In these days, it is becoming increasingly difficult to make ends meet with just one source of income. Thus, more and more people are investigating the possibilities of starting their own extra-income business. Most of these part-time endeavors are started and operated from the comfort and privacy of the home.

Most of these people are making the extra money they need. Some have wisely and carefully built these extra income efforts into full-time, very profitable businesses. Others are just keeping busy, having fun, and enjoying life as never before. The important thing is that they are doing something other than waiting for the government to give them a handout; they are improving their lot in life, and you can do it, too!

The fields of mail order selling, multi-level marketing, and in-home party sales have never been more popular. If any of these kinds of extra income producing ideas appeal to you, then you owe it to yourself to check them out. But these aren't the only fields of endeavor you can start and operate from home, with little or no investment, and learn as you go.

If you type, you can start a home-based typing service; if you have a truck or have access to a trailer, you can start a clean-up/hauling service. Simply collecting old newspapers from your neighbors can get you started in the paper recycling business. More than a few enterprising housewives have found success and fortune by starting home and/or apartment cleaning services. If you have a yard full of flowers, you can make good
extra money by supplying fresh cut flowers to restaurants and offices in your area on a regular basis. You might turn a ceramics hobby into a lucrative personalized coffee mug business. What I'm saying is that in reality, there's literally no end to the ways you can start and operate a profitable extra income business from your home.

The first thing you must do, however, is some basic market research. Find out for yourself, first-hand, just how many people there are in your area who are interested in your proposed product or service, and would be "willing to stand in line and pay money for it". This is known as defining your market and pinpointing your customers. If after checking around, talking about your idea with a whole lot of people over a period of one to three months, you get the idea that these people would be paying customers, your next effort should be directed toward the "detailing" of your business plan. The more precise and detailed your plan - covering all the bases relating to how you'll do everything that needs to be done - the easier
it's going to be for you to attain success. Such a plan should show you start-up investment needs, your advertising plan, your production costs and procedure, your sales program, and how your time will be allocated. Too often, enthusiastic and ambitious entrepreneur jump in on an extra income project and suddenly find that the costs are beyond their abilities, and the time requirements more than they can meet. It pays to lay it all out on paper before you get involved, and the clearer you can "see"
everything before you start, the better your chances for success.

Now, assuming you've got your market targeted, you know who your
customers are going to be and how you're going to reach them with your product or service. And you have all your costs as well as time requirements itemized. The next step is to set your plan in motion and start making money.

Here is the most important "secret" of all, relating to starting and building a profitable home-based business, so read very carefully. Regardless of what kind of business you start, you must have the capital and the available time to sustain your business through the first six months of operation. Specifically, you must not count on receiving or spending any
money coming in from your business on yourself or for your bills during those first six months. All the income from your business during those first six months should be reinvested in your business in order for it to grow and reach your planned first year potential.

Once you've passed that first six months milestone, you can set up a small monthly salary for yourself, and begin enjoying the fruits of your labor. But the first six months of operation for any business are critical, so do not plan to use any of the money you business generates for yourself during that period.

If you've got your business plan properly organized, and have implemented the plan, you should at the end of your first year be able to begin thinking about hiring other people to alleviate some of your workload. Remember this: Starting a successful business is not a means towards either a job for yourself or a way to keep busy. It should be regarded as the beginning of an enterprise that will grow and prosper, with you as the top dog. Eventually, you'll have other people doing all the work for you, even running the entire operation, while you vacation in the
Bahamas or Hawaii and collect or receive regular income from your initial efforts.

For more details on market research, business planning, advertising, selling, order fulfillment, and other aspects of home-based businesses, check with the distributor from whom you received this report.

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The opportunities for getting free advertising for your product or services are limited only by your own imagination and energies. There are so many proven ways of promoting your objectives without cost that it literally boggles the mind just to think of listing them.

One way is to write an article relative to your particular expertise and submit it to all the publications and media dealing in the dissemination of related information. In other words, become your own publicity and sales promotions writer. Get the word out; establish yourself as an expert in your field, and "tag-along" everything you write with a quick note listing your address for a catalog, dealership opportunity, or more information.

Another really good way is by becoming a guest on as many of the radio and television talk shows or interview programs as possible. Actually, this is much easier to bring about than most people realize. Write a letter to the producer of these programs, then follow up an in-person visit or telephone call. Your initial contact should emphasize that your product or service would be of interest to the listeners or viewers of the program, perhaps even saving them time and money.

Other ways of getting free or very inexpensive exposure include the posting of advertising circulars on all free bulletin boards in your area, especially the coin-operated laundries, grocery stores, and beauty and barber shops. Don't discount the idea of handing out circulars to all the shoppers in busy shopping centers and malls, especially on weekend. You can also enlist the aid of the middle school students in your area to had out circulars door-to-door.

Be sure to check all the publications that carry the kind of advertising you need. And there are a number of publications that will give you Per Inquiry (PI) space arrangement where all orders come into the publication, they take a commission from each order, and then forward the orders on to you for fulfillment.

Many publications will give you a contract for space. In this arrangement you send them your ad, and they hold it until they have unsold space, and then at a price that is always one third or less the regular price for the space need, insert your ad. Along
these lines, be sure to check in with the suburban neighborhood newspapers.

If you send out or publish any kind of catalog or ad sheet, get in touch will all the other publishers and inquire about the possibilities of exchange advertising. They run your ad in their publication in exchange for your running an ad for them of comparable size in yours.

Finally, there is nothing in the world that beats the low cost and tremendous exposure you get when you advertise a free offer. Simply run an ad offering a free report of interest to most people, a simple one page report with a "tag-line" inviting the
readers to send money for more information, with a full page advertisement for your book or other product on the backside. Ask for a self-addressed stamped envelope or visit your website and depending on the appeal for your report and circulation of the publication in which your ad appears, you could easily be inundated with responses!

The trick here, of course, is to convert all these responses, or a large percentage of them, into sales. This is done via the "tag-line," which issues an invitation to the reader to send for more information, and the full page ad on the back of the report, and other offers you include with the complete package you send back to them. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, it is just a matter of unleashing your imagination. Do that, and you have a powerful force working for you that can help you reach your goals.

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For a long time I have encourage and inspired readers of my motivational books, tracts and articles to follow their heart’s desires, be true to their dreams and let passion empower their lives. It is quite interesting to hear many inspiring and incredible result from individual that have honour their hearts desires and subsequently found happiness and success in their chosen profession. What will you do if you have a dream of becoming successful in life but you are not in a position to accomplish it? Either due to financial constrains or other pressures and obligations, you dream is relegated to a future time, and your current situation doesn’t look anything like your heart’s desire or dream. Here are your choices:

1. Act with courage as if your dream is already real, no matter your current situation: - Every conscious man on earth has a dream of succeeding in life. Success is determined by your personal desire, passion and tenacity of purpose. Indeed everybody needs courage to succeed in any career, profession or vocation. Without courage success is a mirage. Nothing good comes easy. So, we need to be courageous devoted and determined in whatever we do or strive for. "Courage - unless a man has that virtue he has no security for preserving any other," E. Fremont said. Failure in life is mainly because of our inability to approach our beautiful ideas and visions with strong courage. The Bible says, "Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For who so findeth me, findeth life and shall obtain favour from the Lord." (Proverbs8: 34-35). Thus a man of courage is an unconventional person. Yes, it is difficult for men to wait patiently upon the Lord in times of tribulation. We need wisdom and courage and serenity to understand the word of God, because riches and honours are from Him. The fear of the Lord makes us abhor sloth, laziness, pride, arrogance, selfishness and wickedness in our lives. We should always remember to trust in the Lord with all our heart in whatever situation we find ourselves. God is going to reward us, the faithful, more abundantly. We need courage to face the realities of life. Many have failed to achieve their sweet dreams because they lack the courage and wisdom about how to actualize their dreams.

2. Do what you have to do in the meantime, but keep your vision alive in you mind and heart that it will sustains you spiritually: If you choose to succeed in life, everything else you do exist in service toward that goal you have set for yourself. As an aspiring musician, your part time job as a cleaner is a vehicle toward buying a guitar. Then, you speak, think, speak and practice music as much as you can when you are not doing your cleaning job. The quality of your life depends less on what you are doing with your body, and more on what you are doing with your time and spirit. Keep your soul nourished and everything else will fall into place. As Eleanor Roosevelt rightly noted, "The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dream."

3. Honestly identify your talent, take a leap of faith and act on it: - Some who do this succeed gloriously and consider their leap the best moment of their life. Others do not ultimately live to the vision they set out for, but create a lifestyle more rewarding than the one they left. Others return to a position similar to their original one. Be truly honest with yourself. Recognize your weak points and talents. Have the courage and daring to face the challenges of life because of fear. But most fears are just negative visualization, and changing that vision to a positive one may be all you need to take steps toward living the life you have always dreamed of.

4. Make change in your present situation: - If you cann’t change anything about your present job, you can bring desired qualities of your dream into your situation. If you want to be a successful motivational speaker, you don’t need to stand on a stage to speak. You could start by writing inspirational articles for people in the hospitals and you will be amaze on the number of lives you will inspire and change within a short time.

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