Home Business Blog

Today we have a guest post by AnnaLaura Brown; her full bio is at the end of this post.

Are you looking to start marketing online? Or have you started marketing on the internet and found it to be more difficult than you thought it would be? Follow these 7 habits to your online success.

1. Have a plan. The internet offers the potential business builder so many choices, so many websites and such a vast selection of places where you could potential advertise or spend time that it absolutely crucial that you plan out the when, where, why, how, and how often of all of your online activities. It helps to write down your plan as well.

2. Have a long term vision. Know that your online success will not happen overnight. Building a successful internet business takes time, a lot of time. Many people do not realize how long it really takes. Unless you have tons of money to spend or you are offering something very unique, you will probably need to allow at least 6 months for your website to begin producing for you at a profitable level.

3. Develop more than one way of earning an income online. If you have a network marketing business, work on not only promoting your primary business, but also on promoting some affiliate programs or information products. You can write the information products yourself or become an affiliate of someone else’s and sell theirs. You can set up your sale of these products to also become a lead generation source as well.

4. Put the focus on building relationships. Even though you are not physically present with the people, you must gain their trust and make them feel like they know, like and trust you. To do this you will need to pick up the phone sometimes as well as create ways of sharing yourself with your readers and site visitors.

5. Offer value. People are very sick and tired of spam and hype. Everything you do online must offer something to others of value. Examples include: free eBooks, useful articles, free reports or interesting podcasts and videos. Strive to make at least some of what you offer unique.

6. Market and Brand themselves. It is essential that you market and brand you and not your company. Companies change and people care much more about you and what you have to offer than they do about your company. Furthermore, if you represent a company with several thousand representatives, all the other reps have the same products but no one else is exactly like you.

7. Have more than one website. At bare minimum you should have a website which is product focused, if you offer a home business opportunity then an opportunity focused website, a website all about you, at least one capture page and a blog.

Follow these steps and work on marketing online on a daily basis and you will become successful online.

AnnaLaura Brown is a successful home business owner, networker and internet marketing expert. She has been making money online since 2005 and enjoys helping others learn to do the same. Learn more about her and get some helpful home business resources at http://www.annalaurabrown.com Request her free ebook on how to choose and be successful with a home business at http://www.freehomebizebook.com

The edge or the flow in life is always working for you or against you. Before I proceed take note of that previous statement; it’s true and the more you look at your life objectively you’ll sense which direction you’re going.

Essentially we are just living organisms and on a purely simplified biological level not that much different then a plant; we have 2 states in life; growing and wilting. Unlike a pond or swamp life does not stagnate; it’s like an ever flowing river of energy, emotions and events. You are either moving forward upstream and growing or being pushed downstream and wilting. 

People talk about “your edge” meaning what do you do differently which gives you an advantage over others doing something similar? I’m not here to talk about YOUR edge; I’m here to talk about THE EDGE. The edge is nothing personal such as personality or writing style; the edge is whether you’re in flow with your emotions or not.

Take inventory of your emotions; daily routine, thought patterns and ultimiately outcomes in your life of late. Are you moving forward or slipping behind? Every moment of every day you are oscillating between these two states. You’re either acting and thinking in ways that will enrich your life through all facets or you’re trapped in a state of deprivation.

What did you do today? Did you do things that gave you energy or things that stole energy? Are you being all you can be and taking the high road or are you being lothargic and lazy letting your energy run down to the path of least resistance? Some succeed in life but utlimately many fail because to fail you don’t need to do anything explicitly. The path of least resistance has always lead to misery and poverty and it always will. It attracts the mind which is not occupied attracting the object of it’s desire. Wealth and happiness on the flipside are elusive and shy; they must voluntarily be attracted to you through deliberate thought and action.

Think about this as you go about your day; are you acting in ways which will benefit you today; tomorrow and into the future or are you chipping away at your vitality and just going with the flow? “only a dead fish flows with the current” is an old trite saying but it’s true. Why is society like a pyramid where some have lot’s but most have very little if anything?

In life you are either having the edge work for you or against you. It’s black and white and the beauty is as soon as you are aware of this you have the power to change your thoughts, actions and ultimiately destiny.

Here is just an example; when I’m not smoking, drinking lot’s of coffee and I’m exercising my mind isn’t trapped wasting energy saying you shouldn’t be doing this or emotionally getting down on myself for failing to do what is best for me. That’s mentally but physically I’m sapping my vitality with each smoke and often too hopped up to really be productive from all the coffee. Thsi is just a very basic example; another could be with the food you eat. Did you eat something that your body was like “awesome” as needed nutrients and proteins flow to the parts of your body lubricating,strengthening and making you feel full of vitality? Or are you eating foods which your body is screaming NO that saps your energy, makes you feel bloated, gives you no nutrition and ultimiately rots you from the inside?

Another great saying is “your life goes where your energy flows”; what aspects of your life are getting the most energy; are these aspects things that will enrich you or merely hold you back? Perfect example is of say an alcoholic; they spend so much time thinking about and going about obtaining and drinking that if they didn’t have that intense drive for liquor but put that same intensity towards something productive where would they be? 

Once you realize that your current reality which is everything around you and the thoughts inside you are the perfect result of every moment you’ve spent on this planet to date it empowers you to change some of the inputs to change the result. Nothing happens over night; remember that! You are where you are now from years and years of experiences albeit positive and negative. Where would you be next year if you captialized; sought after and made the effort to align as much as your life as possible in activities and thoughts that help you grow and minized the ones that cause you to wilt?

When the edge is working you feel empowered like you can do anything; when you’re on the flip side of the stream everything is a challenge and feels impossible; often even the smallest things! Take note of your energy levels they are the number one indicator as to which stream you’re travelling in. Your body subconsciously knows when you’re on the right path and consequently when you’re not.

Before worrying about your edge in life; be sure you have the edge working for you. Get into the positive energy stream and stay there. Like things attract; the longer you stay in the positive flow the more positive things and people will appear. Maybe that’s why you’re reading this post right now? 

Ever typed in something only to realize that the way you thought it was spelt and the reality of how it is spelt are totally different? Good news! Chances are other people will do the same. There is definitely money to be made in common mispellings.

Great areas to target for misspellings are music artits or the like; think of some of your favorite artists right now; do you REALLY know the correct spelling of all their names? 

Word of warning; before going on a campaign be weary that misspelling large corporate trademarks may be infringing. Case in point I’d avoid misspellings of company names for the sake of mis spelling traffic to redirect to them through an affiliate account. (huge GRIN). They typically don’t like that and if they see you on the front page of search engines chances are you won’t be for long. cough cough trust me. 

This post is pretty short but not much else to say it’s quite too the point. Here is an example though… 

Nelly Furtado - Promiscuous girl ; permiscuous, purmiscuous… 

Misspellings?? 

Nelly Fertado
Nelly Firtado
Nelly Furtato
Nelly Fertato …. 

List goes on and on.  

One thing that is clever and I had success was if a popular song is being searched alot that has a hard to spell word in the title… Bingo target the song name with the mispelling of that term. Chances are lot’s of other people are typing it as well. One good thing about paid wordtracker though is that it does have a mispelling featured to help you find common mispellings. It’s interesting but i wouldn’t buy the service soley for it; you can usually guess many of them yourself! 

Before going through with any mis-spellings check if there are affiliate products that people searching would be interested in. If there are none the term better have high paying keywords in adsenes or it’s not worth it. Example: ear mucus and excess ear mucus are searched A LOT with almost no competition… I thought OMG gold mine!!! Then I visited adwords to see how much is being paid for those terms… $0.08 woohooo; no thanks. 

I think I’ve said enough; go on and have some fun with mispellings!

P.S I’m on vacation and will try and post but I left the laptop at home to “get away” and posting from internt cafe’s isn’t the easiest thing to do in the world. Being on these PC’s make me realize how lucky I am to have the blogging setup I do at home!