Work From Home Choices

In Wave 4, Richard Poe brings up a fact that I have never considered: the meaning of the word “job”.  He quotes economists James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg who claim, “ The twenty first century will see the death of jobs as we know them.”  The author goes on to explain that it has only been the past few generations that considered a job a permanent form of income. In days goes by, a job was a task that had a beginning and an end. For instance you may be paid to repair a wagon wheel and once that wheel was repaired, the job was over. 

Our modern view of a job came with the industrial revolution. Suddenly there were assembly lines always running, always needing manning. The task never ended, therefore the job didn’t either.

The job market today is not governed by the industrial revolution however. We are in the beginning of the Information Age. It is the Information Age that is molding the current employment situation. The Information Age is making jobs no longer permanent.  The Information Age is taking jobs back to the day when they were simply tasks that had a beginning and an end. 

The Information Age is ushering in at light speed and changing the economic landscape just as quickly. Obama and McCain cannot stand in the way of this force. No politician can change what is happening. We can only adapt.

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Get Organized for Business Success
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Laurie_Bornstein]Laurie Bornstein

Get Organized for Business Success!

Ever wonder why some businesses are more successful than others? There are several reasons, some are; focus, dedication, talent, marketing and organization. Why organization? Without organization you cannot stay focused, implement marketing strategies, have time to work on your business-not just in it and without organizational strategies you are quickly overwhelmed. When you get overwhelmed all you have time to do is to put out fires, you don’t have time to develop or grow your business. And if you don’t have time to develop and grow your business, you will never experience the level of success you desire.

OK, that’s the bad news. Ready for the good news?

Getting organized isn’t as hard as you think. The first place to start is in how you organize your day, your use of time.

Step 1- Master Your Time

Take an hour and in that time review how you spend a typical workday.

•    What’s the first thing you do when you get into work?
•    How much time does that take?
•    What’s the second thing you do?
•    How much time does that take and so on, until you’ve accounted for a typical day.

Now that you know how you spend your day, what part of the day is your most energetic? Your most creative? For me, my most creative, energetic time of day is in the morning. Once you know what time of day you are most energetic, schedule your day so that your energetic time is spent on your big projects-development, client proposals, customer service and those items that directly are in your first category. (See step 2 below for category information). DO NOT spend this time answering email, doing small projects or running errands.

In fact, I recommend reducing the time you spend answering and writing email to 1 to 2 times a day. For me, this means that I do not answer or read email until after I’ve worked for about 1 1/2 hours. I check email twice a day, the first after my productive
1 1/2 hours and the second before I leave the office. I spend 30-60 minutes on email each time. If this is the only organizational step you incorporate, I guarantee you’ll save several hours each day. Imagine how much you can accomplish with an extra 2-3 hours everyday?

Step 2- Build a Team

Begin by separating your daily tasks into a series of 3 categories.

•    Category 1-This category consists of tasks that generate revenue. Some examples are: customer service, follow-up, product development

•    Category 2- This category consists of tasks that directly support the generation of revenue. Some examples are: networking, client proposals, and education/training that support your ability and skills.

•    Category 3- This category consists of tasks that do not generate revenue, they support the business but they do not add to the bottom line. Some examples are: bookkeeping, paperwork, responding to every email message you receive throughout the day and the creation of your marketing materials.

Once you’ve separated your daily tasks into these 3 categories, review which of the items you can release to someone else, an assistant, a virtual assistant, a bookkeeper, etc. The items you should consider outsourcing are those items that are in the 3rd category, these items do not generate revenue. To spend your time on these tasks will not improve or grow your business. Almost all of your time should be spent on those items that generate revenue.

The mistake many entrepreneurs make is trying to do everything themselves. Why? Because they don’t think they can afford help. As long as you spend time doing tasks that don’t generate revenue, you take money away from your business. When you hire someone else to do those items, you have gained time, and this is time that should be spent generating revenue. When you spend the majority of your time generating revenue, you make more money. And when you make more money, you can afford to hire help! See how easy that is?

Step 3- Update Your Office

•    Update your computer programs for the New Year.  To grow your business you need the best tools available. Not necessarily all the tools available, but the tools you use should be up-to-date and as effective as possible.

•    Purchase and use office organizing tools, but before you buy any new organizing items, spend sometime thinking about how you work, what areas are most natural for you to use for files, for projects, etc. Once you know how you use your space it’s easier to purchase the right organizing items.

•    Clear all clutter from your desktop

•    Clear all clutter from your computer desktop (this means old email messages, files on your desktop, old files, old programs, etc.)

•    Clean any windows in your office

•    Consider a fresh coat of paint in a new and inspiring color

•    Purchase or improve your task lighting

•    Position your desk so that you have a solid wall behind and have a full view of your entire office when seated

•    Outsource those aspects of your business that do not require you

When determining your organizational strategy, you’ll need to know who you are, what you do, why you do it, and where you can utilize help. While each of these steps seems simple enough, spending time evaluating each step and laying it out in relationship to each of the other steps ensures that you’ll have an organizational strategy that supports growth and opportunity.

Copyright © 2008 Harmony Life, LLC. All rights reserved.

Feng Shui Teacher and Entrepreneur Laurie Bornstein, “The Feng Shui Marketing Queen” is the author and creator of ‘Simple Feng Shui Series’, her FREE monthly ezine filled with articles and tips on how to live and work in balance, visit http://www.fengshuimarketingqueen.com to learn more.

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What if the Higher the

Price at

the Pump, the More

Money YOU Made?

What if you could help others increase their gas mileage so significantly, they would never stop thanking you?

Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it?

What I am about to share with you is really a dream come true!

How is it possible to make money as the price of gas continues to climb?

Let me ask you this question:

“How many people do you know who would be interested in a new technology that made their present car increase their gas mileage by 50% or even greater?”

How is this Kind of Savings Possible?

Introducing the Hydro Assist Fuel Cell

This revolutionary new fuel cell system extracts a Hydrogen-Oxygen mixture from a compact distilled water reservoir that is installed in your engine or trunk. The HAFC unit adds extra hydrogen to the fuel mixture which increases the explosive power of your fuel vapor, giving you added power per gallon, and therefore greater mileage.

Also, powerful magnets installed as part of the HAFC kit ionize the water and the gasoline in the gas tank to produce smaller molecules, and separate their compounds into simple elements that burn more efficiently. The conditioner “cracks” and vaporizes the fuel which burns more of the gas molecules, getting you better gas mileage and extending the life of your engine.

The balance of Hydrogen and Oxygen with the vaporization and ionization, produce significant increase in gas mileage, cleaner engine conditions, more horsepower, better performance and dramatically decrease exhaust pollution!

Click Here to Watch the High Speed Version of the HAFC Video

Click Here to Watch the Low Speed Version of the HAFC Video

Let me ask the question again - How many people do you know who would be interested in this kind of fuel savings?

Team Everest Members can sell the HAFC Unit at a $200.00 profit. Imagine the demand for the HAFC as the price of fuel continues to rise. There may be no better home business opportunity than one that allows you to help people offset the cost at the pump so dramatically.

Team Everest provides the perfect opportunity to promote your own business–whether you are a financial services professional, an entrepreneur, or a stay-at-home mom. Best of all, if you don’t have a product or service of your own to promote, you have endless possibilities through Team Everest.

Team Everest has provided a host of turnkey home-based business opportunities in one convenient location. (Click here to see example.) You can sell and promote health and nutrition products, financial services, travel, leadership training, and various other e-Commerce goods and services.

With Team Everest, YOU have the flexibility to create my business the way that YOU desire.

The exciting part about this is that you can take advantage of several different income streams and potential markets by being a part of Team Everest. As a member, you get wholesale pricing on almost everything–a breath of fresh air in an industry where almost everything is known for its high margins on products and lack of overall value. Here, you can have the best of both worlds–the incredible opportunity of retail profits and residual income combined with the power of value offered through real wholesale pricing and member rewards.

Team Everest is a place that allows you to be you… to run a business the way you see fit. Join our team today and start a home-based business that finally makes sense!

Fuel prices are going to continue to rise. We can either find a way to profit because of that increase or be crushed by the skyrocketing gasoline prices. The choices is yours.

Click Here to Contact Me About the Team Everest Opportunity.

By: Randi Gerber

Lie #6: If you just sign up for “this program” you will have everything you need for your home based business.

Online opportunities may can be very misleading. They persuade you to sign up for our program, and sell all of these e-books or join all of these affiliate programs and you can sell everything online and make great money with no hassle. This sounds great in theory, but is a nothing but a lie.

A few years ago my husband signed up for a $250 program and $150 a month so that he could be an affiliate to over 500 companies, and have access to sell thousands of products on eBay etc. Unfortunately, out of 500 companies, he could not find even one product that he could sell online or a reasonable profit. It is possible to make money with affiliate programs, but not on eBay or other auction sites like so many online businesses claim. You must have legitimate marketing system and your own site to sell from if you are going to make money promoting an eBook or affiliate products. Having stuff to sell is not enough.

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Lie #5: You just build it and forget about it.

“The information on a website is its content. Generally the more useful and interesting content a website has the more successful it will be. This is because more people will want to visit it again and again, this is especially true if a website is constantly adding more and more content on a regular basis be it articles, tutorials, news and opinion or whatever.” - David Callan, www.akamarketing.com

If you have put the time into getting your online business up and running and successful you are ahead of 99.9% of everyone else. Do not think, however, that you can just quit now and your job is done. You may need to work only and hour or two a day, but still plan on putting some time into your business on a regular basis.

All successful companies advertise and develop new products or services etc. Think of any large company you can. I’m sure they spend a lot of revenue to remind you how wonderful they are. You must continue to add new content and to promote your business if you want it to continue to grow.

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Lie # 4: If you build it they will come.

“It’s true you can make money while you sleep…. (last Monday morning, f’rinstance, I woke up $180 richer than when I went to bed)…. but don’t expect to make money while you sleep unless you work your hiney off while you’re awake.”  –friendsinbuisness.com
If you think that you can just build a web-site or buy a replicated site, and you will suddenly have sales, think again. Realize building a website is not like building a field of dreams. You can build it, and no one will magically come without any advertising or promotion. When you first build a web-site think of it this way; it is like having a store in the middle of Siberia, and no matter how nice it looks, no one will magically fly over there and happen to find you. You must advertise and promote your web-site. There programs that will save you incredible time and money, which contain built in promotion software. This is new technology that does save individuals incredible time and money, but there is still things you will need to do manually to drive traffic. You must have a marketing plan for your business.

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Lie #3: You can start a business with no experience and only $20 in your pocket.

Well this may not be a total lie because a few people have truly done this, but this is very much the exception and not the rule. These people also spent years leaning by trial and error, and went well into the negatives before they ever saw real returns. These same “instantly successful” people will also tell you about numerous seminars and training they have attended to learn the things that have brought them real success. Realize you can get started with a great business opportunity for an investment typically under $500-$1000 and that is a great way to start.

Much of the start up cost will be determined by your skill set and previous experience.

As you become profitable continue to invest in your training and education to continually approve your skills and grow your business.

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Lie #2: You will have so much more time to spend with your family.

While this may eventually be true, don’t expect it in less than 6 months to a year, and more than likely a little longer. Let me assure you that anyone who have ever had incredible business success especially online had a whole lot less time with their family while they were getting started. I don’t care what the business is you must be willing to invest a significant amount of time especially at first to get your business going. If your business is online, realized starting an online business may be just as time consuming as a brick and mortar store. Your time will be spent building your site, finding content, choosing what to market, and the most time will be spent advertising in order to drive traffic to your site. After you build up a large tribe,  you will have more time and you will make money while vacationing in Hawaii. Just don’t expect that this will happen without a significant time investment for a minimum of 6 months to 2 years.

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Lie #1: An online business is so easy that anyone can do it.

“YES!…. the average person who doesn’t know diddly can learn to make money on the internet, but it doesn’t happen overnight, and it doesn’t happen by itself. It takes a lot of hard work just like any other business, and if you go in blind, I guarantee you’ll fall flat on your face like I did the first go-round.” -friendsinbusiness.com
I was recently reading a sales copy for a home based business online opportunity that claimed your 82 year old disabled grandma who can’t even use email can do it. I do believe that most people are capable of learning how to run a home based business online, however, if emailing is difficult for you, then look in a different direction besides marketing online.

The problem is that few are committed enough and you do need to know how to operate your computer some. Let me explain: It is a well-known fact that 97% of those who start a home-based business fail within the first three years. Most never even recoup their initial investment. It is true that anyone can give his or her credit card information and sign up, but this is not “doing it.” Most home-based online businesses require an excellent internet marketing skills to really have any success at all. Unfortunately, most people do not know the first thing about online marketing and, therefore fail miserably before they even really get started.

If they are not scams, many opportunities may be very lucrative, but plan on working hard and educating and devoting yourself to reach this point.

You may feel like you are pushing a boulder up hill for a year or so. You must maintain the mental drive and physical stamina to make your business take off and your dream materialize. A mind focused on success will be successful. A mind who focuses on doubt or uncertainty will fail again no matter how great the opportunity is. Age is really not the issue. If your 82 or 28 you can run a home based business, just keep in mind the requirements above, and know the type of person it takes to be successful. There are plenty of legitimate programs that will teach you the skills to make your business successful, but you have to be willing to learn and put them into action.

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It is the dream of many Americans to own an online home based business. Many are looking for a secondary income source, while others desire to be home with families and have more free time to spend. Many have a dream to build huge residual income checks with their side business so that they will never need to work again. All are noble reasons to desire a home-based business, but unfortunately they can lead you to being sucked into any of the following lies that are perpetuated about working online…

The Not-So-Nice Picture of Internet Marketing

Have you ever heard the term, ‘mind your own business’? Sometimes it is used in a rather derogatory way, but it really is actually very good advice when it comes to Internet marketing.

Every day a great many new people enter the internet marketing arena. They join the mailing lists of internet marketing gurus who they hope will guide them and then they are simply bombarded with ‘offers they can’t refuse’ by these gurus.

A lot of these offers are nothing more than hype and fluff designed mainly to separate the new marketer from his money. It doesn’t usually take very long for even the most naive new internet marketer to begin to feel used and disillusioned.

It really isn’t hard to get caught up in all of the excitement of a product launch by a big name internet marketer.

After all, they are the gurus…the head honchos….the guys that are supposed to know what new marketers really need in order to become successful.

They are great salesmen! How do you think that they became a big name internet marketer? They are masters of the hard sell.

Now I am not telling you that all of the products that are launched by big name internet marketers are bogus or that they are all nothing but hype and fluff. That isn’t true at all.

There are a great many very good…even excellent products out there than can help you become successful.

The trick is being able to tell which ones are good products and will be of value to you and which ones are being launched for the sole purpose of selling them to you.

This is where that old saying, ‘mind your own business’ comes in. It really is up to you to know your own business well enough to be able to distinguish between the products that will really help you and those that are just ‘built to sell’ as my grandpa used to say.

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