A lot of people in a home based business want to start at the beginning of their journey and hop straight to the end! But what we forget is that the steps in between A-Z are important and they can give others a whole lot of inspiration. That’s why it’s so important to be real and chronicle our home based business journey both good and bad! Here is why!
1. It can help people!
When you go to a home based business meeting as a new person or prospect and you can tend to look at all of those success stories as a little unbelievable. After all, there are only so many stories you can hear about someone being dead broke and now being incredibly rich before you start to believe that A) these stories can’t be real or B) I could never do anything like that!
When you leave out the middle part of your testimony you leave out a whole lot! People need to know that you’re a human being. They need to know that you struggled, that you doubted yourself, that you thought about quitting at times. It is stories like that that make where you ended up that much more impressive and real!
People will look at your story and say. Hey, if this person doubted themselves but still made $100,000 a year so can I!
By being honest about all the things that happened during your journey to success you’ll stop being a testimony and start being a real person and that will really inspire people!
2. It can help you!
Along with helping others with your story you can also help yourself by chronicling your journey to success. Being able to look back to where you started will help you see how far you’ve really come! Even if you’re not at your goal yet you’ll be able to see all the bumps in the road you’ve encountered and how you’ve been able to overcome each and every one of them!
3. It keeps things in perspective!
Now lets jump ahead to when you’ve reached your ultimate goal and you’re incredibly successful (because you know you’re gonna get there!) Having your story written out for you to look at will help you help others who might be going through the same struggles that you already conquered. Sometimes when we reach our goals we forget how hard it is when someone is still trying to do so. This will help you keep things in perspective and remember just how hard it was when you were trying to reach all of your goals! It will help you be a much better team leader.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Is Your Home Business Luke Warm?
As I type out this article I’m sitting in a coffee shop drinking a very hot cup of coffee. And it got me thinking about my home based business. When you’re building a business from home you either have to be scalding hot or chillingly cold. If you’re hot you’re going to do amazing things in your business. And if you’re cold you’re not going to do anything but at least you’re not kidding yourself into thinking that you are. The problem really lies with people who are neither hot nor cold. So I ask you today… when it comes to your home based business…. are you lukewarm?
You wouldn’t dream of taking a lukewarm shower or washing your dishes in lukewarm water or getting in a lukewarm hot tub would you? At the same time I doubt you’d want to swim in a lukewarm pool or drink a lukewarm glass of lemonade on a hot day.
When you think about it lukewarm really isn’t worth very much at all is it?
However, that’s exactly how so many of us are in our home based businesses. We sign up, we pay the money and we go to a meeting or two but we never really get entirely passionate or sold out for our business. We decide that we’re going to “give this thing a try” and somewhere along the way we forget to get excited about the opportunity that could change our lives forever.
Even Jesus spoke out about Luke warmness. In Revelation Jesus said “So because you are neither hot nor cold I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Now if that isn’t enough to convince you that being lukewarm is pointless I don’t know what will!
If you’ve been involved in your home based business for a while now but you’ve yet to really find serious success ask yourself this… are you lukewarm. Are you in the business but not really IN it?
If the answer is yes it’s time to heat things up! Get excited, get crazy, get passionate about your home based business. Or get out! When you’re on fire for your opportunity amazing things are possible. If not… well yo might as well not be in it at all.
You wouldn’t dream of taking a lukewarm shower or washing your dishes in lukewarm water or getting in a lukewarm hot tub would you? At the same time I doubt you’d want to swim in a lukewarm pool or drink a lukewarm glass of lemonade on a hot day.
When you think about it lukewarm really isn’t worth very much at all is it?
However, that’s exactly how so many of us are in our home based businesses. We sign up, we pay the money and we go to a meeting or two but we never really get entirely passionate or sold out for our business. We decide that we’re going to “give this thing a try” and somewhere along the way we forget to get excited about the opportunity that could change our lives forever.
Even Jesus spoke out about Luke warmness. In Revelation Jesus said “So because you are neither hot nor cold I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Now if that isn’t enough to convince you that being lukewarm is pointless I don’t know what will!
If you’ve been involved in your home based business for a while now but you’ve yet to really find serious success ask yourself this… are you lukewarm. Are you in the business but not really IN it?
If the answer is yes it’s time to heat things up! Get excited, get crazy, get passionate about your home based business. Or get out! When you’re on fire for your opportunity amazing things are possible. If not… well yo might as well not be in it at all.
Happily Unemployed!
What’s so great about a job anyway? That’s the question that’s been on my mind recently. I understand that jobs are what allow us to uh… buy stuff and live but there are other ways of making money that don’t include nosey co-workers, a boss, a stinky break room or a commute. I’m talking of course about working from home and anyone who has experienced the type of freedom that comes with working from home knows just how great it is and why if you’ve ever really gotten a taste you’d never want to go back to your job!
For those of us who are blessed enough to be happily unemployed the world is all about living. It’s not about barely getting by or trying to make time for our families it’s about doing what we want to do when we want to do it.
Jobs can be good if you’re doing something you’re really passionate about but for most people in America you’re working just to get a paycheck, and a measly paycheck at that.
That’s why building a home based business is so amazing. It allows you to work for a little bit and play a whole lot. Not to mention the fact that when you’re your own boss you’re free to make as much money as you want! You don’t have a boss telling you what you’re worth or that maybe you’ll get a raise sometime down the road you can give yourself raises! Isn’t that a concept!
Aside from the money a home based business gives you something that you can never make more of… time. Time with your kids, time with your spouse, time to yourself or time with your friends. Once it’s gone it’s gone. Little Leslie will only be 4 for one year and Adam will only have one first baseball game and once it’s over baby it’s over!
That’s what makes being your own boss so amazing. You never have to miss spending time with the people who matter most. Your life is YOURS so live it the way that you want to. Get more information about working from home today and start your way to being happily unemployed!
For those of us who are blessed enough to be happily unemployed the world is all about living. It’s not about barely getting by or trying to make time for our families it’s about doing what we want to do when we want to do it.
Jobs can be good if you’re doing something you’re really passionate about but for most people in America you’re working just to get a paycheck, and a measly paycheck at that.
That’s why building a home based business is so amazing. It allows you to work for a little bit and play a whole lot. Not to mention the fact that when you’re your own boss you’re free to make as much money as you want! You don’t have a boss telling you what you’re worth or that maybe you’ll get a raise sometime down the road you can give yourself raises! Isn’t that a concept!
Aside from the money a home based business gives you something that you can never make more of… time. Time with your kids, time with your spouse, time to yourself or time with your friends. Once it’s gone it’s gone. Little Leslie will only be 4 for one year and Adam will only have one first baseball game and once it’s over baby it’s over!
That’s what makes being your own boss so amazing. You never have to miss spending time with the people who matter most. Your life is YOURS so live it the way that you want to. Get more information about working from home today and start your way to being happily unemployed!
Should you pay to advertise your video on Youtube?
Youtube’s featured videos are a great way to get your marketing video more exposure. However, is it really worth paying the money for this method of advertising? While it might be a good move for someone who has a pretty healthy budget for advertising for the average internet marketer it might not be the best way to get good use out of your Youtube videos.
A featured video works sort of like a google pay per click ad. A Youtube user comes along and types in the search bar the type of videos that they want to see. And based on the keywords you have chosen your video will pop up at the top of their page.
This all sounds like a pretty good idea right? Well it is. I mean technically the service works well for what it is. However, there are a lot of other ways that you can get your video noticed without paying a dime for it!
The best way is of course keyword optimization. By using the right keywords for your tags, in your title, in your username, description and on your channel you can get virtually the same effect as a featured video. Say the keywords you are using are “home based business in California” and someone types those keywords into the search option of Youtube.
They’ll probably see your video and a few others that match. They’ll also probably see a couple featured videos. Now if the prospect clicks on your video you get charged nothing. However, if the prospect clicks on the featured video they get charged.
It just seems like a pretty simple deal to me that if you keyword your videos correctly you won’t need to pay the extra money to get views.
Remember that when you’re picking your keywords you’ll want to make them specific and pretty narrow. So rather than using the term “home based business” which will get you lots of competition you might try “best home based business” or something like that.
When you do this you just narrow the competition so that the prospect is more likely to see your video.
So don’t spend a lot of money on Youtube. Keep it free and still have great results with your video marketing by using keywords.
A featured video works sort of like a google pay per click ad. A Youtube user comes along and types in the search bar the type of videos that they want to see. And based on the keywords you have chosen your video will pop up at the top of their page.
This all sounds like a pretty good idea right? Well it is. I mean technically the service works well for what it is. However, there are a lot of other ways that you can get your video noticed without paying a dime for it!
The best way is of course keyword optimization. By using the right keywords for your tags, in your title, in your username, description and on your channel you can get virtually the same effect as a featured video. Say the keywords you are using are “home based business in California” and someone types those keywords into the search option of Youtube.
They’ll probably see your video and a few others that match. They’ll also probably see a couple featured videos. Now if the prospect clicks on your video you get charged nothing. However, if the prospect clicks on the featured video they get charged.
It just seems like a pretty simple deal to me that if you keyword your videos correctly you won’t need to pay the extra money to get views.
Remember that when you’re picking your keywords you’ll want to make them specific and pretty narrow. So rather than using the term “home based business” which will get you lots of competition you might try “best home based business” or something like that.
When you do this you just narrow the competition so that the prospect is more likely to see your video.
So don’t spend a lot of money on Youtube. Keep it free and still have great results with your video marketing by using keywords.
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