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_______________________________________________________________ A Home-Based Business Online _______________________________________________________________ Issue 130 : April 15, 2017 Sent to 13,556 Opt-In Subscribers Editor: Elena Fawkner Publisher: AHBBO Publishing Work from Home Online Business Contact By Email _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________________________________________ 1. Welcome and Update from Elena 2. Home-Based Business Idea of the Week - Gourmet Gift Baskets 3. Feature Article - Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory 4. AHBBO Pick of the Week 5. Surveys and Trends 6. Success Quotes of the Week 8. Subscription Management 10. Contact Information _______________________________________________________________ 1. Welcome and Update from Elena _______________________________________________________________ Hello again and a warm welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined us since the last issue. This week's feature article, "Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory", is about the importance of not giving up on your online business before it has the chance to bear fruit. Also, this week brings a new segment, the AHBBO Pick of the Week. I'll be using this segment to personally recommend some excellent resources to you - some paid, some free. This week, a freebie - The Affiliate Masters Course PDF e-book by Ken Evoy, M.D.. Finally, to all U.S. and Canadian readers, don't forget to get those tax returns in the mail by midnight! As always, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy this week's issue. Remember, AHBBO is for YOU! If you have comments or suggestions for topics you would like to see addressed, or would just like to share your experiences with other subscribers, I want to hear from you. Please send comments, questions and stories to Contact By Email . _______________________________________________________________ FREE NEWSLETTER - How to make $100,000. Free Internet Income Course with ongoing training on how to create multiple Income streams world wide completely on the Internet. FREE TODAY! _______________________________________________________________ 2. Home-Based Business Idea of the Week - Gourmet Gift Baskets _______________________________________________________________ Here's a pleasant home-based business that will challenge your creative and managerial skills. It's a fun business for those who have a flair for creating attractive and appealing gift packages. A FUN PRODUCT Gourmet gift baskets have become popular in recent years. They're a collection of desirable items, in a variety designed to have broad appeal. By determining the markets you want to target and the type of baskets you want to produce, you can set your income goals for as little or as much as you like. CORPORATE ACCOUNTS From the very large to the very small, businesses have needs for gift giving on a pretty constant basis. By targeting corporate accounts, you protect yourself from potential sales fluctuations common to what are generally considered seasonal items. Businesses love gift baskets because they're "safe" compared to other gifts like chocolate (many people now carefully watch their fat intake) or wine and spirits (many people don't drink). Of course, other possible clients for your gift baskets include associations, retail outlets, fund raisers, and individual customers who purchase for themselves or as a gift. CREATIVE DESIGNS Gourmet gift baskets are fundamentally a few nice items placed in a unique arrangement and presented to look more extravagant than they really are. Use your imagination and keep an eye out for unusual and appealing products. To keep unit price low, obtain your inventory of most commonly used items by purchasing direct from the manufacturer or main distributor. Look for large pretty items; they will give your product bulk. THEME MARKETING Focus on a theme and build around it. From a corporate perspective, create presentations that communicate the corporate logo or marketing slogan. Don't limit yourself to just using baskets as your main vehicle either. For example, a basket with an Italian theme can use (as its basket) a large pasta bowl to hold a small vinegar bottle, olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and kitchen utensils. Raffia or "grass" can be used to cushion the items, sealed together with shrink wrap. Finish your basket with a bow or creative ribbon, and you've got a product that can be retailed for around $39. Your cost: as low as $12. ----- There are many more ideas like this at the AHBBO Home Business Ideas page at free home based business ideas with more being added regularly. _______________________________________________________________ Still believe you can earn $100,000 FAST IN MLM? GET REAL! GET EMM, A brand new SYSTEM that replaces MLM with something that WORKS! Start Earning 1,000's Now! Up to $10,000 per week doing simple online tasks. Free Info - Type "Send EMM Info" in the subject box. _______________________________________________________________ 3. Feature Article: Snatching Defeat From The Jaws of Victory _______________________________________________________________ © 2017 Elena Fawkner You may find the lure of an online business seductive indeed. And why not? After all, it holds the promise of true independence - time and money freedom - from the comfort and sanctuary of your own home. It tantalizes you with the promise of unlimited potential, a limitless market. With immediate results. All of this is achievable. Except the last. There is nothing immediate about the results you will achieve when you first start an online business. It's estimated that well over 98% of internet businesses bite the dust after only a few months. How can you make sure you're one of the 2% who last through the long haul? It's quite simple, really. Just hang on. That's assuming, of course, that your online business is worth hanging on TO. If all you're doing is reselling someone else's products and not contributing anything to the Internet community yourself, get ready to join the 98%. But if you've identified your niche, if you're making an original contribution to that niche and have quality products or services to offer that market, you can make it. But you have to be prepared to stick it out because no matter how great your site, your product, your service, your ideas, your abilities, it will not happen overnight. THAT'S why 98% of online businesses fail. It's not because they were also-rans, it's not because they did nothing but sign up for half a dozen affiliate programs and thought they were in business, it's not because they were dumb, or slow, or technically challenged or faced too much competition. It's because they gave up too soon. You have to allow for the lag factor. You have to be prepared to not only sow your seeds, but to give the seeds time to germinate, sprout and, finally, grow. Only then can you harvest. In other words, not only must you sow before you can reap, you must wait after sowing before you can reap. It's what you do with that waiting time that's critical to your success. Think of yourself as a farmer. You wouldn't just plant a quarter acre of corn and then sit back for the next three months (or however long it takes corn to grow) twiddling your thumbs, obsessively checking for signs of life every five minutes, getting more and more frustrated with every day that passes without being able to harvest. No. In the meantime, you'd be busy planting strawberries, potatoes, carrots and broadbeans. And you'd be busy *harvesting* the broccoli, cabbage, brussels sprouts and asparagus that you planted four months before the strawberries, potatoes, carrots and broadbeans. While you weren't obsessing about how the cauliflower, silverbeet, tomatoes and squash you'd planted three months before THAT were doing. And keeping an eye on your herb garden while you were at it. Like working a farm, working an online business is a constant exercise in planning, sowing, tending, measuring and reaping. And patience. Lots and lots of patience. When you "finish" your first website (you'll understand why the quotes if you have your own site), you think the hard part's over. You think that it's simply a matter of uploading your site to your web host's servers, submitting your site to the search engines, listing it in directories, negotiating reciprocal links with other webmasters, publishing an ezine and generating subscribers, placing paid ads (you'll figure out what free ads are worth all by yourself), writing articles and doing a hundred and one other things to drive traffic to your site. And you're right. It is that simple. But it all takes time. You won't upload your site today and have it indexed by the search engines tomorrow. You'll send the first issue of your ezine to maybe 10 people. Or fewer. Your first attempt at ad writing will bring you zero sales. It takes you three months for it to actually sink in that you have to run your ad for a minimum of seven times before readers will act. And that it's seven times to the SAME audience. And then, when your site is *finally* indexed by the search engines, it doesn't appear in the first three pages of search results for your keywords. In fact, it doesn't appear in the first *thirty* pages. So you learn about the importance of high-profitability keywords and you create new web pages just for those keywords. And submit them to the search engines. And then wait until they're indexed. And then check again. In the meantime, four months have passed, you now have over five hundred subscribers to your ezine and you're starting to see maybe fifty site visitors a day. And not a one of them is buying anything. You've been working hard, long hours in your business but, quite frankly, you consider it a good month if you can (just) cover your web hosting fees with what you're bringing in. So you start feeling like it's just not worth the time and the effort and the sacrifice. You're spending at least half your waking time on this thing and you're not getting anywhere. A few more weeks pass with no results and you start getting seriously dejected. You're disillusioned and disappointed. You're frustrated and generally P.O.'d that everyone else seems to be able to do this but you. Your day job, which you detest with a passion, starts to feel like not such a bad way to spend 8 hours. Hey, it beats sitting before a computer screen day in day out trying to market to a bunch of ingrates with nothing to show for it. So you petulantly start watching TV in the evenings after work instead of tending your garden. You completely miss the tender young shoots that suddenly appear in the corn patch. You don't see that birds are picking off the strawberries and that the carrots and broadbeans need watering. You don't notice you have a whole field of potatoes that are ready for harvesting or that the soil needs to be turned where the silverbeet was planted six months ago. Finally, the corn is ready to harvest but half-formed cabbages and asparagus are rotting because you didn't notice it was time to water and protect them from parasites. Soon the corn will join them. You don't see any of it because you're busy watching TV. If you'd just hung on a little bit longer, you'd be starting to reap a healthy crop from your efforts by now. But you didn't hang in there. You gave up too soon. Don't let this happen to you. Don't let your business die on the vine. Continue to feed, water and protect it. Even when you don't feel like it. *Especially* when you don't feel like it. Success in this business has as much to do with patience and perseverence as it does about creativity and talent. Success could be just around the next corner. Just wait and see what's waiting for you before you flip the switch. ------ include the following resource box; and (2) you only mail to a ------ practical business ideas, opportunities and solutions for the work-from-home entrepreneur. AHBBO Business Ideas Also, visit Elena's newest site, Web Work From Home _______________________________________________________________ Access to a computer? Work at home online and earn up to $5,000+ per month! You set your own hours, part-time or full-time. Be your own boss! We have the proven system in place, we train you to succeed! 1-888-860-3480 _______________________________________________________________ 4. AHBBO Free Pick of the Week _______________________________________________________________ >>>The Affiliate Masters Course<<< This week's pick is one out of the box for those of you pursuing an online income with affiliate programs. And pretty much anyone who has a website or is thinking about it is promoting at *least* one. Written by Ken Evoy, M.D. (of "Make Your Site Sell!" fame), The Affiliate Masters Course is now available in e-book (PDF) format. A jam-packed 207 pages worth, it's an intensive 10 day course on becoming a high earning affiliate champion by building income through content. Here's the syllabus: => Section One Business Basics (income and expenses, traffic, click- throughs and conversion rates); PREselling ... Why; PREselling and Your Visitor's Mindset; PREselling ... How. => Section Two Brainstorming concepts for your site; picking the concept with the most profit potential; developing high-profitability topics for your site (demand, supply and breakout tools and the master keyword list; the customer end v. keyword end; how to pick the highest-profitability topics; analyzing and using the competition). => Section Three Finding affiliate programs for your concept; how to reduce risk by diversifying; picking the best, safest programs; refining your concept to just the right scope; the "Valuable PREselling Proposition"; creating and protecting the perfect domain name; preparing for your own Mini-Vertical-Portal. => Section Four Building your site (two kinds of visitors); overdelivering high-value content to readers who deliver high-profitability to you; how to please the search engines; the Win-Win- Win-Win; "Find-Click-Click-Click-kaCHING"; the structure of your site; the content of your site. => Section Five Traffic-building for content sites (the free major search engines; pay-per-click search engines; the major directories; word of mouth; e-zines; other traffic-building techniques); traffic analysis - what's important; click in analysis; click through analysis; action steps on your road to success. Of course, Ken's affiliate program (the "5 Pillar Program") features prominently in the book and The Affiliate Masters Course will certainly give you a huge jump-start as a 5 Pillar affiliate but it's very much a generic affiliate course. So, although he uses his own products to make his point (he IS, after all, just giving this course away) the principles are equally relevant to ANY affiliate program, not just Ken's. Therefore, even if you're not interested in promoting the Site Sell suite of products and tools (which I HIGHLY recommend you do), download The Affiliate Masters Course anyway. You'll refer to it over and over again. Here's the download link and instructions: http://www.ahbbo.com/affmasters.html . _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 5. Surveys and Trends _______________________________________________________________ Sadly, Larry Wack's Surveys and Trends will not be with us this week due to a hard disk crash (Larry's, not mine). Ouch! If you subscribed to Larry's ezine over the past month or so (part of the data he has now lost) please do him a favor and resubscribe using the subscription info. below. Look out for the return of Larry's column next week. _______________________________________________________________ 6. Success Quotes of the Week _______________________________________________________________ If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up. -- Norman Vincent Peale Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence. -- Colin Powell Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. -- Winston Churchill _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 8. Subscription Management _______________________________________________________________ To SUBSCRIBE to this Newsletter:
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