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The Dow has gone up and down all week (the week of October 6th, 2008 - $1.2 TRILLION lost in one day alone! Is this really happening?

Although there was a slight rebound the next day, people are scared and they have good reason to be.

Jobs are evaporating and banks are closing. My generation has never seen anything close to this and the worst part is there is NO END in sight.

Millions of people who have collectively lost trillions of dollars over the last few weeks in the stock markets through their 401K accounts and mutual funds are now wondering who to trust and how they will take care of their financial future.

HOWEVER: you can be safe if you act now!

As a home-based entrepreneur without much, if any, overhead and a market that is growing exponentially, you will be safe.

Thousands have lost their jobs - but True Entrepreneurs are “psychologically unemployable,” so we are immune to that as well!

Millions of people are logging onto the internet and Googling terms like ‘how to make money from home,” “how to start a home based business” and “online home business” for the very first time.

How do I know?

I’ve been doing it myself! The company I am working with is experiencing record growth. I am immune to what’s going on around me, in a sense and I am not reliant on ANYONE outside of myself and my own decisions.

Are you tired of feeling left out? Like feeling as if you are trapped with the millions? Then start an online home business NOW!

But WAIT! First, study The Five Things All Home Based Business Entrepreneurs Must Consider Before Starting A New Enterprise During This Economic Crisis carefully. Here are the five things you must know before you start you new home based online business in these tough economic times!

1) Most online home based opportunities are thinly veiled schemes and scams. Learn the difference.

2) Most people only find this out once it is too late and their money is GONE! Be smart and ask smart questions.

3) There is no such a thing as “get rich quick” or “easy money.”

4) You are going to have to WORK HARD for your money.

5) A quality program will not be easy - simple, but not easy. If it was easy everyone would be rich and a self-made millionaire

I have been working with an online program this year and getting remarkable results - and the main product is financial education. This, of course, is something everyone desperately needs as we sink deeper and deeper toward a depression.

Make sure the product you are associating with is, similarly, something desperately needed in the economic climate we’re in now.

Whatever you do, choose carefully, then give it your all. You will succeed!



By: Henri Schauffler

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Building up an online home business involves a lot of risk taking because of the need to separate you from the competition. Just like all types of businesses, there is no guarantee that your online business will be successful. Every detail of how you promote your product, what products you promote and who your target audience is will determine your success.

What is troubling is that building an online home business takes time. It is possible for you to invest several months or even years into a business before determining that you are having no success. However, there are several things you can do to better your chances of producing a successful business.

The worst thing you can do when starting is forego looking into the market. It is essential that you research the market prior to and during the beginning phases so you know what to target. If you overlook the importance of the market, you could potentially start a business that has no public appeal whatsoever.

Researching the market is just one of a number of things that is required to help build a successful online home business. You have to find time to promote the business, generate fresh and enticing content and handle all the customers with quality service. It can be difficult juggling multiple tasks at one time, especially if you’ve never been in the internet industry. Because of this, time management is important to help you prioritize and find time to accomplish all tasks in front of you.

Another pitfall to avoid when you begin your online business is spending to frequently. The costs to get your business up and running will depend on what type of business you are getting into. While some businesses online require only the bare minimum costs such as purchasing a domain name and web host, others will be pricey because of products and shipping. Regardless of what business you begin, make sure to write out a budget of what you are willing to spend. It can be easy to spend far more than what is necessary when starting your business.

The last thing that can be detrimental to your online business has to do with your personality. Passivity is not allowed in the internet business because of the risks that are required to take and duties that are on your shoulders. You are the boss, so you have to be willing to write up the business plan, sell the product and take the risks required to set you apart from the competition.



By: Paul Jesse

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On the top of the affiliate program choice, the online home business starter needs many other services to be able to run the promotions, track the results etc. Of course the guidelines come from the marketing plan and especially from the strategy.

1.The Effective Medium For Promotions.

The idea of the medium is that by that you can get contact with your target audience. Before you will find those mediums, which will fit for you and bring results with your skills, you may be better to test some or all of them. After you have experiences, you can skip those, which you think does not belong to your toolbox.

2. The Strategy As A Tool.

Strategy is not something theoretical, which you just talk but which has no practical meaning. No, no and no! It is very practical tool by which you try to reach the targets. A newbie must prepare a strategy, he can do the corrections later, but it is important to start thinking strategically right in the start.

The strategy can be based on very simple factors, but it can take time before those factors are found. To be able to select those simple ways to run the online home business, the newbie must go through a lot of information and the internet marketing services must offer the tips for this process.

3. Do Not Be Alone.

It is very much up to the newbie, whether he can build working contacts with his upline and colleagues on the forums. These contacts are very valuable and I would say that the worst thing is to stay alone.

The upline can help the newbie by offering a quick online help and especially by creating an interactive contact with the newbie. The mutual trust makes this contact fruitful.

4.The Forum Is The Online Home Business University For A Newbie.

I see the online home business forum as a very important for the starter especially as to the motivation but also as to the many tips and news the forum offers. The starter just have to bravely share his experiences and ask many questions. The sig file linkclicking brings also a nice amount of traffic to the site.

5.The Quality Ebooks.

The online home business start is mostly learning, which lifts the quality ebooks into the important role inside the internet marketing services. The best benefit of the ebooks are, that the starter gets a big picture of the business, the details get the frames and a newbie will understand the role of the different parts.

The ideal ebook is about the same business, which the newbie has selected, so he can while reading to start promoting his new business. The internet offers a lot of free information, so it is unnecessary to pay for it. The forum gives good tips about the useful ebooks.

Despite of the fact that the enthusiasm and motivation are very important, the online home business services offer extremely useful aids, so pick them with care.



By: Juhani Tontti

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Have you dreamed of starting to make money with your own online home business? There are thousands of people all over the world making millions of dollars everyday online. Some are part time and others do it for a full time living.

Would you like to join them? You can make money at home and do it online, but you have to be smart about it.

Here are 4 things that will help you to be smart.

1. Do you have a hobby or a favorite thing that interests you? There are many things you can look at that are out there. Just make sure whatever you decide to sell is fun and interesting to you. The minute it feels like work you will not want to stick with it.

2. Next you want to become an internet spy so to speak. What you want to do is look at the websites of people who are successful. Just Google search a keyword that relates to what you are thinking about doing for your own online home business.

Start making notes that will relate to your business. For example, if you are a good at ghostwriting then research information on how people are making money doing that. This will help you to decide if you can make money for yourself.

3. When starting an online home business you need to know where to find your information for products to sell. If you are starting a business on iPods check out AssociatePrograms.com. They are one of the largest online places to find good affiliate programs which will give you ideas on where to get iPods to sell.

4. You can market your business after your research is done and your website is ready to go. You may have to hire someone to build a website. You might want to start a blog and use it as a website as all you have to do for a blog is to type new content on a regular basis.

Marketing your online home business will be the hardest thing for you to do. Getting traffic to a site on the internet never ends. You always have to work at it or get a traffic funnel going for a never ending supply of visitors whether you work or not.

The bottom line is this, an online home business can be very rewarding and profitable if you will run it and treat it like a real business. If you treat it like a hobby you will have fun, but not make any money. It is better to have fun and make money at the same time, don’t you think.



By: Pasi Kaarakainen

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If you bookmark a page with Microsoft IE you will notice some sites have a special icon associated with their respective bookmark thus differentiating or branding site A from site B. Think of it as internet marketing.

It dawned on me recently how easy it was for me to locate web sites that I had bookmarked and appeared in My Favorites menu with a little icon displayed next to the web site name, so I decided to find out if I could put one on my own web site to make my online home business stand out in the My Favorites menu and easier for whoever bookmarked my site to locate.

I started my search on Google and discovered that the little icon that replaces the IE logo (in IE) is called a Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) and is short for Favorites Icon or it is sometimes called a bookmark icon. The Favicon also shows in the address bar as well. Notice the red Y! symbol that appears in the left-most area of the address bar in Internet Explorer when you open Yahoo!, or the butterfly in MSN . What a great way to personalise your site.

You will require IE 5.0 or higher and a favicon.ico can show up in at least three different places in Windows:

1) In the Favorites list selectable on the Start menu;

2) In the location bar of the browser when you are visiting the web site;

3) On your desktop if you first bookmark the site, click Start, Favorites, hold down the control key and click on the bookmark to drag it to the desktop (it copies the icon as a shortcut).

The favicon.ico can also show up in the following two places:

4) On the taskbar if you bookmark the site, hold down the control key, then right click on the bookmark and drag it to the task bar, it copies the icon there;

5) On the links bar if you bookmark the site, hold down the control key, then right click on the bookmark and drag it to the Links tool bar, it copies the icon there.

If you search in the engines for favicon you will find that many sites come up offering favicon tutorials, online tools to create favicon icons,free favicon icons and installation instructions too.

A favicon should be 16 X 16 pixels with 16 colors and the file name must be favicon.ico and ideally you should search for a program that allows you to create favicons online. Remember, if you do not save it as favicon.ico it will not work. Do not make the mistake of just shrinking an image to icon size and renaming it with a .ico file extension. That will not work either because it is not a real icon file. Do not be surprised if your own favicon does not show up in your own browser when you open your site, as sometimes this can take up to a few days and even disappear again only to reappear.

I had fun creating my own personal 16 x 16 pixel image in MyImager and then found a site on Google that created a favicon.ico file and I uploaded my image and clicked on generate favicon and that is how easy it was. I then uploaded the favicon.ico file to the root web directory, in the same location as the index.html page of my hosted website and bingo, I now have a Favicon and have personalized and distinguished my online home business from others. Creating such an icon adds to the professionalism of your site, marking you as an owner of an online home business who attends to detail.

So now when someone bookmarks my site with a browser that supports favicons, my favicon will appear, as opposed to a default image (a logo for Internet Explorer), which is used instead if no favicon.ico had been provided. I am sure if you look through your own Favorites Menu you will notice that the bulk of the images are the IE logo.

The favicon allows the webmaster to further promote their site, and to create a more customized appearance within a visitor’s browser. Often, the favicon reflects the look and feel of the web site or the online home business logo. Have fun creating your Favicon.



By: Cynthia Minnaar

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