Are you starting a home-based business?

Are you thinking about starting a home-based business? Before you part with your hard-earned money, keep in mind that home based business schemes have been around for years so do some investigating before you sign your home-based business affiliate agreement.

 

The popularity of many home-based business opportunities on the Internet is due largely to low startup costs and the lure of easy money.

 

Before you sign on the dotted line ask these few basic questions  before you commit to any home based business opportunity,

 

What are the Startup Costs?
How much are the start up costs for the home based business opportunity you're considering? Are there ongoing costs? If so, what will they entail and how much are they? One of the major causes of home-based business failue is due to not projecting the costs and expenses of operating a home-based business.

 

This is especially important if you are tyring to start on a shoestring.  Start up costs can be deceiving and often a home-based business can cost more to start than it may appear. The attraction of the initial low startup cost may vanish into thin air once you find out just how much is not included in your home-based business package.

 

Is there any Traning and Support Available?
The training and support offered by a company can make a huge difference in your success. Is it live training or is it Memorex? What I mean is can you attend live training sessions and have your questions personally answered by a qualified instructor or are you handed a bunch of books and CD's before being left alone to figure it out by yourself? What about your  up line, Do they good ethics and leadership skills? Are they dedicated to helping you succeed? Many times a quick search on Google will reveal quite a bit about the people and company included in your business plans.

 

What are the Rules for Advertising and Promotion?
Many home business opportunities have rules regarding how and where you can advertise. In some cases you may have strict limitations, and in others you may be able to do more or less whatever you want. In any case, it is very important to know and understand what you can and cannot do. For example, the company names are often copyrighted and/or trademarked and therefore you are not free to use them in your advertising without permission.

 

What is the Realistic Income Potential?
Read your income potential disclaimers. While a company may tell you hat is possible they won't make any income guarantees. They will however give examples of the best case scenario which is usually the exception to the rule. What is your product or service? Is it based on a need or is it predicated on a "wish list" want? Before you invest your time and money into any home-based business opportunity, you should understand how much you could realistically expect to make.

 

How Long Have They Been in Business?
One rule of thumb when evaluating a possible home-based business opportunity is longevity. A company who has been in business has an established track record. Good or bad there is a paper trail you can follow. By using Google to perform a little due dilligence you can quickly find both the positives and negatives about both the business and it's key players. Stay away from Pre-Launch and "Revolutionary" startup home-based business opportunities. Very few of thise ever make anyone other than the founders any money. Don't lose sight of your objective, which is to build a business that will provide you with an income over the years and not just a quick fix.

 

What Products or Services are Involved?
High quality goods and services that fill needs will attract an audience over a greater length of time thansome flash in the pan fad. Do you remember the pet rock?

 

If the product is a consumable, what is the reorder rate? Consumable products offer the home-based business owner a greater profit potential because people will reorder and buy more. Non-consumable products are sold less often and have a very limited re-order potential so you need to constantly go out and find more customers.

 

Is your home-based business opportunity customer based or distributor based?
If you are considering an MLM home based business then you are most likely looking at a distributor based business. A distributor based business really means that there are no real customers. Think about it for a minute. A distributor based business has no real customers - only distributors. Like you, they are only interested in making money. If your product doesn't make them any money they drop you like a hot rock and move on to another flavor or the week. Distributors have no loyalty!

 

A business based on a sollid foundation of customers is more stable. Customers are consumers of your products. They like, want and need your products. Fill their needs with a high quality product at an affordable price coupled with great customer service and you will build a steady income stream for the life of your home-based business.

 

Are There Quotas or Minimum Inventory Requirements?
Often times the real money for the companies involved comes from your required auto-ship. If you are required by the company to buy a large quantity of products on a regular basis to qualify for certain commission levels then it can be difficult to maintain the business.

 

Are the Products or Services Affordable?
The majority of the population must be able to afford the products or services you are offering. Before you begin your home-based business journey check the prices of your competetion. Know who is offering similar product and know what their prices are. Do some market research.

 

Creating a home-based business provided many benefits and opportunities however along with those opportunities come certain challenges. Be informed before you buy.

 

 

Work for the man or work from home - You decide.

When you work from home look at all you have to give up. I say that to myself every winter day when the snow is falling and it's 5AM. Just look at the price I have to pay to work from home. I say that to myself at least 10 times before I roll over and bury my head in the pillow for another 40 winks.

 

Winter days are my lazy days. I remember in the fall of 1993 it started to snow and it kept on snowing. I was snowed in pretty much all winter, snow drifts to the second floor. Thankfully my neighbor came over with his front end loader and cleared my driveway. Good thing my trip to the office was just down the stairs, past the fireplace (toss another log on the fire) and into "the office".

 

Like I said, you give up a lot when you work from home.

 

Actually starting a "work from home" business is not for everyone as there are some trade-offs. When you for an employer you have benefits like 401K, paid vacations, sick days and medical insurance.

 

Those perks are what used to keep people tied to a company job however times  have changed.

 

Now those who are employed by others are finding their paid vacations may be a little shorter, sick days fewer, you now pay at least a portion of your medical insurance and your 401K company contributions just aren't there. Also the new trend in cross training, teaching you other jobs just incase Debbie calls in sick that day ad they end up short handed. What cross training really means is that in addition to doing the job you were hired you are now doing additional work without any additional pay.

 

Changes in the employer/employee enviroment have definately impacted the growth of the work from home business opportunity industry. Recent studies have shown that more than 50% of US households are actively engaged in a work from home business either to supplement or replace their current streams of income.

 

The work from home business arean offers many attractive benefits and features. Work from home opportunities offer the advantage of low business start up costs. lower operating costs and tax advantages.

 

Work from home business also offer flexibility. As an example when you are employed by a company you have to be at work at a certain time. If you are late they dock your time. Traditionally you receive 2 short breaks during te day and an hour for lunch.

 

In a work from home environment you can pretty much work on your schedule. You decide when to take a break. You decide when to have lunch and you decide when to quit.

 

I think the benefits of a work from home environment far outweigh the negatives, how about you?

 

RH Sterling

Case Statement Copywriter

Certified Veretekk Trainer

TriVita Business Owner 13040262

 

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- "Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value" Albert Einstein -

 

Strategic Internet Marketing The Time Is Now!

Strategic Internet marketing is a systematic method to market your goods and serivices effectively on the Internet. In late February Thomas Prendergast, CEO Veretekk marketing released a new strategic internet marketing system to the public. The system called Its Good Businesshas been under development by Prendergast for the past 8 years before being released.

 

The remaining details of Its Good Business were finalized when Prendergast met with long time friend and Marketing Master, Al Gonzales and the results have been astounding.

 

There are several key features that sets the Its Good Business opportunity apart from anything else on the market today.

 

Training - The Its Good Business opportunity features live training classes on building your marketing skills. As an Its Good Busines marketing team member you will learn how to properly construct web pages, HTML, blogs, press releases and marketing material. Its Good Business will even teach you the art and craft of effective searh engine optimization (SEO).

 

The team of Its Good Business uses the strategic Internet marketing power of the most powerful marketing system on the Internet today - Veretekk.

 

Using the power of Veretekk combined with the unique power of TriVita which offers the only opportunity on the Internet that allows you to buy paying customers customers in a dynamic one of a kind cooporative marketing model.

 

TriVita is a 9 year old, debt free company that sells and manufactures physician formulated neutraceuticals. You have probably seen and heard their informercials on both radio and television. Classified as an MLM company however TriVita is a unique hybrid that allows you to purchase their customers to build your business. No other company on the Internet allows you to do this because traditional MLM companies would be in violation of their distributor agreement. The only similarity that TriVita has with a traditional MLM company is their unilevel compensation plan. All customers on your front line pay you an unheard of 21% commission rate. When you buy a customer from TriVita those customers are your's for life. Just one more thing... TriVita actually markets to them for you!

 

The Its Good Business concept of true team building where members help other members to succeed working in concert with TriVita produces an opportunity with zero tolerance for failure.

 

If you are serious about building a successful business then I highly recommend that you attend a free Its Good Business presentation held every Saturday at 1pm Pacific at http://itsgoodbusiness.net

 

Its Good Businessis strategic Internet marketing at the speed of thought.

 

RH Sterling

Case Statement Copywriter

Certified Veretekk Trainer

Office: 570.972.1245

Private: 570.655.0522

Skype: rhsterling

Business email: qurox@veretekk.com

Personal email: robert@rhsterling.com

 

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- "Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value" Albert Einstein -

 

Vitamin D - Vitamin D Deficiency - Vitamin D Facts

Awareness of vitamin D deficiency first appeared in the early part of the 20th century. It is described in medical writings as rickets. Vitamin D deficiency caused rickets which is a condition in which the body fails to mineralize bone. Due to actions to fortify milk and cereal with vitamin D caused rickets to become a relatively rare disease.

 

Exposure to the sun is critical to sufficient vitamin D and until modern times, human beings spent a great deal of time outdoors. Our species originated in the subtropical regions so we naturally got enough sun exposure to generate sufficient vitamin D, but as man migrated to less temperate climes this changed. The shift from a society that was based in agriculture to an increasingly industrialized society we spent more time indoors in factories and less time in the sun.

 

Today many of us work in buildings with glazed windows, we wear sun block and drive everywhere in cars. Our time spent outdoors in the sunlight is very limited and covered with sun screen lotion. Any sun block with an SPF above 8 will block the UV rays necessary for vitamin D conversion.

 

If you live in a region that runs from just below New York City west to northern California the sun is only strong enough to trigger the vitamin D conversion between May and September meaning a large percentage of the population is at risk much of the year for vitamin D deficiency. However just because you live in the northern portions of the continent that you are deficient. Visit with your Doctor, discuss your concerns and have your vitamin D levels tested before beginning a vitamin D supplemental program.

 

Vitamin D deficiency symptoms
Vitamin D deficiency is often characterized by muscle pain, weak bones/fractures, low energy, fatigue, lowered immunity, depression and sleep irregularities. Intestinal concerns such as IBS, renal problems and Crohn’s disease may caused by a vitamin D deficiency, they can neither absorb nor adequately convert the vitamin D.

 

As we age, our bodies slowly lose the ability to utilize vitamin D properly and a process that lowers our calcium absorption rates occurs. This creates a higher risk of osteoporosis, particularly in post-menopausal women.

 

Researchers are not sure how sex hormones affect vitamin D conversion however females seem to have a harder time stimulating the mechanism that builds bone tissue when their estrogen levels are reduced.Calcium is clearly an important co-factor to vitamin D and may lose efficacy if vitamin D is deficient or estrogen levels are low as vitamin D appears to be a critical factor in bone health.

 

Vitamin D and weight loss
Have you seen the new television commercials launched by the American Dairy Council? Some studies have shown that weight loss does occur with an increase in calcium intake, while others appear to refute this. Since vitamin D is directly involved in calcium absorption, it stands to reason that vitamin D is also a factor in how the body regulates weight.

 

Moreover, people who have a reduced capacity to mobilize vitamin D often weigh more and have more body fat than those with full capacity. In the past 20 years multiple studies have shown a correlation between higher blood levels of vitamin D and leaner body mass.

 

Vitamin D and cancer
Evidence is mounting that vitamin D may protect against some cancers, particularly breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colorectal cancers. In fact, over 60 years of research have shown vitamin D supplementation or sunlight-induced vitamin D conversion to be associated with lower incidence of cancers.

 

Ways to prevent Vitamin D deficiency
Vitamin D deficiency may be prevented or treated by following a few simple guidelines. Eating a healthy diet he best way to protect yourself from any deficiency however often times even the most well thought out diet is lacking in some nutrients due to the source, freshness or method by which your food is processed. There is a controversy over whether our primary source of vitamin D should be the sun, diet, or supplements. Which combination is best for you depends on many variables, including your age, nutritional status, and geographic location. In a world where so many of us are at risk of vitamin D deficiency, we recognize each of these sources as valuable.

 

Eat a diet rich in whole foods and complex carbohydrates. Nutrient-dense, fatty fish like mackerel and sardines are good sources of vitamin D. Eggs, dairy products, and some organ meats (like liver) are good natural sources of Vitamin D.

 

Supplementation should include a top-quality multivitamin every day to fill any nutritional gaps in your diet. Your supplement should have a minimum dose of 200 IU of vitamin D but to safe it should not exceed 1000 IU. I highly  recommend VitaDaily AM/PM™.

 

VitaDaily AM/PM™ is not your typical vitamin. TriVita has added whole food concentrates to an already complete multivitamin formula for super nourishment and easy absorption. Organic fruits and vegetables add extra antioxidant protection.

 

Allow yourself limited, unprotected sun exposure in the early morning and late afternoon but no more than 15 minutes per day if you have a light complexion and no more than 40 minutes if you have darker skin. This is particularly important between the months of May and September if you live in northern regions.

 

If you think you may be suffering from vitamin D deficiency, you should see your Dr and have your blood tested. This is especially important for women over 50. Vitamin D may be one of the key elements that is an important part of maintaining optimum health.

 

RH Sterling
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"Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value." Albert Einstein

Internet Marketing; Highway to Hell

How does a search for an Internet marketing business take a wrong turn from the information super highway onto the highway to hell?

 

One minute you are cruising a long and all of a sudden a sign pops up telling you to turn here and the next thing you know you are on the highway to hell jam packed with billboards, neon signs and scary flash videos that try to lure you with words like “Pre Launch”, “Get Rich Quick”, “MLM”, “Mega Millions” and more

 

Where do you go and what do you do? I mean it isn’t as if you have a street map or a GPS onboard as you try to navigate around these financial detours. The best thing to do is lift your foot off of the gas pedal and cruise right by without being pulled over.

 

Learn the warning signs.

 

Pre Launch is a sure sign that this is a “ground floor” opportunity. Pre Launch also means that this is uncharted territory and that they are looking for guinea pigs to get into the program for free and create a lot of hype for them and then they try to get you to buy. It is a well known fact that very few, if any ever make a nickel on a Pre Launch. Tighten your seatbelt and drive right by.

 

Wouldn’t we all like to “get rich quick”? Honestly who would say no to have your bank account stuffed to the brim overnight without doing any work? Let’s not kid each other “We all would love it if it were just that easy.” The truth is that if you look under the hood of these programs you will either find that is “all show and no go” or the “man behind the curtain” is no wizard. This is another drive right by.

 

The 3 magic letters, MLM have people jumping like frogs from one lily pad to another in search of the next latest and greatest flavor of the week. This is not to say that all MLM companies are bad, some have excellent products, great reputations and a few even have some longevity however this is where the road gets narrow and windy. There are no guard rails here and if you aren’t careful you could end up in a ditch.

 

Here are some things that you want to be on the look out for as you travel the Internet marketing highway to hell.

 

Distributors – A distributor is nothing more than another hungry salesperson. You may recruit them but will you keep them? On the average the lifespan of a distributor in your MLM home business organization is about 12 weeks more or less. It all depends on if they are making any money. No money, no distributor. Distributors are salespeople not customers. In an organization full of distributors you have no customers. You build relationships with your customers that produce results. Customers have loyalty – distributors do not.

 

Shift now into a lower gear as you climb the hill of “Constant Recruiting” as you attempt to dodge potholes in your organization. Almost out of gas you pull into the next “Leads station” and fill’er up with high test leads only to discover that 97% of your leads spilled all over the ground.

 

That is the way it is with typical MLM business – recruit, recruit, recruit and always buy leads.

 

If it sounds exhausting, it is.

 

The majority of people fail with this type of program.

 

There is a better way than recruiting distributors and buying leads. It is called the Its Good Business cooperative business plan which uses the principles of strategic Internet marketing with the power of the TriVita to buy customers to create streams of long term residual income.

 

Long term residual income is the type of income that we all wish to build. Long term residual income is not just for our needs today but also to sustain us for the days to come.

 

Is long term residual a part of your long term plans? If not it should be. Don’t have your long term plans interrupted for lack of long term residual income. Get on the right road…. All roads to Its Good Business starts right here pull in now and leave the highway to hell behind.

 

Visit http://itsgoodbusiness.net Complete real-time information and map included.

 

You really can get there from here, afterall Its Good Business

 

RH Sterling
Case Statement Copywriter
Skype: rhsterling