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_______________________________________________________________ A Home-Based Business Online _______________________________________________________________ Issue 132 : May 6, 2017 Sent to 12,959 Opt-In Subscribers Editor: Elena Fawkner Publisher: AHBBO Publishing Home Based Business Opportunities Contact By Email _______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ IN THIS ISSUE _______________________________________________________________ 1. Welcome and Update from Elena 2. Home Business Idea of the Week 3. Feature Article - Choosing The Right Home Business For YOU 4. Surveys and Trends 5. Success Quote of the Week 7. Subscription Management 9. 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. The AHBBO quarterly 2-for-1 advertising sale exclusively for AHBBO subscribers is now on. Details in segment 6. This week's article is for those of you wanting to start a business from home the traditional (i.e., pre-Internet) way. Not everyone wants to run an Internet business after all, but coming up with a solid idea for an offline business is no mean feat. "Choosing The Right Home Business For YOU" is at Segment 3. 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 . _______________________________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________________________ 2. Home Business Idea of the Week - Image Transfer _______________________________________________________________ You can transfer a photo, snapshot or other image from a negative onto wood, cloth, paper, etc. Great for transferring onto T-shirts, etc. Here's how ... All printing is done from the negative not from the photo. Prepare two simple solutions as follows: SOLUTION 1: Dissolve in 6 fluid ounces of distilled water: 1/4 ounce of Silver Nitrate 1/4 ounce of Ferric Ammonium Citrate 1/4 ounce of Citric Acid. Stir until dissolved and pour the contents into a dark bottle until ready to use. SOLUTION 2: Dissolve 1/4 ounce Sodium Thiosulphate in 10 ounces of water. Bottle until ready to use. Place the picture exactly where you want it, then mark around it with chalk or something that will easily wash out. Now take a piece of cotton, saturate it in Solution No. 1 and spread the solution evenly over the spot where the picture is to be printed. If you're printing on cloth, it will be a good idea to stretch the cloth over a piece of glass and hold it in place with spring type clothespins. Now take a piece of heavy wrapping paper and make a frame for the picture, cutting a hole just the size you want the picture to be. Place this frame over the negative and hold it all down tight with another piece of glass. If you can clamp the two pieces of glass together with clothespins, so much the better. When you have it all prepared and held firmly together, expose it to bright sunlight for several minutes, then remove the glass, the frame and the negative. Apply Solution No. 2 to the printed area, and soak it well for about one minute. This application of the second solution "fixes" the picture and prevents it from fading out later when exposed to light. Rinse the surface in clean water and allow to dry. When you have familiarized yourself with these simple directions you will have no trouble in producing remarkable results that you will be able to translate into high-demand, unique items. You should be able to purchase all the above ingredients at any good wholesale drug company or photographic supply house. ----- This is just one of over 130 ideas from the new "Practical Home Business Ideas From AHBBO" e-book. Order it at best home business ideas . _______________________________________________________________ 3. Feature Article: Choosing The Right Home Business For You _______________________________________________________________ © 2017 Elena Fawkner Pay any attention at all to your email inbox and you'd be forgiven for thinking that the only way to run a business from home is on the Internet. Sure, many people are running spectacularly successful Internet-based home businesses. Many, many more are doing so even more spectacularly unsuccessfully. But what if you're not interested in running an Internet business? What if you want to start and run a home business the old-fashioned way? Where do you start? Actually starting any home business is the easy part. The hard part's deciding what that business should be. So how do you even start the process of deciding on the right home business for you? The key is to be methodical, realistic, objective and patient. Step 1 : Personal Inventory The first place to start is to inventory your skills, experience, interests, and personality characteristics. These are what you have to work with - your raw ingredients, so to speak. Make a list of personal qualities and factors that you can throw into the mix. Include things like: => your personal background; => training and education; => work and volunteer experience; => special interests and hobbies; => leisure activities; => your personality and temperament. All of these qualities and factors make up what you know and what you're good at. Step 2 : Identify What You Like It's one thing to know a lot about something or be good at it. It's quite another to enjoy it enough to want to make it your life's work. So, remove from the list you created in Step 1 anything that you don't really, really like doing or which plain doesn't interest you. No matter how good you are at it. If you're lucky enough to like what you're good at, as a general rule, stick with what you know. Step 3 : Match Your Likes With Marketable Activities If Steps 1 and 2 still haven't suggested feasible home business ideas, review the following activities that have proven marketable for others and weigh them against your "likes" from Step 2: Crafts - pottery, ceramics, leadlighting Health and Fitness - aerobics instructor, network marketing for a health products company, home health care Household Services - cleaning, gardening, shopping Professional Services - attorney, architect, interior designer Personal Services - make-up artist, hairdresser Business Services - business plan writer, meeting planner Wholesale Sales - antique dealer, dropshipper Retail Sales - children's clothing, widgets Computers - web design, internet training. You get the idea. This is not an exhaustive list, obviously. You can visit the AHBBO Ideas Page for a list of over 500 home business ideas at http://www.ahbbo.com/ideas.html . Step 4 : Make a List of Business Ideas That Fit With Your Likes From Step 2 By the time you're done, you'll have a hitlist of possible matches between your skills and interests on the one hand and home business ideas utilizing those skills and interests on the other. Step 5 : Research Armed with your list from Step 4, identify those ideas that you think have marketable potential and then research whether that belief is accurate. In order to have marketable potential, the idea must satisfy the following criteria: => It must satisfy or create a need in the market. The golden rule for any business is to either find or create a need and then fill it. => It must have longevity. If your idea is trendy or faddish, it doesn't have longevity. Go for substance over form in all things. => It must be unique. This doesn't mean you have to invent something completely new but it does mean that there has to be some *aspect* of your product or service that sets it apart from the competition. This is easy if you go for the niche, rather than mass, market. Don't try to be all things to all people. You'll only end up being too little to too many. => It must not be an oversaturated market. The more competition you have, the harder it will be to make your mark. It's unrealistic to expect no competition, of course. In fact, too little competition is a warning sign either that your business idea has no market or that the market is controlled by a few big players. What you want is healthy competition where it's possible to differentiate yourself from competing businesses. This all gets back to uniqueness. If you can't compete on uniqueness, you must compete on price (or convenience). If you're forced to compete on price alone, that just drives down your profit margin. Not smart business. => You must be able to price competitively yet profitably. The price you set for your product or service must allow you to compete effectively with other businesses in your market, it must be acceptable to consumers and it must return you a fair profit. If any one of these three is off, move on. => Your business must fit with your lifestyle. If you're a parent of young children and you primarily want to start a business from home so you can stay home with them, a real estate brokerage business that requires you to be out and about meeting with prospective clients is obviously not going to work. You'll instead need to choose a business that can be conducted entirely (or near enough entirely) from within the four walls of your home office. Similarly, if your business idea would involve having clients come to your home, you're not going to want an unruly 3 year old underfoot as you're trying to conduct business. => Your financial resources must be sufficient to launch and carry the business until it becomes profitable. No business is profitable from day one, of course. But some are quicker to break even than others. If your business requires a considerable initial capital outlay to start - computer, printer and software for a web design business, for example - it will take you longer to break even than if the only prerequisite was the knowledge inside your own head, such as working from home as an attorney. If your financial situation is such that you can't afford to quit your day job until your business is paying its way, this, too, will mean it will take longer to break even than if you're able to devote every waking hour to your business. Just do what you have to do. That's all any of us can do. Step 6 : Business Plan Once you've gone through the above process and identified what appears to be the right business for you, the final "gut check" is to write a business plan for your business, much as you would for a presentation to a bank for financing. Include sections for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and set goals for what your business needs to achieve for you, by when, and how you are going to get there. There are plenty of good resources online about how to prepare a thorough business plan. A great place to start is at About.com (http://www.about.com). Just type "business plans" into the search box. Although it may seem like a waste of time and effort to complete a business plan if you don't intend to seek outside financing, taking the time and exercising the discipline needed to really focus your mind on the important issues facing your business, you will be forced to take a long hard look at your idea through very objective and realistic eyes. If your idea passes the business plan test, then you can be reasonably confident that this is the right business for you. If you come away from this exercise feeling hesitant, uncertain and unsure, either do more research (if the reason for your hesitancy and uncertainty is lack of information) or discard the idea (if it's because you don't think your idea is going to fly). If this happens, just keep repeating Steps 5 and 6 until you end up with an idea and a business plan that you're confident is going to work! Although it's frustrating to wait once you've made up your mind to start a business from home, this really is one situation where the tortoise wins the race. By taking a methodical, systematic and disciplined approach to identifying the right home business for you, you give your business the best possible chance for long-term survival, hopefully avoiding some very expensive mistakes along the way. ------ 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 _______________________________________________________________ MAKE MONEY WORKING AT HOME No gimmicks, no pie in the sky, no bull. Proven, 16 year track record. FREE Sign-up. FREE Email Newsletter. _______________________________________________________________ 4. Surveys and Trends _______________________________________________________________ © 2017 Ryanna's Hope => ADVERTISING REALITIES THEY MAY BE ONLINE, BUT THEY'RE NOT THE ONES BUYING Andersen Consulting and Online Insight report that the number one myth in online marketing is to target the youth. The report states that, in reality, 10% of the population accounts for 70% of spending -- 44% of online buyers are over 35 years old and 36% are over age 25. => THE TREND OF THE WEB BROWSERS Mozilla was the original name for Netscape's browser, now called Navigator. Some people claim that the term is a contraction of Mosaic Godzilla (e.g., Mosaic killer), since Mosaic was the number one Web browser at the time Netscape began developing its product. In 1998, Netscape decided to make the source code for Navigator freely available to the public. The Netscape group responsible for releasing the code is called mozilla.org. But the project was disrupted by AOL's purchase of Netscape in 2017 for $4.2 billion. After three months since its last version change, the Mozilla Web browser took another baby step last week towards its first official product launch. Check it folks at mozilla.com! ========================= Advertising Time Line... 1910 - Electrical current for domestic residencies becomes standardized. Electrical appliance prices fall markedly over the next 20 years. ========================= => CLASSIFIED ADS - FAST GROWING AND STILL UGLY? According to the New York-based Jupiter Research, spending on online classified advertising grew 38 percent from 2001, rising to $1.2 billion this year. By 2017, that figure will almost double to $2.3 billion -- making it the Web ad industry's fastest-growing segment. Jupiter attributes much of this growth to marketers' increasing shift of offline ad dollars to the Internet -- as illustrated by the 15 percent drop in traditional classified spending from 2001 to 2017. Overall, Jupiter predicts that the U.S. online ad market will continue to grow from $6.2 billion in 2017 to $15.9 billion in 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 21 percent. In 2017, online ad spending will represent about 7 percent of total U.S. ad spending, up significantly from the approximately 2 percent market share it currently enjoys. => SELLING OR ADVERTISING IN ONLINE MAGS? The glossy stock and the perfume samples aside, most Americans still would rather read a traditional magazine than one online, according to a survey from InsightExpress. The study found that Americans would rather not substitute their traditional paper magazines for the online equivalent, even though many online publications offer free content. In part, that's because scrolling and clicking is more difficult than turning pages -- especially when relaxing with a magazine in the bathtub -- and the portability and convenience of traditional paper magazines is more attractive to American readers. The survey revealed that only 34 percent of the population reads any magazines online, citing reasons such as inconvenience (54 percent); online banner ads, pop-ups, and general distractions (47 percent); prices of online magazines (43 percent); and eye strain (23 percent) as the primary reasons for frequenting newsstands instead of Web sites. Though online magazines have an advantage in that they can deliver real-time news and information, they don't stand a chance when competing for a reader's undivided attention. Online is not the magic bullet publishers were hoping for to retain readership. => WATCH OUT...THE PAPER IS "OLD NEWS" TOMORROW In spite of the preference for offline magazines, newspapers are reporting success with their efforts at launching Web subscriptions. In spite of the preference for offline magazines, newspapers are reporting success with their efforts at launching Web subscriptions. International Demographics' annual Media Audit took a look recently at online newspaper subscriptions, specifically for the Albuquerque Journal in New Mexico and the Tulsa World in Oklahoma, and found surprising results. In a 2017 survey that was conducted seven months prior to the initiation of the subscription fee, the Tulsa World site attracted 16.8 percent of adults [in the Tulsa market] to its site. Four months after the fee was imposed, The Media Audit surveyed the market again and found that 18.2 percent of adults in the Tulsa market had accessed the World site during the past 30 days. _______________________________________________________________ Free Email Course "How to Write A Book On Anything in 14 Days or Less" by Steve Manning Fiction or Non, get an agent in 36 hours, blueprint your entire book in 2-hours, create 'technologies' no one else has, buy a best-selling plot for 75 cents, create a non-stop client magnet, create demand for your book without ever leaving home, get an editor free, and much more! _______________________________________________________________ 5. Success Quote of the Week _______________________________________________________________ People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. 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