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The Best Advice This Week I Got From My Barber

by: Timothy Spaulding

I went to my barber a few days ago. We talked about his hobby, which is playing poker, and his nephew who is a boxer, and about my job and my kids, etc., etc.

I told him where my son, a high school senior, wants to go to college. It is a rather expensive private school in the city where we live. Jerry, my barber, said he knows several people that attend and work at this college, and that he believes it is an excellent school. And then he said something that is very true.

�If I stop learning, then I am through. I�ve been a barber for forty years and I still am learning.� He then related a story about a former customer. This fellow came into the shop one day and said �I want you to cut my hair the same way every time I come in.� The conversation continues:

Jerry: �I�ve been cutting your hair for years. Isn�t it always the same?�

Customer: �You never use the same method. I want you to cut it using the same method.�

Jerry: �Doesn�t it come out the same every time?�

Customer: �Yes, but I want it cut the same way every time.�

Jerry says to me �I know several ways to cut hair and I am always learning more. If it comes out the way he likes it, what difference does it make how I cut it.�

The need to continue learning applies to your home business as well. As the online market changes, so do your marketing and promotion techniques. There are new products and affiliate opportunities to look for.

Articles

One great source for learning about online business is to read articles, like this one. There are thousands of sites offering business related articles. In fact, doing a search on Google for �business articles� results in over twenty million entries.

For the newcomer to home based online business, Stone Evans, The Home Biz Guy, has a nice series of articles (http://www.workathome-awesomeopportunities.com/homebiz.htm) including �Finding Your Home Business Niche�, �Advertising Your Home Business on a Budget�, & �Networking Your Home Business within Circles of Influence�. These are just a sampling of the information available in articles.

Or how about this: did you know that you can get a million hits a month without a top listing on a search engine? Jack Humphrey, in his article �How to get 1 Million Hits Without the Search Engines� (http://www.workathome-awesomeopportunities.com/powerlinking5.htm) tells you how.

Or another � Charlie Page, owner of The Directory of Ezines http://www.directoryofezines.com, writes about why people are leaving their internet business in record numbers, and ways you can avoid the same fate in �Why are people Leaving?� (http://tinyurl.com/5mh46).

Forums

Another source of information is online forums. These are sites where business owners get together online to exchange ideas and get answers to questions about their own online businesses. One of my favorites is the >Warrior Forum (http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/). This forum includes links to an article database, joint ventures and money making information.

There is a recent discussion on the Warrior Main Forum on whether it is advisable to put your picture on your website (http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28449). Some commented on how a picture of an �ugly� person could result in a potential customer clicking away.

Another discussion was on what type of hardware to use in a home business. This included monitor type and size, processor, graphics card, etc. This is a very interesting topic for anyone with an internet based home business.

And since I am a Plug In Profit Affiliate a forum I recently discovered, the PIPS Builder Forum (http://pipsforum.1affiliateprofits.com/), has provided me with several valuable marketing tips and business resources.

Training Sites

If you are a member of a MLM or affiliate program there is a wealth of training material available to you.

In my own journey down the online home business trail I find that being and affiliate of several programs has given me more training than I can absorb. The learning curve is steep, but it is better than starting out from scratch.

One of the programs that I am an affiliate of is SFI Marketing Group. They have an extensive amount of training materials for the affiliates as well as a discussion board.

Another site with a wealth of materials for the online business owner is the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs (http://www.moreinfo247.com/8813721/iahbe). There is a small monthly fee to belong to this one, but the amount of fresh, timely content makes it worth it to me.

There are many, many more and I encourage you to check them out.

Trial And Error

And of course there is the old standby of screw it up and figure out how to fix it. I have done this on many occasions and I am sure you have too. But if you approach your errors with the right attitude it is possible to learn an immense amount from your own mistakes.

Don�t Stop Or You�re Through

As Jerry said, �If I stop learning, then I�m through�. And I believe this is true for me and you.

I have a goal to consciously learn something new everyday. I recently saw a site that will help improve a golf swing. Another for woodworking tips. Yet another for training a dog. There is probably a site to learn about any interest you may have.

Don�t take for granted the wealth of opportunities to learn something, not just about your business but about anything that interests you.

Or you�ll be through.

About the author:
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Timothy Spaulding is the owner of the Work At Home Business Resource Center
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The Perfect Home Based Business and How to Start
by: Michael Saunders

Day by day people scour the internet looking for a home based business to set them financially free. What happens more often than not is that people end in worse shape than when they started. Why you ask? The answer is not so simple.

The key to finding a home based business starts with knowing yourself. That means knowing what you are good at and what you do not do well. You must also be honest with yourself when doing this. We would all love to be perfect in every aspect of life but the truth is we are not and we have to accept this fact. This is important because picking a business in which most of the tasks that need to be done are your strengths will increase your chances of success.For example let's say you are not much of a talker. You do not talk much to people who you do not know and you keep to yourself usually. You are however extremely organized and love to write. It would most likely be in your best interest to be an article writer or ghost writer. They do not require you to do much talking or go to meetings all the time.

The next thing you need to know is the product or service that you will be offering. The more you believe in your product or service, the more you will sell. Now before I go on there is a handful of people in the world that could sell ice to an Eskimo or sell water to a fish but these people are the exception rather than the rule. For most of us if we do not believe in what we are doing we will not reach the level of success that we desire. People will be able to tell if you believe in your product or not. So if you are looking at a network marketing company try being their customer for a couple of months before you join the business. Once you try the product or try the service then you will know how you feel about it. On top of that you will be more prepared to answer question about it because you have become familiar with it.

Once you picked a business that relies on your strengths and a product or service you can believe in you have to choose what your budget is going to be. Remember that most home businesses take at least months before you really start seeing results off so it is important to keep within a budget until then. If you decide to join a mlm you may have the type of sponsor that says you should buy this or buy that it will really help your business. Remembers that you need to stay within your budget. If the recommended items are out of your budget ask your sponsor to rank the items by importance. This way you can stay in budget and get the items most needed first.

OK now you have your business, our product, and your budget now you are ready to start your business. Just remember that it is a business and should be treated as such. Running a home based business can be more difficult than running a traditional business. Running a business from home offers many distractions; Kids, TV , your bed, etc. You could have followed this guide perfectly but mess this up and you will not succeed. If you do not take it seriously you will just be wasting money and wasting time and since how most people start up home based businesses to have more time and more money you would be defeating the purpose. Make sure the home office is secluded so that when you are working you cannot be distracted.

Now that you have your business running you must market it. Marketing is how you get customers. Now there are many forms of marketing such as newspaper ads, flyers, TV ads, mailing lists, pay-per-click ads, power-linking, and many others. How you market your business is up to you. Each technique has its own strengths and weaknesses. Obviously you will want to keep your budget in mind when picking a method of marketing.

Diversify your marketing as much as possible, and remember... the more people that see and know your business the more business you will do.

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