There are periods with our internet business that it seems to be impossible to turn it into profitable home based business. This kind of feeling usually occurs during the first few months while working with our online business, it is just natural for any business, whether offline or online, to pass through with this kind of situation. There are a lots of people that lose hope on creating a profitable home based business. The success of internet home based business will always depend on the quantity as well as the quality of traffic that we will able to generate. So the key for a successful home based business is traffic. This is the main reason why a lots of people opted to give up working online as they are unable to create a highly targeted traffic to their websites. Here is some basic technique to gather highly quality traffic to your website.Search Engine Optimization Marketing: This marketing strategy is consider to be as the most effective marketing strategy in promoting any product in the internet as it was cost effective, produces a high quality visitor to your website, and offers a continuous flow of visitor to your site that will surely turn your internet business into profitable home based business. There are several method of optimizing your website to search engine.A.) On page optimization- It involves any optimization activity within your website, it includes optimization through a certain keyword that are highly related to your product, adding meta description
and posting a rich in keyword high quality content.B) Off page optimization- It is any optimization activity created outside the web page itself. It includes creating backlink, submitting of websites url to search engine and directories.Article Marketing: Article marketing is also consider as one of the proven method on creating high quality traffic to your website that will surely turn your business into profitable home based business. With article marketing, you were be given a chance to promote or presell your product by submitting a keyword enriched with a high quality content article to various reputable article directories. Articles will not only serve as a promotional writing as well as a backlink that will help increased your website page ranking that will surely help to create a profitable home based business.Video Marketing: Video marketing has emerged to be as one of the most effective method of giving information to individual through internet. It becomes so popular that it makes YouTube as one of the most visited website in the internet. It become so effective as it gave you an opportunity to promote a product with a audio-video capabilities that makes your promotion much productive and entertaining.Blog Marketing: Blogging is a vital aspect in creating a profitable home based business, everybody knows main requirement for search engine to award good ranking to a certain website is through a high quality rich in keyword content. So the main point, it is more likely impossible for our squeeze page or affiliate website to rank on search engine. We have to used a highly optimized blog as a conduit going to our sales page or squeeze page.The method given above is just a partial list of proven promotional technique to create an internet profitable home based business as there still a lots of method that are available for free that will surely boost your online business. At first, those technique might look so complicated but through a constant research and practice you will be use and acquainted using those method.The most important thing is to keep our mind focus when starting an online business. Develop a positive mental attitude whatever trials or challenges that might come or obstruct us in reaching our goals in building a profitable home based business.
Turn Your Internet Business Into a Profitable Home Based Business
The True Cost of a Home Based Business
So why they don’t tell you everything up front? That’s a really good question isn’t it? Below are the two main reasons why they don’t tell you everything!
First…. they fear that if you know the real deal that you’ll make the decision not to join them. Ok…well that makes no sense whatsoever because if you think about it once you find out what the real deal is on everything and it doesn’t sit with you… are you hangin around to build the business anyway? I don’t think so! Most people experience feelings of betrayal and really feel like they’ve been scammed because key information was withheld from them. Is that anyway to start off a business relationship? People eventually get frustrated and quit because no matter what they do they know they won’t be successful.
Second…. they want to use you in some way shape or form before you figure out what the real deal really is. If the business happens to sit well with you then you’ll hang around and become successful. If it doesn’t sit well with you and you leave then they still benefit because they used you in some way to further their business on some level. The golden rule applies here! You wouldn’t want to be used so don’t use other people.
I know that you probably can identify with both of the above because that’s what most MLM / Network marketing / home based business people do. They will tell you just enough to get you to come into the business. Hey after all what do they care they get their bonus for bringing you in and then they push you in a certain direction for very specific reasons. In other words they will use you to their benefit and if you quit the business then so what…they got what they wanted. These types of people unfortunately run rampant all over the internet and actually expect a large percentage of folks to not last more than 30-45 days!
Yes… its sad but very true and it’s these “knuckle heads” as I like to call them that give an excellent industry in my view a very bad name. People can really make a decent lifestyle for themselves with the home based business model provided they have a solid business plan. It’s important to understand the plan and exactly what it’s going to take to be successful.
Little hint for you… all these so called internet businesses that promise or advertise thousands of dollars without doing anything or very little are in most cases out to take your money so my best advice is simply avoid them. You’ll have a better chance of succeeding playing the state lottery! Don’t fall into the trap of promises of easy money with any business. If quick money is what you’re after go play the lottery. It’s cheaper on your pocket book and you’ll win more if in fact you ever do actually win.
All the brick -n- mortar businesses in existence have written strategic business plans. All home based businesses should have one as well. I know you’ve probably heard this saying before ” If you fail to plan then you plan to fail” and that is the honest truth.
Imagine trying to drive to a destination that you’ve never been to before and you don’t have any directions on how to get there? Pretty silly thing to do right? Of course it is and like wise it’s also pretty silly to be engaged in any business home based or other wise without a map to guide you to your end destination. Its imperative that you know where you’re going and exactly how you’re going to get there. You need a plan to follow or you’ll plan to fail. It’s as simple as that.
Auction Listings Are Vital to the Success of Fundraising Auctions
Fundraising Auction Tip: You should always provide potential bidders with a printed Auction Listing of both your Live and Silent Auction items at any Fundraising Auction. A printed Auction Listing is vital for several reasons:
An Auction Listing informs bidders of the order of sale, and what is coming up next. If you keep your bidders guessing, they will simply not bid.
If bidders are not 100% certain of what they are bidding on, they will not bid. A printed Auction Listing should answer any and all questions about what is being sold in order to encourage bidders to bid as much as possible.
Bidders often need time to plan their bidding strategies, especially on multiple and/or larger value items. A printed Auction Listing helps them to do that.
Couples often need time to consult with each other about what they are willing to spend on something. A printed Auction Listing helps them to do that.
Potential bidders need to know the specifics, the benefits, and the restrictions on any item they are going to bid on, especially on travel and/or other higher value items. A printed Auction Listing should answer all of their questions, in writing.
After bidders see that they have lost an item to another bidder, a printed Auction Listing makes it easier for them to re-strategize on what else they can bid on.
Printed Auction Listings generally come in 3 forms:
Printed in the Event Program or Auction Catalog.
Printed on loose sheets of paper and hand-inserted into the Event Program or Auction Catalog.
Printed on loose sheets of paper and hand-delivered to all attendees, or left on each dinner table in the room.
Auction Listings cost practically nothing to produce and they can make the difference between the success and failure of a Live and Silent Auction. You should never conduct a Fundraising Auction without one.
A Case Study
Let me share a real-life experience with you. Once I was hired to conduct a Fundraising Auction for a nationally renowned organization. The event was held in a major hotel, in one of the country’s largest cities, with several hundred “black tie” participants attending. It was an extremely professional event, with the music, singing, lighting, speeches, and awards all perfectly timed and choreographed. Everything was done to perfection… exception the Fundraising Auction.
Although I had signed an agreement to serve as their Auctioneer nearly one year in advance of the event, no one bothered to contact me for any advice or help. Approximately one week prior to the Auction date, I contacted the group to see if they had replaced me with another Auctioneer. But they said that I was still their man.
Upon arriving at the event I asked for a copy of the Auction Listing. I was told that there were none. I’m not sure whether they felt that the Auction Listing wasn’t necessary, or whether someone forgot to have them printed. This was never made clear. When I asked what I was to use at the podium, I was told to copy the list of Live Auction items from a committee member’s computer. It took me about 30 minutes to copy three pages of hand-written notes in order to prepare for my role as their Auctioneer.
I knew that they had created a PowerPoint program showing the various Live Auction items. When I asked whether the PowerPoint slide order corresponded to the order of sale I had copied from the committee member’s computer, I was met with a blank stare. The committee member left to check the slide order, and returned to let me know that the slide order did not correspond my notes, and he provided me with the correct slide order… hand-written on a paper napkin. This forced me to re-arrange my three pages of hand-written notes before taking the podium.
There was a Live Auction Table with descriptions of the Live Auction items that were to be sold, but the table was not clearly marked, and it received significantly less attention than the Silent Auction Tables, which were clearly identified. Since the Live Auction Table was located adjacent to the “Raffle Table”, it appeared that most people thought it was part of the raffle and therefore paid very little attention to it.
According to the event program (which did not include an Auction Listing), I knew approximately when I was to begin the Live Auction. At the designated time the Master of Ceremonies announced the start of the Live Auction to the several hundred people in attendance, and introduced me as Auctioneer. As I approached the podium I realized that photographs of award winners were still being taken… directly in front of the podium where I was to stand… which required me to stand aside for several minutes until the photographers were done. Can we say “awkward moment”?
As the photographers cleared, I approached the podium and began my Live Auction introduction. Approximately one minute into my introduction, the “Raffle Committee” approached the podium and stopped my Live Auction Introduction in order to pull the 8 or 9 Raffle Winners. These drawings lasted about 5 minutes. Upon it’s conclusion I was allowed to resume the start of the Live Auction.
When standing at the podium two intense and extremely bright spotlights were pointed directly at the podium. The lights were so bright that I literally could not see the center 1/3 of the room. I could see the tables on the right, and on the left, but was totally blinded when looking straight ahead. It took perhaps five minutes before the spotlights were turned off.
While at the podium and describing Lot #1, I had to ask someone to start the Lot #1 PowerPoint Slide… because apparently no one was assigned that job.
So with only the Auctioneer’s verbal description, and a PowerPoint slide, it appeared that few people in the room had any idea about what we were selling… or when we were selling it… until it was announced by the Auctioneer. As a result, bidding was extremely light and the final results fell several thousands of dollars short of where they should have been
The learning experience is this:
The Live Auction is where you place your better items, and where the real money should be made at any Fundraising Auction. Let bidders know as far in advance as possible what you will be selling, and the order of sale, so they can get excited about the Auction, and plan their bidding strategy accordingly.
Auction Listings are absolutely vital to the success of both Live & Silent Auctions. In my opinion, revenues at this Auction fell thousands of dollars short of where they should have been, because no Auction Listing was provided to the guests.
If bidders are not perfectly clear on what is being sold, including both the item’s specifics, benefits, and restrictions, they will not bid.
When you have a committee of volunteers, especially volunteers having full time jobs and/or very busy schedules, the services of a professional Fundraising Auctioneer can help to keep the committee on track.
And once you retain the services of a professional Fundraising Auctioneer… use the services that you are paying for.