Monday, August 4, 2008

Choose your work from home business

Work from home

Work from home businesses offer individuals with or without experience the chance to earn an income in their own work from home business. The income potential is unlimited. Interested persons can work on their business full or part time.

You decide how hard your going to work. How much time and effort you're willing to extend to your new work from home business directly correlates with how quickly or how slowly you will begin to see your home business grow.  The start up costs can be very low to extremely expensive.

Most work from home opportunities provide the tools that you need to succeed in your business. Many companies and groups within a work from home business offer comprehensive training, professional materials and ongoing support.

There is usually enough support, training and information if you take advantage of it to allow your business to be as successful as you want it to be.

What To Consider When looking For A Work From Home Business

• Is the company profitable with a track record?

• Is the company financially stable?

• Is the company making plans for expansion?

• Are the products and the services what people need and want?

• What is the earning potential? Is it unlimited?

• Does the business provide training, leadership and encourage teamwork?

• How long has the company been around and is it a simple and proven business that anyone can develop successfully?



Once you find a work from home business that suits you and offers the training and motivation that you require to be successful, make sure that you take advantage of that training and the knowledge that your upline brings. All the training in the world can't help you if you are unwilling to learn.
How are you going to promote your business. I don't recommend buying leads.

I have chosen 2 industries. Travel and health and nutrition. Multiple streams of income. For more information visit:

http://dietsandvitamins.com/

http://vacationfun.net/becoming-a-travel-agent/

Diana Caswell
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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Work From Home

Work from home


Finding a work from home company that is right for you.


When considering joining any work from home opportunity, you should be sure to evaluate each work from home companies training program.

"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." - Mark Twain



Work from home

Many individuals who join a work from home business begin filled with excitement about the potential and possibilities of earning an incredible income from home but once they join they have no idea what to do or how to begin. They may dabble in this or try a little of that, but in reality they are completely clueless as to what to do next in order to build their work from home business.

They know they want to make money from but they don't know how. They have the enthusiasm, the commitment and dedication but not the know how. It is particularly important to make sure you will be supported in your new work from home business. How do you bridge the gap between you and your potential new customers and recruits?




Many companies and groups within the work from home business you may be looking into do offer a variety of options as far as support and training go. Many work from home businesses also offer great products and services, but you can't sell them if you don't know how. 

Work from home


Work from home training should include the following: 



1. Developing a marketing plan- How do you plan to promote your business? 



2. Goal setting-How much do you want to earn short term? Long term? A realistic number of sales per day or week. Goal setting should also be implemented into your marketing plan. 


3. Motivation-This should come from books, CDs and DVDs, reviewing daily what your goals are, talking with your upline often

4. Leadership training-How to successfully recruit, mentor and train-Go Pro is a great training and motivational program.

5. Company history, and product training
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Work from home


Once you find a work from home business that suits you and offers the training and motivation that you require to be successful, make sure that you take advantage of that training and the knowledge that your upline brings. All the training in the world can't help you if you are unwilling to learn.

You can buy leads but you really never know what you're getting. If you buy them cheap then you are probably getting cheap leads. Non-targeted, often angry because they don't remember or never actually asked to be contacted and often sent to you with bad contact info.

Stop buying leads! Create your own capture pages and collect leads by putting your capture page everywhere and social media the heck out of social media. Social media is the best way to create relationships, and gain trust. Many people use only social media and are quite successful.

Diana Caswell
775-250-3004
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Your Home Based Business

Work from Home


What is it about a work from home business that appeals to you?

Is it the idea of getting rid of your boss? Not having to drive through traffic each and every morning and each and every night?

Is it the possibility of not having to talk to that annoying co-worker who is always bugging you to hang out even though you have nothing in common?

How about the time you would gain to spend with your family or to travel if you had a work from home business?

The idea of truly being your own boss and setting your own hours in your work from home business probably appeals to everyone.

If you could start your own business, work from home, make the money you need to support your self and your family, take those vacations you have always dreamed of taking. Would you? Would you like to own a beautiful home?

The problem with a "real job" is that once you nestle in, most people are stuck, stuck there trying get ahead, get a promotion, recognition, a raise.

Even if you you have a great boss, he has his own interests, a family, getting a raise, getting a promotion. You begin to live for Friday.

I truly believe you can succeed with some effort in a work from home business. Of course there are different compensation plans and qualification levels as well as earnings potentials. You have to review each plan carefully to see which one will be the best fit for you.

What Are The Benefits In A Work From Home Business?



*No experience necessary

*Low-to-No financial risk

*Being your own boss

*Working the hours you choose

*No geographical restrictions

*Potential for immediate income

*Be paid what you’re really worth

*Tax Advantages

*Free to travel, your work from home business can go with you

*Open to anyone with a willing desire to achieve success


I'd say these are pretty compelling reason to work from home in your own business.

http://homebusiness-wealth.net
Diana Caswell
775-250-3004
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Monday, June 16, 2008

Lead Generation


Working at Home Leads (The old fashioned way)

If you have a network marketing business, you have probably put a lot of thought and likely a lot of cold hard cash into finding prospects to tout your business to. The goal of course is to get customers and recruit new people into your downline. What avenues did you go down to try to build your business?

Flyers or sizzle cards for Working at Home Leads

I have, in the past, spent many hours passing these out. I've gone from parking lot to parking lot putting flyers on cars, on office doors and other conspicuous places. They did do their job as far as getting me people to talk to. I got calls. People were interested in what I was pushing, but the problem was in order to get them interested I had to mislead them a bit with flyer titles like "We pay you to lose weight!".

It was true we did offer incentives by the pound but in reality the calls mostly came from folks who had no money to begin with and actually thought we were some lab using experimental products that were guaranteed to lose weight while they got paid. Instead, we were involved with an MLM company that offered weight loss products that we were trying to sell. The more I called the more confident I got but those calls were still basically cold calls and you have to put out an incredible amount of flyers to get a few calls.

Post Signs for Working at Home Leads

I also tried Signs. I put them out. A lot of Nevada is solid rock but still I went around pounding signs into the ground, hanging them on fences and any place else I thought looked good. I Don't really think those did even as well as the flyers.

Car Signs for Working at Home Leads

Car signs. Yes we had one. We had it stickered to the our back windshield. Great big and bold. I think we got one call from that.

Business Cards for Working at Home Leads

I went around to a lot of local businesses and requested that they let us put our cards in their stores. Many of them did. We hardly recieved enough of a reponse on that to even mention it, but here it is.

Wear the Button for Working at Home Leads

Yes, I wore the button. The big white button with the words " Lose weight now ask me how!" I dont think I ever had anyone ask but I can imagine what they were thinking!

Working at Home Leads



Newspaper Ads for Working at Home Leads


Newspaper ads, if you want your ad in a paper that will do any good at all, it will cost you an arm and a leg. Again, like flyers we did the Pennysaver and other local paper ads. They are pretty cheap but the results are almost exactly the same as those flyers with the same people looking for a freebie, and newspapers are becoming less and less popular since the internet was introduced so I would suggest a more specialized paper or magazine that is similar to what you are offering or at least has the same target audience.

Google Ads is another way to leads but you really have to play with it to get good rates or it can get real expensive.

Working at Home Leads

Purchasing leads

This at first glance appears to be the easiest. The idea is you buy leads from a lead company. These are supposed to be targeted. Targeted to what your doing. They are already looking for a working at home business or looking for the products that you are selling. Sounds great right? You will call these leads and the person on the other end will be begging to join your business and buy your products. Unfortunately, this is usually not the case, not even close.

Many of the calls go bad from the git go. They have been put on a list and have been called so many times, they will want nothing to do with you or your business. Some of them simply filled out a form to get some free thing or another and without even realizing it they were added to a list and then sold to you and maybe others. Even if they are looking at a work at home business or some nutritional products you still have to sell them on what you've got. No matter how many times your upline says the products sell themselves, nothing actually sells itself.

Working at Home Leads

So what else is there? How else can you get customers? How can you get results without all the fuss and muss? Social media is a great way to promote your business and get leads but you have to actually socialize. You can also use solo ads, where someone with a list will send your add out to their already established list but you have to be careful to try to vet the person as a list they have could come from anywhere or nowhere at all and it will be a waste of money. So do a little research.



Diana Caswell
775-250-3004
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Working at Home Leads


Working at Home 

I am always on the Internet evaluating the different MLM companies and I continue to see Network Marketing as having great potential.


The most intriguing aspects to me would be the fact you can offer a huge variety of great products, make an income from offering these products and there are opportunities where you can keep an inventory or not.

So no endless stocking of products, making sure you have enough of the most popular products and services. with most companies there is no need to go traipsing around town delivering products, no overhead, people to pay, office politics, and drama, and no experience necessary.

The products offered are products your potential customers are probably already using. you can offer weight loss products, protein shakes, vitamins, products to increase thermogenesis which then increases the fat burning process, minerals and many other products to benefit yours and your customers health.


  • A few things to consider when choosing a home business opportunity:

  • Is the company profitable with a track record?

  • Is the company financially stable?

  • Is the company making plans for expansion?

  • Are the products and the services what people need and want?

  • What is the earning potential? Is it unlimited?

  • Does the business provide training, leadership and encourage teamwork?

  • How long has the company been around and is it a simple and proven business that anyone can develop successfully?



Once you find a company that appeals to you. One question most network marketers have is how to build the business.

There are many way to build your business:


  • The three foot rule

  • Can you make a list of friends and family and do you feel comfortable with that.

  • Pass out flyers or sizzle cards

  • Car and flyer sized magnets

  • Cold calling

  • Bulletin boards

  • Strategically placed signs

  • Newspaper Advertisements/magazine ads

  • Social Media

  • PPC

  • Solo Ads




There are many ways to build your business. Many people see some of these ways as out of date, however, there are still many people doing each and every one because they all still work. Whatever you choose, the key is to dive in. If you try to poke your toe into your business, it is likely that you will not succeed. Dive right in and do and keep doing and doing and you will succeed.







Diana Caswell

775-250-3004

Skype-diana.caswell