(Part 1)
by BB Lee (C)2005

The Internet is a great resource for no cost or low cost home
business tools. This is also excellent news for those with
limited budgets or time to search around for the right home business
tools. In most instances the needed item might be a download
away.

Gathered here are twelve of the basic tools you will
certainly want to consider adding to your Online Home
Business Tool Chest to help you
start or manage your venture successfully!

Domain Look Up Tool.
Before announcing your business to the world check to
determine if the name desired is available.
Click Here:
http://www.whois.net

Your Own Web Pages
Setting up your first web site is very easy. Although
many programs are available for creating a web page you might
prefer to use the templates provided by your web host.
By using provided templates you might set up a basic web page
in less than 15 minutes.
Click Here:
http://geocities.yahoo.com/

Home Business Autoresponder
Now that your web site is established. You will want a quick
way to respond to visitors or send them follow up sales material.
An autoresponder will send personalized follow up email
without any hassle.
Click Here:
http://www.getresponse.com

Home Business Press Release Distribution
Announce your new online home based business to the press
with this convenient service.
Click Here:
http://www.free-press-release.com

Home Business Email
You will need several email accounts to manage your business.
One online favorite is Yahoo Mail which boast up to 2GB of space.
Click Here:
http://www.yahoo.com

HTML Editor
Web pages are written in a special language called Hyper Text
Markup Language. A good HTML editor is a necessity to make
changes to your web pages. You don't have to be an expert
in the language to use the editor but an understanding of
basics is a good idea. 1'st page 2000 is one of the most
popular HTML editors.
Download Here:
http://www.evrsoft.com

Learn HTML
Now you've added a HTML editor to your tool chest. Next,
consider learning the funny codes and tags. A complete
online tutorial found at HTML Goodies will

have you designing
your own web pages like a professional!
Click Here:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com

90 Money Making Home Business Ideas.
Visit this page for 90 profitable and unique home based business
ideas you can start at home!
Click Here:
http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com/salespage.htm

Home Business Articles For Your Website Or Ezine.
Your web site is up and running. You will need content to
make your site sticky. Add instant stickyness with original
home based business articles. Download fresh and original
articles written by the editor of SmallBizBits News.
All are free to download and publish on your
website or newsletter.
Click Here:
http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com/articles.html

Free Home Business Newsletter.
SmallBizBits News will give you what you need to become
successful in running your own business. Subscribe now
for fresh articles, free reports, ebooks, downloads, and
original home business ideas in each issue.
Click Here:
http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com/

Home Business Merchant Account.
You will want a way to accept payments for your info
products. Join this service and they will handle the payments
plus expose your product to potential affiliates eager to sell
your products.
Click Here:
http://xy123.marketplace.hop.clickbank.net

Home Business Affiliate Programs.
Setting up an affiliate program or joining an affiliate program
is one way to start an online business quickly. Click below for
more info.
http://xy123.marketplace.hop.clickbank.net

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Visit SmallBizBits News for the complete list of Important
Online Home Based Business Tools.
http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com/biztools.html/

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BB Lee is editor/publisher of SmallBizBits News. A Home Based
Business Newsletter packed with all the needed info you need
to successful start or manage your own business. Visit for
more original articles, biz ideas, ebooks, downloads.
http://www.smallbizbitsnews.com
mailto:smallbizbits@yahoo.com

About the Author

BB Lee is the editor and publisher of SmallBizBits News. A free newsletter that gives you what you need to start or manage a home based business with success.

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Woolen jackets, paper rolls, light up teddy bears, clocks and DVDs – there is tremendous potential to make a very good profit from all of these products and countless others just by knowing the basics of one of the worlds oldest trades.

Importing & exporting may not be the first thing that leaps into your mind when you think of home based businesses. However, there are few genuine opportunities that offer better prospects – big profits, subsidised travel and a good work-from-home lifestyle are just a few of the benefits you’ll enjoy once your import/export business is up and running. The set-up and operational costs can also be accommodated on a total shoe string budget.

So is importing/exporting from home right for you? Here are a few factors you need to consider before taking your first steps into this lucrative business:

1.Creating Contacts – You will need to contact many different importers and exporters and this can be difficult for some. In the internet age just about every contact you need is already online. There are hundreds of free bulletin boards you can visit to see who wants to buy or sell any number of products, in addition to several specialist websites and trade magazines.
2।A fair level of attention to detail is required – by keeping your customers satisfied and providing them with exactly what they request you will be setting yourself up for a good stream of future business।

3।You will need to create a detailed plan to identify your own desired goals and objectives from your business। We all know the saying “if you fail to plan then you plan to fail” – ask yourself the difficult questions that many shy away from। Here are just a few of these…What do you have going for you to make this a success? Will you start full time or part time? Can you get any help (family/friends) in the beginning? What type of products will you trade? In which countries? What mode of transport will you use to get your goods from A to B? How will you learn about international trade regulations? What method of international payment will you use? What foreign regulations must you be aware of? Again, these are just a sample of the questions you need to ask – get some paper and scribble down everything you could possibly think of

4.You will need to decide on your form of organisation – will you operate as a sole trader, partnership or limited company? Each form has it’s own distinct advantages and disadvantages.

So how do you go about finding products to import and

export once all the nuts and bolts are in place? One great way is actually by travelling around – there are literally millions of products out there that have the potential to make you a small (or large) fortune once you import them into your domestic market. To illustrate my point, last year while on a holiday to India I stumbled over some delightful glow-up keyrings that were being sold for 10 rupees each (about 40 cents) – instinct had told me there was enormous profit potential here and upon returning home I found the same key-rings selling for $7.95 in a popular department store. Do you think it would be possible to profit from this situation? Of course it is, and there are countless other opportunities like these simply waiting to be discovered. It is also possible to write off your travel expenses (flights, hotels, dining costs etc) against your profits which gives you a great chance to travel the world at a heavily subsidised rate.

You can also find ideas on what to sell by sifting through specialised publications & websites, investigating trade shows and by browsing national trade statistics (eg via the United Nations Yearbook Of International Trade Statistics). But above all, be alert – when you see something interesting, ask yourself “can I import this thing in my home market?”

Now a word about marketing – whether you like it or not, the long term success for any product depends to a large degree on the way it is marketed. Get this right and you could make a lot of cash very quickly. Get it wrong and you could struggle. Like most things marketing technique can be acquired and refined but you should come up with a marketing plan in addition to your general plan. Encouragingly from a work-at-home perspective there are any number of marketing methods that will bring you success, some at very low (or no) cost.

OK, what we have gone through is just the tip of the iceberg. A profitable work from home import & export business is more possible than most could envisage but as with any worthwhile venture you will require some level of persistence and willingness to learn. If you’re willing to put in the effort the rewards are far greater than you could possible imagine.

About the Author

Start up your own outrageously profitable work from home import/export business. Everything you need to set-up including the best low cost trade sources all over the world, contacts and step by step blueprint to profit.
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If you hate what you do to earn a living chances are high that you are not good at it।
This is precisely the fate of many Americans who have entered professions that they are not suited for। In fact in many cases people find themselves stuck in professions that they hate with a vengeance।It is one of the saddest things in this life since we tend to spend most of our time and therefore most of our lives at work।

Imagine a life where you spend most of your day miserable and doing something that you don’t like?While it may be possible to manage some miserable survival as an employee in this way, it is virtually impossible to succeed in a business that you have no liking for।
This is precisely the reason why selecting a home business opportunity in an area or field you do not like will almost certainly hat your home business will end up in failure.What’s more is that in a home business, you do not have the luxury of leaving everything in the office when you go home. Your business lives with you at home 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.I am rather fortunate in that my home business opportunity is based on something that is of great interest to most people, and that is the holiday and travel industry. Almost everybody dreams of one time going for a holiday far away in some exotic location.

My home business product is based on making it easier for a dream holiday to be turned into a reality mainly by addressing the issue of cost. It is a fun product and not the sort of home business where I will feel irritated if somebody calls at some crazy hour asking for some holiday information. It is the sort of product that makes for goof conversation with my friends when I’m not working. In short it is a fun business.

Now I cannot even start to imagine how folks who have selected a business purely on the promise of how much money they are capable of making from it. In most cases these promises never really materialize so the poor guy ends up getting stuck in some business that they now hate even more because they associate it with broken promises and broken dreams.To succeed in your home business, why not try a different approach. Start off by looking for something that you can really enjoy doing. The money will almost inevitably come later.
About the Author
Don Lim, Jr is involved with a travel home business opportunity that genuinely delivers on all the promises it makes. Write to coastal88@comcast for a free digital brochure of the business or visit his web sites at www.coastal88.vacationpower.com or www.coastal88.com
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If you work from home you don't need me to remind you that there is a price to pay for this luxury. You may save on rent but you have to work hard to keep a balance. If your work space starts to get mixed up with your living space then in the worst case scenario you can end up unhappy at home and unhappy at work. Putting the problems with your physical work space to one side, what about your virtual work space, your virtual office?

If you also work online then you will know that sometimes information is stored on paper (hard copy) and sometimes it is stored on your PC and sometimes it is stored on both mediums. But as your business grows, so does the amount of information that you need to store. What then becomes critical is the organisation of your information.

This article aims to highlight just how important it is to be organised when managing your files and folders on your PC. I can't give you a script-like formula because every different person will have different methods but the most important thing that applies to everyone is to realise just how important this part of the job is. If you choose to learn the hard way (as I did) then you will come to a complete dead end, struggle to make money online and you will realise that -

1. You must use consistency when naming folders. Every seperate individual can use different wordings and techniques (as long as you work alone) but you must consistently use them throughout to organise your folders and files on your PC and on your server. This is a good habit which can be used throughout the different areas of your work, such as on your websites.

2. If you don't know where to start, just remember that the ideal system is based on logic. For example this is a quick example of one of my folders - Top folder - Work 1st level down - Folder1 - Work in progress, Folder2 - Completed work 2nd level down in folder 1 - Folder 1 - Articles, Folder 2 - eBooks 2nd level down in folder 2 - Folder 1 - Articles, Folder 2 - eBooks

This is just a quick example. You may have many more folders (branches) in the tree and I've made it a simple example just to demonstrate the point. You're probably thinking, "So? That's obvious" and it's meant to be. My point is that if you look at your folders you will more than likely find that they have 'lost the logic' somewhere along the line. Which leads me nicely to point three......

3. Even the most organised person needs to regularly 'spring clean' their folders and sweep away the 'dust'. It's a horrible job but it's got to be done. When your physical office is untidy it is somewhat easier to get around to doing the tidying up. Once you can't find anything or can hardly open the door then it is easy to decide that it's time for a tidy up. But it's not so easy to get around to spring cleaning the PC and the effects of an unruly 'virtual' filing system is much more destructive to your 'work from home' business.

4. Don't be scared

to create a system that seems to have too many folders. For some reason the human brain is naturally more likely to avoid having too many folders than it is to avoid having unorganised and poorly named folders. But this is back to front. When you are managing your folders remember that when you get to a point where you are about to split a folder and create two from it, it is always preferable to do this than not. If a little voice in your head says, "Don't split them, you'll have too many folders if you carry on like this" - just ignore it and split the folders! This is an example -

You have a folder called widgets which you have created to contain any information that you find/create on widgets. You swipe an article on widgets by someone else plus you write your own article about widgets. You find some text that you want to keep because it teaches you stuff that you need about widgets and you also buy an eBook about widgets. There are two important things to consider -

1. It is better to create four new folders in the widgets folder than to just throw all four items in the folder. Why? Because it might seem when there is only four items that it doesn't matter, but you can be sure that in a short while you will have thirty different items in there and the whole thing becomes a mess. So go and create four folders which could be named - a)other people's (widget) articles b)my (widget) articles c)(widget) swipe file d)my widget study purchases (for the eBook)

2. Sometimes before you create the new folder system, you may have to make decisions. For example, using the above widget example - after you have dealt with widgets you may go on to do similar studies of a hundred other products. Then you will end up with a hundred different folders, each concerning a different product. This may be OK, but it may also be better to have all the articles by other people in one folder for all the different products, all the swipe files in one folder etc. The point is again that there is no hard and fast rule except for these two golden rules of folder management -

1. Do allow the time for this organisational task. It is important and it always takes twice as long to go backwards and reorganise it once it descends into chaos.

2. Try to think ahead and design systems that will work at the moment and will more than likely work in the future as your business grows and changes.

Remember - being organised may be boring but it's possibly the most vital but most undervalued hidden ingredient of every successful online business.

I'm not an internet marketing guru. I'm just an 'average Joe' who loves to write . To learn more Roger Davis

please visit my work from home website.
About the Author

Roger Davis is a fledgling internet marketer who's main aim is to help others in the same boat.

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Here are some important points to take note of if you want to work from home. working from home is a dream occupation for many people, but only a few of us will dare to trudge that path. As long as you keep to your basic principles, keep focused, learn how to motivate yourself, be patient and learn how to manage your time properly, you CAN have the best of both worlds.

Set your working hours

No doubt, you’re working from home but consider this – your TV remote control is just a stretch away. The temptation to just hop into your car and go shopping can be overwhelming. So, discipline yourself. When you work is not important, it’s keeping to the schedule that is. You want to let your clients know when they can expect to see you online or catch you on Instant Messenger. If they know your working hours, they will know when to expect a reply to their email message. You can shape your working schedule according to your needs. If you need to send your kids off to music class or tuition at 10.30a.m., make sure you check your email or do some work before then. Working from home means you have the flexibility of molding your working hours according to your family’s needs.

Office space
Having an office space where there are no crayons and no toys strewn about is important to the working environment of your business. Working from home means that you have to set your office up either in a small corner of the bedroom, setup a special home office in a special room, or you can set your office up in a small corner in the living room. Help your kids understand that whenever you’re working, you are not to be disturbed. The documents and equipment in the home office area is not to be drawn on, spilt on, torn, removed or damaged.

Be serious about your work
Whenever you’re working, you should be serious about work. You can do the following to help you work more effectively:-

1.Work or do the most important things whenever your kids are off somewhere else – like kindergarten, tuition, music school or visiting a cousin.

2.Setup a special table or space where your kids do their homework whenever you’re working.

3.Get someone to mind the kids while you’re working during your working hours

4.Work when the kids are taking a nap

5.Spend a lot of time with your kids and whenever you’re having family time, ignore
business phone calls or office matters.

6.When you are working, tell your kids to get help from someone else

Use an organizer
For someone who is working from home, the line between ‘work’ and ‘family’ is blurred. Therefore, it’s important for us to learn how to schedule our work and use an organizer properly. This will help us meet deadlines, set priorities and remember important tasks. You can use a normal scrapbook, a journal, an exercise book, a small notepad (the 555 kind, even), use your Outlook program, use an Excel file, use a Microsoft Word document…whatever works for you! The point is that you need to use it consistently, refer to it, update it and add new tasks to it.

Don’t check your email all the time
Yes, you need to check your email regularly but when you check your email too often or keep your inbox open all the time, you’ll get distracted with new tasks and neglect the earlier ones. This way, you will get more and more backlogs and in the end, some of the older projects will take longer to finish. Check your email often at the same time everyday, but not all the time.

Don’t work all the time
Those without discipline will work only when they feel like it and when they don’t, they’ll do something else. This kind of attitude towards work is not advisable. But on the other hand, workaholics should also learn how to let work go whenever the time comes. If you feel stressed out, maybe that’s because you’ve been working too much because your work is right there in your house. You’ll never get far enough away from your work. So, learn to switch your computer off and let go!! Just go spend some time with the neglected spouse and kids.

Conclusion
These are just a few of the important points about working from home and I have just managed to skim the surface of the whole issue. I will explore other aspects of working from home in another article.

About the Author

Marsha Maung is a freelance graphic designer and copy writer who works from her home in Selangor, Malaysia. She loves nothing more than blowing bubbles in the park with her 2 kids, Joshua and Jared. She designs apparel and premium items at http://www.creativejooz.com and is the author of "Raising little magicians", and the popular "The Lance in freelancing". More information can be found at http://www.marshamaung.com

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If You Don't Have a Home-Based Business, Start One Today!

This may be a decade of tremendous corporate profits and economic
growth, but for the vast majority of North Americans, the 90's
have been a dismal, uphill climb. And many economists believe
that this next, new millennium won't be getting better any
time soon.

Why?

Changing business and government attitudes are the reason. There
has seemingly been more anti-business legislation in the last
decade than in any other this century. Stronger employment and
labor laws, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the
Comprehensive Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA, which
includes mandating health insurance for workers for a period
of time after they leave employment), safety laws, much tougher
laws for discharging workers, more liabilities for lawsuits,
Family Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act (which is
creating immense numbers of lawsuits), along with higher minimum
wages and fringe benefits.

Just reading this list is exhausting.

While these acts have beneficial and protective aspects, they
have also encouraged businesses to move their facilities. That
"sucking sound" popularized by Ross Perot is not just down to
Mexico, but elsewhere as well. The result has been a dramatic
loss of heavy industry in the U.S.

The young and the middle-aged alike are realizing that their
dream of "having a job with a company forever" is an illusion.
Companies have been downsizing, rightsizing, and capsizing for
some time now, and they continue to do so - more now than ever
before. Even the federal and state governments are getting into
the act with layoffs and attrition of jobs.

In addition to all this uncertainty and mutual lack of loyalty
between companies and employees, even the workers who do not
keep their jobs have no guarantee of promotions due to the
shrinking number of management positions. These circumstances
aggravate the already tryingly long commutes in rush hour traffic
and increasingly typical frustrated boss-spelled backwards, that
double S-O-B.

Finally, if all this isn't bad enough, under recent tax laws
employees are shafted more than ever with limits and thresholds
for their employee deductions and higher social security tax
limits. This results in more couples working than ever before
and, on many occasions, working more than one job. It is now
almost impossible to have only one job in the family and make
ends meet! Today, many households need three incomes just to
survive.

Sadly, even having more than one job does not produce any major
positive effect on most people's bank accounts. Why? Because of
tax laws. This was well illustrated in 1994 by Jane Bryant Quinn
in her Woman's Day article on "How to Live on One Salary."

Where The Money Goes

Ms. Quinn's example assumed that a man was earning $40,000 per
year. His wife (we will call her Lori) wasn't working. They
had more month than money. (Sound familiar?) Lori subsequently
got an administrative job for $15,000 per year. You would think
this would improve the family's financial situation, but when
Ms. Quinn examined the economics of getting this extra income,
the results were startling!

Lori had to pay federal and state taxes on her new income.
Since they filed jointly, the family's combined income was
what established their tax bracket. She paid $4,500 in new
taxes, most of which was non-deductible, for federal and state
income tax.

Lori had social security withheld from her paycheck at the rate
of 7.65 percent, which amounted to an additional nondeductible
amount of $1,148 being extracted from her salary. She also had
to commute to work 10 miles a day round trip, which is probably
conservative for most people. This resulted (in 1995) in
nondeductible commuting costs of $696.

Lori also had some child care expenses, which give a partial
tax credit. Ms. Quinn figured that the amount spent over and
beyond the tax credit was $4,250 per year.

Lori also ate out each day with colleagues, spending an average
of $5 per day, five days a week. This results in a nondeductible
expense of $1,250 per year. (I would love to know where she
ate fore only $5!)

Now that Lori has a job, she has to have professional clothing,
this means a hefty dry cleaning bill. Ms. Quinn assumed that
Lori's increased expenses here amounted to an extra $1,000 per
year, nondeductible, of course.

Finally, with both spouses working, Lori wasn't in the mood to
cook dinner every night. They bought more convenience foods and
ate out more frequently. This resulted in increased food costs
of a nondeductible $1,000 per year in minimum.

Add it all up and Lori's take home pay was a paltry $1,156 a
year, for which she had to put up with a daily commute, an
unpleasant boss, and corporate hassles. (See the following
summary of all of these numbers, so you can do the math for
yourself.)

No wonder more and more people are starting home-based
businesses. In fact, there are currently an estimated 30
million people working from their homes. This number is
expected to more than triple, to 97 million, by the year 2000,
and to keep on growing. This has become and will continue to
be one of the greatest mass movements in the U.S.

Why a Home-Based Business Makes So Much "Cents"

There are many reasons why so many people are favoring
home-based over traditional business.

There is no commute (unless you have a really big home), no
boss, little if any chance of lawsuits, must lower overhead,
no employees, (or few), and far fewer government restrictions.
In fact, many of the laws previously cited don't apply to small
firms with few or no employees. It is for these reasons,
according to Entrepreneur magazine, that 95 percent of
home-based businesses succeed in their first year and achieve
an average income of $50,250 per year with many earning much more.

There are really two sets of tax laws in this country. One
is for employees, and it allows deductions for individual
retirement accounts, 401(k)s (if you have one set up by your
company), interest and property taxes on your home (which some
in Congress want to do away with ), and charity. Then there
are the laws for home-based business people who conduct their
business either full-time or part-time.

They can deduct, with
proper documentation ,their house, their spouse, and even
children (by hiring them), their business vacations, their
cars, and their food with colleagues. They can also set up a
pension plan that makes any government plan seem paltry by
comparison.

For Lori - and for you - the meaning of all this is simple:

Lori earned $15,000 in salary as an employee, but took home
only $1,156. She could have netted the entire $15,000 had she
earned it in a home-based business!

This is an increase of almost 13 times her take-home pay as
an employee.

Notice that Lori is not spending dramatically more money than
she is currently spending. She would eat out anyway, go on
trips and drive her car the same as before. By having a
home-based business, however, many of their expenses become
deductible. This concept is known as "redirecting expenses."
With a home-based business, she can now deduct some of the
expenses that she is incurring anyway.

Renegade Strategy: If you don't have a home-based business,
start one!

In addition to all the benefits mentioned above, Congress
will subsidize you while you are growing your home-based
business. If your home-based business produces a tax loss
in the first year or so, you can use that tax loss against
any other income you have. It can be used against wages earned
as an employee, dividends, pensions, or interest income-or
you can use the loss against your spouse's earnings if you
file a joint return.

If the tax loss exceeds all your income for this year, no
problem. You can carry back the loss two years and get a
refund from the IRS for up to the last two years of income
taxes paid, or you can carry over the loss twenty years. You
read it right: You can offset up to 20 years of income!

Here's an example:

Mike earns $50,000 in a job with the government. If he starts
a home-based business that generates a tax loss of 10,000, he
only pays tax on $40,000.

Renegade Tip:
You can never lose a properly documented business deduction.

In fact, if everyone in the U.S., who is employed full-time
began a home-based business, used the strategies I suggest,
each household could easily save between $2000 and $10,000
in taxes each year. If all employees in the U.S. did this,
the tax bite of the IRS would be reduced by a whopping
estimated 300 billion dollars annually. Of course, Congress
would have to change the laws for this to occur.

Renegade Strategy:
Get LUCK - Labor Under Correct Knowledge.

Can You Succeed In a Home-Based Business?

Research has constantly shown that it rarely the business that
determines success or failure. It is usually the business owner.
Why does one person succeed and another fail at the same business?

Two words - Knowledge and Action.

Some people want the benefits of having their own business, but
they don't take action. The result is business failure.

Then there are the people who are always working. The take
action but still fail. The reason is that they are not taking
the correct actions, the knowledgeable actions, that will bring
the desired results. Again, business failure.

It's like drilling for oil. If you set up a drilling rig in your
back yard, it is going to fail at producing oil unless your back
yard is in Texas or Alaska. The same rig in a good field will
produce a gusher, because it was placed where oil was known to
exist.

The point is that most people who get excited about starting
their own home-based business do so without all the necessary
knowledge. Consequently, many people quit before they acquire,
through experience, the knowledge they need, without realizing
that they are getting substantial tax breaks. This leads to
another strategy....

Renegade Strategy: Learn to duplicate the success of others.

Duplicating the strategy of others is much quicker and more
effective than going to the school of hard knocks.

It is also known as modeling, which is well-illustrated by the
way The McDonalds Corporation blazed a trail to success that
many have since followed.

In the early 1950's McDonald's and other start-up companies
discovered that they could grow many times faster than the
conventional firms through franchising. Instead of the company
investing millions of dollars to build new stores, they let
independent franchise do it for them.

It seemed like a great idea, but at first no one figured out
how to make it succeed on a consistent basis; therefore, the
media attacked relentlessly and continually. News articles
featured destitute families who had lost their life savings
through franchising schemes. Virtually every state attorney
general in the U.S. condemned the new marketing method. Some
congressmen even tried to outlaw franchising entirely.

Over the years, however, Ray Kroc and his management team at
McDonald's developed a turnkey franchise business team at
McDonald's franchise. The newfound success-from the
system-turned public perception of franchising around. Today,
virtually every franchise business models-to some extent-the
franchise business system created by McDonald's, making
franchising one of the most respected ways of doing business
in the world.

Modeling is simply learning what other successful people
have done to achieve success in a specific area, and then
doing the same thing. Someone said that "education is the
shortcut to experience." With modeling, you literally
leverage your own learning with the collective years of
learning through experience of many others. Modeling the
success of others saves both time and money and reduces
frustration and stress.

The light at the end of the tunnel, for you and millions
of others today, is the financial opportunity that starting
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then make sure you are enjoying the many financial advantages
to which your smart choice entitles you. The tax advantage
alone can make a home-based business the single best financial
move you could ever make.

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Submitted byDr.Shoukath.ND

Do people that are successful in home based businesses share some common characteristics and, if so, what are the primary ones?

The dictionary defines successful as:

• having a favorable outcome, or
• having obtained something desired or intended, or
• having achieved wealth or eminence

When applied to a home business, I think the definition of the word successful involves a combination of financial gain, time flexibility, and being able to call your own shots (being your own boss). The order of importance will vary from person to person.

I have had the good fortune to be quite successful with home-based internet businesses. No, that is not completely accurate, I have had success because I have invested a lot of sweat equity in my work at home business activities.

Having spent many years in the corporate world, I am a firm believer in the team aspect of business and so I naturally gravitated toward network marketing instead of trying to go solo selling products/services and competing with the big players like Yahoo, Amazon and the other well known names.

After doing considerable research, I found a very well established and financially solid internet-based company to work with. Using my business experience in the "offline world" and developing my internet marketing skills on the fly in an OJT (aka: on-the-job-training) format, things have gone very well and I recently spent some time trying to identify some of the primary traits that are common in my most successful team members.

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Whether you're breeding bird dogs, or race horses, or drafting college football players to play in the NFL...it's important to develop "markers" that can be very useful in predicting success. From my offline, traditional, business experience I have known this from the get-go, but for some reason I was slow to learn (or, was it re-learn?) that identifying the people with a high likelihood of success is even more important when developing an online network marketing business that depends upon teamwork.

Reflecting back on many of the truly successful people I have worked with in network marketing, I made a list of the numerous success factors that emerged when I assessed each person individually. After compiling the list, three factors seemed to stand out as being the most common success indicators. In no particular order, these factors were:

• approaching the business with a long term perspective. It takes a lot of time to become an "overnight success"
• exhibiting the tenacity of a pit bull
• being able to ride the emotional roller coaster (two steps forward and one step back) in the early stages of developing the business

Just because a person has these characteristics, it does not ensure success and, on the flip side, a person is not necessarily doomed to failure just because he or she does not possess them all.

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