FINDING A WORK AT HOME OPPORTUNITY

Been a while since I made a post here, so, this is going to be short and sweet.  We discuss finding ways to make money working from home mostly.  Well, here are some bullet points to help you along.

PREPARE TO WORK

What ever you chose to do, be prepared to work.  There are no get rich without working schemes that work long term.  Even passive income requires work, adjustment and promotion.

OFFLINE

What you chose doesn't have to be online.  I sell life insurance.  I work from home but I have to venture out to meet my clients in their home.

WHAT CAN YOU DO

Do you have a particular talent?  Can you put it to use online or off?  Something you can sell online and deliver in the real world?

EYES OPEN

The point I am trying to make is this; you have to keep an open mind to make money.  Look for opportunities in everything.  Sometimes, it is a multiple revenue stream.  Money coming from many different sources.

Keep looking, working and thinking.  Best of luck.

ONLINE BUSINESS: Frustration to failure

Frustration!!  It is the cause of so many failures when it comes to working online from home.  Why? Well, first, most folks that want to work online have this idea that if I can just find that one perfect product to market they will have it made.  You need to resolve yourself to the fact that it doesn't exist. We go online with our product or service and post it in a blog or traffic site and expect the impossible.  Generally, folks mistakenly think that everyone that sees there post are going to look at

the product and hopefully buy.  Part two of that equation is that we all get excited when we see 50, 75 or even a 100 visits to our site.  The truth is, you need a thousand times that to make a sale.  This is where the frustration starts to poor in.  Up to this point you have probably put in a great amount of time searching for a product, setting up a blog or web site and posting.  When you don't get that immediate return on that investment of time you begin to feel down.  You start wanting to add new products, start searching to the latest "guru" system to make you rich, etc.

I am here to tell you that starting a business online is like starting any brick and mortar business.  It takes time, effort, dedication and patience.  Schedule the time you are going to put into it.  Like everything else, you can burn yourself out.  And, having unrealistic expectations adds to that burn out.  Avoid the "make $10,000 a day" scams, they aren't real.  The advice for a successful online business is everywhere, but, the real advice is free.  You just have to dig for it.

Take the time to study.  Understand the market for your product.  Who uses it?  Where can you find those people?  How do you reach them?  Do you understand how to drive traffic?  What is traffic? Should you use a paid ad program?  There is a lot to learn to be successful online.  So don't, I repeat don't quit your day job!  And if you are in the unfortunate situation of being unemployed or just can't make the bills with your current job; I would consider finding a new job or a second job while you get the online business off the ground.  Yes, that is a lot of work.  But, nothing about business online or off come easy.  There are a lot resources out there.  Don't be afraid to ask question of people that are already having success.  Most are willing to share.

If you are looking for an organization to be part of as a business, there are many.  You can find a couple of examples in the right column of this blog under links if you would like to see what I am talking about.

If you have questions for me just leave a comment or shoot me an email using the contact box on this site.  I wish you the best of luck and would love to help along your way.

CONTENT MATTERS: What are you trying to achieve

It has been a few days since the last post so I wanted to discuss what has caused the delay.  I have spent a few days reviewing the importance of content when blogging.  It really does matter!
First, why are you blogging?  Is it more of a journal to put your life into print?  Do you just need somewhere to vent?  Or, are you trying to create a site to drive traffic for profit?  What ever the reason, the content can define the outcome.

Here is an example.  I submitted an article to a very popular ezine, and, it was rejected.  What?  Rejected?  But, it was a good article!  It had all the components suggested by the ezine.  What went wrong.  The blog, that is what went wrong.  In one of my previous post I discussed a method of capturing URLs that the reviewers of the ezine found to be less than ethical.  The way I wrote the post sounded like I was promoting the practice and it even sounded like I was pitching a particular product.  That is all it took to be rejected.  And not just rejected by that very popular site but by another ezine as well.  The fact that a reviewer would actually read previous post in this blog never crossed my mind.  Mistakenly, I assumed they would just be reviewing the article.  But that is what makes particular ezine one of the best, the fact that they will review the author as well.  I have since removed the post and all is well.

The experience gave me cause to review all the post for content.  It became glaringly obvious that what I write today can effect my success down the road.  In my case, the goal is to find and drive traffic to the blog.  I am trying to build an online audience to introduce additional sites that are monetized for profit.  This is what a lot of us do that are or have created an online business.  Often we write without consideration of consequence.  But we need to make sure that what we write and post will move us toward our end goal.

This doesn't mean you can't voice your opinion or promote a product.  It just means that you should take the time to think about what you are trying to achieve with your post.  Define that goal and go for it.