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A little extra money is needed by most folks these days, and more and more are looking all around the internet for various ways to find for themselves a good work from home business. Unfortunately, most have no idea where to start, and if they are online more than a few days, they are going to run across the myriad of scams, liars and theives who seem to pervade the internet. It is unfortunate, but that is the reality for those who are looking for ways to make money online with a legitimate work from home business.
Most new people to the online marketing venture run across more than their fair share of these types of online purveyors, but I have through the years been able to learn how to make money online with a work from home business. Developing a work from home business is an educational process. You will either learn by trial and error, and this method is quite expensive, or you can get a mentor, who will show you how it is done. Most of the work from home businesses you run across may be run by wonderful people, but they don't know how to market online. A good mentor is a blessing and will save you thousands of dollars that you can lose by trying to figure it all out by yourself. You can continue to look for an experienced mentor or I can suggest another way.
Start out with a simple work from home opportunity, learn the ins and outs of internet marketing, and then try for something a bit more complicated or expensive to maintain. Just overcoming the learning curve, especially on your own can be deadly and expensive.
If you have not already found a really great mentor, who is very experienced in the process of how to work from home, I would suggest you check out the Tripower Team This is a group of online marketers who have been working at the skill of how to make money online with a work from home business for many years. You will be taught methods of marketing online that are just not available to the general public.
The Tripower team uses It's Good Business as it's business model. I strongly suggest, before you get eat alive trying to learn how to develope a work from home business, that you check out It's Good Business. I was totally amazed when I watched their five minute video.
I quickly saw the picture of how to develope a legitimate work from home business, without all the dangers and possible loss of revenue that is possible with the current MLM model. I saw for the first time why I had struggled so hard to learn how to market and develope a real work from home business.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
2. Work From Home mn31 Promote Your Work From Home Business Blogs Through Forums
How are you going to promote your blog about your work from home business? A lot of blogs are swarming the world wide web – blog about love, relationships, gadgets, games and much much more. What can you do to attract more readers? Is there a special way to enhance the traffic of your blogs? The answer is yes. No complications, it is just a plain technique – the usage of forums to promote your work from home blogs. One of the most challenging aspects of blog writing is how you will promote your work from home blogs to the world wide web.
In forums, a diversity of people will be able to view your blog. That means different sets of online dwellers will be able to access your blog easily and might be able to back link your blog to other websites. Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive. Members of certain forums could easily share which blog is helpful or not. Which of the blogs are entertaining or just a boring blog. Just the same, forums will give way to your work from home business blog’s popularity.
Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive. Members of certain forums could easily share which of your work from home blogs is helpful or not.They will let you know which of the blogs are entertaining or just a boring blog. Just the same, forums will give way to your blog’s popularity. That means different sets of online dwellers will be able to access your blog easily and might be able to back link your blog to other websites. Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive.
Forum members can be of a great help as they will critique your blogs and can give back very useful insight on your work from home business and what you write about it and yourself. They are not at all bashful when giving feedback.
If you are looking for a legitimate work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business TriPowerTeam.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. It is based on a co-operative business model where the whole team helps each other, and believe me, when you are new and stating out, you need all the help you can get.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing and marketing my work from home business.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
3. Work From Home Find the Right Work From Home Business for You
Developing the ability to make money online is a huge subject, but it can really boil down to just two things - finding the right work from home business for you and making certain it is genuine and not a work from home scam !!! Those two things can be a pretty massive undertaking.
Look for a business that gives you a passion for the work. If you love what you are doing, it never seems like work. Work will wear you down, but working at something you enjoy makes it much easier. To work at your own work from home business at something you love to do is a pure joy.
I believe that when someone is thinking of working from home, they have this image of not doing very much, drinking coffee and watching their money grow on the screen in front of them. Not so. This can not be further from the truth!
You will have to work dilgently at any work from home business . True, the work can sometimes be fun based, but there will be a tremendous amount of work to be done. You will get back just what you put in, but it never comes easy.
If you're reading this there's a chance you may be sick and tired of searching and searching for that superb, just right for you, work from home business opportunity which never seems to be coming your way. Have you found yourself looking for ways to make money online?
If you are looking for a work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business. It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business.
Do some research on It's Good Business. Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. I never understood why I struggled so with internet marketing until I saw this business model. It will certainly open your eyes and save you money as you learn how to develope a work from home business.
Attend a free Its Good Business presentation. Find out for yourself how you can learn to build a work from home business for things like retirement. This one hour presentation can change your life forever and will definately give you a new perspective on how to make money online.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
I love working on the internet to build my work from home business. The internet has provided an opportunity to thousands of people to build a business.The internet is a wonderful thing. I love being able to push a button and get almost any type of information I may need or desire. I spend a tremendous amount of time on the internet, and it is the vehicle I use to market my work from home business.
It does seem to me though, that in the process of developing all this technology, we have forgotten that there are human beings out there, who we have to sell our products or information to, if we want to make a living with our work from home business.In this fast paced world we live in, there is a desire for our information to reach us at ever increasing speeds. As we have become more technologically advanced, we have forgotten one key element of the sales process, and that is people don't want to be sold anything. Rather, people buy who we are before they buy what we have to offer them. This process is called relationship marketing, and if you don't want to go bankrupt with your work at home business, it is a process that needs to be learned and practiced.
If you approach your work at home business opportunity with a "get rich quick" mind set, you will quickly learn that does not work. People buy, especially off the internet, from people they know and trust. This is going to require you to develop an attitude of "get rich slow", and take your time to develop relationships with those who have shown an interest in your business or whatever product your work from home business is presenting to them.. Relationships take time to build and will require you to have an interest in that person and what their needs may be.
If this person can see that you care about them and their needs, I promise you will have a much greater chance of doing business with him or her. If your product can meet a need this person has, and they have developed a relationship with you, they will probably buy from you.
In the process of desiring to be successful with our work from home business opportunity, we have to realize we will only be successful if we meet the needs of others. It is so easy to loose track of the human need to be in relationship with others, especially in this fast paced, high tech world we live in now. These relationships with others will bring stability to your work from home business as these people are known to come back and buy again and again.
If you are considering starting an online business, Check out "It"s Good Business". I certainly wish this had been around when I had started trying to make money online. The business model may surprise and please you. It just makes good sense.
Attend a free Its Good Business presentation. Find out for yourself how you can learn to build a work from home business for things like retirement. This one hour presentation can change your life forever and will definately give you a new perspective on how to make money online. There guru,take that! We just might have saved one person and helped someone in their quest to learn how to build a work from home business.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing my work from home business.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
Starting your first work from home business is very exciting. The excitement of watching your business grow, the independence, the ability to set your own hours, the number of days you work during the week, and the likelihood of life changing economic rewards are all amazing motivators when you first set out to create your work from home business.
If you are starting out with completely nothing, start here:
1) First thing is to give some thought to office space. Have you given any thought to what you going to use as an office for your new work from home opportunity. Arrange a separate working space in your house. Don't worry if this is a bedroom, one part of the living room, or a corner of the kitchen. It's a very important thing to have some room that you can allocate as your office working territory. If you have family living with you, they have to be made aware of your work area. This will give you the space and room you need to plan and work on your work from home business.
2) Plan your business. One of the most common pitfalls to a thriving work from home business is becoming too involved in putting something into action without enough planning. Put it another way, which means that you become absorbed in projects which have nothing to do with your success. Don't get distracted by little things. You must focus your work on the important aspects. It's better to plan your next couple of goals and then work backward to make step by step action plans to achieve them. When you have the plan, then its time to get going.
3) Equip your working office with the things you'll need for success. This may sound simplistic, but the underlying component of success is that you have easy access to the materials, tools, and other resources you require. Having everything close by also keeps you from spending time hunting for it. This is really a time management strategy and should be just another component in your home based business strategy. If it is not, then your ability to apply yourself to your work from home business money making strategies will be reduced.
If you are looking for ways to develope a legitimate work from home business opportunity, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual work from home businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. It is based on a co-operative business model where the whole team helps each other, and believe me, when you are new and stating out, you need all the help you can get.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. This business model will make you think of how a business should be set up. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing my work from home based business. If you are new to the internet marketing world, it will probably save you thousands of dollars and years of stress.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
How you promote your blogs is one of the most challenging aspects of promoting your work from home blogs to the world wide web. A lot of blogs are swarming the world wide web – blog about love, relationships, gadgets, games and much much more. What can you do to attract more readers? Is there a special way to enhance the traffic of your blogs? The answer is yes. No complications, it is just a plain technique – the usage of forums to promote your work from home blogs.
In forums, a diversity of people will be able to view your blog. That means different sets of online dwellers will be able to access your blog easily and might be able to back link your blog to other websites. Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive. Members of certain forums could easily share which blog is helpful or not. Which of the blogs are entertaining or just a boring blog. Just the same, forums will give way to your work from home business blog’s popularity.
Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive. Members of certain forums could easily share which of your work from home blogs is helpful or not.They will let you know which of the blogs are entertaining or just a boring blog. Just the same, forums will give way to your blog’s popularity. That means different sets of online dwellers will be able to access your blog easily and might be able to back link your blog to other websites. Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive.
Forum members can be of a great help as they will critique your blogs and can give back very useful insight on your work from home business and what you write about it and yourself. They are not at all bashful when giving feedback.
That means different sets of online dwellers will be able to access your blog easily and might be able to back link your blogs to other websites. Forums are very helpful since it is very interactive. Members of certain forums could easily share which blog is helpful or not. Be prepared to recieve information from them on which of the blogs are helpful and entertaining or just a boring blog.
Members of certain forums could easily share which blog is helpful or not. Just the same, forums will give way to your blog’s popularity. If you can accept the feedback and weigh it's merit, the forum members can easily help make you better as a persom and your work from home business better on the internet.
If you are looking for a legitimate work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business TriPowerTeam.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. It is based on a co-operative business model where the whole team helps each other, and believe me, when you are new and stating out, you need all the help you can get.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing and marketing my work from home business. I know that once you understand the differences in these business plans, you will agree it is just so much more sensible.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
If you are not blogging yet, where have you been? It is one of the cheapest and easiest ways to gain exposure for your work from home business. Blogging is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great opportunities for your work from home business in just one click.
Blogs are a easy to use medium for disseminating useful information. They are also very effective for positioning yourself and your business in the online market. Your blog about your work from home business allows you to go into minute detail about your business. you can go into details in your blog much more than you can on your website.Link your website to your blog and give your readers a chance to check out your site. Your blog is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website.Your work from home business has many aspects and each aspect can be described in detail on your blog.
** Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much exposure your work from home business will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly, especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
** Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
** Feedback. Your customers can leave comments on your This allows you to take immediate action to your customers' concerns.
For better marketing results, actively promote your work from home business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Always remember to include your URL in your blog. Be sure that your blogs contain information that is of value and are always updated to keep readers popping in.
Blogs are like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. With the internet being a 70 billion a year venture, put your booth up. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to drive your sales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important also in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. This allows better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and acquiring sales, you are now ready to start blogging about your work from home business.
If you have a work from home business you are constantly looking for ways to promote yourself and your business. There are no easy fast ways to accomplish this feat, but some are easier to accomplish than others. If you are planning to promote a blog that promotes your work from home business, you must be asking yourself – how can I do it? Most specially if your blog just talks about personal stuff and people might not relate to the entries at all. Do not worry because blog promotion hasn’t been this easy. All it takes is a few line and that’s when the magic starts. Your signature line should say tons about your work from home business. A few line in your signature can make a lot of difference!
Always be thinking of various ways to promote your work from home business. Imagine the number of people you send mail to. Every day it is possible to send an email to thousands of people in just a single click of a button. That’s how powerful internet is. If you link your signature to your blog and your work from home business, all the recipients of your email will be getting the direct link to your blog and business as well. This will indeed increase traffic on your site. It is obvious that with high traffic, the more successful your blog and your work from home business will be. That’s the magic of signatures.
A good signature line can bring added traffic to your site. This will indeed increase traffic on your site. It is obvious that with high traffic, the more successful your blog will be. That’s the magic of signatures. There is no need to add complication to the promotion of your blog. It is obvious that with high traffic, the more successful your blog and business will be. Just add your signature line to all correspondence, and watch your traffic increase.
Signatures are just short and sweet phrases. It doesn’t have to be long. Once you are set, it is possible to send an email to thousands of people in just a single click of a button. That’s how powerful internet is. If you link your signature to your blog all the recipients of your email will be getting as well the direct link to your blog. This will indeed increase traffic on your site. It is obvious that with high traffic, the more successful your blog will become.
With these tips in mind, you will have higher traffic of visits on your blog and that is definitely a win - win situation for you. Just remember, with email signatures, your blog and business promotion will be as easy as ABC. No need to make it fancy, just the plain old signature will do. The purpose is to get your signature out on the internet to advertise your work from home business opportunity and your blog. Your blog allows you to go into greater detail about your work from home business and describe it to your potential customers.
If you are considering starting an online business, watch the video at "It's Good Business". I certainly wish this had been around when I had started developing my work from home business.. The business model may surprise and please you. It just makes good sense.
Attend a free Its Good Business presentation on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoon at It's Good Business.net. Find out for yourself how you can learn a sensible way to build your work from home business.. This one hour presentation can change your life forever and will definately give you a new perspective on how business can and should be conducted.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
Utilize the online forums to maximize your efforts for exposure online for you personally and your work from home business.
There are hundreds of them available and they are an excellent way to brand yourself on the internet and bring some quality traffic to your work from home business.. This opens the opportunity to get targeted traffic for your site and some useful tips and information for yourself at the same time. You get to mingle with other individuals who also work from home and they get to share their learnings, experiences, etc. You have the chance to establish yourself and prove your worth as an online businessman by helping others with their concerns and questions.
Before you even try to sign up to become a forum member, you should know and understand the rules. And once you become a member, you need to keep in mind the constant updates on forum guidelines. Foeum participation can be a bit tricky but very rewarding. You are wasting your time for your work from home business if you get banned from the forums. The single purpose of utilizing the forums is to let everyone know you have a legitimate work from home business, you have knowledge concerning that business, and you are a person of integrity.
The emoticons serve as additional indicator of what the poster feels at the moment. It is advised that one must use it only if they think it's necessary. Overusing these emoticons can be very annoying to some. Also, you have to make sure that you use the appropriate emoticons to avoid confusion later on.
If you have to post or quote a factual data such as a line from a news article, results of a study, statistics data, among others, it is recommended that you cite your references. You can do this by providing a link to the source or if you have a scanned image of the said article, be generous enough to attach it to your post. Since you've done a lot of researching for your work from home, this reminder should be of no problem to you.
It is sometimes necessary to private message other forum members.Remember that your post is read by everyone in the forum. They may be members who also work from home or just guests checking out the forum site. If you're post or reply is somewhat addressed to a particular person and having it posted in the thread seem inappropriate, you can just send him a private message instead. This is another feature of most forums so that people like you who work from home can communicate privately with other members of the forum.
In forums, you can't see any facial expression or hear any tone of voice. You can only read what they have posted. This is where the confusion might start. To avoid that, there are various ways that you can show what you really mean and give emphasis to what you really feel. Some use bold letters. Some use italicized or underlined words while others put some special characters to indicate emphasis.
Some of the issues include serious and sarcastic statements and how to determine their difference. Not everyone can sense if a statement is serious or sarcastic just by reading them. Therefore, it has been advised to be very careful on whatever you are posting in forums for you might accidentally spark a misunderstanding there.
Do not duplicate posts like posting a reply or a suggestion that was already posted by the person three posts above you. That would eat up the space and will add "noise" to the discussion thread and the forum as a whole. It's also advised to refrain from using the phrase, "Me, too" and the like when posting since it's also a form of duplicating a post.
If you know how to deal with things inside the forum and you follow the rules diligently, forums are an extremely effective way to get yourself and your work from home business seen on the internet. Get on in there and get yourself recognized as the expert on you area of expertise that you are.
If you are considering starting an online business, watch the video at "It's Good Business". I certainly wish this had been around when I had started developing my work from home business.. The business model may surprise and please you. It just makes good sense.
Attend a free Its Good Business presentation on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afetnoon at It's Good Business.net. Find out for yourself how you can learn a sensible way to build your work from home business.. This one hour presentation can change your life forever and will definately give you a new perspective on how business can and should be conducted.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
10. Work From Home Use Forums For Your Work From Home Business Success
If you are looking for various ways to advertise yourself and your work from home business, consider using forums.
The online forums are a powerful tool to use to build your work from home business. You may have never really considered the power of the forums as a marketing tool to build your work from home business, but they are a powerful marketing medium. If you are new to marketing and need ways to build your work from home business, forums can bring you recognition and traffic.
Marketing is one of the toughest obstacles you will encounter while trying to work from home online. Forums are a means to marketing to build your home business to set the wheels in motion in making your work from home business a success. If you are new to the internet, you probably have never heard of a forum. I know I hadn't heard of them, but when I found them, I realized a whole new workd of marketing my work from home business had just opened to me.
Become a valued member of the discussion by offering constructive information in various threads without spamming your business opportunity in the body of your post. Building these relationships are invaluable to you. The online community gets to know you as a person and what your thoughts are, and will begin to value you as you offer help and suggestions.
Most forums will allow you to set up a signature file that gets posted every time you make a post to the forum. Think of it as a small classified ad where you add a brief introduction about yourself and your work from home business. Your goal is to get people to click on the link to your website to have a look at what business you are doing.
Again, I warn you, do not spam these people or shove your business down their throats. You will develope a reputation as a pushy spammer. Your signature is enough. The forums are for developing relationships and sharing information, not selling. Your work from home business will never be looked at if you develope a bad reputation in the forums, so thus, you are defeating your purpose. The longer you spend in discussions and quality insights in forums, the more you will become known. The more relationships developed with other internet marketers with similar business interest as yours, the more an opportunity will be available for you to do joint ventures and work from home online on a project that will be beneficial to both of you.
Traffic that you get from discussion forums can be excellent prospects for your list. You should always be thinking about list building when it comes to ways to work from home online. You have to get names and e-mail addresses for future follow up. Therefore you want to have a sign up form on every web page and every blog page that you have. Also keep in mind that some of the traffic that you will be getting will be from Google and other search engines that will funnel readers to your posts and will not know you as well as forum members.
For that reason and for simplicity, you should try to combine your landing page and website in one. Most people would like to know first hand what it is that they are leaving their contact information for. A dead turn off is a landing page that tells people to join your mailing list before being redirected to your work from home opportunity website, and before knowing if there is an interest in what you have to offer. Be Careful to not be overly pushy in the forums or you will be dead in the water before you even get going.
Offer free information or products of value to the your subscription list and they may be willing to buy more in depth information or products from you if what you have to say is relevant to their situation.
So you see a marketing tool to use to work from home online is forum marketing because you offer snippets of information that lead people to inquire about you and your home business. So take action right now, find a forum and start talking to get your business out there for everyone to see. The relationships you build as almost as special as the business you can create.
If you are looking for ways to make money online, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. It is based on a co-operative business model where the whole team helps each other, and believe me, when you are new and stating out, you need all the help you can get.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing my work from home business.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
Considering everything else that a good Internet Marketer has to do, is article marketing worth the trouble when it comes to ways to build your work from home business. It takes time to write, post & submit your articles to the article directories. Believe me, it takes a lot of time to just sit and think and write, so is it worth it?
No, not if you are wanting instant traffic to your website. For instant traffic you really want to spend your resources (including money) on PPC. Of course, you stand to lose a lot of money if you don't do PPC correctly, and there is a pretty huge learning curve to be able to learn it well. You could spend a lot of money while in the learning process. Whereas, if you write an article incorrectly it costs you nothing but a little time.
All you need is a good list of places to submit your articles. There are many that are available. You also need the discipline to sit everyday and write fresh, relevant content that people need.
The advantages of article marketing are numerous.
As you write more about your niche or your home based business opportunity, you build yourself into an expert in your own right within your targeted field.The fastest way to build a quality following to your site or blog is to be considered an expert in your area of expertise.
Each article is like a new sales agent running through the Internet telling people about your website. You will develope a presence on the internet and people will begin to know you. This is a good thing as your business is dependent on people becoming familiar with you and your work from home business. Articles give them a detailed look into who you are,what you know, and what your work from home based business is all about.
As you increase the number of writings your website has you develope your website from an entity to a resource. People are more likely to return to resources than they are just another website. If you can provide relevant answers to their questions and meet their basic need for quality information, they will return to your website. You will begin to see your work from home site receive more and more traffic.
As long as you are willing to wait for your articles to mature and take root on the Internet, it is indeed worth your time and resources to write articles. Especially if you use strategies like linking your blog and your work from home business website together as one.
You don't have a blog yet? Two resources people like to use on this front are...
* Blogger.com
* WordPress.com
There are others, but if you have a website it's a really good idea to have a blog as well, as blogs increase the interactive nature of your website. Blogs will give the internet public a change to ask questions, voice their opinions, and a blog is an excellent way to go into great detail about your work from home business.
Most people have to put in a lot of effort and research before they can build a good website with quality content that will attract traffic to their site. That is where the power of a team comes in, people have individual strengths and everyone pitches in to help everyone else to make money online and be successful.
If you are looking for ways to develope a work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. Check out It's Good Business as the new model of how to develope a work from home business.
You may be surprised at what you can learn from It's Good Business. I know it completely changed how I viewed developing my worl from home business.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
You have just decided that you are going to start a work from home business.
You have listened to guru leaders of the organization closely, and you have fallen for their excited
sales talk concerning your money making potential with this or that,
company. They have told you the earning potentials, and now, you are ready
to begin a new life, and new project and are fully dedicated to building your
work from home business into a wealth creating system that will make you money with almost no
effort on your part. You simply do what they do, and you will make
money! It's so simple a five year old could do it. It is all lies!
This is part of the MLM business that saddens me. You see, you have not the sphere of influence
that these leaders have. They may have tens of thousands of people within
their database to contact about their latest widget or latest gadget. They have spent years developing contacts
inside and around this work from home opportunity. They can send out
emails, or get in touch with their strong downlines, and be able to bring many
people into the organization, with just a simple wave of their magic MLM
wand. You don't know this and you are led to believe you can do it also.
So, where does this leave you? You are just one man, or woman, who wants to be involved with some
type of work from home business. You have read (you think) about this company, and
you fully believe every word that your powerful upline sponsor is telling you
about YOUR ability to make money. You are so enthused and excited about
the possibilities, that you fail to understand that you are already involved in
the business, but really have NO clear cut way to knowing exactly how to promote
that business. In other words, your EXCITEMENT is the cause of the problem
right from the startup.
Know this one thing. That site they have handed you, or most likely sold to you, is nothing more than a
piece of digital trash. In other words, it is NOT going to be promotable
on the search engines. The spiders of Google will see this site as a blank
sheet of paper. The leaders will tell you what a great and appealing
marketing site it is, but in essence, it is simply nothing.
You will never be able to get any type of ranking with it. Pure and simple, it is worthless to you.
Your excitement has already led you into believing that other people will need to join your business, because it
is so new, so revolutionary, and so well thought out, that you know that your
friends and family will have to join it. This is the kiss of death
thinking that will lead you to understand that in the months to come, NO ONE
cares. Your lack of understanding these few essential fact based
essentials in this area, will eventually lead you to having NO success in your
chosen work from home business. You will begin to develop that gnawing in
the pit of your stomach, that you have chosen the wrong business for
you. Unfortunately, you begin to doubt yourself, when the truth is, it's not your fault.
If you are looking for ways to build a work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business.
It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. What a wonderful thing it is to just build your business by buying customers. If you have struggled to build your business, watch a 5 minute video, and see if it just makes good sense.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
Can anyone develope a free work from home business? The short answer to that is, yes you can, and you can use affiliate marketing as the business model.
Did you know you can join almost any affiliate marketing program for free? In a matter of a few minutes you can be set up with an affiliate i.d. number that is coded into an affiliate website and have a free business opportunity. You promote this affiliate website and whenever you make a sale you earn a commission. Your cost to do this is nothing, but the time it takes you to promote your free affiliate website for your work from home business can be an astronomical amount of hours.
Before you think you have hit the jackpot with your new affiliate business,there are a few things you must be made aware of if this new "totally free" work from home business opportunity is to eventually pay off for you.
1. Getting traffic to your affiliate web page for free is harder than it sounds. You will have to work hard and master traffic generation methods such as classified ads, article marketing, forum marketing, blogging and so on. Be aware that you will be in competetion with literally hundreds, if not thousands of others who have a free work from home website just like yours.
2. Using the affiliate web page given to you by the merchant you are representing is a hard way to make money in your work from home business. If everyone is selling the same product with the same affiliate web site, how do you make yourself stand out!
3. A person needs to be followed up with over and over before they buy. This is true both online and offline. Very few people buy much today without thinking it over. The statistics say a person needs to be reached at least 7 times before they buy.
If you promote your affiliate website, you are sending traffic to a page that gives you no way to follow up in the future. Your visitor comes to your page, looks it over, and leaves. You have wasted your efforts for nothing.
So how do you get around that? You create your own web site and send visitors to it. You create a landing page and capture names and email addresses into and autoresponder. This is known as building a list and really does work. If you are going to build your work from home business, learn all you can about list building. It is imperative to know how to do this.
Another thing you can do is create a pre sell page where you give a personal testimonial on the product you are selling. This will help you make more money online and sales than the competition who is using the same old affiliate sales page.
So as you can see even an affiliate marketing business opportunity can go from being free to costing you a little bit of money for website hosting and an autoresponder. This is still a very little cost with this work from home business compared to setting up a traditional business.
If you are looking for ways to build a work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business. It is totally different from the usual internet businesses. No hype, no lies, just Good Business. Do some research on It's Good Business.
Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. I never understood why I struggled so with internet marketing until I saw this business model. It will certainly open your eyes. I never did think buying leads was the way to build a work from home business as they are just worthless most of the time, but I never knew you could just buy customers. What a wonderful thing it is to just build your business by buying customers.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 Tripower Team
Networking is one reason why developing a work from home business is so popular.. When you do your business, an important factor is your connection with people. . Networking your work from home business is an every day process. The growth of social networking makes it impossible to ignore as another avenue to advertise your business.
Social networking is now, quite literally , the hottest thing on the Web and with profile, blogging and image tools built in, they are by far the easiest way to publish a work on the Web. Social networking is quickly taking hold among mobile users. Some research believes there will be as many as 54 million mobile social networkers worldwide by the end of 2008 and forecasts adoption to rise to 730 million users in 2013. With numbers like these, you can easily see why you should be networking with your work from home business.
Social networking is not new. In fact, it's been around for centuries, but it has largely been related to relationships acquired through actual face-to-face meetings. Social networking is HUGE for iPhone users. The Facebook and MySpace apps are some of the most popular apps.
Social networking is getting a lot of attention right now as the industry slips into dreary times. People are talking about how social networks add no value, yet others see the incredible power of using every tool there is to maintain our links to family, friends, colleagues and customers. Social networking is a term that was used prior to its use on the Internet. Basically a social network is a community of people sharing common interests. Social networking is a powerful medium and it will greatly add to getting yourself recognized on the web. It is very powerful way to introduce yourself and eventually your work from home business to a massive number of potentially interested customers.
Attend a free Its Good Business presentation on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afetnoon at It's Good Business.net. Find out for yourself how you can learn how to make money online for things like retirement. This one hour presentation can change your life forever and will definately give you a new perspective on how to make money online.
Marilyn Nelson
Skype: marnels
806.543.1345 TriPowerTeam
15. Work From Home Web Traffic for Your Work From Home Business
One of the strategies you must use when building your work from home business is to create a lead capture page and then drive traffic to that page. You can have to best looking web page on th einternet, but if it gets no traffic, your work from home business will do very little. You must have traffic, and here are a few tips to help drive traffic to your site.
So how do you drive traffic to that work from home business website? Here are ten ideas I thought of:
1. Are you publishing an ezine for your work from home business? If not, you should be. Give people a free subscription to your ezine. Almost everyone is publishing a ezine nowadays, so be sure to give something extra with the free subscription. You could offer a free gift or some free advertising to new subscribers..
2. Provide your visitors with free content. Your content will be more attractive to your visitors if it is up-to-date or original. You could also offer people the option to reprint the content in their ezine or web site. Your work from home business opportunity just may have the answer to someones problem and if you can provide quality content to your site on a regular basis describing your business and its benefits to others, you will begin to get traffic.
3. Offer a free online directory. The directory could be full of interesting ebooks, ezines, web sites etc. If people find your directory to be a valuable resource they will visit it over and over. People love it when someone else does their research for them. Make sure you update the directory on a regular basis, and give visitors the option to subscribe to be notified when there are updates.
4. Give your visitors a free ebook. You could also include your own ad in the ebook and allow other people to give it away. If you don't want to take the time to write one, you could ask other writers permission to use their articles, or you can hire ghost writers at websites like elance.com.
5. Hold free online classes or seminars. They could be held in your web site's chat room. The idea of "live" information will definitely entice people to visit your web site. You will become known as an expert on the topic. You probably are more of an expert than you realize.
6. Give visitors a free entry into your contest or sweepstakes. The prizes should be something of interest or value to your visitors. Most people who enter will continually revisit your web site to get the results. The greatest benefit of this is you will begin to become known. As more people visit your work from home site to receive the free items, they will begin to feel comfortable with you.
7. Let visitors download free software. It could be freeware, shareware, demos etc. You could even turn part of your site into a free software directory. If you created the software, include your ad inside and let other people give it away.
8. Offer free online services or utilities from your web site. They could be search engine submission, copywriting, proofreading, a niche-specific forum, etc. The service or utility should be helpful to your target audience.
9. Give free consulting to people who visit your web site. You could offer your knowledge via email or by telephone. People will consider this a huge value because consulting fees can be very expensive. As you build your work from home business, you will solve many problems, and this knowledge is most appreciated by others. See, I told you that you would become an expert in the area of your business.
10. Give your visitors a free membership to your online club. People want to belong to something, why not your online club? You could also give away a free ezine for club members only.
There you are, ten ideas to drive traffic to your work from home business website. There are many other ways to drive traffic - put your mind to it and you can find all sorts of creative ways to increase traffic.
Do you want to generate more leads for your work from home business opportunity? Forums can be an exciting way to develope your work from home business. I bet you never thought of starting your own forum. Create and manage a forum related to your products or services. Forums are wonderful places to meet new people and to also help those who have questions. You can easily market your work from home business in your own forum also.
The best solution here is to create a forum incorporated into your work from home business website. Most web hosts these days provide this software for you. Make sure you link to your forum from every page on your site.
Alternatively, you can set up a forum at one of the many free online services set up for this purpose, Just do a Google search for "free forums".
Setup is usually quite straightforward. During setup make sure that you enable all protection from unauthorized signup, otherwise your forum will become a target for spam and porn bots. The last thing you want is for your work from home business forum to become a quasey porn site.
Once you do get the forum set up, though, you will need to be prepared to manage the forum on a regular basis. This is usually not too onerous a task, but it must be done.
Why set up a forum in the first place? Well, there are a myriad of reasons and here are just a few:
1. You'll be able to communicate with your visitors. They'll begin to trust you and get to know you on a more personal level. People are more willing to purchase products from somebody they already know and trust. Isn't that what you want? More people to get to know and buy from you!
2. People will revisit your web site to participate in your forum. They will meet other people with similar interests and your web site will become a hang out were they can chat.
3. You can learn important information about your visitors by reading the conversations they have. They may chat about your web site or products. With this information you could learn to market your products more effectively. You could possibly see sales for your work from home business increase substantially.
4. You can answer the questions your visitors ask in your online communities. You'll become known as an expert by giving the answers to their questions. This will give you and your business more credibility.
5. Add an online conference room and you can teach a free online class. This will give you an expert status and increase traffic to your website by offering the free class. You can get a free online conference room at http://marnels.vereconference.com/
6. When your forum becomes popular, you can sell advertising space on it. This will give you an extra income stream for your web site.
7. You can network with other businesses by having a forum. You could exchange business ideas, leads, advertising, etc.
8. You could allow other web sites who don't have a forum to use yours. You will get free advertising by allowing them to link to your online community. This is an excellent way to increase your search engine rankings.
9. When you have a forum you can get free advertising by listing it in online community directories. You can also join web rings with similar discussion topics.
10. You can make money by advertising your own products and services on your forum. You could also join other people's affiliate programs and make commissions advertising them. This is a step in the right direction to actually marketing your work from home business.
11. Search engine spiders love forums! And since most of the posts in your forum will probably be rich in the use of keywords related to your niche, the spiders will visit more and more often as more people use the forum. And when they visit the forum, they also visit all the pages that are linked to by the forum...
Forums are another very important component in your online marketing arsenal. Used correctly, a forum can provide your work from home business with highly targeted leads. Never forget that targeted leads are the reason you market. Every business must have a continual source of highly targeted leads to survive, and forums are just one aspect of the marketing process for your work from home business.
In any work from home business, you need leads. If you have a business website that captures the email addresses of interested prospects, you need to get a lot of traffic to that website. Increasing traffic to your business website can involve many aspects. Sometimes, new and different ways of generating traffic can have positive results for your work from home business. Take a look at some of these suggestions and possibly implement a few to see if they will help increase your website traffic.
Perhaps these will trigger some ideas in your own marketing strategy for your work from home business:
1. Trade links with other web sites. They should be related to the subject of your work from home business web site. Instead of trading links, you could also trade banner ads, half page ads, classified ads, etc.
2. Start an e-zine for your web site. When people read each issue they'll be reminded to revisit your web site. They'll see your product ad more than just once which will increase your orders.
3. Form an online community. It could be an online message board, e-mail discussion list or chat room. When people get involved in your community they will regularly return to communicate with others.
4. Write articles and submit them to e-zines, web sites and magazines that accept article submissions. Include your business information and web address at the end of the article. E-zine articles are a very powerful method of raising your site rankings.
5. Give away an electronic freebie with your ad on it. Allow your visitors to also give the freebie away. This is known as viral marketing and will increase your ad exposure and attract people to your work from home business web site at the same time.
6. Combine your products or services into one big package deal with other businesses offerings. You could share a web site and advertise the package deal; which means double the traffic.
7. Submit your freebie to the online directories that list your particular item or service for free. If you're offering a free e-zine, submit it to all the free e-zine directories on the internet.
8. Participate on forums. Post answers to other people's questions, ask questions and post appropriate information. Include your signature file at the end of all your postings. Make yourself known as an expert in your particular area of expertise.
9. Exchange classified or sponsor ads with other free e-zine publishers. If there is a huge subscriber difference between e-zines, one can run more ads to make up for it.
10. Post your ad on free advertising areas on the internet. You can post it on free classified ad sites, free for all links sites, newsgroups that allow ads, free yellow page directories, etc. While very few people actually see these ads, they are great food for the search engine spiders and will build up backlinks for your work from home website.
If you are looking at a work from home business, take a look at It's Good Business. It is a totally new business model and we base it on co-operative marketing. It will enlighten you to how a real work from home business can be built online.
When you first start your work from home business, it is very importantant to watch your overhead costs.Any possible way you can minimize costs should be examined. One way to cut costs is to use free blogging.
For first time bloggers, a free blogging web site is a great way to get started in the blogosphere. Popular blogging web sites like blogger and eponym allow users to set up and host a blog without paying any fees at all.
This encourages people to start blogging, because the fact that one of these sites can provide you with all of the tools that you need to get your blog up and running without spending any money. The fact that it is so easy to find a way to blog for free is one of the reasons why so many people who have never had any other kind of web presence before find themselves drawn to blogging. If you are new and trying to get your work at home business some web presence, blogging is the cheapest and fastest way to accomplish this feat.
By signing up with a free blogging web site, you may find it easier to get listed in search engines than you would if you were starting your own blog from scratch. For example, google runs the free blog hosting site blogspot and crawls its pages very often looking for updates, so if you have your site hosted by blogspot you are almost guaranteed to be listed on google's blog search engine. This easy access to search engines can take some of the work out of promoting your blog, and can help you gain a following, possible some customers, with a minimum of marketing effort.
If your blog attracts a large readership, you may want to consider moving your site. Many people feel that being hosted by a free blogging web site gives a blog a kind of amateur flavor that is fine for a new member of the blogosphere, but is not appropriate for a high-profile blog. I tend to disagree with this stance. My objective is to get my work from home business seen by as many people as possible. I can honestly say I pay no attention to whether a blog is free at blogger or some fancy paid one. I read a blog for information and if it provides quality content, I don't care if it is free or not.
Starting your blog on a free blogging web site is a great way to build a following before you spend any money on your blog. If and when you feel a need to pay for a blog site, possibly for SEO purposes, your readers will follow you to your new home.
Remember, you need revenue to survive. Revenue pays your bills. Revenue is where profits come from, and if you are not making a profit with your work from home business, maybe it's time to get a job. I know I may be raining on your parade, but I'm also being honest. I have struggled in the past, but kept the faith and continued to move forward, continuing to get customers. It's finally paying off! And you know why? You're right, Customers! I now have customers, not leads. A paying customer is worth about a thousand leads in my way of thinking.
If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. Its Good Business is all about building a customer base that pays you revenue.
Choosing an appropriate domain name for your work from home business is very important. Keep your domain name simple and make it something your customers can remember if they lose the link to your business website. You may also consider for SEO purposes of having your dominant keyword in your domain name. This will help greatly with SEO later down the line.
Be aware that while your domain name on Geocities or AOL may seem like the least expensive way to go, it may also get you dropped from certain search engines. Some search engines ignore domain addresses that reside on these 'free servers' or on the 'cheap' servers. When it comes to something as important as your domain name and where it is hosted, cheap is never a good idea. The whole future of your work from home business rests on being listed in the search engines.
Even if your site is recognized and considered by search engines, a professional domain name that uses your primary work from home company name or associated words is likely to get more attention and be considered as a stable business by your prospective customers.
It is not expensive to purchase a domain name, and there are many companies that can register the name for you, provided it is available and has not already been used by another company. You may have to try many combinations to get the name you want for your work from home business, but always keep your keyword in mind and try yo work around that, plus keep it simple.
Using one of your keywords in your domain name can increase your score on some search engines. The selection of your domain name is a paramount decision. If you are not sure what keyword to use or how to do this most important aspect of setting up your work from home business, seek professional advice. It means everything to the life or death of your business.
You might also choose to establish more than one domain name using keywords and then link your 'doorway' domain sites to your primary site. But you will have to pay for each of the domain name and also the monthly hosting fees. It all depends on the type and size of your business and your competition. In the beginning, as you are building your business, do everything you can to keep costs to a minimum, without hurting the effectiveness of your work from home business.
Your work from home business will appear to be much more professional if you have your e-mails coming from a domain name. People feel as if they are dealing with a stable, professional business operation if your e-mail is associated with your primary domain as opposed to a generic e-mail from Google or Yahoo.
If you are interested in a new business model based on co-operative marketing, check out the business model at It's Good Business. The co-operative business model for your work from home business may be just what you need to give you that edge to be really successful for the long term. The new business model for doing business on the internet may save you thousands of dollars.
Do some research on It's Good Business. Look at the new business model and then just ask yourself if this doesn't make better sense. If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. I never understood why I struggled so with internet marketing until I saw this business model. It will certainly open your eyes and save you money as you learn how to make money online.
Blogging is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of advertising dollars and provides great opportunities for your work from home business in just one click. Blogging to expose your business can be an art form, but it is also a nedium where you can go into great detail about your work from home business. Blogging allows you to decscribe your business in great detail.
Blogs are a easy to use medium for disseminating useful information. They are also very effective for positioning yourself and your business in the online market. Your blog about your work from home business allows you to go into minute detail about your business. you can go into details in your blog much more than you can on your website.Link your website to your blog and give your readers a chance to check out your site. Your blog is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website.Your work from home business has many aspects and each aspect can be described in detail on your blog.
Here are some advantages of blogging about your work from home business:
** Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much exposure your work from home business will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly, especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
** Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
** Feedback. Your customers can leave comments on your This allows you to take immediate action to your customers' concerns.
For better marketing results, actively promote your work from home business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Always remember to include your URL in your blog. Be sure that your blogs contain information that is of value and are always updated to keep readers popping in. Link your blog to other sites that have similar content. This will help to get greater exposure if the sites you are linking to have relevant content also.
Blogs are like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to drive your sales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important also in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. This allows better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and acquiring sales, you are now ready to start blogging about your work from home business. Blogs allow you to go into detail about your busines, so write to your hearts content. Describe all aspects of your business.
If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. I never understood why I struggled so with internet marketing until I saw this business model. It will certainly open your eyes.
Blogging is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of advertising dollars andprovides great opportunities for your work from home business in just one click. Blogging to expose your business can be an art form, but it is also a nedium where you can go into great detail about your work from home business.
Blogs are a easy to use medium for disseminating useful information. They are also very effective for positioning yourself and your business in the online market. Your blog about your work from home business allows you to go into minute detail about your business. you can go into details in your blog much more than you can on your website.Link your website to your blog and give your readers a chance to check out your site. Your blog is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website.Your work from home business has many aspects and each aspect can be described in detail on your blog.
Here are some advantages of blogging about your work from home business:
** Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much exposure your work from home business will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly, especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
** Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
** Feedback. Your customers can leave comments on your This allows you to take immediate action to your customers' concerns.
For better marketing results, actively promote your work from home business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Always remember to include your URL in your blog. Be sure that your blogs contain information that is of value and are always updated to keep readers popping in. Link your blog to other sites that have similar content. This will help to get greater exposure if the sites you are linking to have relevant content also.
Blogs are like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to drive your sales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important also in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. This allows better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and acquiring sales, you are now ready to start blogging about your work from home business.
If you are sick and tired of the old MLM model, check out It's Good Business. I never understood why I struggled so with internet marketing until I saw this business model. It will certainly open your eyes.
Residual income programs are built on people recruiting people. One person sells their business idea to another who joins and becomes part of the down line to help earn that person money. Not all resdiual income work from home programs are equal. The one thing all businesses need, to be successful, is customers. The problem with most of these programs are your customer are largely the people you have recruited into your work from home business as distributors. If they quit, you lose your customer.
Selling is all about appealing to a person's emotions. Promoters try to get a person to feel passionate about what they do, so they will buy into it. That is why many people choose a residual income program that is not for them. They were sold based upon their emotions, not upon rational thinking, which is the best way to choose a work from home business.
The process of selling is showing passion and getting others to feel that passion about what is being sold. One of the goals in a residual income program is to get others to sign up and become part of the team. As more people sign up; the people who signed them up make more money. It is easy to see why people use aggressive tactics to sell the residual income program to others. It is also easy to see why many people end up choosing the program that is not right for them. It is also easy to see that once the emotion has died down, reality sets in, and if you don't have an excellent training procedure, you will lose this person, plus lose a customer. All revenue is usually generated by customers, so you just lost a source of revenue.
Overcoming the emotions and being able to choose based upon well thought out reason is the way to choose the best residual income program for your work from home business. So, how can a person do that? You need to learn the top things to look for in a good home business program. I will stress agin that customers is the way to generate revenue. Have you seen the new business model with It's Good Business? You don't have to recruit, you just buy customers. Build your work from home business with a base of buying customers and you will not see all your hard work disappear.
The first step in finding the best keywords is to make a list of the products, topics, and services that your work at home business offers. Make this list as in depth as you possibly can.This keyword research can mean everything to you and will also play a large role in such endeavors as finding a suitable domain address.
Keywords are terms or words that relate to particular topics or aspects of your business. Keyword research will involve various aspects, such as finding sales oriented keywords or keywords that describe aspects of your work from home business.
Keyword research is the first step towards a successful search engine optimization campaign. You have to be very careful when selecting keywords, as it can be very tricky to select targeted keywords for a website.
The selection of keywords should always be based on various aspects such as product names, services, brands, or general terms. Often times, people forget about targeting geographical terms when they have global presence.
When doing keyword research, it's highly recommended to do a very thorough market research analysis to find the best keywords used by search engines to find products and services online - and find out what keywords are targeted by competitors who are doing well in marketing on the internet.
Be sure to select keywords that clearly define your business and products to drive traffic from the search engines. There are some websites which get high levels of traffic through general keywords although they might not end up being sales.
Today, users of search engines are aware of how keywords work, for searching products and services on the net. Users always look for the better products, locations, etc. Therefore, you should cover all terms for each - products, locations, etc. Go into detail on what your work from home business does, it's products, and look closely for keywords that describe your business.
There are numerous tools available which will help you identify keywords that are suitable for search engines. Some are free, and some have a small piece. Because of the importance of keyword research to the success of your work from home business, you should not hesitate to pay a nominal fee to acquire all the information needed to make your business successful on the internet.
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Choosing an appropriate domain name for your work from home business is very important. First and foremost, when it comes to domain names, try to stay away from the silly, stupid, ridiculous or clever. Keep your domain name simple and make it something your customers can remember if they lose the link to your business website. You may also consider for SEO purposes of having your dominant keyword in your domain name. This will help greatly with SEO later down the line.
Be aware that while your domain name on Geocities or AOL may seem like the least expensive way to go, it may also get you dropped from certain search engines. Some search engines ignore domain addresses that reside on these 'free servers' or on the 'cheap' servers.
Even if your site is recognized and considered by search engines, a professional domain name that uses your primary work from home company name or associated words is likely to get more attention and be considered as a stable business by your prospective customers.
It is not expensive to purchase a domain name, and there are many companies that can register the name for you, provided it is available and has not already been used by another company. You may have to try many combinations to get the name you want for your work from home business, but always keep your keyword in mind and try yo work around that, plus keep it simple.
Using one of your keywords in your domain name can increase your score on some search engines. Ckeck out my previous article on the importance of keyword research for your work from home business. It means everything to the life or death of your business.
You might also choose to establish more than one domain name using keywords and then link your 'doorway' domain sites to your primary site. But you will have to pay for each of the domain name and also the monthly hosting fees. It all depends on the type and size of your business and your competition. In the beginning, as you are building your business, do everything you can to keep costs to a minimum, without hurting the effectiveness of your business.
Your work from home business will appear to be much more professional if you have your e-mails coming from a domain name. People feel as if they are dealing with a stable, professional business operation if your e-mail is associated with your primary domain as opposed to a generic e-mail from Google or Yahoo.
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25. Boost Your Work From Home Business With Blogging Blogging is an incredible online marketing tool that saves you thousands of dollars but provides great opportunities for your work from home business in just one click.
Blogs are a easy to use medium for disseminating useful information. They are also very effective for positioning yourself and your business in the online market. Your blog about your work from home business allows you to go into minute detail about your business. you can go into details in your blog much more than you can on your website.Link your website to your blog and give your readers a chance to check out your site. Your blog is an excellent way to drive traffic to your website.Your work from home business has many aspects and each aspect can be described in detail on your blog.
Here are some advantages of blogging about your work from home business:
** Word-of-Mouth. In a survey, there are currently 14 million blogs with 80,000 more being added each day and about 30 percent of the 50 million users are blog readers. Imagine how much exposure your work from home business will have, if your products are advertised through blogs. With Internet, information spreads so quickly, especially if an impressive write-up goes with your product. Soon your blogs will be passed on to hundreds of possible customers.
** Awareness and loyalty. Open communication with your customers creates trust and loyalty among them. Being there to respond to their questions and comments make them all the more willing to try your products and services.
** Feedback. Your customers can leave comments on your This allows you to take immediate action to your customers' concerns.
For better marketing results, actively promote your work from home business blogs by submitting your blogs to blog search sites and directories. Always remember to include your URL in your blog. Be sure that your blogs contain information that is of value and are always updated to keep readers popping in.
Blogs are like a setup booth in the biggest trade show on earth everyday. Marketing possibilities are just around the corner waiting to drive your sales up.
The Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds are important also in conjunction with your blogs to get the best benefits. Use effective keyword phrases to generate high ranking status in the search engine traffic. This allows better chances of people finding your website leading to your blogs. More traffic means more potential sales.
For this to be successful, you can use RSS for news update feeds which can be read through RSS reader application. This is a very useful tool for business and internet marketers as well.
If you are already convinced with the potentials of business blogs for marketing and acquiring sales, you are now ready to start blogging about your work from home business.
26. Start A Work From Home Business by Marilyn Nelson Now could possibly be one of the most advantageous times to consider your work at home opportunities. With a possible recession on the horizon, job security is far from a certainty. Meanwhile, more and more people are discovering that they can make the same income - and sometimes much more - by working at home. Make yourself a plan of business and follow your plan. Starting a work from home business is not much different than a regular bricks and mortar business, except if done correctly, can cost far less money.
There are numerous options for someone wishing to work from home. You can do everything from offering freelance services, such as writing or web design, to participating in multi-level marketing programs, to running an Internet based business.
So how do you begin if you want a work from home? Well, the first step is to think about what you'd like to do, and what will fit in with your other time demands. For example, if you're a mom at home with kids, you'll probably need a work from home business or job that you can fit around your children's sleep times. Or if you still have a job and want to make a gradual transition to working at home, you'll likely need a business that you can run after hours and that doesn't conflict with your day job.
What is it you want to do? That's a matter of brainstorming and thinking about the kinds of work at home businesses or jobs that interest you... and are likely to maintain your interest over time. Despite the huge amount of hype about working at home, there IS work involved! Having said that, if you find something that you're inherently passionate about... it can seem more like fun than work. You will be investing huge amounts of time in the begining,so just like any other work, be passionate, and enjoy the work.
You should also choose something for which you have - or can learn - the necessary skills and knowledge. And don't rule out learning - many work from home businesses may seem foreign to you now, but that doesn't mean you can't quickly find the necessary resources to learn and master the know-how you need. The internet itself has much information that you can use to give yourself a fairly indepth education.
Once you have chosen your work from home business, it's a matter of putting everything you have into it to ensure your success. Running a work from home business can be challenging, but the rewards are certainly worth it. Plus, although you may be based at home, that doesn't mean you're alone. Join forums that relate to your business and learn all you can from the experienced marketers. They are usually extremely willing to share information and business tactics they have learned.
There are more work from home business and job opportunities available now than ever before, and I encourage you to thoroughly check them out. Do your due diligence as there are many companies that are just scams. Be very careful in checking your companies and I am confident you can find one that meets your needs.
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In this fast paced world we live in, there is a desire for our information to reach us at ever increasing speeds. The internet is a wonderful thing. I love being able to push a button and get almost any type of information I may need or desire. I spend a tremendous amount of time on the internet, and it is the vehicle I use to market my workfrom home business.
It does seem to me though, that in the process of developing all this technology, we have forgotten that there are human beings out there, who we have to sell our products or information to, if we want to make a living with our work from home business. As we have become more technologically advanced, we have forgotten one key element of the sales process, and that is people don't want to be sold anything. Rather, people buy who we are before they buy what we have to offer them. This process is called relationship marketing, and if you don't want to go bankrupt with your work at home business, it is a process that needs to be learned and practiced.
If you approach your work at home business with a "get rich quick" mind set, you will quickly learn that does not work. People buy, especially off the internet, from people they know and trust. This is going to require you to develop an attitude of "get rich slow", and take your time to develop relationships with those who have shown an interest in your business or whatever product your work at home business is presenting to them.. Relationships take time to build and will require you to have an interest in that person and what their needs may be.
If this person can see that you care about them and their needs, I promise you will have a much greater chance of doing business with him or her. If your product can meet a need this person has, and they have developed a relationship with you, they will probably buy from you.
In the process of desiring to be successful with our work from home business, we have to realize we will only be successful if we meet the needs of others. It is so easy to loose track of the human need to be in relationship with others, especially in this fast paced, high tech world we live in now. These relationships with others will bring stability to your work from home business as these people are known to come back and buy again and again.
If you are tired of the old way business is done on the internet, look at a new type of business model. We never buy leads, we buy customer. Honest to goodness,real customers who buy our product. Isn't that what business is all about?
The Work From Home Online Strategy That Never Wears Out, Never Loses Its Power - Forum Marketing. The Online Forums are a powerful tool to use to build your work from home business.
Marketing is one of the toughest obstacles you will encounter while trying to work from home online. This article discusses using Forums as a means of marketing to build your home business to set the wheels in motion in making your work from home business a success.
Using Forums and becoming an active participant in discussions tailored to your niche have been ways for home business owners to form relationships and make money. Become a valued member of the discussion by offering constructive information in various threads without spamming your business opportunity in the body of your post. Building these relationships are invaluable to you. The online community gets to know you as a person and what your thoughts are, and will begin to value you as you offer help and suggestions.
Most forums will allow you to set up a signature file that gets posted every time you make a post to the forum. Think of it as a small classified ad where you add a brief introduction about yourself and your work from home business. Your goal is to get people to click on the link to your website to have a look at what business you are doing.
The longer you spend in discussions and quality insights in forums, the more you will become known. The more relationships developed with other internet marketers with similar business interest as yours, the more an opportunity will be available for you to do joint ventures and work from home online on a project that will be beneficial to both of you. Again, I warn you, do not spam these people or shove your business down their throats. You will develope a reputation as a pushy spammer. Your signature is enough. The forums are for developing relationships and sharing information, not selling.
Traffic that you get from discussion forums can be excellent prospects for your list. You should always be thinking about list building when it comes to ways to work from home online. You have to get names and e-mail addresses for future follow up. Therefore you want to have a sign up form on every web page and every blog page that you have. Also keep in mind that some of the traffic that you will be getting will be from Google and other search engines that will funnel readers to your posts and will not know you as well as forum members.
For that reason and for simplicity, you should try to combine your landing page and website in one. Most people would like to know first hand what it is that they are leaving their contact information for. A dead turn off is a landing page that tells people to join your mailing list before being redirected to your website and before knowing if there is an interest in what you have to offer.
And now you can ...
Offer free information or products of value to the your subscription list and they may be willing to buy more in depth information or products from you.
So you see a marketing tool to use to work from homeonline is forum marketing because you offer snippets of information that lead people to inquire about you and your home business. So take action right now, find a forum and start talking to get your business out there for everyone to see. The relationships you build as almost as special as the business you can create.
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Here are 10 ideas to help increase sales and profits for your work from home business:
1. Design your work from home business website to be a targeted resource center.
Choose one subject and focus on it. You will gain repeat visitors that are interested in
that particular topic. If you sell more than one class of product, build a targeted site for
each different class of product. Remember, always stay focused on one subject or product.
Don't make your site too busy.
2. Add a chat room or forum to your work from home business website.People love to interact
with other people that have the same interests. Work on developing a relationship with your
customers in the forum. Learn what they need and work on providing solutions to their needs.
You will see sales for your work from home business boom!
3. Entice people to link to your work from home business website by giving them something
free in return. This will increase your ranking in some search engines. People love free and
they will remember you gave them something free.
4. Trigger your reader’s emotions in your ad copy. For example, if you sell a book on cooking
tips, tell them the feelings they’ll get when they eat that dinner.
5. Make sure your work from home business site looks good in all browsers and at all screen
resolutions. You could be losing sales because it looks distorted insome web browsers or on
smaller screens. Also, don’t use too many large graphics - there are many internet users who still
use dialup access. A slow-loading website is a sure way to lose sales.
6. Create a mobile version of your work from home business website for cell phone internet users.
7. Increase your sales by emailing full page ads to your ezinesubscribers.
Remember to tell people before they subscribe or they may consider it spam.
8. Ask people questions in your ad copy that make them think about
their problems. For example: Do you want to be free of your debts?
9. Magnify the size of your prospects problem in your ad; show how
your product can solve it. The bigger the problem, the more sales
sites are all about "in your face sales." Slow down the hype and find
a way to solve the customers problems.
10. Invest a percentage of your profits right back into your work from home business.
Spend it on marketing, product improvement, customer service, advertising, outsourcing,
basically anything that can improve your work from home business.
A work from home business is one of the greatest opportunities available today
for the average individual to earn more money.
The internet has evened the field and made a work from home
business a reality for almost anyone willing to work at it diligently. It is
getting larger and more lucrative every year.
Can anyone become successful with a work from home business?
The answer is yes. “Does this mean everyone
who starts a work from home business will make money?” No. Why?
To become a successful network marketer of a work from home
business, an individual’s enthusiasm, excitement,ambition and commitment
will determine the outcome of success or failure.
You must become a student of the business and seek to learn what it takes
to be successful and commit to it. Commitment is the main focus here.
Marketing in itself of a work from home business is a business. It is not
a game or something in which to dabble. People who treat it lightly do not
succeed. People who treat it as a new career, a profession, and a business
have a reasonable opportunity to make it pay off very well.
Many people view their work from home business as a get rich quick
opportunity with little effortor time required. They get caught up in
the hype and fail to look at the big picture. The big picture requires
that you learn what products or service your customers want and need, and then
what reputable companies provides this product or service and who is your competition.
The first step is deciding which company to join and what product or service to promote. This is a
crucial step and should not be taken lightly or rushed. An individual who
is serious about becoming successful at their work from home business should
take the time to do the necessary research and investigation. This will mean the
difference between success or failure.
Don’t get easily despaired if you don’t see success in the first few months, just
keep trying and tweaking what you are doing. Evaluate what is right and wrong and adjust as necessary.
Have a goal and a plan to achieve to it. Focus om your plan and do'nt let anything stop you.
It is this focus and determination that will allow you to become successful with your work from home business
When considering starting a work from home business online, you need to consider a few things. Can this company or merchant be trusted to fulfill his end of the transaction? This is probably one of the most important questions you can ask yourself. The very future of your work from home business will depend upon the correct answer.
There are many cases of fraud, theft, identity theft, viruses, scams, etc. on the internet. The individual online must consider if it is worth taking such risks to start a work from home businesswith the company or individual you are investigating. Always do your due diligence.
All people desire personal freedom in obtaining what they need to be successful. The internet has gotten a bad name because of the crooks, scam artists and thieves. But there is hope. There is hope in the fact that individuals can take a stand against these wrong doers. There is hope that individuals will only do business with reliable service providers on the internet. There is hope that individuals can make it a safe and reliable and powerful way to conduct their work from home business.
Today, nowhere are there are more chances for the average person to be successful than ever on the internet. Work from home businesses are being added by the millions. People are searching for a better way to live their life and have the freedom to make their own choices about how they wish to live. There is a desire in most peoples hearts to be free of a grinding job and develop their own work from home business and achieve this freedom.
The hope that their dreams will be fulfilled is the core of the work from home business owner. In other times, the dream of working 40 years and receiving the proverbial gold watch is passed. People want to live free and successfully now.
For all individuals wishing success, the good news is...it’s already here! There is no place more free to do business than the internet. Success is attainable if we all work hard and take responsibility for how we conduct ourselves and run our work from home businesses.
The goal is to keep the internet a safe and productive way to conduct your work from home business. If each of us will strive for honest, ethical business practices, the internet will become a safe place to conduct our work fron home business.
Take a look at a new type of business model that strives to achieve these ethical business practices for a work fromhome business. It’s called It’s Good Business. Watch a short video and see if this is a better way to do business.
Does your company do business to business prospecting? Have you ever considered using an outbound telemarketing company? If you are wondering if your business will be able to endure the current economic troubles, this article is exactly what you need to read. There are six tips that can help your business find success even in a bad economy.
The following six tips are ways your company can not only survive, but thrive during tough economic times. Increasing your marketing budget, using the power of leverage, focusing your efforts where they will be most effective, properly training your employees, providing excellent customer service and keeping a positive attitude are all ways to keep your business profitable in difficult economic times.
The first way for increasing profits during a recession may sound backwards, but increasing the amount of money you spend on marketing your business instead of reducing it is one thing that can help your business make a profit during a recession. Countless businesses make the mistake of considering their marketing an expense instead of an investment and wind up destroying their businesses by cutting back in this area.
The second tip is to use the power of leverage by hiring a business to business prospecting company to do outbound telemarketing for your business. This helps your team use their time more wisely.
The next tip is to focus your efforts where they will be most effective, which is spending time closing sales. When the telemarketing programs do their job effectively your team can spend the majority of their time making sales which means increased profits for you.
The fourth tip involves properly training your employees to work with the highly qualified leads they receive from these lead generation companies. Proper training will help them make the most of these leads and sales will go through the roof regardless of what is happening in the economy.
The fifth tip for business success in tough economic times is to provide excellent customer service. Getting repeat business is much more cost effective and profitable than having to constantly prospect for new business so it is vital to keep your current customers happy.
The sixth and final tip for business success in tough economic times is keeping a positive attitude. People have a tendency to create the exact amount of success they believe they will and your positive attitude will be reflected in your employees' attitudes and achievements as well as your own.
Implementing the six ways listed above can help your business to increase profits during a recession. Business to business prospecting is one area to concentrate your marketing efforts in since this will make four of the six ways happen. Then all you have to worry about are the last two ways including treating your clients to outstanding service and maintaining an optimistic outlook.
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While we don't often think about - or even care - how the Google search engine works, it is very important for an online marketer who is using search engine optimization, or natural search marketing for their online business to understand the basic principles that drive Google.
There are three main parts to Google: Googlebot, The Indexer, and the Query Processor. Each of these three parts is crucial to online businesses, believe it or not. Let's take a deep look at each of these Google elements to see how they work.
Googlebot is the search engine spider that comes to your website and spiders your pages. It isn't an actual spider, of course.
It actually works more like a web browser by calling a server and requesting pages, and downloading them - just as you do when you open your browser, type in an URI, and then the web page loads.
Googlebot, however, is run by big number of computers and performs this task much faster than one user could on their home or work personal computer. And Googlebot doesn't know if a website exists until a URL is put into their Add URL form, or until they find a link point to that site on another web page.
When Googlebot comes to a page, they take all the links from that page, and put them in a queue for crawling, and repeat this process over and over again. Once Googlebot has found a link, and downloaded the page, it hands that page off to the Indexer.
The Indexer stores the pages in Google's Index Data base. The Index then sorts all of the pages in its data base, alphabetically, by looking at all of the keywords on the pages. The Indexer does not pay any attention to what Google calls stop words, such as is, on, or, why, how, etc. It just pays attention to more important keyword type words.
The Indexer, after Indexing pages, waits for the Google Query Processor to ask it for a list of documents. A keyword is given to the Query Processor, which in turn asks the Indexer for a list of stored websites contain that keyword.
The Indexer then supplies the Query processor with a list of the documents, and the Query processor presents the documents to the user who requested the keyphrase.
You see, each element is important to the others. It all starts with the Googlebot finding your web page link on another site, or by you going to Google and using the Add form to submit your site.
GrandCentral Phone Service as a voice of the recycled products, Google introduced at the beginning of Google Voice Services, which provides integrated voice telephone service, including all the features of GrandCentral (useful for SOHOs).
In addition, Google will also provide a voice mail features automatic text copying, as well as send and receive text messages, Google voice communications will also be recorded with the Gmail integration implementation. Users can make free calls to any number in the United States.
Like Gizmodo, according to reports, Google Voice will soon appear in the form of application at the iPhone and iPod Touch. The application will include a dial-up, and it can be set aside (from Google Voice your number), and the iPhone will make its own bilateral linking.
It can also dial-up and cell phone, and contact list to work, while sending SMS. Google Voice also includes standard features such as phone logs, voice mail and so on.
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There are no secrets on how to rank high with the major search engines because effective search engine optimizations are now immense. What is search engine optimization? Before we discuss that thing, you have to understand first how search engines work and a bit of know-how.
Search engines are into providing their users with the most relevant and up-to-date information to match the search term that was used. They are sophisticated pieces of technology which allow users to quickly find relevant websites by searching for a word or a phrase. Search engine results are useless to users if the information doesn't relate to the search term, or if the results are old. People expect the most up-to-date and fresh information that is useful to them.
Updating your website everyday and adding some materials will help you get noticed by the search engines. So, if you are going to sell any type of product or service online, you have to optimize your website for the search engines, in order to boost traffic and sales. It is because over 90% of your business will likely come directly from search engine results. And for that reason, it is absolutely important to optimize your site for search engines for you to have the greatest deals in the entire world.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process by which webmasters or online business owners utilize strategic copy to augment their website's status. It is certain that the internet has grown so fast over the years and the competition for the best search engine position has created an enormous market. Therefore, better understanding the fundamental elements of Search Engine Optimization is vital for an online business' success.
Making use of effective search engine optimization techniques will improve the page rank of your website. There are many tricks that can be used to increase page rank; the most effective method is to provide high quality content consistently. This seems like a simple concept but there are many websites that fails to provide content that visitors find interesting. Sites which provide content that are interesting, well-written and regularly updated create highly engaged visitors who are more likely to return to the website in the coming days. So, if you can set your website apart from those boring, lifeless sites then do it. You'll surely have a step closer to achieving high page rank through search engine optimization.
The next significant factor for an effective search engine optimization is to include keywords and phrases within your content. To make sure that you are properly targeting your market, you have to make sure that the keywords and phrases you have on your site are the keywords and phrase that your site is actually optimized for. The more keywords you use in your content, the more likely it is that online visitors will find your site when they do some research with those words. If you are unfailing with these techniques, then your overall search engine optimization will increase, boosting your page rank.
You should also have to develop a linking strategy as a part of your search engine optimization. Not only does this provide free advertising for your site, but it makes the impression that your site is imperative because of its affiliated links. For each link that you have pointing back to you, that is another chance for your potential customer to find you. The more inbound links that you have pointing to your site, the higher you will be ranked in the search engines.
Another is to develop a content stratagem. People who get to search from the internet are looking for information. The more information you provide for them and the more helpful it is, the more likely you will make the sale. Writing articles is the most effective way to build up content for your site. When writing articles to post on your site, make sure that you develop a clear means of arranging their content. You can do this by simply adding a new page to your site. This will allow room for extra articles to be added as you write them, and will allow you to build up an archive of articles which will maintain to draw online visitors. Make sure also that you have included your archived articles in a directory that is next to the root web of your site so that the search engines will catalog your online articles.
Always keep in mind that search engine optimization methods are important in developing your site's status. With that thing in mind, make sure that you write high-quality, keyword rich content and link your site to and from a deliberate family of other sites. These things will help improve your site's popularity and coerce increased business through your online business.
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These days, most everyone is familiar with an autoresponder, although many don't know why they are beneficial to businesses. If you aren't familiar with autoresponders, you would probably find yourself amazed with them. An autoresponder can help your business by automatically emailing your clients and customers with a preset message that will help to increase your sales.
An autoresponder can help your list of clients grow, even send each one of them their own personalized email message. If you choose, you can also follow up each individual email with repeated emails, varying the content whenever you wish. These programs will also allow you to keep track of conversations, and send out broadcast email messages whenever you have news or new products to offer your clients.
As research in the past has shown, personalized email from autoresponders is a great way to boost your business. When you send a personalized email to one of your clients, the autoresponder by can address him or her by their name - which always makes a customer take notice. While you could do this yourself using traditional email, it could take you a few hours if you have a long list of customers.
Autoresponders make sending personalized email a snap. All you need to do is set up your email template, then select where you like the name to go. You can add everyone in your customer list to the autoresponder, which makes sending emails a snap. Once you have everything ready to go, all you need to do is send out the emails with one simple click. Best of all, you don't have to set it up again when you need to send out broadcast messages.
Although there are some people who will buy products after one or two emails, most people require about seven or eight emails before they will purchase anything. Autoresponders can really help you there, as they will do all of the emailing for you. You dont have to keep sending manual emails or anything like that. All you need to do is set up the email address, type in your preset message, and then feel free to send it as many times as you like.
Through the use of an autoresponder you can really boost your business. If you run an Internet marketing business, this tool will prove to be invaluable. You can spend less time sending messages and more time doing what you enjoy. If you've never tried an autoresponder before, you owe it yourself to check out everything they will do for you and your business. Online businesses can get a lot of emails on a daily basis, which is where the autoresponder will really start to shine and show you just how great of an asset it really is.
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16. Google Gets Voice Google GrandCentral has grown all up is being relaunched as Google Voice. This service will continue in beta testing with many new features. Grand Central was a start up "one-number access" telephone service that was purchased by Google soon after its debut.
This service will be styled similar to the Skype telephony business model, in that some of the calls are free, and international long distance will be offered at attractive rates way below what normal phone charges would be. As an example, calls to Canada reportedly will be one cent per minute.
This will be a great service for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and small office/home office workers, which now includes distance workers, telecommuters and digital nomads. Get in line and queue up for a free Google Voice number.
The folks over at Google are working on a new project called Google Voice. According to the Google Blog site the first beta testing will be for GrandCentral [...]
17. Depression Cooking Teaches Check out Google Trends this morning, and you will see that Great Depression Cooking tops the charts. The television news anchors are starting to own up to the fact that we are in a depression, and not just your ordinary run of the mill recession.
Imports are down 24% and the economy in the US alone shrank over 6% in just one month. If you think there is any good news in this, it probably is only the fact we need to learn to individually become self reliant again. We can't sustain an economy where the only growth is in government.
If you have already lost your job, and are scratching your head as to what you will do when the unemployment insurance runs out, you may have figured out that it probably won't be a job like you had before. We are headed back to a more mercantile style society, where we each make and trade goods and services. Do you believe you can now start your own small office-home office based on new skills found learned and linked on the Internet?
If you are on your own SOHO quest, you may want to consider investing in and learning about working online. In many ways it is a quite separate and parallel economy. Almost unrelated to what is happening in the real world sector.
An alternative avocation is taking up the art of Depression Style Cooking.
18. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.
But I have been busy investigating. One of the schemes is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...keep looking. This had the potential to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.
Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This supposedly started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling you have to work it like any other business.
It still is in beta, so don't hope for much. I had numerous conversation with the owners and management team of this system about creating an inner circle training program. Alas, everyone wants something for nothing. You can generate free leads, but then you have to know what to do with them.
This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".
45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.
I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.
This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.
One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.
I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.
If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad
I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.
1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.
2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.
3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.
4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.
5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.
6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.
7. Never, ever, hit ‘Reply to All’ when you just want to send an email to one individual.
8. Don’t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.
9. Don’t make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.
10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.
11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.â€
12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.
I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.
Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.
So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.
Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad
A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home
You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.
Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).
"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.
Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.
Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.
To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.
After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.
Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.
It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.
I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.
Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.
I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.
There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad American Jobs: Going, Going...
Corporations are escalating efforts to ship out jobs that pay
well and build the middle class—and now they are aiming their axes
at workers in the nation’s fast-growing white-collar sector.
The U.S. recession that began in March 2001 officially ended in
November 2001, say the National Bureau of Economic Research and
other analysts.
So why are so many workers still out of jobs?
“We’ve declared victory over the recession, and we’re still
laying off a couple hundred thousand workers a month,” says Rep.
Pete Stark (D-Calif.). “If it weren’t so painful for so many people
who are out of work, it would be hilarious. But it isn’t.”
The U.S. economy has 3.2 million fewer jobs today than it did
when President George W. Bush took office, including 2.5 million
fewer manufacturing jobs. Bush appears headed for the dubious
distinction of being the first president since Herbert Hoover to
preside over a decline in total employment during his term in
office.
In the past three years, nearly one in five U.S. workers was laid
off from the job, according to The Disposable Worker: Living in a
Job-Loss Economy, a Rutgers University¡V University of Connecticut
report released in late July. Among workers laid off from full-time
work, roughly one-fourth were earning less than $40,000 annually,
the report finds.
In July, a total of 15 million U.S. workers were either
unemployed, underemployed or too discouraged to job hunt, according
to the Labor Department.
In contrast, within a year after the official end of the last
recession in March 1991, the nation had embarked on six straight
months of solid job growth.
This time, say economists, there are crucial differences:
Companies are sending well-paying manufacturing and service jobs to
countries with few, if any, protections for workers and the
environment. And these jobs are probably not coming back.
“The movement of jobs and production overseas is handcuffing the
recovery,” according to Mark Xandi, chief economist at Economy.com,
as quoted in the New York Times.
“With NAFTA, the World Trade Organization and other trade deals
of the last decade, American corporations are now tapping into a
global supply of workers who can be trained to do everything from
design to production, maintenance to marketing,” says Jeff Faux,
economist and founding president of the Economic Policy Institute.
“And while these workers become more productive, their pay doesn’t
rise, because in many of these countries, to be a labor organizer
means you risk winding up in a ditch with a bullet in your head.”
American jobs sent out of the country aren’t likely to return
anytime soon. “As long as employers can take advantage of much lower
labor costs in other countries, there’s no compelling reason to
bring back many of these well-paying jobs,” says Ron Hira, an
engineer and assistant professor of public policy at Rochester
Institute of Technology. “Policymakers seem to be at a loss as to
what to do about this problem.”
Meanwhile, the Bush administration directs multimillion-dollar
tax cuts to the wealthy while supporting trade laws that encourage
offshore outsourcing. And even as Bush opposes unemployment
insurance extensions for some 1 million Americans who have exhausted
their benefits, his administration refuses to embrace job-creating
programs that would repair the nation’s infrastructure and help
balance devastated state budgets.
“The Bush administration doesn’t seem to care about jobs,” says
Center for Economic and Policy Research co-founder Dean Baker. “To
retain and create jobs, there have to be policy changes, and I don’t
think this administration is willing to make them.”
Manufacturing: America’s Foundation Is Crumbling
“American taxpayers...do not
want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of
their jobs.” —USWA President Leo Gerard
Manufacturing jobs traditionally have provided high wages and
good benefits that allow workers to care for their families. But 2.5
million manufacturing jobs have disappeared since President Bush
took office in early 2001.
Multinational corporations are transferring jobs to countries
where workers earn low wages and have few or no protections. And
small U.S. businesses are laying off workers or shutting their doors
because they can’t meet foreign competitors’ prices.
African American workers have been hit particularly hard. Because
of manufacturing job losses, the unemployment rate among African
Americans is rising twice as fast as it is for whites and faster
than in any downturn since the mid-1970s. “The number of jobs and
the types of jobs that have been lost has severely diminished the
standing of many blacks in the middle class,” says William Lucy,
president of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and AFSCME
secretary-treasurer.
Manufacturing job loss starts the downward spiral
The loss of good manufacturing jobs has ripped apart communities
and permanently lowered living standards for families throughout the
United States, including in Rockford, Ill., 70 miles from Chicago.
The northern Illinois city is historically second only to Cleveland
as a center for machine tooling, the making of tools used in machine
manufacturing.
Machine tooling, which traditionally employs the most highly
skilled manufacturing workers including members of the Machinists
and UAW, is the bedrock of America’s manufacturing industry.
But the bedrock is crumbling. The Rockford area lost more than 20
percent of its manufacturing jobs—about 10,000—between May 2000 and
2003, according to MBG Information Services President and Economist
Charles McMillion’s analysis of Department of Labor data. General
manufacturing jobs have been among those lost in Rockford, including
jobs held by Steelworkers Local 745 members at the Goodyear tire
plant. USWA members at Goodyear now number 750, down from 1,650 in
1999, before the corporation shipped the jobs to Asia and South
America.
But most manufacturing jobs lost in Rockford have been in machine
tooling. At Greenlee/Textron, which makes drill bits and tools for
electrical contractors, about 180 Machinists now represented by IAM
Local 1553 are employed today, down from about 900 in the late
1980s. The 112-year-old crown jewel of Rockford machine
tooling—Ingersoll International—declared bankruptcy this spring and
laid off 300 employees in Rockford and 70 in Michigan, leaving only
skeleton crews of managers and a few contract workers.
“The lesson of Rockford,” says Faux, “is it disproves the free
traders’ argument that America could afford to lose manufacturing
jobs in areas like textiles and steel because we would ultimately
triumph in global competition by making the things hardest to make.
In fact, those things are machine tools—and we’re losing them.”
A loss of manufacturing jobs reverberates throughout the
community—and ultimately the nation. When manufacturing factories
aren’t being built, maintained or expanded, jobs disappear in areas
such as construction.
“Our union has about 30 percent unemployment,” says Mark Bramble,
business agent for Electrical Workers Local 364 in Rockford. “Guys
burn through their unemployment, lose all their benefits, get
divorced and then go where the grass looks greener or settle for
working as a greeter at Wal-Mart.”
A question of national security
There’s a sense of betrayal in Rockford these days. “Free trade
was sold to America with the line that it helps us export more
goods,” says Eric Anderberg, who manages his family’s 37-year-old
machine tool company, Dial Machines Inc. “But what’s happened is the
exportation of our jobs and means of production so multinational
corporations can exploit foreign labor and sell their goods back to
us.”
Today Dial employs 40 workers, down from 75 in the late 1990s. It
recently lost work to a lower-bidding Czech Republic manufacturer
that nabbed a contract making parts for a supplier of General
Electric Wind Energy Corp.
Anderberg and other Rockford employers worry that a Chinese
government-owned machine tooling company, which already has bought
two divisions of Ingersoll International, may now be poised to buy
another—one containing intellectual property, including high-level
research and design and military technology. “I cannot understand
how our government can justify not only the debasement of our
manufacturing industries but also our national security in a time of
war,” he says.
The Rockford community and U.S. national security would get a
boost from Buy America provisions House Armed Services Committee
Chair Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) added to legislation authorizing
the 2004 Pentagon budget.
Rep. Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.), who represents the Rockford area
and helped write the bill, says, “The Pentagon wouldn’t care if
everything it buys is made in China.” Joined by armsmakers such as
Boeing and Lockheed Martin, the White House says the Buy America
provisions are “burdensome, counterproductive and have the potential
to degrade U.S. military capabilities.” But the administration does
not mention jobs.
“American steelworkers are also American taxpayers, and they do
not want their tax dollars subsidizing the export of their jobs,”
says USWA President Leo Gerard.
White-Collar Jobs: America’s Growing Export
Ask anyone which sector of the U.S. economy comes to mind as the
most likely to be shipped overseas, and chances are he or she will
say manufacturing.
But though the United States lost 2.5 million manufacturing jobs
since the Bush presidency beginning in 2001, U.S. corporations now
are racing to outsource white-collar jobs—including work in computer
sciences, engineering, entertainment, financial and medical
services—to countries where workers earn far less.
Terry Antisdel was a Chicago-area engineering associate for
Lucent Technologies Inc. and its predecessor AT&T for 35 years
until his entire 42-member International Federation of Professional
and Technical Engineers Local 81 was laid off in July. He figures
his job will end up in India or China. “The words management used
were a 'less-expensive offshore site,’ ” recalls Antisdel, who
estimates Lucent will send a total of about 5,000 U.S. jobs offshore
this year. “I feel let down,” he says. “Companies used to provide
jobs for people, but now they’re just there to give money to
executives, board members and shareholders.”
In late July, the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers
(WashTech), a Communications Workers of America affiliated group
that helps high-tech workers win a voice at work, released a tape of
a conference call in which IBM’s top human relations executives
discussed transferring 3 million U.S. service jobs to countries such
as China and India by 2015.
Testifying in June before a House Committee on Small Business
investigating the globalization of white-collar jobs, AFL-CIO
Department for Professional Employees President Paul Almeida said,
“If these cost-saving jobs shifts are taken to their logical
extreme, even American corporations should be wondering where their
future consumers will be located and how they will buy the goods and
services.”
A Forrester Research study predicts U.S. employers will move
about 3.3 million white-collar service jobs and $136 billion in
wages overseas in the next 15 years, up from $4 billion in 2000.
White-collar jobs going and gone
The jobs already are leaving. By the end of this year, General
Electric will have sent a total of 20,000 aircraft and medical
research and design jobs to India and China, according to Business
Week. And the Accenture consulting firm, which incorporated in
Bermuda after splitting from Enron accountant Arthur Andersen, plans
to send 5,000 accounting and software jobs to the Philippines in
2004, the magazine says.
According to WashTech, Microsoft plans to eliminate at least 800
full-time call-center jobs near Dallas and shift the work to India
and Canada in the next fiscal year. It would be the largest one-time
firing of full-time Microsoft employees in the company’s history.
WashTech says a Microsoft senior vice president recently urged
company managers to “pick something to move offshore today,” though
Microsoft publicly has repeated it will not lay off U.S. workers and
send the jobs offshore.
While the Bush administration remains silent about offshore
outsourcing, states such as New Jersey are considering corrective
measures. New Jersey legislators acted after the state outsourced
the electronic administration of welfare and food stamp benefits to
a company that then sent the jobs to India. When New Jersey citizens
called to ask about benefits, they were connected with Indian
workers who gave Americanized names.
A bill authored by state Assembly member Linda Greenstein (D)
would have required such offshore subcontractors to disclose to New
Jersey residents their employers’ true names and locations. But even
this common- sense measure had no chance in the face of massive
opposition launched by Indian and American corporate interests, such
as Verizon.
“We got a copy of an e-mail Verizon sent managers in New Jersey,
thanking them for sending 1,800 e-mails opposing the bill,” says Don
Rice, CWA’s New Jersey legislative coordinator. Activists and
legislators hope to bring the bill to a vote before the legislative
session ends this year.
U.S. security at stake
Offshore outsourcing of white-collar work also raises security
concerns. U.S. firms are sending mapping and other such work to
India, Pakistan, China, the Philippines and other countries with
lower labor costs, says John Palatiello, administrator of the
Council on Federal Procurement of Architectural and Engineering
Services.
“This practice raises issues regarding access to data about the
location of¡Kcritical infrastructure by individuals in foreign
countries who have not been through any degree of security clearance
and where control of access to data simply does not exist.”
Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address made clear the
danger of access to data by unfriendly foreign operatives: “Our
discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears....We have
found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water
facilities¡Ksurveillance maps of American cities and thorough
descriptions of landmarks in America.”
Activists are demanding Congress review trade and tax policies
that encourage white-collar offshore outsourcing. Without government
intervention, warns Almeida, “short-sighted corporate policy focused
on saving a few bucks in the short run will have an enormous
deleterious impact on the entire U.S. economy.”
Low-Wage Jobs: Betray America’s Workers
Laid-off U.S. workers thrust into a hostile job market
are discovering another ugly part of the American economy: low-wage
work that pays too little to keep even a small family out of
poverty.
Nearly a quarter of all U.S. workers labor in jobs that pay
little but are essential to society. Sixty percent of these workers
are female, and many are people of color. They care for nursing home
patients and clean offices at night. They prepare food, answer
call-center phones and care for our children.
These jobs generally pay less than the $8.85 hourly wage the U.S.
government says it takes to keep a family of four out of poverty.
Even so, many low-wage jobs offer only part-time hours, with few or
no benefits. And workers in low-paying but essential jobs often are
treated as disposable, quickly fired if they get sick or stay home
with a sick child.
As more good jobs leave the country, the percentage of low-wage
jobs keeps growing. By 2010, about 30 percent of working Americans
won’t be making even poverty wages, according to the U.S. Department
of Labor. A Labor Department list of the 10 occupations likely to
show the largest job growth this decade is dominated by jobs that
typically pay poorly—food preparation, customer service, office
clerking, security and food service.
This world of low-wage jobs and the workers who do them is
illuminated in The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 35
Million Americans, published on Labor Day by the New Press.
“Traditionally, there was a promise in this country that if you
worked hard, you could take care of your family,” explains author
Beth Shulman, an attorney and former United Food and Commercial
Workers vice president. “That promise has been broken¡Kand we have
built our national prosperity on their backs.”
No job is inherently low wage
Workers in low-wage jobs frequently are labeled as lacking skills
and in need of training to move into better-paying positions. But
while education is a traditional route to higher pay, Shulman
contends no job is inherently low wage. “Take autoworkers, who
had horrible jobs that became good ones because of unions and social
legislation,” she says. “The same thing must happen with currently
low-paying service- sector jobs. In Las Vegas, for example, the
housekeeper represented by the Hotel Employees Restaurant Employees
has decent wages and benefits thanks to unionization.”
Low-wage jobs tend to imprison the workers who perform them
because of what Shulman calls a “piling on” of hardships. Workers in
low-wage jobs are unlikely to have sick leave or health insurance or
make enough money to afford reliable transportation or child day
care. At the same time, they are likely to be in inflexible
situations in which being late or missing work can result in a quick
firing.
“It’s not just that you make less money in these jobs, but you
have none of the basic things many of us take for granted, such as
health insurance, time to care for a family member, adequate child
care, some kind of retirement security, even a telephone,” Shulman
says. “And this applies to one in four U.S. workers.”
Gap is growing between U.S. rich and poor
As low-wage work continues to replace jobs that pay well, the
U.S. economy increasingly resembles that of a less-developed nation,
with a wide gulf between rich and poor. Among all western
industrialized nations, the United States has the greatest income
and wage inequalities, with the best-paid 10 percent of workers
making 16.6 times the amount made by the lowest-paid 10 percent,
according to a 2003 analysis by the United Nations Development
Program. “That’s the way we’ve been moving for some time now and
continue to move,” says Heather Boushey, a Center for Economic and
Policy Research economist.
To reverse this trend, the United States needs to change the
rules of the game, according to Shulman. “For starters, we should
immediately raise the minimum hourly wage to the poverty guideline
for a family of four—$8.85 an hour versus the current $5.15 hourly
federal minimum wage—and then have automatic increases so there’s
not a big political battle every time it needs raising. Then, all
Americans should have access to affordable health care. There are a
variety of ways to do this, and we should just get it done.
“Finally, all American workers should be able to care for their
children—to have access to affordable child care, and to stay with
them when they’re sick or go to a PTA meeting without getting fired.
The consequences for the children of today’s low-wage workers are
enormous—they’re following their parents into this low-wage world.”
Companies in India celebrate "loss of American jobs"
One interesting comment that was documented in that article
was:
As Vivek Paul, Wipro VC, said after
the Presidential poll, “The elections are over and so is the
rhetoric; it will be easier for American corporations to step
out with their outsourcing plans.”
Well a little research has found some estimates from within
India about what that meant. First and foremost, it means that India
is celebrating the "loss of American jobs." Folks, that is the jobs
of friends, family or perhaps even your own.
Specifically on November 4, with time zone changes, roughly a
day after the polls close the following was published in the India
Times:
The industry is quietly celebrating
that outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the
hot-button issues any more.
And that is why they believe that "it will be easier for American corporations to
step out with their outsourcing plans." Does this mean
that American companies put their plans on "hold" to minimize the
impact on a close election?
But the folks in India gloat a little more:
Of the documented jobs that left the
US for other countries in January through March 2004, 23,396
went to Mexico, 8,283 to China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other
Asian countries, 5,511 to Latin American countries other than
Mexico and 2,933 to other countries.
A brief look at these numbers show what they call a documented
American job loss of 48,237 for the first quarter of 2004. On an
annual basis this would be 192,968 American jobs. And they expect
American companies to now - step
out - with their outsourcing plans.
Some will say that 192,968 jobs is not very many. But as you
will see in coming articles that is just what is called BPO and is
not the whole picture.
Lets look at the effect of three policies that affect American
jobs:
Outsourcing - In this article it has been shown that it is
at least close to 200,00 jobs a year for the BPO segment and
expected to increase
H1-B
visa program - allows high tech foreigners to take American
jobs here without being counted in immigration totals. Used by
many companies to train personnel for their foreign outsourcing
programs. There are roughly a million H1-B visas active today.
Legal immigration of about 1 million a year and illegal
immigration of about 3 million a year resulting in lower
American wages and increased social costs.
Ladies and gentlemen, you are paying the salaries of the
elected and appointed officials who are doing this to you. Is this
what you want to pay for? If so, why are you reading material on
this web site?
If not, you are being ignored!
It should be obvious to all that this trend can not continue
forever. Are there any signs that it is getting better:
A recent study of A T Kearney shows
that nine out of 10 chief executives wanted to outsource to
India. 25 % of the respondents wanted IT and auto component work
to be given to India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.
That should answer that question beyond a reasonable doubt.
Interesting that 15% of the outsourcing chief executives favor Red
China! Remember these are the folks that make the big campaign
contributions that have so much influence on many of your elected
officials. How will you feel when YOUR job is sent to Red
China?
If you do not agree with these policies you are being ignored
and your elected officials are representing special interests more
than you! If you believe that this is a serious problem it is time
to get involved now. The longer you wait, the harder it will be stop
these destructive trends.
The BPO and your elected officials are doing offshore
calculus, are you?
BPO biggies do offshore calculus
TIMES NEWS NETWORK [ THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 04, 2004 02:13:09 PM]
India’s silicon valley is delighted to move out of the
limelight. The industry is quietly celebrating that
outsourcing and loss of American jobs will not be the
hot-button issues any more.
BPO bigwigs are already
computing the gains from mega-offshoring plans on hold waiting
for US presidential race to be over.
Though most of
the industry majors refuse to comment on who will safeguard
their interests better, they feel that economic benefits of
transfer of jobs to low cost destinations will now overshadow
the political rhetoric against outsourcing in the run up to
the US poll.
The US presidential election was fueling
the protests against job losses due to transfer of jobs.
“American law will remain the same and the outsourcing
will go up irrespective of who wins. Already, we see our
clients getting ready for bigger offshoring plans,’’ says head
of a leading Delhi-based BPO firm. Insiders also feel the
American clients might be more open to talk about their
outsourcing plans to low-cost destinations like India now.
Though Kerry’s tax proposals that seek to end tax
breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas could deter
fence-sitter, analysts feel they are no more than short-term
sentiment dampeners. After initially branding the shipping of
jobs to countries like India and China as a threat to the US
economy, Kerry has gone on record saying he can’t stop
outsourcing.
Clearly, what is of greater concern is
that a clear decision comes soon, irrespective of whether it
favours Bush or Kerry. Though Bush is more popular, the $ 2.6
billion BPO industry is convinced that “it will soon be
difficult to differentiate between Democrats and Republicans.
Obviously sector’s fate is closely tied up with the US
elections, with US accounting for over 70 % of India’s IT
exports. A recent study of A T Kearney shows that nine out of
10 chief executives wanted to outsource to India. 25 % of the
respondents wanted IT and auto component work to be given to
India, 15 % favoured China and 13 % Mexico.
Of the
documented jobs that left the US for other countries in
January through March 2004, 23,396 went to Mexico, 8,283 to
China, 3,895 to India, 4,419 to other Asian countries, 5,511
to Latin American countries other than Mexico and 2,933 to
other countries.
Costly Trade With China Millions of U.S. jobs displaced
Contrary to the predictions of its supporters,
China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) has
failed to reduce its trade surplus with the United States or
increase overall U.S. employment. The rise in the U.S. trade
deficit with China between 1997 and 2006 has displaced
production that could have supported 2,166,000 U.S. jobs. Most
of these jobs (1.8 million) have been lost since China entered
the WTO in 2001. Between 1997 and 2001, growing trade deficits
displaced an average of 101,000 jobs per year, or slightly
more than the total employment in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Since China entered the WTO in 2001, job losses increased to
an average of 353,000 per year—more than the total employment
in greater Akron, Ohio. Between 2001 and 2006, jobs were
displaced in every state and the District of Columbia. Nearly
three-quarters of the jobs displaced were in manufacturing
industries. Simply put, the promised benefits of trade
liberalization with China have been unfulfilled.
As a matter of policy, China tightly pegs its
currency's value to that of the dollar at a rate that
encourages a large bilateral surplus with the United States.
Maintaining this peg required the purchase of about $200
billion in U.S. Treasury Bills and other securities in 2006
alone.1 This intervention makes the yuan
artificially cheap and provides an effective subsidy on
Chinese exports; best estimates are that the rate of this
effective subsidy is roughly 40%. China also engages in
extensive suppression of labor rights; it has been estimated
that wages in China would be 47% to 85% higher in the absence
of labor repression. China has also been accused of massive
direct subsidization of export production. Finally, it
maintains strict, non-tariff barriers to imports. As a result,
China's exports to the United States of $288 billion in 2006
were six times greater than U.S.
exports to China, which were only $52 billion (Table 1). China's trade surplus was
responsible for 42.6% of the United States' total, non-oil
trade deficit. This is by far the United States' most
imbalanced trading relationship. Unless and until China
revalues (raises) the yuan and eliminates these other trade
distortions, the U.S. trade deficit and job losses will
continue to grow rapidly in the future.
Major findings of this study:
The 1.8 million jobs opportunities lost nationwide since
2001 are distributed among all 50 states and the District of
Columbia, with the biggest losers, in numeric terms:
California (-269,300), Texas (-136,900), New York
(-105,900), Illinois (-79,900), Pennsylvania (-78,200),
North Carolina (-77,200), Florida (-71,900), Ohio (-66,100),
Georgia (-60,400), and Massachusetts (-59,300) (Table 2A).
The 10 hardest-hit states, as a share of total state
employment, are: New Hampshire (-13,000, -2.1%), North
Carolina (-77,200, -2.0%), California (-269,300, -1.8%),
Massachusetts (-59,300, -1.8%), Rhode Island (-8,400,
-1.8%), South Carolina (-29,200, -1.6%), Vermont (-4,900,
-1.6%), Oregon (-25,700, -1.6%), Indiana (-45,200, -1.5%),
and Georgia (-60,400, -1.5%) (Table
2B).
China's entry into the WTO was supposed to bring
it into compliance with an enforceable, rules-based regime,
which would require that it open its markets to imports from
the United States and other nations. The United States also
negotiated a series of special safeguard measures designed to
limit the disruptive effects of surging Chinese imports on
domestic producers. However, the core of the agreement failed
to include any protections to maintain or improve labor or
environmental standards. As a result, China's entry into the
WTO has further tilted the international economic playing
field against domestic workers and firms, and in favor of
multinational companies (MNCs) from the United States and
other countries, and state- and privately-owned exporters in
China. This has increased the global "race to the bottom" in
wages and environmental quality and caused the closing of
thousands of U.S. factories, decimating employment in a wide
range of communities, states, and entire regions of the United
States.
False promises
Proponents of China's entry into the WTO
frequently claimed that it would create jobs in the United
States, increase U.S. exports, and improve the trade deficit
with China. President Clinton claimed that the agreement
allowing China into the WTO, which was negotiated during his
administration, "creates a win-win result for both countries"
(Clinton 2000, 9). He argued that exports to China "now
support hundreds of thousands of American jobs" and that
"these figures can grow substantially with the new access to
the Chinese market the WTO agreement creates" (Clinton 2000,
10). Others in the White House, such as Kenneth Liberthal, the
special advisor to the president and senior director for Asia
affairs at the National Security Council, echoed Clinton's
assessment:
Let's be clear as to why a trade deficit might
decrease in the short term. China exports far more to the
U.S. than it imports [from] the U.S….It will not grow as
much as it would have grown without this agreement and over
time clearly it will shrink with this
agreement.2
Promises about jobs and exports misrepresented the real
effects of trade on the U.S. economy: trade both creates and
destroys jobs. Increases in U.S. exports tend to create jobs
in the United States, but increases in imports tend to destroy
jobs as imports displace goods that otherwise would have been
made in the United States by domestic workers.
The impact of changes in trade on employment is
estimated here by calculating the labor content of changes in
the trade balance—the difference between exports and imports.
Each $1 billion in computer exports to China from the United
States supports American jobs. However, each $1 billion in
computer imports from China
displaces those American workers, who would have been employed
making them in the United States. On balance, the net
employment effect of trade flows depends on the growth in the
trade deficit; not just exports.
Another critically important promise made by the promoters of
liberalized U.S.-China trade was that the United States would
benefit because of increased exports to a large and growing
consumer market in China. This market, in turn, was to be
based on an expansion of the middle class that, it was
claimed, would grow rapidly due to the wealth created in China
by its entry into the WTO. However, the increase in U.S.
exports to China has been overwhelmed by the growth of U.S.
imports, as shown below.
Growing trade deficits and job losses
The U.S. trade deficit with China has
increased from $50 billion in 1997 to $235 billion in 2006, an
increase of $185 billion, as shown in Table 1. Between 1997
and 2001, prior to China's entry into the WTO, the deficit
increased $9 billion per year on average. Between 2001 and
2006, after China entered the WTO, the deficit increased $30
billion per year on average.
While it is true that exports support jobs in
the United States, it is equally true that imports displace
them. The net effect of trade flows on employment must look at
the trade balance. The employment
impacts of growing trade deficits are estimated in this paper
using an input-output model that estimates the direct and
indirect labor requirements of producing output in a given
domestic industry. The model includes 200 U.S. industries, 86
of which are in the manufacturing sector (see this paper's
methodology appendix for further details).3
The model estimates the labor that would be
required to produce a given volume of exports, and the labor
that is displaced when a given volume of imports is
substituted for domestic output.4 The job losses
presented here represent an estimate of what sectoral
employment levels would have been in the absence of growing
trade deficits.5
U.S. exports to China in 1997 supported 138,000
jobs, but U.S. imports displaced production that would have
supported 736,000 jobs, as shown in the bottom half of Table
1. Therefore, the $49 billion trade deficit in 1997 displaced
736,300 jobs in that year. Job displacement rose to 1,000,000
jobs in 2001 and 2,763,000 in 2006. Prior to China's entry
into the WTO, an average of 101,000 jobs per year were
displaced by growing trade deficits between 1997 and 2001.
After 2001, an average of 353,000 jobs per year were lost.
Growth in trade deficits with China has reduced
demand for goods produced in every region of the United States
and has led to job displacement in all 50 states and the
District of Columbia, as shown in Table 2A and Figure A.6 More than 100,000 jobs
were lost in California, Texas, and New York each. Jobs
displaced due to growing deficits with China equaled or
exceeded 2.0% of total employment in states such as North
Carolina and New Hampshire, as shown in Table 2B. An
alphabetical list of job losses by state is shown in Table 2C.
Growing trade deficits with China have clearly
reduced domestic employment in traded goods industries,
especially in the manufacturing sector, which has been hard
hit by plant closings and job losses. Workers displaced by
trade from the manufacturing sector have been shown to have
particular difficulty in securing comparable employment
elsewhere in the economy. More than one-third of workers
displaced from manufacturing drop out of the labor force
(Kletzer 2001, 101, Table D2). Average wages of those who
secured re-employment fell 11% to 13%. Trade-related job
displacement pushes many workers out of good jobs in
manufacturing and other trade-related industries, often into
lower-paying industries and frequently out of the labor
market.
Some economists have quibbled with job-loss
numbers extrapolated from trade flows, based on the
presumption that aggregate
employment levels in the United States are set by a broad
range of macroeconomic influences, not just by trade flows.
There is a grain of truth to this—the trade balance is but one
of many variables affecting aggregate job creation in the
United States.
That said, the employment impacts of trade
identified in this paper can be interpreted as the "all else
equal" effect of trade on domestic employment. The Federal
Reserve, for example, may decide to cut interest rates to make
up for job loss stemming from deteriorating trade balances (or
any other economic influence), leaving net employment
unchanged. This, however, does not change the fact that trade
deficits by themselves are a net
drain on employment.
Administration officials and other economists
have argued that the capital inflow that is the mirror-image
of trade deficits supports jobs in the United States by
keeping interest rates lower than they would be absent this
inflow. During the late 1990s, for example, these capital
inflows fought rising trade deficits to a draw in terms of
aggregate employment effects, and, through much of the 2000s
recovery, interest-sensitive industries (housing and
construction, for example) have surely expanded more than they
would have absent foreign capital inflows. While these claims
may be correct from a simple accounting standpoint, they do
not support assertions that trade flows are a useless
indicator of job loss.
First, and most simply, it is just not true that
foreign capital inflows always make up trade-induced
employment losses one-for-one. In the 2001 recession and the
jobless recovery following, growing trade deficits accompanied
aggregate job loss, even as interest rates scraped historical
bottoms. Clearly, low interest rates do not always translate
into enough growth in investment and consumption in
interest-sensitive sectors to always sterilize the impact of
growing trade deficits.
Second, the job-loss numbers identified in this
report are a good measure of just how unbalanced the U.S.
economy has become due to rising trade deficits. Tradable
goods industries have hemorrhaged jobs, while
interest-sensitive, often non-tradable, industries have seen
rapid growth. At that point in the future when trade deficits
begin to close (and this will happen—it is only a question of
when and how), the U.S. economy will need to return many of
the jobs displaced by rising trade deficits out of
non-tradable and into tradable industries. Moving millions of
workers back and forth between sectors is no mean trick, and
accomplishing it without a recession in between will be hard;
trying to do it after another couple of years of deficit
growth—and an even more lopsided U.S. economy—will be even
harder.
In short, while aggregate employment in the
United States may well not respond job-for-job with the
numbers reported in this paper on trade deficits with China,
these numbers provide insight into how much harder other
macroeconomic influences have to work to eliminate the
employment drag from these deficits, and they provide a good
(and ominous) measure of how lopsided employment growth in the
U.S. economy has become owing to the unbalanced U.S.-China
trade relationship.
Conclusion
The
growing U.S. trade deficit with China has displaced huge
numbers of jobs in the United States, and been a prime
contributor to the crisis in manufacturing employment over the
past six years. The current U.S.-China trade relationship is
bad for both countries. The United States is piling up foreign
debt, losing export capacity, and facing a more fragile
macroeconomic environment. Meanwhile, China has become
dependent on the U.S. consumer market for employment
generation, has suppressed the purchasing power of its own
middle class with a weak currency, and, most importantly, has
held hundreds of billions of hard-currency reserves in
low-yielding, risky assets, instead of investing them in
public goods that could benefit Chinese households. Its
repression of labor rights has suppressed wages, thus
subsidizing its exports and making them artificially cheap.
This relationship needs a fundamental change: addressing the
exchange rate policies and labor standards issues in the
Chinese economy are important first steps.
April 2007
The author thanks Lauren
Marra for her research assistance and Josh Bivens and Ross
Eisenbrey for comments.
This research was made
possible by generous support from the Alliance for American
Manufacturing.
Methodology
This analysis
utilizes an input-output model to estimate the relationships
between changes in trade flows and production that could
support domestic employment. The analysis covers trends in
goods trade, which is dominated by manufactures. Services
trade is not considered because of problems with the data, and
because many of the services traded involve returns to capital
and intellectual property that have little or no direct effect
on employment. In addition, goods trade dominates the nation's
international accounts.
This study uses the model developed in Rothstein
and Scott (1997a and 1997b). This approach solves four
problems that are prevalent in previous research on the
employment effects of trade. Some studies look only at the
effects of exports and ignore imports. Some studies include
re-exports (transshipments)—goods produced outside the United
States and shipped through this country to other nations—as
U.S. exports. The trade data used in many studies is usually
not adjusted for inflation. Finally, a single employment
multiplier is often applied to all industries, despite
differences in labor productivity and
utilization.7
The model used here is based on the Bureau of
Labor Statistics' employment requirements tables, which were
derived from the U.S. input-output tables that are published
by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. These tables are adjusted
to 2000 price and productivity levels (BLS 2007b), in real,
chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A base year with 2000 employment
requirements was used to estimate the employment content of
trade in all years covered in this study. This assumption was
needed to control for the effects of technology. This
technique isolates the effects of trade on employment from
pure technology effects. This model is used to estimate the
direct and indirect effects of changes in goods trade flows in
each of 200 industries. This study updates the 1987 input
employment requirements table used in earlier reports in this
series (Rothstein and Scott 1997a, 1997b).
This analysis requires four-digit, trade data
based on the North American Industry Classification System
(NAICS) (U.S. International Trade Commission 2007), deflated
with industry-specific, chain-weighted price indices (BLS
2007a), which were updated using industry-specific producer
price indexes (BLS 2007b).8 Trade data were
downloaded from the U.S. International Trade Commission (2007)
Web site in NAICS format. The data for 2006 are preliminary
estimates; this report will be updated and expanded when the
final 2006 trade data are released in June 2007. State-level
employment effects are calculated by allocating imports and
exports to the states on the basis of their share of
four-digit, industry-level employment for 2000 (U.S. Census
Bureau 2001).
The trade data were converted into
chain-weighted 2000 dollars. A domestic employment
requirements table for a particular base year was used to
estimate the employment effects of trade in each year of the
analysis, holding technology constant. The domestic employment
requirement calculates the labor required to produce all of a
given product within the United States. Thus, it reflects the
complete labor content of output, including jobs indirectly
supported in service industries. The base year of 2000 was
chosen for this study because it was an approximate mid-point
in the data covered in this study.
CPS data on employment by industry by was
collected for each of the detailed sectors in the model. These
data were used to calculate each state's share of national
employment.
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1. These purchases financed about one-quarter of
the U.S. $857 billion current account deficit in 2006 (the
broadest measure of all U.S. trade and income flows). But for
these purchases, the reduced demand would have put significant
downward pressure on the U.S. dollar. A substantial
depreciation in the dollar would begin to improve the U.S.
trade deficit within a few years.
3. See Ratner (2006) for a more complete,
technical description of this model.
4. For the purposes of this report, it is
necessary to distinguish between exports produced domestically
and re-exports—which are goods produced in other countries,
imported into the United States, and then re-exported to other
countries, in this case to China. Since re-exports are not
produced domestically, their production does not support
domestic employment and they are excluded from the model used
here. See Table 1 for information about the levels of U.S.
re-exports to China in this period.
5. This model assumes that everything else is
held constant and the results are counterfactual
estimates.
6. See the methodology appendix for
computational details.
7. Other studies—see California State World
Trade Commission (1996), which finds 47,600 jobs created in
California from increased trade with Canada alone—have
allocated all employment effects to the home state of the
exporting company. This is problematic, because the
production—along with any attendant job effects—need not have
taken place in the exporter's state. If a California dealer
buys cars from Chrysler and sells them to China, these studies
will find job creation in California. However, the cars are
not made in California; so the employment effects should
instead be attributed to Michigan and other state with high
levels of auto industry production. Likewise, if the same firm
buys auto parts from China, the loss of employment will occur
in auto-industry states, not in California.
8. Industry-specific producer price indices are
unavailable for certain industries between 2005 and 2006. In
order to construct price deflators for all 200 BLS industries,
we used a combination of commodity PPIs and industry PPIs. For
instance, NAICS-based industry 3331 (which maps to BLS
industry 72) is composed of agricultural, manufacturing, and
mining machinery manufacturing. To compute a price index for
this industry, a trade-weighted average of the commodity
indices for agricultural machinery and construction machinery
was used as a proxy for the industry PPI. Industry PPIs were
used wherever available.
Outsourcing Not the Culprit in Manufacturing Job Loss
Productivity gains spawned by factory automation are driving a worldwide decline in manufacturing
jobs, even in developing nations, says researcher.
For many Americans, the word “outsourcing” conjures up images of
manufacturing job decline. But the United States is far from alone in losing
manufacturing employment, points out Dan Miklovic (shown above), vice president
and research director at GartnerG2, the business research arm of Stamford,
Conn.-based Gartner Inc. “Recent studies show that manufacturing jobs are
declining everywhere,” said Miklovic, during a Nov. 17 panel discussion on
outsourcing, part of a Global Media Summit sponsored by Rockwell Automation,
Milwaukee.
Over the past decade, U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined by more than 11
percent, Miklovic noted. But at the same time, Japan’s manufacturing employment
base has dropped by 16 percent, while the number of manufacturing jobs in
countries including Brazil have declined by some 20 percent, he pointed out.
“And one of the largest losers of manufacturing jobs has been China,” Miklovic
added. “We like to pick on China and say that all of these jobs are going to
China, but they’re losing jobs in manufacturing as well.”
The reason for the job losses? Miklovic summed it up in one word: automation.
Through automation, he said, “we are really doing a good job of improving the
productivity of people.”
Miklovic reminded media attendees at the panel session that 25 percent to 30
percent of the U.S. population was at one time involved in agricultural jobs.
But today, only 3 percent of Americans work in agriculture, yet they have turned
the United States into a net agricultural exporter, he noted. “The same thing is
now happening in manufacturing,” Miklovic said. “Through automation, through
improved productivity, we’re driving the number of jobs down on a global
basis.”
Job loss in India
Confirmation came from another panel participant, K. Muralidharan, senior
general manager for Sundram Fasteners Ltd., a major Indian automotive parts
manufacturer. In India, he said, growing use of automation is holding down
manufacturing job growth despite the large amount of outsourcing work that is
flowing to the country. “I find that outsourcing in India has actually cost jobs
in Indian industry, though in the long term, it will probably have a positive
effect on employment,” Muralidharan said.
Manufacturing employment remains at about the same level in India today as it
was during the recession of the late 1990s, according to Muralidharan. “The
Indian economy is booming now, and it is predicted that in the next five years,
the curve will only be upward. But still, the jobs and employment are not really
growing at the same pace,” said Muralidharan. “The economies of scale that have
been created due to outsourcing from developed countries have forced Indian
industry to take on automation heavily, which was not the case about 10 years
back,” he said.
GartnerG2’s Miklovic noted that the use of automation contributes to a
cyclical situation in many industries. When a U.S. manufacturer develops a new
product, for example, the company has first-mover advantage for a time. But in
the next phase, when other manufacturers enter the market, competition often
shifts to price. In response, some U.S. producers may move manufacturing
offshore to developing nations, to take advantage of lower labor costs. However,
said Miklovic, they frequently find that the level of automation and technology
available in developing nations is less than that of the United States.
This means that U.S. manufacturers who then invest in sophisticated
automation technology at home can gain the upper hand for a time over
lower-priced imports, thanks to the higher quality product allowed by the
automation, said Miklovic. But the automation technology used in the developing
nations eventually catches up, giving products produced there the advantage, he
added.
“We see this in semiconductors all the time,” Miklovic said. “Semiconductors
typically have been produced in Japan and Taiwan. But now there is a booming
semiconductor market that’s starting in China.” While the density and
sophistication of semiconductor chips produced in China cannot yet match that of
Japan and Taiwan, said Miklovic, China’s technology is moving in that
direction.
“Automation only works for a period of time,” said Miklovic. The lesson for
manufacturers is that they must continually reinvest in automation and
innovation, he said. “If you stand still, ultimately you lose.”
All programming done by Americans
Sure it cost us more to build the Inetekk technology by ourselves and outsourcing to US programmers and US software developers. The prospect of sending our work abroad was never a consideration. Primarily doing so we lose the security of proprietary development to another country were we have little if any legal control regardless of how cheap that option could be. Then quality and communications is another factor, but we are also sensitive to doing business within our culture because of the process of getting what we are looking for and having the ability to have laws in effect that protect our interest in getting just what we are paying for.
Customer support by Americans
We are constantly getting offers to do our work at deep discounts by these foreign nationals, primarily India, but we are not cheap price motivated. Even our support service is run by Americans in America. We may ad to our support from Australia, but that is because they can offer the needed time frame for that region, not a cost consideration, so we can offer 24/7 seamless support for our clientele. Plus we have many Australian and New Zealander subscribers using our services and we love their accents.
Collocation in San Jose, CA USA
When we first started building the Inetekk systems, we went from a shared server in Florida to needing our own servers. We could have co located our servers in a foreign company for 1/3rd the cost but we realized by doing so our proprietary technology and secured databases would be at risk. Not a good idea. So we contracted with a well know company in San Jose. This was expensive but a very good decision. As the Internet has grown, the necessity to keep your data well secured is of the utmost importance and again, keeping this service local has proved to be a very good decision.
Servers built in USA
As we started building our server farm, again quality and service were the key issue. We went to a local shop in San Diego and hired them to build them. The first server, unaware to us, was built from foreign parts and within weeks the server started having failure issues. From then on we have demanded that all parts be US made as best we could and we have never had issues since. Our farm now runs with US made servers like NetAps, Intel, etc.
IT services by Americans
As with any server farm and web systems, having good IT professional's is imperative, and again, we hired US IT database engineers and server engineers. Same reason as our security is key and far more important than cost. For example, to use foreign IT services cost around $10 per hour. US costs are around $150 per hour. In my humble opinion, you get what you pay for.
The bottom line is future forecasting. I subscribe to the belief that our customers deserve the very best. Not only in the quality of the service, or the best customer support, but also security and the dedication to keep Inetekk around for the long run delivering the very best.
It seems the the big corporations in the US have lost sight to this fact and are all heading for serious issues as they continue down this road to losing control of their companies to the quest for seeking the lowest prices regardless. Take the Mattel toy company for example. Not long ago all their toys were US built. Today, they have lost major market share because the toys the sell now coming from Red China are toxic and low quality. It is scandalous that our children are getting toys painted with lead paint.
Q: I've been out of work for nearly five months, and the prospect of getting
a job in my field (mechanical engineering) doesn't look good -- unless I want to
move my family across the country. I've always wanted to have my own business,
but I'm worried about the comparative lack of job security that goes with it.
What's your opinion? I'm over 50 and in good health. -- Deidre N.
A: You have a lot going for you: you've always wanted to have your own
business, you're over 50, and you have good health. Security? You don't have it
now, and you didn't have it when you got laid off. I don't think there's
anything more secure today than working for yourself. Companies will cut any
costs they have to just to stay in business, and the popular trend for the past
several years has been to cut staff -- fast. And consider this: when you work
for someone else -- big company or small -- only a few people -- your boss and
one or two more managers -- control your future security. But with your own
business, if you lose a few customers, you still have others to back you up.
I've always thought that having my own business gives me more security, not
less, than I'd have if I worked for someone else.
Another stunning fact of life: at 50, you're more likely to be more
successful at hiring yourself than trying to convince someone else to do it.
Fortune magazine once ran a cover story: "Finished at Forty," detailing the
corporate trend of hiring younger people. As one CEO put it: "Why should I hang
on to someone who's over 50? He's tired of the long hours and wants to spend
more time with his family. He probably hasn't kept up with the newest
technology. I have to pay him $75,000 a year or more, and he argues with me. I
can hire someone in his 30's and pay him $35 to $40,000. He'll work 60 to 70
hours a week without complaining, and he won't argue with me. This is a
no-brainer."
What Do YOU Want?
My best advice: do what feels right for YOU. When you're motivated and
committed to a career you really like, the money and security usually take care
of themselves. There's a big difference in putting in 50-60 hours a week into a
job you love, and one you just feel so-so about. If you don't look forward to
going to work when you get up in the morning, you're in the wrong job. Life is
too short to work at a job you don't like.
Think carefully about how you want to spend one-third to half of the rest of
your life (your waking hours). It you really think it's time to have your own
business, then write your answers to these questions. They'll also form the
foundation for a good business plan -- an absolute must if you want to
succeed.
How would you describe your business (name, location, product/service?)
How would you describe your total target market -- the customers who will be
willing to pay you for your products/services?
What industry, local, or consumer trends or needs will you react to?
How would you analyze, and then describe your competition (how many; current
prices; their strengths/weaknesses)?
What are your marketing and business goals?
What are your first-year growth problems -- and how will you solve them?
What finances will you need to start the business and keep it going until it
can stand on its own? How will you get them?
What's your operating plan for the next five years? (At least half of the new
businesses started each year fail within the first 12 months. You must plan for
a long-term business.)
What's your management plan to control and develop your basic
operation/service?
What equipment, inventory, labor, space, overhead do you need?
Talk to Your Banker
Once your business plan is ready, prepare your personal financial statement
(all your assets and liabilities). Next. prepare a projected balance sheet and
profit and loss statement for your business -- at least for the first year. Then
it's time to meet with your banker.
A good banker can advise you on the likelihood of your succeeding in getting
a loan. He or she can point you in the right direction to get additional
information. An excellent source for learning about starting your own business
is on-line: Search for "sba.gov" and you'll discover a site that has all you
need to know to write your business plan and finance your business. You'll even
have models of nearly 100 business plans to study and benefit from. The rest is
up to you -- and your energy and commitment.
Bill Repp is president of Organization Development Group, and has
extensive experience in creating and delivering programs in marketing,
communication, team building and business writing. E-mail Bill Repp at billrepp@rochester.rr.com
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