About Entrepreneurs

Author: Selvyn Patterson

One of the easiest ways to launch an online business is to start by market affiliate programs. No need to own any website initially, a free site with some very good affiliate links back to your sponsor's website is all that's required.

Assuming you are already marketing affiliate programs, the following suggestions will most definitely help to boost your earnings in the shortest time possible.

Always choose the best and most popular programs, products or service to market. Programs that will pay the best or highest commissions, offering product and or service that solve problems or a benefit that most surfers can use.

Always market your products to a target audience. Choose companies to represent that have a solid track record of paying their affiliates on time. There are more than enough affiliate programs online for you to pick and choose from.

After choosing the right programs, your next big challenge will be how to market your site. You definitely want your website to be indexed and ranked by major search engines for the possible free traffic benefit.

Therefore, write and distribute some good article content through some of the reputable article publishers online. Remember to include your resource box with information about your product and a link back to your site.

Give away some excellent information for free, include links to your page and recommend the products/service. Write short e-books and offer these as a bonus to those who visit your site and leave their information.

Build your opt-in list this way, a very valuable marketing tool that will increase your earnings dramatically. Always get this contact information from a landing page before sending your prospects to the sponsor's website.

Bear in mind that you provide free advertising for the product owner and you are paid only when you make a sale and when you send prospects directly to the sponsors, they will build their list and you lose out.

But when you build your list this way, you can always mail other marketing pieces to them earning ongoing commissions instead of just a one-time sale.

Submit lots of articles providing useful information along with suggesting your products and build a cliente base of readers of your articles.

Promote your website and products through ezines with solo ads, join online forums related to your particular business, participate and post beneficial information to fellow members adding your signature, this is one of the best ways to get one way inbound links to your site.

Start reciprocal linking with excellent websites related to your business in some way. Getting good page rank and much traffic is what you need most to speed up your sales and boost earnings.

Use excellent pay Per Click keyword ads. PPC is one of the most effective ways to advertise online. As an affiliate, you can earn a decent income by effectively managing your PPC campaigns with Google AdWords and Yahoo/Overture Search Marketing.

Used effectively the above suggestions are a sure way to boost your affiliate commission checks online, these have been tested and proven over time with many internet business success and massive wealth created for online entrepreneurs.

Author: Sam Crowley

It's no secret that when multi level marketing (MLM) is mentioned, many people think of illegal pyramid schemes and other scams. Follow these tips to check out an MLM company and you will be able to avoid MLM scams.

1) Contact the Better Business Bureau (www.bbb.org), the State Attorney General's office and the Federal Trade commission ( www.ftc.gov or 1-877-FTC-HELP) and at no charge you will be able to check the records of the MLM companies and will get some great tips about how to safely evaluate them.

2) Check Google and other search engines for "company name + scam" and you will find out quickly if there are complaints.

3) Check out home business message boards and scam.com for bad reviews. Obviously, there are always a couple of people that didn't make money and want to blame the company. Do proper research and you will quickly know which distributor had a legitimate complaint and who was just plain lazy.

4) Go to www.mlmwatchdog.com and see if any problems are posted there.

5) Ask your attorney to review any documents before you sign them.

6) Present the entire program to a trusted friend and see what he or she thinks. Take their advice under consideration. You never know, if the company does turn out to be legit, then that friend is a great first recruit.

7) You should be focusing on selling products or services and not recruiting more distributors. If this is the case, proceed with caution and at your own risk.

8) Be leery of requests to make large purchases up front.

9) All MLM's, just like any type of business, require work. Beware of false promises of easy money making schemes. Beware of guarantees such as "everyone is making money with this automatically."

10) Do the math for yourself. Have a trusted advisor, friend, accountant or attorney check you and make sure that the payout plan is actually feasible.

11) You don't want to sell products or services with false "miracle" claims to them. Actually try to promote the products and services yourself to make sure that you like them and WANT to promote them first and how they work.

The MLM industry is one that holds great promise. Unfortunately, there are a few undesirable people and companies. By following your due diligence, asking questions and proceeding with caution you should be safe. Check these things out first!

Author: Elias

There are a number of steps that must be followed when you set up your home based business to ensure that it is legitimate and that you do not contravene some of the local and federal laws. While we cannot get into specifics since requirements vary by city, region, state and country, we will cover some of the general items that you may want to look into with regard to setting up a legitimate home based business.

Every city and town will have bylaws in place that provide legal requirements regarding the type of business you may run out of your home. These laws govern such things as changes to your home to facilitate your business, the amount of traffic you are allowed, parking, sanitary requirements and many other items. If you are planning a business that will have employees or customers coming to your home, require structural changes to your home, prospective home business owners should look into local bylaw requirements.

The main topic of this article is about meeting the needs of the provincial, state or federal tax department and laws that are in place in your country and region were you live. They are all different and without question you must investigate the requirements in the country and state or province you live in. The IRS in the USA and Revenue Canada each have specific requirements from a tax perspective for all business including home based businesses. Similarly each state and province also have requirements.

These requirements usually consist of registering as a business for tax purposes, filing on a regular basis, collecting and paying VAT taxes (GST in Canada), payroll deductions, and a number of other reporting requirements. Some business owners will find all of this overwhelming while others may have the ability to deal with and meet all of these requirements. While it is a personal decision, most are better off to hire a professional accountant as well as perhaps a lawyer to deal with these issues. This will provide you with more time to focus on making your legitimate home based business successful, which is the primary reason for starting this opportunity in the first place.

The degree of registration is also an important consideration. Many small home based businesses will register as a sole proprietor and avoid much of the registration requirements and cost. However the downside is that if someone should decide to sue you for breach of contract or some other issue, all of your business and personal assets are at risk. Registered businesses that are incorporated protect the owners personal assets and there are a number of other legal steps that a good lawyer can put in place to assist in this regard.

Small business owners who are setting up a legitimate home based business should discuss each of these requirements with the experts in the area you live to avoid creating any legal issues with the local and federal authorities.

Author: Kurt Naulaerts

Before joining any affiliate program, you will want to first ask questions, conduct research on that particular program, and the choices offered. Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. It is important that you obtain answers to your question, this will help you in determining if the program is right for you.

What questions should you be asking of the affiliate program before joining? Here are some ideas.

What does it cost?
If you are like most people, you want programs that are free. There are many affiliate programs available that are absolutely free. Therefore, you should avoid programs that will charge you money just to join.

When do you provide the commission checks?
When it comes to affiliate programs, no two are alike they each differ. However, you can count on commission checks either weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or quarterly. You should choose a program that offers you what you want in terms of payment. Some programs have begun setting a earned minimum before they will issue a check. Therefore, it will be a requirement that you earn that amount prior to getting any payment.

What is the hit per sale ratio?
This is determined by the amount of clicks onto a text link or banner that is will take to get a sale. This is also determined by looking at statistics from all affiliates. This an important factor to question. This will allow you to understand just how high your traffic flow must be before you will be able to enjoy the commission.

How do you track referrals and how long will they stay on the system?
The program needs to gain your trust and confidence by tracking your referrals. The only way to obtain any credit from sales is if they are tracked. You should also be concerned with the amount of time the referrals will remain within their system. Sometimes visitors will not make a purchase immediately, but return at a later date to buy that item. If they remain on the system for a while, you will still receive credit for that sale, otherwise, you will lose it.

What kind of affiliate stats do you offer?
You want to choose an affiliate program that offers you detailed statistics. Furthermore, you should be able access them any time of the day, from anywhere. These stats provide you with information regarding the number of sales, hits, and impressions that has been generated from your website. Impressions tell you just how many times your text link or visitors on your website saw the banner. A hit constitutes the number of clicks on the link or banner.

Does the affiliate program also pay for the hits and impressions besides the commissions on sales? It is important that impressions and hits are also paid, as this will add to the earnings you get from the sales commission. This is especially important if the program you are in offers low sales to be able to hit ratio.

Who is the online retailer?
It is important to determine if the company you are dealing with a solid and trusting company. You should always test and known about the products you are promoting, as well as just how they average in terms of sales. Finding out as much as you can about the retailer will help you in determining if you are choosing the right affiliate program.

Is the affiliate a one-tier or two-tier program?
This is another important aspect. With a program that is one-tier, you can only generate income from the sales that you, yourself has generated. With a two-tier affiliate program, allows you to generate income from not only your sales, but as well as the sales from affiliates you have brought into the program. Furthermore, some affiliate programs that are two-tier are giving sponsors a small fee for referrals.

How much commission is paid?
Most programs offer commission of between 5% and 20%. This works to around .01 percent to .05 percent per hit received. Some programs will pay per impression; however, the amount is not that high. Because of these commission percentages, it is ultimately important that you have an understanding of the hit to sale ratio, as well as the average amount of sales.

The above questions are just a few of the questions you should be asking prior to joining any type of affiliate programs. It is important that you understand all aspects of the affiliate program you choose, in order to fully benefit from everything an affiliate program can offer you.

Author: Vern How Chan

Why is it that you're not wealthy? Perhaps it's because you are not taking chance of the opportunities that exist in the marketplace. As a matter of fact, there are numerous opportunities in store for the intelligent entrepreneurs who target the affluent, the offspring of the affluent, and the widows and widowers of the affluent. In most cases, these masterminds who target the affluent become affluent in their own rights. Perhaps it's because their clients and customers have little or no money!

But, you will respond in fashion, it's really much easier for me to target my peers whom I can relate with because they buy big luxurious cars and I can see their wealth. I decide to take a moment to truly plant in you a seed of understanding on why they are poor themselves. They mainly use debt to finance the lifestyle they want thereby what you see is really a surface of their wealth. Statistics shows that on average, the rich have an annual realized income less than 7 percent of their wealth. In other words, they live on less than 7 percent of their wealth. Here we can clearly define the fine line between the affluent and the non-affluent. Simply put, the affluent are a collection of people who are conscious consumers and not "huge spenders".

Now, why would we want to target those who are not "huge spenders"? At this point, we already know that the affluent are not "huge spenders" themselves. Why focus on the population who are most aware to the price changes to products and services? However, I'm going to give you a tip here and you can bring it to the bank! Is that they are not especially price sensitive when it comes to paying for investment advice and services, educational products, accounting services, tax consultancy, medical plus dental care for themselves not forgetting family members, legal services, and homes.

At this point, I really want to emphasize the items advisory services and educational products here. This is obviously the growing trend of the booming economy globally given the fact that America will also continue to see an increase in education expenditure. Here's a flashback from the deep recesses of my mind;

"I once attended a meeting hosted by a speaker here in Singapore telling a truly inspiring illustration so vividly of telling the power of focus; by focusing many small intense light sources on a single spot, the energy is turned into a laser beam which can remove cataracts from the eyes, eliminate kidney stones and even neutralize cancer cells!"

If we apply this theory to our business, by focusing all our energies in one spot, we should be able to remove "cancers" like distractions and obstacles to success. Is focus the key to building up an empire? Do empires crumble due to the lack of focus on the core business? Take a guess.

Author: Fidens Felix

Once you start out as an eBay seller, the challenge is to have profitable products that are guaranteed to draw buyers on eBay. To achieve this, start considering the strategy of buy to sell on eBay.

Unless you just want to sell from time-to-time to earn extra bucks, you cannot forever come up with used items from your own attic, garage and closets. This strategy of risk-free and cost-free eBay selling is just your stepping stone to earn the needed funds and expand your online business. Buying products to sell on eBay is a good way to start getting more serious and responsible eBay seller.

If you choose to buy to sell on eBay, there is starting capital involved. Also, be aware that in doing buy to sell on eBay business, you accept that there are risks involved.

First of all, consider the cost of acquiring the products you will be putting up for sale. Regarding this, you need to know the best places where to merchandise is cheap enough to buy so that you would still get profit once you sell it on eBay.
Second, you have to prepare maintenance costs for transporting the products you bought, providing enough storage space for the items, and repairing damaged items.

Buy to sell on eBay have very tedious and time-consuming aspects. Here are a couple of important things to be considered as you venture in the buy to sell on eBay business: – Identify what products you should buy according to the type of costumer you wish to target. – Places where you can buy the products you want to sell on eBay and at the same time get good bargains for it.

Perhaps you might already aware of some places where you can start your buy to sell type of business.
Still I'd like to give you some pointers on the top places where you can find good sources of products to buy to sell on eBay.

Start your research here!

1. Garage sales and flea markets

2. eBay Guess what, eBay itself can be your source. Call it recycling, but eBay is a good source for products you can buy and then sell again on eBay. As long as you are careful in purchasing, buying wholesale items to sell on eBay through retail can be a very good bargain on your part.

3. Drop Shipper Directories These are wholesalers that ready to ship directly to your customers the items they bought from you. With this kind of set-up you no longer have to invest in doing inventory of your merchandise.

4. Local businesses There could be local businesses in your area that have the exact products you are targeting on for your buy to sell on eBay enterprise. Haggle for a low volume price for the products you wish to buy to sell on eBay for a considerable profit.

5. Crafters These are good sources of specialized products. Have an arrangement whether to buy a certain quantity or thru consignment. Just be sure to get a certain discount.

If you aspire for more types of product and better deals on products to buy to sell on eBay, try out these other sources: – Trade shows where there is a wide array of merchandise A perfect opportunity for those that buy to sell on eBay. – Permanent marts where you can meet up with product suppliers and get great bargains for retail or wholesale purchase. – Wholesaler directories online to point you to more places where you can buy to sell on eBay. – Importers/Exporters are the perfect sources if you want to buy to sell on eBay foreign and imported products, and; – Foreign trade offices in major US cities.

In order to become successful in buying to sell on eBay, be more resourceful, open to challenges and ready to take risks.

Author: John Patton

Anyone who has recruited more than a couple of people into their organization have experienced the "revolving door" syndrome – where you recruit one person and it seems two others drop out. Obviously, this is frustrating and makes you wonder why it is so difficult to get your downline to stay active. It is even more frustrating to see people leaving faster than you can recruit them. Realize this happens in every business that fails to implement the one often forgotten element of retention.

Too often we are so caught up in recruiting new downline that we forget about the downline we already have. We focus all of our energies on the toughest part of building the business which is recruiting. Yet we forget to take action on the easiest part: Follow-up customer service.

While follow-up customer service may seem difficult to get to sometimes, it is extremely important for future growth and improving your retention rates. The number of people in the downline who drop out should not be dropping out like they are. People drop out because they are often ignored or forgotten by their up line.

Your goal should be to improve the retention within your own team and to make your customer service to your downline a priority. It is far more difficult to recruit new downline than it is to follow-up and follow-through with those you already have.

Below are seven things you MUST do to ensure your "revolving door" in your organization stays locked and to keep your downline active for the long term:

1. Implement a customer service policy. If you truly want to build a solid and profitable network marketing business, you need to implement the following policy: Provide service and follow-up to your downline.

2. Follow-up is following-through. Just because someone signed on the dotted line, does not mean the sale is complete. You must follow-up with your new downline within one week. Call them within one week of their purchase to ensure they are happy and are using the product/service. If they are wanting to build the business, call to make certain they are tapping into the resources and getting off to a good start.

3. Staying in contact shows you care. In your prospecting and recruiting efforts, you planted seeds to start the relationship building process. Stay in touch with your downline. Doing so will show you care and value their business. Staying in touch will also provide you with an opportunity to get additional business and to strengthen the relationship.

4. Anticipate the needs of your downline. By staying in contact, you can anticipate or stay ahead of your downline needs. You will strengthen your relationship and will more fully understand their current needs. This ultimately leads to anticipation of future needs. Try to always think ahead. This will help you keep your downline happy, satisfied and even can help you to exceed expectations.

5. Keep records on your downline. As your business grows, it will become impossible to keep all downline information and individual needs in your head. You must create customer files with personal information on your downline. This information should include notes on your conversations and on their current or potential needs.

6. Work closely and be supportive. No one is guaranteed success. However, you will be amazed at how high of a success rate you will have with those you personally sponsor when you work closely with them and are supportive of their efforts. Granted some people will never do what they need to do and you can't build the business for them. But, if you provide support and show you care, you improve the retention of your downline.

7. Create intimacy with your downline. What this means is to be genuine in your concern for your downline as a person. Show them you are not just in it to get their money. You must go beyond just an order taker and help people get what they want and need. The difference between you and your competition boils down to one thing – customer service. If you provide value through concern for them as a person and deliver quality customer service in every way possible, you will find your downline will be there for the long term.

Keep in mind, the stability of your residual income will be in direct proportion to your personal follow-up and customer service. Make follow-up and customer service your PRIORITY! As you build your business in the future, make certain you follow-up and follow-through with customer service. Your wealth depends on it!

Author: Elias

There are literally thousands of home based business ideas that consumers can consider as a hobby or even as a full fledged business opportunity. The real question is how do you go about deciding which one will be profitable and which one will meet your personal needs for fulfillment and satisfaction. We will explore some of the criteria associated with this important decision and help you get started with your assessment in this article.

There are at least three main areas that all new entrepreneurs should consider as part of their assessment of home based business ideas. These are business viability and profitability; compatibility with your personality and needs and opportunities for long term growth both as an individual as well as for the business opportunity.

Viability and profitability is a key criteria, since no matter how much you might enjoy the business, if you cannot make sufficient money to pay the company bills and yourself, then you probably should consider another business. Many entrepreneurs will leap into something before they have at least completed a basic business profitability assessment. This analysis should include as a minimum the following attributes: study term should be at least 2 years, market potential, sales forecast, cost of sales, cost of purchase of product or manufacture of the product, all operations expenses, capital requirements for equipment and buildings, salaries, taxes, benefits, cash flow, profit and loss and finally funds that you may need to borrow to get started. While this seems like a significant amount of work, it can pay off by avoiding investment of time and resources into a business that never had a chance in the first place of being successful.

Next, entrepreneurs should make a very personal assessment of themselves to assess if they have what it takes to get a home based business started. Long hours, dedication and perseverance are often needed, as well as dealing with many startup related issues. Talk to other people in similar situations to compare notes and understand if you can deal with the rigors of starting a successful home base business.

Finally, everyone needs to feel successful, they need to feel that they accomplished something and they need to receive positive feedback from whatever they do. Although it is always difficult to make this assessment, it is important to assess your home based business idea from the perspective of whether you will obtain the kind of long term personal growth in terms of challenge, learning, and reward. Can the company grow over time into an entity that you will gain these rewards from in addition to the monetary reward.

Each of these areas takes some sole searching and you may not reach an answer quickly. However it is important that you complete these assessments in order to make the correct business decisions as well as personal decisions when you are assessing new home business ideas.

Author: Sharon Logan Logan

We've all dreamed of working from home harnessing the power of the internet, haven't we? You know, the dream where you get to spend lots of time with the kids at the beach. Or the one where you get to sleep in if you feel like it or meet a friend for coffee in the middle of the day.

Well, should you do it? Should you take the plunge? Take this quick quiz to see whether starting an internet business could work for you.

1.I expect that starting up my own internet business
will cost me:
a) Nothing
b) Between $100 and $500 per month
c) Over $500 per month, it's very expensive to start up

2.I expect that every day I will work on my new business for approximately:
a) 0 hours, after I've set it up, it should run itself
b) 1 to 8 hours
c) every waking minute

3.I believe that setting up an internet business is:
a) Easy, any fool could do it
b) Requires learning some new skills
c) Impossibly difficult, you have to be a technological guru

4.How long do you think it will take to be showing a profit:
a) within an hour
b) 1 to 3 months
c) 12 months or more

5.I believe that running an internet business is:
a) nothing like running a business in the "real" world
b) has many similarities to running an offline business
c) is much harder than running a business in the offline world

6.Advertising my internet business in some form is:
a) not necessary
b) essential, but relatively inexpensive
c) essential and very costly

7.Bookwork and time management are not my strong suit but I know:
a) that I won't need to do either
b) a certain amount of both is necessary to know where you are in any business
c) something I will end up spending many hours on every week

So how did you go?

If you got mostly a) answers then you have unrealistic expectations of what running an internet business will be like. Don't think about starting up until you've done a bit more research and have a better idea of what's involved, otherwise you'll just be wasting your money.

If most of your answers were c)'s then you're probably not the type of person who should try running a business of any kind, internet or other. You need a certain amount of optimism and faith to start any enterprise and frankly you're just too negative at this point in your life.

If you got mostly b) answers then you have a good idea of what you're getting into and now is the time to do it!

Running an internet business does take time and money. The good news is it takes considerably less time and money than running most traditional businesses.

Let's face it; overheads in the offline world are high. There's rent, vehicle expenses, licences, staff wages, advertising and more. Once you have a computer, your online expenses are quite low, but you will need to spend some money on advertising, on your ISP costs and possibly on other monthly fees.

You will need to learn new skills. There is a lot to learn when you first start but fortunately there are lots of places to go for information and you never have to become some kind of super computer wizard if you don't want to.

So, should you or shouldn't you? It's your decision!

Author: Will Kintish

Consider the scenario of a business networking event. These are superb sources of leads and referrals that can be the life blood of your business. The business skills you develop in this arena can easily be applied in any business scenario. Assume you have engaged in conversation with a good potential contact. Once you have created a positive first impression start the interesting chat about various areas of common ground. By careful listening, you may identify an opportunity to do some business to your mutual benefit at some later date. You are looking for the moment when someone says something to you to make you think, "Ahaa, there's a potential business opportunity here." Suppose you are a business development consultant who specialises in the food industry and who has a good track record in helping companies to increase their margins. If you were asking all the right questions such as "So how you finding things at the moment?", and you hear the answer "We're doing reasonably well but we don't seem to be getting the efficiencies in the factory." That is an Ahaa moment.
Can I mention again, that networking using business development skills isn't selling; it's building business relationships, and gathering business information?

This should be the start of the follow up business development process which is as follows

1.Ask for their business card and read it carefully
2.Always find something to comment on; maybe the spelling of their name or perhaps they have their business in a particular part of town which you know intimately. It doesn't matter as long as you show them that you are interested in them, their business and their circumstances
3.Now this is a key moment. Ask if you can phone them next Wednesday or Thursday to discuss the problem they have with their margins. You can say something like "Now isn't the time or place, but maybe your problem is a simple issue which I can give you some help on". The chances are if you have made the right impression, the answer will be "yes".
4.Bear in mind all the time that if you don't ask the question then you don't give the other person, with the business opportunity, a chance to say yes.. You will be at your most popular at this juncture. If you have done it all right, are you really going to waste a great opportunity? Not every business event and not every person you meet is going to turn into a business opportunity but if you are awake alive and alert, listening attentively and with empathy... you just never know
5.Write down on their business card the day you have agreed to call and let them see you do this. This shows that you are serious and the chances are you're likely to do it. At this point, there is no reason whatsoever not to excuse yourself in one of several ways which we will show you another time..
6.As part of the bridging process ensure that when you get back home or to your office or even before you leave the business networking event write down where and when you met the person a quick description of them and any salient facts which you may use at a future date to show them that you are truly listening to what they had to say.
7.When you make the follow up call as agreed, review the business card or refer to your business development software if you use it and confirm that they were happy for you to follow up. If you had picked up that the person was going away for weekend then make sure that one of the questions you ask is "How did the weekend go?" I'm not asking you to remember these details. What I am doing is asking you to write down some small talk facts that you gathered on their business card. It helps break down their barriers to talking about business.
When I ask my audiences "what is the most important thing with regard to business cards?" the normal answer I get is "make sure you carry plenty of them with you". Of course you know now that the most important thing is to ask for theirs. Offer your business card by all means, but don't be too quick to do this. I think it's a little pushy and it's another form of saying "aha you want to know all about me don't you. Here's my business card". It just may be that they don't want to know all about you ... not at that moment anyway. There's a lot more to say about business development training and in particular working the room but you can find out about that on my other articles.
Take note that business development and networking is about giving first and receiving second. If you go into it thinking "What's in it for me and what am I going to get out of this tonight" then the chances are you won't succeed. If you ask questions such as

·"How can I help you?"
·"Who would you like me to introduce you to?"
·"How will I know if someone I'm talking to will be a good introduction for you?"

You will be showing them you are a proficient and skilled business networker.

Dr Albert Scweizer once said "Give without remembering and receive without forgetting". That should stand you in good stead when you're out there looking to create new business opportunities.

Author: Brian Hawkins

The calling card business has changed dramatically over the last year. In the past, it was a crazy skeptical business that had tons of wholesale phone card businesses open overnight, only to disappear the next day.

Today, the number of illegitimate card operators have been thinned out, and there are more serious companies who are in the business to legitimately sell phone services, rather than to take consumers money and shut the doors. Distributing cards for a legitimate company represents a large revenue opportunity.

There are some excellent niche markets for this industry such as cruise ships, commercial vessels, international associations that need wholesale calling cards in bulk to provide to their customers, employees or members, especially for international calling. with flexible, virtual, easy to use quality clean calling card solutions.

Discount phone card distributors provide a great service for legitimate phone card providers. But there not a match for every wholesale phone card buyer. If you search around online, you will be able to network with a strong partner.

Some companies offer bill at sale which will let you carry no inventory cost to allow your calling card business to expand your telecom product line without the extra asset cost and risk Point of Sale Activation offers a great way to be flexible in the every changing competitive market.

The largest opportunity actually exists outside of traditional retail channels. If you sell to or need to provide phone cards outside of a retail location, there are several options worth exploring. You can find partners that will provide you with free trial phone cards to distribute as to help build their name and let your customers test the quality of the calls before putting a larger amount of money to recharge phone cards.

Handing these to your customers can be a great value-add for your service or product. Many of them will even allow you to co-brand these trial cards, providing you with free advertising for your own brand at the same time. You can even find partners that have amazing unique offers such as special discounts, contest, free movie passes or free restaurant gift certificates. These are generally offered by companies that provide quality service and great rates. They are willing to offer extra bonuses, since they are confident that once a consumer tries their calling service, they will most likely recharge and continue to use their product.

These wholesale phone card providers are using there strength in customer retention to offer an amazing phone card offers to attract new users. Some phone card companies may pay you as an affiliate with a small 5% commission. But if it is a quality wholesale phone card provider online, they can pay you 80% to 150% of the sale to acquire a new customer to maximize your profit with no risk.

Now is the time to do your research to find a firm that will provide extra value to your customers while maximizing your profit with minimal out of pocket expenses.

Author: Mal Keenan

There is no shortage of job opportunities, from the high powered executive jobs to cleaning the windows in the very offices where the high earners ply their trades. One thing that most jobs DO have in common is that they have to answer to the 'bossman'.

I personally, was absolutely inspired by the idea of not having to answer to anyone ever again to make a living, when setting out to set up my first home business. The idea of working my own hours, spending time in the gym or with my kids if and when I pleased set me on a course of non-stop searching until I found the perfect online home business.

There are always the basic issues that almost everyone encounters in starting a new home business. Like deciding on what kind of business you want to start up.

Here are five important steps to follow to get started with internet marketing and for you to market your products or services from your own home.

1. Choose whether you want to start off with marketing your own products or become an affiliate marketer, as I am, which means marketing other peoples products for a commission.

2. Whether you start off with your own product or choose to market others you absolutely need to get your own website which includes domain name and web hosting.

3. Choose at least two or three internet marketing methods and incorporate these strategies into your business on a daily basis. Some examples are Article Marketing, Email Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, and Blogging.

4. Budget your money wisely. You may not be a one week wonder nor an overnight success. Give your online business at least one year to work out and set out your funds accordingly. It took me over 5 years to make a significant profit and 6 years to make Internet Marketing a full-time job. Don't blow your entire marketing budget on a one-shot media blitz. If it fails you will plummet into despair and more than likely give up.

5. Be persistent! You MUST do something positive for your business every single day if you want to succeed. Marketers use the Rule of Seven. Prospects must see or hear your message seven times before they consider buying. That means you need to get your message out their consistently. You will be surprised how much traffic you can drum up if you just KEEP AT IT.

In conclusion, getting set up is only a beginning. The real power comes from the marketing of your business. After all, a website is only a blip on the vast screen of the world wide web unless you drive visitors to make sales or signups for your affiliate services.

I can take my laptop anywhere in the world and continue to make a full-time income whether that is lying on a beach somewhere in the Bahamas or in a ski chalet in the Alps.

Can you envisage yourself doing this? Are you prepared to promise never to give up until you achieve your online goals?

You too can make this dream a reality but you must do the right things to make any progress at all. The above 5 points should at the very least set you on the right track.

Author: adrian ryder

Like any new venture in the business world, and online business is no different in this respect, the most important thing to do is to have a plan. Treat your online venture like a traditional business, and you have already greatly multiplied your chances of success.

As well as business goals, it is important to set some personal goals. The money that you plan to earn from your online business is just a medium. What do you want to do with your online income, buy a new car? buy a home? go on a dream holiday? pay your way through college? Set some goals that inspire you and make you feel passionate. There are many excellent resources on goal setting and the power of your mind. John Kehoes Mind Power is a good starting point if you are unfamiliar with these tools. Giving yourself some clear powerful goals and direction will greatly multiply your chances of succeeding in any life endeavor be it business or personal, as your subconscious mind gets in on the act, and will draw to you, the necessary resources to succeed.

Choose a product or program that interests or inspires you. If you have a particular interest or passion in your life, try and find an online product or program which relates to this. People quickly recognize passion and enthusiasm in others and will relate and respond to it, probably a lot more so than slick copywriting and sales gimmicks. For example if you are an aspiring author, see if you cant find a genuine how to write course out there, which will both support your passion and help others like you to succeed too.

There are endless opportunities out there, and your success will be greatly magnified if you choose something that inspires you, rather than just going for the big income promises. A well recognized universal principle is that by helping others achieve their dreams and goals, you will achieve your own much more rapidly. The converse is also true, rip someone off and chances are it will happen to you, so avoid the cheap scams and quick buck promise programs.

Learn about internet marketing from successful people. There are a huge amount of resources available online both to read and download, many of which are free or very inexpensive, and doing some market research and committing some time to learning the skills you need, can save you a fortune in wasted advertising costs down the track. Have a look at the testimonial section before committing yourself to an online program. What is their customer support like? does the program owner mentor his members and teach them what they need to know in order to succeed? With internet advertising the old saying you get what you pay for is very true. There are a lot of free options out there ie free classifieds, however the time taken to list ads versus the minimal results achieved makes them a waste of effort in most cases, so if you want quality advertising that gets results, be prepared to pay a fair price.

A final word on choosing a program or product, and that is the power of duplication and residual income. If you are promoting a product which you can only sell once, then you are always going to be searching for new customers. However if you can find a program that offers you a residual income, even if it is only a few dollars a month per customer, this can soon build up over time to a significant income, that comes to you regularly without any further effort on your part. The power of duplication works on a similar concept of ongoing income, learn how to earn an income yourself, then teach others to do the same and earn a cut of theirs too. Empires such as Amway and Herbalife have been built on this concept, and many other programs out there offer both residual income and the opportunity to earn from others efforts, both of which can magnify and accelerate the speed with which you can achieve success online.

Author: James Lowe

If you are an auto mechanic there are plenty of money making opportunities available to you.

A fine way for an auto mechanic to earn extra money is to do work on the side. This can easily apply for other trade professions as well. We just write about auto mechanics here though.

There are many people who hate to take their car into the dealership for service. Their reasons will be high costs for repairs. This fear includes expensive repairs that are not necessary. There have been many cases of further damage being done to your car. Some people have to go in several times to get a repair done finally and correctly.

Another option that you may consider is as a mechanic that inspects used cars as a third party. In other words you would help people who are in the market for a used car. They can come to you when they have found a car that they like. Then you will check it out for them so they will know what condition the car, they are considering, is really in.

This is a very big satisfaction market that has yet to be seriously tapped into. This is very similar to becoming an independent mechanic like an entrepreneur. Instead you will be specializing directly in the purchase of quality used cars. Of course, if you are an auto mechanic, you are good at what you do.

In other words you know how to fix up and judge cars and make them run better. This trade specialty can open up new avenues for you.

You can fix up junk cars, needing various repairs and resell them for a profit. Think about how much extra money you could make if you put in all the work yourself.

You will never have to pay any money except for the original purchase of the vehicle and parts that you will need for repairs. Most of the labor can be done by you. The profit you can make doing this can be quite large.

There are some, trade friendly, unique ways that auto mechanics can earn extra money. The most important thing is to not think that there are no options available to you. In the process, of doing this work, you will become a better mechanic.

Even if you do not want to earn any extra money at this point, you should keep your options open. You never know when the urge is going to hit you! If your job work load slows down, at work, you will have this extra income opportunity to fall back on. You can also cover other personal expenses easier, and with less stress.

Author: Ryan Bowman

Passive income streams have traditionally been the preserve of the very rich. Passive income refers to money that you get from investments basically for doing nothing. The interest you earn on your savings account or the dividends you receive from company shares are
both examples of passive income streams.

Most people would never be able to put enough into savings or investments to live off of the income that they might generate. However, there are now ways that you, too, can generate passive income streams using the internet.

The growth and popularity of the internet has led to a lot of get-rich-quick scams and other programs that promise to make you a lot of money with very little work. While there might be some such ideas out there that would accomplish this, most people have to put in a little work in order to get some money out of a project.

Passive income streams are no different. Despite their name, passive income streams do require work. In many cases they will take a lot of work and effort and not all of them will succeed. However, they are generally well worth the time and effort that it takes to set up passive income streams.

Passive income streams do not mean that no work is involved, but rather that the work involved is upfront, in setting up the income stream. Once you have successfully set up a passive income stream you should be able to sit back and wait for the revenues to come in.

The holy grail of all passive income streams is to create streams that not only bring in money without any effort or supervision, but also last long term. A passive income stream that lasts forever is priceless. It would just sit there and put money into your bank account for the rest of your life, and then for your children and grandchildren.

However, this is quite rare, as even the best investments that allow terrific passive income streams can be affected by economic trends and downturns.

Few things last forever and this is just as true for passive income streams. You will find that some things work for a while and then the revenue starts to go down, which means you have to either end the project or make changes. Sometimes making small changes will work, and sometimes they won't and you will have to come up with a new idea.

Even if a passive income stream is generating revenues, you can still increase your earnings by changing and improving it so there will be work involved usually. You will also have to be thinking of new and better projects as you know that the ones that are generating income will dry up eventually.

As with most all things, passive income streams require monitoring to continue producing income. But the payoff in the long run is worth the small amount of effort.

Author: Daniel Millions

Without doubt, the Internet has transformed all features of contemporary income. Nowadays, making money online is easy. In fact, it is gradually reshaping the income generating setting.

Just as you can now easily purchase anything or pay your bills online, so can you generate workable income to give you the extra cash you need.
The virtual world of marketing and commerce has definitely created a world of its own and motivated many people to hook up to the Internet and earn a living.

The electronic means of earning extra income online is easy. There is truth to it depending on the way you understand and interpret the word easy.For some people thought that the easy ways to make money online would eventually lead them to the now popular get rich quick phenomenon. What they do not know is that even if experts say that easy means convenience, the ease of earning some extra cash without having to leave the comforts of your home.

An Evaluated Difference

Making money online is easy but it does not necessarily mean that you will get rich now. These two concepts are entirely different, in ideas and in principles.When experts say that it is easy to make money online, they mean that with so many options to choose from, any idiot can actually earn himself a living.Hence, it does not take many requirements and qualifications just to make money online. You just have to know your options and get the best program that will work for you.To know more about the reasons why many people claim that making money online is easy, here are 10 reasons that will give you the explanation you need:

1. It is free

Programs that offer you some ways to easily earn money online are usually free of charge. Hence, you can instantly join their pool of home based workers and start earning the extra cash that you need.

2. It is for everybody

One of the best reasons why making money online is easy is because most programs are suitable for almost everybody. Unlike the usual jobs, online businesses do not usually limit their job qualifications.For instance, in web content writing, people from all walks of life can instantly earn money without having to finish a degree in Journalism or gain experience in any writing job.As long as you can write effective feature articles, you can easily find lucrative means of earning money online.

3. You can manipulate your course

The good thing about earning extra money online is that you can manipulate or control the way you want to earn money. Hence, if you want to earn faster, you just have to invest more time rummaging through websites and create affiliate programs. You can even write or read as many surveys as you want.Everything is dependent on how you want to create your money and earn the gratification that you want.

4. You let others earn as well

One of the most common reasons why making money online is the so called residual income.Many people thought that residual income are for network marketers only. They do not know that it is also applicable to anyone who is into Internet business or home based projects.

The real concept of residual income is that you let others earn money as well as you do. Hence, what you can see is a good interrelationship between and among people in the Internet.For instance, in traffic generating schemes, you can post banner ads of other people in your website. In this way, you create back linking strategies that ear you some profits just as the other website is earning as well.

5. It is enjoyable

For most people who are already earning extra money online, they claim that one of the best reasons why making money is easy online is that they are enjoying what they are doing.If you are enjoy, you will definitely love your work and earning money becomes a breeze.

6. You do not have to do hard selling

Generating money online is easy because you really do not have to sell at all. Unlike the usual selling strategies online, selling online is not a hard job.
The main premise here is that since people are all seeking information that is why they are online, providing them your products will never be too hard. In fact, they will personally find the product on their own. You do not have to push it or explain to them why they need it because every fact is demonstrated online.
Hence, all you have to do is to sit and relax and wait for your profits.

7. You build good relationships

When people trust you, they will keep on coming back and buy from you again. If you think you cannot wait to hear from them, you can add them to you mailing list and inform them about your latest product.Everything comes close to making money online easily if you know your way around, and building good relationships just happens to be one of the best things that you can do.

Author: Mirza Perez

What this means is that you are going to want to pick up the phone and call your prospect IMMEDIATELY after the prospect request information regarding your business.

Why is this so important?

Because the degree of responsiveness your prospect shows toward you and your offer is directly related to how quick you call them after they have asked for more information. This is so important. The sooner you call them, near the time they filled out the form, the better they are going to remember what they read and why they filled out the form.

Don't think you're going to get a lot of action by emailing them. They have already seen your offers from emails and your website. It's time to take them to the next level. CALL THEM!

STEP #1 – IDENTIFY YOUR PROSPECT'S NEEDS
What you want to do when you first call your prospect is to say something like,

-Hi, Mr. Prospect, this is (your name) with (your company), how are you today? Great! I'm calling you in response to your request for more information about our business. You filled out a form on the web at (state the date and time the lead requested into). I'd like to ask you a few questions if I may. By the way, what part of the country do you live in? (make some kind of warm remark about the area they live in just to bridge the gap, or break the ice and get them feeling warm and friendly toward you).

NOTE: Now is when you want to ask them 3 pertinent questions that will eliminate 90% of all the objections and smoke screens they would otherwise come up with later on. Remember, the purpose of these questions is to get your prospect to say, I'm sick of my current situation and I want more out of life than what I've been getting.

It doesn't have to be exactly those words but you want to hear from your prospect that they are sick of their J.O.B. (Just Over Broke), and they are looking for something that is going to give them more financial freedom and satisfaction in life.

QUESTION #1
-What Kind of work are you in?

QUESTION #2
-Are you looking for something to replace what you are doing?

QUESTION #3
-Let me ask you something Mr. Prospect. Can you see yourself 5 years from now, doing what you're doing right now?"

STEP #2 – QUALIFY YOUR PROSPECT
Don't hesitate to let your prospect know that you are qualifying him or her. Let them know that you are taking them through a series of steps to see if they meet your standards. With that said, you simply tell your prospect that you're going to give them a little bit of information about the business. Then give them a 30 second power hitting presentation that hits on 3 or 4 of the hottest bits of information about your business.

After you have asked your prospect if this is something they would like to hear more about (and 99% of them will just say YES, if you ask properly) then direct them to your conference call or give the your website with more details about your business.

Assert control of the conversation by giving them the number immediately and explaining that when they call and isten in on your conference call or visit your site, that you will be calling them back the next day or later that evening, this gives a sense of urgency, but always be friendly and respect boundaries.

What you say next is VERY VERY IMPORTANT. You want your prospect to make a commitment that they are going to make that call so you say, Can you make that call now? The purpose of this question is to see how motivated your prospect is. Remember, you are qualifying them at this point. Tell them that you are only looking for a few good people and expect to find them in the next 24 to 48 hours.

STEP #3 – TAKE YOUR PROSPECT TO THE NEXT LEVEL
Now when you call your prospect back or if your prospect calls you back, tell them what you would like to do is set up a conference call with yourself, them and a successful leader on your team.

Say this
-What you'll be able to do is ask some questions and we'll want to ask you some questions and we'll see if there's a match for both of us. What time would be best for you today (give them a choice between two times during the day that you have arranged with your team leader).

Make sure you tell them this: In the mean time, take a look at the website and you'll find that a lot of your questions are answered and you'll have more questions you can ask when I call you.
End the call by saying, Great, I'll call you at (time you set) later today. Talk to you then.

These are the steps to turning prospects into members on your team. Follow them and you will see your success ratio going up and up. I have tried a hundred different methods over the years and this works far better than anything else I've every tried.

To your Success!

Author: Chris Simpson

The highly ranked dream to work at home is a thorn in most people's minds. What most people don't realize is that there can be drawbacks to working at home as well as working any other career. If you are someone who wants to start your own home based business, you should watch out for these neglected pitfalls, so that you can prepare yourself in advance for whatever inconvenience they may pose on you.

The first one I will discuss is lack of financial security. Working at home and starting your own home based business carries a substantial amount of risk. Unlike earning a steady salary, you will not be receiving a fixed amount of income each month. There's a great possibility that the compensation you receive each month will be small in comparison to your regular job, especially at the beginning or during the start up phase. The upside of this, of course, is that you also stand to gain substantially. Some of the biggest, most profitable businesses in the world today were first small home business start-ups. Companies like Microsoft, The Body Shop, and Coca-Cola are just a few examples of companies that were first started and ran from the proverbial garage.

The second drawback is having to take complete charge and control of your own time. Time can either be put to good, profitable use, or it can be wasted very quickly. If you are not a disciplined person, then you might have a tough time making a work at home venture work for you. After all, being at home usually means that you are comfortable, perhaps too comfortable. You can surf the net, watch TV, fix dinner, play with the kids, shoot some hoops, talk with your friends, read a book, take a nap, there are so many things that threaten to eat up your time when you're at home. If you really want to work at home, you should first make sure that you can carve up a good amount of time to spend on your business. You will need to have the ability to set a schedule and stick with it; otherwise you might be heading down a one way road for financial ruin. However, if you are the kind of person who is willing and able to set your own goals and work hard towards achieving them, then having control of your own time can prove to be an incredible advantage. You will be able to set your priorities, manage your tasks, and minimize the waste of your time. These are a few of the things that are the most difficult to accomplish when you are in someone else's employ.

A third drawback you can encounter is potential isolation. Because you are not forced to interact with other people on a daily basis, you might fall into a tendency to cut yourself off from most daily interactions. This is a danger that those with a more conservative or shy personality may face. In order to counteract this, you simply must allot a portion of your time to meet new friends and talk to people on a regular basis. Never get too involved in your work to the detriment of your social life; you'll just suffer in the end. Remember being alone or closed away from society can have a major impact on your life.

Don't let this little list of work at home downfalls discourage you from taking the plunge, especially if you are a very family oriented person. That's exactly what most people do, which is why you don't see a whole bunch of truly rich people in your neighborhood. Read over this short list of drawbacks and fix in your mind how you intend to overcome these obstacles in your path to riches. While you're thinking about it, I am sure you can even come up with a few other downfalls to working at home to prepare yourself for. It's always better to prepare for the worst in life no matter what you choose to do. So always remember, do your homework first. Knowing your weaknesses is strength and power, never forget that.

Author: Ravichanthar M Subramanian

Get a head start and save a lot time in building your internet home-based business by learning from the experience of others and understanding the basics that are often overlooked.

Home-Based Business Revisit

Everybody is looking for a way to work and earn a living independently. Starting an internet business from home seems to be the best bet to realize that dream. With some knowledge about how things operate in the internet realm, anyone with a computer and internet connection can work from home.

Knowledge is important but knowledge alone without a planned strategy to achieve your goals is like groping in the dark with no certainty of getting the intended results.

Many people who have embarked in the online home-based business are basically taken in by the prospect of meeting their personal needs or seeking for a supplemental income or a full-time income. These folks are not experts in managing online businesses. They are all 'newbies' with only one thing in their minds, to generate passive or residual income.

They have not been exposed to the pitfalls that they might encounter during the early period of their home business start-up.

How they overcome the challenges that come in many forms and situations during the early period of their business venture will eventually define the path for a successful home-based business.

Home-Based Business Challenges

Working at home to start an online internet home-based business has its fair number of challenges. As the saying goes 'No Pain No Gain'; All new entrepreneurs must face up to the challenges ahead in starting an online home-based business. Just like any other business ventures, first time home business owners will experience a learning curve during the initial period.

The idea is to master your own learning curve. A shorter learning curve will expedite your business building process. One of the best way is to learn from the experience of others who have been successful before in this business.

You can find various ebooks, ezines, articles etc, written by successful individuals based on their experience. These individuals have developed their own successful money making system. To learn more and for a start, get the ebook at this site: http://www.IClick2Purchase.com/mydotcomology.pdf

The learning curve signifies an important period to get your home-based business up and running. Mistakes, errors, slow progress, impatience and miscommunication can lead to frustrations. One need to stay focus on the objective(s) of setting up home business to counter all the negatives and look to the future.

Home-Based Business Basics

Let me share some of the lessons I have learned so that it will help you to understand the basics that are often overlooked in building a home-based business.

Lesson One

Full commitment required. (Tip:Treat it like a business)

Take it serious and be prepared to give it all you've got because building a business be it online or offline takes time, effort, determination, discipline and a lot of patience.

Time and effort are needed to set up the website ( domain name & hosting account ) and do research for product(s) to sell ( Affiliate programs ). Discipline and determination will ensure that you have control over your online home business venture and at the same time motivated to achieve your desired goal. Initially, your home business might not have many clients. Be patient because you are in the process of building your business. It takes time and planning.

Don't make the mistake of treating your business as a part-time job or hobby.

Lesson Two

Get organized. (Tip:Plan,plan and plan)

Organize means you need to plan your work and activities in an efficient way. For a start you may want to have a simple business plan. Use the business plan to organize your work and activities.

An organized home-based business will give the confidence and empower you to manage your business efficiently. At the same time creating a conducive working environment at home.

Lesson Three

Learn as much about the products. (Tip:Affiliate programs)

A good understanding of the product you are selling or offering is important for your business.

Business needs products and product sales need a good marketing campaign. Adequate knowledge of the products will be useful in creating a complete internet marketing campaign for the business proposition.

Lesson Four

Stick with fundamentals. (Tip:Do it consistently)

When you first start out in internet home business, the biggest challenge is how to get prospect to your website because no one knows who you are.

Your need to create a presence in the internet by promoting your home business website so that prospects will know where to go and buy the product.

There are many different ways to advertise and promote your website but it is better to practice the fundamentals by consistently sticking to the tried and tested internet marketing techniques.

One technique that is simple and affordable that works for me is writing articles and getting the articles published on other websites.

Lesson Five

Beware of distractions. (Tip:Time is money)

Working from home can be a real challenge. Getting distracted is not uncommon especially with children around. Other forms of interruptions like friends or neighbors come by for a chat can really make difficult to keep up with your planned schedule.

Sometimes, the comfort provided at home itself a distraction. The empty couch begging for you to lie down and catch your favorite tv channel or every now and then looking into the refrigerator for snacks. If you don't prioritize your work or schedule it properly, you are going to lose a lot of productivity. These events may look small but on the long run it matters.

Lesson six

Focus on building the business (Tip:Strategize)

Most of the people who start up a home-based business are already having a fixed job. But sometimes holding a regular day job and starting a home-based business from the sideline can be very taxing on your daily life. A better strategy would be for you to concentrate on building the business and leave the technical set-up like website building, affiliate product...etc to the experts. The best solution will be to look for a pre-designed turn-key program to do it for you. For example, the one that I'm using is available at: http://www.IClick2Purchase.com/pips.html

In conclusion

What you have learned from this article are valuable lessons experienced by someone having gone through the learning process the hard way during the initial business start-up period. Using these lessons as guidelines are intended to help you to get a head start in setting-up your home-based business venture. Have a positive mindset and wish you good luck in your new venture.

Author: Jaz Lai

In order to become successful in the world of network marketing you must have the ability to create leads. Without leads, you cannot hope to prospect and sponsor people into your business. Of course, in that regards we are simply talking about only you as the leader of a network marketing business. However, it is not simply about you, is it? No, it is also about your downline. If they do not have prospect leads, they cannot hope to make it either. Therefore, it is beneficial for you to understand just how you can gain the leads that both you and your downline need to succeed.

Why should you worry about your downline? Well, it is your responsibility to create great leaders out of the people under you. They are not only trying to build on their own business and dreams, but they are also partially responsible for the amount of your paycheck. Large or small, it is up to you. However, it is impossible to gain any type of paycheck without leads.

It is important to understand that prospecting leads is the aspect of network marketing that can make or break you. So now you are probably wondering, how and where can I find prospect leads?

Well, why not discuss a few ways right now.

First, you can network your business with a not-for-profit organization and use their organized activities and contact lists as leverage. You should also attempt to make these organizations distributors as well. Then their members could become part of your downline.

Another thing you could do, is begin something of a business owners breakfast club. This will allow each of you to do a referral exchange, with no costs (unless you are buying breakfast, of course). What is great about this idea, is that the prospect leads that you leave with, are all ready to hear what you have to tell them about network marketing.

Press releases are also a great way of gaining exposure, free. Your company, products, and activities can make great news. If you include your contact information, shame on you, if you do not, you may find people flocking to join you, which equals more leads.

At least ten times a day, I am sure you are asked the question "What do you do for a living?" Come up with something creative and catchy as an answer. Your answer could very well be the key to new leads.

Forums and message boards have proven to be a great asset to those within network marketing. You could produce an abundance of leads and prospects by simply telling others about the products and opportunities you offer, along with your contact information, within the signature file of the post.

These are just a few of the many ways you can prospect leads for network marketing business.