Starting a Home-Based Business on a TIGHT budget

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business?

Have you wondered what it would be like to get up every morning and be in total control of your own future without having to depend on some other boss?
Maybe you simply want to supplement your income

You may be saying, "yes" in your mind and heart but your WALLET is saying NO! What can you do?...

Good News! There has never been a better time to start a home business and this is especially true for those on a little to hardly no budget. Why? 4 words:

The World Wide Web

The Internet has enabled millions of people all over the globe to start home businesses working from home in their pajamas. These entrepreneurs, with very little start up cash, can still compete in the global marketplace filling nitches and customer service gaps that the big corporations overlook.

Anyone with a service or something to sell can build a website and, using the available and sometimes free tools on the Internet, be in business almost instantly.

Setting up an Internet home business has much lower start up costs than the traditional "brick and mortar" alternative. IX web hosting has plans from only $3.95/mo + Free Setup - Click for details! With the old-fashioned business, there are significant ( $$ Thousands $$) overhead expenses which are usually due even before you can start making money including office rent, inventory, traditional advertising, insurance, employee laws and expenses, etc.

Starting an internet business has much lower start up costs because your store is in cyberspace and your office is in your home. You can find numerous low costs options for building websites online as well as suppliers who will ship your products to your customers as they are purchased instead of storing huge amounts of products which is expensive and takes up storage space

One of the best ways to get started on a low budget is by selling products on eBay. Millions of people are shopping on eBay every single day looking for just about every kind of product you can imagine. One of the reasons eBay is such a great place to start a home business on a budget is because the high traffic is already there and Ebay has already built a brand name and all you need to do is show up and post your products.

Once you have a website, one of the easiest ways to add revenue to your current income is with affiliate income. Google Adsense is one of the easiest ways to get started.


Many Internet retailers have their own affiliate programs that will pay you a high percentage of the final sale price to promote their products. Clickbank and Amazon are great places to get started.


Talk to you soon!

How Do You Write a Book?

As I told you yesterday, I am writing a book that's due to come out in Spring. Have you written your book yet? Yes, your book! I believe that every person has genius-level knowledge on at least one subject and part of possessing that knowledge is being a stewart of that knowledge. Somewhere out there in the world, there are people that need the knowledge that you possess. Not only that, they are willing to pay for your knowledge and, if you don't sell them the information, someone else will.

Ok, how does one write a book?

Glad you asked... ha ha! I found this article from one of my favorite authors, Brian Tracy. He gives a great step-by-step guide:

How To Write A Book
By: Brian Tracy

1. Start with a message, idea, story that you really want to share with other people.
2. You must be an expert on your subject. You must know 10 words for every word you write. If you write on success, you must already be successful. If you write on money, you must already be rich. If you write on relationships, you must already be happily married.
3. Define your target market, exactly who are you writing this book for?
4. Make sure that your market is large enough, containing 100,000 to 1,000,000 potential book buyers.
5. Buy, read, find out everything you can about other authors, books or articles dealing with the same subject. Make sure your material is different and better in at least three ways.
6. Gather all the information that you will need to write your book. Do your research and homework before you start to write.
7. Organize your material into seven, ten, twelve or twenty-one chapters, each following in a logical order, from beginning to end.
8. Write out every key point in each chapter on a legal sized writing pad.
9. Organize your points from #1 through to the closing part of the chapter. Do this for every chapter until you have a separate “down dump” of all the key ideas.
10. Begin with Chapter 1 and dictate the book in the order of material you have chosen.
11. Once you have dictated the entire book, have a typist type it out and give it back to you by email or disc for your computer.
12. Set up a work schedule with blocks of time of two, three or four hours. Discipline yourself to sit at the keyboard and edit during this time.
13. Edit the entire book from front to back the first time. Correct the grammar and typing errors. Create the necessary paragraphs. This is the longest, hardest job of editing in the whole book.
14. Write an Introduction, a Preface and Acknowledgements if necessary.
15. In your second edit, break up the text with a heading every 2, 3, 4 paragraphs. Make it “bite-sized” and easy to read.
16. In your third edit, place a quote at the beginning of each chapter. Create three, five or seven action steps at the end of each chapter if it is a self-help or educational book.
17. In your fourth edit, which will take much less time, polish the sentences, delete unnecessary material, make final corrections.
18. In your fifth and final edit, completely reread the entire book from cover to cover. This takes the least amount of time of all.
19. The entire process above requires 50-100 hours of work, once you have gathered all your material.
20. Always play gentle classical music in the background. Best of all, get headphones and listen to classical music while you work. Music makes you more alert, creative and fluent.

-Brian Tracy

If you are still having trouble getting started on your book Brian has other motivational resources you can look at. In fact, if you invest a little $$ in your book project up front, it may motivate you to have to finish the book that you invested time and $$$ in. ******Tell you what, don't tell where you got it, but I found a 15% discount code you can use on his website... use following promotional code at checkout: 15WNF1. Shhhh! *****

Speaking of movitation, I am off to compose this week's newsletter. Do you get the newsletter? Hmmm... maybe you should. :)

-Rob

New e-book Coming

Where have I been lately? 2 answers:

1. Sick with the vomits... GROSS! I won't go into further detail, but needless to say, I am glad to be feeling better.

2. While I was sick, I have begun the work on my Blockbuster New e-book due this Spring. The new e-book will go over everything I know about how to successfully start and maintain your own internet income. It will uncover my sure-fire ways to make money, the scams that you can avoid, and will also give practicle business tips for how to stay in business and easily beat the 95% of other businesses that fail in their first year.

I am constantly asked, "how do I get to a point where I can quit my job and work for myself like you did?" It's quite a story and I have learned more in the last 15 years of advising, coaching, and owning start-up businesses than I can imagine. I am boiling all of my knowledge and experience into one easy-to-reference e-book and you will be the second or third to know when it's released!

Who will be first and who will get a special rate on this new book? My FREE newsletter subscribers.

Just so you know, I have revamped my free weekly newsletter. If you haven't subscribed, it's safe, free and, as a bonus for subscribing, I will send you my original e-book, The Top 10 Places to Profit From the Internet, FREE today. DOWNLOAD it for FREE by registering here:

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Best wishes!

-Rob

Type-Casting!

Today, I decided to help myself in an area that is detrimental to doing business on-line. In fact, I would say that most of us in internet businesses suffer from this problem. The problem:

Slow Typing or Can't Type at all Disease!

Yes, I am a horrible typist, but this has got to change. Think about it. I type 30 words a minute on a good day. Knowing that most of my work involves the keyboard, I could probably double my productivity and finish more products just by learning to type.


So I have decided to learn how to type faster. It may not be easy, but it has to be done.

Check out the research that I found:

• Dr. Warner found that, "Hunting and pecking require conscious attention to what the fingers are doing. Consequently, students spend more time concetrating on how to keyboard than on material they are composing. Students who are capable touch keyboarders can concetrate on problem solving and composing rather than on mechanics.
• In 1929-32, Dr. Ben D. Wood of Columbia University and Dr. Frank N. Freeman completed a two year study showing that the classroom with a typewriter showed an increased in the students' language skills. "Even at the end of the first year, children who used typewriters outperformed non-typing children in reading, spelling, composition and vocabulary. No evidence was found of poorer penmanship."
• William E. Cooper, in Cognitive Aspects of Skilled Typewriting (1983), found, " the development of typing skill in school children is linked with improved learning in spelling, vocabulary and written composition."

Ok, so the bottom line is that, if I doubled my typing speed, I would double my productivity. I would love that! So, I am going to try a typing program that I found on Clickbank and I will let you know if it's any good or not. Check it out at

Home Typer

-Rob