Home Business News & Tips: October 2008

“Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” - Herman Cain Get Seth Godin's Marketing Book Free Affiliate Marketers: Double Your Income in 30 Days The Easy Way to Write a Business Plan How to Build Your Own Website 1-2-3 Home Business of the Month: How to Start a Coupon Business Thanks for being a subscriber! We like hearing your ideas and suggestions. Get Seth Godin's Marketing Book Free This may be old news to most, but I didn't get the memo on this book when it first came out. Marketing Genius Seth Godin wrote a book discussing how you can use non-traditional marketing ideas to promote your business in amazing ways. This book is almost 200 pages and sells on Amazon, so it's nothing to shake a stick at. If you've ever heard Godin speak or read any of his works, you know what I mean. Anyway, you can download it free from his website, all 197 pages of it. Just go to his website and click "Get it" at the top of his page on the orange navigation bar. No catch. No strings attached. Just good quality information that you can apply to your business. Affiliate Marketers: Double Your Income in 30 Days Here's a income-producing product that's going to be hard to pass up, although I understand that there are limited programs available. Brad Callen is a very successful Affiliate Marketer. There seems to be many of them out there, I know. What distinguishes Callen from the pack is that he develops online marketing tools to help him excel in his business, and those same tools he shares with others (sometimes for $1,000's of dollars). This is not just an ebook. Not just a PDF file. It's an actual program that he's already tried and tested to work. It's called Affiliate Elite. I only suggest checking out this website if you are an Affiliate Marketer or sell other people's products online. Affiliate marketing is what it's specifically designed for. This is not your typical $197 or $97 product, he's made Affiliate Elite available for only $4.95. (not $495). And if you can believe it, he backs your $4.95 investment with a money-back guarantee. What next? Simple Foreclosure Investing for Ordinary People. Get your free DVD and report The Easy Way to Write a Business Plan According to the business planning experts at Palo Alto Software, the best way to show bankers, venture capitalists, and angel investors that you are worthy of financial support is to show them a great business plan. Make sure that your plan is clear, focused and realistic. Then show them that you have the tools, talent and team to make it happen. Your business plan is like your calling card, it will get you in the door where you'll have to convince investors and loan officers that you can put your plan into action. If you think that writing a business sounds overwhelming, I'm with you. That's why business plan templates and sample business plans come in so handy. It's like fill-in-the-blank gone Pro. And it's the cheapest way to put together a professional business plan that gets results, especially if you have no idea what you're doing. How to Build Your Own Website 1-2-3 When you compare hosting companies for your small business website, these are some important factors to keep in mind and why. Reliability: Get a website that has 99.9% uptime. If your website is continuously "down" and inaccessible to your customers, you won't be selling much. Support: Get a website host that offers support 5+ days a week with a fast response time and look for phone support or pager support in addition to e-mail support. Having a good support system will save you time, and in a crisis situation you may not able to afford to wait for a solution. Ease-of-use: Spend your time doing work that you will get paid for. Using unnecessary complicated systems will end up making your business less profitable. You can find reviews of 3 web hosting companies we recommend here >> How to Build Your Own Website 1-2-3 Home Business of the Month: How to Start a Coupon Business If there's any business that would succeed in this economic turmoil, it would be one that would help people save people money. Coupons may seem too simple, but if you get creative and make "coupon-cutting" easy and convenient, you can have yourself a lucrative business - and without a big start-up investment Creating your own coupon website can be as easy as becoming an affiliate for a coupon company, such as CoolSavings. They don't just offer grocery coupons, you can get coupons to 100's of popular stores, for all kinds of products. With the holiday season coming up, you can see where I might be going with this. CoolSavings | CoolSavings Affiliate Program You can also go another direction: create and sell coupon books in your local community. This is not too hard of a sell, since people want to save money, and local businesses want to attact more customers. It's a win-win. And done right, coupon book promotions can be successful year after year. Think about it: a $10 coupon book offering $500 worth of savings gets people's attention, and even if a book costs as much as $1 to produce - well you do the math. Find Out More About Starting a Coupon Book Business NOTE: Our subscriber names are not made available to anyone else. We respect your privacy and value you as a subscriber. Newsletter Advertising

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