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Home-Based Business – How To Build A Six-Figured Home-Based Business

Many people decide they want to start a home-based business but really have no idea what to do, how to start, how to build a business, what to sell, or how to succeed. This is understandable because it seems that everything out there about starting your own home-based business is some sort of “opportunity” that guarantees you will make $5,000 per day by posting a couple things to Google, or that filling out a couple of surveys can make you tons of money. Let me clear things up right now, there is no such thing as “easy money”, there is no such thing as online “opportunities”, because these are simply marketing tactics used by shady online businesses.

Instead, you have to take some sound online principles and make your own opportunities happen, because the opportunities you see online are simply going to take your money and leave you with no valuable information.

So you want to start an online business and don’t know where to start? That’s alright, because I am going to give you what you need to not only get started, but how to pick the right products/services so that you can build a quality six-figure business that you can easily grow to be even bigger with time.

First, here are the tools you need if you want to start a good home-based business:

1 – A website

In this day and age, you will need a website in order to reach a greater audience. This also allows you to advertise your products easily to anyone who visits.

2 – An autoresponder service

This is a service that allows you to capture the names and email addresses of people who visit your website, meaning you can send emails to market your products to all these people. The bigger your list of names, the more money you can expect to make.

3 – Generating traffic

You have to figure out how to get the most people possible to your website. Avoid paid traffic, as this produces less than optimal results. Free techniques of marketing such as article marketing seem to work best.

4 – Products

You need your own products, whether they are physical products or digital products is up to you. In our ever-increasing digital age, building products that can be used and sent online will give you the best results

How to scale your business to over six-figures?

Creation of digital products is the answer. Things like ebook, MP3′s, videos, and online consulting are the answer to building a quality home-based six-figure business. The reason is because all of these product are free to produce, take no room to store, and are free to send to your customers. And on top of this, once you create the product once, it makes you money over and over again, meaning it works on autopilot, which is the best way to leverage your time and build a big income.

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10 Ugly Truths About MLM Home-Based Businesses

Open your email inbox and you will read dozens of email that promise fame and fortune today. Well maybe not fame but lots of fortune. No one will tell you the ugly truth about your MLM Home-based Business, until today. Here are the 10 ugly truths about MLM Home-Based Business.
You will not make money over night. There I said it. The secret is out. No matter what you hear from the hype on the Internet you can’t make serious money over night. Your income from sponsors or affiliate links is depended upon someone else buying the product just like you did. While you may have made the decision quickly most people don’t. Allow time for your business to grow. How much time depends on how much action you take.
You need to work harder than the average Joe. Lets face it if Internet marketing were easy than 97% of people doing it would succeed. But it is the opposite. You will need to work harder than 97% of the people out there doing their own MLM Home-Based Business. Fortunately for you that is not very hard since most people give up after 30 days.
Marketing training is the key to success. Joining your MLM business is not the end of your learning, but only the beginning. You must become a student of marketing and your business. You are marketing You, Inc. The better you do that the more success you will have. If you come from a marketing background you have a jump on everyone, if you don’t you will need to get to work.
Focus on one marketing strategy until mastered before trying another. There are some many marketing strategies that work on the Internet that you can lose your focus and begin to jump from one strategy to another. Pick one that appeals to you and focus on that strategy until you master it. You can continue learning about other strategies but keep you focus and marketing dollars on the one until you get at least 20 to 50 leads per day from it.
You will need to pick-up the telephone. Yes you will need to talk to people. You are building a team and you are the leader. You can’t lead from behind the curtain. You need to establish a relationship with your prospect. The better you are at talking to people on the phone the more success you will have.
Test your marketing and record the results. You need to constantly test your marketing copy and the results it brings. Keep good records so you can see how your marketing is doing. Use tracking codes and subdomains to track how well a particular copy does.
You must the right mindset. You need a winning mindset. You must be positive about your business so you can help others. Looking at the world of abundance will free your mind to think in terms of giving before receiving. You want to grow your business but that can only truly happen when you help others grow their business.
Have a marketing plan. You need a road map to your success and a marketing plan is that map. Layout what marketing strategy you will use, what copy, budget and expected results. Then monitor your plan and adjust it as needed until you get results.
You need a mentor. Everyone needs someone they can go to with questions or concerns about their business. Someone who has been in the trenches and can help you over the rough patches.
Never quit and you will always win. If you never quit then you will always win, timing is the only question. Consistent, persistent action everyday until you win. Not giving up when after 3 months or 6 months or 12 months. Working until you succeed.
You can’t start a MLM Home-Based Business and expect to have riches pour in the following week without taking massive action. Sorry, I purchase too many of those programs only to find out that I needed to learn a new marketing technique and implement my own plan. Whatever your MLM business is learn it backwards and forwards. Become an expert in it and market yourself as an expert that can help others in their business. Take these 10 ugly truths and make them a part of your business and you will succeed.

Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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