The Best Way to Budget for your Online Business

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Hi again everyone,

Ok, so you’ve decided to start your own business online, picked the program and have been going through the training.  Notice anything? Every so often you are going to be advised to join one program or another or buy certain software to help you succeed, this is where problems can start, especially if you are on a tight budget .  The best way to budget for your online business is to decide what you really must have to get started.

The program you decide on should be free to join or low cost, all the best programs are. After that you are going to need a web host, a domain name and an autoresponder. A good web host will let you register your domain name with them, which makes athings a lot simpler in the long run.

By using an autoresponder you will have the added bonus of creating an email list which will help convert your website visitors into subscribers.  Once you have subscribers to your email list you will then be able to convert your subscribers into paying customers.

That’s it! A web host, domain name and an autoresponder are the only things you are going to need to pay for to start with. How many offline businesses can you set up for less than $50 a month?

Once you have these you can build your website..you can download free templates if you need to and edit them with a free HTML editor , and start to promote your business using blogs (free), writing articles (free), using social networking sites (free) and traffic exchanges (free).

I’m off on holiday for ten days today but will go into more detail about all the above when I get back..I’m going to try to keep away from computers and just rest and relax..hmm, we’ll see…

Until then,

Take care,

Carol

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Start Your Own Home Based Business

Posted on August 25th, 2008 in Affiliate Opportunities, Business Opportunities, Getting Started, Home Business Ideas by Carol Aston

 

Hi everbody, thanks for visiting and all your comments, keep ‘em coming!

If you’ve decided that, like me, you want to start your own home based business but are still unsure of which way to do it then I suggest you start thinking about what you enjoy doing. What are your interests and hobbies? To be successful on the Internet you are going to have to enjoy what you are doing as you are going to have to work hard at getting your business off the ground and it won’t happen overnight.

Whatever it is you enjoy doing there are plenty of opportunities and programs online that will help you start your own home based business. This is why affiliate marketing is such a great way to get started in the first place. All the best affiliate programs have training included and will help you understand how to set up your business and then promote it successfully so that you can start earning money from it.

First you are going to have to decide which opportunity or program is the best one for you to start your own home based business with and then follow the training program provided with it, take your time, set a budget for yourself (and stick to it!) and decide how many hours a week you can devote to your business. If you already have a full time job then dont say 20 hours a week when you know this is going to be impossible.  Most of the successful people online started off doing what they are doing on a part-time basis.

Be realistic when planning  your business, set yourself goals, make ‘to do’ lists and cross things off when you do them, it gives you a great sense of achievement as you do this. Above all remember that when you start your own home based business,  you are starting a new business, from scratch, and like any new business it is going to take time and lot of hard work to make it succesful.

Next time I will tell you the best ways to budget for your business, you may be surprised to learn how little it will cost you to start your own home based business on the Internet,

Until then,

Take care,

Carol

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How my Mentors Make a Living Online

Hi everyone, ok, here’s the exciting news I mentioned in my last post!

As a member of the PIPS Power Group I have received more help with my online business than I ever dreamed possible, I told you about just a few of the benefits a couple of days ago.

All 6 of the mentors always go that extra mile to help all of us in any way they can, and now they have truly outdone themselves! They’ve written a book called the PIPS Power Group Book about how they got where they are today, yep you read that right, I now know how my mentors make a living online!

It’s all in there,  their history, their success stories, their mistakes (and how to avoid them), their favourite tools and products (and how to use them), their daily routines, tips, advice and loads, loads more! The story of how my mentors make a living online has been a great help to me already and it’s only just been released and I know I’m going to refer to it again and again and whenever I need to.

Also included in the book are testimonials from current members of the PIPS Power Group (mines on page 63) which will give you a great insight into how the mentors have helped us all with our online businesses.

It really is brilliant and a MUST read for anyone who is serious about making a living on the Internet. And the best news of all?.. It’s FREE, it won’t cost you a penny. If you want to know how my mentors make living online (and a very good one!) then I advise you to go and download the PIPS Power Group Book now!

Oh I almost forgot, not only is it free, it’s also rebrandable, so that you can use to it build your own list..didn’t I tell you they were brilliant!

Happy reading,

Until next time,

Carol

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Earn a Living on the Internet - I’m Getting There

Posted on August 17th, 2008 in Affiliate Opportunities, Business Opportunities, Getting Started, Home Business Ideas by Carol Aston

 

Hi again everyone,

Today, as promised I’m going to tell you about the great group of people that have helped me get this far in realising my dream to Earn a Living on the Internet.

As you probably know, if you have been following my progress, I first started back in November ‘07..was it really that long ago?  I signed up for The Plug-in Profit Site and followed all the 30 days of training supplied with it, faithfully, day by day.

I then found out that a group of 6 people, who were now able to earn a living on the internet, thanks to PIPS, were starting their own forum, dedicated to helping people like themselves, and carrying on where the original training left off.

These 6 people are: Ken Troyer, Mal Keenan, Jeff Schuman, Jeff Casmer, Suzanne Morrison and Cynthia Minnar and I have never looked back since I joined up. I am now closer than ever to being able to earn a living on the internet!

The name of the forum that they started together is The PIPS Power Group and the 6 mentors are absolutely brilliant! They answer all our questions, no matter how trivial we think they may be, we can even have phone conversations with them, they give us monthly bonuses, provide us with never ending tips, they really are committed to helping all of us to earn a living on the internet.

There is a section in the forum where they take us step-by-step and literally lead us by the hand teaching us all the time how to optimise our sites, get backlinks, create blogs and much, much more. Thanks to them I am now well on my way to being able to earn a living on the internet.

And now they have outdone themselves again! They have just given us some more exciting news and I’m going to tell you all about that next time.

Until then,

Take care,

Carol

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Affiliate Marketing Business - Progress Update

Posted on August 14th, 2008 in Getting Started by Carol Aston

 

Hi everyone and welcome,

It’s been a while since I posted in this category so I thought I’d bring you all up to date with my affiliate marketing business.

Well Google now recognises my website AffiliatesThatServe and even  my name Carol Aston, which is a great feeling believe me. I remember when I first started working online I was praying from just one mention in the search engines!

I have now updated my website more times than I can remember, have optimised it for the search engines, I regularly write articles and submit them to directories,  post in forums, use social networking sites and quite a few other things too.

It’s taken time and a lot of hard work and commitment to get this far and I know I still have a long way to go, but if I can get this far in 9 months just imagine how far I will have got this time next year.

An Affiliate Marketing Business is just like any other business in that you have to start from scratch and work your way up, with a lot of emphasis on the word ‘work, but also like any other business when you start seeing results and earning money it really is well worth it.

At the moment I’m still only able to work part time on the Internet, one of the goals I’ve set myself is that by this time next year I will be successful enough to go full time and give up going out to work..forever!

Next time I’ll tell you all about a great group of people who have helped me get this far.

Until next time,

Carol

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The Super Affiliate Handbook

Posted on August 12th, 2008 in Affiliate Opportunities, Business Opportunities, Business Tools, Home Business Ideas by Carol Aston

SuperAffiliateHandbook
Hi again everyone,
Today I’m going to tell you about a great ebook I’ve come across by Rosalind Gardner.  It’s called The Super Affiliate Handbook and it really is the ultimate ebook for anyone who wants to start working from home as an Affiliate Marketer.

Rosalind excels as an affiliate marketer and will teach you everything you need to know about affiliate marketing. She quit her day job as an air traffic controller in 2000 and now earns 100% of her income online. In her Handbook she will teach you how to become an affiliate marker using a proven Step-by-Step Plan including:

235  information-packed pages of practical tips and real-life examples of WORKING affiliate sites.

“How To” strategies to save you money, time, and effort while building your affiliate marketing business.

An easy-to-understand 5-step overview of the business-building process.

Rosalind will also  teach you  EXACTLY what Super Affiliates do that other affiliates don’t do and give you the 20 questions that You MUST get answers to BEFORE you join any affiliate program.

And she doesn’t stop there, I was amazed at how much information she was giving me , everything from keyword and niche  market research, installing and setting up a blog, advertising, Google Adsense and loads more and all with screenshots to make learning even easier for you.

In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the ‘Net.

If you want to read the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earned $436,797 in 2002 and now earns MUCH MORE than that, just by selling other people’s stuff online then take a look at The Super Affiliate Handbook, you won’t regret it, I certainly don’t.

Until next time,

Carol

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Internet Marketing eBooks

Posted on August 6th, 2008 in Affiliate Opportunities, Business Opportunities, Home Business Ideas by Carol Aston

Hi everyone, it’s great to have you with me again.

Today I’ve got some very special offers in the form of eBooks for you.

There are loads to choose from and all the books on my website ATS eBooks are priced at $2.99 apart from the  Latest Premium eBooks which are, understandably a little more expensive.

Amongst the cheaper ones are The Beginners Guide to Internet Marketing, Working with Clickbank, 10 Ways to Write more Effective Ads and Autopilot Niche Ezines. I promise you they are great value for money and you will learn a lot from them.

I also have plenty of great categories to pick from, something for just about everyone, including Computers, Internet Marketing, Health and Beauty and Self Improvement.

Head on over to ATS eBooks and have a good look around, I’m sure you’ll find something there you like. I’ve even included an Audio Book Site with a FREE download section!

Enjoy!,

Until next time,

Carol

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