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Success Formula For Dynamic Living

Through the years I have read countless books (at times 2-3 a month) on Personal Development, Motivation, Self Improvement, Entrepreneurship, Autobiographies of Successful Business People, Tapes etc and everyone tells or sells the same or similar advice. I was always inspired and hungry for more knowledge and I soaked up the information and teachings like a sponge but it left me with the question? What is Dynamic Living actually and can we attach a formula to this? The writing of this article is the culmination of all the abovementioned, hours of reading, information and quotes gathered from all these books. I am no expert in all these areas but merely trying to put things into perspective. My sincere wish is for all of you to take some value out of this article.

Before we even try to get to this Magic Formula of Dynamic Living, we need to start at the beginning. The beginning of Planning!

When we go on holiday, what do most people do, we Plan our trip, don’t we! We need to know where we are going and what we are going to do! What do pilots do before they fly? They plan the route. They file a flight plan from point A to B and possibly C and they make sure that they know where they are headed and in which direction they are going, not so? Would you fly with an airline if you knew that the pilots had no clue how to get to your destination? No you would not!

The same Planning applies to our Business Pursuits and our Personal lives. If we Fail To Plan, We certainly Plan to Fail! If you can’t manage yourself properly, you won’t be able to manage all of the necessarily planning and management tasks that we need to do to be successful on a daily basis. Nothing of the above is possible and you will certainly fail if one of the Main Ingredients I. e.: Motivation and the Want to Succeed is not within you!

I have come to the conclusion that the Success Formula for Dynamic Living is: “A Life Filled with Joy, Happiness, Free of Fear, Worry and Directed Positively at Setting Goals and Planning Effectively”.

The Success Formula for Dynamic Living is the following:

DL = GGE + PS x PSI

Dynamic Living = God Given Equipment + Principle of Self x Proper Self Image.

Let’s break each component down and analyze them further:

God Given Equipment:

-It’s a known and medical fact that we only use approx 5% of our potential.

– We are all geniuses! Yes we are! Believe in Yourself!

– By using the art of Positive Programming we can achieve the unimaginable – If we program with Garbage In – We get Garbage Out! If we Program with Positivity In – We get Positivity Out!

– The experts say that it takes approx 28 days to change a bad habit and replace it with a good positive habit. Believe me, this is not difficult to implement and make a drastic change for the positive in your life.

– We all have tremendous natural ability! We just need to use it!

– Well, what are you waiting for!

Principle of Self:

– The Principle of Self – is the art of looking inside oneself and have the courage and will to change and better oneself.

– Principle of Praise – Don’t criticize yourself and everyone around you on a daily basis. Look for the good in everything in your daily life. Positively compliment people and events. You will feel and become a better person by following this advice.

– Principal of Vacuum – Get rid of that vacuum in your head for what you don’t want to make room for what you do want. Get rid of the excess baggage and negativity and replace it with positivity. Talk to yourself, motivate yourself. It is OK to do this, nobody will think your are stupid or crazy. If you constantly reaffirm you can, you will. If you constantly reaffirm you can’t, you won’t. The choice is yours!

– Principal of Creation – Define it, Write down your goals, and Plan your journey. Focus on the Present and the Future. By dwelling in the Past, we are all courting danger and unhappiness.

– Principal of Faith – Believe in Yourself and what you do. Believe in the Higher Hand of our Creator. Trust yourself and your ability. Nothing is impossible to achieve.

Proper Self Image:

– Look at yourself positively.

– Eliminate the inferior complexes.

– It’s about how you view yourself.

– Don’t worry about other people’s perceptions – Focus on your own!

In closing:

Now that you have read the Successful Formula for Dynamic Living, I would like you to do the following:

– Write down on a piece of paper what you dislike, what troubles you have or are faced with, all your worries, all your heart sore and every little thing that bothers you!

– Once you have written them down, read it out loud to yourself or to an audience.

– Take the piece of paper you have written on and make a paper airplane out of it.

– Hold the paper aero plane in your hand, blow with your mouth all the positives into the engine ( back ) of the paper aeroplane, throw and release the paper aero plane and let it keep flying higher and further releasing your troubles and letting your positivity and success soar higher and higher!

YOU CAN DO IT!

Legitimate Home Business Marketing – Increase Website Traffic with Forum Marketing

SO, you created your website for whatever purpose, to sell a product or service, to show off your photographic genius… whatever its YOUR pride and joy!! But you have no visitors to see your wonders in design or your legitimate home business opportunities?

The VERY FIRST STEP in driving traffic to your website is through what is commonly referred to as Online Forum Marketing. Online Forums are very interactive web pages that allow you as a registered user to read, interact and participate in discussions about a certain topic of interest. You would do everything you can to participate in as many discussions as you can about your favorite topic, wouldn’t you?

The reason is because with these ‘discussion groups’, you realize that this is your opportunity to learn as much as you can from these people in the shortest amount of time! and more importantly, you can establish your credibility as an authority on your chosen topic!

Forum Etiquette – Every forum has its own set of rules. It is your duty as a member to find out what is acceptable and what is not. This can include how to set up your signature. Do they allow links? If so how many? How long can your signature be? Some forums do not allow you to post links that are of certain type of nature. This can include links to adult sites, gambling sites or even affiliate links. What is the general subject matter of the forum? If using a Homeworker Ideas forum for instance, don’t post things that are off topic unless they have a specific thread for that. There are forums that do not allow discussions of a political nature or discussion of religious topics. Even others discourage talking about specific products and companies.

The bottom line is that each forum is different and if you are to be an outstanding member, you have to play by the rules. If you don’t, you might get slapped and even publicly humiliated. That doesn’t amount to good marketing.

In conclusion, the best way to market yourself in a forum is to not really market yourself at all but rather to be a consistent member that contributes quality and substance to the community. When your motive is to help others, contribute good content and become an integral part of a community, you end up marketing yourself without even trying.

When you start participating in various forums, you will notice the various Signature Boxes on the bottom of the majority of the comments posted by forum members. You will also notice that after you read a member posting that intrigues you, you will find yourself clicking on the link of that particular member’s signature.

Just like that, you just created a click through to that particular member’s website!

When you simply register for your first online forum, the VERY FIRST THING you should do is create your ‘Signature’. As mentioned in the section above, a Signature is basically what is used at the end of email messages to give your recipient that ‘feeling of credibility’ about you. However the SAME THING could be accomplished by adding that signature at the end of EVERY SINGLE ONE of your forum posts.

This is one of MANY times you are going to hear me teach you about the importance of your CREDIBILITY when marketing your product or service online.

Your first major accomplishment as an Internet Marketer is to first ESTABLISH your credibility. As you are well aware, the Internet is enormous – and being able to establish even a small amount of credibility is a major achievement, and COMPLETELY doable! Do everything you can to use Online Forums as your first step in establishing your online credibility! Why not, it’s free! Warning!

Forums are VERY interactive in nature, with back-and-forth replying from just ONE particular post lasting for weeks and months at a time! You should post as frequently as possible: 2-3 times a week in as many as 5 different forums.

Try not to spend a tremendous amount of time on the forums. Just simply log in, locate your prior posts to check out any possible responses, respond if necessary, then go ahead submit your NEW POST, maybe read a few other members’ posts, then LOG OUT!

Forums could be VERY ADDICTIVE if you let them effect you in that way. Millions of other forum members around the world find themselves investing TOO MUCH TIME in forums. So don’t forget the reason why you are a forum member – that is to learn as much as you can, and DRIVE TARGETED TRAFFIC to YOUR WEBSITE! Another reason why you want to be careful in forums is because, depending on the forum, it may be a case of the blind leading the blind. You will notice that the MOST SUCCESSFUL internet marketers may not even exist in the forums anymore because of this.

Just to remind you, When you are just starting your internet marketing career, establishing your positive professional credibility is your first and main concern. Forums are one of the most PERFECT places to accomplish this goal. However, as your credibility starts to rise and you start to brand yourself, you may make the decision whether or not you still want to invest your valuable time in the forums. This is completely up to you and your business.

Your Action Step for driving massive amounts of targeted traffic to your website using Forum Marketing TODAY! Simply sign up and register for as many RELEVANT forums as you can, insert your Signature Box, and publish your first posts! Don’t hesitate to involve yourself with 3-5 separate forums – of course the more the merrier! The first step is to modify your profile to include your Signature Box. When you create your first post, make sure you can ‘preview’ your post to make sure your Signature Box appears. Don’t forget to make sure your website link is WORKING, then post away my friend!

Legitimate Home Based Business Ideas

Entrepreneurs can now look to the internet to start their own business. They will not be required to have massive amounts of capital to get started either. If you are an entrepreneur looking to make money online, here are a few home business ideas to get you started.

Home Based Business Idea #1:

Sign up with affiliate programs and learn how to best market them. These affiliate programs give you all the training and tools you need to succeed and many are free to join. Having your own website helps the conversion rate of your traffic but is not required. Some people promote all the programs from a free blog they sign up for.

Affiliate companies pay out commissions for referrals and/or sales you can bring them. It is difficult to make money from these programs right away but after a couple of months of building traffic it will really start to pick up.

Home Based Business Idea #2:

Enroll and complete offers, read emails, play games, and take surveys. There are some online companies that will pay you to do all of the following. It will be hard to earn a living from the pay you get from these companies but it can definitely help with some of your monthly bills.

The best way to make them work for you is to enroll in two or more of these programs. Most will pay about one dollar per survey and pennies for answering emails. All the small things you do with these programs can add up to somewhere between $30 – $100 a month.

Home Based Business Idea #3:

Find a niche that has a good amount of aggressive customers and low competition. By defining yourself and your website as an authority in a specific niche, you can really make a comfortable living with internet marketing.

There are untapped niches that people are just starving for information from the internet. It will be simple for you to provide and sell information to people in certain niches that as of now cannot find the information they are looking for.

There are plenty of other home based business ideas that I did not touch on. By combining several of these different home based business ideas, you will really give yourself the best shot of making money online. Limiting yourself to just one or two would not tap the full potential of what the internet has to offer.

Find out exactly what you need to do, set goals, and make an effort to push towards those goals every day of your life. Just think how good it will feel to be able to walk away from you boss at your day job knowing you wont ever have to work for anyone ever again. It is possible, you just have to make it happen.

Motherhood and Virtual Assistance

Being a Mom is not an easy task. You must be available in 24/7 for your family. And while you are staying at home, you think about the future or how you can help your husband financially. There are many reasons why moms become a virtual assistant. Kathryn Alexander of becomeavamom.net and I shared some common reasons:

7 Reasons to Become A Virtual Assistant Mom

1. BE AVAILABLE FOR YOUR KIDS

Childhood goes by so fast. If you have to work out of the house you may miss some things. We all know that providing for the family is the most important and comes before everything. But with a virtual assistant business, you can give for the family and be with the kids at the same time. This is the number 1 highest ranking reason that moms start a home business.

2. NO AGE DISCRIMINATION

This, unfortunately, is a real problem in some businesses. You are either too young or too old to work. In some businesses, there is a legal age need to work there if they serve alcohol or smokes. When you become a virtual assistant you are the boss and if you can do the work then your clients won’t care what your age is.

3. THE ABILITY TO CHOOSE WHO YOU WORK WITH

Do you tend to click with certain types of people more than others? With a VA business, you can decide who you want your clients to be. Authors, salespeople, consultants, coaches, executives, entrepreneurs, and small business owners are just a few of the types of people you could work with. You have the freedom to choose who you want as a client. This benefits both you and the client making you both more productive.

You can also put in your contract, that either party can end the contract immediately for any reason, especially if the client and assistant work becomes stressful, not paying on time, rude or abusive language or behavior, etc. you can stick anything in your contract because you are the boss of your business and get to decide who you work with.

4. YOU GET TO PICK YOUR OWN HOURS

When you become a virtual assistant you can work your own hours when the kids are asleep or napping, and you can work when they are in school and be available for them before and after. The flexibility is amazing. You can also choose if you want to work part-time or full-time.

5. SAVE ON COMMUTING COSTS AND TIME

If you live in a big city, or even a little city, travel to and from work is time-consuming and costly if you drive or have to pay for a bus pass monthly.

When you become a virtual assistant at home, it means no more strangers rubbing against you on the bus, or filling your gas tank every couple days to drive across town and spend hours commuting to a job you don’t really love anyway.

6. GAIN BUSINESS SKILLS AS YOU MAKE MONEY

In this business, you can charge whatever you want because you are the boss, within reason. Most people stay in the general area of $10-$40 an hour for different VA skills. For more advanced jobs you can charge more, and the more experienced VA’s charge higher.

When you are just starting out you can learn as you earn money. If you announce you are just starting your business and list what tasks you can do, and also announce you want to learn new skills you will find work. You will need to charge so, as you are learning as you go. Probably $5-10 an hour to start out if you don’t know anything. But after just a couple months of experience, you can start earning $15-$25 depending on what you are doing.

7. ALWAYS SOMETHING TO LEARN

When you become a virtual assistant you constantly have the opportunity to learn systems, programs, skills, and services if you want to. All you have to do is sign up for a system that most people use but you have never used it, go to the support or help files and read it and learn what you can. There is also the trusted YouTube to learn pretty much anything or you can enroll on tutorial classes to niche your skills.

Business Ideas With Low Investment

What are the best business ideas with low investment? This is one of the most common questions among entrepreneurs who seek to start various businesses. Indeed starting your own business is one of the best ways of safeguarding your financial status but you have to choose the right niche. Below are some business ideas that can generate you income with little investment.

Copy Writing- The growing online community has attracted very many businesses which now prefer to market their products online instead of using the traditional marketing platforms. This has led to an increase in the number of websites that are being created every day. This phenomenon has led to a rampant increase in demand for high quality web content to help this new websites rank high on various search engines. You can start a copy writing business to develop content for this websites and blogs. However, one has to learn the various search engine optimization techniques as well as writing skills so as to offer quality copy writing services.

Translation Services- This is one of the most promising business ideas with low investment. Most businesses that seek to expand their operations from a regional scale to global scale as faced with a language barrier that hinders them from providing their services in certain geographic regions. By becoming a translation service provider, you will be helping these businesses to translate their documents such as brochures and flyers into different languages. You will need to learn various languages for you to take advantage of this low investment business idea.

Health and Wellness- Currently, very many people are looking for ways that they can keep their bodies healthy and productive in this fast pace environment with increasing health care costs. Many home based businesses have had success with their own online website. If you have the right training and expertise that we also offer in this niche, you can start offering various health and wellness services such as health supplements, skin and hair care and many more.

Consultancy- Working around the clock has never being fun to anyone due to the numerous tight schedules that one has to meet. Fortunately, consultancy one of the most popularized low investment business idea scan help give you more freedom. To start this business, you have you have to identify an area that you are well conversant with such as health or marketing then look for a premises that you can use set up at your consultancy office.

Affiliated marketing- I chose this after reviewing the benefits and options of having mentors and a program that taught me the important basics and continuing education that for success. Choosing the right people to work with was the foremost important aspect. People that have a great community, integrity and genuine personalities that help propel you towards your goals. However, for the business to succeed, you will have to market your products, but with the proper tools, knowledge and products you can succeed. This will help you compete effectively with other players in the same niche as well as expand your market base.

Take time to explore our website which can provide you business ideas with low investment that offers great products for the times and the enlightenment for a fast start to success with your own online business.

The Disadvantages of Home-Staging Business

There’s no doubt that there’s money at home-staging. If you are a home-stager, you know that you are in a unique business. You get to apply your designing and decorating skills while getting paid! But just like anything else, this business has its disadvantages aside from its benefits.

In this down real estate market, every seller wants to sell their homes fast that they do almost anything to generate a sale especially for their properties which had been stuck for more than a year or so. This is because in real estate, the longer the property stays in your hand; the more difficult it is to be sold. The listing becomes stale and real estate agents will not be willing to show those buyers as there are newer properties in the listings.

The best strategy for sellers to get rid of stuck properties is home-staging. But is repairing, painting, changing of curtains and putting a few flowers in a property worth it? Let’s just say that doing all those processes are not expensive, but have you thought about your competitions? The new built homes? The following are the other disadvantages of this business.

There are many anxious sellers who are desperate of getting rid of their homes and the easiest way that they seem to make that happen is to have their home for home-staging. Staging is, no doubt, the most unique approach to sell homes. However, is it really worth your time and effort? What if you staged a home, and still never sell? You just got your money wasted as well your own time. So what to do?

The following are some tips on the advantages and disadvantages of home-staging your property that is up for sale:

1. It takes so much time and so much effort, and may become expensive in the case of homes that are hard to sell.

2. When talking about investment, home-staging is not practical. Remember, a good investment is spending one dollar and getting two in return. If it’s 1 to 1 or 1 to 0, then it is a very bad investment.

3. If you stage the home while you are still living on it, you will have to empty the furniture, empty the closets and drawers, and keep the bathroom clean and fresh every day. That’s another household chore that is difficult to maintain in regular days.

Unless you are willing to make sacrifices, exert extra effort and willing to risk your money, home-staging might not work for you, so think carefully.

Making Money Online With CPA Affiliate Marketing

It’s a fact. Many thousands of people worldwide are being laid off by their employer owing to today’s global economic crisis. From big car manufacturers to small business, everyone is feeling the pinch. However there is one industry that’s still booming and offers regular people, with no qualification necessary, the chance to make money working from their own house.

Some people, the hard working ones, are earning the same income that they did working the 9-5 work day. These people are leaving their jobs behind in droves and working from the comfort of their own home, on a full time basis.

So what’s this industry called? Can it really be so? The industry is affiliate marketing, and yes, it can really be so.

Affiliate marketing is very simple. It rewards a marketer, commonly known as an affiliate, for promoting various products on the internet. Affiliates are paid a commission by the company whose product they are promoting, every time they refer customers to the company’s website and a sale is made, or a ‘lead’ is generated.

Becoming an affiliate is now one of the most profitable ways to make money on the internet. The sheer scope and amount of products that can be promoted is staggering. Marketing using affiliates is an extremely cost effective way for big and small business alike to expose their products to a massive audience of potential buyers.

The industry has the potential to provide a limitless source of income for affiliates who aggressively promote products and offers of such businesses. Such affiliates have been reaping the rewards of larger profits as the industry grows and becomes ever popular. As an affiliate you can expect to earn from 30% right up to 90% of the price per sale from customers whom you refer. Some programs even offer recurring monthly payouts for their products!

Cost Per Action, or CPA marketing as it’s commonly known, is a marketing system whereby affiliates earn money for simply referring visitors to a web page to fill out a short form or enter their zip code, without the necessity to make a purchase. This is fast becoming the hottest trend in affiliate marketing and sees some affiliates make $1000 plus in a single day. This new way of marketing promises to be exciting and highly profitable for years to come.

As mentioned earlier, there are no specific criteria or qualification for becoming an affiliate. You need to submit your resume. You do need to be committed and put in a good effort, and will at the same time develop skills in internet marketing, research and promoting offers.

Tips for Choosing A Legitimate Home Based Business Opportunity

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and the desire to work from home, a home-based business opportunity can be a great option. Business opportunities provide you with a turnkey system and support so that you can be in business “for yourself, not by yourself”.

Unfortunately, a multitude of unscrupulous companies have cropped up on the internet over the past several years, making the search for a legitimate home based business a bit of a challenge. The good news is that there are legitimate and profitable home based business opportunities out there and if you’re able to identify certain “red flags”, it won’t be that difficult to eliminate the “scams” and spot the opportunity that’s right for you:

Red Flag #1: You visit a business opportunity website and there are pages of copy promising financial freedom and personal wealth but it doesn’t tell you anything about what the company does. If a company doesn’t clearly state their product and/or service, be wary.

Red Flag #2: The company website states that you’ll make unrealistic amounts of money, with minimal effort, in a very short period of time. This is simply not true. Businesses take time to grow. If any business opportunity website promises that you’ll be a millionaire in 3 months or less, ask yourself, “If there was a way to get rich overnight, wouldn’t everyone be doing it?”

Red Flag #3: While there may be several testimonials of successful business owners listed on a business opportunity’s website, you still need to ask for references and contact them by phone or e-mail. And, if a company isn’t willing to provide references, they’re not legit.

Red Flag #4: Once you’ve found a business that interests you, request additional information. If the company asks you to provide a credit card number or to pay a fee-no matter how small-it’s a scam.

Red Flag #5: Ask how your business will make money. If your ability to make money relies on you recruiting other people to sell a product or service, the company is most likely a multi-level marketing business and, in most cases, the only people who make legitimate money with MLM’s are the people at the top!

Finally, keep in mind that when you do find a business opportunity that feels like the right fit for you, don’t fall in love too quickly. Take the time to research your market for competition to be sure that your area isn’t saturated with a similar product or service. And most importantly, make sure that the business capitalizes on your strengths and talents and allows you to do something you love each day. It’s a well-known fact that entrepreneurs who love what they do are much more likely to succeed!

Micro Entrepreneurs

Micro entrepreneurs are the owners of small businesses that have fewer than five employees and have startup costs of less than $35,000 and annual revenue of less than $100,000. There are nearly 21.5 million micro entrepreneurs in the U.S. Examples of micro entrepreneurs are owners of bakeries, beauty parlors, child care facilities, repair shops, arts and crafts shops, painting businesses, contracting businesses, family-owned shops, auto body shops, small-scale restaurants, and small-inventory trading businesses.

Micro entrepreneurs face many hurdles in getting startup financing, and they sometimes lack the skills necessary to manage the financial aspect of their business. As a result, many micro entrepreneurs cannot grow and develop their business beyond a micro enterprise. Various micro enterprise development programs have helped micro entrepreneurs achieve great success and growth. These micro enterprise development programs have immensely helped micro entrepreneurs who lack collateral needed to secure a loan or those who have low or no credit by providing them with training, support, help in developing a solid business plan, and assistance in building their businesses. Successful micro entrepreneurs have contributed much to society by creating wealth, economic assets, and jobs.

How To Become A Micro Entrepreneur

It is essential to study the market thoroughly and understand that market’s customers before deciding on the type and kind of product or service to be offered.

Here are some suggestions:

Work out a sound business plan by doing extensive research and seeking help from the various micro enterprise development programs.

Make arrangements for the startup capital by using savings, opting for a micro loan program, or applying for a grant.

Do extensive market research, get the necessary training and skills required, and learn how to use technology to help run your business easily.

Study the competition and analyze how you can better them.

Get a good retail space to run your business as well as decide on the price, making sure it is right and has a profit margin; decide how to utilize the profit, whether you want to save it or reinvest and expand your micro business.

Make sure that the quality of the product is never compromised and that your customers are happy, ensuring customer retention.

Assistance for Micro Entrepreneurs

Micro entrepreneurs in the U.S. are in need of training and skill development workshops as well as help in utilizing technology to help run their business. Some micro entrepreneurs need access to easily available funds for startup and growth. In order to encourage more people to become micro entrepreneurs, state, federal, and private sectors should make available ample funding for such enterprises.

With a little effort, you can find firms that sell their services as well as products to help run successful businesses. You can even seek professional help to arrange business credit for micro enterprises.

How to Write a Small Business Plan

The first thing to do when starting a small business is to write a plan for your business, it is very essential and useful if you really want to focus yourself and get a whole picture of what you have to do in order to build your enterprise. A business plan is the road map for the success of your business

What do you have to offer?

What are your products or what are your intended products? What are your products or services? What kind of income will these activities be generating or what is the expected range of income once the products are launched? Give answers to these questions giving a complete picture of the principal activity that you are engaged in or will be engaged in during the timeline of your business plan.

Where are you located?

Do you work from home or do you have a business premises? If you have a business location such as a store or factory, then explain about the size and capacity of this establishment. What is the business climate like in your area? Are there significant competitors and what are your prospects or advantages of competing in this market? Find answers to all these questions as best you can and give yourself and would-be investors a clear picture of where your business is situated geographically and with relation to your overall market.

How to make it happen?

Your sales and marketing research or plan should be outlined in this section. Explain how you intend to establish your product or service and what steps you will take to create or expand your customer base. How will you fund the start-up cost and the expansion of your business? Explain the source of your funds whether you have existing loans, your savings, borrowing from friends or liabilities. How much money do you need to raise in order to get realize your entire plan for the launching or expansion of your business? Explain how you are going to put your business idea into practice.

Having a good business plan is your key to success. A well-thought-out business plan forces you to think about the future and the challenges you will be facing. As long as your forecasts are realistic and you have done plenty of market research you will definitely come out with a good result. Go ahead with your plan and stick to it.

To your success!