Owning a successful internet home based business can be very rewarding and extremely lucrative. It offers flexibility to be your own boss, freedom from the traditional 9 to 5 rat race, and the ability to experience a level of financial freedom that only a handful of people will ever truly know. Despite the fact that many people dream about making millions of dollars with an internet home based business, this rarely comes to fruition. Not because it is impossible to accomplish but rather due to the fact that too many people choose the wrong type of home business or they don’t know how to implement the business once they have chosen it.The most important thing to remember when looking to start an internet home based business is to do your research. Learn everything you can about the business before investing in it, including the negatives. There are six questions that should be asked and answered prior to starting any home based business.1. Is this business a system?
A business system is a specific method or plan of procedure with an orderly manner of how things are to be done. Any legitimate home based business will have a solid system in place for new entrepreneurs offering support, encouragement, and advice. If the internet home based business you have chosen to pursue does not have an easy to use system in place, then move on and keep looking.2. Does this business fit your personal skill set? If not, can you realistically learn the skill set needed to succeed?
Countless amounts of home business opportunities claim that you don’t need any special skills to be successful. This just isn’t true. Conducting business on the internet takes a certain level of skill and finesse. You should determine upfront what skills are needed, if you already possess those skills, and if not, can you acquire these skills in a timely manner to ensure your success. A majority of home based businesses require some level of marketing, so it is imperative that you have a basic understanding of this concept.3. Is there a market for your business or product?
If the answer to this question is no, then stop wasting your time and move on to better things. If there is no one willing to buy your product, invest in your business, or use your services, then you are going to fail before you ever get started.4. Is there potential for a large return on your investment?
Nobody is going to invest the time or money into an internet home based business if there is no potential of getting a large return. After all, the goal is to make money.5. Is there a proven track record?
Learn what the pros and cons are from others who have firsthand experience. Do your research and talk to people who have had success and if possible some who have not. A word of caution on this though, when looking online for answers many people will blame their failure on the company, the leadership or something else never looking at themselves as the culprit. Success has tracks!6. Can the system be duplicated and therefore easily multiplied and built to run with minimal ongoing participation?
This is key to creating leverage for yourself that allows you to create the lifestyle you are looking for. The easiest, quickest way to make steady income online is to encourage other people to do what you do by having a system that is easily taught and duplicated. You must be able to teach people to start their own internet home based business under your direction and have them do the same. However, in order for this to work the business system must be easy to duplicate.
Choosing an Internet Home Based Business – 6 Questions to Ask Before Investing Your Money
Those Millions of Poorly Educated Americans – What Do They Do?
What did they do? Those millions of poorly educated Americans who, as preadolescents and, later, as adolescents during the last forty years, took much less than seriously the twelve years of public education that they were freely afforded from age six to eighteen, who eventually strode nonchalantly across commencement stages to be handed diplomas without having obtained the fundamental academic skills properly accompanying genuine graduation from high school? And what do they continue to do now, as it inexorably goes on, when countless unprepared young men and women are handed those diplomas and sadly discover, a few years later, that the lessons on reading, writing, and arithmetic that fell on their rebellious minds and deaf ears as they languished unattentively in classes where teachers were laboring to present their prepared lesson plans, might have allowed them to go on to higher education in order to get rewarding and better-paying jobs? I see them all the time, nearly always in U.S. cities, the abject unemployed and unemployable, those wandering people milling about the streets with desperate desolate looks in their eyes, who are unable to get jobs because they are not properly educated, because they cannot compete in the job markets against those men and women who took public education seriously and learned those fundamental academic skills well enough to accede to post-secondary education and training. Yet, it goes way beyond the formal classroom, to the secluded carol at the public library and the booklined study in the home, where an individual may use those basic essential academic skills to burn the midnight oil while selectively researching and delving into subjects and discliplines of personal interest for the sake of intellectual betterment.
The age group of the foregoing individuals, to which I am referring, comprises those adult men and women between 19 and 35, who failed to attain, in 12 years time, the ability to read, write, and do mathematics on, at least, an 9th grade level. These innumerable men and women throughout the fifty states go from dead-end job to dead-end job earning barely minimum wages, never able to realize a continuum of successfully gainful employment. Perhaps these former adolescents didn’t have parents who regularly encouraged, and helped, them to studiously acquire the rudiments of learning in elementary, middle, and high school. Currently, between 75-to-80 percent of all American public school children don’t have this type of parents, the ones who regularly take an active part in their children’s primary and secondary educations, who regularly help and encourage them at home to understand and complete homework assignments and to assimilate subject concepts, to help make learning fun. And I believe the reason for this is the perpetuation of a vicious cycle of learning dysfunction that is viciously generational in effect. For most unlearned mothers and fathers, who had parents hardly interested in their education, usually have problems being nurturing caring parents.
Yet, there is another pertinently relevant reason for the shocking downturn in American learning within the last 40 years, and it is systemic in nature. It used to be that a thorough basic education, comprising learning to comprehensively read, to write with grammatical skill and clarity, and to solve basic math problems, was the substrate for an advanced education, and was basically good as an end unto itself. That is, when a person learned to read, he, or she, would then voraciously read to learn. A person did not, from 1900 to 1970, go to school to get a job, but, rather, to get a thorough basic education; and with a through education a good job was, later, acquired. Back then, most engaged students seriously studied Latin, world history, Western civilization, English literature, basic and advanced mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, and geography in public school so that advanced studies in foreign languages, political history and philosophy, world political development, creative writing, advanced theoretical mathematics, physics and micro-biology, and advanced cartography could be later pursued at the college/university-level. If it is, rather, the other way around, and students who have done poorly in public secondary school seek post-secondary education in order to get specific jobs, say as computer programming specialists, the students who are not equipped academically to acquire well-rounded liberal college educations will channel only into courses and subjects, at junior colleges or universities, which will prepare them only to perform specific jobs, not to continue learning throughout life through diverse reading and conceptual thinking.
Thank God for the private and parochial elementary and secondary schools, and, perhaps, the public magnet and charter high schools throughout the nation, which cater to the small minority of preadolescent and adolescent children who are shaped by their parents to enjoy learning. But thank God more for those parents who take seriously their essential jobs as developmental nurturers for their children, who regularly devote priority time to their children, helping them to become wise and intuitive, while sacrificing their own personal time for the greater good of learning. These are the parents of the children who will become the Leonardo De Vincis, the Thomas Edisons, the Jonas Salks, the Louis Pasteurs, the Mark Twains, and the Michel de Montaigns of the future. These children will become the adults who will continually rely on that basically thorough substrate of knowledge they acquired from their parents, and in the classroom before they were 10 years old, in order to pursue eclectic personal reading to continually learn and internalize increasingly more convoluted subject material.
I fondly recall a profound statement made by an eminent academician, Dr. Stephen R. Lefevre, my mentor while studying political science for my graduate degree at the University of Texas at Tyler. While reminescing one day in the early 1990s about his graduate experiences at the University of California at Riverside, where he took his doctorate, he said, “I was quite humbled when I walked across the stage to be hooded as a doctor of philosophy and suddenly realized that there was so much more to learn, in so many related disciplines, that I didn’t know.” Stephen Lefevre remains a living tribute to continuing personal education and the advancement of knowledge, for he has used his acquired intuition and basic academic skills, obtained early in his life, to go far beyond the university classroom to the ever-continuing academy of mortal learning in order to enrich the lives of others, like me. But what do “they” do? Those innumerable young people who suddenly become adults and discover that they have wasted the most important years of their lives, when they could have been acquiring, at no cost to them, the essential rudiments of learning, the 3 Rs (“R”eading, w”R”iting, and a”R”ithmetic), the basic academic skills that would have prepared them to study for a rewarding and, in most cases, lucrative profession. Well, they, either, realize the need to remediate and make-up for what they failed to attain during their earlier years, and do it at their own expense, or they sadly stagnate in ignorance, socially and financially, for the remaining part of their lives, unwilling to step-up and take responsibility for their actions, and, perhaps, those of their parents. As I learned from my own dear mother, accomplishment, in any particular avenue of life, involves accepting a premise that it’s all about “mind over matter.” That is, you can’t afford to “mind” what it takes to do it, and it doesn’t “matter” how long or how hard it takes to get there. It’s ultimately getting there that really matters.
Internet Home Based Business – Who Let The Dogs Out?
Running an internet home based business can at times seem like being traced by angry dogs – everyone wants to get a piece of you. On the other hand, when some who are chasing you for business do catch up with you, they have little or nothing to offer and in fact seem confused about why they were chasing you in the first place.
Many of us involved in running an online or internet home based business no doubt have experienced the very frustrating event of signing up for a particular offer from an online marketer that seems appropriate for our business needs, only to be thereafter sent a barrage of other offers that have little or nothing to do with our internet home based business requirements.
Few things are more frustrating and this often proves to be a waste of time. Because if you really think about it, once you have subscribed to one offer or even purchased a product what should really happen is that either you are sent similar offers to review or you are sent offers that are somehow in line with your business requirements.
Unfortunately, it seems that in the online marketing world where quantity rather than quality rules, this is not what happens.
No sooner you sign up for an offer or buy a product than you start seeing offers from the same marketer about products that have little or nothing to do with your online business requirements or worse, the same marketer touting something similar to what you just bought, but this time this new miracle product is so much better than what he just convinced you to buy.
But it’s no use whining over this state of affairs with online marketing. What you should do is to develop a strategy to deal with it so that it has little negative effect on how you run your internet home based business.
One effective rule that you can apply in dealing with this kind of issue is to just refuse to deal with marketers who engage in this practice. Of course taking this drastic step may end up with you missing out on some great tools for your internet home based business, but these tools are likely to be available from other marketers anyway.
By doing this, you force discipline on yourself. You create an environment where you have more control over what you review for your online business and how you use your time and resources.