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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

get your business to the top

 In the modern age, working from home almost inevitably means working with the internet. If you want to make your home based business into a successful money making business, you ll need to master the art of internet marketing. And with lots of competitors out there eager to beat you to the number one spot in the search engine rankings, you ll need to do more than work hard to create a successful money making business - you ll need to work smart. Marketing your home based business depends, first and foremost, upon having something impressive for visitors to your business to see. When we re talking internet marketing, that means your website. When you work from home over the internet, your website is equivalent to the front of your office, the first thing which visitors encounter. Although you may also be trying to optimise your website content for search engines (for instance, by using lots of keywords relevant to your home based business), you must also make sure that it s attractive to human visitors, easy to navigate and simple to make purchases from. When you ve established the basic format of your website, consider adding a blog to it. Search engines approve of frequently changing content, so this can be a good way to boost your ratings. Your blog can be on any subject, but is most effectively used for you to talk about your home based business and help readers to feel involved with it at a personal level. This subtle form of internet marketing will encourage your customers to feel that you care about them. When you have positive personal communications with customers, ask if you can quote them on your site. Once you ve got your website set up, you re going to need to let people know it s out there. Your biggest disadvantage when you work from home is your comparative invisibility, but incisive internet marketing can change that. First an foremost, however, you should go through the more traditional network marketing process of making sure that your home based business is linked to all the major search engines and relevant directories. You can also try approaching other home based business owners who provide products and services complementary to your own (for instance, if you sell chocolates, you might look for someone who sells flowers within the same areas) and suggesting a link exchange to them, whereby you recommend each other s services. One of the most effective forms of internet marketing is network marketing or affiliate marketing, whereby you join a scheme which enables you to exchange links with hundreds of other home based business owners. Network marketing will not only direct lots more traffic to your website, it will also help you to establish a money making business as you gain a residual income from the referrals you provide to other people, making money every time one of them makes a sale thanks to your promotion. Another effective way to raise the profile of your home base business is through sponsorship. Many popular and well-established websites need sponsors and will provide you with good advertising and recommendations in return for relatively small outgoings. This form of internet marketing is often cheaper and more effective than traditional advertising. It also improves the reputation of your home based business, making you look like a philanthropist. Internet marketing is easy when you get the hang of it, and you ll find that, the more you do, the more ideas you have. With a little hard work and perseverance you ll soon have a successful money making business with a widespread reputation. Your home based business will be a household name.

network marketing

 Network marketing is a multi-billion dollar business. As a business model, it is taught in major universities around the world. The Wall Street Journal stated, “…between 50% and 65% of all goods and services sold in this millennium will be through network marketing.” It is a business model that is perfectly suited to the “information age.” What is this “Business Model?” Network marketing is a way of doing business that is different from the “traditional” model used by most consumer packaged goods, food and drug companies. It is one of the most promising income opportunities in American today. It is the idea of many people each doing a little work, as opposed to a few people doing a lot of work. To quote J. Paul Getty, the world’s first billionaire, “I’d rather have 1% of the efforts of 100 people than 100% of my own.” Rather than using the customary distribution process of moving products from manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer, network marketing companies use a network of independent marketers to move products directly from the manufacturer to the consumer. Further, the cost structure of a network marketing organization is different than a traditional packaged goods marketer. With a traditional company, millions of dollars are spent on advertising to entice consumers to buy that company’s products instead of the virtually identical product from another company. With a network company, the advertising expense is channeled into sales commissions for distributors who promote the product through “word-of-mouth” advertising, i.e. by telling other people about the product. In the traditional business model, money is spent BEFORE the sale in the form of advertising; in the network marketing model, the money is paid AFTER the sale in the form of commissions. Which model seems to make the most sense from a business standpoint? With network marketing, you have two sources of income: (1) direct commissions from sales you make yourself, and (2) commissions from sales made by people you introduce to the business, called residual income. You can invest your time and money once and get paid multiple times for the effort. It means getting paid for the work of others. In traditional sales, you may be a great salesperson and have a few dozen good customers and earn your income from all their purchases. However, you probably have to nurture these customers and spend most of your working time making sure they are buying from you and not someone else. In network marketing, you can build a downline of 100, 1,000, or even 10,000 people, most of whom you will not know nor ever have contact with. This is because the majority of the people in your downline will be people who know somebody, who know somebody, who know somebody, who know you. By having a downline that is working with you, and for you, you can multiply your efforts many times. The earning potential of a downline of 1,000 people, each putting in only one hour a day five days a week, represents 20,000 hours of work in a month. It would take one person 10 years to produce the same amount of work. That’s the power of a network. Perhaps Robert T. Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series, said it best. “The richest people in the world look for networks. Everyone else looks for work.” It is estimated that more than 50,000 people start a home-based business every week in the United States. The average person owning a home-based business earns more than $50,000 a year (often working part-time), while the national average annual household income is less than $45,000 (and most of those people are working at least 40 hours per week). Additionally, a home-based business owner can qualify for many legitimate tax breaks, and tax experts suggest that the average person can save between $2,000 and $10,000 on taxes every year just by starting a home-based business. How is this possible? Well, consider these two tax structures: a wage earner first earns income, then pays tax on that income, and then pays for expenses with after-tax income. A business owner first earns income, then pays for expenses, and then pays tax on net income after expenses. In other words, a business owner can legitimately reduce the amount of tax he or she has to pay because business expenses are paid with pre-tax income, not after-tax, income. Network marketing is a $36 Billion industry in the United States. More than 20 per cent of the estimated one million millionaires in America today have earned their fortunes over the previous six years through network marketing. Worldwide, there are over 3.5 million millionaires, and more than 700,000 have made their millions via network marketing. Conservative estimates are that network marketing in America is creating 40 new millionaires every month from average people. This means that a person’s greatest chance of financial success is through “networking.” Again, Robert Kiyosaki observed, “If I had it to do all over again, I would choose network marketing.” For people who are interested in starting a home-based business, supplementing their income, and providing greater security for retirement and for their children and grandchildren, network marketing is an obvious choice. Bruce Bailey, Ph.D.

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