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2008-04-22

Small Business Ideas That Rake In Big Profits

Small Business Ideas That Rake In Big Profits
by Kevin Tyler Smith
Working as an employee is not always considered as a great job by anyone. In fact, it is hardly the dream job that most of us want. Being chained to the desk, or worse, being ranted upon by a boss would immediately turn any dream job into a nightmare. That is why, more and more people are resorting into putting up their own businesses no matter how small.
When it comes to ideas on small businesses, there are so many that choosing becomes the problem. Perhaps, the best way to begin is to know what you actually want. You could have millions of ideas presented to you yet you should learn to pick only the ones that pique your interest. Are you a student who is looking for a temporary summer job? Or are you a full-time mom and wife who would want to prove that you, too, can earn even without leaving your home? Whoever you are, be sure to put up a business that you are happy with.
Putting up a small business need not mean that you will have it at home, although, there are schemes that work best for stay at home moms. There are many businesses that can be done outside of your home. But whether you would want to just hang out at home or go someplace else, it is best to consider the feasibility of holding a business on your chosen area. By this, it means that you have to think whether the place has high traffic. If not, think again.
There are also businesses that do not require physical office. These include online businesses that you could also consider to put up. An example of this type of business is selling items on eBay. Just look for a good product that you could sell, start building a good reputation, and the end result would be rewarding. Another idea is online tutorials. You could do this with a group of friends who have unique skills. English, math, music and science tutorials could now be done online. If you are good in writing, making an e-book would be a rewarding and lucrative business for you.
Here are some more ideas that you could start to work on soon:
1. Manufacturing eco-friendly products--examples are cloth bags or water bottles that are made of metal instead of plastic. These types of business require low capital and the best reward is not only earning but also being able to preserve the environment.
2. Caring for Seniors--what you would need is a small group of people (preferably with medical knowledge) to care for the elderly. Start with only a small group and you could eventually grow from there.
3. Landscaping--all that you would need is an artistic flair and some landscaping equipment, also a handful of people that would help you and you can now go ahead with this business. 4. Rentals of Sports Equipment--this is the perfect seasonal business for the bored student. It could also be done long-term. All you would need is a nice spot and some scooters, skateboards, or bicycles.
5. Dogwalking/Pet sitting--if you are an animal lover, this is a perfect business for you. This peaks during the summer when most pet owners are on their vacation and they need to leave their pets with someone.
These ideas are simple yet they can rake in some bucks (or more if the business would progress). Even if you are a beginner, these ideas are so uncomplicated that is easy to begin. If you have long been an entrepreneur, it wouldn't hurt to try these ideas as well. Just love whatever you get into and you're sure to stick to it and earn more from it.
To learn more about a small business that you can align yourself with, allow you to work from the comfort of home and position yourself for profits without limits, follow the link in my resource box now.
About the Author
Kevin Tyler Smith is an expert Internet network marketer

Starting a Business from Scratch

Starting a Business from Scratch
by J Attard
You must first of all have an idea what line of business you are going to take, affiliate marketing, selling goods on e-Bay, selling e-books and software at Clickbank. Or perhaps you might have your own product, a hard product like boats, real estate or fishing tackle, or an e-book about 'How to Win a Guy/Gal in 10 Days' that you have written yourself and intend to publish and sell. Come to think of it such a Title could be a best-seller and make the top of the charts (lol).
In any case, what your should do first of all is to brainstorm your idea. You might have a hobby like sailing, painting, fishing or boating which you could turn into a business. I've seen videos of such appassionados who have made it to the top with websites ranking among the top 3% in search engine listings. Branstorming your idea implies doing research for content, keywords, market demand, advertising methods and so forth. Also you have to think about your capital outlay. No one can expect to start a real business for Free. So work out a rough estimate of how much you are prepared to invest per annum? At this point, I feel that I have to set the reader's mind at rest that I can recommend a business package which is very reasonably priced. Brainstorming takes skill, time and patience IF you do not have the adequate tools to carry out the task. It is not difficult to realize that brainstorming or thrashing out and analyzing your idea in depth is of the utmost importance.
You analyze your would-be venture for competition. Is the competition too heavy? What price are they asking for a product similar to yours? What about their Websites; you have to do better if you are to beat them. Would you make a good profit at the price level, considering your costs or would you just break even? Would the project you have in mind be worth the hassle? You have to choose carefully and find a good niche market so that you kick-start with a good level of confidence into a market where the demand is fairly high and you have a sporting chance to keep up with the competition at least.
Accordingly you then research your product/service for content, information, keywords, keyword-phrases - the material that you're going to load your pages with. This is the stuff that the search-engine spiders love and thrive on and which will help to raise your website to the top-level rankings. Select the keywords and think along the same lines of the people who click on words when they use the search engines, like Google, Yahoo and others. The keywords are not important in themselves. It is the people who choose and click them that matter. This is one of the best ways to generate traffic to your website. Furthermore your landing page/s would have to be very well-laid out, not too cluttered and easy to scan at first glance. I say 'scan' on purpose, for this is what visitors do, they do not read, they just run their eyes over the first short paragraph or two and you have only 6 to 8 seconds to catch their interest before they press the Back button.
Needless to say, that your own Domain Name like 'www.joesbrushstrokes.com' (if you are selling Art, for example), and the Hosting package are vital to your very existence on the WWW and the foundation stones of your business. Other tools that you require to help you on your way to success are a Brainstorming Tool which facilitates the preliminary tasks referred to above, the Blogger tool which automatically generates and publishes a Blog from your Website to enhance search-engine optimization (SEO) and where you would place your opt-in-list builder, accept comments and catch new e-mail addresses for future follow-up and sales. An automated Search-engine submitter would be another precious addition to your tool workshop which guarantees your targetted traffic and cuts down drastically on your marketing campaign expenditure.
With a good set of tools which would also include Autoresponders and a Newsletter Publisher coupled with one-to-one guidance and mentoring anyone can make it on the internet. Whether you are a stock trading expert giving advice or a seller of rare book-matches, you can succeed and start earning profits. On one condition only, that you love what you are doing and work with enthusiasm and belief in yourself. I think that you agree with me on this that your self-confidence and determination will shine through your every word and will make people believe and trust you. Learn a LOTT more about LOve, Tools and Tactics (FREE) http://mycps.sitesell.com/kursar.html

The Power and Profits of Affiliate Marketing

The Power and Profits of Affiliate Marketing
by William Potts
Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective and powerful ways of earning money online. This is an opportunity that gives everybody a chance to make a profit through the Internet.
Affiliate marketing is flourishing and spreading across the internet at an incredibale rate. Some would argue that the future for Affiliate Marketing is as far reaching as that of the internet itself.
Affiliate Marketing is an agreement between a merchant and a website owner. The website owner, or the affiliate, allows the use of their site for the promotion of the merchant's products by linking to the merchant's website.
Affiliate Marketing is selling on behalf of someone else in return for a percentage of the sale. You stock no product, don't need to package or handle, nor do you have the normal business overheads.
Affiliate marketing is often called, "performance-based-marketing", meaning you don't pay the advertiser until they sell something. Affiliate marketing ensures that you only pay when your ad results in a sale.
Affiliate marketing is nothing more than commissioned sales on the Internet. The affiliate is a commissioned salesperson for a specific product or service which he is promoting through online advertising.
Affiliate marketing is a really easy way to get started online. The reason for this is that it is a lot of work to create a product and learn all the skills required to make money online. Affiliate marketing is one of the biggest markets on the internet today.
More so than any other type of business, people are hanging up their traditional nine to five jobs and joining the internet bandwagon. Affiliate Marketing is the fine art of selling other people's stuff online, usually through your own website.
I believe that Affiliate Marketing is the fastest, easiest, and most effective way to break into the Internet Marketing field of business and I also believe it is one of the best Home Businesses you can start.
Affiliate Marketing is simply the art of selling products for a company. It's like being a Car Salesman who works on commission, except as a car salesman - you can't sell just any car (in most cases).
Affiliate Marketing is a way for advertisers to reach potential customers and only pay when a visitor takes some predefined action. Predefined actions range from a sale to registration.
Affiliate marketing is a gamble. That's no secret to affiliates rolling the dice every day on new offers and campaigns.
Affiliate marketing isn't for the weak of heart.If you want to be successful and make money from it, you need determination and motivation. Affiliate marketing is tough. Anyone who tells you different is most likely very very smart, or very very stupid.
Affiliate marketing is really about working with partners to help market or even sell your products. Think of how authors often put the Amazon widget on their blog to sell their book in hopes they get a small residual.
Affiliate marketing is both an effective and powerful way to earn money online. The affiliate marketing programs are easy to join and implement. Affiliate Marketing is the most promising and lucrative business model on the internet.
There are millions of affiliate marketers but there is more than adequate money for everyone out there. Affiliate Marketing is the relationship between website owners and merchants whereby the merchant offers the website owner (affiliate) commission for linking to his/her merchant site.
Affiliates send traffic to the merchant site through these affiliate links and the affiliate is rewarded each time a visitor converts to a sale (CPA) or lead (CPL).
Affiliate Marketing is definitely a system that works. Affiliate marketing is the Home Business model that CAN bring you home business success, without outlaying a cent.
If you have "The Affiliate Guide Book" you will be armed with the information, method and wherewithal to successfully achieve your work from home dream.
Do yourself a favor - DO IT NOW! Affiliate marketing is not easy work but it's is definitely a good way to build a side business that could have the potential to be a full time job.

Proven Home Based Business

Proven Home Based Business
by Judson Lassiter
The US economy is slowing down, and Social Security is a big question mark for the future. These factors are prompting many Americans (and others) to start a Home Based Business in order to augment their salaries and retirement. Other people are unhappy in their jobs and want to replace their income. No matter what your motivation, you don't want to just jump on the first thing that leaps out of your Inbox! You need a proven home based business to start with.
Many people have tried to reinvent the wheel. They read a few ebooks, and think that they can do something unheard of and make a fortune. You may pull this off after many years of experience and a full understanding of Internet Marketing. But if you're just starting out, it's best to follow the basic proven home based business principles that have worked for many years.
I have seen ads by Internet Marketers that encourage you to "see what the guru's are doing, and do the pposite", or "think outside of the box". Think about it. Why is a "guru" a guru? Because he knows what he's doing! He has built his empire on proven home based business practices. You can think outside of the box, but only within certain parameters. The people that tell you differently know this, and if they cared about anything other than your money, they would tell you that.
You will see ads and websites telling you how "so and so" made $50,000.00 in one day, or $347,000.00 last year. If you are new to the Internet Marketing world, you naturally want to know how this person accomplished this. And they are quite willing to sell you a book telling you all about it! It won't be what you expected. You will find that this "so and so" studied, read books and reports, and struggled for at least five years before gaining the expertise to set up that BIG DAY!
If you're looking for a big pay day in your new business next month, you're living in a fantasy world. (Unless you're "up tight" with an established Internet Marketer who will give you a personal crash course!) Businesses have to be built from the ground up, fed and nurtured, peppered with the experiences encountered along the way. It takes time, money, and hard work. Steer away from the offers that promise you heaven next week. Those are for experienced marketers that know how to build a proven home based business. I'm not trying to discourage anyone, quite the opposite, I just want you to spend your investment dollars effectively. Buying "pie in the sky" systems is not how you do that. Be patient. Learn, read. Build a solid foundation. Grow and prosper. And, most of all, enjoy the journey!
Learn the names of the people who have been successful internet marketers for years, and read their materials. You'll find that their methods are pretty much identical. Finding products to sell is no problem, they are everywhere. Then begin cheaply by posting to forums and blogs, writing articles, running free classifieds. As you see some success, start your own blog, develop your own website, buy ezine solo ads. Join a select few network marketing companies, and eventually create your own products and even a membership site. That's a simplified version, and will take a lot of time to master! But it will be well worth the trouble when you find that you have built a proven home based business!
If you are an expert, or have a lot of experience, in a certain "niche", you have a head start. You can join forums on that subject and find out what people are needing. If you find that a lot of people have needs in this area, find a way to give them what they want! Write a book or find a product that will satisfy this need. If you don't have enough marketing knowledge, or need a big prospect list, consider a joint venture with an experienced marketer. That would probably be the fastest way to gain success in the internet business world. The rest of us just have to "pay our dues" and build a proven home based business by the scenic route!
In a nutshell, just be careful who you learn from and buy from. Make sure your mentors want to help you build a proven home based business. If their promises seem "to good to be true", trust me, they are.

Scam or Review You Can Trust? Searching for Real Home-Based Business Information

Scam or Review You Can Trust? Searching for Real Home-Based Business Information
by Richard van Beek
When you want to buy a book online, you try to find a seller with 100% positive reviews, but when you research options your for home-based business, you are almost certain to encounter some contradictions. A home-based business opportunity leading one person to make hundreds of thousands of dollars is condemned by someone else as a scam. How can you decide who is worth believing? Maybe you decide to check a reputable sounding website that promises to review home-based businesses and reveal which ones are scams. But is this comparison website itself a scam or review that should command your attention? With all the competing and conflicting reviews out on the web today, it is difficult to sort out which ones can be believed.
What makes these so-called reviews so tricky is that they may even recommend more than one thing. While it may seem that not favoring just one means the reviews are impartial, the real reason may be that whoever is sponsoring the website or writing the review is involved in several different affiliate or multi-level marketing programs. It is common for people to be in several programs at once, so if they are featuring several of their own, whatever one you choose will be profitable for that person.
Even seemingly informative articles can be slanted, while claiming to be a review. There may be some valuable information contained in the article, but when it comes down to it, should you believe that the author can really offer a superior alternative? Probably not--at least not right away.
Reviews, scam websites, and articles are all used in the attempt to steer people away from certain programs to competing opportunities. If you want to find information and opinions in reviews that will be helpful, keep digging and getting many perspectives on the options you are considering. If you are looking to be 100% certain that you can trust a review, give up now. There will inevitably be people contradicting one another. Even so, you can glean insights and begin to discover who is being more honest.
You may seldom, if ever find a truly unbiased review. But by continuing to read more reviews and by investigating the people writing the reviews and recommending their particular business opportunity, the picture will become clearer. You still must decide which opportunity to pursue and take a risk. Yet doing a thorough job of discerning whether the information you researched was a scam or review will help give you confidence that you have made the best choice. The more confident you are in your choice, the greater your potential for success with your legitimate home-based business.

Learn 3 Steps to Start an Internet Business with E-book

Learn 3 Steps to Start an Internet Business with E-book
by Hussain Banswarawala
This article will teach you how to attain your dream business with just 3 formulas.
You just have to apply it properly & you will see make your dream true very quickly, easily & without any tense.
So here are those 3 formulas.
Here YOU Go...
Step 1 - Focus on One.
It is true that you have to focus on one thing at a time. Don't try to eat from all hands otherwise you won't able to eat single piece.
There are numbers of opportunities waiting to earn money through online business.
1. Develop your products & services.
2. To Sell affiliate products.
3. Earn money through e-bay auction.
4. Develop or design websites & make killer money
Same ways there are various ways to promote your site .....
1. Search Engine Optimization. 2. Writing and submitting articles. 3. Discussion Forums. 4. Pay per click search engines. 5. Viral Marketing. 6. Creating content sites.
A problem that new business owner usually facing is overload of information.
In this way they get confused to find their ways. As I said above you have to be master in one thing then & then you can go for other thing.
Suppose let say you have interest in Creating & selling your own products.
So now you only need to focus & need to put your all efforts on creating your products.
No needs to think on other ways.
If you are interested in website promotion then you stick with that only. No need to get involve in pay option.
This way you can see your success in next door. If you will try to do all things at a time then you are doing nothing but waiting for failure.
Step 2 - Go Where Your Interest Is.
Do as per your interest, passion and all. Start your business e-book on your interested field. If you apply your business on the basis of your interest then it is easy for you to find way for your success. If your interest said to you to sell affiliate product then go for that not for other thing.
Don't scare whether you will get success in that or not. Jut do action & put your efforts in that to pull more and more learning & business.
If you become master in only one then you will get more goodwill from business, also you can earn massive profit too.
Step 3 - Try to Educate Yourself
Always keep learning new things so you can improve yourself.
Now you should try to apply your education in your business to earn more income.
If you read 10000 pages of business e-book internet own start then after you have to put action with the help of knowledge given in that e-book.
Keep in mind all three formula & do action to accomplish your dream of internet business. Once you put in to practice those 3 mine gold then I m 100% sure that one day success will knock your door.

How To Find Your Target Audience To Explode Your Network Marketing Business

How To Find Your Target Audience To Explode Your Network Marketing Business
by William Winch
If you've ever attended a training hosted by your Network Marketing company, you've probably been taught the importance of getting your message out to as many people as you can. Talk to everyone, leave a paper trail of flyers wherever you go, call all your friends and family and tell them you are open for business, etc. etc. etc. If you have been following these outdated techniques with the hopes of someday getting rich, do yourself a favor and stop.
Although these techniques look good on paper, they won't generate the kind of income necessary to call yourself a success in network marketing. Companies focus on playing the numbers game to increase their overall sales. This happens because when you get tired of flapping your gums to every person you meet and wind up quitting, you'll leave behind one or two customer who will continue buying from them. Works out well for them in the end, but not for you.
Sadly, it takes too much time and money for companies to focus on proper marketing education. So they do the best they can and tell you to put all your efforts into talking to everyone you meet. Eventually, you'll find someone who wants what you have to offer, right? The problem with this is that it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Proper marketing education teaches you how to be a magnet so those needles come out of the haystack and approach you.
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone wants what you have to offer. I am sure that your product or service can benefit each and every person on the planet in one way or another, but that doesn't mean they will go out of their way to get it. Your target audience are those people who have enough of a desire and a want for your product that they are willing to come to you in order to get it. You want people who will jump through hoops and bend over backwards to try your product.
Not every overweight person wants to buy a weight loss product, and not poor person wants the opportunity to become rich. It can get frustrating seeing a person suffer when you know you have a solution, but they have to be willing to want it for themselves. You won't find these people by loitering around all day in the grocery store parking lot and you won't find them in the address book that you haven't opened in five years.
Uncle Fred might be nice and try your product once, but he won't have the desire to continue using your product like your target audience would. I'm not saying you could never find a satisfied customer in your circle of influence, but the chances of it growing your business to the level of making you financially independent is extremely slim. That was a great technique that worked for people 30 years ago before the market was over-saturated with people selling everything under the sun.
The best way to begin looking for your target audience in today's economy is to get to know who they are. You can not help people if you do not know what they go through on a day to day basis. What are they afraid of? What have they gone through to get to the point where they need your product enough to want to hunt you down for it? Proper marketing is not about how you are going to sell something, it's about who is going to buy it.
After you feel as though you have a connection with the type of person who would really benefit from what you have to offer, think about what they have tried in the past to get the kind of results they could get from your help. What other products offer what you offer? How much did they pay for it? What benefits might your product have that your competition might not have that would get them the results they need?
Have you ever been on a website that sold movies or books and after you bought something, there is a section that recommends other titles you might like? Finding your target audience is kind of like that. Instead of signing up for an expensive lead system or spending every waking hour of the day handing out flyers at your local mall, start looking for lead generation agents online that can help you get quality leads for pennies on the dollar.
Whatever you are promoting, you can always find lists of people who have recently purchased products from a competitor. These people obviously have a need, want or desire for what you have, so that takes away a lot of those straws of hay that you would have to weed through talking to strangers. The best part is that you can get them for about 10 cents a lead! The average success rate for leads will always be about 10%, so why spend lots of money when you don't need to?
Of course, your success rate will depend on your skill set for talking on the telephone, and a variety of other aspects that can only be taught to you with proper marketing education. If you are spending beyond your budget for outdated techniques that aren't getting you anywhere, perhaps it is time to make some changes. There are lots of people willing to find you and purchase your product. You just have to be willing to learn how and where to look.