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How Being Organized is a Major Issue for Business

By Mark Edwards on May 16, 2016 in Articles

It is not just a new business where you have to take special care to plan and schedule your duties but it is an ongoing affair. However you will naturally begin to remember things on your own after a while. However it is still a good idea to have simple schedules and lists as things do come up that interfere with the usual flow.

Another thing that is pretty important is getting things done early if possible and out of the way. That way if something unexpected comes up you are not rushing around and trying to squeeze things into a small time period. It is only natural that in this situation things can be overlooked and that can range from being late all the way to completely forgetting something for an extended period.

Either way it can result in serious consequences that can involve paying fines, cancellations being reversed, and etc. It is just a real good feeling to

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New Home Business Let There be Light

By Mark Edwards on May 14, 2016 in Articles

Sometimes for many reasons in your life it is tough if not impossible for you to see the light. Just as with electricity the light is off until you switch it on. What is meant here by light however, is a positive attitude, faith and hope. Sometimes you have to switch it on. In particular, here the reference is to starting a home business.

No matter how you may interpret statements in marketing advertisements, there is almost never an instant, substantial ‘profit’. It has to be worked at to get there. It may be true you could luck out and get in on a launch where you are able to make some sales right off the bat (right on if so!) However the majority of everyday living is done in reality where people need to work at it to earn steady, sustainable income.

So it is very important in the reality of every day to never allow your light to go out. It is the

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New Home Business – Dig In and Stay In

By Mark Edwards on May 13, 2016 in Articles

It happens every day. Somebody joins a program and they are pretty stoked. They login and browse around, maybe watch a video. The program gave the new member a web page to advertise and maybe banners or other images. These are all attached to the Affiliate ID they gave you. Major clue: There is no magic that happens just by having a link somewhere on the Internet – you have to promote that link consistently and remain engaged in your program(s).

There may be additional training resources included in your membership. Don’t ignore them; they are there to help you to learn to use the program and how to promote it to earn commissions. Not to mention it will likely have information that will be applicable to any programs you join. Do it soon but it doesn’t all need to be done in one day.

So now maybe you have a plan for your home business. What

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Home Business Start-Up Time Management

By Mark Edwards on May 12, 2016 in Articles

It may not seem to you that you need a real schedule – and to some it may even be repugnant to live in rigidity. More than likely the majority of people who start home businesses do so, for one reason to be on their own and to do things how and when they want to.

While any part of the above said may or may not be true to some extent, there is a definite need for at least some level of organization. There are important issues that do have time constraints and it can cause you a lot of trouble if they are missed.

Most critical are things like your domain registration being updated BEFORE it actually expires. Some registrars will start reminding you months ahead and #1 you may start ignoring them because 2-months ahead you don’t need to worry. #2 eMail is so very unreliable (deliverability) due to spam and spam filters and some are blocked completely (lost in sp

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Find Another Way if You Have to but Keep Moving

By Mark Edwards on May 9, 2016 in Articles

What can we do when things just seem to turn against us? It definitely isn’t lay down and die and accept that we are in ruination. If we are sick we go to the doctor and try to find a cure. If we are broke we try to find more income. Sometimes that takes a while and a bit of creativity.

In the meantime though, we can’t keep sinking deeper until things change. We have to take some kind of action. If there is nothing you can do at this moment, and want to keep your good credit rating and honor your contracts with vendors, you may try to reduce expenses.

They seriously are not as ‘hard-nosed’ as you probably imagine. They really want to keep your business and appreciate that you are not just kicking them to the curb. So ask for the Loyalty department or even ask for the department where you cancel and of course don’t, but just let them talk you out of it.

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Be Sure to Get the Whole Story

By Mark Edwards on May 7, 2016 in Articles

Before passing Judgment on a business or even a person, be sure that you know more than what is apparent. Things could be going on behind the scenes that explain perfectly why something has or has not transpired as originally indicated that it would. I think we all know that some unexpected things can happen that we have no control over.

There is sometimes nothing we can do but live with it and hope our friends will still believe in us in spite of it. Really there shouldn’t be such a big difference between a customer and a friend from either side. There should be a degree of trust and tolerance. On the one hand the person should be as transparent with you as possible to explain what exactly happened.

However on the other hand let’s talk about professionalism. Sometimes people can’t be perfectly honest because they are protecting someone or somet

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Can You Write Content for Business?

By Mark Edwards on May 7, 2016 in Articles

Let me ask you another question. Can you talk? Well then you can write. If you have the ability to carry on a conversation whether verbal or email, etc, then you can write. It is that simple. Yet you see blog after blog that is completely blank or that hasn’t been used in months. This is a huge waste of free marketing and advertising. Why?

Why? Lazy? Busy? If you are really serious about having your own online business then you have to overcome lazy and busy. If you do, there will be no so-called ‘writer’s block’. You see writer’s block is just not having any ideas about what to write about. But no excuse there either because this is about your business – your experience with learning the ropes of an online business, what you are learning, what you like or don’t like about any particular aspect of Internet marketing; what you would change.

Best of all thi

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There Is Always Something New and Exciting!

By Mark Edwards on May 5, 2016 in Articles

That may be true for the world in general, particularly with ‘tech’ – every day a new phone, or something is faster. I am still waiting for a PC that delivers donuts and coffee but they seem to be lagging on that. Anyway, it’s part of what makes life exciting and makes each generation of kids more and more intelligent.

One industry that is usually always exciting, and that seems to get a lot of new things continuously, is Internet Marketing, in particular Affiliate Marketing. There are always new programs and it is when they are new that they seem to really attract a lot of new business. They seem to come including more and more functionality every time.

Let’s face it the more things something includes the easier it is going to be to use it. In the distant past there were always the various parts that one needed to run a business, but figuring out how to

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Start a Business and Get Some Structure Somewhere

By Mark Edwards on May 4, 2016 in Articles

When you work for someone else they have their procedures and protocols, many systems, and probably forms, etc. that are just there for you. All you need to do is be trained on how to use them if they are applicable to your job duties. When you start your own online business you have to come up with these things yourself. Not all at once necessarily but as you go.

This is one very good reason to join up with another entity like an affiliate program at least until you see what is going on and what all is involved with having an online business. What is the bare minimum structure that you need to start? You will have some idea the day you join a program and get orientated to the program.

In addition to the formal training that will be available either online or in a video or webinar, there are many other places that you can check if you are really interested in what

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Keep on Pushing!

By Mark Edwards on May 2, 2016 in Articles

When you feel that you have failed in some way or haven’t met your goals how does it make you react? Are you the type to hang back and accept failure, or worse, to wallow in your demise? Many people would react that way at least for a while until they are able to recover their self-confidence.

Then there is another ‘Warrior’ or ‘Ninja’ type that would get mad and fight harder to overcome whatever it is. Maybe with oaths being uttered that they will overcome whatever it is with a vengeance. In either case it is probably a good idea to kick back for minute and ask yourself what happened and why things turned out the way they did. Plenty of the time it is nothing you did or had control over – it Is ‘just the way it is’.

So then we must go on to accept that (for a minute) in order to transcend the various emotions and/or mop up all the spilled milk. A couple points t

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