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More Than Gold – An Online Business

My wife and I were fortunate enough to visit a gold mine in Africa. We found it to be more than just gold. We went deep down into “mother- earth”, more than a mile deep. We experienced first-hand where gold has been stored for millennia, how fabulous it looked, how thrilling it was, our hearts were beating in our chests.

Many times in my life I asked “how can so many people around the world desire gold so eagerly with such intensity for so many years” until I saw the real secret with my own eyes.

This gold mine is in Johannesburg South Africa; down we went in a mine shaft which felt like a journey of a lifetime, deep into the belly of the earth. We walked through a narrow tunnel, we felt the high and humid temperature and we noticed the dimmed lights hanging on the side of the tunnel that portrays a scary movie. Finally when we reached the rock-face where the gold was layered in its splendid beauty that was tucked away in solid rock, we stood in awe.

With our fingers we touched the rough rock-face surface, we admired the sight in the dim light and it brought smiles to our faces. We dreamt about what this gold can bring in our lives, the pleasure and the beauty it can offer people. What a gorgeous sight to see. Hidden for such a long time where no person has seen it before. Yes, it was a thrilling moment.

The glittering layers of gold embedded in hard rock, it’s so enticing to the mind. The real stuff, never been owned before, it belongs to mother earth, but it needs to be mined with careful planning, great skill and hard work. It was very overwhelming to think that there was over a mile of rock piled up above our heads, one gets the feeling of total insignificance. The mind quickly moves away from sensing such danger. You bring the mind back to it senses and you start to dream again when you see the layers of gold glittering in front of you. Our headlamps flashing left and right which created a shining reflection back to us. You get the urge to dig it out by hand, but realize that knowledge and skill has to be applied to bring it to the surface and only then can it be melted, purified, shaped and then admired and enjoyed.

Our tour leader told us that the mines are in operation 24 hours a day, it never stops and it shuts down only on Christmas day. He brought us back to the surface in the slow mineshaft elevator; he took us to the melting pots which are above ground. Hot flames melted the pieces of rock in the red hot oven; the heat could be felt from a distance. Skilled workers poured out the melting lava in rectangular block containers, the gold started to glitter again; it has been separated from the dirt. After the cooling down period, it was poured out for us to view and admire. Big square blocks of solid gold from deep down in the unknown world.

How majestic it was, how fortunate to see such beauty and to experience the feeling of wealth that it can bring to so many when you show it to others – precious gold that was hidden for thousands of years. People enjoy that feeling of great wealth and beauty when you own a piece of such beauty. Yes, we had the privilege to see it deep underground in the belly of the earth and now it’s in a pure solid block, but it took skill and leadership to bring it up to this stage. More skill is required to take it to the next level for it to become even more usable.

Recently, I sat down and recalled that great experience we had. It came to mind that an online home-based business is a carbon copy of digging and finding gold. The whole earth where gold is stored is the equivalent of the “internet”. It is overwhelming and confusing as to where to search for the glittering gold that the internet can offer you know it’s there, but it’s hidden under lots of “internet dirt”.

The drive to search for it to strike it rich, the knowledge and skill that is needed to bring it to the surface, the refining process; all this takes special skill sets to bring it to reality. Yes, the leaders in the mines know it takes a step at a time to have the end result. The concentration on the essential things, the purification process, the overcoming of obstacles, the learning processes, the self-mastery, the action to be taken in order to obtain it, the team-work and co-operation that is needed to succeed while keeping the end result of success in mind.

All of those steps are necessary to get that feeling of glittering success that brings joy in one’s life knowing it will shine bright eventually. The feeling of owning the gold, to love it, to share the beauty with others, then they too will start to desire it, then they want it for themselves and they will show it to others. I thought to myself that is why so many people around the world desire gold so eagerly with such intensity for so many years. An online home based marketing business is a carbon copy of the gold mining process. It is duplicating it every step of the way. It requires searching for the true stuff, sifting out, purifying it and working on it so that it can work 24 hours a day nonstop around the world, just about the same as the gold mine.

My wife and I have experienced this gold mine venture firsthand both with gold and with internet marketing. We have been successful in training many people around the world. We became leaders to others because we had hard knocks in life and we endured. This leadership is now offered for people to achieve what they thought was impossible for themselves before. They get a much higher vision by setting higher goals and in many cases achieve far greater results than what they thought possible for themselves. The shining of the gold comes out in the dim light until the headlamp flashes on it, it starts to glitter again. A new mindset skill elevates the possibility to overcome, to win to achieve and to reach the goal.

This is fulfilling and it’s exciting, but it’s even more exciting for those who are getting trained. It’s a satisfying feeling to give and share new skills and we know it should be shared with many who are hungry for great leadership. Helping others always gives us the feeling of freedom and happiness. Self-investment is like searching for gold in the earth, when it’s found and one masters the skill of bringing it to the surface to melt it gives great joy. That is when it stands solid in this unpredictable, dangerous and fast moving world.

As a family we travel a lot, it is exciting and enlightening and extremely educational. We have learnt a lot from the goldmine episode, it is far more than just digging for gold.

If you want to know more about our life’s experiences link to our blog, MySpace, you will see that we are enjoying every moment as a whole family.

Action Learn Your Affiliate Business

You want to develop your home-based business but feel isolated and unsure? One of the downsides of working for yourself is the loss of social interaction that frequently accompanies working for someone else.

Sometimes the issues involved in building your own business seem overwhelming – computer viruses, accounting, marketing strategies, web development, search engine optimization, privacy legislation, tax returns, anti-spam legislation, skeptical relatives and so the list goes on.

Action learning is one way to overcome this sense of isolation and uncertainty, build confidence and continuously improve your Internet business.

Action learning involves learning through action while collaborating with others on personal and business development. It is based on the principles of collaboration, mutual respect and honesty.

Learning to collaborate

Once we build our own business, we typically develop the competitive mindset that we need to survive. We research the competition, determine where our competitive advantage lies, decide what products and services we will offer at what prices and determine how to position ourselves within the competititve marketplace. It is very easy to isolate ourselves and withdraw from our normal circle of supportive relationships. However, it is possible to develop and maintain new relationships while building your business.

For example, I have three professional women friends who have been meeting monthly for a number of years over coffee by the river. They meet to explore with each other ways to develop themselves and grow their respective businesses.

At each meeting, they focus on a major issue for one person while the other two act as critical friends. Sometimes, they may take in turns within one meeting to offer personal or business issues for discussion. The number of issues covered in a meeting will depend on the available time and the depth of the issues involved. Issues may be personal, relationship, family or business. They recognise that life balance is critical to business success and to their capacity to offer value to their clients/customers.

Supportive challenge through mutual respect

The action learning approach combines support with challenge. The aim is to support each other emotionally while being prepared to challenge each other intellectually.

The challenge comes from asking fresh questions that are designed to unearth fundamental assumptions or beliefs about the nature of the problem being addressed. Often our own false beliefs about ourselves, our business or our competition holds us back from realising personal and business growth.

In our everday life we often experience the separation of support and challenge. Support without challenge can reinforce the status quo and perspectives that are unhelpful or damaging. Challenge without support can be self-serving (building oneself up while taking the other person down)and damaging to the self-esteem of the other person (by reinforcing feelings of inadequacy).

Supportive challenge has as its object, building the self-esteem of the other person while helping them to recognise the limitations of their existing mindset about a problem, person or issue. It is about helping the other person to be the best they are capable of being.

Learning to be honest

A fundamental value of action learning is the willingness to admit what you do not know or understand. This is often difficult in the social and business culture that we have today where knowledge and efficiency are so highly prized. However, honesty is the starting point for real learning.

Honesty requires trust and preparedness to be vulnerable. This is a lot easier if you are sharing with supportive friends. Openness builds if the group meets regularly and each person brings to the meeting the intention of working together to build personal and business effectiveness. Over time, honesty grows, relationships develop and effectiveness builds in all spheres of your lives.

Action learning as mutual coaching

Action learning can be a form of mutual coaching where people agree to take action on insights gained from the meetings. The value of the process is enhanced when each meeting includes a review of progress made since the previous meeting. Reflection on action and outcomes from those actions is fundamental to action learning.

If you engage in action learning you will be supported to go outside your comfort zone and try new things. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you are capable of achieving with the supportive challenge of reflective friends.

Network Marketing Business – How to Make Money in Network Marketing Even When You’re Broke!

So you scraped up your last bits of cash to join your network marketing business, and now you have no money to advertise with. This happens a lot and people will actually sometimes lose their momentum and not start to build their business until they have money to advertise with. Unfortunately this usually never happens.

This is a bad idea and usually will be a huge downfall.

The good news is that you can market your network marketing home business even when you’re broke and there are literally dozens of ways to do that. Of course some ways are better than others. Some are more effective than others, and some take a lot more time than others. But I want to give you the ones that you can start with right now, which are very effective.

Getting the Word Out FAST About Your Network Marketing Business for Free…

I’ll talk about the online ways to get traffic to your network marketing website in a minute, but first I want to tell you about a way that you can start building your network marketing business FAST starting right now…as soon as you read this article. The best way is to start talking to people that you know. Please don’t listen to all the BS hype of people telling you that the old methods of network marketing are dead.

Proof That Traditional Network Marketing Principals are NOT DEAD!

First of all they’re not and we’ve got over 60,000 people in our downline to prove it. But second of all if there’s anything more free than talking, then I don’t know what it is. Not only that but it’s likely that you dropped a good penny on your network marketing business kit when you joined, and if the opportunity you joined is worth it’s salt then there are some great promotional tools in there for you to use, so USE THEM! They’ve likely been tested and tweaked to work like crazy.

Building Your Network Marketing Business Online for FREE

First thing’s first. You need somewhere to send traffic, and to start branding yourself. You need a website for your MLM business. “But I don’t have money to buy one” you’re saying to yourself. Well you don’t need it. You can build a free site at Weebly.com, or you can set up a free Blog at Blogger.com and start running with it.

The Life Blood of any Network Marketers Chances of Success

You’ll have to start collecting leads ASAP. This means you need an auto-responder service. I suggest that here is where you should borrow money if you have to and get set-up with a service like Aweber, but there are some good free one’s out there that will be good enough for now. Just Google free auto responders and see what you can find, but it’s a must to have it to contact your leads.

Getting Traffic to Your New Network Marketing Website for Free

Ok, you’re all set up with a site, now you need some traffic to it. One of the best things that you can do is write articles and submit them to article directories like this one. EzineArticles.com is the best and you can get tons of traffic from the site itself, plus if you’re savvy you’ll get your articles ranked in the search engines. Look up The Bum Marketing Method at Google and you’ll find a great resource on finding the right keywords to use to get ranked in Google.

You’ll also want to post the articles on your own blog, and then change them pretty significantly and put them up at other article directories online as well.

Making Friends and Getting Free Traffic

You’ve probably heard about social sites like Facebook and Twitter. You may already have accounts there. It’s a great place to get traffic to your sites. Post a status or Tweet and let all your friends that you already have know that you have a business opportunity, or that you just wrote an article and link to it. And then start making new friends that are interested in making money.

How to Find the Best Christian Home Based Business

So you’ve been searching for a Christian home based business opportunity… WHAT should you be looking for?

With the myriad of home business opportunities out there … each one claiming to be the answer you have been looking for …. how do you know which one is the best Christian based home business for you? And if you’ve ever wanted to work from home, you know how desperately you want to believe all those promises of untold wealth just flooding into your bank account without you having to do one single thing to make it happen!

Well …… nice though that would be – it certainly isn’t the reality of the situation!! However, there ARE Christian home based businesses out there that are excellent and as we are very clearly called to rise above and out of the world’s system, a work from home business opportunity is often an answer to prayer – I know it certainly was for me!

So, what do you look for in a good Christian Home Based Business opportunity?

A good place to start would be prayer. Ask God for guidance, wisdom and direction – make Him your Controlling Business Partner – He will not let you down! 🙂

Right – here are 10 top things you should check out when looking for the best Christian home based business:-

1. Is the business legitimate? It really doesn’t need to be a Christian home based business as such – but it must be grounded in loyalty and integrity ……. all the way from the inside – out. Therefore, make sure you check it out thoroughly.

2. Are there actual products involved? If it is just passing on the business opportunity / gifting, don’t go anywhere near it. These businesses are considered illegal in most states and countries and are popularly known as pyramid schemes. Look for a REAL business – one which you will be proud to tell your friends and family about.

3. Are the products or services offered in demand? Most business cater to a very specific target audience – and thus do not work very well.

4. Are there any hidden costs? Be prepared to pay to join a good Christian based home business – it’s unrealistic to expect something for nothing – but do check if there are any hidden costs. Be sure you can afford the ongoing costs. These are not necessarily a bad thing – it costs to set up and run a business – but you need to take a responsible, informed approach.

5. What is your ROI (Return on Investment)? With some companies, the commissions are so tiny that you need to sell truck loads of products to earn anything near a decent income. Pick one where you actually stand to make some money! 🙂

6. Try and talk to someone within the business. Most home based businesses are online business opportunities and talking to someone is like trying to talk to the man in the moon!! Is it easy to talk to a real person within the business? What is their attitude? Run like mad if they try and talk you into anything. The primary duty of a company representative or anyone else within the business is to provide you with all the information you need so that you can make an informed decision.

7. Check out the available training and support – there should be tons and tons of this. It really doesn’t matter how good the company is – or how good the business is – you will almost certainly fall flat on your face if you do not have excellent training and support – specially in the early stages of your online Christian home based business opportunity journey.

8. Talk to your prospective sponsor. Most online home business opportunities, including Christian based home business opportunities work through you being sponsored into the business. Is your sponsor Christian? What is their primary motivation? (Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting big houses and cars, etc., – but do remember what the Bible says about being un-equally yoked – so check out their motives and try and get a feel for where their heart lies). Is he or she readily available? Do they provide training and support? What safety net is in place should your sponsor be ill, go on holiday, etc?

9. Choose the best sponsor for YOU . What do I mean by that? Well some sponsors advertise huge earnings, which is great …. but how does that help you? Don’t always assume they will pass that knowledge on to you – even if they say they will! Do the math – if they are as successful as they say they are, they are attracting many people each week. Do they physically have the time to provide you with the training and support they say they will? Do they have regular training calls where you know you can reach them every day?

10. Choose the best team for you. I have found that sponsors and teams have their own unique personality – find one that suits YOU , has the same values and principles as you and can work at a pace to suit you. Will your sponsor stick with you if you are an internet newbie? Or is the team full of people UNLIKE yourself? The best scenario is when there are a bunch of people of mixed abilities – all happy to work together, helping each other along to a single goal ….. and having fun along the way!

This may sound like a daunting list of do’s and don’ts – but let me assure you – find the right Christian home based business and you will be rewarded beyond anything you ever thought possible. I went from working 12 hour days and just getting by, to working in the comfort of my own home and earning more money than I have ever done, simply by applying the above check list! To say that my life has been changed would be the understatement of the year! So do your homework now, ask God to guide you and be prepared to think outside the box. A Christian home based business could be just what you need to be able to join me in saying, “Recession? What recession?!”

The Reality of Life and Owing A Network Marketing Business May Help in Solving Some of Your Problems

Unfortunately, that is not how it usually works out. The reality about our financial future is quite different from our parents.The average person will change jobs several times during his or her working life. And, we all know that in our modern world, there is no such thing as job security when you’re working for someone else.

To stay employed one needs to keep one’;s skills honed and polished and this is a never-ending task. According to the latest statistics, only 5% of people will be financially independent by age 65. The majority of these people are Business Owners, CEO’s and Directors of their own companies. The key is to own your business and becoming your own boss. A home business takes little capital to start and you can begin working on it part-time. Internationally, the number of home-based businesses has increased tremendously. Where do all these people come from? Some have entered the home-based business as a result of corporate restructuring, while others who have simply decided to take control of their lives and to work from home as an alternative to the rat race.

The Reality About Health:

Disease is on the rise as a result of our modern lifestyles. Everyone is at risk. Historically affluent people – particularly the health conscious people have better health than those who are not well-off. Not having enough money can reduce your lifespan by several years. Most people spend their entire lives working under some degree of stress and studies prove that this increases the risk of disease.

The Reality About The Options For Financial Freedom:

Actually, the options are very limited. You can however;

Work overtime but how long can you last?,

Get a second job,

Climb the corporate ladder,

Operate a traditional business,

Operate a Franchise,

Operate a Professional Services business, or

Join a good network marketing company.

The Reality About Success:

There is no such thing as a get rich quick scheme or rewards without effort. Building a stable residual income stream takes time, consistence, persistence and patience to enjoy the time and financial freedom. If what you are currently doing is not going to give you the lifestyle you desire, then you have to do something different. People who continually play safe and seldom make progress are the ones likely to miss opportunities. Those who achieve much in life take charge to live life by design rather than by default.

You must be willing to do what it takes. You must be willing to make some short-term sacrifice so that you can have more of it later. Robert Kiyosaki, best-selling author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, says, “A key difference between the rich and the poor is what they do in their spare time”.

You get rewarded by the value you give. The best way to get rich is to solve other people’s problems. Any venture you engage in must provide value, otherwise it will not last.

Leveraging is the way to financial independence and time freedom. Most rich people use the power of compounding/leveraging to earn residual income.

You can work hard or work smart. It is better to work smart. Use the power of compounding/leveraging and work with a team of people who can help you to build your business. They will provide you with training, strategies, techniques and support.

Timing is everything and trend is your friend. The Health and Wellness industry is set to have explosive growth. Generally, those who can see with their minds the potential of an opportunity and act quickly usually enjoy greater benefits.

The Reality About Network Marketing in Health and Wellness Industry as A Feasible and Viable Home Business:

1. It takes advantage of two powerful trends currently and in the future:

Health and Nutrition

Relationship or Network Marketing

2. It also helps us deal with problems confronting most families today:

Declining health even of kids

Lack of job security

Rise in costs of living

You can decide to do something about it or ignore the reality. It is your choice!

Starting a Business? Reasons Why You May Need to Recruit an Advisory Board

Do you know everything? Do you know everyone? Do you have strengths and weaknesses? I assume that your answers to these three questions are “No, no, and well, yes,” given in the order of the questions, as posed. If you are contemplating starting a business, merrily bootstrapping your way to what you hope will be entrepreneurial success, perhaps you need to reconsider your own human limitations. You might want to strongly consider recruiting an advisory board.

Who should become a member of your advisory board?

That’s a tough one, and an easy one. The tough part is that you probably already have members of your advisory board, yet neither you, nor they, may be aware of their membership. Significant others, parents, friends, and other folks who are a part of your life all tend to give you advice–sometimes, whether you want it, or not. Are these people good advisory board members for your business? Maybe! Maybe not.

Let’s suppose we take the instance of a spouse or a significant other. It may cause a drain on your relationship to talk shop, too often. If your relationship begins to suffer because you cannot leave your work at work, and spend time on the personal part of your relationship, perhaps you should set some boundaries, and leave your struggle, pains, headaches, and gripes at work. If you are enjoying success: share it. If you work at home, leave all of those other negative things in your in-home office. Adopt a similar attitude as the insurance companies that suggest: “I don’t want to be a burden to my family.”

To the extent that you are able, you should leave the office burden behind and take adequate care of yourself, too, by-the-way. Turn the cell phone off, leave the laptop screen down, close the office door behind you on the way out, and clear your head from time-to-time.

Some personal relationships are strengthened by a great deal of togetherness. If that’s the way yours works, and you trust the “instincts,” acumen, and abilities of someone who is close to you (relative to guiding your business), then by all means, consider adding this person to your advisory board. You may want to have a clearly established set of protocols for ensuring that this arrangement works, however. While it’s not exactly the same thing, it should serve as a warning to anyone that it is not unusual for friendships and other close relationships to evolve into business partnerships, only to subsequently unravel.

In outlining the above, certain things should have become obvious: one needs to establish criteria for the selection and retention of advisory board members. In particular, on an individual basis, one should have skills, knowledge, and insights that will serve to strengthen you, the advisee. The relationship should yield objective advice, which you may or may not adopt, with no hard feelings on anybody’s part.

You should also adopt a holistic view about the composition of the entire board: there should be balance. I am particularly fond of mentioning that there is also a place for non-experts on a board. Some of the greatest insights of all come from individuals who innocently ask what the “experts” might consider naive questions. “Why, do you do it this way?” Every once in a while, that individual who doesn’t know any better may ask a question that stumps the experts, or causes them to produce a very poor answer in an era of rapid change, which we now face. That poor answer is usually along the lines of, “Because that’s the way we’ve always done it.” (Baaawoooonk–game show loser. Wrong answer.)

Recruitment strategies that work.

Have you ever heard of the WIFM proposition? “What’s in-it for me?” That’s the question you should prepare to answer as you craft your message for prospective advisory members, and determine who those members might be. The question I would ask is this, “Who might benefit from being on my board, while assisting me?” Let’s take the example of a Web site or other marketing communications materials: It might be nice if you would provide some public acknowledgement to your advisory board member in your outbound messages, such that they generate visibility and benefit that individual’s own endeavors. Yes, it’s tit for tat. Be thoughtful of the other person’s needs and interests!

Don’t forget sharing. Remember that from kindergarten? You need to be prepared to give, as well as receive. Don’t ask people to be a member of your advisory board if you are too apathetic, or too busy to give a little of your time helping others yourself. Don’t be one-sided in your dealings with other people. Further, it doesn’t have to be the same little group of people. In other words, if you were kind enough to sit on a few boards and lend your skills and insights, the adage, “What goes around, comes around,” will likely apply to you. It may be a different group of individuals, besides the ones you got to know through the boards you sit on, who sit on your own advisory board. That’s o.k., just think of the expanded network that you will have.

Logistics of advisory boards

Don’t be a burden to your board. Too many meetings become very non-productive. Too much communication becomes an imposition. Keep advisory board obligations streamlined, simple, and convenient; meetings should be limited in frequency and duration, mutually beneficial, and enjoyable, while at the same time addressing the “nuts and bolts” of the advising tasks at hand. If you have the budget, you may wish to consider an annual meeting in a setting that’s enjoyable. If you cannot afford it, is it because you were so busy bootstrapping that you didn’t foresee the need for such a board or meetings? That’s called thinking small. Think bigger.

Staying connected, and competent

If you don’t provide for your, and your company’s, own nurturing and development, it probably isn’t going to occur at all. As a related aside, I find that many business plans often fail to address professional development and the entrepreneur’s need to stay tuned in and informed. If you haven’t factored in your own industry’s number one and number two annual conferences, some continuing education and seminars, some workshops, and plenty of books and periodicals, you’re cheating your business out of what should be one if its primary assets: your competence and connectedness as a leader.

Bottom line, you need to stay connected and informed to be effective. An advisory board is a great way to address many aspects of this requirement. You should supplement and offset your weaknesses and human limitations with the help of others, and be sure to reciprocate.

8 Great Reasons For Starting a Network Marketing Business

Network marketing has changed the lives of millions of ordinary people just like YOU and me around the globe and if you’re hesitating in joining a network marketing business, then take a look at some of the benefits you’ll gain.

Benefit #1: This Business Can Be Build On A Part Time basis.

No need to quit your current job to join a network marketing company; hence stressing to be able to put food on the table and provide for your family and other household expenses.

While you still got a regular job, you can dedicate a few hours a week to work on your home-based business…The training we offer once you join will literally give you tips on how to work less and earn more.

I’ve met many full time students that have been able to build successful businesses and are earning a lot more money for themselves while they get their school degrees.

Benefit #2: Very Low Start-Up Cost (Meager Investment Required)

If you wanted to start a regular business from scratch, then you’ll definitely need to invest thousands and thousands of dollars to get started.

Buying a McDonalds franchise can cost you up to $300,000 as a start-up cost and most people don’t got that kind of money.

With a network marketing company, you can own your own franchise and begin making money Right Away with ONLY a few hundred dollars!

Benefit #3: No Income Ceiling

By becoming a better marketer with the tools and training you’ll receive from us, growing your business will be a lot more easier and with this business, you got the potential of earning as much money as you’d like without being in debt from the beginning.

Benefit #4 Residual Income (Passive Income)

Residual income is what all entrepreneurs are seeking for in the long-term with their businesses…but what does it mean?

To make it simple to understand, residual income is the money that you’re able to earn on a constant basis from your business without working.

In other words, rather than exchanging your time for money like you’ll do at a regular 9-5 job, you spend some time to build a potent business by leveraging the efforts of others, then the income will keep flowing in no matter what.

Building a residual income from your business is doable but it requires lots of work and perseverance. You must become a leader and create new leaders in your team in order for your business to duplicate.

Network marketing easily allows you to build a residual income for life…If done properly; you’ll continuously get paid without getting your hands dirty.

Benefit #5: Tax Advantages

There are a lot of tax advantages that you can benefit from simply because you own a business. With a home-based business, you get paid first without any tax deductions, invest all you can into your business, and then be taxed on whatever is left.

That’s one of the biggest loopholes EVER. Get paid, invest your earning through corporations, and then get taxed on whatever money is left.

You definitely do not have this opportunity as an employee because before you even you see your paycheck, the government already took his share…and it doesn’t stop there since your first line of expense as en employee is taxes.

After all this, you’ll be forced to struggle and live on whatever money is left.

It really aggravates me when I hear people say that business owners are heavily taxed and have a lot less advantages than employees. That’s total ignorance and here’s why…

Tax laws are written in the rich and wealthy people’s favor since they possess power and influence.

In addition to this huge benefit, you will be able to get better and higher tax returns because you can claim every PENNY that you spend in building your business. These may include the following:

*Electricity

*Rent (spaces that you use to run your business)

*Internet

*Telephone

*Home insurance

*Food supplies

*Business tools (computers, printers, ink, webcams, microphones, etc…)

*Business related travel costs

*Advertising expenses (Fliers, Press Releases, Ezine ads, PPC, etc…)

*And much more…

So why pay more taxes when there’s a L-E-G-A-L way to avoid them?

Benefit #6: Time Flexibility

Having a home-based business is a dream come true for a lot of people around the world. You and only you manage your time.

There’s no boss looking behind your shoulders at all times making sure that you’re getting the job done.

You work and build your business at your own pace. There’s really no stress and you could be in your pajamas all day and be building a successful business from the comfort of your home.

By joining a network marketing company, you own and control your business…It’s not the other way around.

Benefit #7: Meeting Great People

Throughout your network marketing endeavors, you’ll meet incredible people that share the same values as you. You know what’s even better, you’ll be in constant contact and surrounded by successful people from whom you can learn and get great advices from.

Instead of discouraging you, these people have the same views as you and therefore will be there to support and guide you all the way. That alone is priceless!

Benefit #8: Great Free Training

By joining any network marketing company, you’ll receive some sort of training.

They’ll teach you things like personal development, pubic speaking, sales, marketing and many other life-time valuable skills that you’ll be able to use in your everyday life.

I truly hope that all these *BENEFITS* will help you make a better decision about network marketing and why there’s so much to gain.

Earn Money Online Using The Secrets Of Other Successful Internet Business Owners

Have you seen, heard or been told about successful business owners and you want to know what secrets they know that you don’t which allows them to be successful? Then you are in luck, you are going to learn the most important secrets that they use to achieve success so you can start using these secrets also to achieve your own success with your business.

Here are the secrets that will let you start seeing your own business become successful like you need and want it to.

1. Hard work – This is not something you may want to hear, but if you want to build a business to be successful, then you have to put in hard work. There is no way around it.

Any business is going to require hard work when you are first starting. That is just a fact that you have to accept and learn to deal with or you will never succeed with your business.

2. Time and patience – Time and patience are both needed to build your business to success. Time for your marketing efforts to start working effectively, time for you to learn how to build a business and time for many other things, along with patience to get everything going is a big secret that many people have trouble with.

3. Online business education – There are many subjects that you will know absolutely nothing about. Successful business owners took the time to learn anything and everything they needed to know, no matter how much time it took, so they could achieve the success they have.

You can do the same thing if you are willing to learn and educate yourself on every subject you find that you need to know for building your business to be a success.

4. Desire to succeed no matter what – Building an online business is not going to be easy so this is imperative to anyone’s success. You need to have a strong desire to succeed so that you can overcome any problems or obstacles that stand in your way.

This will also prevent you from giving up too soon and not giving yourself or your business a chance to be successful.

5. Marketing – This is the number one secret that will help anyone build a business. You have to learn about each marketing method, one at a time. Then put each method into action, one at a time.

This will take time, hard work and patience, but it will be well worth it because without this, you will never make any money. The key thing to remember is that the more marketing you are able to do for your business, the more success you will achieve.

These are the secrets that the successful business owners have used and still use to help them get their business where they want it to be. If you just use these same secrets with your online business, you can easily achieve the same success. If you are smart enough to use them, before you are aware of it happening, you will have a business that is most definitely making you money online.

Home Based Baking Business – How to Start and Run Your Business

Before you start a home based baking business, you should know that it takes a special kind of person to run this sort of enterprise. Not only do you have to have full knowledge and be very experienced in this activity; you must also have the dedication, organization, and will power to succeed.

First and foremost, you would need to fill all tax requirements and get any licenses and permits that might be required. If you are unsure that you are the right person for this job, it’s better to find something else right away, because if you come into this career with too much expectation and not enough patience and preparation, you will only be disappointed in the end.

If you feel that you have what it takes to get started in a home based baking business, then you should be ready to move on to the next step: deciding on your niche. What exactly is it you want to do? Do you want to offer a wide variety of baked goods? Do you want to create custom made specialties for festive events? Or run a catering service, or an online bakery store?

Make sure you are specific about what kind of clients you want to reach. This will make marketing that much easier, and allow you to move on to the next step: buying supplies. Everything you buy should be strictly cataloged, with full records, receipts, and without surpassing your pre-determined budget. Never buy more than planned, and only purchase ingredients based on the number of clients you are able to draw in. After all, wasted food is wasted money.

If you don’t already have an accountant, you should get one right at the beginning stages of the company. Having someone else ready to deal with your budget, purchases, tax issues, and other financial issues, allows you to focus on what is most important to you: running your bakery enterprise. This is especially useful when it comes to keeping track of tax-deductible expenses, of which you should have plenty.

Owning your own business in this field can be difficult and overwhelming at times, but if you are prepared and love to bake, it is also a rewarding experience that can lead to financial success and a profitable career. So good luck, and keep on baking.

My Handmade Wedding Invitation Business – How to Start One

Everybody always wants to know how I set up my handmade wedding invitation business. It wasn’t all that difficult really. Anybody could do it. All you need is a little artistic ability and an imagination. And with all the neat stuff they have in the craft shops now, you don’t really even have to have that.

Have you seen all the beautiful papers they have out now. When I first started out you had your choice of white, ecru, and maybe a few pastel colors. And if you wanted them to have any kind of floral design or pattern on them, you had to do it yourself. But when it comes to wedding invitations, you have to be very precise and exact. Nobody wants a paint spattered wedding invitation and the more “store bought” they look the better. Even though it’s an original design, it still has to look professional.

But now you can get all kinds of beautiful papers. Floral patterns and stripes and polka dots. And some of the most breathtaking colors, too. Those days of peach or lavender are long gone! Another thing that’s helped in my design business is the increasing popularity of scrapbookking. With so many people turning to this as a hobby now, the manufacturers who create those products have created hundreds and hundreds of embellishments for those scrapbooks that are just perfect for wedding invitations and stationery.

No matter what theme the bridal party is looking for, you can find something useful in the scrapbookking aisle at your local craft store. I had someone ask me for a beach theme for their wedding stationery a few weeks ago and I found the most beautiful embellishments at the craft shop. They had these little pearlized seashells that matched perfectly with this muted seashell pattern paper that they had. I also found a lovely sand colored paper to use for inserts and finished it all of with a natural raffia bow. They were gorgeous! And the bride loved them!

Computers have helped a lot, too. Years ago, when I first started out, my only option for the lettering on my invitations was calligraphy. Can you imagine?! Hand lettering an invitation is a very time consuming process, even when you know what you’re doing. But now, I can let the bride sit right beside me as we choose the font styles for her invitations and I can even print our samples for her to help her decide. And in the blink of an eye, I can print out all of the inserts I need without ever lifting my calligraphy pen.

Of course, I make sure to make an extra of all of my invitations so I can put them in my portfolio. I have people ask to see samples of my work all the time. Which is only natural. No one buys wedding invitations without being able to see them first. So you see, setting up a handmade wedding invitation business these days is easy!