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A Home-Based Business Online
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October 30
Editor: Elena Fawkner
Publisher: AHBBO Publishing
Contact By Email
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This Ezine Is Listed At FreeZinesOnline.
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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. Welcome and Update from the Editor
2. Home Business Idea of the Week - Wedding
Consultant
3. Online Business Idea of the Week - Online
Retailer
4. Article - Overcoming Procrastination in Your
Home Business
5. Telecommuting Openings
6. Guest Article - The Icecream 'Comb' Story
7. Freebies
8. This Week's Web Site Pick
9. Next Week
10. Subscription Management
11. Contact Information
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1. Welcome and
Update from the Editor
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Hello again and a warm
welcome to all new subscribers!
I received an email during
the week from Beverly and Shiloh.
Beverly is looking for
work stuffing envelopes. The problem
that Beverly has found
is that the organizations she has
contacted all wanted
to charge her a fee to participate.
As I said to Beverly,
I am currently researching exactly
this issue as a number
of people have asked me if I know of
any sources for this
sort of work (and email processing) that
do not charge a fee
for participation. I hope to bring you
the results of this
research in next week's issue, but, in
the meantime, if anyone
has found a source for this type of
work that does not require
a fee to join, please share it
with the rest of us
by mailing me at Contact By Email .
This week's guest article
has been around for a while.
Normally I steer clear
of articles that have 'done the
rounds', preferring
to run lesser-known, preferably
original, pieces.
I decided to make an exception in the
case of Rick Beneteau's
"The Icecream 'Comb' Story" because
of its effect on me
when I read it for the first time this
week. If this
is the first time you've read it, you're
in for something special.
If this is a 'repeat' for you,
hopefully you agree
that it's one of those rare articles
that is worth re-reading.
I hope it strikes the same chord
in you that it did in
me.
Remember, this newsletter
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
See you all again next
week.
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2. Home Business Idea
of the Week - Wedding Consultant
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A wedding consultant
works with a network of professional
service providers such
as caterers, florists, photographers
and entertainers and
assists the client in areas such as
proper protocol, etiquette,
suggestions on designs and
styles and questions
to help create the perfect wedding day.
Perhaps the most important
part of a wedding consultant's
job is to attend to
every detail so that the bride and groom
can relax and enjoy
their special day.
According to Gerard Monaghan,
president of the Association
of Bridal Consultants
(ABC), about 60 to 70 percent of
consultants work from
homebased offices. He estimates that
there are 10,000 bridal
consultants in the country, so
there are about 6,000
to 7,000 working from their homes.
Full report: http://www.ahbbo.com/weddcons.html
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Relevant sites:
-> Association of Bridal
Consultants
http://www.weddingcircle.com/
-> Association of Certified
Professional Wedding Consultants
http://www.acpwc.com
-> June Wedding
http://www.junewedding.com
-> Sell The Bride
http://www.sellthebride.com
-> Wedding Careers
-> Wedding Channel.com
Recommended books:
-> The Portable Wedding
Consultant; Invaluable Advice From
The Industry's
Experts For Saving Your Time, Money And
Sanity
by Leah Ingram
Magazine
journalist Leah Ingram collects advice on every
possible
aspect of wedding planning from 50 wedding
planning
experts--including Neiman-Marcus, Crane's, and
the Association
of Bridal Consultants.
-> Wedding Planner And
Record Book; Wedding Planning Made
Simple
And Memorable by Deni Bown
Every detail--planning
the reception, invitations and
choosing
flowers, and much more--is covered by
chronological
checklists so nothing is forgotten.
-> The Everything Wedding
Organizer; Checklists, Calendars,
And Worksheets
For Planning The Perfect Wedding by Laura
Morin
Complete
with dozens of worksheets, checklists, pockets,
and loads
of helpful hints, this handy planner features
everything
a frazzled bride--or groom--needs to get
organized.
Beginning with setting a date and creating a
budget,
every aspect of the wedding is covered, right up
to the
final details.
Visit
for links to
all these titles.
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There are many more home-based
business ideas like this at
with more being added
all the time.
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3. Online Business Idea
of the Week - Online Retailer
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An online retailer builds
a website to conduct retail
transactions on the
internet. This may be an adjunct to an
off-line business or
may be the sole outlet for the products.
To start up a business
as an online retailer you will need
the ability to create
a website (or the funds to hire
someone to do it for
you) and, of course, you must have
products or services
to sell.
Affiliate programs sprung
up partly in response to demand
from would-be retailers
who wanted to start up business on
the internet but didn't
have products of their own to sell.
An affiliate program
is simply an arrangement between you
(the affiliate) and
a supplier of goods or services whereby
you resell the goods
or services of the supplier in return
for a commission.
This is often a good
way to start an online retail business.
The supplier retains
responsibility for order-taking,
accepting payment from
your customer, shipping and paying
affiliates. All
you need to do is concentrate on marketing
the product you are
selling for the supplier. Your job is
to attract customers
and sell them on the product or service
you are offering.
Sometimes you don't even need to do that
much. Many affiliate
programs operate so that all you do as
reseller is attract
targeted customers and refer them to the
supplier's website.
The supplier's website is where the
actual "selling" occurs.
Full report: http://www.ahbbo.com/onlineretailer.html
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Relevant Sites:
-> AssociatePrograms.com
http://www.associateprograms.com
-> eRetail.net
http://www.eretail.net
-> The Electronic Commerce
Guide
http://ecommerce.internet.com
-> List of E-Commerce
Servers
-> Payment Mechanisms
Designed for the Internet
http://ganges.cs.tcd.ie/mepeirce/Project/oninternet.html
-> Thomas Register of
American Manufacturers
http://www.thomasregister.com/
-> Electronic Commerce
Resource Center
http://www.ecrc.ctc.com/
Recommended books:
-> Starting An Online
Business For Dummies With Cdrom by
Greg Holden
-> Infopreneurs Online
And Global; Taking The Hottest
Business
Of The '90's Into The 21st Century by Skip
Weitzen
How to
join a new breed of entrepreneurs who are getting
rich by
finding, packaging, and selling information.
Infopreneurs
Online and Global reveals how to update this
type of
business by going online. Practical, step-by-step
instructions
demonstrate how to define and research ideas
and then
apply basic infopreneurial techniques to online
and global
opportunities.
-> Growing Your Business
Online; Small-Business Strategies
For Working
The World Wide Web by Phaedra Hise
-> Poor Richard's Internet
Marketing And Promotions; How To
Promote
Yourself, Your Business, Your Ideas Online by
Peter Kent
and Tara Calishain
-> "Making Money in Cyberspace"
by Paul and Sarah Edwards
Visit
for links to
all these titles.
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There are many more online
business ideas like this at
with more being added
all the time.
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4. Article - Overcoming
Procrastination in Your Home
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By Elena Fawkner
Well, it's Saturday again
and time to publish another
edition of A Home-Based
Business Online. It's also, I
realize, time to write
an article for this week's issue.
Seven days have elapsed
since the publication of the
last edition of this
newsletter. Why, you may ask, did I
wait until NOW to write
this week's article? Good
question. I'd
like to say it's because I didn't have
a minute to spare during
the week. But that just isn't
so. I COULD have
written this article three days ago, but
I didn't. Not
because I didn't have the time ... but
because I CHOSE NOT
TO. And boy, do I regret it. It's a
beautiful sunny day
outside right now and I could be out
there reading some more
of Patricia Cornwall's Dr Kate
Scarpetta. Instead,
here I am sitting in front of my
computer.
What's going on here?
In a word ... PROCRASTINATION. Now,
mind you, I decided
last week I would be writing about
procrastination this
week and so I have done some research.
Just as well, you might
say.
When I think of the time
I spend procrastinating by, say,
reading and responding
to email as it comes in rather than
allowing it to accumulate
and dealing with it in one or two
sessions during the
day, or making a telephone call or
making YET ANOTHER cup
of coffee rather than knuckling down
and writing an article
or updating my web pages or whatever
it is that I SHOULD
be doing, I have to admit that I am
costing my business
time and money.
What about you?
Do you ever find yourself putting off some
task rather than dealing
with it at the right time? Does
the need to rearrange
the pantry cupboard or the tools in
garage seem much more
pressing in the face of some task that
you really can't bring
yourself to start? If so, like me,
you're falling into
the procrastination trap.
So, why does it happen
and what can we do about it?
According to one study,
procrastination is caused by several
"cognitive distortions"
or, in other words, perception
problems. These
are (in the words of the study author):
1. an overestimation
of the time left to perform tasks;
2. an underestimation
of the time required to complete
tasks;
3. an overestimation
of future motivational states;
4. misreliance
on the necessity of emotional congruence
to
succeed at the task; and
5. belief that
working when not in the mood to work is
suboptimal.
Or, in our language:
1. "I've got plenty
of time to write my article. It's not
due
until the weekend." Right. Well it's the weekend
now
isn't it, and I STILL didn't do it.
2. "(On Friday)
I don't really need to start it until
Saturday.
It'll only take 15 minutes." Yeah. Right
again.
It's been half an hour already and I'm only
halfway
through the first draft!
3. "I'll do it
later in the week. I'll feel more like it
then.
I really don't feel like it right now." Since
it's
the weekend as I write this, I guess inspiration
didn't
rain on down after all.
4. "I can't do
a good job if I'm just not in the mood."
Yeah,
right.
5. "I don't feel
like doing it now and I shouldn't because,
in
this mood, I won't do a good job." Oh, please.
WHAT a pathetic bunch
of excuses! Time to stop
procrastinating and
take action. Here are some action
change steps from "Overcoming
Procrastination: A New Look"
(link below):
1. Start with clear,
measurable, achievable goals. For
example,
I am going to spend 15 minutes each day next
week
from Monday through Friday writing the first draft
of
next week's article.
2. Break the task
down into bite-size pieces. On Monday I
will
write the introduction, on Tuesday the first
paragraph,
on Wednesday the third paragraph etc.
3. Commit five
minutes to getting started then DO IT! At
the
end of five minutes, decide whether to commit to a
further
five minutes, and so on. This is an excellent
way
to break inertia. Try it. I did, and 5 minutes
turned
into and hour and a half and a completed article!
4. Get organized.
Create three files: (1) catch-up; (2)
keep-up
and (3) get-ahead. Put the long overdue
activities
you want to finish in the catch-up file and
set
aside time each day to work at the items in this
file,
checking them off as you go. In the keep-up file,
emphasize
completing priority tasks as they arise. In
the
get-ahead file, schedule time to initiate steps to
advance
your personal interests. These steps may be
planning
or activities.
5. Negotiate with
yourself. When you are tempted to
substitute
a low priority activity (such as watching TV)
for
a priority project, make watching TV contingent upon
doing
part or all of the priority activity first. Then
watching
TV will be an enjoyable reward, rather than
guilt-ridden
procrastination.
Procrastination is unproductive
and can even be harmful to
your best interests
if taken to extremes. It is not just a
simple act of putting
off until tomorrow what you could get
done today. Studies
show that procrastination is a symptom
of self-doubt, self-downing,
discomfort-dodging and
irrational guilt.
In turn, the results of procrastination
can be a further stimulus
for the erroneous beliefs that led
to procrastination in
the first place.
So, break the habit of
deferring action until a "better"
time. There is
no such thing. If something needs to be
done, cut the excuses
and JUST DO IT!
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For a more detailed treatment
of procrastination and what to
do about it, read the
excellent report at
http://irebt.org/essays/procrst1.html
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5. Telecommuting Openings
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-> Sales and Marketing
Loan Pros,
an established S. Carolina company, is
currently
seeking people with computers and internet
access
to work from home. Online training provided. Can
work full
or part time. Great for stay at home moms!
You will need
this number
to take advantage of this fantastic
opportunity!
-> Counselor
Telephone
Counselors needed immediately. Sincere desire
to help
others and good listening skills are a must. No
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Flexible
schedules - all 3 shifts. Full or part-time.
Work from
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per hour
+ bonuses
C.W.C.
Consultants
1900 Kent
Drive
Camp Hill,
PENNSYLVANIA 17011 USA
Fax:
707-281-7763
Email:
Contact:
Rosemary Holbert
-> IT Recruiting
AGS, Inc.
has begun its Associate Recruiter Program,
providing
a home-based business opportunity in the
fast-paced,
high tech industry. If you are a self-
starter,
highly motivated, organized and wish to make an
honest
living, the ARP may be just for you. AGS, Inc. is
a professional
technical recruiting firm with the utmost
integrity.
We strive to match a candidate's interests
with the
appropriate company culture and guarantee that
every candidate
be treated by our recruiters with
integrity,
respect, and complete confidentiality.
Our clients
are always looking for talented technical
professionals
with at least 2 years of experience in the
following
areas: Application Development, Systems
Engineers,
Network Administrators, Database
Administrators,
Project Managers, Executives, IT Sales,
and many
others. These positions are updated on a regular
basis and
are often new openings. There is much work to
be done
and we need self-motivated, enterprising people
who are
determined to be successful. Please contact us
about starting
a career as an IT Recruiter today.
A God Send,Inc.
237 Lafayette
Ave.
Pemberton,
NEW_JERSEY 08068-1718 USA
Phone:
609-726-1365
Fax:
419-844-9793
URL:
http://MrEdghill.tripod.com
Contact:
Mike Dunnam, Associate Recruiter
copy TODAY!
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6. Guest Article - The
Icecream 'Comb' Story
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by Rick Beneteau
This may very well be
the strangest marketing article you've
ever read, but please
bear with me. It's a true story and
one whose "moral" I
believe you can easily apply to your web
business.
Here goes:
She was three. Just released
from a far-away hospital after
life threatening brain
surgery, ready to take on the world
again. I was happy just
to have her back. My little "Ms.
Clean" (shaven head
and hoop earrings) and me driving along
to our local mall.
Hanging out with dad day. I recall her
words as if it were
yesterday.
"Daddy, can I get a treat?"
As she was understandably
spoiled (if there is such a thing),
I replied "ok honey,
but just ONE".
Her eyes beamed like
the Fourth of July in anticipation of
that something only
she knew at the time.
We drove around to the
new end of the mall on the normal
seek-and-destroy mission
of capturing a parking place. After
all, it was Saturday.
We landed a fair distance from our
destination, and began
walking hand-in-hand towards the
entrance, her pace gaining
momentum with each tiny step. A
few feet from the doors
she broke loose and ran hands-first
into the thick wall
of glass, trying with everything she had
to swing the big doors
open. No luck. With a little
assistance, she 'did
it' and tried the very same thing at the
second set of doors.
It was then that I asked
her what she wanted for her treat.
Without hesitation,
she matter-of-factly said "an ice-cream
comb from the ice-cream
store". Ok, the goal was set and we
were in the mall!
But hold on! What was
this? At the end of what was just an
ordinary looking lane
of retail chain outlets she spied
something new- this
huge fountain, water shooting who knows
how high into the air.
The new goal line!
She ran, and I walked
(don't ya just hate it when parents
let their kids run wild
in public?), and we arrived at the
spectacle at about the
same time. The turbulent noise was
almost deafening.
"Daddy, can I make a wish, can I make a
wish?" she screamed
as she jumped with the kind of pure joy
we've all long since
forgotten.
"Sure honey, but that
will be YOUR TREAT you know" I
explained (gotta be
firm
with these kind of things).
She agreed.
I fumbled around in my
pocket and pulled out what I think
was a dime (big spender)
and placed it in her outstretched
hand. She cupped it
tightly, closed her eyes and grimaced,
formulating her wish.
I stared at that little scrunched-up
face and said my own
kind of prayer of thanks, feeling so
blessed to still have
this ball of energy in my life. And
then like a shooting
star, the coin was flung into the
foaming water and with
it, her wish.
We happily continued
our stroll into the familiar section
of the mall. An eerie
silence ensued, which I was admittedly
uncomfortable with.
I couldn't resist breaking it.
"Aren't you gonna tell
daddy what you wished for?"
She retorted "I wished
I could get an ice-cream comb".
I just about lost it
right then and there. Couldn't imagine
what the shoppers thought
of this lunatic laughing
uncontrollably in the
middle of a crowded mall. And needless
to say, she got her
wish, and two treats.
Little did I know then
that my beautiful little girl would
soon embark on a long
road of seizures, surgeries, special
schools, medications
and end up partially paralyzed on her
right side. She never
learned to ride a bike.
Today, she is almost
seventeen. She cannot use her right
hand and walks with
a noticeable limp. But she has overcome
what life seemed to
so cruelly inflict on her. She was
teased a lot and always
struggled in school, both socially
and academically. But
each year she showed improvement. She
is planning a career
in early childhood education. With one
year still remaining
in high school, she and I, one night
not too long ago mapped
out all the courses she would need
to take in community
college. It was her idea. She volunteers
weekly at a local hospital,
on the children's floor. She
baby-sits a neighbor's
children five days a week. On her own
this year, she stood
outside in line for four hours on a
cold Canadian January
afternoon and enrolled herself, with
her own babysitting
money, into two courses she felt she
would need for college.
You see, to her failure
was never an option.
It would almost be redundant
for me to explain why I wanted
to share this story
with you. She IS my daughter and I carry
all those fatherly biases
with me wherever I go. But these
aside, she is a very
exceptional person and one that I
admire and have learned
a lot from.
It is my sincerest hope
that her story will have even a
momentary positive impact
on you as a human being, a parent,
a spouse or even, an
entrepreneur.
I'd like to leave you
with a closing thought. As human
beings, we deserve all
the treats, and the multitude of good
things that life can
offer us. We all have wishes and dreams,
AND the power to make
them reality. Just simple truths of
the universe.
We can wish for, and
get, that ice-cream comb.
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7. Freebies
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-> Web Tutor v. 3.7
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. Table
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. Form
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Covers
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http://www.mbn-businesscomplex.net/NewbieGuide.html
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If you're new to A Home-Based
Business Online, be sure to
visit
and
for the many free
e-books and reports
(with complete reprint and resell rights)
that have been made
available to subscribers over the past
few weeks.
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8. This Week's Web Site
Pick
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Jim Daniels' BizWeb2017
Jim Daniels says it best
himself:
Q: What is this BizWeb2017
site all about?...
A: Teaching you how
to profit from the net.
(And you may be surprised
how simple it really is.)
A note from Jim Daniels,
owner of bizweb2017.com...
I've been at this since
the internet started blossoming into
a small business paradise,
back in the beginning of 1996.
Since day one I made
it my mission to learn everything there
is to know about making
money online - and to share that
very information with
my website visitors -- that's you!
Whether your company
is a one person show or part of a
growing corporation,
this site can help you. I've filled
it with everything from
free, expert cybermarketing tips and
articles, to cutting
edge books and software.
Simply put, BizWeb2017
will help you market your wares on the
internet... and with
a very tiny budget!
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9. Next Week
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That's it for this week,
folks. Here's what's in store for
next week's issue:
-> Home-Based Business
Idea of the Week: Private
Investigator
-> Online Business Idea
of the Week: Temporary Help Agency
-> Feature Article:
Taming the Email Tiger
-> Telecommuting Job
Openings
-> Guest Article: It
could be yours! Please send original
article
submissions to
Contact By Email
-> More great Freebies
Thanks for being with
us and have a great week everyone!
And, please remember,
if you have any free sources for
envelope stuffing or
email processing work, please pass
them along to me at
Contact By Email !
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