Single Moms Making Money OnLine

As a single mom, you have more to do than most other
people. It's enough that you have the responsibility of
being a mother, but you also have the responsibility of
being the only person in the house that will bring home
income. The good news is that you can have the best of both
worlds by finding a way to work from home online; there are
several possibilities that allow you to make that decision.

When considering the move to work at home online, one
important consideration is scheduling. It's important to
create a "work" space in your home. This is somewhere you
should "go" as if you were going to work out of the home.
Your children should be aware of this as your work space
and when you go there, they should know that you're there
to do work. If your children are very small, you may need
to work this around naptime. Older children can look at
this as indoor independent play time.

You will have the opportunity to set your own profit goals
and meet them as an independent business owner. This will
afford you the opportunity to make much more than you'd be
able to make as an employee for someone else. A business is
there to make money. They will pay their employees fairly
because they have to, but they will take every option they
can to keep their profits. In essence, you are making them
money by doing your job. Instead of that, you can make
yourself money by starting your own online business.

Whatever your choice as an independent business owner,
you'll need a website. Since your website is your business
location, you'll need advertising to draw customers to your
website. An email blast is one way in which you can begin
this advertising. This will allow you to advertise to
several people all at once. Each prospective client will
get you advertisement in their email box. This will expand
your visibility which will allow you to get more clients.

An ezine ad is a way of advertising in an internet
magazine. This will allow readers to be exposed to your
services, which will spur further interest in your business.

A pay per click is also an option that has its pluses and
minuses. This is an option that allows you to only pay for
the times that someone clicks on your advertisement. While
this can save money if there are fewer clicks, the fewer
clicks mean that not that many people have seen your
advertisement. This can be good for a start, but as soon as
you start seeing more interest it would be better to switch
to other forms of advertising.

Finally, a press release is also a good way to get noticed.
This will allow the readers to have confidence in what
you're selling. The press release will tell the readers all
the reasons why your service or products are the best. They
often will include testimonials which support the idea that
your product or service is the best.

Staying at home to work and raise a family may be difficult
in the beginning. With hard work and dedication, that
beginning will turn into a real career that you can manage
from home. This is the best working situation for those
that are staying at home while working.

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Teresa Bell
BTM Marketing
http://wealthymarketerteam.info

10 Steps to Coach Yourself to Success Without a Coach

Does it surprise you to learn that many of today's top
executives, professionals and entrepreneurs have personal
coaches? But this coaching has nothing to do with physical
fitness.

This type of personal coaching is about being and doing
your best-about time and goal management-about peak
performance-about achieving higher levels of business or
professional success.

This is where we also talk about accountability. To whom or
what are you held accountable ? Do you have a coach or
mentor that will listen to you without judging you or
laughing about you idea to walk on water? Does your coach
hold your feet to the fire and show you where you missed
the mark even when you can't see it because you are
standing on it? This is what I am talking about.

Regardless of the focus for each person, however, in the
end it's about living life the way they really want to
live. And this is a goal most of us have!

Some people just are not ready to get a coach or mentor. So
I have given you these ten steps.

But if you aren't ready for your own personal coach, here
are ten steps to coach yourself along the path to your
preferred lifestyle:

Step 1. Get Clear Pick one major goal you feel ready to
commit to, write it down, including all the steps that it
will take to reach this goal and be sure you have a clear
picture of exactly what your goal is. This may sound like
old advice-and it is. This advice has survived over time
for a good reason-it works! It's far more powerful to write
your goals down than just hold them in your mind. A goal
not written down is just a suggestion or an opinion and we
all know about those. You must read it out loud to
yourself once a day and if you'll review them at least once
a week, your rate of success will double.

Step 2. Get Committed If you want something more than you
have today, you'll have to do something more. ( How big is
your WHY?) (read "The Power Of WHY") This does not
necessarily mean that you have to work harder or longer,
although many super-successful people do just that. What it
does mean is that you should commit to do your best! Peak
performance is not something you achieve in the future-it's
doing a superior job right now-on whatever task or
challenge before you. Do it right the first time and you do
not have to repeat yourself. For successful people this is
a habit and springs from a superior attitude. Remember
affirmations are the self speak that will help.

Step 3. Get Focused Life is packed full of distractions.
Successful people take the time to solve distracting
problems, or give them no attention at all. Learn to focus
on what you want, not what you don't want. What you focus
on will grow. Pick a time and remember that business is
business time and play is play time and self improvement is
always important.

Step 4. Get Organized Successful people know that space
management is just as important as time management. They
have organized desks and files and organized day timers. If
you want a higher level of success, spend some time getting
your workspace organized, and make it a priority to keep it
that way. It's difficult to have an orderly and efficient
mind in a cluttered and disorganized space. Also time
management and sticking to it is just as important as space
management.

Step 5. Get Motivated Read or listen to something
motivating every day. Even 20 minutes everyday is your goal
that can make a big difference. Listen to educational and
motivational tapes, CDs, MP3s while you drive. Turn your
car into a university for self improvement. This is
important "mind food." See my article posting on this blog
about what we spend on the inside of our heads verus the
outside of our heads.

Step 6. Get Educated If you're committed to superior
performance, part of that requires keeping your mind open
and stimulated. Read both within and outside your field of
focus. See my link at the bottom to better reading and the
list of books no matter what your business or products.

Step 7. Get Connected Become part of a Master Mind group-a
group of people committed to helping each other become
successful. Meet once a week (even on the telephone) to
brainstorm ideas and advise and support each other. Place
like BNI and Chambers of Commerence within your city will
help.

Step 8. Get De-stressed It's important to take a personal
evaluation of your stress level. Daily stress management is
not just important-it's essential! Stress has very negative
impacts on your brain: (1) It is proven to actually kill
brain cells, and (2) It focuses your mental activity in
older portions of the brain that do not support higher
creative thinking. It is not your friend! The more active
the brain without stress the younger you feel. The more
active the body without stress the younger you will feel.

Step 9. Get Balanced Super successful people know how
important it is to have a balance in their life. Bill Gates
takes an entire week off each month and seeks solitude so
he can clear his mind. I take at least one day a week and
withdraw to my hobbies and time to just do no business at
all. But just as important as personal retreats is some
play time with your family and friends. Get balanced, and
you'll be far more productive and creative.

Step 10. Get Confident Successful people have strong self
images. They have a sense of their own self worth and are
confident they can handle whatever life tosses in their
path. If you have personal doubts-that's the first place to
start on your desired pathway to success. This must be
dealt with, or you'll just continue to have the same
problems holding you back! That's why you need to visit my
blog or email me to get a free self confidence course.
Build yourself up and then you can help build others.
Remember you are never to big to bend over and help someone
else up. If you think you are TOO big to do this you are
really just the smallest person in the world.

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This type of personal coaching is about being and doing
your best—about time and goal management—about peak
performance—about achieving higher levels of business or
professional success.
blindguy55@msn.com
http://www.readingblind55.com

Bringing in Inspiration through a Career/Motivational Speaker

If you have noticed the moral at your office isn't what is
used to be, you may want to consider hiring a
career/motivational speaker that will talk about career and
life goals. Motivational speakers can give insight on
issues that are important within the office and allow
employees to generate new ideas and help them learn to work
together as a team. Most offices go through times of
transition and need advice and counseling in order to get
through it.

After scheduling a speaker and sending on the information
to everyone in your office, you should prepare them for
what will happen next. If there are internal issues that
are disruptive to productivity, then they should be
addressed prior to the speaker's visit or let those in the
office know they will be addresses during the presentation.
Motivational speakers can help employees by giving them the
tools needed to be successful. This can include adopting a
new attitude, becoming a better salesperson, staying
organized, and learning how to earn promotions.

With these tools, employees should be able to interact more
professionally in the office. Speakers can also address
office politics, how to remain professional during certain
situations, and how to better communicate with others. Even
though many companies have HR departments that are supposed
to help, a speaker from the outside may be more influential
because they are a third party and are not familiar with
employees and how they usually act.

When choosing a motivational speaker, you should find one
that is energetic and who understands your business. This
will make relating to employees much easier. Most speakers
have exercises that they give to the group during the
presentation to see if employees are learning from it. If
you have a large group, you may want to ask the speaker to
refrain from doing any exercises because it will take too
long. Most presentations last an hour or two.

If your office is a happy one, you can still bring in a
motivational speaker who can talk about personal finances,
investing, or taking better care of one's health. There are
many topics that speakers can talk about that will inspire
and change the lives of employees. Many employees don't
know how to invest properly or they haven't taken the time
to learn how. A motivational speaker can give tips and
advice that they can begin using right away.

Inspiration can come from many sources. Sometimes it can
come from total strangers. If your office needs a boost or
wants to learn about a topic that is important, then hiring
a motivational speaker is one way to help your employees in
their careers and in their personal lives by following some
of the advice they receive.

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Copyright © 2007 Vadim Kirienko owns the Home Business
Resource Directory where you can find everything you need
to start, run and grow a home based business. For further
information, go to
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Mobile Phone Contract Plans with VOIP

Introduction

The revolution of internet communication is here to stay
for a very long time and this is primarily because it has
done so much to help people by its mere presence alone. The
voice over IP (VOIP for short) technology that has hit the
market by storm over the last couple of years has now
expanded to be a major competing technology in nearly every
major branch of communications.

The VOIP revolution has been so fast and so fierce that
even the most established conventional telephone companies
are now rushing to create VOIP infrastructure that they can
provide to their customers so that they don't end up losing
them to other companies that are on the cutting edge. To
that end, even mobile phones have been created that have
the ability to use VOIP or a similar piece of technology in
order to accomplish the same task.

The Mobile Phones

A question that very many people have when they initially
here about the recent expansion into the mobile phone
market has to do with the technology itself. While it is
easy to understand how VOIP technology works on a
conceptual level (i.e. the internet connection being used
in conjunction with specialty software to facilitate
communication in a manner similar to that of a telephone)
for normal, land-based systems it is a lot more difficult
to understand exactly how it works in the sense of a mobile
phone solution.

If you have ever traveled on a plane before, you have more
than likely seen a business person utilizing their internet
through the use of mobile internet technology. This type of
technology has been around for a very long time and all of
the major businesses make sure that their correspondents
have access to that kind of technology when they are on the
move.

Wherever you have the ability to connect to the internet
and therefore generate an internet protocol address, you
have the ability to use the VOIP technology. This is
ultimately how mobile VOIP services are utilized and
because of the boom in the market many of these
technologies are available for personal use at very
reasonable prices.

Advantages

There are many advantages to using a VOIP mobile phone
contract and the one that is largest in the eyes of many
people is the price. The reason that conventional VOIP
became such a popular service was that it was quite a bit
cheaper than conventional telephone plans when it came onto
the market. In similar fashion, a VOIP mobile phone
contract is going to be quite a bit cheaper than the
conventional mobile phone contract you have right now.

This decrease in the price has allowed many people the
chance to save some money each month and when a person is
able to save money without a reduction in quality, they
quite obviously are going to become a very loyal customer.
The ability of VOIP services to generate a large number of
very loyal customers in a very short time is ultimately
what has made many companies move a large part of their
communication operations towards developing and promoting
VOIP technologies.

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Lee Smith writes about VoIP Mobile Phones and Mobile Phone
Contract Plans
http://www.networklondon.co.uk/communications/voip.html

The Reason Persistence Pays Off In Your Marketing

One of the secrets of getting your message across to
prospects and customers is to communicate with them at an
unconscious level.

In order to do that successfully, you need to repeat the
same message consistently.

In marketing terms, that means if you want to get a
positive reaction from your customers, you have to be
consistent and persistent with your marketing.

Businesses can easily present too many different faces to
their customers and prospects. But, if you want success,
you need consistency in your message, in your appearance,
in your language and in your timing.

Sometimes people give up too easily. They'll say, "Oh, I
tried that. It didn't work." But you've got to keep going.

Or what happens is that they get bored with their own
message so they think other people are getting bored, too.
So they change what they're doing, or they change their
message.

The reality is that if you are utterly sick and bored with
your marketing message and what you've got to say, then
chances are that it's just starting to register on your
customers' radar screens.

You have to repeat it over and over again.

Some research says that you have to present your sales
message an average of seven times before somebody will
respond to it. Other research suggests even more contact is
required.

If you try once and it doesn't work, don't be surprised.
You've got to keep going back in order to get that message
across.

The scientific term for something that consistently
triggers a specific reaction is known as 'anchoring'.

For example, some people may associate the smell of freshly
baked cookies with their childhood or the taste of food
with a memorable vacation. These events become anchors as
they always trigger the same reaction.

Similarly in marketing, if you immediately associate a
piece of music with a company's name (perhaps because it's
from their television advertising) that's a very successful
marketing use of anchoring – provided your feeling about it
is positive of course.

The principle of anchoring is about consistently triggering
the same positive response in people and you don't need a
multi-million dollar advertising budget to create it.

The secret is to have something that people will easily
identify with. Keep on repeating it. Make sure that it gets
anchored in people's minds as having a specific meaning.

Make sure that when you're talking about your business to
other people, you're describing it in the same way all the
time. If you continually talk about it differently, people
will get confused.

When you find a message that works, keep repeating it over
and over again, so it becomes anchored with people and
creates a consistent positive effect.

In marketing terms, this is what branding is about – it's
having a consistent approach so that people recognize
something distinctive about you, or the way you do
business, that they will remember.

To make a message stick, you need to create processes and
mechanisms that keep you in regular contact with prospects
and customers, such as newsletters, regular mailings and
scheduled meetings.

So, if you want to communicate successfully at an
unconscious level, consider what you need to change so that
your customers see a consistent view of all your activities.

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Robert Greenshields is a marketing success coach who helps
entrepreneurs and independent professionals develop the
success mindset and marketing strategies for a better
lifestyle. For more info visit
http://www.mindpowermarketing.com