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Practical ideas,
resources, freebies and articles for your
home-based or online business, November 13,1999
Editor: Elena Fawkner
Publisher: Fawkner Publishing
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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 - Event Planner
3. Online Business Idea of the Week - Apollo
Internet Services
4. Article - The Visionary Entrepreneur
5. Telecommuting Openings
6. Guest Article - Don't Mess with the IRS!
7. Freebies
8. This Week's Web Site Pick
9. Next Week
10. Advertise in A Home-Based Business Online
11. Subscription Management
12. Caveat Emptor
13. 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!
During the week I received
an email from a UK subscriber
asking whether there
were any resources for telecommuting
positions in the UK.
This seems to be a somewhat elusive
beast but I will continue
the hunt and report back by next
week hopefully.
In the meantime, I have included in this
week's telecommuting
job listings a selection that are
open to anyone anywhere
in the world, in addition to
US/Canadian positions.
I am currently evaluating
several opportunities for the
upcoming Project Moonlighting
which will be launched in
December. If this
is your first issue, I announced last
week that I would begin
testing some money-from-home
opportunities to recommend
to those of you who want to
increase your income
but aren't ready to make the leap
to your own fully-fledged
business just yet. Look out for
the first of these opportunities
in December.
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 - Event Planner
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An event planner is
someone who arranges special events on
behalf of clients, either
corporate or private.
The client will tell
the event planner what kind of event is
proposed and the budget
for it. The event planner then
arranges the whole thing
including finding the right venue,
issuing invitations,
catering, transport to and from the
event, and accommodation.
In addition, the event planner
will be responsible
for meeting any special needs of
attendees and, in the
case of corporate functions, probably
also the availability
of presentation facilities such as
audiovisual equipment
and the like.
The first step is to
ascertain the client's objectives for
the event and whether
it is a corporate or social event.
Often, corporate meetings
will also include a significant
social aspect so the
event planner for a management retreat,
for example, may also
need to arrange for sightseeing or
entertainment in addition
to the corporate side of the event.
Once the objectives are
clear, the event planner will then
work with the client
to set a budget for the event and
decide with the client
where to hold the event. The event
planner needs to know
who the attendees will be and where
they are travelling
from so that accommodation and transport
can be arranged as necessary.
In addition, the event planner
will arrange for catering,
communications, labor, meeting
facilities, printing
and supplies, entertainment, speakers,
gratuities, awards,
insurance and anything else that may be
required for the specific
event in question.
The event planner, of
course, relies on third parties to
actually provide these
services and will have an established
network of contacts
with suppliers and vendors among
caterers, hotels, travel
agencies, printers, furniture/
equipment hirers and
so on.
Event planners vary in
their approach to billing. Some take
as their fee a fixed
percentage of the total cost of the
event (say 10 - 15 percent).
Other charge clients on an
hourly basis.
In either case, event planners will require a
deposit (usually a percentage
of the budget) to be used to
make advance payments.
The beginning event planner
should expect long hours and low
pay when first starting
out. The money will improve with
experience and reputation,
but the hours will always be long
because although the
planning occurs during the day, the
event is usually at
night or on the weekend. Personal
qualities required in
an event planner are leadership,
organization skills
and attention to detail. A calm
disposition is essential
as the event planner will have to
cope with many last
minute "disasters" and personalities.
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Useful Sites:
-> Entrepreneur Magazine
Startup Toolkit
http://www.entrepreneurmag.com/resource/toolkit/event.hts
-> Event Planner
http://www.event-planner.com
-> Event Source
http://eventsource.com
-> Meetings Industry
Mall
http://www.mim.com
Recommended book:
-> Affairs of the Heart:
How to Start and Operate a
Successful
Special Event Planning Service by Nancy
D. Gluck
This book
is designed to help you start or improve your
career
as a Special Event Planner. It is chock-full of
inside
information. It includes actual business cards,
contracts,
bookkeeping ideas, sales scripts and follow up
techniques.
It is down-to-earth, filled with facts and not
'fluff.'
It is easy to read and follow. A 'must-have' if
you are
considering this field.
Visit http://www.fawkner.com/bookshop.html for this title.
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There are many more home-based
business ideas like this at
http://www.fawkner.com/hbideas.html
with more being added
all the time.
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3. Online Business Idea
of the Week - Apollo Internet
Services
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Once in a while I feature
an online business opportunity in
the Online Business
Idea of the Week section. You may
recall a few weeks back
I featured Harmony Major's "Home-
Business In a Box".
This week I have another bizopp for
you. This time
it's Susan Jackson's Apollo Internet
Services. Susan
is a subscriber to A Home-Based Business
Online and I have spent
time over the past couple of weeks
looking over Susan's
site and talking to her about the
opportunity she has
for you. Over to you Susan!
*****
Hi, I'm Susan Jackson
from Apollo Internet Services and
Elena has invited me
to tell you about a business I started
a few short months ago
that almost immediately began
producing sales and
residual income. A first for me. In
fact, I framed my first
commissions check which was $789
from just one sale.
I guess you could say
I am fortunate in that my "day" job
affords me a lot of
free time. Rather than "killing" this
time I wanted to be
productive, thus my lengthy search for
an online business began
and the birth of Apollo Internet
Services resulted.
You need to know that
I am (was?) a newbie in the truest
form. No marketing
experience whatsoever.
So, I needed a business
that was already set up and I needed
someone to show me exactly
what to do. And that's exactly
what I got. But
I also wanted the big commission of owning
my own business.
And I got that too.
This business is for
anyone, from the newbie to the
experienced marketer.
Complete support and training is
offered to beginners
so it's a great place to begin an
online career.
You can literally own
one of the most powerful money making
websites on the net.
However, I cannot project your
earnings because I don't
know you or your level of
commitment. I
DO know we have people making over $6,000 a
month, and Rick Harrington
(who is no head of marketing) has
made as much as $32,000
a month! You get out what you put
into it. Period.
Oh, and Rick was a newbie a year ago.
You get a fully customized
award winning 150 page website
that sells every product
and service needed for conducting
online business.
That includes domain names and
registration, website
design, hosting, software, advertising
and much, much more,
plus the business opportunity itself.
And we offer four different
levels at which to join to meet
all budgets as well
as a payment program. These are all
listed in detail on
the website.
There are literally thousands
of businesses from which to
choose on the net today.
Be careful what you select
because you most certainly
will get what you pay for!
I have chosen a solid,
proven company of integrity that
will continue to grow
with the internet and be around years
from now.
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There are many more online
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with more being added
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4. Article - The Visionary
Entrepreneur
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By Elena Fawkner
What is your vision for
your business? Where do you see it
being, in one, five,
ten years?
We all start our businesses
with a vision of what our life
will be like as an entrepreneur.
If you left paid
employment to establish
and run your own home-based
business, before you
took that step you first envisioned
what it would be like
to work from home. Perhaps you thought
of the convenience of
not having to commute to and from the
office every day; the
comfort of working within your own
environment; the flexibility
of setting your own hours; the
rewards of being home
with your children. This vision was
obviously compelling
enough to motivate you to do whatever
it took to break the
bonds of corporate servitude and set
you on a path of self-determination
and independence.
Congratulations.
You are officially an entrepreneur. Now
what?
You have achieved your
vision of convenience, comfort,
flexibility and family
life. What are you envisioning now
for the future of your
business?
Making the break and
starting your own home-based business
is an important step
and represents a significant change in
your life and your lifestyle.
But it is only the first of
many steps you will
take along the road to success in your
business. Just
as your vision of working from home
motivated and propelled
you towards your objective, so too
will the vision you
have for what comes next propel you
towards ever bigger
and greater achievements.
Do you have a vision
for your next step? If not, how will
you know what you are
working towards? How will you know
when you get there?
How will you know if you will EVER get
there?
Visions, or dreams, are
what your subconscious acts upon to
create your reality.
Visions can be both positive and
negative. If you
envision yourself in ten years time as a
supremely successful
businessperson (and you must also
visualize all of the
trappings of success so that "success",
whatever that means
for you, is a tangible, clearly defined
thing), and you believe
in the deepest part of your being
that you will be successful,
then your mind will
subconsciously seek
out ways to bring that vision to life.
Equally, if you envision
yourself in ten years time doing
pretty much what you're
doing now, then you can be pretty
confident that that's
EXACTLY where you will end up.
So, ask yourself, where
do I want to be in ten years? What
do I need to do within
the next five years to bring me
closer to my vision?
What do I need to do within the next
year to bring me closer
to where I need to be in five years
if I am to achieve my
ten year vision? What do I need to do
within the next six
months, one month, one week, today, NOW?
This, of course, is classic
goal-setting process. You've
heard, over and over
again, that you need to set goals in
your life. To
fail to set and achieve goals is to fail to
achieve anything.
The focus of this article though is on
the crucial importance
vision plays in the future success of
your business.
It is only when you have a vision in mind
that you can even have
the starting point you need to begin
to think about setting
the goals that will get you there.
So, how do you go about
constructing a vision that is
compelling enough to
continue to motivate you through the
inevitable ups and downs
of the lifecycle of a business,
that gets you up and
moving every morning, that continually
challenges you to find
new and better ways of doing things?
You may be saying at
this point, well, I know I want to work
from home and make enough
money to live the kind of life I
want. But have
you really sat down and thought, long and
hard, about exactly
what kind of life you DO want?
What limitations do you
place on your own thinking? Do you
believe there is a limit
to the amount of wealth you can
create for yourself
within the next ten years? Do you think
in terms of $100,000
a year? If so, why not $500,000 a
year? Why not
$1,000,000? What if the sky was the limit?
What if you had a completely
blank page with no limits?
What if you could create,
from scratch, EXACTLY the life you
would choose if it was
yours simply for the taking? Think
about that. You
can have ANYTHING you want!
Make a list. Want
$10,000,000 in the bank? Write it down.
Want a happy marriage?
Write that down too. Want a PhD?
Add that to the list.
Want to donate $500,000 to your
favorite charity?
That goes on the list. Go through every
area of your life and
write down the highest ambition you can
think of for each area.
When you have finished
your life plan, and this may take you
several days or even
weeks, brainstorm for ideas how you can
leverage your business
to bring you closer to your vision.
(You will, of course,
also need to think about non-business
ways for those objectives
that have nothing to do with your
business.)
If one of your goals
is to make $1,000,000 a year, then
obviously you need to
think about how you can generate more
income from your business.
Write down as many ideas as you
can think of for the
next five minutes. Then prioritize
them on efficiency principles.
What will give you the best
return for your efforts
bearing in mind your overall vision?
Express them as objectives.
Within what timeframe could you
reasonably expect to
achieve this objective? What steps do
you need to take between
now and then to achieve your
objective? These
are your sub-goals. Write them down and
allocate achievement
dates next to them. Do this with all
of the elements that
make up your vision.
Now take your list of
objectives and sub-goals and work
them back in time.
If one of your objectives is to be
independently wealthy
in ten years time, one of your major
sub-goals may be to
take your company public within five
years. What steps
do you have to take between now and then
to be in a position
to float your business in five years
time?
Work all of your objectives
back like this. You should end
up with five year goals,
one year goals, six month goals,
one month goals, one
week goals and, finally, a daily to-do
list. Once you
have mapped out a plan for your vision to
this level of detail,
you will find that literally every
task you perform in
your day to day life is geared toward
the attainment of your
vision.
You WILL achieve your
vision. It is inevitable. Our lives
are a function of our
deepest beliefs about ourselves and
our world. The
key to "success" and "happiness" in life is
to create a positive
vision of what that means to YOU.
A word of caution, though.
Make sure your vision is truly
what you want because
you WILL get it. As the old saying
goes, be careful what
you wish for.
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-> Independent Distributor
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We are seeking good
people who wish to make an extra income
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What's different about this
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Your cash salary will be market
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By Jacqueline McLaughlin
Hale
So, you’ve got your web
site; you’ve studied Internet
marketing. Your
site is generating thousands of hits
per month. You’re
making sales and you’re feeling
successful! You
are successful! But if I asked you
about your record keeping
you’d probably say, “Oh yeah
that. I know I’ve
got to get better at it but I
really hate it and let’s
face it, record keeping
doesn’t generate income.
I’ll deal with that at the
end of the year when
I have to get my tax records in
order!”
Therein lies the problem.
No one wants to think about
record keeping until
it’s too late, until it’s the end
of the year and your
tax professional is hounding you
for data to prepare
your tax return or until the
unthinkable happens
and you are selected for an audit!
What’s worse is that
it may not be just the IRS who
wants to audit your
records. No, there are many
different taxing authorities
out there all of whom want
a piece of your business!
If you’re like most people
I know starting a home
based or internet business
can be very frightening.
Not because of the product
or service, the promotional
or marketing efforts,
or the customer service issues
but because of the increased
paperwork and the looming
threat of taxes and
the IRS. Starting a business, any
kind of business means
more tax forms, more filings,
more risk, more threat
of an audit! It can be
overwhelming.
But it doesn’t have to be.
Oh I know you may be
thinking that you pay someone
else to handle this
so you don’t have to worry about
it. But let’s
face it, no one is going to care about
your finances the way
that you do. So it pays to be
informed. Have
you ever heard the expression "garbage
in, garbage out"?
If you’re not adequately informed,
if you don’t know what
to provide to your accountant
or tax preparer you’ll
wind up with garbage. Your
accounting professional
is only as good as the
information you provide
to them.
Your books and your taxes
do not have to be that
complicated or that
confusing and no, I’m not that
crazy! All of
the anxiety over extra tax forms, and
increased filings and
all of the fear behind an IRS
audit can be lessened
by better organization.
What is better organization?
Well, it starts at the
very beginning...
It means that you’ve
clearly defined the product or
service you want to
provide. You know who your
customers will be, how
much you’ll charge and how
you’ll deliver.
It demands that you thoroughly
investigate and understand
your target market and your
competition. It
requires that you research and know
the differences between
a "C" Corp, an "S" Corp, an
"LLC" and not incorporating
at all. It assumes you
have made an informed
decision about your entity’s
identity and that you
are aware of the tax and legal
consequences behind
that decision.
Better organization means
you have investigated the
differences between
an independent contractor and an
employee and that you
have classified your associates
appropriately.
It means you are informed of the
various taxing authorities
that have jurisdiction over
your business and that
you file with them in a timely
and accurate manner.
Better organization is
demonstrated by a well-planned
office and complete
business files. Records are
maintained in a logical
manner and support is obtained
for all business transactions.
Better organization
assumes an overall understanding
of cash and accrual
basis accounting and
an awareness of the method
selected. It dictates
that only "legitimate business
expenses" (the only
expenses that are deductible) are
transacted and that
they are kept extremely separated
from personal business.
Record keeping is beyond
reproach.
Better organization means
that you know your records
as well as you know
your business. Believe it or not
an auditor will concern
themselves with all of this
and more. If they
don’t, they cannot conduct an
effective audit.
A comprehensive knowledge of your
market, product, delivery
system and your business
identity help them to
appreciate the resulting
transactions on your
tax return. It’s all
interrelated.
It’s all relevant.
So, if you’re wondering
now if there’s anything you
can do to avoid an audit
or to "stack the deck in your
favor", I asked that
same question of the IRS auditors
with whom I worked.
Their answer? It all depends on
the size of the IRS
office in your area, their
staffing and the luck
of the draw. No, there’s
nothing you can do.
But if your business has been
well planned, if your
transactions have been well
documented, if your
records are organized and easily
accessible and if your
tax return reflects legitimate
business deductions----then
you have nothing to worry
about!
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reached at mailto:jahale95@yahoo.com.
She is also the
author of the ebook
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of trouble with the
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