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The best benefit of affiliate programs is that when you are just starting out in your own home based business you don’t have to worry about having your own product or service. You just promote someone else’s and get a share of the revenue pie for your efforts.

Also you don’t have to deal with warehousing, transport or logistics headaches. All of this is handled by the business whose products or services you are promoting. All you need to do is concentrate on driving traffic to that business’s website. This means that a high proportion of your income is profit.

The owner of the product or service is also responsible for collecting payment, customer service and the numerous other details that come up on a day to day basis in operation of the business.

The main and evident disadvantage of affiliate programs is that it is the owner of the product or service who earns the most of the profit on the sales.

You’re working on commission. You will NEVER earn by way of affiliate program commissions as much as you can earn by way of profits from producing and selling your own product or business opportunity.

As a result, affiliate programs represent a high opportunity cost when you consider what you could earn if you instead channeled the time and energy you spend on promoting affiliate programs into creating and promoting your own creation.

Instead, think of them as a way of dipping your toe in the water when you’re first getting started and a nice little sideline once you’ve created your own product or service. Do NOT build your business around affiliate programs with the intention this will always be the backbone of your business. You’ll be stunting your own growth if you do.

So, keeping in mind what affiliate programs can and can’t do for your business, let’s turn to what you should look for when choosing an affiliate program to promote in your home based business. Select programs that naturally complement the subject matter of your site and that will therefore be of interest and relevance to your site visitors. This will ensure your prospects are pre-qualified which will result in a relatively higher conversion ratio of visitors to customers than would be the case if your traffic is untargeted (which will be the case if you promote site-unrelated products and services.)

Look for quality programs first and foremost. The last thing you want to waste your time, money and reputation on is a shoddy product or service. There are just too many quality programs out there to settle for anything less. Look for a company that’s been around for a while and that’s reputable and stable (both financially and in its management). Any reputable company will have full contact details readily available so do your research.

Look for a professional, considered and detailed affiliate agreement (contract). This shows that the company is serious about its business. Check for exclusivity clauses and other restraints. Some affiliate agreements will require that you not promote competing businesses’ products and services. This is not to say you should avoid such agreements. As a general rule, it is your interests not to promote competing programs anyway. Just be aware of what the agreement says on the subject to avoid getting yourself into trouble.

Promoting someone else’s affiliate program necessarily requires that you divert traffic away from your site and towards someone else’s. Make sure you’re properly compensated with a high commission structure. Also, look for affiliate programs that will credit you with not only THIS sale but all other sales the customer may make in the future. Many programs are set up so that the customer is identified as “yours” so that when the customer returns to the target site in three months time, the sale is recorded as having been generated by you. Look for programs that allow you real-time access to your stats so you can keep easy track of your commissions.

Find out what the business’s record is on paying out commissions. If they’re slow or there appears to be a pattern of problems, move on. Make a note of payment schedules too. Some programs pay weekly, some monthly, some quarterly. Some only pay once you accumulate commissions of a certain amount. None of these arrangements are necessarily good or bad. Just be sure you know what to expect.

Finally, take a good look at what support the business offers its affiliates to make sales. Do they provide the necessary resources to promote, such as sample ads, banners, logos and the like? Do they provide useful advice about maximizing your sales? A good affiliate program provides affiliates with lots of support in these areas. I work with a team that provides support in all of these areas and so much more. With us you are never left hanging not knowing where to turn. With round the clock support help for your home based business opportunity is just a click away.

Marg Roukens

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Structure your day wisely. The problem a lot of home based business owners have is that they no longer have a boss standing over them making
sure they get their work done, or a definable start and end of each workday. It’s easy to let time slip by as you head to the refrigerator,
catch a few minutes of TV, or dive into a project first thing in the morning, neglecting the other tasks you need to perform to keep your
home based business running smoothly. Sound familiar?

Create a structure that mimics what you had in the workplace. Structure your day so you have a start and finish time, with certain hours set
aside for specific activities. A general rule is to spend the first hour of the day prospecting for new clients. Send your emails, write your
letters and make your phone calls first thing so you don’t forget to do it later.

Use Outlook or some sort of contact management software to serve as a visual reminder of what you need to accomplish that day. Live and die
by your to-do-list. Try to have everything crossed off by the end of the day. Even my own children know that if they want me to do something
for them during working hours, they have to put it on my to-do-list or it will never get done. Remind them that your home based business
cannot run all by itself and that you must work at it to make it work for the family.

Stay connected. Carry an organizer wherever you go. If you’re still using a day planner or similar dinosaur, consider upgrading to a
Blackberry or other high-tech gadget. You don’t need to go crazy and spend a lot of money, but invest wisely in something that will hold
everything you need and allow you to instantly access it on the go. Another good idea is to not keep all of your information in one location,
such as the hard drive of your home computer. You might find it handy to keep your data hosted on a virtual exchange server so you can access
it anywhere that has an Internet connection. A big misconception about home based business owners is that they stay at home all day, everyday. And as you know, that’s just not always true.

Organize your family time. Once your professional life is organized, you may need to consider organizing your personal life. This is
especially true if you have children. A lot of people, especially young moms, decide that they’re going to quit their jobs in corporate
America and work from home in order to care for their children and save on daycare expenses. But in reality, if you’re serious about running
a home based business and earning a decent income, you’re going to have to make arrangements for childcare in or outside the home.

Motivate yourself. Sit down and set some goals for yourself. You no longer have quarterly reviews or progress reports, so it’s important to
keep track of whether or not you’re making progress in your home based business opportunity. It’s one thing to set small goals like completing your to-do-list–you also have to set goals to motivate yourself to succeed. Hopefully by now you’re making as much, if not more, money at your home based business than you were at your former job. If you aren’t, begin by setting a goal to bring in the same amount of income you were, and slowly raise the bar to increase your income by a couple of thousand a month. Once you’ve met a goal, make time to
reward yourself by doing something fun, which brings us to the next tip…

Marg Roukens

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Advanced Internet Technology
By Darrell Lischka

Since the introduction of internet, the world got a little bit smaller. Today people have access to virtually unlimited amounts of resources, information and technology. In particular, people that want to run a profitable internet home business, this can be done ethically, professionally and without all the hype and lies. You can learn to develop a residual income and have a healthy home based business if you use the right tools, technology and have a coach that can walk you through the process.

Several months ago, I was introduced to leading edge technology called Veretekk. I learned over several months by taking live training classes via a conference room on line, how powerful this powerful system could truly be for the average person struggling to earn a residual income and create a successful long term home based business.

Before I go any further, the Veretekk system does take time to learn properly and will require several hours a week of your time to learn the power of the system and how it can help you develop a residual income and build a sustainable home based business. This system is not that popular. Why? Because it’s a real and powerful program of integrated technologies. A lot of so called guru’s out there claim to have the magic solution and you don’t have to lift a finger to build a residual income in a home based business.

These guru’s will tell people if you invest $500, 1000 or $2000 into their so called automated money making system, then all you need to do is push this button or that one and wow – 6 month’s later you have a 6 figure residual income. Well, they are lying to you to get your money and besides that technology does not exist. Bottom line, Veretekk is not a way, but it’s the real way to learn effective marketing techniques, combined with cutting edge technology to market on Google to develop a long term residual income.

There are many programs/systems out there that are sophisticated and have many automatic features to some extent, but you still need to invest 5, 10 or more hours a week over the long term to develop a home business. If you will use the power of the Veretekk system, apply that knowledge from live trainers and are willing to roll up your sleeves and dedicate yourself over a period of time, then you can be successful at creating a residual income with the right coach at your side.

If you are looking for a quick fix to your home based business, then this is definitely not the system to use for your home business. So why would anyone want to use Veretekk? Good question and one of the main reasons is to develop your own exclusive premium leads for you and you alone. This is accomplished using traffic portals, Veremail, blogging, back linking, and daisy chaining etc. Veretekk has too many features to go in depth in today’s article, but the following are some technologies and live training that you can access and utilize to build a residual income in a home based business. To access the training is No Cost.

- Lead generation and premium leads – Where and how to get your own leads.
- Traffic Portals – explode your home business effectively.
- Veremail – Spam free verification, sequential emails etc.
- How to set up a Blog and why it’s powerful for your long term success in a home – based business. Learn basics to advanced blogging techniques.
- Search Engine Optimization – Learn how to obtain top rankings in Google. Basic and advanced SEO classes.
- Why Linking is important and “how to” classes.
- Free web pages for linking.
- Writing and content classes.
- Daisy chain your websites and blogs together.
- FFA’s and how to properly use them to build a residual income
-Backlinks and how-to classes.
- How to build your home based business via Social Networking.
- Forum posting and why and how to classes.
- Questions and answers classes.
- Recorded trainings about online marketing techniques to build a home based business the right way.
- Html basic and advanced webinar classes.

Veretekk, like anything else, it takes work and persistence to understand the power of the system and how to apply that technology and information to build a residual income and have a successful home based business. It’s not always easy, but it is very effective for those who are willing to invest the time and understand how to do it.

Invest time and learn about the new generation of on line marketing systems and get an unfair advantage over the competition. Oh by the way, the people behind this incredible technology have been working on, developing and fine tuning this technology for over 10 years. That’s how massive and complex this system is. Tom Prendergast and Mike Darling, the people behind this technology, truly wanted to create something to help the small home business professional.

Darrell Lischka – Business Coach

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Types of Home-Based Answering Services

Now that you have identified the system and volume of business you are trying to reach, let us review the types of home–based answering service you can provide.

We have already noted the importance of your phone “personality” as the main key to your success. The better you are at handling people on the phone, the greater the number of services you can offer, from straight message–taking to complete customer service. Your grammar must be sound, your diction easy to understand. To improve in these areas, there are many self–improvement courses available through local community colleges and other learning outlets for a nominal charge.

Businesses have a variety of phone needs, depending on their size and complexity. The phone can save them time and money in communicating with their customers. They may be looking for any of the following services, which you could provide:

• Incoming Message Services, both during and after normal business hours;

• Complete Answering Service where customers believe they are calling the actual business office;

• 800 Number Service;
• Order Taking Service, where customers call in to order a specific product or service they have seen advertised;

• Call Forwarding Service, where the business forwards calls to you only when their personnel leave the office;

• Message Delivery Service, where you not only take messages, but you also call people for your business client;

• Voice Mailboxes, where you have lines that record messages, but also call people for your business client;
• Beeper Service, where you take the call and then page the client via a beeper
• Computerized Telemarketing, where you hook up a computer to a standard phone and program it to dial telephone numbers to help a business to prospect for clients or to advertise;

• Appointment Setting Service, where you call a list of individuals furnished by a business to set up appointments for the firm’s sales people;

• Phone Sales, where you are calling on behalf of a business to sell a specific service; and,

• Surveys, where you call designated people to obtain answers to an opinion survey.

All of these services are possible via the phone. You do not have to offer every single service, simply the ones you can comfortably perform. The phone skills required differ widely depending on the service. Once you select the services you wish to provide, you can begin looking for clients.

How to Obtain Clients

The closer you are to a large metropolitan area, the greater your potential for income in a home–based answering service. However, small towns are also in need of your services. Many of the businesses may be owned and run by a sole proprietor who spends the bulk of the day outside the office and away from the phone. Virtually anyone who works away from his or her business might have need for an answering service. Salespeople, repair services, people on call (like towing services), survey organizations and firms that might use the computer–based automatic dialing system are all potential clients to whom you can offer your phone services.

The phone book, the local newspaper, the small “Pennysaver” type of publications and community bulletin boards are all places where you can find the type of business most likely to be interested in your service. This will give you a solid local list with which to begin your prospecting.

The businesses that can utilize your ability to advertise for them using the phone are substantial, and include:

• Retail stores

• Credit agencies

• Restaurants

• Wedding services

• Modeling schools

• Furniture stores

• Employment agencies

• Collection agencies

• Financial service firms

• Hotels

• Dance schools

• Carpet cleaners

• Car washes

• Video stores

• Travel agencies

• Pet services

You will probably start out with a few message service contracts, requiring only a few lines, but you could easily work your way up to dozens of lines and services. Remember to ask your early clients for referrals to others whom they may feel could use your service. Your existing clients are the best source for leads to obtain clients for your home based business.

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This article will illustrate how you can set up this type of home-based answering service business. It is your chance to talk- and earn money doing it!

The needs of a business for an answering service can vary considerably. The basic answering service takes incoming calls on behalf of business people who are temporarily or routinely not available during normal business hours. A company may need a phone to be answered all day, part of the day, after hours only, or 24 hours a day. You can enter this profession at any level you choose. The amount of equipment you will need to get going will also fluctuate depending on how much time you want to devote to your home-based answering business.

The basic answering service takes incoming calls on behalf of business people who are temporarily or routinely not available during normal business hours. Most often, businesses need their phones covered during an “extended” work day, say 8:00 A.M.- 8:00 P.M., with an answering machine taking over the other, less likely, 12 hour call period. Twelve hours can be a long day if you are going it alone, so you may wish to solicit businesses that generally are looking for the phones to be answered from 9 a.m. to 5 or 6 p.m. This makes it more likely for you to do the job yourself and work it easily into your family’s schedule, too.

Once you identify your work hours, you can begin the task of soliciting businesses to contract with you. Before embarking on this important effort, you should establish a goal of how many companies you want to represent. You can certainly take on more than one company if all you are doing is answering the phone. This makes for a great home based business.

The number of clients you take on will dictate how you will set up your service. The client can either use a phone company service to have their number ring at your location, or they can advertise your number during certain hours.

The easiest and most inexpensive way to begin is to have a separate phone line and phone for each of your clients. You would then mark each individual phone with the company name as an identifier for you when the phones begin to ring. Installing separate phone lines should run less than $200 each. You will also pay basic monthly charges for each phone. This should average about $35-50 per month. If you are buying actual telephones, these can be acquired inexpensively at local stores. This is the best route if you are going to work with ten or fewer businesses.

However, if you intend to take on more than ten firms, leasing a switchboard from your local telephone company will make your operation more cost and space effective. A switchboard can accommodate a substantial amount of business activity for you.

Before buying all these phones and contracting with businesses, check with the phone company to see how many extra lines you can obtain. There may be a limit in your residential neighborhood. How many clients you can take on will depend on the number of lines you can install. You might consider opening up an office in a nearby commercial area, where the number of lines you need can be accommodated. However, this is beyond the scope of your home-based business answering service.

The amount and type of equipment you obtain will be dictated by your ambition and your budget. It can be as simple as individual phone lines or as complex as computer screens that flash messages or record instructions for you to convey. The more sophisticated the equipment, the more money you will have to spend. For $25,000, you can purchase one switchboard with 25 lines and the trunk line cable from the telephone company. Of course, the more business you can handle the greater the financial reward. This is something you will have to decide for yourself. If this is low-volume, extra money kind of work, spend as little as possible and take on only one or two clients. If this is to be your new home based business as well as your career, then consider the larger investment to handle a high volume of calls.

Before setting up all the equipment, it is necessary to consider expansion options even at the start-up phase. If possible, choose a permanent location as moving equipment and offices can be very costly. Utility companies normally charge penalty fees when answering services relocate. The key to your success does not rely solely on the equipment. Your answering business is providing important customer service for a company. As such, your voice and congenial manner provide a greater value. If you are working with small to medium sized businesses, you probably will not need the latest and greatest phone system to handle the work. The option to installing numerous phones is to lease a switchboard from your local phone company. Find a convenient space in your home to set up your work area, and clear a space for the switchboard. Once set up, it is costly to move, so make your home based business “office” choice wisely when a switchboard is involved.

The switchboard can handle up to 100 incoming lines, but you need only activate the actual number of lines you intend to use for your home based business. This large number of lines gives you great flexibility in the service you can provide. Switchboards offer a variety of extras, including room for another operator if your services demand the work of two people, and a secrecy switch to secure the phone lines for your clients. Read the operating manual thoroughly. Better yet, attend training sessions provided by the local phone company, if available.

The businesses that can utilize your ability to advertise for them using the phone are substantial, and a really good homebased business idea.

One of the most profitable and easiest home-based businesses is the telephone answering service! It is relatively low-cost to set up and can allow you to earn thousands of dollars each year without having to leave the comfort of your home. A one-office operation can produce gross revenues of as much as $150,000 upwards in a year, depending on the number of telephones or switchboards you have and the number of calls taken.

The essential role played by the telephone as a business communication tool accounts for the growing importance of answering service businesses. All businesses, whether a physician’s private practice, a small construction company, or a conglomerate, rely on the telephone as one of the fastest and most reliable communication tools in their businesses.

This business can, therefore, have a wide range of potential customers. Anyone with a telephone and a busy schedule can become your client, although small businesses are emerging to be a very good target market. A telephone answering service can be a real lifesaver to a small homebased business. Many small businesses have neither the time nor the means to take incoming calls during business hours when they are out on jobs — yet those calls represent the very lifeblood of their business! They cannot afford an office; much less a secretary, but they certainly need those phone calls. Unless they can find a reliable and affordable answering service, they will probably have to do without (or ask people to call them only after 7 PM) or use an answering machine (which has a whole set of disadvantages).

The best prospects for an answering service are those small homebased businesses and professionals that are “on call” 24 hours a day, such as doctors, repair service business owners like electricians and plumbers, among others.
Ironically, technological advancement is what pushes this exciting opportunity. Fancy, complex phone-answering systems have left customers talking to computer generated voices, leaving messages on “voice mail” and pressing numerous telephone numbers to work their way through to conversing with an actual human being.
While these systems “free” people up from the phones in a business, they frequently frustrate clients and potential customers. There is no guarantee that a client will leave an important message on the answering machine, and this could be a missed business opportunity
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A lot of people simply do not like to talk to a machine. Unable to easily reach a human voice, many individuals simply go elsewhere for the services they need. There is also the possibility of a mechanical breakdown. More importantly, however, the answering machine cannot relay messages, sound interested in the caller’s problem, or estimate when the call can be returned or when the service might be performed.

Employers are beginning to recognize this problem and are solving it by contracting people to answer the phones when they cannot do it themselves. That personal touch you can offer can mean the difference in acquiring or keeping a client. As a professional answering service business, you can take messages, deliver targeted messages to callers, provide basic information, clarify the intent of calls and even schedule meetings with customers.