How To Pick a Legitimate Home Business Opportunity

You've seen the emails, the offers, the promises and the claims. Everyone it seems has a way to help you make money online.

But how do you know who you can trust? How do you know what system works? How do you protect yourself?  

The fact is that you CAN earn money online from legitimate sources, here's what to look for when picking an online business opportunity.

Products or Services with actual value

Many companies including large companies like Amazon and ClickBank offer what is known as an Affiliate marketing program, or sometimes called a Reseller program. This allows you to promote a company's products or services and earn a commission when a sale is made through your website link.   The key in knowing what is legitimate is to be sure you are actually promoting a real product, or a digital product, or an actually service.  Beware of selling anything that seems without substance, and has no real market value.   An example of something suspect would be getting paid to recruit people into a program who have not paid any money to do so.  All business online and off works when there is an exchange of money for a product or service.    Pyramid schemes exist online and off and are an example of focus on recruitment into a program rather then the sale of an actual product. In the case of a pyramid scheme, and example is someone paying to join a program but receives no product or service of REAL value in return.  In short, make sure that you are actually selling something of value. 


Customer Service and Support

Legitimate companies that sell actual products and services will support or service what they sell. In other words, good companies will have a Customer Support Department, or a Service Department or Technical Support division to assist customers who have either bought a product or intend to do so.    Reputable companies offer this support in any number of ways, online chat, support forums, Twitter, Facebook, telephone support, or online support.  


Time in business

Legitimate business opportunities most trustworthy are often those that have stood the test of time.  On the web it is very easy to set up a company, sell questionable products and services, then disappear into the night when the business practices come into question.   When picking an online business opportunity select a company that has been around for at least a few years. Companies that continue to exist are usually those that demonstrate an interest in keeping their customers happy, are accountable, and adhere to policy and legislation that permits them to provide a product or service.

Reputation

When picking a reputable business opportunity people will often look to review sites for feedback from others. This can offer you some interesting details about what people think about a company and how the company responds to complaints.  In reading the reviews though keep an open mind knowing that no company exists without complaints against it. Good companies that you would want to associate with, are those that try to address customer complaints or resolve issues brought to their attention.  People with an axe to grind will sometime post negative reviews and hide in the anonymity of that post.  So be  smart when reading review sites, and look for dates, patterns or themes and try to separate the intelligent comments from the less helpful and questionable ones.


Look before you leap

When you decide on which business opportunity you wish to join, be sure to take your time and read over what you are agreeing to before you sign on the dotted line or hit the submit button. Determine what your up front cost is, your monthly cost (if any), your ongoing cost? What happens if you want to cancel, is there a guarantee, or is there any long term obligation or a penalty for cancelling?  Find out how your sales will be tracked, how often will you paid, for which services and how will you be paid.

In summary, here are 5 questions to ask yourself for any company you are considering for a home business opportunity.

1. How long has the company been in business? What is their reputation?

2. What is the product or service you will be selling? What is the value in the market place? There should ALWAYS be a product or service being sold.

3. What is the initial cost to get started in the business? What do you get for that amount of money? What are the ongoing costs? 

4. What kind of support or service will you receive as an Affiliate Marketer or Reseller for the company to help you make sales? What kind of support of service will the people you refer receive when they make a purchase?

5. How much money are you paid by this company when you make a sale, how often, and how will your sales be tracked?  

These questions and information contained within are a guideline to help you make a smart decision about an online business opportunity that is right for you.

One final bit of advise. Once you have found a company to represent be sure to be realistic about your earnings and accept some responsibility for your own success.  At the end of the day, your success comes down to you, and your efforts.  It won't matter what business opportunity you select if you don't take the time to learn about the program, learn how to market online, and make an honest consistent effort to build your own success.

I hope this has helped you so you can select one or more legitimate companies and you can join the growing population of people making money at home using the power of the web.


About the Author Sandi Hunter is the President of Worldprofit Inc., a company providing training and support for small and home based business since 1994. Services include home business training, reseller programs, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Ruthsella Corasol http://WorkingAtHome101.com.
 

Having A Successful Home Based Business Made Easy

There are numerous reasons why you might be interested in starting your own home-based business, along with a great deal of doubt, concern and questions. The following article offers some tips and advice to help quell the concerns, and offer resolution to common issues many people face in the operation or start-up of a home business.

Before starting a home business, be sure to research your market fully. If your product is something that your target market doesn't want or need, you won't get many sales. Rather than spending all your energy trying to force the market to buy your product, spend that energy designing and promoting a product the market wants.

If you are going to splurge on any home office furniture, splurge on a very comfortable office chair. You are going to spend many, many hours in this chair and if it is uncomfortable, you will not be as productive as you could be and you could technically, do damage to your body.

Since your home is also your work place, make a point to get out of the house on a regular basis. Don't isolate yourself for the sake of convenience. Go have lunch in the park, grab your coffee at a bookstore, etc. Just make sure you are out breathing fresh air at least once a day.

If you have a business, then you need a budget. How can you run a cost efficient business without a budget? It is impossible, and therefore imperative that you incorporate a well devised budget into the planning process. This budget should include what your expenses are of course and it should itemize them. Make sure you are thorough and include everything so that you are not misleading yourself.

Use your web site to advertise a free product for visitors. This will increase traffic on your site and give potential customers the ability to sample your product. Although it may cost a little money in the beginning, you should make up for it in sales from impressed new customers.

Do not be afraid to post your email address on your web site. Make sure that you include it on every separate page that you have. You do not want potential customers to search to figure out how to get in touch with you. The more effort that it takes them, the more likely they are to go on to something else without purchasing from you.

Make sure you have a support network before starting your home business. This includes family members who need to be aware of the time commitment involved, as well as an external networks you can reach out to for advice or support. Working from home has numerous benefits, but remaining a part of a group outside your home is invaluable.

Making the decision to start a home business or to invest more time in the one you've already gotten off the ground can be a cause of concern. There's so many questions about what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and why to do it, from marketing to overhead to product choice. Whether you just graduated with your MBA or are a stay-at-home mom or dad, you can simplify the answers to these questions by using the sensible advice in these tips.

 Ruthsella Corasol is the Owner of http://WorkingAtHome101.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.

Review: LIVE Home Business Bootcamp with George Kosch June 14, 2013.

George Kosch, bootcamp instructor welcomed Worldprofit Members to the LIVE training session.

The number one question we hear is,   "How do I make money online?" Followed by "What's the key?"

The way to make money online is by building a list.

Making money online is an ACTION you must take consistently to generate leads and make sales. Without a list you have no one to sell your products and services.  You have no one to buy what you are offering.

So how do you build a list?

You use landing pages to generate leads with an optin to your list/newsletter.

How do you get people to see your landing pages so they can optin to your list?

You must promote consistently.  Your focus in earning online should be 100% on promotion.

At Worldprofit we teach you how to generate leads, and build your list.  In the Worldprofit system leads are referred to as free Associate members. The concept, the requirement to generate leads from consistence promotion is fundamental to selling ANYTHING online. We teach you how to do so within the Worldprofit framework, but what we teach you to do, and the resources and tools we provide can be applied to building any online business, and selling any product or service.

You need to ask yourself each day, how many free Associate Members (leads)  have I generated today from my promotion (landing pages)? To see a conversion to sales you need to work on this every day.

When you are signing up free Associate members you are also building your list. Remember you can sell anything you like to your list. Worldprofit provides you with a number of your own list options, and don't forget we send a newsletter out to ALL Associates on your behalf with incentives, offers and specials to encourage logins.

When you have a growing list you can make sales from your list. George referenced several income streams within your Member area as an example, the CB Maximizer, the Offer Builder, the Money Maker kit and the FastCash program.

DISCUSSION:  Got something else you want to promote? A product or service of your own?  Here's what to do.

So now that you understand the value of the list and the critical importance of consistently working to build that list you should start to see how you use that list to promote any product or service you like!  The larger the list the higher the likelihood of seeing sales. 

The list provides you with the power and ability to:

-generate leads -make sales
-benefit from leverage (buy this and get that)
-do ad swaps with OTHER list owners (expand your marketing reach)
-use your list to promote whatever you like, affiliate programs, products, services, your own stuff etc.

DEMONSTRATION and discussion:  George demonstrated how to send out a promotion 

New product Announcements

George revealed two new products coming soon.

1. The Easy Deal Builder.  We've purchased a developer's license from this vendor as we like this software so much and want to make it available to our Worldprofit Members. This product will help you easily promote your own sites allowing you the power of leverage and list building to make more sales - of whatever you are selling.  We will do the installation and set up which can be difficult for non-techies.  Planned release by end of June at a discounted rate exclusively for Worldprofit Silver and Platinum VIP Members.

and

2. The Advanced Ad Tracker. Silver and Platinum VIP Members currently get the Ad Tracker included in the Silver and Platinum VIP Membership at no cost and we will continue to do this. We are however, developing an ADVANCED version of this software for more serious experienced marketers who require more detailed  ad tracking analysis and data summaries.  We are working on this now and will be releasing this mid-summer at a discounted rate exclusively for Worldprofit Silver and Platinum VIP Members.     

DISCUSSION: The Millionaire Mindset - the growth of a business.

George provided the example of the farmer who decides he wants to make money growing apples but has only one tree. He isn't happy with just a few apples and a little profit. He learns he must plant more trees to get more apples.  It takes a while to grow the trees and get the apples, there is no such thing as INSTANT apples.   Then he has to nurture those trees, buy fertilizer, work hard to increase his apple harvest, invest in equipment to farm his orchard, find people to buy his apples.  If you want more apples (and more money) you have to invest,  put in the time,  and work your business consistently to make it grow.

DEMONSTRATION: At request of a member, George provided a demonstration of how to use Safe-Swaps.

Summary:

The recording of the July 14, 2013 Home Business Bootcamp will be posted within 24 hours to the Worldprofit Member area.

Next LIVE training session with George Kosch  is June 21st at 8 AM CT.

 Worldprofit has become known as the online Home Business Experts. Comprehensive training program, video tutorials, unique products and services, LIVE training every week with marketing experts, and people who care about your success. Get a free Associate membership today to see how Worldprofit can help you build your own successful online business. Republished with author's permission by Ruthsella Corasol http://WorkingAtHome101.com.

Amazing Technology And Your Online Marketing

Blending the amazing technology and your online marketing strategy takes a little thought. With all the automated systems available today you can do so much  quicker and easier than ever before.

Even though the amazing technology and your online marketing strategy do work together, that does not mean that you won't have to work. Ultimately you need to plan the best course of action for your business.

It is about more than just getting some software, pushing some buttons and sitting back waiting for the money to roll in. As a matter of fact, this is one of the most common mistakes that many people make. They have bought into the hype of online marketing. They have come to believe that with a little time and virtually no effort, they can can make a ton of money.

The problem is that the software won't do it all and if you don't understand at least the basics of how it all goes together, you will miss out on a great opportunity.

So, no matter what technology and automation you depend on  you need to be willing to learn the basics of how it all goes together or you won't have much, or any success.

Another thing that many would be internet marketers overlook is the fact that they need to be able to track all of their results. There are things that may need to be tweaked but unless you are tracking your results you won't be able to identify which things work well for you and which ones don't work.

For that reason you should add, and learn to use, some type of code to track elements of your online business. Two things that are very important to track are the number of visitors you get to your site and the percentage of conversions (people who actually take some action like buy your product or sign up to your list) that you are getting.

Most of the tweaks you do to your site will be geared to increasing one of these things - traffic or conversions. You need to be able to figure out which tweaks have worked and which ones haven't worked.

To that end, make sure you only make one change at a time. If you try to change too many things at once how will you know which one of those changes made a difference and which one didn't?

And worse, you may have actually had one thing that made a positive change and one that made a negative change and they have balanced each other out. If that happens you have no way of knowing that one of the changes actually worked.

Make one small change at a time, wait a few weeks or months to see if the change helped or hurt (or didn't do anything). If the change worked try something else to get even better results, if it didn't work go back to what you had before and then make another change.

 Ruthsella Corasol is the Owner of http://WorkingAtHome101.com. Check us out anytime for marketing tips and a free subscription to our cutting edge newsletter.
 

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'Just One Of Those Things.' Thoughts on America, our massacres, and randomdeath. Do we really care and are we willing to do the necessary?

by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author's program note. In 1935 two of America's greatest talents, Frank Sinatra and Cole Porter, created a catchy little number called "Just One Of Those Things." It instantly rose, fueled by the sophistication and class that oozed from both these men of the world. In it, they took us on "A trip to the moon on gossamer wings." Hearing it (and you should go to any search engine now so you can), one felt one could be anyone, achieve anything.

To say it was heady is a decided understatement... it was what America was all about... and we thought exceedingly well of ourselves for the Great Republic we had wrought, the cynosure and envy of the world.

That was then...

... this is now. Now, with time's  mordant wit and cruel irony apparent, what was once so lucid, now seems murky at best. Things we once thought important, affirming as they did our "can-do" orientation and proven ability to improve most everything we touched, now affront by reminding us of what we were... and what we have become. "Can-do" has morphed into "no-can-do" while we were engaged in congratulating ourselves on just how good, clever, and deserving we were of every plaudit and paean. America became something from the "good old days", something we had unaccountably lost... to our puzzlement, pain, and perplexity. Where had we gone so terribly, perhaps irrevocably wrong?

"The Dark Knight Rises" in Aurora, part of the greater Colorado Springs area.

One is hardly surprised to learn (December, 2011) that "Forbes" magazine named Colorado Springs, Colorado and environs one of the best and most livable communities in the land. This view is reinforced by its picture perfect post card views, its warm and amiable residents, and municipal services which actually work and no bankruptcy pending. It all seems too good to be true... and, of course it is, for the currents that disturb the nation are all present and accounted for in Colorado Springs, as became evident to all July 20, 2012 when a real-life "dark knight" in full body armor named James Eagen Holmes,  24, blasted his way out of obscurity making 12 victims pay the ultimate price to cover his cost of egress, with 59 others wounded and seared for life .

To secure his notorious place in history, he carried with him into a packed cinema two cannisters of debilitating gas, two pistols, an assault rifle, a shot gun and an ample supply of the thousands of rounds of ammunition it had been so easy and perfectly legal to secure on the 'net from the ease, comfort, and privacy of his booby-trapped home.

Never had mass murder been so effortless, so efficient, and so easy, a very model for incipient mass murderers of every ilk and  persuasion, everywhere on Earth. We need not waste another word on Holmes, beyond our supposition that he did what he wanted to do to secure the pernicious result he desired. If so, his is the only satisfaction emanating from the killing fields of Colorado, for he achieved his destructive mission... while the rest of us have not even begun to accomplish ours. And that is a measure of our tragedy as a nation which once prided itself on its ability to solve even the most intractable of problems. Now instead of rolling up our sleeves in an earnest attempt to solve, we instead see events like this as "inevitable", "certain", "unavoidable". And that's that, "just one of those things."

The growth and consequences of "event fatigue".

The entire nation, all citizens of the Great Republic know well and have often participated in the lugubrious ritual which follows each massacre. First come the news announcements "We interrupt this program...." Then come the wire service reports (carried at once on the Internet)... and the first bloody photos of carnage at the scene, the innocent corpses who never knew what hit them... the dazed survivors sobbing, their certainties of just moments before now gone forever, unendurable grief and dismay now their portion.

At the White House, the president is alerted... and plans to leave at once, his remarks an amalgamation of what every president before him has said of such increasingly frequent incidents. Folks visit the site, tear up, hug, drop bouquets of store- bought flowers, festooned with bright colored helium balloons and often children's stuffed animals, festive cards now featuring the names of victims. "Something must be done", but only this little, this inadequate is ever done... until the next "inevitable" massacre when this paltry, petty, pitiful response is trotted out again, less satisfying, less persuasive, less acceptable than it was before.

What then is needed since the response to each new massacre becomes less acceptable and less acceptable still, these responses victims of "event fatigue" which turn even the most exemplary and conscientious of citizens into ostriches, adamant in their desire neither to see nor hear the palpable evil, thus by such means "dealing with it" by doing absolutely nothing at all?

This is what such a result means: that each innocent body laid out in its own blood on school room floor, on campus green or cinema parking lot, each life cut short, each family riven with anger, sadness, and an infinity of regrets and thoughts of what might have been but which now can never be... these things, once the most profound of horrors, are now regarded as a mere tax we pay for the "free" society we have fashioned. And this is acceptable.. so long as it is not their bloody body laid out... the lives of their near and dear cut short, or their plans and dreams destroyed in an instant of hell. This is ignoble... but we are beginning to live with it...  and that is the most unacceptable thing of all.

Back to the future.

To move beyond the current unsatisfactory situation, where each new outrage and massacre produces less response and more acceptance, we must remember that every great society became so when it attacked such problems with will and resolution, understanding that such is always the price of growth, development, and greatness. So far, we have set no goals, canvassed no solutions, engaged in no general discussions, debates, or dialogs. Instead, we have tried to bury the problem as we bury its victims, one after another, all too soon taken. And so a great nation, our Great Republic, betrays through its inertia its tolerance for evil and its moving away from good on which we built a city that could indeed be a shining city on a hill.

Thus, know this: every needless death that has occurred, every life cut short, has occurred not because such events are "inevitable" but because we have accepted them as such, rather than human problems with human solutions. In short we have done what no great people can ever do and retain their self-esteem and any claim to preeminence: we have declared defeat before we have done anything to achieve victory. And this marks the full measure of our continuing decline from our special, Godly mission.

"So good-bye, and amen/ Here's hoping we meet now and then/ It was great fun/ But it was just one of those things."

Could this be our epitaph, the best we are capable of?  Until we change our thinking from "just one of those things" to "just one of those things we can solve" it may well be. The answer resides in each of us and is urgently required...

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author's permission by Ruthsella Corasol  http://WorkingAtHome101.com