Jan 8, 2010

How Can You Earn Money From Home?

Millions of people are asking the same question. I remember I asked the same question myself a few years back. We all hear about the money being made utilizing the Internet. I must admit when you hear the stories of people, making money while sitting at home or people retiring early, you wonder if it's just a pipe dream. Well I'm happy to say it can happen and I can tell you from personal experience that I am sitting in the comfort of my home writing this article. It's unbelievable. I'm actually sitting in my bus on the Gulf of Mexico enjoying the water. My wife and I travel around enjoying this beautiful country we live in. It's just so cool to be able to do what I want when I want to do it. This is how I live now. I spend a few hours a week with my online business and am extremely happy with how my online journey has gone.

Well enough about me. I'm sure you are wondering if it can happen for you. I believe it can. The Internet allows everyone access to millions of people daily. You may choose to have an online business like I have or you may want to create one of the many other types of online businesses. Here are just a few of the opportunities available to you either as an Online Business owner or simply working from home to create additional income. Here are a few examples:

* Online Web Business
* Online Jewelry Store
* Online Dollar Store
* Google Business
* Ebay Business
* Data Entry
* Type At Home
* Process Rebates From Home
* Online Paid Surveys

These are just a few of the many types of work at home programs and home based business programs. Some of you may not want to own and online business. You may simply want to create some extra income or you may want to work at home, replacing your current income, without owning any type of business. The Internet allows you to take whichever route you choose. You are the boss! It doesn't get much better than that.

How do you go about choosing a program for you? Well it seems difficult, but with some of the simple suggestions I'm going to give you it can be done quite easily. Do not simply join the first program you see. There are many programs that will simply take your money leaving you with nothing but despair in the end. Take your time when asking the following questions of yourself:

* What are you income expectations?
* Do you want an online business or simply to earn some extra cash?
* What are your skill sets?
* What do you feel comfortable doing?
* How much time do you have on a weekly basis?
* Do you have a computer, access to the Internet and a printer?
* Are you willing to invest about the cost of a night out in yourself?
* Will you be willing to exercise some patience?
* Will you take the time to put forth the effort required?

Once you have the answers to the above questions then you are ready to begin researching for the right program for you? Many people do not match up the above items with the program they are choosing and end up in failure. This can give you your life back. Surely it's worth the time to give you the best chance for success. You can do it, just make sure it's done the right way.

I recommend using a website like mine, but not necessarily mine, that has done some research for you or be prepared to spend the hours separating the good programs from the scam artists. Answering the above questions is a must but just the beginning. Your goal should be to find 2-3 programs, in the end, that meet your profile.

After you have found the programs of your choice, join the 2-3 programs of your choosing, read the step-by-step guidance provided and start earning money.

You have to take the steps necessary to fulfill your dreams. The cost to give yourself a chance is minimal. You can spend less than going out to dinner and a move one night with your family. Surely you can spend that much on yourself. Please feel free to read both this article or one of my many others by visiting my link in the resource box below. I always enjoy getting emails pertaining to my articles or my site. Your feedback is important to me.

I hope you have great success and are able to enjoy the things in life that are important to you.

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Jan 5, 2010

How do you plan on making your money?

How do you make money? How do you not let money use you? Well let’s take the first question? How do you make money? Here are some easy ways:
• Job
• Start a business
• Inherit money
• Lottery / Gamble
• Crime

As odd as it sounds, all above are viable ways to make money. Most of the population makes money via a job. We work for others. This is a familiar, respectable and time honored approach to supporting yourself. The only problem is sometimes you end up jobless, defeated, and angry. Welcome to the rat race!

Starting a business sounds nice. Become the boss with all the neat stuff like suits, executive offices, and lavish lifestyle. This sounds great as long as you are successful, and you assume ALL the risk. We touched on this before. Mentally you need to prepare to go through the fire of being an entrepreneur if you have never done this before.

Inheritance is great. You just need someone rich to die and leave it to us. This is not likely and nonrenewable. The money is always running out if you don’t make more.

The lottery is simply NOT going to happen. Gambling is just plain stupid. Casinos don’t build 75 million dollar fountains with the money they lost to patrons.

The constants in making money are preparation, preservation and perspiration. The preparation is what we’ll call the money trap. Preparation centers around the business make up, the marketing action and the follow-through. Efficiency is of the utmost importance. Preservation means that your business must preserve its value. Value embedded as hard assets, or financial instruments have long been used for value preservation. Preservation of value is re-investment.
Re-investment is business building.

Perspiration is the undeniable cost of owning and running a business. Most of the fantasies about running and owning your own business fade when the self-employed realize that when they don’t work, they don’t eat. This is the hard work that nobody likes to talk about. Successful owners are diligent, disciplined and focused people. They work weekends, holidays, and virtually everyday.

Most businesses have barriers to entry, the minimum cost of investment. With the age of computers new businesses like internet marketing, desktop businesses and other digital businesses have evolved. It is critical that entrepreneurs take advantage of automation. Few business forms don’t involve interaction, high entry barriers (big investments to start) and other difficulties. MOST traditional brick-and-mortar businesses involve the investment of thousands of dollars, often with no business training or mentoring in the field of business.

An excellent business is one that fits the following description:
• Low or no investment
• Requires little/low time investment
• Requires few/no employees
• Provides a RENEWABLE source of income
• Services are FAVORED over goods, as services are infinitely renewable, products reach a sales maturity level and decline

Below are some examples of desktop businesses you can use at home to make money:
• Resume writing
• E-bay
• Internet Information Marketing
• Permanent Tourists….

There are a lot of benefits to living and working outside your daily environment. It is very difficult to increase your risk tolerance while you are “trapped” by your current lifestyle. Often businesspeople “find” themselves when laid off. You may need to step outside your life to go the next level.

Most people can’t envision themselves stepping outside their lifestyles because we are so well conditioned to go to a job. Think about it, you are trained to get up and go “somewhere” on a schedule your entire life. In kindergarten, kids are conditioned to get up and live on a schedule from that point on. True businesspeople don’t have a rigid schedule. They earn their way by balancing risk with reward, one of which is personal freedom. What is your freedom worth? Often times we ask what the successful know that we don’t. The answer is nothing. The difference between the successful businessman and us is that he will accept the risk or tough way to eke out a living and we will not. I urge you to summon your courage.

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