Tuesday, February 26, 2008

How To Start A Home Based Business On The Right Foot

(How To Start A Home Based Business On The Right Foot )
Copyright © Rodney Mckinnon
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

With the internet constantly evolving, more and more people are jumping on the wide array of home business opportunities available. Because of the millions of people that search the internet, you can virtually start your own home based business on whatever you want. Although it is not a walk in the park, the sky is the limit for where you take your business.
The first step to starting your own home based business is determining what exactly you want to do. While some options require money, there are a number of low cost ideas that are equally effective. You can join an already existing program, sell other people’s products, or make money off of your own product.
Some of the top programs you can join today on the internet include Abunza and Success University. These programs have been around for a short period of time, but are already making hundreds of thousands of people rich. These programs do have a start up cost, but you can quickly make up the cost by selling the product.
Affiliate marketing has been around the internet for awhile and is still a quality home business opportunity. This is a free method to make money as you make money by selling other people’s products. The easiest way to have success with this is to have a web site of your own to promote it on. The higher the commission is for the affiliate program, the more money you are going to make.
Some other low cost ideas include taking surveys, posting in forums for marketing, and writing articles. Article writing can be used for promoting your site, writing content for other people’s sites, or you can sell your articles to web sites like Associated Content. Articles are hot on the internet right now because everyone needs fresh and enticing content for their site.
Once you have determined what you want to do it is time to put together a plan. Know where you want to take your business, who you will market to, how you will market, and how you will design your site.
The next step to starting your own home based business is picking a domain name. Pick a domain name that has your company’s name in it, keywords you want to target, or the product you are selling in it. After selecting the domain name you want to research and find a reliable web hosting company to keep your site up and running.
After you have a plan, know what you are doing, and have a domain name and web hosting company, it is time to start developing your site. This includes creating fresh and enticing content, designing your site, handling customers, and marketing your site. It is a long process, but it is vital you jump on the numerous home business opportunities on the internet. There is a wide array of low cost ideas that can quickly take you from rags to riches.


About the Author: Rodney Mckinnon is an entrepreneur on the rise by helping others realize their dreams of owning their very own home based business using a lot of free and low cost tools.
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To find the best home based business ideas and
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Money Making Home Based Business Tools and Ideas

(Money Making Home Based Business Tools and Ideas)

Copyright © Rodney Mckinnon

http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

With each new passing day there is approximately 170,000 new people getting on the internet

according to USA Today. The sudden fascination with information provided has now opened the

eyes of many who are now toying with the idea of starting their very own home based

business. With 95% of them not making a substantial amount, I decided to try and come up

with a couple of free to low cost home business tools and ideas to help those with limited

income start there very own home based business. With a little patience and determination

there is not much room for failure. Each part will be broken down into sections and by

focusing on each one individually you can increase your chances of success.

The first thing that is vital to your success is to find what your interested in. There are

many people that have made a fortune simply doing what they loved. You also need to see if

your passion is also profitable. One way to quickly earn money on the web would be to start

out as an affliate and sell other people products for a percentage. A great company known as

clickbank offers a large variety of affiliate products.

After finding what your looking for the next thing to do is build your own website. One of

the great things about affliate programs are that a lot of them now offer to build a website

for you. If you decide to go it alone there are a few sites that offers to help the everyday

person with building there very own website. One such company called Template Box, offers a

variety of web templates for any one interested in any type of website. They even offer a

selection of low cost voice animated characters to add personality to your site.You can

check them out here at http://www.templatesbox.com. Earthlink is another company that offers

support along with web hosting and a free domain. At the time of writting this their price

is $9.95 a month for the first 3 months. To check them out to to

http://www.earthlink.net/biz/ehost/ to get a step by step video of how to go about building

your very own site without having to know any html codes.

The next thing you need to do is get an autoresponder to follow up with your customers on

your behaf. A couple of companies that offer free autoresponders are Getresponse and

SendFree. Getresponse offers a free autoresponse service of up to five messages and sendfree

offers up to 12 but with limited services. By getting an autoresponder, no matter whether

your out on vacation or anywhere else the autoresponder is always at work.

The final step is the most crucial of all outlined thus far and that is to bring traffic to

your site. There are many routes that you could take and one is to go to free traffic

exchanges such as traffic swarm (www.trafficswarm.com) and instant

buzz(www.instantbuzz.com). Some of the more extensive ways are through blogging and writing

articles. Google offers a free blogging service that you can find at www.blogspot.com. With

a blog you can basically advertise your business for free along with anything else that you

may want to do including putting articles on them. Now by going out and staying focused on

just one project at a time the sky's the limit to what you can achieve. To find everything

you need all wrapped into one along with more extensive tricks and training visit the site below.

About the Author:
Rodney Mckinnon is an entrepreneur on the rise offering tools and training to those that are interested in starting their own home based business.

To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com
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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Tell the world who you are and what your doing

Talk About Yourself And What Your Doing



I strictly wanted to reserve this spot on my blog to get to know other people and what they are doing as far as if they are in the home business field and how far are you coming along. To kick things off I started the home business field in October of 07. The business I chose was the Plug in Profit site because they offered to build my very own custom website along with training on how to advertise and start earning residual income from various affliate programs all on one site. Before I started doing my own home business, I worked two jobs which were at Techsonic Industries and Taco Bell. With both of the jobs I did ok as far as money wise but I had very little time to myself. What made me think to go this route was the day when my mother told me that her job was going to close down due to cheaper labor in Pakistan. After joining the Plug in Profit site I haven't looked back since.




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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Are You Ready For Tomorrow

(Are You Ready For Tomorrow)
Copyright © Rodney Mckinnon
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

(How many times have you found yourself living your life around your job? Getting up each

and every day when an alarm tells you to or only taking off when your boss allows. For all

the years that I have ben working I guess I never really thought much about it as the job

that I have has a nice 401 k package and the benefits to match. Reality never really hit me

until one day my mother told me that the job that she had been at for nearly 20 years was

closing down due to cheaper labor in Pakistan. I soon begin to wonder could the same thing

happen to me and if so what would I do.That was when I decided that I would not let someone

else be in control of my future and that I would be the master of my destiny.
Soon I turned to the internet to see what I could find and how I could actually find some

legitimate way of becoming my own boss. At first I didn't know where to look or who to

trust. That's when I decided to see if I could find any type of businesses listed under the

better business bureau. After finding a couple of businesses I couldn't really decide which

one to choose as they all promised to make me rich and offered all types of incentives to

get me to join. Granted I didn't know the first thing about owning my own business or how to

advertise it. Then one day as if by fate I came across this site and it seemed to offer

everything that I didn't know how to do. At first I didn't know if I could trust it or not,

but after seeing that they were a part of Icop and Truste I didn't hesitate to sign up.

Honestly the only thing I thought at first was that the information was either outdated or

no good. I'm a witness here today to say that I glad to be wrong. Not only did Stone Evans

create me my very own site but he also gave me a training guide to show me the in's and

out's of marketing and where to find new and free way to promote my site. Not only that but

Stone also gave me examples of how to set-up different ads and bonuses to get them off the

ground. Just when I thought it couldn't get any better he also provided access to a forum to

where if I had any questions, I could go in and ask people who have been through everything

that I am experiencing with the feel of belonging to a family. Never in my wildest dreams

did I honestly think that I would get off to such a start just from doing some of the things

that he had outlined in the training guide. I even learned how to set up this blog and other

new things that I didn't even know existed. After just 2 months I started to get a steady

flow of traffic and with the help of the people in the forum I stated to get sign-ups. I am

now finally starting to see my dreams come into realitly and the idea of being my own boss

is at hand. I trully feel blessed because before I started the only thing that I ever did on

a computer was listen to music and play games. If it wasn't for Stone Evans and the support

forum I don't believe that I would be nearly as far as I am because building a website and

doing html coding was like speaking a foreign language to me. Look at me now, the very

article you are reading has coding that I didn't have to do myself because Stone already

took care of it for me. So if you think that it to hard or feel like you can't do it just

look at me, a person who only played on a computer but is now making money from it. So the

next time you hear about the next company downsizing or having to work this weekend to meet

production realize that you could be the one who decide whether you work or not. Don't wait

until you get fired or laid off before you decide to take the leap, do it today and take

control of your life. )

About the Author: Rodney Mckinnon is a young entrepreneur on rise by joining the work

force of tomorrow and taking contol of his future to have financial freedom.

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To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Welcome To My Blog

I just want to say thanks for visiting my new blog today (12/2/07). First off let me introduce myself. My name is Rodney Mckinnon of Baker Hill AL. I currently work for Hummingbird,owned by Johnson Outdoors,. I am 27 years old and looking for a better way of life. The reason I wanted to do this is for two reasons and that is to personalize myself with other like minded people as to make new friends and possibly new partners. Also to get other people experiences as to what they have tried and done on the internet, business and social wise, so that other along with myself can learn and possible avoid mistakes that any of us have made. Basically I want to set this up to record all of the good and bad days that anyone is having. Also if there is anything you want to get off of your chest feel free to do so. I for one have a few things to talk about and will do so later. So please be on the look out for new postings.

Truthfully Yours:
Rodney Mckinnon
http://www.workwithrodney.com

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