Got any woodpeckers in your neighbourhood?
The next time you see a woodpecker watch him for a while. Think about how the woodpecker spends EVERY DAY of his life. The woodpecker must peck, peck, peck away all day and every day looking for food. It's a matter of survival. The woodpecker doesn't peck frantically for a few hours then take the afternoon off to snooze on a comfy branch. The woodpecker doesn't peck frantically for one week straight to fill his tummy, then take a 2 day break snuggled up in his nest. Instead, he pecks away continually, rain or shine. If he doesn't find food in one place he is off to the next tree to find a tasty morsel. He doesn't give up when the first 3 trees have no bugs, throw his wings up in the air and say I quit! The woodpecker knows what you need to know: survival requires continuous pecking. In your case, your success is 100% dependent on your continuos pecking strategies for the survival of your business.
In my line of work I talk to marketers, entrepreneurs, and home business operators everyday. Just like in all walks of life you have all kinds of personalities from a variety of background and skills. The backgrounds are diverse but they all bring one thing in common to the table. Essentially a dogma of what they can (or are willing to) do TODAY to build their business.
I am always amazed at how people approach building their home business or business opportunity. Some will bite in like a dog on a bone and go hard for a month, then let go and I never hear from them again. Others study, analyze, learn, listen, think and digest but never get to the part of actually DOING anything. Some will find fault or make the most clever excuses for why they can't work their business.
Then there are my favorites, I call these people, the woodpeckers.
These are the people that give a 100% effort to building their business EVERY day. Like the woodpecker they peck away at the daily required tasks of building their business to call prospects, promptly reply to email, promote their business, take care of customers, generate leads, build their mailing list, generate traffic, network with others, solve problems as they happen, plan and prepare. If one strategy is not producing results they peck away trying to find a more productive outcome, or they peck at another approach, a new angle, a new offer, a new promotion, or new goals. They are not content to give up. They don't try and accomplish everything in one day, they work daily, steadily, consistently pecking away to get to their goals. Like the woodpecker they know not to overextend themselves and bite off more of the worm than they can chew. Instead they peck away daily at the necessary tasks being sure to maintain a balance with other important aspects of their life.
The Woodpecker's attitude is a realistic one, he has to search out food every day to survive and feed himself and his young. No one is going to show up at his nest everyday and hand over the bugs. The wise entrepreneur also has a realistic attitude, he or she may not want to do a certain mundane task but knows it is a requirement of building a successful business. He knows that he or she must do the work to earn the success. For our feathered friend the woodpecker, some days the worms may be juicier than others, sometimes the tasty worms are hard to come by and only the bitter bugs are available. Some months there will be more and larger bugs than other months, but the woodpecker (YOU) will have to just keep on pecking away.
Resource box: Sandi Hunter is the Director of Website Development at Worldprofit Inc., a company specializing in online tools, training, and resources for small and home business. Established modestly in 1994 off a kitchen table, today Worldprofit is known as the Home Business Experts and the number one resource for all things related to home business.
Worldprofit: The Home Business Experts
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Complete Training System allows you to Work from Home
Have you ever noticed how those late night infomercials are always advertising how easy it is to buy their program and become an instant success at whatever it is they’re offering? They use the best of advertising and marketing strategies that are designed to convince you that anyone can buy their program and start making money instantly. The problem is that most often the statements people make are bordering untrue and the average person like you and I simply will never make that much money after we buy their expensive program that costs us a small fortune.
If you’re like me, you may have more than a couple of these programs collecting dust on the shelf in your library. True enough you got the program home, all excited and what not, opened it to discover you had to have a college degree just to understand the language and another degree to try and decipher it into a working plan. Here’s some good news for you that should give you some encouragement: You can get easy training with work from home coaching that’s in laymen’s terms and makes it uncomplicatedly easy to understand.
Work from home coaching takes into consideration the fact that you are where are in life. It doesn’t demand that you go back to college or have so many thousands of dollars in the bank to invest in the coaching. Often, you can partner with a mentor or coach who has a wealth of experience in running a home-based business who will provide you with the work from home coaching that’s exactly what you need.
Some programs even customize work from home coaching to suit your specific business interests. For example, perhaps you’re looking to start a home-based dog biscuit baking business. With the right work from home coaching, you can receive the instruction and guidance you need to learn about whether or not you can bake the biscuits in your own oven, whether or not you have to list the ingredients and calories and how to market your product at a price that is competitive but fair.
When you take advantage of work from home coaching, you’re working to have your own home-based business but you’re not working alone. For many people, this is a security blanket of comfort that lets them branch out into the realm of making their dreams come true with a business at home. There is financial freedom and wealth that can be gained when you start with work from home coaching that teaches the basics from square one.
Perhaps you’re someone who already has some experience in running a home business but you need more knowledge. There are training programs designed with you in mind as well. You don’t have to cover the basics if you already know them and can instead focus on the areas where you need to strengthen and improve to make the most of your time and maximize your business at the same time. The choice is yours and the time is now to decide.
We invite you to have a look at the coaching and home business training system offered by Worldprofit Inc. Worldprofit offers training for any and all who want to build a home business. Since 1994, we've provided support, tools, training, advertising aids and more to people around the world who want to grow a home business. If you have nothing to sell we give you access to over 10,000 products - but we don't stop there, we also give you the tools, training and resources to promote them to start building your home based income. Generating an honest living from home is easier than you think, we have been showing people how to do it for over 15 years now. We'd love to help you too.
Get a free Worldprofit Home Business Associate Membership at http://www.worldprofit.com/
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If you’re like me, you may have more than a couple of these programs collecting dust on the shelf in your library. True enough you got the program home, all excited and what not, opened it to discover you had to have a college degree just to understand the language and another degree to try and decipher it into a working plan. Here’s some good news for you that should give you some encouragement: You can get easy training with work from home coaching that’s in laymen’s terms and makes it uncomplicatedly easy to understand.
Work from home coaching takes into consideration the fact that you are where are in life. It doesn’t demand that you go back to college or have so many thousands of dollars in the bank to invest in the coaching. Often, you can partner with a mentor or coach who has a wealth of experience in running a home-based business who will provide you with the work from home coaching that’s exactly what you need.
Some programs even customize work from home coaching to suit your specific business interests. For example, perhaps you’re looking to start a home-based dog biscuit baking business. With the right work from home coaching, you can receive the instruction and guidance you need to learn about whether or not you can bake the biscuits in your own oven, whether or not you have to list the ingredients and calories and how to market your product at a price that is competitive but fair.
When you take advantage of work from home coaching, you’re working to have your own home-based business but you’re not working alone. For many people, this is a security blanket of comfort that lets them branch out into the realm of making their dreams come true with a business at home. There is financial freedom and wealth that can be gained when you start with work from home coaching that teaches the basics from square one.
Perhaps you’re someone who already has some experience in running a home business but you need more knowledge. There are training programs designed with you in mind as well. You don’t have to cover the basics if you already know them and can instead focus on the areas where you need to strengthen and improve to make the most of your time and maximize your business at the same time. The choice is yours and the time is now to decide.
We invite you to have a look at the coaching and home business training system offered by Worldprofit Inc. Worldprofit offers training for any and all who want to build a home business. Since 1994, we've provided support, tools, training, advertising aids and more to people around the world who want to grow a home business. If you have nothing to sell we give you access to over 10,000 products - but we don't stop there, we also give you the tools, training and resources to promote them to start building your home based income. Generating an honest living from home is easier than you think, we have been showing people how to do it for over 15 years now. We'd love to help you too.
Get a free Worldprofit Home Business Associate Membership at http://www.worldprofit.com/
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Friday, October 30, 2009
How to Earn Extra Income & Spend More Time with Your Family
You hear people talking all the time about how nice it would be to work from home but how difficult it is to tap into the market of real work at home opportunities. This is not an uncommon quandary that plagues many mothers who must work and find that their only alternative is to place their children in daycare centers or the care of relatives. The reality of earning money is not a choice; it is the way we survive.
The good news is that you can earn extra income from home that will allow you to spend more time with your family. Whether you are a traditional family with children, a single mom or dad who has just one child or a family of a different type makes no difference at all. It is a proven fact that there are some great opportunities that help you walk away from the rat race of commuting to a 9 to 5 job every day and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want more time with their loved ones without sacrificing necessary money?
When you are looking for a way to earn extra income, it’s important that you don’t strike out unprepared. This means you need to do your home work and take the time to conduct due diligence on programs or ideas that you are considering. Nothing beats being prepared when the time and opportunity comes along. Persistence is a vital key when searching for work at home programs that not only meet your financial needs but give you the time you want to spend with your family.
One of the best ways to earn extra income is to look for something you love to do. Perhaps you have a hobby that you enjoy such as crocheting or knitting and you’re good at it. There are many ways to advertise your product to others without ever leaving your home. Working at home does not mean you won’t work hard sometimes. In fact, to get started with a valid way to earn extra income, you may work harder than your regular job to get things up and running. The time and effort you invest will pay awesome rewards when the money starts to come in and your family benefits from having you around and available more often.
Choosing a way to earn extra income at home is just as important as the process you would go through to decide on accepting a job offer. Make sure that the work you choose is something you want to do. Remember that just because you are trying to earn extra income at home does not mean that you’ll have all the free time in the world to do it. Your household routines will still exist.
Likewise, don’t overwhelm yourself in the search for ways to earn extra income and take the time to trust your instinct. If something seems too good to be true, chances are it’s a gimmick. There are great ways to earn extra income that have no out of pocket cost for you to start. Stay the course and you too can increase your money and have more time to spend with your family.
At Worldprofit we offer training, support, software and advertising for people working from home. We can help you promote any business you are currently involved, or we can tap you into hundreds and hundreds of other products and services you can sell from home. We started as a home based business ourselves back in 1994 and now help others profit from home as well. Get a free Associate membership and see what we offer to help you build your home business by going to http://www.worldprofit.com/
The good news is that you can earn extra income from home that will allow you to spend more time with your family. Whether you are a traditional family with children, a single mom or dad who has just one child or a family of a different type makes no difference at all. It is a proven fact that there are some great opportunities that help you walk away from the rat race of commuting to a 9 to 5 job every day and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want more time with their loved ones without sacrificing necessary money?
When you are looking for a way to earn extra income, it’s important that you don’t strike out unprepared. This means you need to do your home work and take the time to conduct due diligence on programs or ideas that you are considering. Nothing beats being prepared when the time and opportunity comes along. Persistence is a vital key when searching for work at home programs that not only meet your financial needs but give you the time you want to spend with your family.
One of the best ways to earn extra income is to look for something you love to do. Perhaps you have a hobby that you enjoy such as crocheting or knitting and you’re good at it. There are many ways to advertise your product to others without ever leaving your home. Working at home does not mean you won’t work hard sometimes. In fact, to get started with a valid way to earn extra income, you may work harder than your regular job to get things up and running. The time and effort you invest will pay awesome rewards when the money starts to come in and your family benefits from having you around and available more often.
Choosing a way to earn extra income at home is just as important as the process you would go through to decide on accepting a job offer. Make sure that the work you choose is something you want to do. Remember that just because you are trying to earn extra income at home does not mean that you’ll have all the free time in the world to do it. Your household routines will still exist.
Likewise, don’t overwhelm yourself in the search for ways to earn extra income and take the time to trust your instinct. If something seems too good to be true, chances are it’s a gimmick. There are great ways to earn extra income that have no out of pocket cost for you to start. Stay the course and you too can increase your money and have more time to spend with your family.
At Worldprofit we offer training, support, software and advertising for people working from home. We can help you promote any business you are currently involved, or we can tap you into hundreds and hundreds of other products and services you can sell from home. We started as a home based business ourselves back in 1994 and now help others profit from home as well. Get a free Associate membership and see what we offer to help you build your home business by going to http://www.worldprofit.com/
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
25 SURE-FIRE Ways to Advertise your Business, Product or Service FREE!
Are you a little guy or gal, business or non-profit organization with limited advertising dollars?
Here are 25 things you can do right now to promote your business and it won't cost you one cent!
Each of the 25 ways to get free advertising for your site will take you only about 5 minutes!
Dig in and get started to get free advertising for your site.
1. Join one or more Social Networking Sites. Essentially you put up a profile, a little about your business, products or interests and start posting.
Post your website address, the benefits of what you offer, why people need what you offer and so forth.
Start here at one of our favorite social networking sites devoted to home business.
http://community.worldprofit.com/
Don't stop there though you can use Google to find more, and of course you have heard of FaceBook.com one of the biggest social networking sites so get an account there too.
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.youtube.com/ (post your free video about your product or service)
http://www.MeetUp.com
2. Get a blog. Blogs are essentially a website that is all about YOU, and what YOU offer. What you are reading right now is my blog .You can chat, write, discuss, post and blog as much as you like and the price is the same - free!
Here is an example of one of our other blogs.
http://worldprofithomebiz.blogspot.com/
Get your blog and one or more of the following sites at no cost.
http://www.blogger.com/
or
http://www.wordpress.org/
These are just two sites we recommend there are lots of free blog sites.
3. Submit your URL to Google. Remember the magic word - FREE - well submit your website at the most popular search engine of all.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
4. SHOUT OUT about your business at this site and tell the world what you offer:
http://shoutmybusiness.com/
It's a kind of business story sharing site, but you can post as often as you like and the price is always zero to place your listing.
5. Classified Ad sites really do produce traffic and amount to more free advertising for your product or business.
Here are some that we like:
http://www.classifiedads.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/
http://www.snnap.com/
http://www.theadnet.com/
6. Text exchanges are new and a great way to get free advertising for your site. It is an exchange of ads and is hugely popular.
This is the one that we provide: http://freepromohere.com/
Here are some other popular sites you can also use:
http://www.txtswap.com/
http://www.elephantad.com/
7. If you can write then you can take advantage of Article Marketing!
Write articles and you have a huge vehicle for free promotion.
Here's our favorite recommendations:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://articles.worldprofit.com/
http://www.svwsticker.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/
8. Get a Lens at Squidoo.
Your Lens can be about anything you like, and you can create new ones or edit old ones as often as you like.
To get yours go to: http://www.squidoo.com/
9. Submit your site to Yahoo.
Here is the Submit URL link: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Hint: You will need to sign up for a Yahoo account to submit your website.
10. Get a Twitter account and start Tweeting about your business, product, service or opportunity.
It will take you about 30 seconds to set up your account:
Go to http://www.twitter.com/
That's it for now, 25 great places to advertise your product, your service or your opportunity free. Don't you love the Internet.
Sandi Hunter
E-Businesss Consultant
Here are 25 things you can do right now to promote your business and it won't cost you one cent!
Each of the 25 ways to get free advertising for your site will take you only about 5 minutes!
Dig in and get started to get free advertising for your site.
1. Join one or more Social Networking Sites. Essentially you put up a profile, a little about your business, products or interests and start posting.
Post your website address, the benefits of what you offer, why people need what you offer and so forth.
Start here at one of our favorite social networking sites devoted to home business.
http://community.worldprofit.com/
Don't stop there though you can use Google to find more, and of course you have heard of FaceBook.com one of the biggest social networking sites so get an account there too.
http://www.myspace.com
http://www.youtube.com/ (post your free video about your product or service)
http://www.MeetUp.com
2. Get a blog. Blogs are essentially a website that is all about YOU, and what YOU offer. What you are reading right now is my blog .You can chat, write, discuss, post and blog as much as you like and the price is the same - free!
Here is an example of one of our other blogs.
http://worldprofithomebiz.blogspot.com/
Get your blog and one or more of the following sites at no cost.
http://www.blogger.com/
or
http://www.wordpress.org/
These are just two sites we recommend there are lots of free blog sites.
3. Submit your URL to Google. Remember the magic word - FREE - well submit your website at the most popular search engine of all.
http://www.google.com/addurl/
4. SHOUT OUT about your business at this site and tell the world what you offer:
http://shoutmybusiness.com/
It's a kind of business story sharing site, but you can post as often as you like and the price is always zero to place your listing.
5. Classified Ad sites really do produce traffic and amount to more free advertising for your product or business.
Here are some that we like:
http://www.classifiedads.com/
http://www.craigslist.org/
http://www.snnap.com/
http://www.theadnet.com/
6. Text exchanges are new and a great way to get free advertising for your site. It is an exchange of ads and is hugely popular.
This is the one that we provide: http://freepromohere.com/
Here are some other popular sites you can also use:
http://www.txtswap.com/
http://www.elephantad.com/
7. If you can write then you can take advantage of Article Marketing!
Write articles and you have a huge vehicle for free promotion.
Here's our favorite recommendations:
http://ezinearticles.com/
http://articles.worldprofit.com/
http://www.svwsticker.com/
http://www.articlesbase.com/
http://www.findarticles.com/
8. Get a Lens at Squidoo.
Your Lens can be about anything you like, and you can create new ones or edit old ones as often as you like.
To get yours go to: http://www.squidoo.com/
9. Submit your site to Yahoo.
Here is the Submit URL link: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Hint: You will need to sign up for a Yahoo account to submit your website.
10. Get a Twitter account and start Tweeting about your business, product, service or opportunity.
It will take you about 30 seconds to set up your account:
Go to http://www.twitter.com/
That's it for now, 25 great places to advertise your product, your service or your opportunity free. Don't you love the Internet.
Sandi Hunter
E-Businesss Consultant
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Grade Your Website for Search Engine Effectiveness, here's how.
For those of you who want a quick analysis of how well your site is optimized, I suggest a website called Website Grader. They offer a free tool and according to their website, this SEO tool measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like website traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.
To check the Grade of your site in terms of Search Engine Optimization you just enter your website address (or that of your competitor's) and within a few minutes an easy to read report is generated.
This tool generates data on the most important facotrs related to optimizing your site for search engine indexing, specifically:
metatags
image labels
heading tags
inbound or backlinks (these are extremely important, watch for my blog on this topic)
age of domain
page rank in Google
findability
popularity
A score out of 100 is generated based on the anaylsis of the website and suggestions are made on how you can improve your grade. You can make the changes then check back to see if your Search Engine Optimization grade has improved.
Get this free Search Engine Optimizaton tool at http://www.websitegrader.com/
There are far more comprehensive SEO tools available but for those of you who like quick and easy, this is a nice tool. The report is generated quickly, and the suggestions easy to implement and are proven effective strategies for improving your search engine ranking.
To check the Grade of your site in terms of Search Engine Optimization you just enter your website address (or that of your competitor's) and within a few minutes an easy to read report is generated.
This tool generates data on the most important facotrs related to optimizing your site for search engine indexing, specifically:
metatags
image labels
heading tags
inbound or backlinks (these are extremely important, watch for my blog on this topic)
age of domain
page rank in Google
findability
popularity
A score out of 100 is generated based on the anaylsis of the website and suggestions are made on how you can improve your grade. You can make the changes then check back to see if your Search Engine Optimization grade has improved.
Get this free Search Engine Optimizaton tool at http://www.websitegrader.com/
There are far more comprehensive SEO tools available but for those of you who like quick and easy, this is a nice tool. The report is generated quickly, and the suggestions easy to implement and are proven effective strategies for improving your search engine ranking.
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