is free! You can quickly create any design of website you need.

Because the WordPress code is open source everyone can use it to build a blog or website for free. So if you want to create a great looking website, or blog, then there really is no need to research other software or tools to do this as the WordPress cms is now all you need for site building.

Wodpress is design for ease of use for everyone including those that do not have special technical skills. If you can use the software in Microsoft Office you will have no problem with the WordPress Content Management Software.

WordPress saves on costs as it is free and because you do not need to learn any cde or programming techniques you will get your website built quickly and cheaply. All you need to do is invest some time learning how it works and then you will be able to build websites quickly and with style.

One this amazing content management and site building software is installed on your web host’s server you will need to find and choose a Theme to use with your site. The theme you choose will determine the layout and colors of your new website and can be changed with one click of your mouse so it is very easy to try different themes until you find one that you like.

Even if you decide that you want a better theme for your site in a few months time it will be just as easy to change. You may even decide to buy one of the more complex premium themes to give your site that really professional look. If you want a great looking website then WordPress is definitely the way to go.

You may also want to add extra functionality and power to your new website and you can do this by adding Plugins. A plugin is a small code package that enhances what your site can do. They are usually free and can be installed quickly and easily by anyone.

Any website built with WordPress is easy to promote due to the fact that RSS feeds are built into the software and these are a great tool for letting everyone know about every new page or blog post on your site. The search engines, especially Google, just love WordPress and any sites built with this software will rank higher and quicker than any site built with more traditional methods or software.

So now you know that WordPress really is the best software for building websites you do not need to waste your energy looking at other competitors software. You can build whatever you want easily with WordPress and of course it is free!

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Canadien Insider Access to Canada Real Estate Pre-Foreclosures

Thursday, September 25th, 2008
by Canada Foreclosure List

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Your 1 Click Residual Wealth Shopping Site is Launched

Thursday, September 25th, 2008
by ClickBank Storefront Mall Blog

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Affiliate marketing is a very challenging field to be in. It also can be very rewarding. The residual wealth income opportunities in online marketing can be very lucrative. Unfortunately most people fail. We have to diversity and market several products to increase our chances of success.

You may be satisfied with your internet marketing websites and have no desire for new and exciting products at my residual wealth marketing products store. In that case I’d encourage you to visit the store to see how it is set up. Check out the product categories and the adsense ads on the right. Maybe you could implement this to your product websites or product stores.

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Step By Step Introduction To WordPress For You

Thursday, September 25th, 2008
by Paul Forcey

Whether you are new to setting up a WordPress blog or have set several up, WordPress Step by Step Setup is an easy to follow, yet powerful program that will take you through the entire process of setting up your WordPress blog correctly and getting it ready to publish. Unlike “step by step” ebooks, WordPress Step by Step Setup is a program and walks you though each step with detail and not leave you hanging or asking yourself “what does that mean?”

WordPress Step by Step Setup makes sure you can get through the instructions without pulling your hair out due to the over use of ?techno babble? or technical terms. We made sure that all of the instructions are easy to read and follow no matter your level of experience online. Written for real people, by real people.

The steps within the program are also editable. If you are working along something you want to add or edit, you can add it into that step. Just click on the step you want to change and click on the “Edit Task” button at the top of the program. For more advanced users there is an option available to actually “Add a Task”. This allows you the ability to add in your own specific tasks without editing the ones already available.

Now, everyone works differently due to personal preferences. For those individuals who prefer to work from paper then you will enjoy the “Print” option. This will allow you to print off any or all the steps you wish so you can follow the steps from paper instead of the computer.

As many people know staying on task can be quite a challenge these days. Phone calls, family emergencies and everyday life in general has its own way of catching you off guard. The WordPress Step by Step Setup program has two features that will keep you on track. Firstly you have the ability to check off and even “hide” the completed tasks you have gone through. Secondly, there is an ability to schedule a “pop up” that tells you what step your working on currently.

Another powerful benefit of WordPress Step by Step Setup is the ability to transfer your current work to an external source such as a usb/jump or thumb drive or even a external hard drive. This allows you to take it with you wherever you go and as long as you have access to a computer you can continue you work no matter where you go.

Powerful, comprehensive and easy to follow WordPress Step by Step Setup has all the right information you need to get you started setting up your WordPress Blog from getting a domain, installing WordPress, setting up FTP and a list of the best plugins and widgets available.

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Question: Online Paid Survey Sites Do They Work?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
by JD Penn

Do online paid survey sites work? Yes! I have earned extra income from completing online surveys for over a year. It doesnat take long to become very good at it. It has been well worth my time to investigate the many options for earning money on the internet.

There are lots of ways to make money on the internet, and paid surveys are only one way. However, like everything on the internet, you have to beware of scams. I studied many advertisements to discover how to find the legitimate ones.

Common sense is a good way to weed out possible scams. When reading advertisements on the internet, often the title alone in enough to warn you. Be sure to read the ad carefully. If something sounds to good to be true, it probably isnat.

As an example, aEarn $100 an hour just typing forms!a is definitely a scam. If anyone could do that, why would they ever go to work? They could earn as much as they wanted at home. Discard anything that is obviously a scam.

Once I sorted out the scammers, I joined most of the ones that seemed legitimate. Very soon, I had many invitations in my email inbox and I could choose the best paying ones. I ignored the free games and survey sites that only offered sweepstakes instead of income.

I have earned a lot so far. Some sites pay immediately through paypal or egold. Now I can even get a direct deposit to my bank account from some sites. Others send checks, which can take up to four weeks to reach my mailbox.

So when asked if online paid survey sites do they work? I would definitely say YES. I can even give you a copy of my checks and payment receipts from my paypal account. I also have statements on my bank account showing the direct deposits made by a few companies I work for.

You, too, can earn money at online paid survey sites. Just pay attention and follow the advice of people like me, so that you can avoid the scams. You will be well on your way to earning a supplemental income!

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Article Submitter Platinum Marketing System Ads Software Program

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
by Marketing Tips Review Blog

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