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How would you like to have at least an extra hour in your day just for yourself so that you can have more fun? When you work from home there can be a tendency to work longer hours due to the flexibility that you have.

If you work from home, these ideas if implemented consistently will free up your time so that you can enjoy more of your life.

Look After Yourself First

Exercise regularly and eat healthily. Do the right thing by yourself and you’ll have heaps of energy, be motivated, more productive and happier.

Surround Yourself with Positivity

Circulate with positive people, read motivational books and listen to motivational tapes/cds while driving, going for a walk or waiting for appointments. Avoid negative people like the plague. They will drain your energy.

Clean out the Clutter

You will save yourself heaps of time, energy, space and money if you clear out your home environment…paperwork, books, old equipment etc. regularly. You′ll be able to find things, save money because you won′t have to buy what you already have hidden somewhere, plus you′ll be less stressed. You′ll feel better which will make you happier.

Jazz Up Your Environment

If you work and live in a pleasant environment, you’ll naturally feel better and happier. A clean, uncluttered home office makes you feel good and happy to be there.

Dress for Success

When you look good, you feel good, when you feel good you are happier. Have an image makeover. Even though you work from home, if you dress well to suit your lifestyle, it will make a difference to how you and everyone else see you.

Plan Time For Fun

With so much to organise in your busy life you need to record your appointments, things to do and goals somewhere. Use a paper diary or digital organiser that you can take everywhere. This is the most effective way to get things done, plan your work and your life. When you work from home it is easy to get bogged down with work and not have planned time out.

Learn to say “No”

To dramatically improve your productivity and do more of the things you want in your life, you have to be firm with others and let them know if you cannot, will not or are unavailable to fulfil their requests. Neighbours, family and friends can have the mistaken belief that because you work from home you are not really working.

If you constantly say “yes” to everyone else’s requests you will never have the time to do what you really want to. Book yourself into a self-assertiveness course to learn these skills if you feel you need to.

Do What You Do Best and Delegate the Rest

See if there are ways you can delegate tasks which would suit someone else′s talents. Many people spend heaps of time on mundane secretarial tasks which would take a person who is trained in that area a quarter of the time to undertake.

At home hire a gardener and cleaner to take care of the basic household chores. It’s worth investing the extra dollars if you can have more free time to do what you want to.

Compliment Someone Every Day

How do you feel when you receive a compliment? Make someone’s day…give before you get because what goes around, comes around. Go out each day, even if it’s to the local shops so that you can talk to people.

The Final Word

By following these simple yet very effective ideas you can really enjoy the benefits you can experience when you work at home. You’ll feel good, look good and have more time to enjoy your life… and when you’re enjoying life, you’re happy!

About The Author
Lorraine Pirihi is Australia’s Personal Productivity Specialist and Leading Life Coach. Her business The Office Organiser specialises in showing small business owners and managers, how to get organised at work so they can have a life! Lorraine is also a dynamic speaker and has produced many products including “How to Survive and Thrive at Work!”

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Work at home medical billing seems like the perfect job for you. You own a computer, you want to stay home, pick your own hours. You will even be trained and given leads to professionals that need your service.

But the chances of making the money claimed are slim. Consumers don’t realize what they’re getting into. Newcomers to the medical billing market with no experience and no contacts in the medical field will face fierce competition. As the FTC alleged, most of the consumers didn’t earn a dime.

Not all medical billing opportunities are scams. For consumers interested in buying a medical billing business opportunity, the FTC offers advice:

• Check with the state Attorney General’s office, consumer protection agency and the Better Business Bureau in your area and the area where the medical billing promoter is based to learn whether any unresolved complaints about them or the promoter are on file. Be aware, however, that the absence of complaints doesn’t necessarily mean the medical billing company is legitimate. But at least you can rule them out if there is.

• Be wary of the medical billing promoter wants to only provide a few references.

• Interview these references in person and ask for the names of their clients and a description of their operations.

• Consult an attorney, accountant or other business advisor before signing any agreement or paying any money.

• Consult with organizations for medical claims processors or medical billing businesses and with local doctors.

• If the medical billing opportunity sells another company’s software, check with the software company to find out whether company representatives know of any problems with the medical billing promoter.

All these things may seem like a difficult task, but real medical billing is a business. You need to treat it like one. Don’t be afraid to ask the medical billing promoter questions.

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Listing names of Big Mail Requestors, and sending out packages of Big Mail is an easy way to get your start in the business of selling by mail.There are a number of mail order operators pulling in an easy, extra thousand dollars a month, by what you’d hardly call work - doing nothing more than receiving money for advertising a list of people’s names interested in receiving Big Mails, and sending out envelopes stuffed to overflowing with Big Mail.

Regardless of where you live - you age - teenager or senior citizen - man or woman - there is no reason you can’t do the same - pull in extra thousand dollars a month, with the same idea.

Getting started is not as easy as turning on a water tap, but then your initial investment will amount to practically nothing - and the requirements upon your time should not amount to more than a few hours a week

First, let’s define the market - Who wants Big Mails, and why they want it… Big Mails are wanted or should be wanted, by just about every person in business, especially those involved in selling a product via the mails, in order to keep himself abreast of who’s doing what, how they′re doing it, the new offers being made and the newcomers to the business. The reasoning is because of the time and postage saved by automatically receiving all of this information, as opposed to writing and mailing letters to each individual offer you see that arouses your interest, not to mention the time saved in searching through all the different publications to discover these things. Some people - the dreamers and the lonely - like to receive Big Mails simply for the sake of having mail delivered to them every day. There′s no sure way of determining which of your Big Mail Requestors these people are - so you just forget about it, and send your Big Mails to everybody on your list. Besides, the actual number of people in this category are fewer than you might suspect.

Now, let’s define what’s inside a Big Mail Package you or your buyers - Big Mail Requestors - will be receiving in the mail… Generally, you’ll find at least one, but usually several publications: ad sheets, tabloid mail order newspapers, and an occasional newsletter. The rest is almost always a collection of various product advertising circulars. At least two of these circulars will be from the person sending the package to you in the first place.

Many, if not most of the beginners in this business, first get their name listed as a Big Mail Requestor, on as many Big Mails Wanted lists as possible. They even save the mail they receive, and once a week, every other week, or once a month, they stuff their accumulated Big Mail into individual envelopes and send it to the names on their lists of people who have paid to be listed as Big Mail Requestors. Don’t forget - All Big Mail suppliers always include at least a couple of two-sided circulars of their own. These are usually Commission

Circulars - product advertising circulars, sometimes provided by a prime source or distributor with a blank space on the reply coupon for the dealer doing mailing to rubber stamp his business name and address. More often than not, the distributor furnished the dealer with “camera ready” copies of circulars to use.

The dealer takes these C/R’s to a quick print shop, and has several thousand copies made up with his business name and address imprinted on each circular.

Every time you send out a package of Big Mail, always include two advertising circulars of your own - circulars that may interest the recipient and cause him or her to send to you for the product or service offered. These can be commission - dropship - products, or products that you have devised, produced and are selling.

Incidentally, the best way to go with commission circulars is to ask for or get a camera-ready copy of the original, and have a large quantity of them printed locally with your name in place of the supplier. This will save you hours of very boring work entailed in rubber-stamping your name on several thousand circulars. If for whatever reason it’s too expensive to get your circulars printed locally, then check around for a printer who does business by mail, and will make your circulars for you with your name and address on the ordering coupon. Also, it will almost always pay for you to have the printer fold your circulars for you before he ships them to you - he can do it all in about an hour, while it could take you a couple of days to a week or longer to fold 5,000 circulars yourself.

You can include as many product circulars in your package of Big Mail as you want, but It’s been proven time and time again that three very good - outstanding - circulars, all related to the same idea, bring back more responses than an envelope overflowing with circulars. What I’m saying is that a circular inviting the recipient to send for Book #317, “How to Make Money Writing & Selling Simple Information,” plus a circular on Book #365, “$50,000 a Year from Mail Order Ads,” will pull far more inquiries than 10 or 12 different circulars inviting the recipient to send for a mixture of related items. The reason is quite simple - After about 3 circulars, you begin to overwhelm the recipient with opportunities. In reality, he′d like all of the books you are offering, but he only wants to spend so much and therefore, he’s faced with a decision of which ones to send for - and more often than not, he ends up not sending for any of them.

Including a mini-catalog listing of your offerings if quite different, and generally acceptable to most people receiving big mail packages, or product advertising in the mail. Generally, this is regarded as not so much loose paper and something they can hang onto for awhile and maybe order from, much the same as they order from a JC Penny catalog.

When you’ve got your name listed on a number of lists as a Big Mail Requestor, and after you’ve got a steady supply of this kind of mail coming to you, start placing ads of your own in some of the larger circulation ad sheets and other mail order publications as a Big Mail Supplier. For ideas on ads to use, glance through any mail order publication and come up with one you think will bring the most replies in.

Now you′re on your way with the basic plan and “know-how” for a fast start as a Big Mail Supplier. In order to expand your big mail operations into a real money-making business, compile a list of magazines, newsletters, mail order tabloids and ad sheets. Then draft a letter to these publishers, advising them that you can supply them with several hundred prospective subscribers each month.

Explain that your prospects come from responses to national advertising, which you run at no cost to them, the publishers: Go on to explain that your national advertising offers Free Trial Subscriptions to the nation’s leading money-making publications, and that you feel your list will be incomplete without his publication…

Sweeten the pot further by detailing how you’ll be sending the names and addresses of these fresh prospects on peel ‘n stick labels - that these mailing lists will belong to him on receipt - and that you encourage him to copy them for follow up mailings…

You charge each of these publishers $100 a year for this service, and even when you have 100-150 signed, keep looking for and attempting to sign more publishers.

Don’t ever stop soliciting publishers, and go after the biggest as well as the very smallest of them With a number of accounts signed and paid, you place an ad such as the following, in several national publications:

FILL YOUR MAILBOX WITH OPPORTUNITY!
World’s leading Money-Making publications!
Free trial subscriptions! $2 for processing to:
(Your name & address).

When the responses to your ads come in, type the names and addresses onto “master” sheets or put them into your computer systems as respondents to your advertising. Sometime around the 15th of each month, copy your masters onto the number of customer sheets of labels you need, and send them out. You bank the money from your advertising respondents.

One hundred publishers times $100 each means $10,000 per year… A minimum of 200 respondents to your advertising each month means another $4,800 per year And then, by contracting with a reputable list broker to handle the rental of the

“HOT” names you accumulate each month, you should be able to double or triple these figures… And $30,000 income your first year in the Big Mail business is nothing to “cry about” at all!!!

Meanwhile you’ve got all these new prospects, to whom you can send your own sales materials You can also expand your services and become a subscription agency, a publications distributor, or even a mail order publications Advertising Agency…

You could compile, publish and sell directories of newsletters, tabloids and ad sheets… Directories of Mail Order Associations… Mailing lists of people wanting Big Mails… or mailing lists of people wanting Commission Circulars.

Copyright 2004 by DeAnna Spencer

DeAnna Spencer is a virtual assistant that helps entrepreneurs run a successful business by providing affordable administrative help. She also publishes a blog for small business owners. Visit this learnsmallbusiness.wordpress.com small business resource today.

If you’re researching a “home business” in any way shape or form you’ve more than likely begun to figure out that the subject of a home business is full of more turds than a backed up toilet. It seems as if everyone that writes articles, has websites, or has the next great “system” to enable you to make money from a home business. I’ve looked into many of these things and come to one tried and true conclusion, 99.9% of the stuff associated with the term “home business” is BS! Most of it is designed to do one thing. To separate you from your hard earned money.

After years of falling for various supposed money making schemes, I finally came to a very relevant conclusion that will help everyone reading this article. Keep in mind that this is coming from a guy who now has his own home business and makes money with it, but that didn′t happen until I stumbled on to my relevant conclusion. My relevant conclusion was this: Start following my passion and forget about the rest. I decided to start following my passion, no matter what happened. I gave up the idea of getting rich having a home business. I gave up any attempt to ‘make money quickly’. As the Bhagavad-Gita teaches us: I detached from the outcome.

I detached from the outcome and started following my passion, and that’s what worked. I know that anyone can do exactly what I did, and make more money than they ever imagined. I make a lot of money now, but the ironic thing is that I don’t care. The money isn’t my focus anymore. If you want to make more money than you ever imagined, don’t focus on money. Focus on following that which you feel passionate about instead, and money will more than likely follow.

The bottom line is that all of us feel passionately about something. It might be football, sewing, photography, writing, children, dogs, food, hunting, plants, hell it makes no difference. What’s important is that you take that which you feel deep within you and follow it. Follow your passion and forget about money! Ironically, this is the best way to end up making more money than you ever imagined. Oh, and it doesn’t hurt to stop giving your hard earned money to all the weasel promising riches for doing next to nothing, either!

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of http:www.JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!

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Why do people start a home based business? The most common reason people will tell you is that they want more money. But most people will tell you that money alone is not enough. A better answer that you get from your MLM prospect is that they want to start a home based business so as to be with their kids at home. It is an answer like this that will enable you to ignite the fire in your downlines and point them in the right way to build their home based business.

This article will deal with a simple three stage process by which you can find out what is important in life to your mlm prospects and help them see why your home based business meets their concerns.

1. Ask questions that pertain to values

The first stage of the process when talking to a potential lead is to find out what is important to them. The business venture that you have can be replicated anywhere else but it is most important to build rapport with your potential downline. What better way than to ask them what is the reason why they want to start a home based business. Spend some time listening to them as this can help you later.

Dani Johnson one of the best mlm trainers talks about this and she explains that rapport and the concern that your prospect will feel after you find out what is important to them will help them see why they should signup now as opposed to later.

2. Ask questions that pertain to their dreams in the future

The next stage of the process is to ask them what dreams they have if they have a lot of money. This is important because we all have dreams and by having this vision of their dream in front of their eyes, suddenly your home based business becomes very important. A dream is always an idea at the back of our heads and most people would give anything to be able to achieve that dream.
Mary, one my downlines, later recalled after one of our conversations, that it was then that she realized that if she wanted to achieve her dreams, she had to join our business opportunity then.

3. Link all together The third stage of the process is to link their dreams and values and desires and to ask them what in the business opportunity do they think can help them meet their values and fulfill their dreams. So this points them towards your home based business in order to meet their values and to fulfill their dreams.

An example would be in order. There was day when one of my downlines was talking to a person called Jane. Jane’s concern was for her children growing up without anyone looking after them. So my downline asked her what she saws in the business opportunity that can help her stay at home and look after her kids. Jane answered that she could potentially earn a lot of money from her home and she went on to say that she was very motivated and ready to start. Thus when all the factors are in place you have one more motivated downline.

In conclusion, mlm prospecting should not be a tiring process whereby you call cold leads and get stressed out talking to them. Spend some time learning this simple three stage process and your mlm upgrade ratio will start increasing. Once desire meets your internet home business, you have one very motivated downline ready to hit the road and continue building your organization.

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As in every business endeavor, some companies without adequate planning, solid foundation and logistics, open shop as network marketing companies, but go under sooner than later causing losses to members instead of the promised gain.

Most other companies (unethical pyramid schemes not backed by useful products) deliberately offer opportunities which are by all means unprofitable to members. Every one unsuccessful network marketer, therefore, creates as many other disgruntled individuals as he or she had introduced into the business.

However, do not let other people’s failures deter you from succeeding. No matter the misgivings associated with Network marketing, evidence abound that this system of “direct sales” business of consumers dealing directly with producers is continuously being adopted by many companies around the world. Very many people are also turning their lives around reaping great rewards doing the same thing most other individuals readily scuff at as too hard and unprofitable.

The reason for failure is just the opposite of the reason for success. You must avoid going into any business without adequate planning, knowledge of the particular business as your foundation, and then WORK, work the knowledge you must have acquired of your chosen program, for these are the three basic necessities that make success in any endeavor.

TO BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY A VIABLE COMPANY IS GOOD PLANNING

A viable company should be product backed.
The company has a physical headquarter-address.
The company’s compensation plan is reasonable and paid as and when due.
There is a track record of company and member’s success.
The company has been around for more than five years.
The company is continuously spreading to other countries.
Membership is international.
The company keeps to its promises to members, e.g. special awards etc.

You see, an adage here says: “It is not wise to give a bad coin to a friend, relative or neighbor, because it dents relationships”. Be sure that any company you chose to join its network marketing business is a successful one. Since network marketing is about introductions, let it not be your lot to introduce anyone to failure. So unless you are absolutely sure of the company you have signed up with, work for your close associate to see your success and voluntarily join you. Images of disrepute hardly goe away, you know.

So you are not satisfied with your ability to settle your bills, your freedom scope, and you are surely in need of a better income stream, but you have heard about numerous failed network marketing schemes or have tried some schemes yourself that did you no good, so you condemn all as worthless? Well, let me tell you here and now that counterfeit is the opposite of the real thing, so find it, find the real thing, it is available.

SUCCESS

Success is like thunder; it requires a lightening which requires a stormy condition to strike. So first you need a goal, a desire to be whatever you want to be, then secondly you need a vehicle for reaching your goal, a solid well oiled vehicle, thirdly, you must learn to drive that vehicle to your goal, to your success.

HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN NETWORK MARKETING

If you join a network marketing company you do so because you want to increase or supplement or engineer a huge conduit pipe of income stream. So the best way to go about recruiting down lines to help you achieve your goal is to go for those who have the same mindsite as you do. People who are motivated like you, people who are on the lookout for business ventures, people who are prepared to understand what it is all about. People who are hungry for success. PEOPLE WHO ARE READY TO CAUSE THE ACTION THAT MUST IMPACT ON THEIR LIVES AND CREATE THE REQUIRED CHANGE FROM SUBSISTENCE TO AFFLUENCE. People who are of this mindset might not be available in your neighborhood, and even if you find a few of them in your locality, remember that you need to build a huge network, so you require quite a good number of such people if you must succeed.

So what must you do?

You must reach out just like a successful network marketing company, spreading your tentacle around the world - thanks goodness - the internet is now here.

HOW TO RECRUIT HUNGRY PROSPECTS

You need a website for your business. This is where people get a first hand information on your business. Your site must speak straight to your prospective visitors about the business. It must be easy to understand what you are putting across, and offer the opportunity of signing up or ordering your products online.

So how do you get those who are hungry for success to visit your site and get to know about your offer?

You may buy a list of people who want to start a new business online and phone them to sound them out on their intentions and see if they fit your scheme. However, beear in mind that not all of them will be interested in your offer. Some will show interest without commitment, so be sure to spend your time only with the overtly interested, they are the ones who will do it like you, the ones who will make your strong legs in the network.
Have your website linked to related sites and write articles about your business and submit to article directories regularly. Signup with entrepreneurial emailing programs. Only entrepreneurs signup in these kinds of programs so that anyone who joins your network from there is very likely to come with the advantage of a practicing network marketer.

If you need to increase your earnings, then to achieve your goal, you must remember to: plan, study and work your knowledge of a viable company, introduce leaders into your network and watch the floodgate of exponential income open for you in your network marketing business.

Neshah is a seasoned network marketer. Read more articles at tianshi.wealthyhealthyways.com tianshi.wealthyhealthyways.com

Marketing information can be so many things to so many people, but today I will tell you what you should focus on if you are looking for a mentor that can teach you how to succeed.

First of all you should make it a priority to follow a person that is already doing what you wish to do, a person that is working what he teaches every day and fine tuning what he is doing every day.

Content on the internet in regards to marketing information in particular is getting old very fast so it is very important to find a mentor that is up to date with his info.

He or her should be able to teach you how to create traffic to your offer, both free traffic and paid. Creating free traffic that is also very targeted is maybe the most valuable marketing information around.

Even if you do not think you can you should take a look at writing articles, it creates free targeted information. When you have started writing there is no return because it is fun and creates traffic to whatever you are promoting.

A good mentor can teach you all about writing articles and should also be able to teach you about Google adwords which is one of the best ways that exists on the internet to create targeted traffic.

You should put a great deal of effort on how to build yourself an email list and how and what to send to that list. The bigger the email list the better you will do in terms of marketing your offers and a great mentor have all these things laid out for you to tap into.

At last I will give you some insider secret marketing information.

It is really no secret, but it definitely looks that way and that is the fact that most wannabe internet marketers do not even get started. Can you believe that? It is true, they have all sort of excuses to not get started.

Now you are aware of that so you can do something about it. Everyone has to start somewhere and it does not matter if not everything is great or fantastic.

Get your stuff out on the internet and start working to fine tune your work right now.

Just do it!

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Okay, it might be true that being arrogant, rude and abusive makes some internet marketers a heap of money.

But it’s still not right. And I’d hate to see that trend take off among home based business owners who hope to emulate the mega-bucks earning power of these guys.

Anything for a buck? Not for me. I hope not for you either.

‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’. Personally I think that’s a great way to do business too.

There is a rich guy (he even boasts of being a jerk) who has developed an internet persona that seems to me to be getting worse the more money he makes. After the last X-rated email from him, I removed myself from his mailing list so if he ever changes his style I will have to read about it from others.

Regrettably a handful of clones have copied his scathing formula. Apparently being vulgar and debasing helps them make money, but it is not my style. And personally I hope it’s not yours.

As home business owners, we have the opportunity to treat our customers the right way.

With dignity.

With respect.

With helpfulness.

We can excel in the personal touch.

We can be genuine.

We can be friendly and caring.

As a home business owner, especially at the start, you may not have that many customers that you can afford to treat any of them like dirt, but what I am suggesting is that we build customer respect into the fabric of the way we do things.

Get it right from the beginning, then when you’re financially successful you will still treat people just the way you’d like to be treated.

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Starting a Home Based Business Should Be Exciting

One thing that people should realize when they decide to take their home based internet marketing business online .Is that there is more to it than setting up a website sit back and wait for hundreds of orders to start rolling in.

Do not be fooled by the promises of, no real skills required, huge earnings potential, retire in as little as 6 months and have a greater quality of life with more time available for your family by having a home based business with no work.

Plan your home based business and it will pay you back many times over. And if you plan your business one step at a time and keep focused your life will be a lot less stressful.

Analyze your strengths and desires, because you want your home based business to be successful and profitable.And if you don’t enjoy what you do you will not be able to give it the attention it needs to grow, regardless of the demand within your chosen niche.

Looking at the statistics and statements, you must have gathered a basic picture in your mind on how important SEO [Search Engine Optimization]can be to your starting a home based internet business.

Domain name is one the first things for your online business, and the very first thing you need to have when starting an internet business and any other internet based business as a matter of fact.

One reason many people like a home based business is because it allows them to operate on a small budget, and Google AdWords now offers a way to place contextualized online ads within that budget when done correctly.

Promoting an online business calls for 3 things: increasing traffic to your website, selling goods services that are worth the money and retaining adding to your customer base treat your customer like gold give them quality and honesty.

In addition to diversifying your business, you should also take a few other things in account that are unique to the Problems that home based business owners face is time management it is very important be serious about how you plan your day or evening, because you are embarking on a journey like nothing that you have ever had.

If you are new to Internet marketing business, you might feel that you would prefer to remain anonymous. Because you are still learning the trade and you feel that you have no expertise to share have no fear. I have news for you we are all experts at something and in time you will shine to.

With some good research you can find the right affiliate programs for your home based business website and in no time you will be making money by referring customers from your website.

Starting an internet business will be fairly easy for you, if you remember to keep it simple when starting out.

Author:Gary Sweet
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“I make a living online!”

That’s a statement right? Right!

But is it a statement of fact?

Who knows?

Well, I do because I know it’s true, but how do you know I’m telling the truth?

You don’t of course. But there are some things you can look for that will help you decide.

How often have you seen something like:

“Make a ton of cash - now!

No selling

No MLM

No stock to buy

No customers to deal with

Join our upside-down, instant-cash matrix now and get rich!

It goes without saying that the above is dubious to say the least. Yet, many people fall for ads like this on a regular basis.

So, the old saying “If it looks too good to be true, it probably is”, could be words of wisdom.

Golden Rule: Go with your gut feeling.

Let’s get down to brass tacks (sorry about that, my parents are English and they talk in a strange tongue which rubs off on me sometimes).

Grade these statements:

1. Anyone can make a living online!

2. You don’t need capital to start a business!

3. It’s much cheaper to start a business online than in the ‘real world’!

4. You don’t need to sell products or services to make money online!

5. You can make money instantly online!

These are my thoughts on the above:

1, 3 &amp 4 - generally speaking, true.

2 & 5 - generally speaking, false.

An observation about 1 above is to make a distinction between ‘making money’ and ‘earning a living’. The former could be a one-off 5 cents, while the latter could need to be $100 per day, depending, of course on individual requirements.

My dad often say’s; “you don’t get owt for nowt!”

Translated into American English it means; “there’s no such thing as a free lunch!”

Never invest in an opportunity that you are not sure about. Instead, find something that you are interested in and will enjoy doing. In other words; do what you like doing, and the money will follow.

“Okay Adam″, I hear you say, “get to the point″.

The point is this:

If you expect to make a living online without doing any work and without spending any cash upfront, go get a ‘proper’ job instead - preferably one that allows you to daydream a lot.

However, if you′re prepared to spend some time, researching, listening & learning and have allocated some kind of budget (we’re not talking megabucks here), then it’s perfectly feasible to make a living online.

I started an enterprise about seven months ago with $300 and it’s now earning me $500 per month residual income and growing. It took some hard work and a steep learning curve at first but now it’s got into gear and I could virtually leave it alone to keep increasing month on month.

The Internet is a fantastic source of information - it’s up to you to find that information and decide whether it’s worth using or just more ‘pie in the sky’.

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