Home Business Center Newsletter October
2002
"It is necessary for us to learn from others’ mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all
yourself." - Hyman George Rickover
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- Gift Basket Service Business Start-up Tips
- Weddings: Make Money as a Bridal Consultant
- NEW! Top 10 Marketing Tools
- Tax Advantages to Working at Home
- Increase Profits by Targeting Your Market
- The Easy Way to Build a Website
- Mail Order via the Internet
- Low-Cost Advertising with Business Cards
- Save Time & Money: Learn from Others’ Success
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Gift Basket Business Start-up Tips
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Wedding Planning: How to Make Money
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Learn how successful consultants operate their businesses, what they charge and how they get started with
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TOP 10 Marketing Tools
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Specifically for affiliate marketing, promoting small business websites and automating your internet
business…
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Tax Advantages - Working from Home
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Learn what cash benefits you have to gain by running your business from home and how to calculate these
benefits:
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Know what home office deductions you are entitled to so that you can increase your "take-home pay".
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Increase Profits by Targeting Your Market
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One of the first steps to getting your business off the ground is to understand your target market.
- Is there a need for your product?
- What type of person will buy it?
- Where are the best places to advertise your product so that your target market will find you?
Not understanding your target market’s needs and wants can lead to business failure, so it is essential to
do the research before you get started.
The nice thing is that you don’t need to spend a lot of money hiring a professional service to do the work
for you.
You can find out much of this valuable information yourself by using a few free and low-cost resources
available to you in your local community and on the internet.
Find out how you can use focus groups, trade associations, demographic reports, your competition and
websites to help you get the information you need: click here
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The Easy Way to Build a Website:
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SELECTING A WEBSITE HOST:
If you are just starting out with your website, I suggest using a website host that gives you the freedom to
create a personalized website, but also helps you build the site, so that you don’t have to learn HTML code
(unless you want to).
There are four criteria that I think are especially important when evaluating a website host – you want your
website to run smoothly on its own so that you can focus on more important issues.
These criteria are:
1. Support
2. Reliability
3. Ease of Use
4. Web Space Provided
There are three hosting companies that I think meet these criteria particularly well. Which host will best
suit your needs depends mainly on the size of your website and additional services that you may be looking
for.
Cost starts at just $5 per month. You can get more information on this web page:
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CREATING YOUR WEBSITE LAYOUT:
Successful websites traditionally have a simple, easy-to-follow layout and contain certain types of
information.
The following web page shows you what these are and resources that you can use to accomplish this successful
design.
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HTML OPTION:
If you want to learn HTML code, I recommend the free HTML lesson at websitedesigncourse4u.com
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Mail Order via the Internet
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Mail order can be a very lucrative business, and the internet has made it even easier
for the small business owner to affordably reach an international market.
There are many products that you can sell and many marketing techniques that you can use to find your
customers. What you want to look for are (1) products that fulfill a need of a particular target market and (2)
products that provide you with a substantial profit.
Traditionally, information products have been a good way to make money in mail order, since they cost little
to produce, stock and ship – plus, there is a never-ending supply of customers who want to learn how they can
improve their lives.
Are you new to mail order? The National Mail Order Association has some tips on how to get started and how
to increase your profits. http://www.nmoa.org/Library/webtips.htm
Brandel Communications has produced several winning mail order information products over the years. They
have combined many of their most popular products into one program at a discounted price.
more information
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NEW! Past Newsletter Articles Posted Online!
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Low-Cost Advertising with Business Cards
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Networking with people you know and meet plus businesses and organizations in your local community can
greatly increase your profits at very little cost to you.
Local organizations can include alumni groups of associations that you are a part of, service clubs or
volunteer groups that you can join, and professional organizations that pertain to your career or outside
activities.
Turn plain business cards into small yet effective advertising billboards by including a brief tagline that
explains what you do: what solution your business provides.
Some creative ways that you can distribute your business cards:
- Insert into your monthly bills that you mail out.
- Leave on tip plates in restaurants when you eat out.
- Post on community bulletin boards.
- Join a local networking group and hand out your business cards.
Get your business cards at a significant discount:
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Save Time & Money: Learn from others’ success
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FAQ #1 - WHAT IS "Secrets To Their Success?"
"Secrets To Their Success" is a brand new private web site that contains tons of REAL case studies of real
people just like you and me who are MAKING HUGE INCOMES on the Internet!
These are NOT mammoth companies with multi-million dollar marketing budgets... instead, these are regular
people just like you and me who started out with an idea and turned it into a profitable success... and now
they are going to show you exactly HOW THEY DID IT.
FAQ #2 - HOW will in Increase MY PROFITS?
This IS NOT some outdated course full of theoretical nonsense. Instead, you'll have a unique opportunity to
increase your profits as you hear, IN THEIR OWN WORDS, personal accounts of how average people have started and
grown their very own Internet businesses.
You'll hear about their struggles, their successes, their expensive mistakes, and their most profitable
campaigns.
You'll walk away with an IN-DEPTH Understanding of the secrets that have made them successful... and with a
crystal-clear picture (finally!) of how you can apply these secrets to build your own fortune.
FAQ #3 - HOW CAN I Learn from Businesses in OTHER Industries?
Frequently, other businesses and industries will give you your best ideas! You'll be exposed to powerful
marketing strategies that NONE of your competitors are using!
For example, if you provide a service, and you focus entirely on what your competitors are doing, you'll be
missing out on many priceless insights.
Sure, you may pick up tips that boost your income by 20% or 30%. But you'll never break out of the box... to
the point where you're making triple or quadruple your current income!
As you become privy to more and more of these expertly analyzed case studies, you'll naturally start to
brainstorm and find ways to translate their winning strategies to YOUR business. You'll race ahead, as your
competitors waste away in the "box" of overspent marketing techniques.
FAQ #4 - What "TYPES" of Successful Businesses will I be Exposed to?
The "Secrets To Their Success" Private Web Site will expose you to almost every type of business in every
type of industry imaginable! The only criteria that is used to pick the business that deserves a case study
every month is its success...
Every month, brand new case studies are picked from Totally DIFFERENT Industries, interviewing entre-
preneurs from every walk of life. You are going to meet people like...
- Anthony, who lives in New York and is making OVER $250,000 every year selling only one single product!
- Ellen, a work-at-home mom who generates a great income by simply selling her homemade soaps from her
site!
- Ken, who made $300,000+ IN HIS SECOND YEAR of business by teaching people how to daytrade on the
Internet... all from his beachfront condo in Hawaii.
- Andy, who makes $600,000 a year educating others about the hair loss industry and showing people how
he managed to reverse his own hair loss!
... and these are JUST A FEW of the business models that are making a fortune on the Internet and are
there for you to study in the "Secrets To Their Success" Private Site.
Why is "Secrets To Their Success" BETTER?
With "Secrets To Their Success", you are getting advice from people just like you and me who have started
from scratch and are now making it big online -- and learning exactly how they did it so you can MODEL THEIR
SUCCESS!
You can start increasing your income TODAY:
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IMPORTANT NOTE: These are not the typical amateur interviews... You will hear these people answer some
extremely tough questions about the exact strategies, software, and tools they used to start, build, and grow
their businesses to their current success. You'll even hear about the mistakes they made, and how they suggest
YOU avoid them!
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