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Work Only 8 Months Per Year and Play for 4 Months With Your Own Window Cleaning Business

Are you an outdoorsy person? Or do you dream of traveling for months at a time? Or maybe just someone who appreciates long periods of down time. Whatever the reason, starting a window cleaning business may be the answer you’ve been looking for.

While working only 8 months out of the year might seem like a pie in the sky dream, it is in fact more attainable than you probably think. I should know because I’ve done it, as have many other window cleaners from around the world.

In most parts of the world, the window cleaning markets boom for a little over half the year and then slow down through the winter months before picking up again in the spring. Therefore by operating a window cleaning business you have roughly 8 months (or more in some places) to rake in the money with steady window cleaning jobs.

But can I really make enough money in 8 months to live on for the full year?

The answer is a resounding YES! Of course, knowing how to live within your means is required. Let’s look at some basic numbers to explain how it is possible to only work for 8 months out of the year.

Most people in the US could live quite comfortably on $50,000 a year, in fact a large percentage of the population would kill to earn this much in 12 months, much less 8. So we will use $50,000 as our required income for the example.

Nobody wants to work 24/7 at any job, no matter how much you love it. Most good paying jobs require you to work 5 or 6 days a week, so we will use these numbers in our example.

Full-time solo window cleaners typically earn between $300 and $400 a day. Sometimes they may earn as much as $500 per day working by themselves. Simply by hiring a laborer to work with you can jump your daily income by 80% or more.

Now that we’ve got all of our criteria nailed down, let’s see how it all breaks down in our 8 month time frame:

– Working 6 days a week for 8 months, means you would be working a total of 192 days per year. And with our required income of $50,000, that means that you would need to earn an average of $260.41 per day.

– Working only 5 days a week for 8 months, means you would be working a total of 160 days per year. And with our required income of $50,000, that means that you would need to earn an average of $312.50 per day.

Looking at the above examples, the goal of working only 8 months out of 12 is looking more tangible by the minute and considering that the average residential window cleaning job is around $200, earning $50,000 in eight months could easily become a reality.

The Teacher As Disciplinarian: Ten Ideas That Really Work!

Ten Ideas You Can Try Right Away

“Discipline is not the Enemy of Enthusiasm!”

– Morgan Freeman as Joe Clark

When it comes to Discipline in the schools, there are many well-publicized and well-marketed “systems”. People sometimes get carried away with systems, or programs, structures, textbooks, etc., arguing passionately, for example, that block scheduling is better than traditional scheduling, or integrated math is better than traditional math, or whole language is better than phonics, or this discipline system is better than that discipline system. Similarly, real estate agents will include the name of various school districts in their advertisement for a particular home based on how beautiful the district’s buildings are.

The focus, wrongly, is almost always placed on things, and not people. The truth of the matter is, and I’ll wait while you etch it in stone, my system will do better than your system if my people believe in our system and are passionately committed to its success. So when you hear the arguments, ad nauseum, for this system over that system in the schools, know that it is not the “thing” that caused the success, but the caring and passionate people working within the system.

The rules of golf, my friends, state that you are permitted to have 14 clubs in your bag. In the “golf course” of life in the schools, do you remember the teacher who only had a “driver” in his or her bag?

As we approach the topic of School Discipline, we must begin with the a priori acknowledgement that the American Juvenile Justice System is built on a rehabilitative model. This starts with the understanding that kids- you were a kid too, remember- are not perfect, that they will make mistakes, and that it is our duty as grownups to help them acquire the social skills needed to function as a productive individuals in society. If the Juvenile Justice system is set up this way, then how much more so must the school disciplinary approach be one that attempts to assist young people so that they improve their inappropriate behavior and become productive individuals? Naturally, this means that kids are supposed to get second and third chances, and some attempts at modifying behavior might take several years.

If the people who work in the schools were able to actually “fly the plane” in all respects, there would be no “Zero Tolerance” policies, either, and you would not read about kindergarten kids getting expelled for having a nail file, or because they gave a member of the opposite sex a hug. These coward politicians love to show how tough they are by passing legislation to expel kindergarten kids for hugging somebody or having a pocket knife. Media people, please listen: No real educator would ever come up with a policy like that- even criminals get three strikes- the one strike baseball game was concocted by politicians trying to get votes, not the educators you criticize when this tragedy occurs!

In the Broadway Show Bye Bye Birdie, Paul Lynde, bemoaning the behavior of teenagers “today” (circa 1960) sings in one of the songs this phrase- posed as a question… “Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way…what’s the matter with kids today, etc.?” A school I attended as a child had this quote on the wall by John D. Rockefeller… “What I am to be, I am now becoming.” So, everyone listen carefully… The kids you have right now or are going to have when you are out there teaching have not, unlike you, attained to perfection yet!!! However, perhaps through your caring efforts, patience, and rehabilitative strategies, they might get a few steps closer to the target- but they are not there just yet. So you will have discipline problems.

There are still teachers around who make kids stand in the corner and hold a dictionary in their outstretched arms or have someone write the dictionary, or “I must not talk in class” 500 times. We have all heard the horror stories of actions taken by teachers that do nothing but guarantee that the student will continue to do the wrong thing- often with greater enthusiasm. Don’t forget the line from Bye Bye Birdie…they are not perfect yet like you! Remember also that we are not selling a system in this book. You can buy books and take courses. Our purpose in this chapter is to give you a variety of tools- more like 14 clubs for your disciplinary “golf bag” if you will. These are strategies that have a high degree of success and can effect quick change.

PROACTIVE vs. REACTIVE

1. Start With a Positive…

Very few kids are discipline problems the first day of school or the first week of school. You probably already have an idea about the reputation of most of your students because the grapevine has informed you. The kids that have the potential to be problems have parents who usually are also aware that their child is a problem because that same child is a problem at home. So when these parents come to school angry at you the teacher, it’s really a case of misplaced aggression because it is their kid who is driving them over the edge. These same parents have literally cried on the telephone to me when they received good news about their child from the people at school- because it never happened before this. What’s the message for you? While it’s still early in the year- before the problems have manifested themselves, look for something positive that these potential problem individuals are doing and contact the parents to tell them the good thing that their child was doing.

Later, you will need the help of these parents to help change their child’s behavior and they will remember this phone call and view you as a nice person- a fair person- maybe the first person in the school district who has ever said something nice about their child. When you call later, you begin by saying… “Hi Mrs. Smith. This is Mr. Jones from the school. You probably remember that we talked when I called you about the nice thing your daughter was doing in my class.” Mom will say that yes, she remembers you. You then say, “I need your help with something.” Then you explain the discipline problem that her daughter is involved with and ask her if she could get involved at home and perhaps, working together as a team, you and Mom can help the child to improve this problem she is now having. Most of the time, the parents will go out of their way to help you. They will also remind the child that you actually said something nice about them and we want to keep this nice teacher on our side- he’s a friend. This potential problem child may start acting better anyway because he realizes that you also make good comments, not just negative ones like everyone else. This is an example of a teacher being PROACTIVE.

2. The Unknown Time-Out

Although this strategy works best with younger students, used sparingly, it will also be equally effective with high school students. Make a plan with one of the secretaries, the Athletic Director, the Principal in a smaller school, or some other person- perhaps the Librarian, the Nurse, Custodian, etc. You can arrange multiple destinations for the Unknown Time-Out maneuver. When you have one or more particularly difficult students or ones that start well but get mixed up in any of the commotion that occurs in class, you call one of the students up to you desk, hand him a colored envelope that has something in it with the name of the person the envelope is going to on it. You tell the student to take this envelope to the person and wait for a response and then bring the response back.

When the recipient of the envelope sees that particular student or that colored envelope, he or she knows what is going on and tells the student to sit in the waiting area while they get the answer ready. Now they take 10 minutes to prepare the response, give it to the student and tell the student to take it back to you. This student just got a “Time-Out” lasting perhaps 15 minutes without knowing it. This Proactive strategy kept the student from being yelled at again for what would have been his inevitable misbehavior, he has done something that seemed to be responsible, and so you the teacher comment on his reliability and thank him. The anticipated daily problem never occurred in the first place. In this process, the envelope, not the student, can be the indicator, so more than one teacher and additional students can be involved in this process. It is unlikely that the students- even high school students, will ever catch on to this strategy.

3. Inviting the Principal to Provide the Positive

If you had the pleasure to attend a Catholic Elementary School in the mid 50’s, you may remember this- ruefully, I do. The report cards were distributed every 6 weeks, so every 6 weeks, the priest would come into class on a Friday to be involved in the process of handing out the report cards to 65 or so students in the class. As the Priest gave out the report cards, he always added a moment or two of editorializing. To this day, I have bad dreams about him saying… “Daniel. Hmmm. Let’s see…My goodness, I know your Mother…The Poor Woman will be broken-hearted when she sees this awful report card.” Of course, everyone is sitting all prim and proper with their hands folded, but your buddies are looking at you and silently making faces and laughing all the while. All of this had quite the dramatic effect.

What’s the message for you? DON’T INVITE ANYONE IN FOR A NEGATIVE!!! But, invite the principal in and when he is there, publicly acknowledge the student by saying something like… “By the way Dr. Stevens(The Principal) Billy here has been one of my most improved students this report period- he is doing some very nice work!” – Or, “Billy, why don’t you show Dr. Stevens your excellent Social Studies project?” Billy has been doing some excellent work lately Dr. Stevens! The principal knows that this is his cue to congratulate the child and talk more about how nice it is to see students behaving this way, etc. This is another very proactive way to reinforce any positive behavior being shown by a student who does not show it that often.

4. The Sandwich Technique

The Sandwich Technique comes to us from the world of sports psychology and has been an effective tool for modifying behavior and encouraging people for over 30 years. It has application to almost every area of human endeavor- in fact, you can even use it with your spouse. It begins by getting a person’s attention by saying something positive. We say this because, for the most part, whether you are a spouse, an athlete, or a misbehaving child, your ears tend to close when you sense that a negative comment is coming your way- we all tend to tune this stuff out. So we get people’s attention by saying something positive first- the ears perk up. The positive is followed by what we really wanted to say- the criticism or negative and any disciplinary action that might be occurring. It is followed by a final upbeat and positive comment. Thus the negative is the Peanut Butter and Jelly, and the positive in front and at the end are the two pieces of white bread.

We’ll leave it to you how best to apply it in other walks of life, but consider how it can be used in the school setting by looking at the following hypothetical:

Johnny misbehaved in you class again today. He’s actually an intelligent individual who simply is not working to the best of his ability. He has shown flashes of brilliance, but for the most part, is usually at the center of any commotion that goes on in class- he’s been turning in some sloppy work lately as well. Write a script of what you would say to Johnny making sure to apply the Sandwich Technique.

It might go like this: Johnny, you know that I like you- you and I have developed a pretty good friendship over the last couple of months haven’t we? That’s why I am surprised that it is you I have to talk to so much. I have looked at your test scores and I have seen some of your work and it is excellent- you have the ability to be one of my brightest students. Here’s the problem, though…this is the fourth time in a row that you have turned in such sloppy work. So I am going to just keep giving it back to you till you do it correctly, and I don’t care if it takes you a month to do it correctly. You will have to come in after school to redo the work, Also, if you do not change the quality of your work, then I am going to have Mom and Dad come in, and you know what your father said he would do if I call him about you, don’t you? What do you think would be a good way to fix this problem? (Avoiding the Yes-No question)All right. Let’s get back to work, but I want you to know, I think you are a sharp kid, and I was just talking about you in a good way to Dr, Stevens. So let’s start doing the work I know you are capable of. Etc.”

5. Divide and Conquer

In this situation, two students are a constant disruption in class. Take one of the students and treat him in a way that is a little less strident than the other. This can be done by rewarding one of the students for doing something right and making it seem as though he is not the real trouble maker in all of these class problems- it’s the other guy. The second person will not stay too friendly with the first person, and the first person will begin to distance himself from the second person. You say to the first student, “You know Billy, I look at you as one of my better students and I don’t think of you as a troublemaker like some students seem to be in this class. What do you think you could do to improve this problem? (Again, not a yes-no)Following the private discussion, you move Billy making sure to explain to him that you want to get him away from the problems so he can do good work and not be bothered all the time. The partners in crime will not be so friendly with each other after you take this action.

6. The Phone Call From Class

Signal for the misbehaving child to join you in the hallway. Tell the child that you have your cell phone “right here in your hand”, and if you ever see this kind of behavior again, you are going to call his or her Mom at her place of work right here from class and the child is going to have to explain to her Mom the reason why the call is being made. The teacher then asks the student how happy he thinks his Mom is going to be to receive such a phone call from school when she is working? When he replies, “Not very happy”, say, “Right, not very happy, so I expect to see some very quick improvement in your behavior- got that Billy? This is one time where a yes answer is all that is needed. The next day, or for the next few weeks or so, if Billy is acting out, the teacher merely holds the phone up and looks at it and then looks back to Billy. Billy will understand completely. Additionally, can you imagine the effect this will have on the other students, notably potential problem individuals when they find out that someone had to actually call his or her mother from class!

7. The Letter in the Drawer

Let’s say that a child uses foul language in you class. First you tell him that this kind of language is not appropriate for class and that you and he are going to have to talk about this after class. Quietly, without any overreaction and typically after class, although there might be occasion to use this technique within earshot of classmates, you tell the student the following: You are really surprised that a person like him would be speaking like that. You then tell him to write down what he said on a piece of paper. Make sure all of the words and details are included in the writing. Then, with a flourish, you place the writing in a business envelope and put a stamp on it and tell the student that normally, this would go directly into the mail with a phone call to let Mom know it is coming. Also, you dramatically write out a disciplinary referral.

Then you might tell the student that you are going to give him a detention for his behavior, but since you the teacher are such a nice person, you are going to keep this letter and the referral in your desk for mow. If this behavior ever occurs again though, both of these items are being sent along with a second mailing for the additional offense. Then you tell the student that this will stay in your desk till the end of the marking period at which time you will dispose of it if he, the child, continues to behave properly. Like the technique involving the cell phone, if the child is starting to misbehave a few days letter, you can point to the letter or the referral as a silent reminder. The child will get the point and probably appreciate your kindness.

8. Invite Mom to come in

This is a great technique for improving everyone’s behavior because one visit to your class by someone’s Mom who sits right next to her normally misbehaving child for one or more periods and everyone will behave because they will fear that they might be next. Kids would rather have root canal than have Mom come in to sit next to them for an entire period or several periods. The process works like this: You make an effort ahead of time to establish a good working relationship with the Moms of some of your most significant problem individuals. You call Mom and invite her in because Junior is misbehaving. Mom comes to class and sits right next to her child and can remain for one or more days. Nobody wants to endure this humiliation. Do it just once and many of your discipline troubles will be over. The next day after the visitor leaves, the teacher can say… “Well, you saw a parent in here to visit because there were some problems I wanted her to see…who’s next?” Don’t expect any hands!!!

9. Involve the Guidance Counselor

Without fail, you will find guidance counselors more than happy to assist you in dealing with a student experiencing problems because it gives them the opportunity to do what they went to school to learn how to do. This is important to guidance counselors because, in the present national testing zeitgeist, they have all too often become the de facto assessment coordinators for their school. They have less time to actually counsel kids because much of their time is being spent checking bubble sheets, counting booklets, and filling out forms for the state as well as sifting through mountains of paperwork related to special education, for example. As a teacher who sees the same students on a daily basis, you know which students have the most pressing issues related to discipline and which ones would profit most from a visit with the counselor as opposed to a visit with the Principal or Dean of Students. Not every matter needs to go to the principal.

On the other hand, you are out there amidst the masses and you hear various stories about kids regarding things that are happening in their lives. Sometimes you have established enough of a rapport with a student that he or she shares it with you himself. Once a student was talking to me about where she was going for the holidays and matter of factly told me that she and her two sisters are from 3 different fathers and they would be going to see all of the fathers as well as the related grandparents, and even though one of the fathers used to “beat my Mom up”, things are pretty good around the holidays as long as he doesn’t get too drunk, etc. The child acted as though this was completely normal, and although she was a discipline problem now and then, after hearing this story, I looked at her much differently. I realized quickly that this was something that should involve the guidance counselor.

Remember also that kids spend more time around the people in school than the people at home, so you will often know immediately when a kid just does not look right which might be an indicator of sexual abuse, drug use, eating disorders, pregnancy, self abuse, etc. Maybe the grapevine knows about a death, a loss of a job, marital unrest, etc. You are the first line of defense in this process. The counselor has all of the right contacts and phone numbers of professionals that she can bring into the process. When a kid who was never a discipline problem starts to become one, or his work starts to take a negative turn, pay attention and don’t just turn directly to the discipline code page in the student handbook. You and the counselor, working together, can be a great force for changing a kid’s life- and the matter never has to get to the discipline office. Don’t be upset, however, if after the counselor gets involved, he or she is unable to share all information about the child with you. There are some issues with Confidentiality involved, so maybe all you will hear is that “The matter is being taken care of.” That might be all you are able to find out.

10. Careful About Examples

Do you remember the movie Home Alone? In it, Mc Cauley Culkin, the child who was left behind is talking to the old man who used to scare him. They are sitting in a church and the kid tells the old man that a certain third grader got “nailed” when kids found out that he wore dinosaur pajamas. If you are not careful about certain examples you speak about to misbehaving kids, you might get somebody “nailed”. To clarify, if you had brothers or sisters, do you ever remember hearing this from either of your parents, “Why can’t you be more like your brother who always makes the honor roll- he always does all of his work so neatly!

If, as a teacher, you make an example like this by saying, “Why can’t you people in the back turn in neat work like Jimmy here- he is such a wonderful student?”… you may be insuring that poor Jimmy is going to get “Nailed”. The world of kids is difficult enough, don’t put someone in peril because he or she is a model student. You can still have pageantry involving awards, but never expressed in a comparative way as in, “Jimmy got this, but look at you Billy, you only got this!” Your parents did that. It did not necessarily endear you to your brother or sister when the comparison was made.

The End Of Business As Usual: Rewire The Way You Work To Succeed – A Brief Summary

In The End of Business as Usual, author Brian Sola explains the sea change in business caused by the advent of social media, Sola poses quite a challenge to those of us who have not yet joined the Facebook, Twitter and Linked-in revolution. He got my attention with the statement that 65% of the Millennial generation born between the mid-seventies and late 90’s are disconnected while awake less than one hour per day! Less than that “creates an unnerving sense of disconnectedness”.

Taking Seth Godin’s concept of Permission Marketing even further, Sola claims that it’s not about companies connecting with customers, it’s about customers deciding whether they want to connect with the company now and over time. The internet explosion required that successful email marketers must earn the permission of their reader via the recipient’s optin- agreement to receive the ad; a far cry from the intrusive and aggressive Madison Ave type advertising classically seen on television. Over the last ten years, we learned how to integrate permission marketing into our offers and our over-all marketing campaigns. And we found that we were adaptable and willing to change.

Guess what? It’s time for more change if we want to compete in the 21st century. Here is why.

The Millennial purchaser is not just interested in giving permission to the companies they want to hear from: they expect to partner with them, claims Sola, More than simply a business relationship, these younger purchasers expect to like the company they do business with so that they can share and post their purchasing experiences with their friends and networks, estimated at an average of 130 for each Facebook user. When they have a problem, they are not interested in dealing with your customer service departments, they expect to hear from someone at the top.. Aged from 17-32 as of 2012, this group comprises 25% of the on-line purchasing population.

Both In 2010 and 2011, Facebook outranked Google as the primary search term-people are increasingly more interested in other people and relationships. The results?

Americans are looking to different sources for our information. Television viewers are declining, subscriptions to traditional newspapers dropped by 9% in 2010, even more in the last couple of years. The combined subscribers of the New York Times, Wall St. Journal and USA Today have less than 5 million subscribers while Facebook houses more than 750 million residents and over 200 million people are using Twitter as a primary mode of communication. Interestingly the isolation predicted by the increased use of internet during the nineties does not seem to hold in the twenty-first century: surveyors find that over 50 percent of respondents feel more connected now than they did prior to the emergence of the social networks. The increased sense of “connectedness” is apparently more than a virtual phenomenon.

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, introduced a formula later known as “Zuckerberg’s Law” when he explained that social networking is simply about connecting with people we know and predicted that with each passing year, people will share twice as much information.Think about that for just a moment; a doubling of shared information each and every year. According to Nielson, Americans in 2011 spent a quarter of their waking hours on line networking and Facebook measures more than 700 billion minutes per month spent “Facebooking.”

These numbers are staggering and the implications for marketing profound for those whose products are shared, liked and posted.

How Does VoIP Phone Service Work?

For years, businesses have been replacing their analog phone lines with VoIP phone service. In its early years, VoIP picked up its own reputation among users and skeptics who touted it as unreliable; however, throughout its history, this new communication technology has grown in popularity and left its mark as a reliable and practical communication solution for businesses of all sizes.

Today, businesses use VoIP features to stay in touch with customers and colleagues, expand their businesses seamlessly, monitor employee performance, and build customer loyalty. By harnessing the power of the cloud, VoIP also offers a degree of flexibility and simplicity that analog users just can’t experience.

While analog phone service keeps communications fixed in one location, VoIP allows you to make and receive your business calls from any device (office, mobile, or soft phone app) or forward them to external sites and extensions.

The flexibility and convenience of this technology is what most users love about business VoIP providers.

Small businesses and entrepreneurs are also able to use VoIP phone service to create the image of a larger company with features like auto attendant and custom prompt menus.

What can you expect from a VoIP phone service?

VoIP takes analog audio signals and converts them into digital data which can be transmitted over the internet. With less bandwidth required to transmit the data, there is less occurrence of jitter which causes that choppy audio and lackluster call quality that drives everyone crazy.

Call quality, cost savings, and easy setup are the main drivers of VoIP’s success but there are several features and capabilities that set this communication technology apart.

These are few of the standard features you can expect when using a VoIP phone service:

Call forwarding
Voicemail to email
Auto attendant, also known as a digital receptionist or cloud receptionist
Call continuity
Programmable keypads
App integration
Caller ID display
Call blocking
Call conferencing
Mobile capabilities

VoIP phone service can seem like a drastic change to your communications strategy but if you’re willing to speak with consultants, you will see that it’s actually a simple transition.

A Better Business Communication Solution

Convenient set up

Even with more recent, premise-based business phone systems, set up is cumbersome and expensive compared to a cloud-based phone system. It requires users to connect wires and figure out which line pairs with which extension; most busy business owners usually end up either having to hire someone to install it for them or spend hours on the phone with their phone company.

With VoIP, the time it takes to get up and running is minimal and most VoIP service providers offer support to help you every step of the way. Usually, however, it’s as easy as plugging in your IP phone and letting it initialize to your existing network.

There are no wires or lines to worry about since your service provider takes care of most of the set up before you receive your new equipment. When you use VoIP phone service, your settings come pre-configured to your phone so all you have to do is connect your phone to the correct ports and you’re on your way.

The best part?

Since VoIP is cloud-based, your provider is able to take the maintenance of equipment and servers that help power your communications off your hands by managing their own servers and IT staff for your convenience.

This means any business can enjoy using this technology regardless of the size of their location.

Minimize costs

Businesses see significant savings when they switch from traditional phone service. With older PBX systems, you had to hire an IT staff to maintain the equipment housed in your office, pay for long distance charges, and if you wanted to add a line to your office you had to pay the phone company more for the phone number and installation.

Today’s VoIP technology only requires one-time hardware costs and a monthly subscription based on service plan rates. Long distance calling rates vary among providers but many offer unlimited calling along with competitive international rates.

Easy setup, lower costs, and robust features make VoIP a great solution for business communication. It’s no surprise that VoIP is seeing rapid growth with no signs of slowing down in the coming years.

Best Work From Home Jobs

Many moms would love to find the best work from home job, and today, thanks to the internet, moms work at home jobs are becoming increasingly popular. For example, some entreprenuers offer free internet business classes online, so moms can stay at home, raise their kids, and have a legitimate job.

Remember the day maternity leave ended and the baby had to go to the sitter for the first time? The baby is quite content, but Mom cries all the way to work. Then, as time passes, when Mom picks up the child in the evenings, the babysitter recounts some milestone she has witnessed today. Soon, he/she will be a toddler, a preschooler, a kindergartener, etc. and Mom has spent the majority of those years at the office, while someone else raises her son/daughter.

Today, more and more moms work at home, earning a substantial sum of money, while taking time out to kiss skinned knees, wipe sticky fingers, collect dozens of hugs and wet kisses, and have the flexible time necessary for frequent trips to the park. In other words, the best work from home job is the one with a flexible work schedule, allowing for the most important job of all-being Mommy.

Moms work at home while the kids are down for a nap, at school, or busy playing with Dad. For Mom, being able to choose the schedule also means not missing “Billy’s” play, or being a classroom mom for “Susie’s” Christmas party. With self-imposed hours, Mom can adjust the schedule to accommodate special and memorable events.

The best work from home job is one Mom can enjoy and feel good about accomplishing. For example, maybe she has a college degree in marketing or education. Plenty of positions are available for ladies to start her own business, or work with someone who already has an established online business. Truthfully, the online businesses realizing the greatest success are managed by individuals with good marketing skills. If they did not have the skills when the business was first begun, marketing became something to be learned as soon as possible.

Another example is former English teachers. Now, educated moms work at home as writers, virtual tutors, and online course instructors for colleges and universities, and editors. Whether she is looking for a part-time paycheck to help with a couple of household bills and grocery money, or choosing to work full-time as the main breadwinner in the family, the Internet has ample opportunities for gainful employment.

Realistically, the best work from home job is the one where moms work at home as moms, first and foremost, and the income bearing job is secondary. However, with the rising divorce rate, and the ever-increasing cost of living, many single moms choose to work at home for economical reasons. Oftentimes, by the time Uncle Sam gets his cut and the sitter gets hers, a mom is lucky to bring home half a paycheck.

In addition, with the inflated price of gasoline and automobile maintenance, staying home, with the car in the garage, and working part-time at the kitchen table makes economical sense. Being a good mom is actually a full-time job in-and-of itself. Coupled with the office work, moms are lucky to get enough time to sleep. So, why invest in a company’s or the boss’ future. Having the two best work from home jobs are a definite investment into Mom’s future, and that of her children.

Work at Home Based Online Business

If you possess the same wining attitude, you can start another home based business. You might be wondering what does this mean. It means you have to train, instruct and encourage other people to carry or start their businesses efficiently, as you had done in your case to become successful entrepreneur.

It is brilliant idea to start. First, formulate an online course on how one can work at home. You can prepare this course in different ways. Offer weekly lessons to people via e-mails. Generally, the session needs to start after a student pays and signs up for the course. E-mail programs offer individuals with extensive information, to learn certain portion of operating a home based venture.

Along with it, launch personal e-mails to students having a small number of questions. Students need to respond to the questions mentioned in the email. It can be a type of test. Another method, to create a work at home based business, is virtual classroom teaching session. It can be set at predetermined time intervals.

Offer it through chat media. You can also provide the students with video, written content or audio material at that instant, so that they can download and refer it at their convenient time.

Assignments And Venture’s Effectiveness:

Now, you have to decide, if you want to give assignments to students or not. You can also formulate an incentive method for pupils. For instance, keep certain conditions that if students pass with at least C grade in your exams, only then you will permit them for higher level course.

If you wish to give assignment to students, make it interactive. It means they need to participate in it lively. Else, it can be questions, which your students can answer, only after personal study.

Remember that lessons that you offer needs to be valuable enough. Many people want to know, how they can launch a home based business. Many of them may have not taken necessary education in it. Although, it is not necessary to have degree of accredited business school to start a business, people will surely appreciate your work.

If you teach people in simple way, the fundamentals of starting and operating a home based business, you will surely become successful in this venture. Thus, if you are excellent at teaching, think about the ideas mentioned here. As it is easier for individuals to become more successful, if they know what they are doing.

The Best Make Money Online and Work at Home Internet Based Business

Would you believe that the best make money online and work at home internet based business is contained in this very article? Hard to believe, isn’t it? Most people reading that will dismiss it almost immediately, but a select few of you would understand that it is true, or at least be willing to take action and find out for yourself.

And just by taking action and being persistent, you will inevitably succeed. It really comes down to a numbers game. It has been proven over and over again that 95% of people fail to make money online or through a work at home internet based business not because of failing to discover the “secret,” but because they simply quit too early or fail to even begin in the first place.

This may be surprising to some people, but the power of persistence and belief should not be underestimated.

Think of it this way: if you took a group of people who believed they would make money online no matter what, and another group that wasn’t sure if they were capable of making money with a work at home internet based business, who do you think is going to work harder? And work longer until they really succeed?

It’s the first group obviously.

It is a fact that people are making millions online everyday. Therefore, if you work at it consistently every day, you will inevitably succeed. It’s inevitable.

So, start learning and implementing. Don’t find ways to convince yourself that you shouldn’t take action. Stop making excuses and just start doing!

Once you start doing, you will start learning. And the more you learn the better you get. And the better you get and the more you do, the more money you will make online. So as you can see, anyone can achieve true success with a home internet based business, as long as they are willing to take action, stick with it and not give up.

Here are some of the most profitable ways to make money online:

1. Sell your own product (information or physical)

2. Sell someone else’s product (affiliate marketing, reselling, dropshipping)

3. Making money from advertising placed on your website(s)

Remember, the actual idea you have is not as important as your ability to take action. If you are truly interested in learning how to make money online, spend some time learning about the potential of these and other methods of doing business online.

Do You Fall At The Big Work From Home Online Marketing Hurdle?

Do you suffer from the big work from home online marketing hurdle that is not just a barrier to slow down progress, but it appears as such a barrier that it prevents many who want to start an online marketing business from getting started? It is easily sorted out but it takes focus and action to ensure that you do not slip back into the inertia that it creates.

So what exactly is this huge hurdle that so many people new to online marketing will face? It is what is termed information overload. It can be best illustrated through the following all too familiar scenario. You are new to internet marketing and so want to find out as much as you can about how to start, what to do and what you need. You join the info marketer’s email list and in return can download their free gift containing information on a certain topic. In that report, there is mentioned various things that you will need to do. The problem is that you then start gathering yet more free reports and ebooks that provide yet more information.

It is usual that some paid for products are also bought that will cover greater detail about a certain topic. You think you must build the complete picture of knowing everything of what to do and how to do it covering the whole spectrum of internet marketing. And once you have this great digital library on your computer’s hard drive plus some physical manuals and perhaps some DVDs, you are then faced with a dilemma. You have so much information telling you so much about what you think you need to know and do, that it creates paralysis. And just before you start to panic about not actually doing anything, along comes what is marketed as a must have product that, whilst containing exactly the same information that you already have, will have you reach your goals in double quick time and another product is thus purchased.

So what has happened here? You will have spent a considerable time, and perhaps money, accumulating a mixture of very good to probably out of date information showing you how to start a work at home online business. The fact is you will have collected information about everything you think you need to know before you begin. And as there is so much of it, it all sounds rather complicated with more to do than you expected with the result being that no action is taken. Why is this? It is because of having all this information you now do not know where to start as you have this feeling of being completely overwhelmed. You are perhaps reading and becoming stuck on something like advanced website traffic strategies when at the beginning of your online business this is of no importance whatsoever.

It is important to realise and understand that you do not need to know everything when setting out to create and build you work at home online business. It is a known fact that most of the learning happens on the job. Whilst it is beneficial to read about something before you do it, the real learning takes place when you are actually performing the task in hand. So there is a need to really focus on what requires to be undertaken and then just take action. The essential point to understand that with no action being taken, there will be corresponding progress. Through actually taking action and break down what work requires to be done into small manageable tasks plus set achievable goals, momentum and confidence will be built upon when your new business starts to take shape.

So it is a case of take action and start one job at a time. The easiest way to fulfill this is to follow a step by step plan that shows you both how to and what to do to build your own work at home online marketing business. Just put all that information to one side and call upon it when needed rather than let it drown your ambitions.

Work at Home Business – What to Expect From Your Own Viable Home Based Internet Business

Set Up Your Own Viable Internet Business at Home – For Nothing

Yes, believe it or not you can have your own viable online business set up with great earning potential all for nothing.

Actually that’s not totally true…

The costs that you will have to take care of are the following;

Internet connection – if you do not have a connection at home you can always do this from work in your spare time although it’s recommended that you do this from home as you will have to spend quite a bit of time & effort on it.
Computer – again if you do not have your own computer system at home you can do this anywhere where you can get internet access with a computer.

The costs that you won’t have to worry about are the following;

Website and Graphics – this is provided with an easy to use interface.
Domain Name – provided
Web Hosting Costs – also taken care of.

What this won’t do for you;

It won’t automatically fill your bank account with millions of dollars within 15 minutes.
It won’t create instant wealth for you.
It won’t generate cash while you sleep without putting in any work.

What will be required from you;

You will have to follow and action what is in the 5 step guide to making money with this system – no action = no income.
Whilst this system has undoubted huge earning potential, the amount you make will be directly related to the effort & commitment that you put into it.
The guide will provide you with the tools & information to set up your own online business, however a healthy dose of entrepreneurship, vision & imagination will definitely help.

Oh yes, another important thing to mention is that you won’t need your own product to sell.

You will be shown where you can choose from thousands of digital products and market the ones that you feel comfortable or knowledgeable about.

I think you will agree that you will be hard pressed to beat this kind of deal when it comes to setting up and having your own viable internet business.

Work At Home Business Opportunity – Making Money Online

The present online market scenario is quite unique and flexible in many ways. The fact is that, internet has reached homes on every corner of the globe and this very aspect makes the internet a colossal marketing platform. The internet is always bustling with lots of activity and almost every major selling brand or company makes its presence felt within the online domain. What make this market so lucrative is that it has all types of buyers and most importantly there are buyers present no matter what the time. Making use of such a massive business opportunity can easily leap forward your financial career. Making this possible is a work at home business opportunity.

Although the internet is one of the best platforms to generate profit quickly, there are no shortcuts for success. Every business requires time and dedication to grow and this aspect holds true even within the online domain. There is a lot of work at home business opportunity, but to get the most out of your investment, choose the ones that you are most comfortable with.

The only draw back of home based business opportunity is that you will have to counter competitions from every corner. To counter such drastic situations, you need to promote your home based business venture. With people searching on the internet constantly for information, this provides the ideal platform to promote your online business through online advertisements or pay per click. You can also take help of blogs and forums to promote your home based business services. These are free besides they share a massive appeal towards the general online mass. Then there is the traditional email marketing to promote business ideas. Although this platform is quite aged, it still is very effective in spreading the message.

When it comes to any work at home business opportunity, research and development is the key to find present and future success. Your online business foundation needs to be strong. Striving for extra profit right from the very beginning can get your business into a serious dilemma. Building a good brand image is imperative as there is good number of businesses that are jostling for the same space.

The fact with any work at home business opportunity is that, you don’t have to quit you day time job in order to build your online business. You can work from just about anywhere. Most people usually take up home based online business as a part time job. But this very aspect can be hugely detrimental to your profit earning aspirations. With the internet and its buyers evolving constantly, your online business services would also require constant modifications to suit online buying patterns and this can only be done if you follow the online business market on a regular basis. The fact is that, if you are dedicated to your home based online business, success is sure to be on your side.