To improve your homebased business, you need to focus on your strengths. Probably one of the best books I’ve read ever about finding your own inner strengths is Gallup StrengthsFinder 2.0. This book comes with a test that will determines your best overall talents.

For my case, my strengths are:

• Focus
• Restorative
• Futuristic
• Intellection
• Learner

Once I got my strengths, I thought at first : now what ?

Mission

Our mission is to provide you with important, useful information about establishing Home Based Business and residual income. The topics we’ll be treating are related to personal productivity, business success, and wealth accumulation.

Some of the things you’ll learn at the WorkAtHome Channel letter include :

• How To Launch Your Own Internet Business
• How To Sell Other People Products And Get Comissions
• How To Promote Your Home Based Business On The Internet
• How To Balance Family Life And Work
• How To Enhance Your Productivity

All your site really needs to be is clean, simple, and well-structured. It does not have to be fancy. It does not need to be complicated. And it certainly does not have to be expensive, despite what the pundits say. But it must not look like a dog’s breakfast. Your credibility will go…

bye-bye!

The best way to recognize good site design from bad is to do some surfing. You will know when you have found a good page, and its opposite. How? Just pay attention to your feelings as you surf. If you find yourself frowning or saying, “What’s going on?” a fair bit — sit up and take notice. Ask yourself… “What’s the problem here?… Where do things fall apart?”

Amazing graphics don’t make sales. They increase page loading time, so your visitors arrive (if they even bother to wait) impatient and irritated. Even if your graphics are especially compelling, all they do is distract the customer from making the purchase.
Not good!

Your logo doesn’t need to be elaborate. Visit the following examples. These are the top 6 “e-tailers” and their corresponding logos… (Source: PC Data Online)

Amazon.com

Ticketmaster

CDNow

See anything spectacular? I sure don’t. Simple. Easy to read. Functional. And that’s all your logo needs to be. You don’t have to be a graphics expert to create a satisfactory logo.

In this new articles serie, courtesy of MSS2002, we will try to present you a step-by-step system to get your own website running. We’ll cover all the steps, from creating your website to hosting your domain name. Follow the guide !

Getting started on the Net is becoming easier and easier. Barring the SEs’ gradual move towards paid listings, it’s also becoming cheaper. Things are improving on an almost daily basis.

What are the absolute necessities to get started?…
• A HTML editor (preferably a WYSIWYG one)
• This book (congratulations, I see you have it already!)
• A graphics editor
• Own domain name, plus hosting fees
• The odd “how-to” book for technical issues
• A business plan.

Internet auctions started as a hobby for a few computer people in the San Francisco area to have a “virtual swap meet” and get rid of some things they had, and find some things they wanted. In just ten years, this fun little idea has become a multi-billion-dollar enterprise and a global phenomenon, and amazingly, presents one of the best low-risk opportunities in history to start or grow a business! The potential is unlimited and still growing.

When selling a product, a lot of people make the mistake of developing their product first, and then trying to find a market for it. Of course, the process should be reversed.

Find a market first that spends money, then find out what they want and give it to them.

It is certainly easier said than done, but there are a lot of places online where you can do your market research for free. They’ve done most of the work for you already. You just need to know where to go and what to do to connect all the dots.

You’ve probably already heard of the Plug-in-Profit (to which many refer simply as PIPS) Internet Buzz. If not, let me just quote what Stone Evans, the founder of PIPs has to say about his program :

I will personally build a money making website for you
that’s 100% ready to take orders and pull in massive residual profits.

Quite tempting isn’t it ? Especially for the student full in debt I was at that time…
Well -I was tempted, and I remember that I’ve spent half an hour reading thoroughly through the sales pages, and this further raised my interest…

But as a student in debt, I was obliged to spend another hour doing several searches on the Internet about “Stone Evans”, the founder of Pips. I wanted to know who exactly was this “altruistic” person promising me quick cash and fully-loaded e-commerce websites for quite nothing.

Who Is Stone Evans ?