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    Economy is bright for Entrepreneurs

    Some bright news from the Economy that a recession and pandemic will not stop the Entrepreneurial spirit!  IMAGCo  had a problem and they are creating a solution.

    Being a deaf substititute teacher, with the pandemic, she couldn’t read lips with children having masks. So, she couldn’t do that so she figured out that an app may be great for transcribing speech in a text visual on a phone so transcription instanteously is what her business is working on in a startup workshop.  What a great idea freeing deaf people from having to interpret speech.

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    What are Core Beliefs in CBT?

    CBT stands for cognitive behavioural therapy, a form of talking therapy which helps people who are suffering with mental health problems. It can help to change the way you think about yourself, those around you and the wider world through addressing common underlying problems which might be getting in the way of your success, health and well-being.

    During cognitive behavioural therapy, there are often core beliefs which are identified and addressed. These are often the same for many people, and most of them will fit into several distinct categories, such as love and relationships, family, work and self-esteem.

    What are core beliefs?

    Core beliefs are the beliefs that people have about themselves. These can be negative, such as the beliefs that other people are better than you, or that you’re not good enough for something or somebody. Cognitive behavioural therapy seeks to address some of these core beliefs which can be very limiting to your life and self-esteem.

    However, core beliefs can also be positive. You may have generally positive opinions about yourself, with just a few negative beliefs which are getting in the way of your life in some way. Core beliefs are the beliefs that we hold about ourselves, and may be generally negative or generally more positive.

    Why understanding core beliefs can help with so many other things

    While it’s good to talk about your problems and the things which are stressing you out at the moment, many people underestimate the importance and the value of getting down to the root of the cause. Many problems are caused by core beliefs about yourself that you haven’t even though about, never mind thought about changing.

    When you start to think about your core beliefs, your mind will open up to other things too. You will start to think about how your negative thoughts on body image have contributed to your negative opinions of yourself at work or your lack of confidence in the work place. You might find that you behave differently in certain situations or around certain people, and this could be done to experiences you have had in the past or during your childhood which have shaped many of your beliefs.

    Core beliefs are a key part of each person’ mind, and in order to fully understand yourself and analyse what you’re thinking, you need to understand your core beliefs first.

    If you want to develop a Success Mindset to be successful in business go here for FREE training 

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    How to Make $1000 in a week in an online business

    So you want to make a $1000 in a week and you don’t know what to do to start making some money. Well, if you are desperate, I would sell something I own like a car or some furniture but I don’t think that is what is being asked. 🙂

    So, you want to make money and you don’t want to invest in tools or software to create some product or do a service to sell.

    So, with no money, you can use your brain and your writing skills to write some how-to documents to sell with private label rights. So, you would write some how-to create a … or how to do step by step documents and put them up on Fiverr to sell at 0.50 a page or (whatever the market currently charges). It is taking me 10 minutes to write this article and so if I was to write for 40 minutes, how many pages would I have to sell? If it was a good how-to make $1000 a week from home information and I sold it with private label rights so that anyone could put their name on it and use on their websites and I sold it for $5 then I would only need 200 people to buy it in a week to get my $1000.

    But of course, you have to first find out what people really want to buy as it might be in more demand to buy a private label rights document on how to build a mailing list using Aweber or it might be in more demand to write a document on the Step by Step to sell on Amazon. It all depends on your market and what they are struggling with so you have to do some research on social media like Facebook or Twitter.

    So, you have writing skills but you want to be paid before you start and finish a document then go to Upwork or other freelance sites to find proposals of writing work you can do that you might be able to do from your experience. Even if you are a mom you have experience in care-giving that might be of value to other moms that you could share.

    There are 4 billion people on the internet at various stages of experience from newbie to internet marketer to crafter to coach to major organizations who need content and you just have to find the people who want your wisdom.

    For more on starting a home business go to The Business of At Home Business Community where I share wisdom, resources and ideas on starting a home business.

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    What are some of the secrets that no one tells you when starting a home business

    When starting your own business there are few myths that have to be dispelled and a few Elephants in the Room that need to be discussed to help you be successful in your business.

    The Elephant is the Idea of Getting Rich, Quick on the Internet

    There is no “get rich quick ideas” that are legal and work for a long time. **You can be the first** to open a legal marijuana selling business in your community that follows all the rules and pays all the fees needed to open but at some point there will be competitors who will be opening stores nearby. On the internet, there are business ideas that have made money quickly but it doesn’t last as either competitors come in the same field or Google decides to change its algorithm and your “secret get rich idea” suddenly doesn’t work anymore.

    Say you find a business idea that everyone loves and pays you for in an sudden instant of money. So you then go spend the money on cars or house and you realize that “the idea isn’t as hot as it used to be” so you have to bring others into your business to expand your market. Well, you do a campaign and once you have paid your employees and affiliates who helped you make $200000 in sales but know the net profit is $50,000. Suddenly it is a business that needs staff, more investment in advertising and time and outreach and its not a “get rich quick idea” anymore.

    Being in Business you have to Work!

    Having been in home business with husband for 20 years, we know that owning a business is not all laptop free time and working only when we want to. We have clients who we promise to get the work done to a certain deadline so you work till 2 in the morning if you need to get it done for 8 a.m. in the morning. If the work isn’t done, you have an unhappy client and you don’t get paid on deadline. There is a myth going round that you can work 20 hours a week and make a $100,000 but you have to have automations and outsourcing some of your work for you to make that kind of money only doing 20 hours a week.

    The Secret is Persistence

    It isn’t a glamourous answer on the *secret to success in business* but it is being persistent even when you fail and moving forward and adapting to the current business climate to keep on as a successful entrepreneur.

    The other secret is to come into The Business of At Home Business Community and get some great advice, resources, training and ideas on starting a home business (but you knew that already. 🙂 )

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    What is a Lifestyle Business?

    A Lifestyle Business is defined by what you want your lifestyle to be while you are in business.

    If you want to travel the world while running a business then there are certain requirements you need to take with you to run your business.

    You are going to have to have a laptop computer, Wi-Fi access and smartphone so you can communicate with your home office, Skype or check your email or create your product or service on the computer. You need to be flexible with your time but prioritize it so when bumps in the schedule from delayed ferries or power outage or no access to computer happens, it isn’t critical to your business.

    If you want to spend 80% of your time with your family and 20% on the business then it is a matter of prioritizing your time. The same requirements for tools like laptop, smartphone and Wi-Fi so while you wait for your child to finish soccer practice, you can write up that document you need to get done in the car.

    For these lifestyle businesses, you have to ask the important question “ How much money can I bring in from the business which makes it a viable lifestyle business?”

    If you want to only work at your business 2 hours per day x 5 days a week = 10 hours.

    What can you do in those 10 hours to get the business income you need?

    To make $100,000 a year, you need to make $8333 a month. So, 40 hours a month means you would have to make $208 an hour. There are professionals who make that hourly rate so it is possible if they decided to take a year off and only consult 40 hours a month. But what about you and your imagined revenue in your business.

    It depends on your skills, of course, as if you have computer programming skills working on software creation you are going to make higher income that a person who blogs about their adventures.

    For example, let’s say you are travelling the world and you want to blog about your adventures while making money. So, your blog is going to be making money by you getting commissions from any products you might promote on your blog. You won’t make millions but maybe you will make $50 or more a month to cover some expenses.

     

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    Entrepreneurship can be overwhelming

    Often, people set out to be entrepreneurs because they have grown tired of making money for someone else. They love the idea of being their own boss, setting their own hours, and not having to share a portion of the financial gains in the end.

    People who take the leap and decide they can do this on their own must have unwavering self-discipline and an excellent work ethic for the best chances at a successful enterprise. Once you choose to go it alone, you must be all in. Many of us tend to bounce back and forth, wondering if it is a good idea or not.

    This may be the first of many paradoxes you will face as a self-employed business owner!

    The cautious part of us doesn’t want to take the leap until a plan is in place and you are 100% invested in the decision. However, we often stand in our own way, over-analyzing every single aspect of a plan. The fact is, you’ll never be able to plan every single step because you aren’t yet aware of all possible variables.

    Entrepreneurship can be overwhelming. You aren’t going to be able to handle everything all at once, by yourself. Trying to take care of everything at one time leaves you pulled in every direction and tasks left incomplete. The things that we do manage to complete are often not done to our standards because we aren’t focused or able to commit as much time as we would like.

    Our mind wanders, and we end up thinking about all the other duties we should be taking care of right this minute. It’s important to remember to take a single bite from the elephant; don’t try to swallow it all at once.

    Erase any thought of failure from your head as well. We become our own worst enemy when we allow thoughts of failure to creep in and take over. It can stop us right in our tracks! As mentioned before, you cannot think of failing with every decision you make and expect to move forward. If you are second guessing yourself, you are slowing down the process of building your business.

    A good support system is a must! Make sure the people you have around you offer a balance of support and constructive criticism. There is no room for doomsayers or people who have not bought into your way of thinking. This is your business, idea, and future you’re building. Keep your eye on the prize, push through doubt and don’t be afraid of making mistakes.

    As your own boss, you need to employ the same work ethic and devotion you once gave to your employer. If something doesn’t seem to be working as planned, step back and reanalyze your process. Don’t think of it as starting over; it’s merely altering the plan, so you aren’t stalling out. When you get out of your own way, nothing can stop you!

    Don’t get overwhelmed by everything you need to know to start your business, take the training “Start  your Own Home Business Step by Step” and get started!

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    What Is The Biggest Obstacle You Face When Starting A Home Business?

    So you want to start a home business?

    When you look at starting a home business as a new entrepreneur, you look at all the things you need to do to get started.

    Website

    Sales Pages

    Traffic

    Product creation

    Design graphics

    Social media

    Funnels – what are funnels?!

    All the other requirements like taxes, books, government regulations and so on ..

    All you want to do is find the customers who need your solution to their problem or what they desire…..

    All the equipment or technology you need to create a functioning business can seem like the biggest obstacle to starting a home business but it is not the biggest obstacle.

    The biggest obstacle to starting a home business is YOU!

    Paralysis

    Your brain will get overwhelmed by all the “things” you have to do in your business.

    Your Mind is powerful and it is great at collecting knowledge from here, there and everywhere.

    But that can be overwhelming and cause “Paralysis Analysis.”  You will become overwhelmed by all the information and get STUCK. What should I do next?!

    Well… take a deep breath ..and make a step by step checklist of what you need to do and cross it off as you do it.

    Perfectionism

    Don’t try to be Perfect.

    Perfectionism can also cause paralysis in terms of “waiting” till I get this done and it takes longer than you thought and suddenly, it has been three months of you trying to perfect a sales page.

    Imperfect Action is better than no Action.

    Perfect is unattainable so don’t even try for Perfect. Just Perfect Enough to get moving!

    The Next Best Thing

    There is no quick way to make money with a home business. It is about building a business that has systems in it to keep the cash flowing. So always following the newest idea on how to make the cash flow will get you into chasing the quick money instead of a business. It is called the “Bright Shiny Object” syndrome and the promise of the “NEW” has always moved people to buy but you don’t want to move “off your path” chasing rainbows, you want to be focused on a path to your business such that you can see how it works.

    The Business of At Home Business Membership

    As an entrepreneur working in home business, I have (and still know) known the challenges of being in home business so I have developed a Membership to help others get their home business started quicker and easier.

    Check it out at  The Business of At Home Business here.

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    5 Steps to An Online Business

     

     

     

     

    Today we’re going to be talking about systems again because you need systems in your business in order to save time and save you money and ,  of course,  give you the time to go out and get more money!

    So,  we’re going to talk today about the five steps to have an online business and we’re going to be talking about one step at a time.

     

     

    So, today we’re going to be talking about your Web site. Basically,  there are five basic steps to getting an online business on the Internet.

    1. The first step is to get a hub on the Internet. So,  to get your web site to have a place for your visitors to come and have a place for your clients to come and have a place for people to contact you.
    2. Then the second step is to get video and audio storage and product storage which is separate from your Web site. This will be the place that you will connect to process any sales. Obviously this is where you keep your product or and where you keep your messaging.
    3. Then you have the collection system which will collect your leads which will then become clients as long as you continue to contact them on a regular basis.
    4. The fourth step is to get a sales system set up in your business. This sale system will be connected to your Web site.
    5. Then the fifth step is to get a marketing system to send your prospects to your Web site.

     

    So those are the five basic steps for getting a system that will collect yearly to  engage your visitors and keep a place for you to have your product and store your videos and ideas you might need for your website and keep it separate from your web site so that if your Web site goes down or your video and audio product isn’t lost now.

    Four Things you Need to Have for a Website

    You will need to invest in some software tools to make the system work on its own of course. However,  there are some free software and tools that you can use as well.

    You can get a hub on the  Internet which is your Web site. For that,  you, of course,  you need a domain name which we’ll talk about in a minute. You need hosting for your web site and then you need a WordPress Web site is my preference as it is easy to use. Then you need an SSL secure certificate which I think it says will talk about this in a minute.

    But first of all, lets  talk about your dream team now.

    Your domain name is basically a name that is registered on the Internet which is the identifier for your Internet address. So, on the Internet you have internet hosting and Internet domain providers who give you what is called an IP address of say 1 9 2 1 6 8 45 23 but then it becomes identified to a domain which makes it much easier for people to connect with you.

    So, you need to get domain name.

    Of course,  I have a small story on that  as when I went to pick the name The business of home business,  Google was ranking according to keywords and at home business was a lower ranking key word than Home Based Business or entrepreneur et cetera. So,  it was available. The business at home business but you know obviously home business is a very competitive domain name. So,  there wasn’t any other choice. So I picked that because it was sort of like the others that were more popular like home business or home biz or home based business. But in the end, when I picked the business home business,  it was perfect. It was awkward and of course it’s a very long address but the business of our home business is my brand because I want to assist others with the foundations and business of their business while they deal with involving their vision and brand for their business.  So, my brand is who I am even though I would have been another brand.

    So what about you?

    I mean does your business name speak about who you are in your business and see if it’s available so you can reserve a domain name.  There’s various places on the Internet where you can get your name reserved. Obviously,  I’m not going to say any domain name provider is better than the other but I have a few listed here.

     

    Most of all the hosting providers will also register your domain name or get registered and then you need to get hosting as I mentioned before because you need a place in your house. This is going to have your Web site hosted on a host business. So,  for example go daddy and hostgator and  blue host,  they are all hosting providers and they put your information into a website location.

    They give you a location on their servers on the Internet and then you point your domain name to that location on their server and that becomes your Web site.

    So you need hosting.

    Then, of course , as I mentioned you need to get a WordPress Web site because I know there’s other platforms but WordPress software is free. It’s easy to learn and is very flexible in how you use it. I mean even a newbie person can work with WordPress once they learn the basics so you need as a solopreneur,  you need to be in control of your own assets.

    Now  some web design,  you can make quick and simple edits to your Web site and you don’t have to wait for your web designer. So that is why I recommend WordPress because I know it sounds intimidating but it actually is very easy to use.

    Then the last thing which has become so important because it’s actually required by almost all Web sites now and is in fact you can get free certificates. It’s called an SSL secure certificate,  a secure socket layer certificate which proves to Google search that your web site is safe and also to your visitors will feel more comfortable about entering their credit card number on your Web site.

    So, if you don’t have an SSL certificate then sometimes Google will put a big red mark through your domain name when someone is searching for it to say I’m not sure this is secure and you want to really get go there and of course you want your visitors to come anytime.

    So if it’s so easy to get a free SSL certificate I would certainly recommend it.

     

    So those are the four things that you need to get for your Web site set up.

     

    So,  in your business you need to have systems.

    You can have five systems in your business.

     

    1. You have a Web site system.
    2. You have your sale system you have your payment system.
    3. You have your storage system.
    4. You have a collection system to collect leads and customers.
    5. Your marketing system to send your prospects onto your Web site.

    We’ll talk about the other systems in a later post but for now, join The Business of At Home Business to get your online business up quick with systems to make a lifestyle business!

     

     

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    Social Media can be #1 Time Waster when starting a Home Business

     

     

     

    “Get on Facebook.” “Find your fans on Twitter.” “Do a livestream on Instagram Stories”

    You need to get out onto the Internet to connect with your potential customers. But when starting a home business online there are so many systems to have in place and time spent that you need to be strategic with your time.  There are only 24 hours in a day and you need to sleep for some of that time.

    Social media marketing is the #1 time waster when you are starting a home business. It is easy to spend hours checking out cat pictures or entering discussions on what is your favourite 1980’s song.

    Your #1 priority when starting your home business is “What get’s you closer to your money.”

    What can you do in the next half hour that attracts a potential customer to your product or service or creates the newest sales page?
     

     

     

     

     

     

    The more focused you are on getting the sale every minute of the day, the less likely you will go down that time wasting vortex that is social media.

    How to do social media in your business

    Connecting and posting on social media can attract your ideal customers but do it strategically.  Create a Marketing Plan  just for social media so you can take an hour or two on one day to create your messages and set them up to broadcast when your potential audience is on their favourite social media channel and monitor so you can interact and comment if needed with audience.

     

    To learn more about how to create a marketing plan and set up systems in your new business, join The Business of At Home Business membership where you can be productive with your time getting skills and  strategy of being online to save you time and money when setting up your home business.

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