Tips on how to earn money with a home business

varun1182 · #1 (**permalink**) 23rd June 2006, 06:57 AM

Everyone wants tips on how to earn money with a home based business.
It never seems to amaze me that a lot of people with a work at home business are not earning some money.

When I got to question a few of these people about why they are not earning any money, I found out why!

People, you have to do something to earn something! Just because you have joined a MLM or affiliate program, don’t think just by sitting back you will earn some money. NOT TRUE!!!

So I have tried to make it easy on these people by coming up with the necessary things you need to do to earn money from home.

If you honestly do these things, and still don’t make any money then maybe a home business is not for you. But you need to be honest about this and put out the effort.

1. When you first start with a work at home business, set out at least an hour a day devoted to your business.
2. Spend the first day advertising your business on the free classified websites, there are literally thousands of these sites to advertise on.
3. If you have a website for your business, then spend day 2 submitting your website to all of the search engines, Yahoo, MSN, Google, AOL, etc.
4. Day 3 start submitting to ezines, this is a very good way to promote your _ business.
5. Day 4 start by writing an article to use in the yahoo groups. And with this article your can promote your website at the end of the article.
6. Day 5 submit your business to the various business message boards, there are lots out there that let you post an ad for your home business.
7. Day 6 you will want to start advancing up and checking for “Leads” that are interested in starting a home business. When you find a good source you will want to start emailing them. To do this you will want a good auto responder to handle the high volume of emails.
8. Day 7 you will want to start this process all over again.

You can do these steps in any order, but remember persistence is the key. Spend an hour a day for the first 30 days on these 7 items. Each day promote your business in a different way.

Within 30 days you will start to see the rewards of your work that you only spent 7-10 hours a week on!

Further more don’t expect to get rich overnight. The businesses offering “pie in the sky” so to speak do yourself a favor and stay away from those type of offers.

Do yourself a favor when you get involved with a work at home business. You owe it to yourself to give it an honest try. Nothing will happen, if you don’t do anything.

varchar · #2 (**permalink**) 23rd June 2006, 09:48 AM

That's a cool idea, having a weekly plan for everything.

However, you're leaving very little room for contingency if you're working every day of the week -- unless you want to spend all of your time working and nothing else.

I'd keep a day free for contingency. If nothing goes wrong; result! Day off! Or just use this day to do something you were going to do next week and relieve time restraints on yourself. If something does go wrong, take this day to rectify it.

It's a paradigm of project management that I think you should consider.

mvicperdido · #3 (**permalink**) 23rd June 2006, 01:00 PM

I agree with Edd. You should find time to be with your family too or even just relax even just for one day. :wink:

mvicperdido · #4 (**permalink**) 23rd June 2006, 06:46 PM

For any businesses, I suggest to know how to advertise free online to market your business. There are several tips in the internet and the most that I liked and most effective is searcing for unordinary location to advertise your goods and services. Not so big Internet sites, companies, newspapers are willing to make exchange for goods and services.

montee51 · #5 (**permalink**) 25th June 2006, 02:44 AM

Agreed all of the above and stay focused on your project its so easy to get side tracked. While your waiting to get listed on the SEs directories keep sending articles to RELEVANT sources and wear the shoes of your target audience. research your competition thoroughly.

rowenahere · #6 (**permalink**) 4th December 2006, 04:09 AM

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Originally Posted by montee51

Agreed all of the above and stay focused on your project its so easy to get side tracked. While your waiting to get listed on the SEs directories keep sending articles to RELEVANT sources and wear the shoes of your target audience. research your competition thoroughly.

Very well said! montee51. Staying focus on a project must be one of the top priority. Of course, once your heart, mind and soul are directed to that single project, everything that is best for the project would be brought out. Nothing can beat than doing your own research stuff because if you will alone relie on your own knowledge you might be beaten off.

astros99 · #7 (**permalink**) 25th December 2006, 02:09 AM

Yeah that's true. When your at home and you can do whatever you want it's pretty easy to get distracted and let yourself do other things. So it should be the most important issue to have your mind on your project. Once your done doing whatever, then you can have time to yourself.

mini_0 · #8 (**permalink**) 15th March 2007, 11:03 AM

Well , this workd for people who have their own websites , but there are numerous other opportunities online also ,that allow you to earn money at the same time . If you have a certain kind of skill , the ability to make money increases and even if you are a stay at home mom , there are many chances like blogging , and writing .Managing an online business is a very well investment for a wealtheir life .