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Hi everyone, I hope you’re all doing great! I always get asked what the catch is, with this blog. They ask me questions like, “Is this a scam?” or “What company do you work for?” There is no scam and I don’t work for anyone except myself. I have been doing this blog for about six months now for the sole reason of helping people. It has become a friendly addiction to help people and I have been able to reach lots of people with this blog. When it comes to home business, not many know more than me, as I have been doing it for about 10 years now.

There is too much bogus information about home business on the internet from people that just copy and paste BS on their blog or website. They have no experience and just believe anything somebody says on a web page. So i figured, in my free time I can blog and help people.

But mainly, my goal with this blog is to steer people away from scams and bogus content. And at the same time I want to answer questions and help people. I hate get rich quick scams around the internet. Lots of people fall prey to them everyday and I am really sick of it. The thing I really hate about scams online are the ebooks that come along and say you can be rich overnight. That will never happen.

I have written a couple of ebooks to help people, just because of all the scams with ebooks out there. My ebooks do well, as they are special. I do not just sell an ebook to you. I back it up with my experience by helping along the way. That’s something nobody else is doing. Most people have never even used the information they sell as ebooks. It is usually just information they found online somewhere. I do charge money for my ebooks, as my customers get VIP service and work I can’t do for free. I do go the extra mile for people that buy my ebooks. When someone purchases an ebook they get 3(more if needed) months of tutoring from me. I offer unconditional help with things like researching and finding wholesalers you want, to showing you step by step anything you can’t figure out. I won’t advertise my ebooks on this post, as they do well already.

Who knows, maybe I can start a trend and experienced people will start writing ebooks and sell them along with experienced tutoring. Offer a money back guarantee and all the scam artists will be forced to do something else for a living. If you can’t help someone with questions about your ebook or how to do the subject in your ebook, you shouldn’t be allowed to sell it.

I do have a couple on blogs. Two blogs are for fun. I do use one blog to make money. I have advertisements and took some advice from the great John Chow among others. I don’t make much with the blog but that’s fine. It’s a learning experience and I am not in it for the money anyway. I want to help people learn how to make money at home. Even part time, anything extra helps. I know how it is to be scratching your head at home saying “how can I make money at home or online?” I was that person ten years ago.

I have been using ebay for about ten years. I met this great guy in 1998 who was always telling me how much money he made on ebay. He was nice enough to show me the ropes and get started on ebay. Maybe I got wanting to help people from him. Ebay was how I started making money from home online. I have expanded to many other marketplaces as auction marketplaces are my specialty. As you know, I do not list my auction marketplace ID’s anymore for sabatage reasons. Sad to say but, almost as soon as I started showing my auction id’s on my blogs(especially ebay) I noticed frantic fraud bidding and an avalanche of scam artists. So I don’t advertise my auctions or stores on my blogs anymore. They get enough exposure already on those marketplaces anyway. As you can tell, from the tips and information I give people on my blog; it’s not like I need the help when it comes to making money online.

For the past six months I have been teaching myself affiliate marketing. My goal is to get away from selling and live off of affiliate marketing instead (Don’t worry, I will always have my home business blogs. I think teaching people correct ways to bring in a little extra money at home is very important). I am finding out there is less work and stress involved with affiliate marketing. All you do is list a company link on one of your websites and when customers click that link you get paid in different ways; depending what that person does on that companies website. There are all kinds of tricks and tips to learn to be an affiliate marketing master. But that’s just like anything else. Practice makes perfect.

I would like to thank my friends around the net who have been kind enough to give me advice on how to market and advertise my websites. I get lots of great advice on young entreprenuer, a forum I visit to get and give home business advice. You see, I am using this kind of A&M knowledge to build experience of making and bringing traffic to my dream business website someday. Marketing and advertising is the most important part of having a website. If nobody knows you have a website, how can they visit it? Over the past six months I have become an advertising and marketing genius.

I think overall I will probaby stick with ebay through thick and thin until something else comes along better. Right now ebay has all marketplaces cornered. Ebay is pretty much the monopoly of auction marketplaces right now. There is too much money to be lost by taking ebay out of the equasion. History always repeats though. Someday something will come along bigger and better than ebay.

But I will always be here for my readers, I love to help people. I have developed quite a following with this blog and I thank you. Now I have found a new love for blogging. Helping people go hand and hand on my blogs. Anyone with questions about making money at home will not be ignored on my blog. In my years of helping people only one person has not been successful. And to tell you the truth, I don’t think they tried.

I do my best to post on my blogs everyday for you, although sometimes it’s just not possible. When I do post, it is usually answering someones question or giving information they asked about. I find answering my readers questions is most useful to everyone. I have been answering questions along with any tips or tricks I can give in a blog post. So, if you have any questions about making money at home, feel free to ask me. It doesn’t cost anything to ask me questions, don’t be shy:) I really am just someone who cares and wants to help you. Times are tough enough without trying to avoid scams too. I would hate to see anyone make a costly mistake they could have avoided. I have helped people from all around the world make money at home.

Thanks for reading my blog everyone. Have a great day!

It’s the weekend, so I figured I would tell about a great learning environment, you could visit in your spare time. Youngentrepreneur.com is a great website, if you are looking for some ideas to get a business started. Even if you have some ideas or projects set in motion already, but would like to get opinions from experts. Have you built your business website and need a second opinion? Have you ever needed a place, that could answer any business question you might have? Young Entrepreneur has a huge membership base that can help you. They have members that range in a wide spectrum of expertise areas. Best of all, Youngentrepreneur.com is free to be a member.

I have been a member of youngentrepreneur.com since spring of 2007. Its a forum that you can use, to help your business grow and expand. You can gain insight on whatever you need, just ask in the forums. You can get everything, from finding a local business partner to starting your home business. If you are just starting out or if you just need advice to make things better with your business. Young Entrepreneur has a great opportunity for you to keep growing.

They just refaced the entire website and added many upgrades, to make it more user friendly. They even started a new point system for the members. Every post you make in the forum gives you points. You can exchange the points to purchase special privileges throughout the forum. From adding new avatar options, to giving someone a gift, to buying full use of the arcade. The arcade they added even has old time classics.

Youngentrepreneur.com have forum rooms that hit a wide range of audience. From home business to SEO advice. In addition to all the original YE rooms, they recently added new business forum rooms. They added a famous entrepreneurs section. They have reviews on famous entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Donald Trump. This section is filled with some pretty inspiring stories. It’s a great read for anyone.

They have a new forum room, that will answer all your marketing or web page rank questions. They also updated the ever popular, looking for capital/biz partners. You can find biz partners locally or around the world. Its a spectacular place to meet people with ideas that may be similar to your business ideas. They added a legal room, so you can discuss about any legal advice. If you have a website for sale, you can even sell it on YE now. There are management and franchising rooms so you can discuss about big time business. Even if you’re a college student, looking for some sure fire ways to make money on the side. YE has added so many new forum rooms and upgrades, that it is virtually impossible not to get help, that will lead you in to the right business direction.

You can even start a daily blog on YE now. You can write about whatever you like. If you have never written a blog before, YE would be great for you. Because, if you have any questions about writing your blog, you just ask in the forums. They have added new entrepreneurial videos and articles. The advice you will receive at YE could save you lots of time and money.

You can even use the knowledge you have, in your expertise areas to help others. Or you can ask others, about things you don’t know about. The members in the Young Entrepreneur community are great. I have made so many friends there. There are people with young and experienced minds, so you really learn a lot. I have a made a few business partners because of young entrepreneur. Also, there are so many people I get to help with drop ship/wholesale or ebay questions.

Before this spring, I didn’t know anything about advertising or marketing a website. So I searched for a good place with answers. That’s when I found YE. Since then, I have learned so much that I would have never learned by myself. My blog would have never reached all the readers it has, without the knowledge I got at YE. I love to help people, so I am using it to my advantage. I visit YE everyday so I can keep up with all the new ideas and programs that come out.

I have learned some really great ways to make extra money on the side with YE forums. You all know I don’t recommend anything I don’t use myself. I highly recommend Youngentrepreneur.com for any beginner or advanced business personality!

Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Lisa

We all have one thing in common as everyday business people. We all accept money for our service and/or product. Having the convenience of accepting many different payments types, can raise your web sales by 25 percent. Try and accept every payment type possible, from paypal, to American express, to e-checks. You can easily accept credit cards on your web business nowadays. There are hundreds of reputable credit card, processing merchants, that want your business.

Paypal is probably the most used payment method over the web. Even if you don’t like paypal, you will lose out, if you don’t offer it as a payment method. Google checkout is said to be better than paypal. Google checkout is making a big hit in the marketplace. They are trying to reach the goal to be an equal to paypal. Google offers better security and great customer service. Google is trying to be geared more towards preventing fraud. Where paypal seems to go along with fraud and the people who are committing the fraud. Google may change the face of web payment processors. After all, customers do want to feel secure, as they give their credit card numbers or other personal information away.

Security of different payments types is also important. Today’s identity theft, cautious customers, want to have a safe and easy transaction. Make sure you have hackersafe or other logos on your website. There is all kinds of coding that you can put into your website to prevent hackers. Most host providers include some safety features like hacksafe. If you have hacksafe features on your website, advertise it. Even though you know you have a secure website, let the customer know also. It really does help your sales.

If you are an ebay merchant, make sure you accept every payment method also. You will notice, the more payment options you give; the more your sales will increase. Think about it; if you wanted to buy something, but you only pay with paypal online, the website you are on only accepts credit cards, now that web site doesn’t make a sale. They lose out because you were going to buy something. But since they don’t accept paypal, you go to someone else’s website. The customer is going to buy it anyway. Why not give them the option to buy it from you?

If you want to learn more come back tomorrow.

Thanks,

Lisa

Having a great title and description is probably the most important thing, to drive customers to your ebay auction. You have to have a title that reaches out to grab someone. Your title is what will draw your customers, so make it great. You can also add sub titles to ebay auctions. This is so your can use as much as you can, to draw the customers in.

Ebay has made it so easy to drive customers to your auctions. They have many tools to help you drive traffic. They give you the option to have an ebay store. With meta tags to be search engine friendly. But nothing works as good as a great title to draw a customers curiosity. Try capitalizing every word in your title. Try phrases like Brand new, Guaranteed, or Hot in your sub title. Even though someone else might be selling the same thing you are for the same price. If your auction seems to offer more,even though it doesn’t, that customer might be drawn to your auction instead.

 So once you have drawn them to click on your auction with a great title; now you need them to stay and read about what you are offering. Your description is what will keep the customers there. A description can make or break your auctions final selling price. Don’t forget to add html to your auction description. Make your auction look professional. Make it friendly and straight to the point. Offer pictures to brighten up the auction.

Most ebay members click onto an auction for 5 seconds before clicking away. The ebay members that usually buy, are the ones that visit your auction page for more than 10 seconds. So keep your auction description unique and interesting all at once. Don’t copy anyone Else’s ideas, because chances are someone has already seen this same mumbo jumbo before. People get bored really easy, by seeing the same old things.

Just keep your ebay auctions unique and interesting. Your ebay sales depend on it.

Thank you for supporting my daily blog. If you want to learn more come back tomorrow.

Thanks

Lisa                   

If you have any questions, feel free to email me LP@thehomedropshipguide.com

Any good business person knows, that you should never count on just one option, to keep your business going. One of the most successful ways to keep your business afloat, is to have as many options open as possible. Never lock yourself into one place. It will only cause you to play by someone else’s rules. It’s like working with a pair of handcuffs. An affiliate marketer knows that the more advertisements they make, the more sales they will have. They would never be able to make a living, off of one advertisement.

If you are in sales, you should always have 3-5 different connections for the same items or product. This way, if someone is closed for the day or runs out of stock, you will have a backup plan. Its a very good idea, to have 3-5 different options open for your business.

You can always call for your backup plan, if something ever goes wrong. What happens if you are a welding shop, you run out of steel, and your supplier is out of stock? You call your back up steel guy and your covered.

There are so many things that could go wrong, by relying on one source, for anything to do with your business. If you have an ebay business, you know what I am talking about. Ebay locked my account a while back, until I mailed them proof of my ID. It took almost 3 weeks before my account was reopened. Just for a simple security check. I lost over 10 grand in sales. I didn’t have a back up plan, so I lost big time.

So, it’s a good idea to have lots of money makers going at the same time. As many options as possible will only help you, in the long run. I literally have over 12 projects going at the same time right now. Just in case, something happens to any of them: I will still have income, coming in, to survive on. Even if they are a few little projects, that together, make a good amount of money. Leave yourself, options open everywhere, it really works.

I wanted to say something about this, because you never know when something could go wrong. You will never know when you need a back up plan. But, if you have options open and available, you won’t lose as much in the pocket. Its so discouraging, when you know you can’t provide a service to your customers, because you didn’t prepare for disaster. Don’t take your big money maker for granted, ever. Help out your big money maker, by combining little money maker projects with it.

Sorry to bore you with this weeks subjects. I thought it was very important, to pick out the things we take for granted, as business people. I hope it helped some of you.

If you like to make money with Golf, I have a treat for you tomorrow. Come back and check it out.

Thanks,

Lisa

Here is an interesting subject. Tax Write offs are a sure way, to help your business make money. A tax write off, is an item or service that you used for your business and can claim on your taxes, to get a deduction. An example would be; You drive to staples to pick up a laser printer, some paper for the printer, and some pens. Did you know, that you can write off, everything you bought at staples, as a tax deduction? You can even write off the mileage on your car, you used to get there. If you bought a new computer, you could even write that off as a tax deduction.

Tax write off deductions, are probably the best way you can reassure that your business will succeed. It is crucial, for you to keep all receipts, for everything, involving your business through the year. I can’t stress this enough. When tax day comes bring the receipts. Depending on your state and how much you made; You may get to write everything off on your taxes as a deduction. That means, everything you bought for your business this year, was free. Uncle SAM paid for everything, even your brand new business car.

If you don’t have tax numbers & license for your business, you are only hurting yourself. All those boxes and packing supplies,even the tape you used, through the year. All tax write offs. You could even buy a brand new car, slap your business name on the car, and “BAM”, your car is now a tax write off. There are so many tricks and loopholes in the tax laws, that home businesses can thrive on. Its amazing how many people run a home business and don’t do it legally. Did you know, a worldwide survey showed that 70% of all online business, is done without proper business or tax id information. That means 70% of all online businesses are running illegally. No wonder the government wants to put so many restrictions on online sales.

There are so many advantages to having a legal business. The disadvantages of not having a legal business are overwhelming! Why are all these people still doing it the wrong way? If I didn’t claim taxes on my business, my business would have failed a long time ago. The IRS, actually helps a home business owner when it comes to tax time.

If you don’t claim taxes on your business and the IRS sees you making all that money. You can get in lots of trouble. The IRS can take away anything you own, to collect what is owed to them. If you made 50 grand last year and the IRS audits you. Guess what, if you don’t have the money owed to them when they audit you. You’ll probably lose your house or any and all of your cars, to the IRS. Possibly, jail time along with it. If you don’t have any collateral or money to pay them, jail time is certain. Your bank account can closely monitored by several federal branches, at any given time. All they need is reason to suspect. The IRS doesn’t take kindly to people stealing from them. You might as well commit treason. Why would you risk all that?

I hope I can change some of your minds out there, about starting your business legally. It’s really not worth it, to hide from uncle SAM.

If you want to learn more way to run a successful business, come back tomorrow.

Thanks,

Lisa

Okay, today is Sunday, so I figured I would tell you about a fun way to make a little extra money. One of the new things in making money from home is, survey websites. Survey websites are a website that actually pays you to answer surveys, sign up for offers, they have referral bonuses, and cash back shopping. First let me tell you. No matter what you hear about this kind of work at home; You will never make a living off it. So here is my review on survey websites.

Survey websites are simply, a fun way to earn a little extra money; to pay a monthly cell phone bill or gas money for the month etc. Don’t believe the hype, when they advertise that you can make 300 dollars a day. It will never happen. There are tons of websites waiting to draw you in. Cashbox, Survey Club, Clear Surveys, In Box Dollars, the list goes on and on. I have tried them all and the one that is, by far, the best. “Treasure Trooper”.

I have been a member of treasure trooper for over 2 years now and they are great. My average check is 100 dollars a month for about 5 minutes a day, 3-4 times a week. Your average Treasure Trooper member makes 100-400 dollars a month. This survey website has a few mini games that are really fun. They have a $100 treasure hunt that is very easy to win. They give away prizes like XBox 360’s and Ipods.  The forums have cash prize contests. But remember, you can’t make a living from survey sites like they claim you can. Don’t be fooled; Some survey websites may claim, you can make a tons of money with them; They are lying! But, as you can see, they are very fun and can be very rewarding!

No, I am not an advertiser for treasure trooper. I am an everyday person like you, giving you my honest review. I have tried tons of survey websites and TT is the most reliable. They pay you every month and they don’t rip you off. And yes, if you click on the treasure trooper links in this blog, it is my referral link. I won’t lie to you. This a real review from me, an average everyday person. Maybe in return for this information, you could sign up under my referral link.

Treasure trooper is free to join. They give you money, just to try products and services, as a consumer. How can you pass up money? For instance, TT gave me $40.00 to try Vonage Phone Service, found in the cash offers section. I loved it and kept the phone service. On top of that, they paid me $40 just to try it. Even if I didn’t like the service, I could return it for a refund, & they still pay me $40.00, just for trying it. It was a win, win situation. I got paid for something I wanted to try. It’s a great service for consumers. We can try the companies products or services and get paid. There are tons of offers like this. Trial offers are paying big bucks. If you don’t like it, you return it for a refund, you still get paid, that’s the best part. Treasure Trooper has tons of different ways you can earn money. The best part of it all, they make it fun!

Anyway, if your curious about survey websites, treasure trooper is a great one. Go sign up it’s totally free. They have forums to help you if you need it. Customer service is great. Proof of payments. A lot of people will say, “I could make more money doing other things, I won’t waste my time”. The truth is, yes they probably could make more money elsewhere.

I am not telling you that you’ll be making a fortune from survey websites. I am telling you they are fun and can be rewarding at the same time. And to save you time looking for a good survey website. I used at least 20 of the so called, best survey websites. Treasure trooper is by far the best around. Try it out.

If you want to learn more ways to make money at home, stop by tomorrow.

Thanks,

    Lisa