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NEW!!! Top Ten Working from Home Mistakes
by Wendy Piersall
Be wary of bad habits that can bring your business to the ground...
Speaking from true experience, here are the top ten ways I made myself miserable when working from home... ::full article
Five Steps to Making the Most of Your Website:
Create a Marketing Plan
Is your web site (blogs fall into this category, too) accomplishing what you had planned for it? You don’t know? What plan, you say? Just like any other business, a web site needs a marketing plan. If you are under the mindset of launch it, blog it or sell it and they will come, you are wasting your precious resources (time and money). ::full article
You've Only Got 30 Seconds or 20 Words...
To get your message across.
We would all like to think that our web sites contain such compelling information that users will stick around, browse, and really get into our material, but the brutal truth is, they won’t. Statistics show that over 80% of your site’s visitors will leave your site within 30 seconds of arriving. At first I didn’t believe it, but then I looked at the web statistics for more than 20 sites I maintain/host, and yep, the stats tell the same story. ::full article
The Legalities of Running a Business in Your Home
There is much enjoyment to be had in running a home business, but did you know that there are also quite a few legalities you will need to keep in mind? It is true, you will not be able to simply open up your doors and hang out a sign. As a matter of fact, depending on the business you are running in your home, there are probably a number of rules and regulations you will need to follow. ::full article
The Best Of The Web For FREE - But For How Long?
On my recent flight across the Atlantic, I was catching up on some reading and came across a very interesting column in PC Magazine by John C. Dvorak on the YouTube Phenomenon. He compares the abundance of free and extremely functional services available on the web now to those available in 1999 (shortly before most of them went under). The more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that you can get a lot for free on the web, and most of us have come to take it for granted.
Here are a few of these great, free services:. ::full article
The New "Open Collar" Workforce
Work from home industry generates it's own web-speak ::full article
How To Use Forums To Promote Your Website
Forums are a tried and tested way of getting free traffic to your website. By posting on forums that allow sig files (those messages that appear below each post) you can indirectly advertise your website or affiliate program every time you post a comment. It sounds pretty straight forward, but a lot of people are still failing to make best use of this method of promotion. In this article I discuss exactly what to do and what not to do when posting on forums. ::full article
Blogging: It Just Keeps on Getting Better
If you don ’t quite understand blogging, you’re not alone. Over 62% of Internet users don’t understand the term and don’t know how blogging can dramatically change their lives. But after this article, you’ll be one of those in the know and poised to take advantage of this rapidly growing phenomenon. ::full article
Is Working at Home Really for You?
Having a business that you run out of your home can be very rewarding if gone about the right way. Unfortunately many will give up before beginning to reap the benefits due to many reasons. A large number of the businesses that fail can be traced back to step one - the decision of what type of business you will run out of the home. ::full article
Summer is Here! Survival Tips for Working from Home
Just when you think things are going great, summer happens. Today is a day of mourning and celebration for myself and associates who work from home. Today is the last day of school. The kids are excited - I am too. However, I can't afford to close up shop for the summer, nor do I want to. So what is a work from home mom to do? Here are some strategies that have worked for me in the past. ::full article
Success Circles: Teeming With Synergy
Success circles, mastermind groups, board of directors, or success teams are all names for a group of friends or colleagues getting together to assist each other in reaching their goals. ::full article
Fun Shui SM: Organize To Energize Your Work And Your Life
The ancient Chinese art of placement and alignment called Feng Shui (fung shway) is sweeping the western world. This 4000-year old practice of arranging buildings on property, rooms in a building, furniture and items in a room, and items on furniture has an effect on the flow of chi (or energy) in our environment. ::full article
Now You See Me, Now You Don't - Mistakes of a Home Business Owner
Over the last few years I have witnessed home business owners go about advertising their products and services in the wrong way or not at all. Not only are mistakes made in the ways that ads are written but, also, many people have unrealistic expectations of their advertising, especially when an ad campaign has not been put together properly in the first place. ::full article
Want Return Visitors To Your Site? Invite Them Back!
You just launched the most amazing web site you could have imagined, you've let everyone you know all about it, and you submitted it to the search engines - now what? Ultimately, you want your visitors to come by, look around, purchase a product or call you for a service. But you also want them to come back and do it all over again. Here are few tips to help bring back visitors over and over.
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Working From Home?
When Trish Cetrone, the president of a home-based public-relations-and-marketing firm in Orinda, California, first started her business, she avoided out-of-the-office meetings like the plague. "I was really focused on billable hours. I didn't want to waste work time fighting the crazy Bay-area traffic," she recalls. But after a few clients insisted on some face-to-face sessions, she realized that "efficiency isn't everything," and she began to welcome the break. "When you work from home, you have to force yourself to get out regularly," says Cetrone, who now makes sure to plan meetings with colleagues and clients at least once a month. ::full article
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