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'So do you have a REAL job?' 'Must be nice being able to nap whenever you want.' 'Gee, I wish I could take it easy like you do...' Everytime I hear these types of comments - intentionally malicious or not - my eyes lock and my jaw clenches. Somehow, somewhere, a nasty rumor began implying that when you earn your living from your home, you're not actually working. Yes, I have flexible hours. True, I sometimes only work 2 hours in a day. Some days I don't work at all. But sometimes I ...
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So, you want to start your own online business. You know you have to create your own website, start your own ezine and generate traffic to your site before you can make sales. So far so good. But ... sales of what, exactly? What do you sell? Fortunately, the options are many and varied. Basically, though, everything falls into one of two categories ... products or services. We're going to take a closer look at a few relatively easy options for when you want to get started and get ...
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Selling online is a great way to grow business. But it differs from selling face to face. Therefore, your words are very important; they make or break your business. Your words can relieve tour prospects doubts, convey that you are a real person and explain to your targeted market what you are selling and why. Unless you have a great deal of experience in writing sales letter, you will need to learn how to write killer ad sales copy and headlines for your business. If you are in business for ...
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Do you dream about owning your own business and working at home? Turn your dream into a reality. Stop the dreaming today! Making money working from home or going into business for yourself is one of the wisest and best decisions you will ever make. Most people I know, especially women want to be able to work at home and make a living while they raise their children. However, not everyone has the knowledge to turn their dreams into reality. It is a lot easier than it appears, besides it ...
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Many of us work day in day out every month earning a miserable amount of money we call income. And for this measly sum we trade in our valuable time and effort, which we can put to better use elsewhere, each and every day! Have you ever taken a good look at the faces of the people around you on the bus or subway every morning to work? Don't you think they would rather stay at home? But everybody needs to work to survive, you say. Sure I agree. But that doesn't mean you have to physically go to ...
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In today's information age, more people are learning to turn their intellectual property into lifetime streams of income. 'Infopreneurs', as they are known, are creating and selling information products in the form of books, newsletters, reports, e-books, audio tapes/CD's, and subscription based web sites. Creating this information usually means writing on a subject that you have some expertise or passion on. Occasionally, this information doesn't have to be your own. Robert Allen in his ...
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Would you bake a cherry pie without cherries? Would you try to mow your grass without a lawn mower? Of course not! Yet every day millions of people confront the business of trying to create a profitable online business without the essential tools they need. Take this easy quiz to find out if you're one of them! * Question: Do you have a listserver? / / Yes / / No A listserver is an ABSOLUTELY MANDATORY online success tool. It enables you to send unlimited non-spam email. With your listserver ...
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Ezine Publishing As A Business © 2002 Elena Fawkner If you have your own website, or are planning to create one soon, in the course of your research you will have read about the importance of publishing an ezine (electronic newsletter) as a way of generating traffic to your site. -- Note to purists: yes I DO understand there is, strictly speaking, a difference between ezines and electronic newsletters but for our purposes it doesn't matter so don't write me. ;) It's good advice. By ...
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I wanted to let you in on a great o.pportunity available to you... This is the PERFECT solution if you would love to begin making m.oney online, but at this point aren't ready (or willing) to create an online businesses of y.our own. (It just doesn't get any easier than this...) Stone Evans ("The Home Biz Guy") has agreed to actually set you up with your very own *customized* online business package... F/R/E/E Each package includes a personalized website designed to promote a hand-picked ...
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Effect of Expenses The last article examined how to calculate your realistic billable hours. If you remember, we arrived at approximately 1100 hours in a year. To earn our mythical $46,000 per year, you needed to bill at a rate of $42 per hour. Now we need to take into account the expenses of running a business and see where those put our hourly rate. Most costs fall into three general categories: business and office expenses; salary and personal taxes; and, benefits and profit margin. In this ...
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