Work at Home as a Home-Based Business Entrepreneur

Being an entrepreneur is very appealing but not everyone can become one. One of the quickest and easiest ways to become a successful entrepreneur is by working at home through a home-based online business.

Firstly, you need to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. After the evaluation, you can now determine if you can manage your own online business. Aside from the evaluation process, you must know how to plan, organize, staff, and control. These are your responsibilities as an entrepreneur. You should be able to work alone because now you’re the boss and all business decisions will be made by you.

Entrepreneurs are known to be self-starters. Organizing your time is a difficult task but if you want to run a home-based online business, you should be able to do it. Remember, you don’t have a boss that you can rely on. This is your business and you have to be responsible for it at all times.

Running your own business would also mean that you have to deal with different kinds of persons. You will surely encounter demanding customers, moody vendors, and an unreliable staff. To become a successful home-based business entrepreneur, you should know how to deal with them individually. You should know the quirks of every person that you encounter so that you can address them and the situation correctly.

Running an online business is all about your attitude and character. According to some experts who conducted researches about the characteristics of entrepreneurs, there are certain traits that an entrepreneur should possess. As mentioned earlier, entrepreneurs are risk-takers, self-starters, and know how to deal with different kinds of people.

Those traits and characteristics are not enough. You have to have more than that. Another trait that you should possess is being an excellent decision maker. Since you’re the boss, you should be able to make quick yet effective decisions. Some situations are filled with pressures but despite the pressures, you still need to make an informed and wise decision. As owner of your online business, you have no one else to rely on when it comes to business related decisions.

To be an effective online business entrepreneur, you must have lots of energy and superior work ethic. Owning an online business may mean working even on late hours and on the weekends. However, you must not be pressured of your tasks. View them as challenges and strive even harder. Your efforts will be rewarded once you see the profits rolling in.  

If you already know the responsibilities of an entrepreneur, then you can assess if you can become successful in an online business. Working at home through a home-based entrepreneur business requires dedication and hard work. You must be able to monitor your finances, tasks, inventory, work schedules, and many others. Good luck and may your chosen home-based business become a success.

The main reason to have a website is to have an online presence. Taking your business online means that you will use the website as a marketing tool to increase your sales. From a business point of view, a website is not art. It doesn’t need to be original or extremely beautiful to the eye. For a business owner, the website needs to present the company’s mission and vision, to establish or maintain the company’s credibility, and of course to bring more customers.

Therefore, the first mistake for a business owner is to hire a web designer who may be very talented at designing the most beautiful website, but who lacks the knowledge of internet marketing. A website is an investment, not an expense. As an investment, a return will be expected: profits. Therefore, using the power of the internet and not knowing how to promote products online, present the company, and the website itself is a bad investment.

As an entrepreneur, you must have a goal in mind before starting to build your website. For example, your goal could be building a mailing list by getting your visitors to subscribe to your newsletters in order to send them discounts and special promotions. Like any other advertising media, you need to target your audience. A successful website will tell your visitors about your offers, the benefits they get and the things they can do or achieve by using your products or services.

You need to design a plan for your visitors. You need to tell your visitors exactly what to do and where to go. By directing them, you make their surfing easier and less confusing. Plus, if they fare following your directions, that means you caught their interest. By the time they get to the order page, your visitor is convinced and is ready to buy! It makes the sales process a lot easier. Depending on what you want them to do, you may want to use expressions like: “Click Here”, “Order Now”, “Subscribe Now”, “Find out more”, “Sign Up Here”, “Enter Your E-mail Address Below”, etc.

Your website must provide valuable information and instantly tell your visitors what they can accomplish with your products or your services. If you provide them with original content that they can’t read anywhere else, they will surely stay longer and pay more attention. Remember, people buy from someone whom they know, like and trust. Create that bond with your prospects by giving them quality content.

Make sure your website is user-friendly and easy to navigate. Getting confused on a website and not knowing where to find the information fast and easily can be frustrating. Also, make sure that all your web pages load fast or your visitors will get bored and leave. Although your website can be plain and simple, it should still look professional. Check your spelling and grammatical errors. Make sure not to have any broken graphics or links. And choose background colors that won’t make your text hard to read.

If you know nothing about building a website, by all means choose a professional who knows about internet marketing, not just a web designer. You may not be familiar with terms like Search Engine Optimization (SEO), affiliate marketing, mailing list, site submission, pay per click, etc. but if the webmaster can hold a conversation focused on internet marketing, you should consider doing business with him. If your webmaster is more about design, he’ll give you a nice looking website but you may end up having no traffic to it unless you have hired another professional. When an internet user is looking for your website, he enters keywords. Those keywords will lead to your website, according to meta tags and content of your website. They will not land on your website because it has a beautiful design.

Final words: You must have a plan of your site (sitemap). Basic menu contains: mission and vision, products and services, jobs and careers, contact. You will also be in charge of providing the content; text and images. Make sure to pick a web designer who has knowledge in internet marketing. You should deal with a webmaster who knows how to promote your website and how to make your website found by potential clients. Or you can choose to have your site designed then pay extra for internet marketing services.

Before you  invest some money into SEO consultation services, there are free tactics you can do on your own to drive customers to your site. Here are two quick tips for you to know and use right away:

Driving traffic tip no.1: The internet is a huge library used as an infinite source of information. When surfing the web the average user is searching for information, not a product to purchase. To facilitate your visitor’s surfing experience, use short paragraphs that are easy and quick to read. Utilize bold print to highlight the most important information. Providing interesting web content may be enough to lure a customer to your site, but it might not be enough to convince them to stay; especially if it isn’t placed in an interesting and highly visible layout. To support this idea, read this article about building a successful website.

Driving Traffic Tip no.2: People love free stuff! This can be anything: free update services, a newsletter or an e-zine. By building a mailing list, you keep in touch with your prospects and remind them that they enjoyed your site hence the subscription. So please them with more valuable information, exclusive discounts or anything that will drive them back to the site. This system is very easy to setup. Your webmaster should be able to arrange that.

These simple 2 quick tips to get traffic to your website are just basics. There are many more traffic building strategies which are discussed throughout this blog. Use them all and start with the ones you are most comfortable with.

If you don’t know whether you’re good at getting referrals or at completing offers, this site offers you the option!

If you don’t want to bother with promoting your link and wait for referrals to complete their offers, you can choose to do offers yourself. The number of points required will be determined according to the selected prize you choose.

If you don’t want to complete many offers but would rather promote your referral link, then you can opt to complete only one offer (from A category) and refer the site to about 12-14 people to get your chosen desktop computer for free!

If you’re not sure and you want to see how many referrals needed compared to how many points and what kind of offers there are, you can switch from one type of account or the other. But once you started completing an offer or referring someone, you can’t switch again. So make up your mind!

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So how is it possible to make money by blogging without creating your own blog? No WordPress, no Blogspot, no LiveJournal or any of those amazing free blog creators!

Actually it’s a revenue share site called Flixya. This place is similar to other ad revenue share article directories, only here you blog and upload videos and pictures instead of writing articles.

The money made from blogging comes from your Google Adsense publisher account. Actually now I wonder why I say “Ad Revenue Share” program when in fact you earn 100% of all impressions!?! Mmmmhhh

So if you don’t want a fancy blog nor a unique branding, you only want to babble about just anything, sign up at Flixya and start blogging! It’s free, of course!

The more content you write, the more traffic you drive, the more extra cash you make!

When you create your account, check out my profile and add me as your friend!

Cheers!

After reading an article on Yahoo! about 4 people who retired before the age of 40, I thought I wanted the same! They are young, they spend time doing what they want, when they feel like it, they’re not millionaires and yet they are not obliged to wake up every morning, work their butt off to pay debts that accumulate anyway!

What these 4 people who were interviewed had in common was that they all wrote a book about “being your own boss” and “retiring young“, how those things are attainable. And like I said previously they are not millionaires but they had a project that allowed them to sustain a lifestyle without working.

One of them was investing in real estate while another was in stock trading and eforex. See the point is to create a residual income, whether it’s interests, rents, bonus, commissions, etc. That’s why working for yourself allow you to achieve this freedom and live this lifestyle!

I’m 29, no job, overwhelmed by debts and collection agencies’ calls, trying hard to make it in the internet marketing world. I started with a little extra cash and want that extra cash to become more than just “extra”! That’s why I created this blog and website.

While many of you have already read the many benefits of working from home:

• Wake up and go to work when you want;
• No commute time from home to workplace;
• No expense for clothing
• Spend more time with family and friends
• Being in control of your time and finances
• Freedom

There is one HUGE benefit of owning an online business as opposed to a business that you operate offline: YOU CAN RUN IT FROM ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD AS LONG AS YOU HAVE AN INTERNET CONNECTION!

So I’ve decided to start a journey of traveling and finance myself through my online income. I will save on rent and  utilities bills. All I need is my laptop and some changing clothes.

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not running away from my financial responsibilities. I just want to enjoy life, not be stressed at work and live to pay bills. I will take care of the matter when I am capable of.

I live in the capital city of Canada that is Ottawa. To keep my citizenship, I must not leave the country for over a period of 6 months. Therefore I was thinking of going to Toronto and from there head to New York.

And there are ways to travel for free. That will be a subject of another blog entry. For now let’s start with a destination point!

So what do you think? Feel free to post comments and suggestions!

See that thing below:

It’s an ipod Nano!

Did you know you can get one for free?

“How can it be free? What’s the catch?” You ask!? I’ll explain.

The first thing you need to know is how a certain marketing strategy called Affiliate Marketing works. Affiliate marketing is a referring system where merchants pay a % commission or a fixed price per sale, on a per lead basis or per impressions to the affiliates who send them new customers.

In this particular scenario, merchants would be advertisers, affiliates would be the site that give away these cool prizes and you, the site’s member, will be a new customer or lead to those advertisers.

The gift site (affiliates) gets paid by their advertisers (merchants) for generating new sales and leads by referring you (customer). So as a reward the gift site will send a prize your way.

Now tell me how often does it happen that someone gives away such cool prizes for becoming someone else’s customer? Never? Once? If it happened to you once, that’s awesome!

Now let’s get back to the main attraction here: getting that free iPod Nano 8Gb, value of $175 on Apple.ca

This gift site is called SnapDollars. It’s a Canadian business based out in the big city of Toronto.

At first, it was intended to be a get-paid-to-read emails and get-paid-to complete offers. But sometime during the year of 2008 they added this Gifts Section! Some offers converted into Gold, Silver or Platinum offers.

To get your free iPod Nano from SnapDollars, you need to complete a total of 5 offers: 2 gold, 2 silver and 1 platinum.

While most offers are free or offer a low-cost trial, you will be spending about $25 considering the lowest trial offers all combined together to meet the requirements. Look at it this way: for $25 I had fun and a Nano for free!

Fun, yes because some offers are sites where you can win cash while you play games! Popular games like Sudoku, Chess, Mah-Jong, Bejewel, and so many more! So yes, fun for getting that free iPod Nano!

Whenever you get a chance to, you must refer 2 friends who will each complete at least 1 offer in each category. The more you refer, the higher your chances are to have 2 friends who are also interested in getting free prizes!

So you’ve been approved for all of your offers and you have 2 friends who each completed 1 gold offer, 1 silver offer and 1 platinum offer. It’s time to claim your gift! Contact Support and they will gladly send your well earned iPod Nano to your doorstep!

Not interested in the Nano? How about ipod Touch? Dell Inspiron laptop? GuitarHero? $250 Gift Certificate at BestBuy or Future Shop? PS3 console? Diapers for a year? An authentic Louis Vutton handbag? A Wii console?

It’s free to join so take a look at what they have! Sign up here!

Join me in my quest to earning great free gifts by promoting Freebie Jeebies!

I’m aiming for the Acer Aspire 5920G Notebook. I need 22 Greens (=referrals who complete ONE offer) to get it FREE!

Help me earn it by joining with me and select your own free gift.

Find out more about this site and tips on how to get your referrals fast. Go to my website’s page that reviews Freebie Jeebies then look for the downline building tips.

Here’s a screenshot of my dashboard to see my progression:

Last update: November 29, 2009 at 13:08:03

And believe me! I will definitely post back my free prize once I receive it!

Added update: As you can see, up to Nov. 16th, I have 52 referrals who have not yet completed an offer. I need to find ways to turn those referrals into GREENS!

Feel free to comment and suggest! Thanks!

I’m so embarrassed but then again, this is how the internet world is! Full of scammers and at one time or another, we’ll fall into their hands and be a victim!

So I decided to abandon all the PTR site and the PTR journey. All of those sites are scams. Indeed, too good to be true!

They want you to upgrade so that you can request a payout. Some sites even offer you awesome gifts like a free laptop or a MacBook, an iPhone or iPod Touch for free or whatever. As a gift for purchasing the upgrade.

But you never get that gift and you surely don’t get your payout!

The screenshots of been paid page, I suppose it’s all fake! Like I tend to say, scammers, crooks and criminals can be very creative and they are great artists when it comes to faking stuff.

I’m sorry if I induced any of you into this, but know that I am only human and I learn from my mistakes!

I’ll stick to earning great gifts and prizes for free with these sites instead.

Thanks for reading.

As mentioned in my previous post, I decided to try these PTR sites until I reach payout and see  if they pay.

These Paid-To-Read sites offer a minimum of $1.00 up to $51.00 per email read. Unlike PTC sites, these pay so much better than it sounds too good to be true. And as the common says, if it’s too good to be true, it must be!

Yet I am still tempted to give it a try because I see the payouts made on the Been Paid page. Who knows! Maybe I’ll end up having a $10,000 transferred to my Paypal or Liberty Reserve account! If all you do is look at the opportunities pass you by because you think it’s a scam, your situation remains the same, right? And if it does turn out to be a scam, oh well! I didn’t lose any money! Just time…

Time passes by anyway. If you don’t take action, things can go your way or against you. I choose to take actions to make things go my way!

Below is a table I made. Every week, I will post my earnings and will try to click on a daily basis as much as possible. Once I reach payout, I’ll request a cashout and will post proof payment as well.

To help me out, join in my downline by clicking on the name of the program. The best that can happen is that YOU MAKE MONEY TOO! Start with Rolex-Mails for the easy to reach payout amount.