The Home Based Biz Race

Let me first start by saying that there is no guarantee of your success in home business opportunities, nor are "get rich quick" schemes legit. Trust me, I've learned from experience. No matter what your money-making vehicle of choice, might be, every one of them will require time, effort, and patience. If this doesn't deter you, there are a number of reasons why you should consider a home business.

For one, your "9-5" company doesn't care about you. There, I said it. Because it's true. They aren't supposed to care about you. They're job is to get as much out of you as possible, but in the long run, you are an expense to them. In fact, everyone who works for a company is an expense to the company, regardless of contributions and loyalty.

Now, I'm not advocating that everyone go out and quit their respective job today. That would be foolish. What I am suggesting is that everyone should try to build up supplemental income, because you never know when the rug will be pulled out from under you; so to speak. We should all try to avoid putting our families in situations where we have to decide whether to pay the mortgage or buy food.

The good news, thankfully, is that there are a lot of home business vehicles for building up income while working that "9-5." Home businesses can be very viable, economically timely, and inexpensive while providing you with a substantial amount of money. You just have to know how to go about setting one up. We will discuss a few options.

I have had the chance to fail over the years at several business ventures. Some have included fly-by-night home business opportunities, unstable multi-level marketing companies, and selling on ebay.

My opinion is that all of the above can work, if given the proper focus, time and money. However, many of us have limited time and money.

Also, the market is saturated with people making the similar attempts. So it is really a question of how do you get ahead of the pack and make yourself stand out in the crowd?

Affiliate programs are home business opportunities where the vendor shares commissions with the marketer (you) for successfully promoting or referring customers to their product. One of the most common websites for affiliate programs is Clickbank. Products typically range from spyware eradication tools to ebooks.There are hundreds of affiliate programs sprouting up all the time. My recommendation would be to investigate some of them thoroughly and pick a product that you are comfortable in promoting.

Clickbank has a "marketplace" section of the website where you can explore products in different categories. Vendors may offer as much as 50-75% commissions to anyone who is successful.

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We have seen time and time again that network marketing works. Of course it works! If it didn't there wouldn't continue to be people investing in it. To really make it in that type of business, the average person will have to step out of their comfort zone to:

1.Sell directly to prospects (most people hate direct selling)
2.Manage inventory (mlm is getting better about this)
3.Invite prospects to meetings and attend regular meetings (better have thick skin when it comes to inviting)
4.Jump on weekly conference calls(how else can you stay motivated?)
5.Constantly recruit to minimize attrition impact(you can't depend on people to stay)

Having to do these tasks consistently can be a little intimidating to some folks. As a result, the average person stays in a network marketing business for no more than 90 days despite the upside potential of a generous income.

Selling on eBay can lead to huge profits, but there is a catch... What are you going to sell, how low can you go without losing your shirt, and can you repeat this activity day in and day out? The best thing that you can do to have a profitable eBay business is to find something that you are an expert on, buy it in bulk, and give yourself enough leverage to make a profit. Sometimes at best, you may just break even. A good way to get your fee wet is to clean out your basement or garage on eBay.

There are a gazillion home business opportunities available. Most are probably legitimate and if followed properly will probably bring in some returns. If you are not careful; however, you could end up wasting a lot of time and money chasing success. The key to success with all home based business opportunities is TRAFFIC! Without it, there can be no success. The goal is to get traffic with minimal monetary impact.

Traffic can be generated from a number of different sources including pay per click sites (Google, Yahoo, Facebook, etc.), posting business cards and flyers, Twitter, Squidoo, yard signs, classified ads, blog sites and article sites. I'm going to weigh in on 3 of the top recommended vehicles for marketing home based business opportunities:

Pay Per Click

In a pay per click scenario, you the advertiser would:

a. Fund an account with the amount of money you are willing to invest
b. Create an ad
c. Tag the ad with keywords
d. Specify how much money you would be willing to pay every time a prospect performs a search by one of your key words and actually clicks on your ad

Google and Yahoo are the most common search engines that provide this opportunity. Of course, it goes without saying that the highest bid per keyword will guarantee a higher priority ranking among other articles on the same subject. This can become very expensive. Especially, when you have a lot of people who are simply browsing, but not seriously considering investing in a home based business opportunity. In a perfect world, you would generate a lot of clicks from prospects with a high CTR(click through rate). This would be an indication that your ad and website provide some impact.

My suggestion would be experiment with this sparingly. If you don't know what you are doing, you can loose your shirt!

Blog Sites

Blog sites. Sites like WordPress and Blogger can certainly contribute to your goal of generating serious internet traffic. This takes a lot of time; however. It's not easy to get out there and generate responses to your blogs unless you've developed a reputation online, have a lot of friends to promote it to, and have your blog picked up by search engines. On the flip side, these vehicles are generally, free.

Article Marketing

There are a number of free sites that allow you to have a forum for products, services and ideas. Some sites require a subscription, but usually involve a minimal amount of money. Additionally, the quality of the article is often the main consideration for the approval of submitted articles. Most people hate to write, and some lack creativity.

Some websites offer article writing services, but this defeats the goal of keeping minimal costs in marketing.