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Friday, November 30, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: Your eBay BusinessCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comOne of the easiest and profitable ways to get off the ground with your own home based business is to start with an eBay account and a plan to start making money. An eBay business takes little to no startup capital and can wind up being as profitable and successful as the most prominent independent companies. It takes research, determination, and skill, but if you have these tools and a desire to learn, than you can make a success out of your eBay business. Many businesses on eBay started off as little more than people seeing others around them selling off their unwanted merchandise, oftentimes for better prices than they would get in the classified section of their local paper. This is the way many eBay fortunes have begun. Simply look around your apartment or house and wonder at all the junk you have accumulated over the years. What is collecting dust today could be making you money tomorrow. Research a bit (which is as easy as browsing eBay for sold items) and see what you might be likely to get for your old, unwanted stuff. If the prices seem worth it to you, go ahead and start selling. At the very least, youíll get your feet wet and see if eBay selling is something you might be interested in pursuing on a grander scale. The next thing youíll want to do is some broader research into the eBay world. First, make a list of about ten items you might want to sell on the auction giant. Then research these items and see how the competition is. It is possible to compete with established eBay companies, but this can be difficult for the fledgling startup. It would be far better to find a niche that seems to be mostly ignored, and target that base. It can even be a subset of a more popular and competitive market. Just by more specifically targeting the base, you can have a successful business on eBay. Another way to make money on eBay, with almost no need for up front capital, is by selling informational e-Books. There is an entire section on eBay dedicated to these books. Surely you know how to do something better than anyone else you know. If not, research is your friend. If you can write, then you have all the tools necessary to create one of these powerful money making informational e-Books. It costs nothing, and you can sell it for any price you wish. The result, minus insertion fees, is pure profit. Regardless of what you finally decide to sell, you will have to provide a decent product for a competitive price. Like the rest of the world (perhaps even more so), eBay is strictly run by the law of supply and demand. There is too much competition online to think you will make a success of your eBay business with anything less than full dedication and the perseverance needed to make any small company work in the long run. EBay is a great way to learn how to sell online, without spending a lot of money and of course you may make some money. It’s how I started on my Hundred-Fold-Life journey. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
 
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Monday, November 26, 2007
H-F-L-Team: Work At Home Assembly More A Money DrainCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comBefore you send for information on an opportunity to build things at home that come with a guaranteed customer base, ask yourself why this offer is being made online and not given to people in the same neighborhood as the business. Understand there be a charge to send the pieces and parts to you as well as a charge to send the finished products back to the company hiring you to assemble the products. Why they donít simply hire people in the neighborhood is because that is not where the money is. The pitch is usually about assembling products at home, that anyone can do. They will promise to send all the parts along with a list of companies that will be willing to buy the products you build. If you pay for the parts, assemble the products and sell directly to the buyer, you can keep the profits. Sounds too good to be true, because it is. Once you pay for the parts and they arrive at your house, you will likely find that one or more specialty tools may be needed to put the items together. Tools that arenít usually found in everyoneís toolbox. Surprise surprise! However, youíre in luck because this same company also sells the tools, typically at a ridiculous price, along with shipping but it just seems like a minor inconvenience and a cost of doing business to get into the assembly business. After all, youíve told that if companies like your work, there would be plenty more business just waiting for you. You build the first few items, to the exact specifications in the plans and start to send letters to these waiting buyers who may request a sample of the product you put together. After you send it in, postage at your expense of course, you will probably receive a letter with one of two usual rejections. Either it does not meet their specifications for one reason or another, or they have seen a huge increase in supply or a sudden downturn in demand. Remember, you probably were only one of several thousand who answered the ad. There is a good chance that most of the companies on the list will have the same answer to your inquiries or maybe one or two will offer to take the inventory off your hands for a fraction of the cost that you have in them. Your choices seem limited by selling them at a loss and consider it a valuable lesson, or you try to sell them on your own. You can congratulate yourself for paying top dollar for low-quality materials and tools so you can build something no one wants. The alternative is to never fall into this trap. There are companies offering legitimate assembly work and before you buy any parts and new tools, verify the potential buyers are legitimate and talk with them directly concerning their specifications. If the company will not give you names and numbers of these resellers, donít give them any money. Unfortunately many people try for a shortcut to obtaining their Hundred-Fold-Life often at the expense of others. All of their short-term gains will be lost as the “Universe” catches up and deals with them. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
H-F-L-Team: Viral Marketing May Boost Business ExposureCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comAdvertising is the key to success for any business, as people canít turn into customers if they donít know you exist and donít know how you can meet their needs. Traditional advertising, such as print and broadcast media has been around since a day or two after the invention of the printing press and following the birth of radio. Direct marketing could have been born with the Pony Express but despite all the years of using these types of advertising, the internet has cast a new light on marketing a business. While the cost of internet advertising may seem cheap considering the number of potential customers it can reach, for companies with a brick and mortar presence, advertising globally just may not make sense. If your business is located in Iowa and your advertising appears in England or in Africa, chances are the return on your advertising investment will not be what you expected. Internet advertising companies have done a better job as of late to offer more targeted advertising. But it's still not the best way to go. While internet businesses can gain tremendously from internet marketing, it can get expensive over time and many people do not open emails that appear to be advertising in nature and pop-up advertising windows usually just irritate people to the point that they wonít buy from you even if it is something they need in an emergency. The best advertising you can hope for is to have others send your advertising message to their friends, free, without being asked and without complaining. The use of viral marketing has been growing and simply involves having internet users distributing your advertising message of their own free will. One of first and most successful uses of viral marketing was when companies began offering free email accounts. A brief advertising message appears at the bottom of every email sent, usually including a link for the advertiser and whenever people signed up for the free email service, every email they sent out contained the message. This resulted in advertising being sent out by the user of the free email, every time they sent correspondence. Viral marketing of this type is typically either extremely cheap or free, with the email company receiving a percentage of any sales made as a result of the message included in emails. While the sales were based on the recipientsí clicking on the link in the email, the number of click was relatively small, but by percentage based on the number of emails sent improved as more people took advantage of the free email offers, the commission from the sales more than paid for hosting the email service. Finding a product on which to place your advertising that be given out free, and which in turn will be handed to others by the original recipient can be an easy means of reaching more people with a smaller investment. There is no limit to ideas focus on the problem and search for creative ways to sole them. The owner of the Body Shop used to drip scented oil on the sidewalks leading to her store to increase customer traffic. A Hundred-Fold-Life is in part about possibilities and never ending stream of answers to problems that will arise. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: Understanding The Real Cost Of Free WebsitesCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comThere are numerous offers on the internet that promise to provide you with a free website from which you can make a ton of money, selling their products or services. That’s right, at no cost to you, the company will accept you as a distributor for their products and give you a website and any sales that come from your site will result in a huge commission check. On top of that, if you can recruit more people to accept their free website, then you can receive a commission on their sales as well. All of this is free and sounds good on paper, but when reality sets in you will soon learn that there is no such thing as a free lunch, or website. Yes, most of these companies will give you a free website, a replication of their own site and it will be configured with your name or company name on the landing page. It will also track the visitors that place orders through your site and yes, they will pay the promised commission. The challenge for you is getting visitors to your specific website. This is when the free website begins to cost money. For sake of argument, consider a company sells vitamins and you are now a vitamin distributor for its brand. Chances are, you have joined a group of more than 100 other websites selling vitamins for the same company and you all have the same title on your website. A person searching for the company name may end up with a choice of 50 or more sites with the same name as a result of their search, and research shows that most user only look at the first 10, and in rare cases 20, of the top search results. The odds of a search making your site one of the top searches is extremely low so you will have to become involved in network and online marketing just to make your site standout. Additionally, if you did manage to recruit others into the program, you have added to the competition. Print advertising that includes your specific website name may work, but most internet savvy users know that anything past the “/” in a site name is usually meaningless. Your site’s name for tracking purposes is for instance, www.vitasales.com/urname and people only type in vitasales.com, they will end up at the companies main website. You did the advertising and will receive none of the financial benefit because the sale did not come from your site. You can spend more money by producing articles about the benefits of vitamins, with a signature link that includes your web address, but most free distribution articles are not picked up. Paying for distribution to a few hundred potential users increases the chance of them being used, and while the cost may be small, it will need to be recurring if you hope for any type of success. In the pursuit of your Hundred-Fold-Life many offers will come your way. Just remember to do your homework and check them out before you spend money even on something free. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Monday, November 12, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: The Most Popular Business BooksCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comCurrently in your local bookstore are a number of newly released books that can provide rich insight and glorious financial understanding of a variety of hot business topics. From the stock market to the supermarket, these books have hit a vein in the American public by enlightening them to subjects that heretofore seemed elusive and confounding. Here are a few of these successful books, and a little bit about why you might want to pick them up when you have a little extra money. Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets by William Bonner is a look at societal group think and why it's so important to forge your own path when it comes to investing in the stock market. Taking a rather bold and unusual stance against such safe investments as mutual funds, Bonner and his coauthor take a look at mass thinking and why it so seldom resembles sound investment strategy. Results That Last: Hardwiring Behaviors That Will Take Your Company to the Top by Quint Studer will be released sometime in October and promises an interesting look at what makes a business successful in the long run. Studer argues that a businesses success has little to do with products or service and everything to do with positive and exciting leadership. While a good product or innovative service may be the ticket to the top for a short while, it is Studer's intention to demonstrate that the companies that last the longest and stay at the top do so through strong management and his book provides proven leadership strategies. Your Portable Empire: How to Make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love by Pat O'Bryan is a tome dedicated to showing the average everyman how to create an online business that requires little day to day work to produce a flow of passive income. Without reading the book, it seems to be mostly geared toward the production of a website and the sales of informational e-books, and the salesmanship and strategies toward making these e-book websites a success. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss is a fascinating book by a Princeton lecturer who has found and put to use a number of secrets for living in the now, and not waiting for retirement to enjoy relaxation. Its strategies include how to retrain your supervisors into putting a higher value on results and production than actual presence, and how to trade a full time career for several short work bursts sprinkled with mini-retirements. A must have for those tired of living for the clock. These are just a handful of the interesting books at the top of the bestsellers lists. There are many more for those patient enough to peruse the stacks, read the reviews, and avoid judging a book by its cover. Read, and be filled up with knowledge. My personal Hundred-Fold-Life library has many Audio Books on business. I enjoy Audio Books for the simple reason that they save me time. I often do not have time to sit and read. What I do is listen to them on my ipod. In the car (it plays through the speakers) at lunch or when I'm working out. Find that Audio Book that will help you succeed just Click Here! About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, November 8, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: Successful Companies in the United StatesCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comWhen studying business and trying to get one of your own off the ground, one of the most important lessons you can learn comes not from a textbook but from observation. Nothing shows the young entrepreneur what works and what doesn’t by studying the most successful businesses and what they have done to reach their lofty heights. That doesn’t mean you should copy their business model from stem to stern, but the examination of their practices may give you some good ideas about how to launch, maintain, and progress with your company through the life of your career. The first company the wise entrepreneur should look at is Nike. The company is the largest sportswear provider in the world. It doesn’t matter what you’re trying to sell, though, be it sneakers or computers, there are lessons to be learned from Nike’s history and their continued success in the American marketplace. These lessons range from successful logo and motto (there are few among us who cannot identify the Nike swoosh or the motto Just Do It), to the determined drive that the company put forth in making sure they permeated the entire sports and fashion world. While Nike may be best known for sneakers, an enormous part of their profits and business model comes from sweatshirts, t-shirts, shorts, pants, hats, and jackets. Anything you can feasibly put the swoosh on, they’ve tried it. And through doing this, they’ve established themselves as the dominant force in the sportswear marketplace. Apple, Inc, is not only a wonderful company to look at when one considers those companies that are successful and have made a strong name for themselves in the marketplace, but they are a great example of a company that mastered the art of the comeback. At the start of the eighties, it was basically Apple and IBM in a race for first place. Thousands of homes all over America had Apple personal computers on their desks. But just a few scant years later, the PC was king, Microsoft was everything, and Apple was forgotten. Though they maintained a place in the marketplace with mildly successful software applications, they didn’t break through again until the late nineties with a product called the iMac (I’m using one now). This computer was revolutionary in virtually no way, other than its marketing campaign and its exterior design. With its translucent, colorful shell, the iMac went on to become a major success, and give Apple its first profitable days in five years. This was of course followed by the enormously successful iPod and iPhone, and today Apple is in a better market position than ever before. Studying companies such as Apple and Nike (and thousands of others) is important for a variety of reasons. Not only can these companies relate terrific stories of how to succeed in today’s world, but they can be mightily inspirational for the up and coming entrepreneur, looking to fulfill their Hundred-Fold-Life. Books are plentifully available, and recommended for anyone wanting to compete in today’s America. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Monday, November 5, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life Team: Staying Organized In Your Home OfficeCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comNothing makes working from a home office more frustrating than not being able to find anything when you need it. While most business owners see themselves as being busy all the time, some of your time has to be spent in staying organized. A Hundred-fold-Life runs a lot smoother when you are organized. If not daily, at least once a week you have to set aside time to put everything in its place. Most mechanics have a rule that there is a place for everything and everything needs to be in its place. Many people have to find the time to do things over, but seldom have the time to do it right the first time. Usually because they can’t find a file, they will have to recreate it, which will take a lot more time than the five seconds it might have taken to put it in its right place to begin with. Being able to find the staples when your stapler runs out can save a precious few minutes you will spend going through the desk drawers, or worse going to the store to buy more, knowing you have a new box somewhere in the office. The amount of office supplies you maintain in the home office will depend on the business as well as your budget. Regardless, don’t let your desk become a storage area for your supplies. Use an old dresser of bookcase on which to keep your office supplies, while keeping only a small stash on your desk or in the desk drawers. When you put supplies in a storage area, make sure the tags are visible for easy identification. To keep your office running smooth, consider your desk the focal point of the office. All of the equipment that is frequently used needs to be within easy reach of your desk chair. If you have to get up every few minutes to answer the phone, grab a fax, or check the printer, you are wasting several precious minutes everyday reaching for things. Files that you are currently working on should be in easy reach, whether in a file cabinet next to your desk or in an upright file holder on your desk or adjacent table. Ideally, you can pull all the files you intend to conquer that day and have them ready to work on at any time during the day. Files you are not going to touch should be put in their proper place so they can be easily found when they are needed. While it may seem easier, especially for caffeine addicts to have their coffee pot near their desk, it is a bad idea overall. First, too much coffee can be bad for the health as well as a contributing factor to extra bathroom breaks. However, the primary reason is the potential for a damaging coffee spill by drinking coffee at your desk. Everyone needs to take a break from their work periodically, and having the coffee pot in a separate room can force you to take a few minutes to clear your head. Remember a Hundred-Fold-Life is an organized life. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Friday, November 2, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: Everyone Must Have This, Do Not Pass This UpCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comI can't stress enough the importance for everyone to have this. Hundreds of Thousands already do, do not miss this. I don't care what your beliefs are "well I do really" but this is an Universal Truth that will enrich your life. 1. The Secret By Rhonda Byrne The Secret is released to the world! The groundbreaking feature length movie that revealed the great mystery of the universe, The Secret, is HERE an audiobook, and everything listeners have ever wanted - unlimited joy, health, money, relationships, love, and more can be theirs... Category: Personal Growth | Success | Health & Fitness | Self Help | Philosophy LISTEN TO AN AUDIO SAMPLE OF "The Secret" HERE This simple truth has changed many lives including mine,and has helped me to enjoy my Hundred-Fold-Life. Isn't it Your turn? About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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Thursday, November 1, 2007
Hundred-Fold-Life-Team: Starting A Home Business With Your SpouseCopyright © Douglas Miller Hundred-Fold-Life http://www.ClixGo.comWhile on the surface this may seem like a good idea to achieving your Hundred-Fold-Life. After all you will both share the same goal of making money for the family, you are used to each others little quirks and if the business is based out of your home, the cost of getting to work can be a great savings on the family budget. However, two people learning to live together as man and wife can be tough enough without spending all day, everyday together. Before joining hands and taking the plunge into the work at home pool, you will need to take a hard look at some of the potential obstacles. The first item on the list of possible problems is the fact that you will be spending almost every waking hour with your spouse. While compatibility in a relationship can hold it together just fine, you must determine if that compatibility can withstand another eight hours a day. Try first to do a day or two doing charity work were you would both work together. If that goes well or bad it will give you a glimpse into what your work life may be. Making the change from business partner to husband and wife every day can be a tough transition. You will not be able to leave all of your work problems at the job and home problems at the door. Make sure your goals for the company are in line with those of your spouse. By sitting down and discussing the goals of the business you may learn that your idea of what to expect from the business may be contrary to what your spouse is looking to achieve. You may want to eventually expand and franchise the business while your spouse wants to simply make enough money for the family to live comfortably. If your goals are not aligned, your business will probably fail and so might the marriage. One of the most important aspects of entering into a business partnership with a spouse is having clearly defined roles in the business. Determine up front who will perform what function such as accounting or who will handle incoming orders and packing for shipping. Look at the strengths and plan individual roles that best complement the strengths of each partner. It is not a good thing for one partner to believe that while you are the boss at work, they are boss at home. Resist the urge to let customers know your business partner is also your spouse. While this may seem unimportant, it can possibly cause a customer to hold back if they have a complaint against your partner. You also need to deal with business issues in a professional and constructive manner. You should never personally attack your partner for a business decision. Instead, address the situation and ways to fix it instead of addressing your partner. Never mix work and family issues when on the job. You need to have a set schedule for work and the rest of time can be spent on family issues. Trying to mix the two will almost guarantee failing at both, and that is no way to live your Hundred-Fold-Life. About the Author:Douglas Miller is a retired Fire Service Captain now making a living working at home. His company Hundred-Fold-Life is not just a name but also belief.----------------------------------------------------------------- To find the best home based business ideas and opportunities so you can work at home visit: http://www.ClixGo.com-----------------------------------------------------------------
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