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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Find Legitimate Businesses To Earn Money From Home

Find Legitimate Businesses To Earn Money From
Home

Copyright © Jose Love

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You have probably spent a lot of time thinking of

ways you can earn money from home while the baby is

growing up, or the spouse is recovering or you

recently lost your job. The decision to stay at

home can be a tough one and it will take time to

determine the best and consistent means to earn

money from home before you completely commit to the

idea.

It many areas of the country it is a tight

job market and with specific, in-demand skills a

lot of workers are finding themselves with few

prospects. This often sparks the decision to try to

earn money from home and, unfortunately, also can

lead to making desperate decisions that may not

allow you to make the most of your situation. Many

companies prey on desperate job hunters and take

their money when they do not have the cash to give

up.

Searching for the right opportunity takes time

and effort and a willingness not to let that voice

of reason get lost in the chatter of lofty

promises. Deciding to start your own business at

home is a decision that not only affects you, it

affects your family as well as your bill

collectors. If you do not make money, they will not

care that you had to pay extra for additional

training and may not be long before you do not have

electric to keep the computer up and running.

Look

objectively at your skills and before you send

money to join a million dollars a month opportunity

that requires no education or specialized training,

ask yourself what you will be doing to earn that

kind of cash and who is willing to pay it. The two

answers are usually nothing and no one and that

should tell you where your cash is going. One of

the most lucrative means of making money online is

scamming others into sending you cash and when the

voice of reason is silenced, the scammer’s voice is

often heard loud and clear.

Assembling products at home can be a good way to make

money as long as you are associated with a legitimate

company. Those making the offer requiring you buy

specialized tools and parts in order to assemble the

product are only selling the tools and the parts.

There is a 100 percent chance that no matter how well

your products are assembled the company will reject

them for quality reasons, typically not being up to

their standards.

There are, however many companies

who will pay a third party to perform assembly work

for them offsite, and depending on the product they

may even want to inspect your facilities to insure

they are not wasting their time with someone who

can produce a few a week when they may need

thousands.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Earn Income At Home With Internet Business

Earn Income At Home With Internet Business
Copyright © Jose Love

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Just about anyone can earn income from home and

with an internet business you can make money

working at home. Many companies are willing to

warehouse products for you and drop ship to your

customers. By launching your website, gaining sales

and developing your market you can earn a good

living online.

For example, you find a source for

printer cartridges that you can sell 30 to 40

percent below retail. When an order arrives, you

send it in with payment, along with the address of

where it should be shipped and put the balance in

your pocket. Other companies may allow you to

direct the customers to send their order directly

to the company for processing and at the end of the

month or week, the company will send you any money

you earned.

Just as every person is different so

is every internet business opportunity. They are

not designed to be acceptable to everyone and not

everyone is designed to work at home with an

internet business. But once you decide to make the

plunge, pretend your on the side of the pool. It is

OK to dip your toe in the water and check the

temperature, but at some point you will have to get

wet. Some will do this by slowly walking into the

water while others will close their eyes and jump

right in.

It may by acceptable to examine a new

opportunity, but at some point you are going to

have to jump in and get started, or walk away from

the pool and go back to your daytime job.

Like any business, it takes blood, sweat and maybe

a few tears, before you can sit back, take a deep breath

and 15 or 20 seconds later get back to work. There

is on one looking over your shoulder and no one

with a checkbook to bail you out of a financial

jam. It is all you. Whether you succeed is

determined by how much determination you have to

make it work. Once you have decided on an internet

business and have made the plunge, give it every

opportunity to grow into a successful business.

Do not be afraid of change. Many people embark on a

new business and after a time figure out it is not

the right one for you. When this happens, you will

have two options. One is to grin and bear it and

stay in an unsatisfying field in another job you

are not happy with. The other option is to cut your

losses and find a different role or fulfill.

Finding an opportunity that makes you happy with

your work can more than repay you for any losses

you may have suffered.

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Online Affiliate Marketing Improves Product Offerings

Online Affiliate Marketing Improves Product Offerings
Copyright © Jose Love

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One of the advantages of online affiliate marketing

programs is that your visitors are already online

and are willing to look and shop online for many

items. Whether through necessity or with

discretionary income, online shopping is gaining

ground each year and more people are spending more

money online than ever before.

As online security

continue to improve using credit card numbers or

checking account information is being more freely

entered and in order to tap the online market,

internet sellers need to have what their visitors

are looking for. It is unlikely that any one site

will be able to offer everything for everybody, but

by using online affiliate marketing, you can

probably come pretty close to that goal.

Even if

you only carry one item on your own website,

visitors will probably not come back if they are

not specifically looking for that one item.

Additionally, if it is not a disposable item,

repeat sales may be few and far between. Instead of

adding products to your mix, you can become

affiliated with other online stores to offer a

wider variety of products and services without the

expense of carrying them yourself.

It is

considered good business to have any affiliates you

sign up with be relevant to your core business to

entice your visitors to look at the additional

offerings. If they are coming to your site for a

specific type of product, seeing offering for

similar offerings gives them more of an incentive

to click on the ads for the other sites.

Not only

will it give your visitors something else to

consider, if they end up buying something from the

other sites, you receive a sales commission on the

purchase, which will improve your bottom line.

Different online affiliate marketing plans exist

that offer a different type of payout, but

commissioned sales leads the pack for profitable

offerings.

Some sites will pay per thousand

impressions, meaning every time your page with

their ad on it is loaded, you get credit for an

impression. Other offer a small payment when

someone clicks on the ad and visits their page and

still others will pay you if your visitor goes to

their site and fills in specific information. The

majority, however offer the incentive of giving you

a percent of the total sale, not including tax and

shipping, to give you a reason to get more visitors

to your site.

The benefit of online affiliate

marketing to the sites is that they get advertising

that they only have to pay for if it results in a

sale. This performance-based advertising is unique

to the internet as costs to put an ad on the site

is minimal, and since most website owners are

promoting their site anyway, adding another graphic

or text link can be done virtually for free.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Home Work Income Opportunity Requires Excellent Service

Home Work Income Opportunity Requires Excellent
Service

Copyright © Jose Love

http://jlove.payitforward4profits.com


There are very few people who would not like the

chance to find home work that came with an income

opportunity, especially if the money earned could

support the family and possibly improve the quality

of life. While there are many places offering the

opportunity to do this, you must understand that no

one is going to hand you money for doing nothing.

They all basically advertise the same message that

you get out of the business, in terms of income, in

what you put into it, in terms of effort.

Affiliate websites are a great home work income

opportunity and with some effort on your part can

reap financial benefits from several sources. As an

affiliate marketer, you are advertising someone

else’s website and the products or services they

are selling and receiving a sales commission on

each sale generated by your site. The advantage is

that you are simply pointing people to the

affiliate site and that company handles all the

billing and shipping and sends you the check for

your help.

You are still going to have to participate in

marketing in one form or another, as in order to

make any money from commissioned sales, people have

to buy from websites they reached by going through

your site. There and differences of opinion on the

best sites to become affiliated with, but a common

thought is to choose a few big names sites, but

focus on the niche merchants.

For example, it would be OK to become an affiliate

of Target or Wal-Mart in the retail sector, but

customers looking to buy from them can simply go

straight to their websites and cut out the

middleman, which in this case is you. No, their

price will not be any better by eliminating you,

but then the big company will not being paying you

for bringing them in the front door.

The advantage of the big names is in having your

visitors see how you are affiliated with the big

guns, as well as offering them the opportunity to

see what is available from the not-so-well-known

sites as well. If you are looking to makes sales

from your site to other businesses, then

business-related sites should be your focus of

affiliates. If your website focuses on a specific

theme, motorcycles, for example becoming affiliates

with motorcycles parts and accessories sites can be

to your advantage.

Believe it or not, it is OK to send people to

another store for something you do not carry. They

call that customer service. By taking care of a

customer’s immediate needs, they will remember who

sent to get what they needed and may return to you

to get what they want. It is all about marketing

and getting you name in front of your customers in

a positive light.


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Monday, April 9, 2007

Looking For Honest Ways To Earn Extra Income

Looking For Honest Ways To Earn Extra Income
Copyright © Jose Love

http://jlove.payitforward4profits.com


Everyone who is looking for ways to earn extra

money knows it is not going to fall into their lap.

There are many honest methods of earning extra cash

and if working outside the house part time is not

an option for you, look to the internet for new

methods.

Everyone has heard about the big money to

be made through online auctions and some people

actually earn a living simply selling merchandise

at auction. Many more, however, can pick up a few

extra dollars here and there, but if you want to

make the big bucks, you will be doing this on a

near full-time basis. Getting connected with a

company that supplies the products for you to list

on your auction site, and then handle the billing

and shipping can create a lot of profit if you pick

the right items to sell.

If you do not find the

right merchandise and your listings do not sell,

you will go broke paying listing fees for

merchandise still sitting in the company’s

warehouse. Before you get started in a full time

auction business, become fully educated on the type

of merchandise in demand and remember it will

change with the seasons and at the whim of the

customers. What sells good today may languish in a

warehouse tomorrow.

Affiliate marketing is about

the easiest way to make extra money today. The only

work required on your part is placing another

company’s ad on your site. When visitors to your

site click on the add, it automatically tracks the

referral and when they make a purchase you earn a

commission. If you do not have a website, these ads

can be placed on your web log, known as a blog, and

if the ads relate to the subject of your blog, you

can earn even more money.

Selling online can also

bring in extra cash, but for this you will need a

website or at least get connected to an existing

website that will let you post your merchandise for

sale. There are some craft or antique malls that

rent booth and floor space in which you can display

your products. The mall will handle all the

marketing for the entire building without focusing

on one tenant, ad in addition to the monthly space

rental will also charge a percentage of the total

sales.

Perhaps website can be constructed that

will also showcase all the vendors of crafts or

antiques and allow online sales. If you allow

vendors to place their ads for a set amount, you

can eliminate the need for collecting a percentage

and just maintain the site for them. You and they

both can receive additional income from this type

of endeavor.


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Saturday, April 7, 2007

Online Auctions Help You Earn Extra Income From Home

Online Auctions Help You Earn Extra Income From
Home

Copyright © Jose Love

http://jlove.payitforward4profits.com


There is nothing like the feeling of extra cash in

your pocket and not many people would turn down the

opportunity to earn extra income from home. When

you can bring in extra cash without having the

expense of traveling to a second job and still be

able to spend time with your family, it makes the

extra money even more special.

Especially around

the holidays people are always looking for extra

money but are reluctant to find part time

employment out of the house. Finding ways to earn

extra income from home can be both challenging and

fun, depending on how you decide to approach the

venture. Many may decide to try earning money

online by starting their own website or through

online auctions. Others will use their handiwork

and attempt to sell homemade crafts either online,

at auction or in craft malls that rents space to

artisans.

Online auctions are proving to be a

successful method to earn extra income from home

and you can start with your basement, garage or

closets. There may be a lot of items that you no

longer have a use for and instead of throwing it

away, you can list these items on auction sites and

attempt to sell them. Not everything you find will

be worth something to someone else. The best way to

find out if there is any interest to your stuff is

to search for on the auction site and, if found,

determine if anyone is bidding on it and how much

others are willing to pay.

By researching your

items you can determined the right starting bid as

well as learn how to write a description that will

make people want to bid on the item. Many list only

a picture, a title and a short description, which

is not going to gain anyone’s attention. The more

detail you can give about an item the more of a

chance you have of creating a sale. Also, make sure

you specify who will pay shipping costs on the item

and make sure you know what it is up front so

potential buyers are not surprised at a high

postage rate.

Once you have cleared your inventory

of items you have sitting around your house you can

consider visiting local garage sales and flea

markets and look for other used items that buyers

on online auctions may find of interest. Small

local auctions and estate auctions are another

source of merchandise that can allow you to earn

extra income from home.

Caution must be exercised

not to get caught up in the process where winning

the auction is more important than what you pay for

an item. If you are looking to make money from

home, there will be times when you will have to

show restraint and let someone else have the

winning bid.


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Friday, April 6, 2007

With Research You Can Start An Internet Business

With Research You Can Start An Internet
Business

Copyright © Jose Love

http://jlove.payitforward4profits.com


You do not have to wander around town looking for

real estate to get into business for yourself. You

can always start an internet business, provided you

can offer a viable product or service, or take

advantage of opening one of many available

franchises. Your abilities, desire and financial

resources can help determine the type of business

and how long it may take to get it started.

When

considering starting an internet business you need

to determine the type of business you want to be

involved with. You have the choice of selling

products or services as well as whether you want to

sell your own product line or someone else’s. The

same can be true for service-related businesses.

There are several companies offering services that

you can resell and make a profit and if you find

any of them useful, you may want to be involved.

You can also choose to sell a combination or

products and services to take advantage of

different aspects of the online shopping venture.

While niche marketing and focusing on one product

line has proven successful, so has being able to

take advantage of different needs for different

customer bases. Niche markets are more focused

while a product mix reaches more of your targeted

audience. You can also offer backend products, such

as printer paper and ink to go with printers.

Working capital is a serious consideration in

starting any internet business and probably the

biggest expense will involve marketing your

business. A good business plan can help you

determine your target audience, which in turn will

help determine where you will focus your marketing.

This plan should be part of the overall business

plan as without a specific market to target, you

could end up simply throwing money into the wind

and hoping it falls where it will do the most

good.

Sustaining growth is another planning

process and depending on your product line can be a

viable exercise. Every business that sells

merchandise should plan to offer products that are

considered disposable. Items that customers will

need to replenish or replace when used to gain the

possibility of repeat business. Some businesses,

such as home mortgages, are only able to sell to

the same customer once, or maybe twice so they are

constantly on the lookout for ways of generating

more customers.

A business offering disposable

items do not have to continually focus on new

customers, rather good customer service and quality

products can provide continued growth based on

repeat shopping by the same customers. For example,

if you sell digital cameras, it may be years

between sales to the same customer. However, you

can bolster your sales by also offering memory

cards and printing services or supplies to bring in

additional sales to existing customers.


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Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Knocking On Doors May Be Internet Business Opportunities

Knocking On Doors May Be Internet Business
Opportunities

Copyright © Jose Love

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When opportunity knocks you should not be afraid to

open the door and that is why the peepholes are so

popular. Without being able to see what is on the

other side of the door, too many times pportunities

are available but they cannot be seen.

Numerous

internet business opportunities present themselves

every day and unless you can see the chance to

become part of something special, you will

constantly be on the lookout for an opportunity

that has already passed you by. With every

opportunity that arises, there is someone willing

to take a chance. If you are not that person, then

finding the right opportunity will never come your

way. The internet can be an exciting place on which

to do business, but many of the internet business

opportunities will involve taking risk.

Many

business people will tell you that success is an

attitude and others will say that success is a

choice. By having the right, positive attitude you

can choose to make your business opportunity grow

or you can choose to allow it to fail. However, the

first choice you have to make is in taking

advantage of the opportunity.

Not all

opportunities are readily identifiable. What may

seem like a fleeting thought may actually be a

fledgling idea that if nurtured and thought

completely through will emerge into an opportunity

for growth and success. There are some online

businesses offering people the chance to create

their own business, following their model and

business plan, which could be considered an

opportunity. A lot of folks are reluctant to take

them up on the opportunity to own their own

business based on their unwillingness to follow

someone else’s direction.

Franchises are one of

the internet business opportunities that some folks

shy away from because they will not have complete

control over the business. However, a franchise is

based on a proven method of doing business and a

successful business model. Without the need to

re-invent the wheel, you can have a business up and

running in short order, or you can go against the

grain and attempt to start over from the

beginning/

When you see what may be an

opportunity, you should study it and do the proper

research to insure it is not one of the many scams

available online. Once you have made the

determination that the opportunity is genuine and

you are willing to exert the energy and put in the

time, then it is time to take advantage of the

chance to see success.

Imagine where you would be

today if the people from Microsoft, Apple or Dell

Computers had missed their opportunity and failed

to take the risk in starting their respective

companies. Not only did their lives change based on

their actions, so has the lives of everyone with a

computer.


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Monday, April 2, 2007

Build Income With Assembly Work At Home

Build Income With Assembly Work At Home
Copyright © Jose Love

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You see the ads everywhere, offering big money to

those who can do easy assembly work at home and

there are plenty of unemployed folks willing to

stay at home, put things together and make money.

For many this type of an opportunity can be what

they have been looking for; the chance to earn

money working from home, being able to some of

their skills to use.

Typically, a little ability

to work with your hands will get your through the

job, but be careful about the opportunity in which

you are about to take part. There are scammers out

there whose only interest is to take your money and

run, selling you unreliable and possibly dangerous

tools, parts and nothing to do with the products

you have assembled.

Legitimate assembly will

typically provide everything you need to assemble

their products. All the parts, fastening devices

and whatever else that is part of the product are

usually included. Tools however are generally the

responsibility of the person doing the assembly and

in the vast majority of cases, are the type of

tools most people already having lying around the

house.

Details directions on how the product

should look and work when completed are also

included and once you have finished the assignment,

you pack it up and send it back to the company. If

the finished product is done to the company’s

satisfaction, you will be paid for your work. With

the legitimate companies, your pay will be returned

to you without question and if there is a problem

with your work, someone from the company will let

you know to avoid repeat problems. After all, they

need you to put things together right the first

time so the products can be sold.

Other

opportunities may not be so legitimate and you will

be asked to buy many of the parts for the pieces

you are assembling. The sales pitch usually

includes a list of companies that promise to buy

the finished products from you once they are

completed, along with how much they are willing to

pay. Comparing the prices of the parts with the

selling price, you see the huge profit potential

for your labor and buy the parts.

You also may be

required to buy special tools to assemble the

products and most likely these will be of poor

quality. However, once you own the tools and have

purchased the parts you go ahead and assemble the

items to specifications. When it comes time to sell

the products, many of the companies on the list may

be out of business.

Others may tell you to send

them one and than let you know that the quality

does not meet their standards and they do not want

any more. Therefore, you now own the tools and

parts to assemble products at home but no customers

for the finished product. Just be cautious when

looking to work from home and choose the right

company with which to work.


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Sunday, April 1, 2007

Internet Affiliate Marketing Can Also Go Offline

Internet Affiliate Marketing Can Also Go
Offline

Copyright © Jose Love

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You own a website and have teamed with many others

on the internet through internet affiliate

marketing, in hopes of earning sales commissions on

products and services the others offer. It only

makes sense that the majority of your affiliated

sites also offer online transactions since the web

surfer is the target of your marketing.

However, there is no reason you cannot use internet

affiliate marketing to work with service businesses

that conduct their business offline. For example a

used car lot may have a website that lists and

displays a portion of its inventory and you guide

potential customers to the site. The customer then

wants to call the dealer to verify the availability

of an advertised vehicle. Using affiliate software

that that can track calls, you could still get

credit for the sale and earn a commission.

Additionally, some service companies do not have an

online presence, such as hair dressers or even

attorneys. Working out an affiliate agreement with

them, a small card could be printed out on their

home computer with information linking the coupon

with your site. By including a map to the business

along with other pertinent information, it can be

taken to the business and they would know from

which site the lead came from for proper affiliate

credit.

However, the majority of affiliate

marketing is conducted through other internet

businesses that utilize software tracking,

automatically assigning you a tracking number. When

a person visits your site, clicks on an affiliate

link and makes a purchase from the affiliated site,

you receive credit for the sale and earn a

commission. Since most buyers are already online,

making the transition to another site is simple for

them and tracking is automatic.

As a business, there are many advantages to joining in the

affiliate marketing craze as it can greatly enhance

your presence in cyberspace. The key to success for

any online business is being able to be found on

the internet. Having thousands of other websites

posting an ad for your business, for which you pay

only if you get results, adds to your traffic and

your sales.

An advantage to the affiliate websites

is that it appears to have advertising on it from

other website. Visitors viewing an affiliate site

have no way to determine if the referrals are paid

advertising or not, which can add a degree of

credibility to that site as well. You will also

receive points from internet search engines for

having additional links to your site. Although

graphic links do not garner as many points as text

links, the more quality links you can obtain, the

better.

Affiliate marketing programs are a win-win

situation for both parties as the site gets

additional exposure and traffic and the affiliate

can earn money through the commissioned sales.

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