The Science of Making Money Online

Home Based Businesses: A Recipe for Success?
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Starting your own home based business is not always an easy decision to make. Home based businesses, after all, do not seem to be very secure, nor are they prestigious. However, before you get discouraged and start enumerating the reasons why you feel that your “little” home based business cannot possibly work, you should take some time to read the following stories.

A long time ago, there was a young drug store clerk named Asa Candler. Candler decided to start his own home based business after purchasing a beverage recipe from the town doctor for $500. That amount represented his entire life savings, but Candler was dedicated to making his home based business work. Today, that venture is a multibillion dollar company with an unmatched international distribution network. It owns the most recognizable brand name in the world. What is this company? You’ve probably heard of it. It’s called Coca-Cola.

One day, Anita Roddick, a British woman whose husband was frequently away on business, decided to make her hobby a moneymaking venture. Roddick, with little to do whenever her husband left town, didn’t choose to watch soap opera reruns or take aerobic classes. Instead, she took to concocting with various potions in her garage. She gave a few of these potions to friends and found out that they were very popular, so popular that she was soon selling them all over her neighborhood. This home business, from such inauspicious beginnings, is now an internationally-recognized franchise that does billions of dollars of business each year. What is this business? It’s called the Body Shop.

History bristles with examples of large corporations that started close to home. Truly, “great things start from small beginnings.” Did you know, for example, that Microsoft was started in a garage, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen? Looking at the company now, that’s pretty hard to believe, but it’s true. Back then, Gates and Allen were just two “geeks” who were more interested in writing software then they were studying in school. In fact, Gates dropped out of Harvard, worked on his home business, and produced MS-DOS – the rest is history. Bill Gates is, of course, currently the richest man in the world, and his company, Microsoft, dominates the software industry.

Now, you may never aspire to reach the heights that Candler, Roddick, and Gates have. But it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. The purpose of this article has been to remind you that even the greatest of successes were at first small ventures, not unlike the one that you are planning to build. As long as you infuse imagination, creativity, and plain old hard work into your business ideas, there is no reason to believe that you will fail. Even if you do, you should simply pick yourself up, learn from your mistakes, and push forward. You never know: your home based business might become the next Microsoft, or the next Coke! Get excited and make it happen!



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Shopper Scripts
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If a start up business entrepreneur first hears the term good shopping cart scripts he or she might think this means the words that are put on the Web page - the script - that will urge the consumer to respond. While those words are important certainly, and should include a call to action, shopping cart scripts are good ways to determine who is looking at and buying what when they come to the merchant's site.

Good shopping cart scripts not only tell the merchant what the consumer looks at and how long she or he views the page but it also tracks those consumers from the very beginning of their decision to buy or not right through to the end of the online transaction. This is an especially important tool by which the merchant can tell if there is any pattern to a consumers "dropping out" of the transaction before completion. If, for example, a high percentage of potential buyers are leaving the transaction at the point when they are asked to register, the merchant might be included to think that registration is too early on in the transaction process. He or she might do well to take the "advice" of these good shopping cart scripts and not ask that consumer to identify him or herself until it's time to pay for the product.

The good hopping cart, rather than a cute little icon is the carrier of these scripts, the method that takes the consumers choices to the transaction page and does so securely. It connects with the gateway that sends the details to the payment process page. The scripts will track their choices all the way through to the checkout

Here is where the good shopping cart scripts connect with the merchant account programming to take the money the consumer is spending on merchant products. At the time of payment, the gateway sends the messages that the payment is good to go or denied to the shopping cart software and its scripts.

Shopping cart and their scripts could be free, or could cost a pretty penny, depending on the numerous bells and whistles you choose or not. What are good shopping cart scripts for start up businesses may not be robust enough for larger firms with more e-commerce transactions. There are hundreds of good shopping cart scripts from which to choose.




Source; http://www.hotlib.com/articles/
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Early E-commerce
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E-commerce actually began long before most of us would have thought. Many years before PCs and laptops in the home and during mobile travel for work or play made Internet commonplace, e-commerce existed.

The first e-commerce occurred way back in 1984, when electronic data interchange (EDI) was made standard through the use of ASC X12 programming. What was important about this was that now companies could reliably complete online transactions with one another. In 1992 Compuserve debuted, offering retail products online to customers for the first time. While this was the first time that e-commerce was enabled for the consumer it was still limited. Consumers had to buy Compuserve, install it on their systems and then subscribe to get into the product. Compuserve did not enable its e-commerce for general public access.

Two years later, in 1994, however, Netscape premiered its online services, offering a simple to use Internet browser. An important part of what Netscape offered was the security necessary for sale online e-commerce transactions. It was called Secure Sockets Layer, and is still a crucial part of every e-commerce transaction or online payment.

Just one year later history was made with the launch of both Amazon.com and eBay.com. Much different than their current e-commerce look, these two online vendor portals at first allowed online purchases but didn't offer any auction based transactions. In fact, at first all Amazon.com offered was the opportunity to buy books, CDs and other print periodicals.

A great part of the reason that e-commerce had not really taken off at this point was because the most common method of getting online, and about all that was available to the public up until 1995, was dial up. It was slow, it interrupted the individual and family's ability to use their own phones and it made e-commerce a cumbersome process.

That's when Digital Subscriber Line, now more commonly referred to as DSL, was introduced. Still using the telephone line, it increased the speed of e-commerce transactions and online search and surfing in general, and offered users the convenience of surfing the Web without tying up their phone line. E-commerce began to grow in popularity as a result.

Broadband soon became a commonplace offering in homes and offices, offering even better speed, an always on convenience and new technology that made the Internet more attractive. E-commerce grew exponentially. As of 1999 Internet spending swelled to $20 billion.



Source; http://newmedia.medill.northwestern.edu/courses/
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No Charge for Novices
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One of the best free home based business help is offered by those who have been there, done that themselves - retired executives that volunteer their time through an organization called SCORE. Service Corps of Retired Executives has literally thousands of volunteers in nearly 400 offices over all the United States. More than 7 million business owners have found valuable free home based business help from SCORE.

Home based entrepreneurs can get free SCORE help one of three different ways. The business owner can go to the nearest SCORE office and meet with a volunteer one on one for free help with home based business set up, problems or growth issues. He or she can attend one of the many SCORE seminars and workshops available. The third alternative is to go to the SCORE Web site and peruse the material there for free, or can ask their home based business question of an appropriate SCORE expert from the online list.

The SCORE Web site has a reading room, full of business articles for free, not only for home based but also for any type of business large or small, start up or expanding. An entrepreneur can access articles, for example, that discuss legal issues, managing a business office, writing a business plan, online business, buying a business, selling a business, raising capital for your business, marketing, public relations, customer services, sales, leadership, human resource issues, and training. On the site he or she can read an article that tells her how to effectively interview potential employees, how to choose between a limited liability company or S Corporation, how to avoid e-commerce mistakes and many others.

If he wants to ask a SCORE volunteer for free advice about his home based business start up he can access the SCORE site easily. The business owner will be able to view a list of counselor's, which indicates their names, their locations and their area of expertise. She can choose the one that seems the best match for the kind of help she needs. The entrepreneur's free home based business assistance search starts by indicating keywords. He can choose to narrow down the list by geographic area should he later wish to meet with the volunteer in person.

The site also has a number of success stories posted about small and home based business owners who sought and got free advice from SCORE and succeeded in their business endeavors. There's nothing like a story of success to keep a fledgling business owner motivated.


Source: www.score.org




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Easy Entrepreneurship
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If someone's idea of easy home business ideas means ideas that allow them to make money without a lot of effort, then for them there are no easy home business ideas. When we talk about easy home business ideas, the reality is that there are home business ideas that are easy to break into, to work into a home business that the owner can enjoy and make profitable, with a lot of time and hard work.

The part of these home business ideas that is easy is the means for starting them. With these easy home business ideas you don't need a lot of capital or significant education or training. You just need determination, hard work, dedication, enthusiasm and some savvy.

Home or office cleaning is one of those easy home business ideas. About the only money the start up business owner would need up front is cleaning equipment and supplies, as well as some advertising to get the word out that she or he is available. Once they land the first job the first payment should keep the cleaning supplies purchased and the business is on a roll. Skills needed for an easy home cleaning business are those we all have. No matter what we do in life we have to clean. We all have homes, and we've all scrubbed tubs, vacuumed rugs and emptied trash.

While this may be one of the hardest of the easy home business ideas in that it takes a lot of manual labor, and, in the case of office cleaning, a lot of late night and weekend hours, it also pays off well if done right.

A start up home or office cleaning business can easily segue into other easy home business ideas as well. One can start a carpet cleaning business, offering it to the firm's current clients and asking them to spread the word. The entrepreneur or staff can do house sitting, pet sitting and even landscaping. Lawn care and landscaping are the ones that are going to require the most upfront expense, but if the entrepreneur waits until the home or office cleaning business has made a substantial profit then those same homeowners might be interested in landscaping or lawn care, might have friends and coworkers who are interested and it could be that the landscaping or lawn care business will start itself without additional advertising costs.


Source: http://www.homebiztools.com/
ideas/house-cleaning-business.htm




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Work at Home Ware
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The owner of a home business that uses a computer would do well to learn her or his way around the hardware and software. This can make a more efficient computer home business system, saving time and money. The first step to a more efficient computer system for your home business is to update your PC or laptop's software and hardware on a regular basis. This will keep your computer system a state of the art product.

Updating software is a breeze, with most computer systems and software systems working hand in glove to prompt you to download the upgrades and a one-click installation that, with typical broadband speed, will complete in less than a minute. Some software programs upgrade in the background without your even being aware of it or even noticing any system slow down while you use your computer to work at your home business.

Hardware upgrades are a little harder to keep track of. A home business owner who is less than a geek should find a beginning level computer magazine that will tell the owner the latest products as well as their features and uses. Handy peripherals come along brand new just about every day. Things like Web cams and CD burners can help facilitate a home business with the computer.

Getting online without any interruption - either through broadband or DSL - is important to a computer home business. A Home business owner wouldn't want a consumer getting a busy signal when it's time to call and buy, nor would she or want to spend quality sales or marketing time waiting for a home business computer to upload.

A home business owner doesn't have to be a security expert but does have to have a complete understanding of the basics of the threats to the computer system they depend on to keep the business up and running. They should understand the meaning of such threats as viruses, Trojan horses, worms, phishing and spoofing. Virus protection, and other common security software is a must for a home business computer. While the most common security products are Norton and MacAfee there are some free security products that are excellent protection as well - AVG, SpyBot Search and Destroy and AdAware.

The owner of a home business computer can save a lot of time, energy and repair fees by knowing the up to date ins and outs of computer maintenance and troubleshooting.


Source: http://www.ehow.com/
how_10207_become-real-computer.html


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Home is Where the Money Is
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An at home business that can help others with their various jobs can be very lucrative. Busy people with busy lives - single mothers, overextended executives, and entrepreneurs are great prospects for jobs that offer virtual assistance or errand services that someone can run as an at home business.

If the budding entrepreneur doesn't have that college degree and doesn't think he or she is qualified for jobs that allow him to create an at home business, he should think again. Errand services can be as simple as picking up the dry cleaning, ordering the birthday cake, dropping off the film to the photographer's or walking the dog. The great thing about these errand service jobs is not only that they are an at home business but that they don't need much start up money. Any jobs that let the owner do her business at home leaves her free from additional leasing overhead, additional utility deposits, minimal utility increases and the savings of the daily commute.

Of course, if that businessperson offers a pickup and delivery (as someone would have to with an errand service) the firm would take on the sometimes hefty cost of gasoline and wear and tear on its vehicle. The owner probably would incur an increase on the company auto insurance as well. These are things to consider when weighing options between those office jobs and an at home business.

If the would-be home business owner were more highly skilled than the typical errand services jobs would require her at home business could be as a virtual assistant. If she has office skills such as word processing, clerical, computer database and contact database management and perhaps desktop publishing she could be the ideal virtual assistant. The advantage of a virtual assistant as opposed to a local errand service is that the VA can work for anyone anywhere and most of the work would be done by e-mail, IM, fax and perhaps overnight mail. He wouldn't have the additional transportation costs, although for the jobs he'd be given his at home business set up would be more costly up front. Unless, of course, he already had home office equipment in place such as a PC, printer, scanner, fax (or all in one), digital camera, file cabinet, flash drives, and a secure and comfortable home office environment that is ergonomically correct.

Whether a person wants to take a variety of jobs and assignments from various clients in her or his at home business or wants to take a few clients who commit for an extended period is entirely up to that entrepreneur.



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Survey Schemers
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Getting paid to take online surveys is a legitimate work at home Internet business opportunity. Many sites, however, that say that they offer you a home Internet survey business opportunity are really offering you only the opportunity to pay upfront money for a listing of those who will pay you to take surveys. Most of these firms you could have found for yourself, and some aren’t even current. One consumer advocacy group reviewed hundreds of sites and firms offering survey taking as a work at home Internet business opportunity. Of the hundreds they reviewed they were able to recommend only five.

It’s so easy for a netpreneur to set up a Web site offering to pay users for taking online surveys. All it takes is a few hours. There are no surveys from this site, more often than not. These sites primarily turn out to be only a work at home Internet business opportunity for the netpreneur that set up the site. All others pay upfront and get little of value in return. Even if the lists they offer are any good or the links work (which many times they don’t) these are quite often companies that again want upfront money for an alleged work at home Internet business taking surveys.

The fees for the initial directories can be as $100. What you get for your money is usually a directory that is out of date, links that don’t work, phone numbers that are disconnected or reassigned, and email addresses that bounce back. You don’t find any customer service assistance or any refund offer. Once you start asking for a refund due to your inability to start a work at home Internet business opportunity from the material you paid them for, the refuse to reply and then the site is shut down after several dissatisfied buyers. These schemers aren’t gone, though – nor are their schemes. They just pop up on the Web under a different company name and different domain. Even when these alleged work at home Internet business opportunity sites are live their navigation is generally poor, information such as contacts is inadequate and some of the pages don’t work.

The five sites that the consumer advocate agency recommended as legitimate paid survey work at home Internet business opportunity firms charge upfront fees up to $60 but actually have staff dedicated to helping you find survey clients and assignments. They all offer a 100 percent guarantee of your money back after as many as 45 days. The actual honoring of this agreement has been verified by the agency with each of the five paid survey firms.

With these paid survey sites, the work at home Internet business opportunity may not make you rich but it’s a good income. What you can expect for your upfront fee is as many as 25 offers each day to take online surveys for which you are paid about $15-$25 each. Some of them, though not most, pay as much as $75. The lower end payment surveys amount to about 5-15 minutes of your time, while the higher paying surveys might take 30 minutes. So, a 20 hour week would provide you with a median monthly income of $1600. Not bad for something will the many benefits of work at home Internet business opportunity projects – little if any overhead, no dress code, no training or experience required and hours that you set for yourself.


Source: http://www.topsitereviews.info/
surveys1.html?gclid=CK2qh-uO2IcCFR8eYQodIiUFqQ


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Web Work That Won’t Work
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While there are many legitimate work at home Internet business possibilities and many reputable and honest work at home Internet business vendors, there are also some fraudulent schemes. You must choose carefully. The most prominent of these fraudulent schemes is for medical billing. Touted as one of the best work at home Internet business ideas, these schemers are just out for your money. The idea is to charge an upfront fee to get you started, and then leave you to fend for yourself in an industry where you have little chance of succeeding. Other fraudulent business opportunity schemes such as envelope stuffing and product assembly take your money and then reject your work – and thus its payment – as substandard.

Advertisements touting these prepackaged medical billing centers show up on TV, on the Web and in newspapers. Major metro newspapers, probably the most savvy about these schemes, generally do not accept the ads. Responding to the ad for the medical billing work at home Internet business opportunity will result in your receiving a phone call, with a pitch about the burgeoning health care system crisis. Typically the hawker will tell you that claims are piling up and waiting to be processed. The result, according to the person on the phone, is to process these claims electronically, which is not being done often or expansively. This, the pitch goes, is what makes it a lucrative work at home Internet business for you.

The promise is that you’ll make a lot of money as doctors outsource their billing to you. You can, they say, work in accounts receivable, insurance claims and physician or dentist practice management. Including in the presentation is the assurance that not only do you not need experience but that their sales staff will kick start your work at home Internet business by putting you together with health care clients. The reality is that if you have any chance at all to make any money – or even get your initial investment back – you’re going to have to find your own clients.

The investment for this alleged lucrative work at home Internet business is not small – typically $2500-$9000. Prior to your commitment you will be mailed a business brochure, the application and license agreement (contract), document of disclosure, diskette samples, references and testimonials and videocassettes. Your investment is supposed to result in training, software and technical support. The references are commonly shills – the name for people that a company hires to provide favorable but dishonest testimonials.

The reality is that medical billing is seldom a lucrative work at home Internet business. Few people who purchase these programs are able to find enough clients to even recoup their investment much less make a living at it. It’s not that medical billing isn’t a legitimate business. It’s that the competition is fierce and the market is saturated.


Source: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/
pubs/invest/homewrk.htm


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High-Tech Prep
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A large part of starting a home based Internet business is installing and maintaining the various technical pieces of equipment and software programs you’ll need to market, create, and deliver your various products or services. While this technological side of starting a home based Internet business may seem tedious, harrowing, costly and possibly even frightening at first, keep in mind that ultimately it should advance the quality of your life, make your work and even your home life more efficient and relaxed and make you money. While you won’t want to invest in your technical wish list when you first start out you do want to get quality products and the right applications and equipment to save you time and offer your clients the most professional looking marketing materials and finished products.

Another important aspect of your technical and computer purchases when you’re first starting your home based Internet business is that your PC be upgradable and have plenty of ports for add-on peripherals as you grow and want to expand your business “toys.”

As a sole proprietor starting a tiny home based Internet business you probably won’t need your own server, although as you expand that might be easier and less costly. A robust media center could let you control your home office video and audio functions as well as your home TV. You could install TiVo to digitally record the TV programs you’re missing while in your office, although many cable companies offer this service through their digital boxes. Intel has designed a PC all-in-one media center that lets you combine software and hardware in one PC setup that is very easy to use. You can not only run your home based Internet business but it can be used for starting the home videos, music or Web access.

Probably not while you are starting you home based Internet business, but once it is up and running and making a profit, you might want to add some great high-end high-tech extras to your home office as well as your home. NetgearStorage Central SC 101 connects wirelessly to your firm’s network but you’ll see it in your Windows setup as a hard drive attachment. From here you can now handle all your games, music, videos and photographs as well as your home Internet business’ records and documents. You can make these business records private so that you can share your new network device with your family without fear of a security breach. Another alternative is made by Iomega – a terabyte-sized multimedia hub.

Backup is a crucial need when you are starting a home based Internet business. You can purchase automatic back up devices or flash drives depending on the volume of your need. If your choice is for flash drives it’s best to look on the Web for discounts and buy in bulk or buy flash drives of 1 GB storage or more. If you’re working with a tower whose USB ports are on the back a flash drive hub is a handy tool. It offers four or five additional USB ports and a long cord that allows you to bring the hub and the ports within easy reach.

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/technology/
theextendedoffice/article84004.html


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Getting Web Words Write
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Your work at home based Internet business relies heavily on your Web marketing to bring in new customers. To make this tactic work you must know how to write great sales copy for your site. Here are some ideas on just how to do that.

The first tip for keeping consumers on your site and inducing them to buy your product or service is to create headlines that get their attention. Of course, it has to be followed by material that keeps their attention, but we’ll get to that later.

Don’t be weak, but don’t be hyperbolic. If you’re weak you’re boring and not very convincing. If you use hyperbole you won’t be believed or trusted – the kiss of death for a work at home based Internet business. What we mean by weak is, “Welcome to my site. I think you’re going to like what you see here.” Well, if you’re not sure, they sure won’t be. Hyperbole is, “You’ll be glad you found the only site you’ll ever need again.” Yeah, right. Bye.

There are two things you must focus on when you create your site headlines. People want help and information, and they want it fast. Get right to the point. If you’re offering legal services for DUI citations you might start off by saying, “We can help You Save Your Job, Your License, Your Freedom and Your Reputation.” See how that works? You haven’t promised you will, because of course you can’t. But you’ve gotten right to the heart of why they are seeking you out, told them emphatically that you can help them, and did it in a dramatic and attention-getting way.

A work at home based Internet business must know its target audience and hone in on that segment of Web users. You can’t be everything to everyone, nor can your copy convincingly claim that. You must know what you are going to offer and to whom you are going to offer it and then focus your sales copy and your advertising campaign to bring those folks to your site. The best way to learn about who your audience is may have to be to get a small audience to your site and then see who they are and where they go. Your Web host can provide the details of the server logs from which you will learn which pages are the most popular, not only because they are visited most often but because users stay on them the longest. They can also tell you the days and times of day most people come to your site as well as the point at which (the page) they leave your site.

From this you’ll know your age, gender, and other demographics of your niche (if you’ve been smart and required or encouraged free registration) and what pages need rewrite and redesign to keep folks from leaving at that point.

The other important sales tactics for your work at home based Internet business are to establish business credibility with clear contact information, clear biographies of all key players in the business, and business testimonials. You want to focus not only on the features of your products and services but their benefits as well. Tell your potential customers what you can do for them. Don’t forget, as many do, to ask for that sale – over and over again.

Source: http://www.entrepreneur.com/ebusiness/ebusinesscolumnist/article167910.html

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