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A Home-Based Business Online
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Practical ideas,
resources, freebies and articles for your
home-based or online business, November 6, 1999
Editor: Elena Fawkner
Publisher: Fawkner Publishing
http://www.fawkner.com
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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 - Private
Investigator
3. Online Business Idea of the Week - Temporary
Help Agency
4. Article - Taming the Email Tiger
5. Telecommuting Openings
6. Guest Article - Why Do Most Network Marketers
Fail?
7. Special Announcement - Give the Gift of Hope to
Disadvantaged Children this Christmas
8. Freebies
9. This Week's Web Site Pick
10. Next Week
11. Advertise in A Home-Based Business Online
12. Subscription Management
13. Caveat Emptor
14. 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 mentioned last week
that I had received an enquiry from
Beverly (and Shiloh,
her yellow lab guide-dog), wanting to
know if there were any
reputable envelope-stuffing
opportunities available
online and asked that any
subscribers who knew
of such an opportunity pass it along.
Unfortunately, all of
the responses I received, and my own
enquiries, all seem
to support the view that these so-called
"opportunities" are
nothing but a scam.
So, A Home-Based Business
Online, rising to the challenge,
is now officially on
a mission to find reputable, legitimate
home-based income-producing
work (whether business
opportunities or "jobs")
for those of you who just want a
way to make a little
money on the side rather than launching
into a full-scale business
of your own. Starting next month,
I'll be featuring such
opportunities on an occasional basis.
Because I will be personally
researching and testing each of
these opportunities
before I recommend them, I need a few
weeks to do some groundwork
before getting Project
Moonlighting off the
ground.
I would welcome your
assistance with this project. If YOU
know of any LEGITIMATE
money-making opportunities that fit
the bill, please let
me know about them at
Contact By Email
.
Special thanks go to
Tom Koziol of http://www.cashclique.com
this week who has offered
to try and help Beverly and her
group, the National
Federation of the Blind of Greater Miami,
find suitable money-making
opportunities. While on the
subject of Tom, as many
of you will know if you subscribe to
his Cashclique.com Dollar$ign
Newsletter, Tom is working
with the IVE League's
Christmas books-for-children charity.
I am proud to say that
A Home-Based Business Online has also
joined forces with Cashclique.com
and the IVE League to
promote this worthy
cause. You can help the IVE League give
the gift of hope to
disadvantaged children this Christmas.
Full details are in
section 7 below.
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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** A Personal Endorsement **
by Elena Fawkner
I often receive email
from visitors to the A Home-Based
Business Online website
asking me how I got started in my
business and where I
got my hands on all of the reports and
e-books and other resources
I make freely available.
When I first started
thinking seriously about starting an
online business, like
many of you, I was overwhelmed by the
vast array of information
and resources available to me.
Fortunately for me,
I lucked out early. I was referred to
a site that I was told
would answer my every question and
meet my every need.
Skeptical by that time, I took a look
anyway. At that
stage I had spent probably $500 here and
there buying that e-book,
this software, access to that
site. I'm sure
you've all been there. You may still be
there.
Then I paid 50 bucks
and became an Internet Marketing
Warrior. What I found
in the Warriors Secret Site literally
took my breath away.
Here I had access to absolutely
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not just information
for my own use, either. There were
MANY resources such
as reports and e-books that actually came
with full reprint and
resell rights!
The reason I am writing
this personal endorsement for this
issue of the newsletter
is that I received an email from the
founder of the Warriors,
Allen Says, this week. He has just
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2. Home Business Idea
of the Week - Private Investigator
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A private investigator
is someone engaged by a company or an
individual to carry
out an investigation or to perform
research in exchange
for payment. Private investigators
are often engaged by
law enforcement officers, attorneys,
insurance companies
and business people as well as, of
course, suspicious spouses.
The types of activities
a private investigator engages in
include surveillance
(tailing, stakeouts, videography,
photography, audio recording);
detection of listening
devices and cameras;
undercover and covert operations;
corporate espionage
and competitive intelligence; background
checks; locating missing
persons; relationship, marital and
custody investigations;
skiptracing; locating missing heirs
and witnesses; conducting
injury or wrongful death
investigations; investigating
accidents, fires, property
damage; locating assets
and stolen property; providing
security services; evidence
gathering for legal proceedings;
and process serving.
Not all private investigators
do all these things, of
course. Most will
specialize in a few areas. Some focus
exclusively on marital
infidelity cases, others on
insurance fraud.
Licensing requirements
for private investigators vary from
state to state.
Most states require PI's to be licensed but
some have no licensing
requirements whatsoever. The first
step is to ask your
State Department's Division of Licensing
for their current requirements
for professional investigators.
These requirements will
also include educational
prerequisites.
You should be prepared to undertake a course
of study to qualify
for your license.
Full report: http://www.fawkner.com/privateeye.html
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Useful sites:
-> How To Investigate
http://www.howtoinvestigate.com
-> Infoguys.com
http://www.infoguys.com
-> National Association
of Investigative Specialists
http://www.pimall.com/nais/nais.n.menu.html
-> National Association
of Legal Investigators
http://www.nali.com
-> PI Mall
http://www.pimall.com
Recommended books:
-> How to Make $100,000
a Year as a Private Investigator
by Edmund
Pankau
-> Introduction to Private
Investigation: Essential
Knowledge
and Procedures for the Private Investigator
by Joseph
Travers
-> Undercover Operations:
A Manual for the Private
Investigator
by Peter Anderson
-> Serious Surveillance
for the Private Investigator
by Bob
Bruno
-> Mega-Marketing for
the Private Investigator: How to
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Mega-Marketing
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-> Private Detective and Investigator Course by Max Dabbah
Visit http://www.fawkner.com/bookshop.html
for links to
all these titles.
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There are many more home-based
business ideas like this at
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with more being added
all the time.
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3. Online Business Idea
of the Week - Temporary Help Agency
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[Editor's Note:
This week's Online Business Idea report was
not written with the
internet in mind. Nonetheless, it is a
very comprehensive report
and the idea is one that lends
itself readily to an
online environment either exclusively
or as an adjunct to
an offline business. Consider the
possibility of creating
an interactive database at your
website where people
interested in temporary assignments can
"meet" employers with
that need. You could generate your
income by charging employers
and "temps" a fee to access the
databases. By
keeping your databases relatively local (say,
city-wide rather than
state or national) you will be able to
compete more effectively
with the national giants that have
already gained a foothold
in this arena.]
This is a service business
with excellent growth potential,
strong stability, a
nationwide market with a growing demand
and a risk factor that's
rated average or less than most new
business ideas.
Temporary help services are well suited to
absentee ownership situations;
require no experience or
technical knowledge
on the part of the entrepreneur; and
have only minimal equipment
needs. Net profits before taxes
for some established
temporary help services have been
reported as high as
$500,000 per year.
There's a difference
between regular, private employment
agencies and a temporary
help service. The employment
agency is a "brokerage"
office that matches unemployed
persons with available
jobs. The temporary help service
hires people onto its
own payroll, sends them out on
contract jobs, and pays
them accordingly.
Temporary help services
make money "off the top." They send
out temporary workers
on one-or-two-day-only jobs paying $15
an hour to the worker,
and collecting $20 an hour for the
time the worker spends
on the assignment. More and more,
businesses are willing
to pay the premium costs for a
trained person for just
a few days at a time, than to accept
the burden of a 40-hours
per week payroll obligation and the
task of finding enough
work to keep such a person busy
enough to justify a
full-time salary and the attendant
support costs.
Businesses everywhere are finding it easier
to pay more for "temporaries"
than hired 40-hours per week
"permanents."
That's the secret of success with this kind
of business, and the
point to keep in mind when selling your
services.
Full report: http://www.fawkner.com/temphelpagency.html
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Useful Site:
-> Temporary Help Agency
Start-Up Kit
http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/resource/toolkit/temphlp.hts
Recommended book:
-> Start Your Own Temporary
Help Agency
Prentice
Hall Editorial
Visit http://www.fawkner.com/bookshop.html
for a link to
this title.
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There are many more online
business ideas like this at
http://www.fawkner.com/obideas.html
with more being added
all the time.
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4. Article - Taming
the Email Tiger
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By Elena Fawkner
Email ... friend or foe?
On balance, I would have to say,
"friend". But
there are times ... like when I download my
mail in the morning
... all 200+ items of it, only to find
a good 40% or so is
nothing but junk, that I have to
acknowledge that there
is a "dark side", as well.
In this article, I want
to give you some tried and true
tips for taming the
email tiger from a raging, voracious,
demanding beast ...
into a sleek, efficient, purring engine
of productivity.
So, Tiger Taming 101, here we go.
Tip #1 - Familiarize
yourself with your email software, in
particular the filter
function. Your email software has
many inbuilt features
designed to make your email processing
(both receipt and delivery)
more efficient. Learn what
features come with your
email program and USE THEM!
Tip #2 - Use Filters
Full-featured email
programs such as Eudora, Pegasus and
others allow you to
apply filters to your incoming mail.
These 'autopilots' can
move, delete, copy or forward a
message depending on
the criteria you set to apply to the
To:, From:, and Subject:
fields in the email's header.
If you have set up appropriate
folders (see Tip #3), your
filters can be set to
automatically forward incoming mail
into the appropriate
folder, leaving only messages that
don't fall into a pre-set
folder in your inbox. This makes
it relatively easy to
sort through what's left, and get rid
of the junk in a minimum
of time and with a minimum of
effort.
Tip #3 - Use folders
to organize and prioritize incoming
mail.
You could set up folders
for Newsletters, Urgent Items,
Priority Items, To Do
This Week (or individual Monday
through Friday folders),
Current, Pending, Development etc..
Decide on a time of
the day or a day of the week to review
and action the contents
of each folder.
Set up your filters to
redirect your incoming mail to the
appropriate folder as
much as you can. For example, use
filters to direct mail
with the subject: "A Home-Based
Business Online" (and
the names of all other newsletters you
subscribe to) to your
Newsletters folder.
Tip #4 - Check your email
only once or twice a day.
Don't fall into the
trap of checking your mail every time
you see that little
icon flashing "New Mail".
If possible, disable
the icon or the "You've Got Mail" pop-
up message all together.
All it does is break your
concentration and implant
the subconscious imperative that
checking your email
is a priority. It is, but only at the
predesignated time of
day you have nominated.
Responding to every email
as it comes in only fragments your
attention and concentration
and undermines your productivity.
Tip #5 - Make a decision
about each piece of mail and act on
it AT ONCE.
When reviewing your incoming
mail, the first decision you
need to make is whether
to open it at all. Some messages
you can safely delete
without bothering to open. These
typically have subject
lines such as "EASY $$$$ FOR YOU",
"How I earn $12,000
a month while I sleep", and "I saw your
add [sic] in the Classifieds".
They are, of course, SPAM
and can safely be deleted
without reading them.
The rest you will need
to open. Be very wary of opening
attachments to emails
unless you know the person it's come
from -- this is a good
way of catching a virus.
Decide NOW what action
you need to take in response to the
emails you open.
Some can go straight into the trash bin,
others you can answer
immediately if the response will only
require 1-2 minutes.
Others will require more time and
should be filed in the
appropriate folder you have created
for this purpose (see
Tip #3 above).
Whatever decision you
make, make sure you only make it
once. Don't let
a read item continue to sit in your inbox.
Before long you will
forget what it is, only having to waste
time reading it again.
Think of your inbox as a waystation
- a place for your email
to sit only until your next review
session.
Tip #6 - Use your email
program's address book to manage
email addresses.
Most address books that
come with email software allow you
to enter the contact's
name, real address, email address,
phone numbers and other
basic information. By selecting a
contact from your email
address book, the email address
will be automatically
inserted into the "To:" field. This
can also be applied
to groups of contacts.
Tip #7 - Reduce email
volume by getting your email address
off unwanted lists (where
you can) and by choosing the
digest mode for the
lists you are subscribed to.
Tip #8 - Reduce unwanted
mail by practicing basic anti-spam
tactics such as:
-> using the filters
that come with your email program (see
Tip #2)to
automatically delete messages with certain
addresses
or subject line keywords;
-> avoiding entering
on-line sweepstakes or ordering online
from companies
that don't have a privacy policy;
-> thinking carefully
before submitting your email address
to classified
ad and FFA sites. You will be bombarded
with spam;
and
-> using an "unlisted"
email address to be used only when
communicating
with those you want to be able to access
you.
You treat this address as you would an unlisted
telephone
number. In other words, be selective about who
you give
it to!
Email may well be recorded
in history as one of the most
significant technological
advances of the twentieth century.
There is no doubt that
used efficiently, it can make an
immeasurably positive
impact on our personal productivity.
Be sure to control this
tool though, and not the other way
around. By implementing
the above tips consistently, you
can be sure to catch
that tiger by the tail. Don't let go
though, whatever you
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We are currently seeking
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By Gordon Taylor
Many of the clients that
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"I hear great things
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I have known several people that have
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Network Marketing presents
unlimited, residual earning
potential and is directly
responsible for more self made
6 figure incomes than
any other entrepreneurial venture on
this planet. Period.
Yet, many people fail
when trying Network Marketing. When
failure occurs, most
run back to their comfortable former
income generator, THE
JOB. Others keep trying one program
after another, blaming
their failure on the program, their
upline, the product
etc. And most are right in their
assumption. But the
reason that those components failed is
not really the program,
or the people or the product. The
reason all of those
components failed is for one or more
of the 4 general reasons
you are about to discover.
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Reason Number One
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By far the number one
reason that most people fail in
Network Marketing is
a lack of leads. All programs teach
you to work your warm
market. Make a list of everyone you
have ever known. Your
friends, relatives, old school mates
you haven't seen in
many years.
While that may have worked
in the 70's, 80's and early
90's it is no longer
true. Your immediate warm market,
friends and relatives,
is still very important, and can give
you a real boost as
you start your new business. But the
rest of the old training
isn't valid any more. We are at the
dawn of the new millennium,
and with it are new success
stories, using new methods
of selecting and sorting prospects.
The truth is, no matter
how many people you know, most of
them will never join
your program or any one else's. It
doesn't matter if they're
your closest friends, good family
members or casual acquaintances,
most of your warm market will
not join you in your
success.
What was that word I
just used at the end of the last
sentence? Success? Yes,
if you learn to overcome the four
reasons I am listing
here, you will be a success in Network
Marketing. Pretty big
statement to make, but absolutely true.
A new era requires a
new approach and many people are
adapting the new technologies
that are emerging, to their
programs and having
unheard of results.
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Reason Number Two
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The second most common
reason for Network Marketing
failure is training.
Not lack of training, but lack of
proper training. Most
organizations are so busy trying to
produce results, that
they tend to neglect the importance of
training. Notice I said
most. Some companies have realized
the importance of this
valuable resource and have
incorporated excellent
on going training programs.
You would not believe
the number of companies spending tons
of money on glitz and
glamour in the form of presentation
materials, supply systems
and product development and have
little or no training
beyond initial new distributor
orientation.
Most professionals, regardless
of their profession, never
stop training. The same
is true in most good MLM companies.
And if not within the
company, certainly within successful
groups within those
companies. Constant, consistent training
is an absolute requirement
for success in Network Marketing.
Stop training and your
organization will fall apart.
Another big statement,
but the facts are indisputable.
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Reason Number Three
===================
The third reason most
common among Network Marketing
failures, is lack of
program adaptation. Times are changing
faster than ever, and
we must adapt to the change or your
business is dead.
Not all of us are computer
whizzes, capable of adapting
all this new technology
to our programs. But all of us are
capable of learning
it. Companies on the leading edge of
this market sector are
adapting these technologies to their
operation, and then
sharing it down the line with their
distributors.
A few years ago, most
people never even heard of the
Internet. Now it is
becoming a dominant force in every
aspect of your life.
It will affect both your personal and
business future, and
unless you learn how to understand and
use these new technologies,
your business is doomed to
failure. Another big
statement, but none the less fact.
There are people that
will argue this point with me
endlessly. The fact
is that I have been involved with
computers for more than
30 years, yes 30, and never have I
seen a technology impact
every day life as the Internet has.
It will change the way
we do everything. Everything. Brick
and Mortar store chains
are already feeling the impact of
the Internet, and the
Internet is only responsible for about
5% of all retail sales
at this point.
There are many figures
being thrown around about the
number of people that
are coming on line. The most consistent
number, and the one
that I think is most accurate, is 47,000
a day. A DAY! Now, armed
with the technology that is out
there, what does that
say about your prospect base?
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Reason Number Four
==================
The fourth reason most
Network Marketers fail is due to
running out of money.
Many people pay their startup fee,
buy products and sales
aids and run out of money before
they ever make a dime
from their business.
The key word here is
business. Many people enter into
a Network Marketing
program without thinking of it as a
serious business. And
it really is a deadly serious business.
It requires the same
types of attention any business does.
If you open a gift shop
on the corner, you know that it
is going to take money
and time. Network Marketing is no
different, except that
as a home based business you can
control how much time
and money you invest.
By adapting the new technologies
available to your
program you can leverage
that time and money investment.
Used properly, technology
can increase the amount of
exposure your program
gets by hundreds of times.
For example, on any good
day, the average Network
Marketer might get to
do his/her presentation 3 times.
Extrapolating that out
to a normal month that's an
average of 60 people
a month that listen to your
presentation. We all
know the industry percentages of
conversion means that
9 will take it to the next level
and maybe one will sign
up.
By using technology to
sift and sort prospects, you
can reasonably expect
to present your opportunity to
at least 1000 a month.
That means that you will talk
to 50 people a month,
but those 50 are already at
the next level, and
you will find your conversion rate
on those 50 to be at
an unheard of 50%, not 5%.
So, you have talked to
10 less people a month, but
put 24 more into your
business. These numbers are real,
they are being accomplished
every day and are about
average.
And, you have leveraged
your time and money by talking
only to qualified prospects,
qualifying them much more
economically by using
technology and avoiding the
pitfall of running out
of money.
____________________________________________________________
Gordon Taylor is a Professional
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been in the business
for more than 20 years. To learn
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