The Speedy Home-Based Business Plan

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Posted on 2nd July 2010 by admin in Work From Home

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In many ways, writing a business plan can be a major challenge as well as a major blessing. As much as it helps you get the ball rolling on executing the steps you need to take in order to start your home business, a business plan also lets you map out exactly what your business is going to entail.

The simplest way to write a great business plan is to ask yourself questions. Just like in middle school, we turn to the 5 Ws and 1 H: Who, What, Where, When, Why and How.
Using these basic categories you can formulate questions and areas of interest to be addressed later in the planning stage.

A business plan is also extremely important because it contains your vision for your new endeavour. The business plan in this context is like the guide with which you will plan your next steps. It’s also, in many ways, the earliest form of marketing you are putting out, and as such has to follow some basic rules.

Here are some basic guidelines and questions for a Speedy Home-Based Business Plan.

  • A good business plan will help you figure out approximately what your business will cost to get off the ground. You don’t want to guess at this. Knowing your costs will help you decide what you’re going to charge.
  • Your business plan should also include information about your competition. Don’t forget about them. In one way or another they exist and you’re going to want to get to know them.
  • The bottom line – most businesses fail because they don’t have a clearly spelled-out business plan. Don’t make that mistake.
  • For those of you who have been in business for awhile, don’t think a business plan can’t help you. Your business plan should be taken out on a regular basis, reread and updated.

The basic questions you need to ask yourself:

  1. What is your business exactly? Explain in one or two sentences. (If you can’t describe your business in a couple of sentences, rethink your business and focus your idea).
  2. Is your particular business needed? List the reasons that make you thinks so and reason why you think it isn’t.
  3. Where do you see your business in one year? In three years? In five years? Be specific and realistic. Nothing destroys a new venture like unrealistic expectations.
  4. How will you fund your business? Savings, credit cards, loans? What are the various options available? What will it cost me in the long-run? How much interest will I be paying?
  5. What equipment/office supplies/licenses will you need to get your business started? Total Cost?
  6. What organizations and trade publications will you need? Total Cost?
  7. Who is your target customer? Describe them. Again, specifics are important. Think of this as the demographic research of your marketing plan.
  8. What other businesses will you be competing with? Learn more about them and find out their history. Look into their successes and failures and try to avoid repeating them.
  9. What makes your business different from your competitor’s business? (Include price, quality, unique services, etc.)
  10. Where will you set up your home office? Is it going to cost me money to make a nice workable office? Will it come in the way of my family life? How can I minimize the negative effects?
  11. Will you use daycare everyday or once a week? Cost?
  12. How much money do you need to make each month to help my family survive? Think of a realistic and exact figure so you have a goal in mind and when you do cost-benefit analysis.

Of course, this is merely a short list of questions. But based on these, you should now have a perfect starting point for a home-based business plan. The next steps vary from situation to situation but take it slow and make sure to revisit your plan as you go on and tweak things as you become more knowledgeable.

7 Steps to Establishing A Home Based Internet Business

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Posted on 6th March 2010 by admin in Work From Home

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People are realizing the benefits of starting their own home based businesses, the amazing potential in living your life the way you desire and the financial freedom. Harnessing the power of the internet, we all can reach out to a huge number of people and by relying on properly formatted and SEO keyword rich blog sites can assure your presence on Google.

Here are 7 steps to getting your foot in the door and starting your very own Home Based Internet Business.

Step #1. What kind of business?

The easiest and best way to succeed with any endeavour is to choose something that you are passionate about. Make a list of a couple of things that spark your interest; things you feel you could easily and continually contribute to and learn from.

Now go through that list and run a few Google searches. Find out what’s already out there in all those options and figure out which one interests you the most. Don’t worry too much about competition at this point. If you believe you can bring an interesting and original spin to it, go for it.

Step #2. Organize and Galvanize

Everything starts with organization. A home based business, like any business, requires start up capital. Though limited, the requirements are based mainly on the type of business you have decided to start. Once you’ve gone through step 1, it’s time to organize yourself and make a checklist of all the things you need to get done before moving on to step 3.  It’s all about momentum, once you’ve started, there’s no time to stop. Talk to people about your idea and see what they have to say about it. Read a couple of books on home based businesses and how to excel.

Step #3. Determine Where The Money Will Come From

Like with any business, finance will play a part in your home based business too. There are three main ways to cover your start up costs: use your own money, obtain a loan, or find investors. Since we are talking about a small business with typically very low overheads, self finance is a great option. If all goes as planned, you will recover the initial cost in no time. Plus anything you make after that point is yours for the keeping!

Step #4. Research Existing Opportunities

Before starting anything new it’s important to look at existing opportunities that you can capitalize on. Research MLM opportunities or Carbon Copy Pro and see if these are options that interest you. Both present lucrative ways of using the internet to run a healthy home based internet business.

Step #5. Register Your Name and Website

Obviously, since we are talking about internet businesses here, it is very important that you come up with a good name and register your new online home. Choose a name that has value and meaning to you and fits with your new business. Once you’ve picked a name, head on to a hosting site such as godaddy.com and check to see if the domain name you want is available and how much it will cost you. Although it is very easy to have a blog with a free address, when you are starting an actual business, it’s essential that you buy your own domain name.

Step #6. Write A Business And A Marketing Plan

A good business plan should include a description of what you are selling, who your prospective customers are, how you plan to promote your home based business opportunities and how much money is need for start up costs.

A good marketing plan should explain the total market for your product. Who your target market is and how you plan on marketing them in great detail.  Remember to tap into the power of social media when you’re thinking of how to market your company.

Step #7: Peer Support

The home based business community is extremely engaging and cooperative. With so many avenues available online for support and advice it’s easy to tap into the knowledge of those people who already run successful businesses and incorporate their findings and experiences into your own venture.

From here onwards the steps you have to take will depend on what kind of business you have decided to start. Interact with people over forums and discussion groups and invite people to check out your new venture and start making connections with others in the field.

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Benefits For Mothers Working From Home

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Posted on 5th March 2010 by admin in Work From Home

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Mothers Working From Home

Mothers Working From home

The romantic idea of being at home, playing with your children in between calls and the leisure of relaxing any time you want is very appealing. So appealing that today, more women are opting out of the corporate lifestyle and driving their own personal and professional needs at home.

The benefits of working from home as a Mother are many, I will list a few here to give you an idea of what your emotional, physical, mental and financial thermostat can or will look like.

1. Stress levels are eliminated from the long commute to work, worrying if you’ll get home in time to pick up the kids, cook dinner and get everyone washed and ready for night time reading and homework.

2. Mothers gain control over their lives again, while shaping your home business around your goals and financial needs. The security that is ensured by being at home with the children gives you peace of mind and a sense of clarity of being in control of your environment along with the sense of creating a strong structure for your children.

3. Most new Entrepreneurial Mothers find the transition from office life to home life an easy one as it allows the personal comfort and ease to seep into the home office. One thing is to make sure you hire someone or pay the older children to clean the house as this will no longer be top priority on your long list of to do’s. House cleaning can be taken care of by someone else while you focus on the strongest points of creating a strong business etiquette at home.

5. Financial freedom is best kept to oneself. It’s great to be supported in the early months after childbirth, yet the growing need for so many women to have their own independence grew since the early 1950’s when women were given more legal rights. To have one’s own income and coming from the comfort of your own home brings great joy and a sense of accomplishment to many women worldwide. In Uganda women are partaking in micro-businesses and are determined to make an independent lifestyle for their selves and their families, the success rate is astronomical.

6. Taxes advantages. A home based business allows you to write off a percentage of your rent or mortgage payment, water, heat, telephone, cell phone, gas, property taxes, insurance, and expenses for household maintenance, repairs, or improvements is deductible. Office supplies and leasing of any vehicles for business use. So, great tax advantages and it beats the traditional overhead of paying out a monthly lease to an office or building that closes down usually at 5 or 6 pm. Working from home, you make your own hours.

7. Freedom to do what you want, when you want however you want. I usually begin work at 9:00pm at night after I have put my daughter to sleep, I work a couple of hours and go to sleep when I feel tired, sometimes that is early in the morning other times it’s before 12 midnight. I also work early in the morning after I have dropped her off from school for 2-4 hours during the day. When 12:00noon rolls around, I take myself out for lunch, meet up with girlfriends, do a local pilates class, buy some veggies for dinner and I sometimes take my laptop with me and have a tea at the local cafe enjoying the sunshine. This really balances out my business, personal and family life. It brings me great pleasure to work from home, I wake up with no schedule, no outside forces pulling me away from not being with my daughter and brings great satisfaction financially, emotionally, mentally and physically.

Being an Entrepreneur Mother teaches you about dicipline, consistency within your work habits and exands your horizons as Internet Marketing is constantly growing, implementing new strategies into your business and market place is very rewarding. The difference between traditional MLM and Internet Maketing is massive, the Internet leverages your time and money, which for me is the #1 factor of why I work from home, to be available any time for my daughter. Another very important aspect of using Internet Marketing instead of traditional MLM? I get to be anywhere in the world laptop in hand, cell phone in my pocket and an Internet connection gives me full capabilities to be working where ever I am, that is the freedom that I receive from my home based business.

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The Rise Of Social Media In Business

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Posted on 4th March 2010 by admin in Internet Marketing

A new study by Smith School of Business at The University of Maryland on the relationship between small business and social media has concluded that Social Media rates in the U.S. have reached 24%, primarily through Facebook and LinkedIn, an increase of 8% from 2008.

The December 2009 report surveyed 500 small business owners and found that one in five small businesses are have integrated social media into their marketing mix. In fact, 45% of surveyed respondents even believe their social media initiatives will pay off financially in 12 months or less.

As the graphic below details, the small business owners who are using social media are primarily engaging in social media through company pages (75%) and status updates (69%) on Facebook or LinkedIn. However only 16% of the business owners surveyed admitted to using Twitter as a customer service channel.

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The report also shows that small business owners now believe social media can help generate leads. While half of surveyed respondents found the time it takes to use social media sites more daunting than expected, 61% are still putting in the hours and making active efforts to identify new customers.

Despite there still being a need for traditional advertising and press releases, social sites such as Twitter and Facebook allow a whole new type of communication to take place that has previously been unknown to most businesses. Because of this it is even more important for business to not only get a large number of fans or followers, but also follow through on the opportunity to make more genuine and direct connections with customers.

We are now in the age of open communication, engaged dialogue, and transparency and business success may now have less to do with the size of ad budgets, but on the quality of interactions with customers – especially before these customers forge relationships with your competitors.

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How Social Media & Business Transparency Are Creating New Opportunities

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Posted on 3rd March 2010 by admin in Internet Marketing

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With so many businesses of all sizes being aware of the benefits of social media optimization and implanting strategies to become more connected, social media is helping to forge a new era in business transparency and engagement, creating both new challenges and opportunities.

The days when companies could rely on carefully crafted press releases or flashy ad campaigns to communicate with their customers are long gone. Especially futile is an attempt to convince people that your products are the best in the field. In the age of social media, the rules have changed drastically, and people today demand a more honest and direct relationship with the companies with which they do business.

Companies now face a clear choice: wall themselves in and become increasingly controlled and hidden, or use social media and other means to reveal their human side, welcome transparency, and forge new relationships with their customers.

Below are the top four shifts that businesses are making due to social media optimization (SMO).

1. From “Trying to Sell” to “Making Connections”

The goal with SMO in most cases is not to sell more but to engage and connect with customers on a deeper level — and, as a result, through such engagement people feel more comfortable doing business with those companies.

The most popular brands in social media tend to post less about their products or services and more about things that help their customers get to know the people and personality of a company. Jeff Swartz, who is the President and CEO of the Timberland Company, is a great example of this. Swartz uses his Twitter account to show his personality by tweeting about his life and the social issues he is passionate about, rather than the shoes his company makes. He also links from his Twitter bio to Timberland’s Earthkeeper project that supports environmental awareness, rather than to the company homepage, in an effort to make a connection with people around something that goes beyond just the products Timberland sells.

Lesson: Rely less on PR tactics and grab at the opportunity to interact with your customers sincerely.

2. From “Large Campaigns” to “Small Acts”

Being able to communicate on such a wide-spanning platform also allows for small acts that express gratitude and a commitment to customer satisfaction. Sites like Facebook and Twitter provide businesses and their followers a broadcasting network, and businesses are beginning to see that rather than spending millions of dollars on traditional ad campaigns, small acts can be more valuable because people will inevitably share such experiences through the social web.

In the past, if we had a very bad or very good experience with a company, it could take days or weeks to tell all of our friends and relatives about it. Today, in a matter of minutes, we can let all our friends on Facebook or followers on Twitter know about what happened. When every customer experience can be easily and widely broadcast, small issues become extremely important.

Since bad experiences are broadcast just as fast and just as easily as the good, it pays for companies to pay attention to the one-on-one customer relationships forged via social media.

Lesson: Instead of only relying on big campaigns, make authentic, helpful relationships and communication the new campaign.

3. From “Controlling Our Image” to “Being Ourselves”

For generations businesses have stressed over the concept of image and maintaining a carefully crafted public persona. Of course companies need to have employee policies, and there is such a thing as bad press, but look at the most popular companies in the era of social media, and you’ll generally find the ones that give their employees freedom to be themselves in online spaces. The goal should no longer be to create a very controlled and polished image that everyone in a company tries to reinforce, but rather to give employees the means necessary to be human beings that can put a friendly face on the corporation.

Also important is being aware of what online perceptions of your business are. How people connect with your business dictates to a great extent the longevity and reliability of their association with your brand and service. Therefore, it’s not just about what you tell them about the business, it’s also about what political stances you take and what information you share and

Lesson: Leave the dated concept of company image behind and embrace your business’s differences and human qualities.

4. From “Hard to Reach” to “Available Everywhere”

To engage with customers, it is no longer enough to have an email address and customer service number on one’s website. Today, people want to interact with and engage businesses via their chosen means of communication, whether that is Twitter, Facebook, discussion forums, or a feedback site like Get Satisfaction.

However, this omnipresence also presents an added challenge: listening to what your customers want and implementing suggestions. Any expansive platform also adds extra responsibility to use the information gathered in a way that is both purposeful and helpful. This means that just as it is extremely important to reach this audience, it is also important to make the changes they are asking for. Keeping lines of communication open during this process is also helpful since feedback is available with every step.

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How To Make Your Home Internet Business Work 5

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Posted on 7th February 2010 by admin in Internet Marketing

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How To Make Your Home Business Thrive

Partnerships.

In the Modern era the days of the so called Fat Cat are truly Redundant. I mean what an outdated model that is, this is why your Partnerships in your Internet Business are so so important.

It is near on impossible to create a business these days without the right partners so what am exactly talking about and who are your partners ?

Well the System that you have decided to use is one Partnership that will need to be nurtured along the way.

The Banking and Financial side of your Internet Business, who will you use ? Be sure to use a Reputable merchant bank and or someone like Pay-pal. Talk to your Systems partners , Mentors or friends about this, after all this is your business. The last thing you want is for money to go missing.

Your Accountant is as important part of your business as anyone, please take care in your selection, their advice and understanding of the Industry is Pivotal to your Success.

Marketing partnerships you will certainly need, if you are going to be using Google as a platform well there are numerous companies out there that align themselves to this. Perhaps you are going to be using Social Media as your main marketing tool, in that case there are a plethora of applications you will need educating in. Once again your system partnership should be helping you with that.

Strategic partnerships with other companies and Individuals with a similar message or product can also be useful. Two or more Gathered in the name of the same Goal or Cause is so much more Powerful than being solo, understand this, this I believe is the key to all of Life never mind just business!

In fact really if we all honest partnerships are single handily the most Important part of any Internet business. It is vital that you choose who Resonates with your Belief, shares your Vision , maintains the correct Mindset and fits into your system. There maybe three or more, maybe a co-operative, but any case if all your phases are correct well the partnerships should flow.

The Partnership concept acts as a control in any business ,if something is wrong it will reflect in-your relationships with one or all of your partners, if all is plain sailing well you know you have done the correct things and are on the way to a successful story.

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