I have helped thousands of people start up their own home based businesses using the Internet. Over time, I have come to recognize two of the most important factors for identifying people that should NOT start a home based business.
Poverty to Riches: Myth or Reality?
You CAN start with empty pockets and piles of bills and build a steady income, even wealth, via the internet. It’s a long, hard road though, so it’s best to prepare and take along a good map.
Marketing Outsourcing: What You Need to Know
A comprehensive guide to understanding the rise of marketing outsourcing, its benefits, challenges, and best practices.
Eight Steps To Making Your Dreams A Reality
Here’s how you can set goals and stay focused on the WHY:
1. Get out a clean sheet of paper. On the top write “Things I would do with extra money.” Then set a timer (if you have one) for 3 minutes. In that time write down as many things as occur to you. Don’t evaluate them, just write them down.
Usability Myths Need Reality Checks
Not so very long ago, it was agreed that five to eight users was enough for a good usability test. Somehow, this idea achieved mythic status. We believed it. We preached it to everyone who would listen. It survived in areas where it had been disproved, and was introduced into new situations where it didn’t even apply.
The Eleven Tenets Of Reality PR And Why You Need To Learn Them
PR is a hard job. You get rejected almost as often as actors looking for their big break. Journalists loudly, and often rudely, call PR people flacks, hacks and worse.
From Dreams to Reality
How many times have you wondered why everyone else seems to get the breaks in life and none seem to come your way. You work and struggle to make ends meet while others apparently effortlessly cruise through life. This was a question I asked myself before I realized that they were no different than me. It all came down to the way you think and your ability to take specific actions to make things happen.
Calculating Billable Hours Myth Vs. Reality
The first step in calculating your billable hours is to define a realistic working year. If you were employed elsewhere, you would expect or want at least two weeks vacation time, one week sick time, one week personal time and paid holidays. So, where does that leave us – 52 weeks minus four weeks leaves 48 weeks minus about 10 paid holidays, or a total of approximately 46 weeks per year.
The Home-Based Reality Check
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Quality Process Overhead – Myth or Reality?
Let us take a real-life example.
The AC in a car is an overhead. It eats into the petrol that is used to run the car. However the benefits and pleasure that the owner of the car derives from the AC far outweighs the additional expenditure in his perspective. His wife may still scold him that AC need not be switched on in the car during the evenings
. Thus an overhead is mostly a matter of perception.