By: Tammy Embrich

It may come as a surprise to you that you can effectively advertise any type of work at home business on an extremely tight budget. It may come as an even bigger surprise that you can advertise with no cost involved at all.

There are many effective promotion techniques that marketers use everyday that are comparatively easy…even for the not so savvy. Advertising is the lifeblood of your business. The Internet houses a vast array of free advertising tools that have proven to yield the best results time and time again.

Ready to get started advertising your work at home business? Below you will find some reliable advertising techniques for your use. These are ten of the most popular ones. Most of these are absolutely free…while a few will have minimal fees.

1. Post on free networking forums using a signature with your niche keywords.

For Example: If you have a work at home website, use work at home. Or, if you have a work at home mom website…use work at home moms.

2. Start a blog. Blogs are currenlty all the rage on the net these days. With a blog, you can either use a free blog such as blogger.com or a paid one such as wordpress.org.

With a paid blog, you will need a domain name and hosting. After you have your blog up and running, with a few good-quality posts…start blog rolling (link exchanging) with other bloggers. It would also be in your best interest to start commenting on blogs that share in a similiar niche.

3. Write articles that relate to your work at home business and submit them to article directories, message forums, and ezines. Make for sure to consistently attach your resource box along with a link to one or more of your businesses or websites at the end of all your written articles.

4. Participate in forum contests where the administrator offers free advertisement as the prize. There are many forum owners that offer these type of contests.

5. Watch out for website owners that offer big advertising discounts and specials. You can usually find these advertising specials on message boards, or the websites themselves. You can also do a search on Google.com for this.

6. Another good idea would be to offer to help moderate at various forums in exchange for an advertising deal from the forum owner. You may be surprised at how many forum and website owners that would make a deal with you.

7. Get listed in web directories. There are lots of website directories that are free to list your work at home business. You will find a few here and there that require fees for this. You will also find some that require a reciprocal link back.

8. Sign up for ezines and news letters. You will find a lot of these that you can list your business for free just for signing up. All it takes is a little bit of your time, but the rewards can be substantial.

9. Create some business cards and flyers for your business. This can be done with your computer and printer. All you would need is the software to create the cards and flyers and the paper they are printed on. Vista Print.com offers free business cards with a minimal fee for shipping and processing. They also offer free logo design. Or you can have them printed at Office Max or any business supply store that offers this type of service. The cost for this service varies.

10. Word Of Mouth: This is the best advertising technique there is…and best of all, it’s absolutely free. Conversing with friends and acquaintances about your business yields big rewards. Tell your fiends, and they will tell their freinds…and so on.

These are ten advertising methods that will not shrink your pocket book. Most of these will just require some of your time and they are quite effective…use them to your advantage.

Written By Tammy Embrich

Tammy is an Internet marketer and is the owner of Work At Home Opportunities and Real Work At Home Jobs.

Tammy’s two work at home websites focus on free telecommute job leads, articles, and more.

By: Trent Brownrigg

The amount of people deciding to work at home has been on the rise for years and it increases much more with each new year. There’s about a million reasons why you many want, or need, to work at home but here are five of the top reasons I have heard people give for deciding to work at home…

1) Gas Prices - It’s no secret to anyone with a car that the gas prices these days are ridiculously high. When you have to commute an hour to work each way, you can go broke just paying for gas. If you work at home you don’t have to worry about paying for gas just to get to work.

2) Pay Yourself - You aren’t limited by an hourly wage or yearly salary. The amount of money you make rests almost entirely within yourself and you can virtually write your own checks. With all the ways there are to make money online, you can do many things to make a living working at home and there are few limitations on the size of the income you can earn.

3) Freedom - When you work at home you have the freedom of working a schedule that you set. Don’t like to get up early? Fine just start working later in the day. Want to go to the beach today? Just pack your lap top and get some work done while soaking in the sun.

4) Family - One of the best benefits of working at home is that you get to spend much more time with your family. You aren’t away all day or night working at the office. You can finally have the quality time you have always wanted with your family.

5) Necessity - There are plenty of reasons why it is simply necessary to work at home. Maybe you have a disability that prevents you from going to a regular job. You might have to be at home to take care of the kids. It’s possible there aren’t any good jobs in your area. Or any of about a thousand other reasons why it is necessary for you to work at home.

That is by no means and exhaustive list of the reasons for working at home. There are countless reasons why working at home might be for you and it’s possible that none of your reasons are even on the above list. That’s ok. We each have our own reasons for doing things. What’s important is that you have made the decision to improve your quality of life and start doing something that you enjoy!

About The Author:

Trent Brownrigg is a successful internet marketer, blogger, and online business mentor. His passion is helping people work at home and make money online.
He will also teach you everything you need to know about home business.

By: Tammy Embrich

Any successful online business owner will tell you that it takes time, hard work, motivation, and constant perseverance to make a home business work. If you don’t apply these elements, then you are doomed for failure…it’s that simple. Money will not just fall into your lap. You will not make money overnight.

Still, there are people that sadly believe that you can set up a business online and then forget it and the money will roll in. NOT!

You have to work, and work hard at your business to make it a success. That means spending time everyday promoting it, working hard at keeping your customers up to date and happy, applying the goals you have set forth for your direct selling business, managing your time well around your family’s needs, and finally…remaining focused and motivated with your business.

The largest obstacle at succeeding in any direct selling business is lack of interest and motivation, You can have loads of time to devote to your business and you can have lots of nice products…but if you’ve lost your passion for it, you’re not likely to succeed. A sad fact, but true!

Ask yourself the following questions:

1. Do I love the products I’m selling?

2. Do I personally know and use the products I’m selling?

3. Do I love my customers?

4. Do I love to sell?

5. Do I enjoy what I’m doing enough to do it for the long haul?

If you’ve answered “yes” to all the above questions, then you’re on the right track. Your home business is your lively hood. Therefore, you need to literally use and have a real passion for the products you are selling. You have to love everything about what you are doing on a daily basis.

Be enthusiastic about your business and your products. Know your products. Establish a friendship with your customers and stay in contact with them. Get to know them, and above all, make for sure your customers are your number one priority. Remember…A happy customer will always come back for more of your products.

If you are someone that has lost interest in what you are doing, then begin thinking of ways to reinvent your business, or go into an alternative business that you really have a passion for. If you are someone that would like to start a home business…go back and ask yourself the questions above. Take them seriously, as they will be your key to success.

Article Written By: Tammy Embrich

Tammy is an Internet Marketer and is the
Owner of: Work At Home Opportunities
And Owner of: Real Work At Home Jobs

Tammy’s two WAH websites focus on free telecommute job leads, articles, and more.

By: Balwinder

“What makes a great web page?”

People ask me this all the time, though they often encounter
difficulty boiling the question down to so few words.

Every serious website operator wants to know how to create
and maintain the best possible website that makes them the
most money and builds the largest subscriber base!

The following “commandments” represent the ideals towards
which every new or existing website should strive.

1. Thou shalt have a Purpose

Clearly define the site’s purpose and ensure all content
(pages, graphics and text) tightly focus on that purpose.
Discard all extraneous material… only give people exactly
what they came for!

2. Thou shalt be Lightweight

Use only small, fast loading graphics. If you must use large
graphics use thumbnails and image slicing to diminish the
size of every file to less than 12-15kb. Use standard
optimized gif’s and jpg’s and avoid anything that requires
the user to download a “plug-in” to view your content.

3. Thou shalt Load Fast

Each and every page on your site should weigh in under
30-60KB total, including graphics and navigation.

If your pages must be larger, such as the case with long,
1-page sales letters, make sure the top part of the page
loads fast so surfers can read your headline and
introduction while the rest of your sales letter loads
further down and out of site.

4. Thou shalt not use False Code

Use only html. Never use java, xml, dhtml or other forms of
code that require a surfer to keep their browser set up
“correctly” to accommodate your page. This is especially
true when using “cloaked” pages that require the use of
javascript in order to work correctly.

5. Thou shalt respect the Search Engines

If you want search engine traffic, use whole web pages that
don’t incorporate frames. Search engines get confused trying
to read content from most frames pages because the designers
don’t set them up with the proper information in the
correct frame.

6. Love thy Surfers and Visitors

Design for “last year’s” technology so surfers using 56K
modems can download and use the site quickly and easily. If
you design only for people with high-speed Internet
connections (DSL and cable) you have eliminated 85%+ of your
potential market.

7. Thou shalt not Annoy

Use only stationary text and graphical layout elements. No
Scrolling text, marquees, or animations of any kind,
including rollover buttons.

This “eye candy” steals valuable bandwidth and adds little
to a site’s main purpose, especially for returning visitors
who just want information, not a carnival sideshow.

8. Thou shalt Not Scroll Left or Right

Design your pages so they never force a visitor to scroll
left or right, no matter what the resolution settings on
their monitor. Sites that read “best viewed at 800 x 600″
really say “look at it my way because I don’t care about
your preferences or limitations.”

9. Thou shalt stay Consistent

Include a standard navigational structure on every page.
Though it may mean a serious challenge for the designer,
users should only need to click once to find every major
section of a site.

Also, this includes using standard link colors in all text
links. Blue: hyperlink; Purple: visited hyperlink; Red:
active hyperlink.

10. Thou shalt Know Thy Traffic

Use a site-wide statistics program that enables you to
determine what brings someone to the site, where they go
once they arrive, and when and where they leave.

This critical information helps with marketing efforts as
well as identifying parts of the site that need tweaking or
adjustment to help you increase sales. If everybody bails
from your site at the same page, knowing this can help you
change the page so people go from “bail mode” to “buy mode”!

Article Written By: Balwinder

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By: Kamal

You may know a few vampires. You know - the people that seem to suck the energy out of a room when they walk in leaving everyone feeling depressed. You probably also know people who, “light up a room” when they walk in. You might describe someone you just met as “rubbing you the wrong way” if you found yourself irritated with them and you just didn’t know why.

As someone trying to market a small business, your #1 job is to make your customers and prospects feel good about doing business with you. Sure, you are going to use every marketing tool in your disposal, and you understand that people ALWAYS buy on emotion and then justify with logic.

Everybody who’s not insane enough to be locked away or has some other mental pathology is, to some degree, “role adaptive”. Observe how your own behavior changes when you are talking to a toddler, or when you are talking with your friends, or talking on the phone with a sales person. You will notice that your voice, body language, inflection, word choice, pace, all change. You take on different roles that are more or less appropriate for the situation.

Human beings, as a species, have survived so long by being social. Compared to large predators that might have eaten our ancestors - we don’t have sharp claws or fangs, can’t run fast, don’t climb well, and have poor night vision. The two things that we have going for us are living well in groups and making tools.

Think back to that person that rubbed you the wrong way. You may not be able to place what it was about them. We respond to very subtle and unconscious social clues like body language and tone of voice. We respond very efficiently and very quickly on an emotional level. What’s on the inside shows on the outside event when we aren’t consciously aware of it.

An experiment was conducted where women of varying relative attractiveness were sent to draw samples of blood from guys. The men didn’t know that the blood was tested for testosterone levels – to see how sexually ‘turned on’ the guys were.

Two major observations were made: 1. Guys get turned on by being in the presence of attractive women on a hormonal level.

2. The female researchers could accurately predict the guy’s testosterone levels just based on their body language and behavior. Keep in mind, the guys weren’t in a bar trying to pick women up – this was a clinical setting.

The lesson is: people are generally very good at sniffing out what you’re up to. We train from birth to know what people are feeling – anger, deceit, euphoria. We also know that generally people are more comfortable being around people they are like. People form clubs and interest groups or, in extreme cases, become bigots.

What’s the marketing lesson? You, and everybody who’s involved in your business, must be convinced to the depth of their being that you are going to deliver on your promises. You must be enthusiastic about what you sell, or you can’t expect your customers to be. You don’t want to totally mismatch a customer by being happy if they are angry, but you want to gradually move them to a happy place.

You must communicate intentionally. Do you yell at your employees and then send them out to serve your customers? Do you get angry with your customers? Do you show up sleepy and lethargic? Think of emotion like a virus, you can pass it to your employees, and they can pass it to your customers.

What would your business be like if your customers just emotionally lit up every time they saw you? If every time your customers deal with you they get a shot of happy, they are going to want to deal with you again. They are also more likely to refer more business to you.

Take a close look at how you and your employees come off to your customers. You may have to do some training to get out of bad habits – but it will pay off in bigger profits.

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