Work From Home With An Online Business…
By Sandy Morris on Aug 2, 2008 in Wealth-N-Retirement
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Work From Home With An Online Business…sounds easy enough that anyone can do it?
When you begin to contemplate using your home computer to earn extra income you suddenly realize that there are thousands of internet businesses that want you to join them. Everyone of them shows a glittering welcome page with lots of money, flashy sport cars, huge yachts and lets not forget that BIG house! They use a lot of fancy terms such as completely automated, easy plug and play, set it and forget it, and the best one…if I can do it so can you…just follow my examples and you will be making six figure income within 30 days. Most of the ads just happen to forget to tell you about the upfront costs, the added monthly costs and best of all the upgraded level costs.
In this year, 2008, we must admit that we were dazzled by some of these same hype hawkers…yes, we too thought the glitter was real gold. So we can speak from experience about the good, the bad and sometimes the down right ugly hyped programs available today. You see we were in the mortgage business for just over 15 years when we were called for an office meeting one day and shaazaam - just like that our office was closed the very next day and at the boomer age of 58 we became unemployed. No we were not the bad mortgage people that you hear about but it did not matter. We were out in the cold.
Panic set in and we tried to figure out how to even put together a resume. It had been 15 years with the company and the last resume was typed on an IBM Selectric typewriter. Wow how far we have come. Not to bore you with details - mortgage people are not being hired these days because the real estate, financial and credit areas of our economy were heading for a bump in the road. Well that bump became a tsunami and it swallowed a lot of people that worked in or around real estate. And we began to hear that we were over qualified…which in English means ‘too old’. Boy did that bruise egos! You know being out of work was kind of fun at first until we realized that neither one was bringing in any money at all. Our savings from over the years started a downward trend that went much faster down than it had when it was going up.
Okay so we took a deep breath, brushed ourselves off and began searching for a way to “work from home with an online business”. We are guilty of succumbing to some of the famous glitzy hype hawkers. We began falling for almost any sales pitch because it sounded good and we needed to get money rolling in. Heck we would settle for five figure or even four figure income. Why be choosy? It did not take us long to realize what fools we were. Yes, we fell for the hype hawkers and bought all kinds of out of the box make money quick schemes. We began justifying the monthly charges for the website and the added cost to upgrade our program from gold to platinum. Several of the sure bet programs just did not make a dime, the clock continued ticking and our savings kept going the wrong way.
About 2 months into the new online internet business we were beginning to become disenchanted with the whole mess. Nothing was bringing in any income worth talking about, the people who we signed up with that guaranteed personal team training where progressively missing in action and our savings was quickly reaching the red danger zone. We had stopped looking at all of the get rich online programs because we had already experienced a bunch of them with no six figure results to show.
One day we stumbled upon the web site of a soft spoken man who seemed earnest and sincere. His presentation was very captivating and was lacking the hype of all the others. He actually just spoke truthfully and with a sincerity that was refreshing. The best part of his presentation was when he invited everyone to visit one of his personalized training classes that he did nightly with his team members. There was no pressure applied, no pay me now, no big fancy houses, no test you had to pass to enter the training. Believe it or not the training was free! Free! However, after attending other seminars we were still skeptical…and the money was continuing to flow out of our accounts.
We actually attended about 4 classes before joining his team. Every class was aimed at improving the way we conducted our business online. He gave ideas of things to do that were free, things that cost a little money and things that were expensive. This gave everyone an avenue to travel which was best for their particular pocketbook or you could choose not to do any of them. The fact that this person came out of the real estate field gave us a common ground to begin building our foundation on. We learned just how and where to start to build and began implementing the steps to get the best results.
It is true that today’s online businesses often fail because people do not know or do not have an understanding of how to attract quality traffic to their website and then the ability to convert that traffic into sales. Most hype sellers immediately talk you into doing pay per click advertising but neglect to tell you the pitfalls or tricks that search engines play. Left unattended that system will take every cent you have and then throw you aside.
So in closing we must say the best way to work from home with an online business is to find the right team to work with. And test that team by attending their meetings (if they have them) several times. Get comfortable with the direction that team is heading and let yourself begin to understand the program or programs the team is involved with. One program might not be right for you so choose a team that offers alternative products or services. Don’t settle for the one size fits all program that most hype hawkers promote. Look for the flexible teams that promote more than one product.
Our team teaches powerful online marketing methods so our team members can generate consistent online income streams. Don’t put your money into one program because that stream just might not produce enough in the long run. Choose a couple programs so that when one is slower than the others pick up the slack. Make sure you work with a team that takes a personal interest in you and not just your money. Be ready to pay your success forward by helping others achieve their goals. By doing this you develop a strong team yourself and you will soon see that paying if forward often gives you rewards that you only dreamed of.
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