I receive Paul Schlegel’s Work At Home Truth emails and generally find them quite useful. Today’s message is about a particular system that is out, eMarketing Online System. I’ve not reviewed that system personally, so cannot render judgement on it. My purpose in sharing about the review with you is that Paul uses it as a case study to point out the red flags to watch out for in looking at any work from home program.
Do your home work
If you are looking for online business or work opportunities, you need to learn to do some research. Here are a couple of quick tips.
1. Google: The quickest method is to do a search for the name of the system on Google or another search engine. However, when taking this approach, be sure to check to see if the review is actually a sales pitch. There are many review sites that are only providing a supposed review when in reality they are an affiliate site trying to sell you on the system. If the article you are reading includes a link to the sales page for the product, it’s a sales page disguised as a review.
2. IMReportCard: Check to see if the system/product is listed on IMReportCard. This is a site that contains basic info about systems and persons, but each page also includes reviews from readers. You can get some really detailed information quite easily using this site.
Need more info? Go back and check out the WorkAtHome review article for those all important red flags. Here’s the first one, and it’s the one that most people fall for. Don’t believe the “As seen on” claims. It may have been seen on those sites or TV channels as a paid advertisement.
However, finding good graphics to use can sometimes be a problem. If you’ve taken a photo yourself or created some graphics, you can use them with abandon because they are yours. You own the copyright automatically.
Image via Wikipedia
That’s the crux of the issue: copyright. If you are serious about your business, you do not want to have anyone coming after you for copyright violations. So, if you haven’t taken the photos or created the graphics yourself, what do you do? Read more…
I want to introduce you to my friend Tamara Patzer.
Drawing from her years of experience in successfully creating multiple streams of income working online, she established MOM – Mentor Online Magazine. I invite you to click here to sign up for a subscription to her new online magazine. Just watch the video below to see if you feel that Tami might have useful information for you. I believe she does.
MOM’s founder: An adventure from the JOB to Online Entrepreneur
First, I’d like to introduce myself to you. I am a 53-year-old college educated mother who spent the majority of my life as a single mother of three children. I often consider myself a late bloomer, but that is only partly true. I graduated from high school a year early and went to college, but made a life choice that slowed my path to success by about 15 years. I got married at age 19, had a baby at 20 and was divorced at 22. By age 22, I was a high school graduate with a year of college, a 2-year-old and low self-esteem.
After a cold winter in my hometown in Oregon, I took my daughter on a cross-country Greyhound bus trip with less than $50 to in my pocket to join my parents who had moved to the west coast of Florida. There, I found a minimum wage job and worked hard. I liked Florida, but within two years my mother died and my father went back to Oregon. I was alone. No support system. No real friends. After supporting my daughter on my own, I met the father of my two sons and spend a turbulent few years balancing a bad relationship with a teenager and two babies born 17 months apart.
By the time I was in my early 30s, I knew I had to go back to school if I was ever going to make more than $7 an hour. I went to Eckerd College’s Program for Experience Learners and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and Business in 1997. I started working as a newspaper editor and during that time, I also earned a master’s degree in Mass Communications and Instructional Technology. So began my job juggling to earn more to make ends meet. I was a newspaper editor and college professor. At times I worked full-time as an editor, and drove hundreds of miles each week to teach at three different university campuses. One year I drove 65,000 miles. I was tired.
Did I say I was tired? I was exhausted. I started asking myself why? Why am I working so hard? What am I working for? Is it supposed to be this difficult? I needed my mother, but she was gone. I needed a mentor, wise advisor and friend. Over the years, there have been many women and men who stepped up and provided me with support, encouragement and guidance to help me move forward. In future issues, I will share more of my adventures and insights about these remarkable mentors who have helped me and will also help you, too. Recently with the advent of social media, my life has improved because I have a support system I can tap into any time, day or night. It is with this in mind that MentorOnlineMagazine.com was born.
Wouldn’t it be great, if you had MOM giving you some sage advice, a shoulder to lean on and some step-by-step guidance about how to improve your life, how to move from employee to entrepreneur, from exhausted to joyful?
MentorOnlineMagazine.com MOM is that wise friend, mentor and advisor every woman wants in her life. Each week, on Monday and Thursday, MOM is delivered to your email inbox via free subscription.
You can expect Mentor Monday’s MOM to provide motivation, step-by-step action plans, and multi-income stream opportunities, techniques and ideas.
Triple-T Thursday’s MOM brings you trends, tips, and tools to put into action to help you achieve a more balance, wealthy and healthy life.
Not only will I bring you the best advice I can offer, but I have gathered some of the best minds in the world to share their insights with you. MOM is a collection of essays written and videos produced by a panel of expert contributors offering a global community of support for women around the world.
It is my hope that as publisher of MOM to bring you information, opportunities and high quality advice that you can put into action immediately.
I was sitting in a restaurant as I first started writing this. I found it interesting to sit there and write. In general the noises around me formed a constant background noise, but occasionally some voice stood out from the rest and caught my attention. It was as if the cacophony of sound was periodically interrupted by a spot of clarity.
My purpose in sitting there writing was to sort my thoughts. But as I listened to this cacophony of sound, a question occurred to me. Is that how it is with my internal state? A constant cacophony of ideas enjoying their own processes and designs? Each competing with the other for attention? As I think about it, I realize that is exactly what happens. That is why I need to have times such as this to attempt to order those various thoughts.
This cacophony of ideas circulates randomly in my head, or so it seems to me. And yet when someone asks me a question, the needed information immediately surfaces and so that I can meet their need. So there must be some order in there that I’m not aware of. Read more…
Conventional businesses are generally a pain because there are a lot of details you have to arrange before you can even open your doors to potential customers. If you don’t have a lot of funds to pay for a start-up cost and you hate going through mounds of paperwork, you can choose an internet business make money online instead. Not only would it be easier to put up, but it can also be just as productive in the long run. In time, you won’t even have to rely on traditional models to make money because online transactions will be enough.
You might ask where you should exactly start if Read more…
I received the following message from Jimmy D. Brown today. If you have been seeking a truly Christian business opportunity, I suggest you check out his new InsPrint product. This is actually aimed at being an offline business, something new in Jimmy’s offerings.
Below iss his message. I encourage you to at least check it out. You can register for a free trial and receive your first print absolutely for free. You can sell up to 500 copies of this print without paying anything.
Check it out. It may be just what you’ve been looking for.
Message from Jimmy D. Brown:
I really wanted to pursue an inspirational idea that I’ve had for a couple of years. Today marks the launch of this new business. Read more…
Outbound marketing strategies push your message out to your target market. Inbound marketing strategies pulls your target market to you. Outbound feels intrusive. Inbound feels like a company cares.
With outbound marketing strategies, you get your message out through product focused advertising and promotions; sales efforts; organizational public and media relations; customer service and customer satisfaction. This is marketing as we have come to know it over the years. It is needed once contact has been made, but it is not the best way to attract customers. Read more…
Want to create an attention-getting press release?
Make a list. And be sure to number it.
No. Don’t just fax off a list. You still need to follow the standard inverted pyramid style of press releases. You still need to include the 5 W’s and the H (who, what, when, why, how, where) at the top of the article. But after that introduction, you kick right into the list.
So, why do numbered lists work so well? Here are 7 reasons.
1. Preview. Your top priority in creating your press release headline is clarity, giving a clear and concise description of the story. Including the word “list” not only provides this information, by making it a numbered list it also quantifies it.
One of the most productive things you can do for your business is to begin building a focused email list of interested clients and prospects by offering them something of value. To do this you need a way to capture their information and deliver what you promised them. The second part of this can be handled by technology. It’s the first part that needs some careful consideration.
Here are a few ways to entice people to agree to join your mailing list.
First, I’d like to introduce myself to you. I am a 53-year-old college educated mother who spent the majority of my life as a single mother of three children. I often consider myself a late bloomer, but that is only partly true. I graduated from high school a year early and went to college, but made a life choice that slowed my path to success by about 15 years. I got married at age 19, had a baby at 20 and was divorced at 22. By age 22, I was a high school graduate with a year of college, a 2-year-old and low self-esteem.
