When I started my home based Internet business, spending months focusing on all there is to know about Internet marketing, I came to realize that just because some have something of value to say, doesn’t mean I need to know it, or know it now, or know it all. There is too much information to learn it all, and you need to learn how to put it down and refocus in the right direction, submitting press releases.Never Give UpThe biggest thing I know to be true for all new business owners, is that if you give up, you will obviously not make it in the Internet marketing business world, and most likely not in any type of business — online or off. This is what business is all about in the beginning, and you need to stay the course. As frustrating as it may be or get, you must never give up.There is a way to take smaller steps that can be learned and built upon. Whether you are looking for a new home based business or you have just started one and want to gain control over what it is all about, I want to share what I have learned that will give you some breathing room. So please relax, this endeavor is not as big as you might think.If you are looking for a new business opportunity, this information will help you step into and start a new business by helping you focus on what is most important to it’s growth or existence — gaining customers.If you have recently started a new home based Internet business, then this information will help you step into, and get your new business off the ground on the right foot by helping you focus on what is most important — gaining customers.You need to learn how to gain customers — first.This might sound like a contradiction if you do not have a business. But I’m not asking you to gain customers for a business that does not exist. I said, you need to “learn how” to gain customers.I understand that you cannot bring customers into a business that does not exist. However, you still need to understand that it is the customer that makes a business function. Without the customer, there is no business — none. You say, “Steve, that is a no brain-er, who doesn’t already know that?”The reason I am telling you this is because most people searching the Internet for a new home based business or some Internet marketing business opportunity are trying to understand what “a” or “the” business is all about first, or what the business plan or model is all about. While this is important, it is not as important as first learning how to attract customers to your business or offer.Many home based businesses have everything already setup for you. Therefore making it very easy for you to step in and quickly focus on what is important — gaining customers. (Every business has it’s start and it’s existence because of it’s customers.) Learning this will open your eyes to possibilities of owning or running multiple businesses.So, in light of the fact that many online business opportunities already have the business model in place, therefore allowing you to focus on the customer, you want to first learn some basic information about attracting customers before you join a business, or continue trying to learn everything about the business or company you are associated with.Once you get some basic understanding on how the Internet can work for you, and how you can use some simple and free resources to attract and gain customers, you will then begin to understand what and how to look for a new home based business, or how to more effectively run your existing Internet business.All of that being said to bring you to my point and exercise. And that is that only through experience will you fully understand what I am sharing with you.Free Press Release SubmissionYou can do a Google search for “Free Press Release Submission” to find a free press release site. Setup an account, and write your first press release about anything… Maybe you have a new website, or there is a party this coming Friday, whatever you like. Read the sites guide to setting up a press release, write it and submit it. Congratulations is in order when you complete it! You have just taken a very important and powerful step toward running a successful home based business.There is of course a lot more to submitting a quality press release that gets attention, but that is not the purpose of this article. Now go to Google and search for the title or some part of a sentience in your press release with quotes (and maybe your name) and it should show up. Once you see a press release that you typed show up on Google, and within hours of submitting it, you will begin to understand the power at your finger tips.Now you just need to refine your knowledge and keyword/phrase skills and you will be well on your way to understanding what a new home based business can do for you now with this new knowledge. Again, you will not understand what I am telling you until you submit your first press release.
Digital Entrepreneur and the Online Home Based Business Opportunity
Does Financial Success or An Online Home Based Business Require an MBA?Several months ago I started my online home based business. I was brought up at a time and in a family where education was a given. My father was a successful lawyer so my mother never had to work. It was a given that when I completed my private school education which my father worked hard to provide for me, that I would attend college.In my world at that time there was no other conceivable possibility. You graduated high school and then you went to college – Period. So I did. The first year was a miserable failure and I left after it and began my working career. I would ultimately go back to college and finally get a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, while I worked.So here I am, over thirty years after high school, having worked all those years. The most money I ever made on a job was a salary of $52,000 per year. The last company I worked for, I rose from Controller to the underpaid President and the company shut down. Now I am one of the millions of unemployed Americans.I, like many millions of people, looked for an opportunity to create an online home based business. I have been at it for a few months. My success is growing. I picked internet marketing and network marketing because I enjoyed blogging in my last job. I also had been spending time studying internet marketing on my own. Today I belong to a couple of network marketing organizations and have my own blog, which I post to almost every day.I have become an entrepreneur, and like many online home based business entrepreneurs, I am driven and committed to success. But success does not come easy in the online home based business arena. My primary products are the network marketing programs to which I belong. They provide the opportunity to achieve financial success by following a specific program of internet marketing and entrepreneurial education, and marketing the programs to others looking for a business opportunity.Network marketing has been around for a long time and despite its negative reputation, it is a viable business model that can lead to tremendous financial rewards. I have seen, and personally know a number of people that have achieved amazing success in an online home based business of network marketing. Many did achieve this incredible level of success through hard work, but without a college degree.There are many things you need to learn to become successful at internet marketing or network marketing as an online home based business. But you don’t have to go to an Ivy League college and spend five or six years and $200,000 to learn what you need to know. You don’t need an MBA or even a bachelor’s degree to be a success in network marketing.You can learn how to make an amazing living by joining these network marketing companies at a fraction of the cost of a college education. Now there are millions of people looking right now for a business opportunity like an online home based business. To achieve success in network marketing, like any other business, requires an investment.Just like college is an investment in yourself that you or your parents pay for, joining a network marketing program is an investment in yourself for which you must pay. There are no free lunches. Starting an online home based business requires and investment of time and money. It is that simple.But when you compare the value of the investment you make in a network marketing company that provides you with the system, tools and education that allows you to create unlimited success and wealth, with the value of a college education, you might be surprised.If you are an entrepreneur or want to be an entrepreneur with your own online home based business, you need to have the skill set and mind set of an entrepreneur. I suppose you can get most of it going through college and graduate school, spending years and tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or you can cut to the chase, so to speak, and get the education, skill set, and mind set much quicker and for a lot less money. And while you are learning and developing you are making money.This is the reality of our world today. This is the reality of the knowledge based worker era. You get to choose your path in life and you have to live with the results. No way around it, success requires work. But the path you choose is up to you. One way or another if you want to achieve financial success today, you need to invest in yourself. If you don’t you limit your opportunities in life.You can invest in a college degree and hope that you are able to find a job. You can work for somebody else your whole life and watch all the benefits go to the owner. Or you can invest in yourself and join a network marketing program with unlimited earning potential and the satisfaction of owning your own online home based business.
Educational Toys and Constructive Play – 5 Changes in Recent Years
The link between constructive play for children and toddlers, and the benefits educationally of certain toys, puzzles and games which promote both dextrous movement and elements of thought and puzzle solving has long been established.
However, during the 1960′s and 1970′s, the type of play, the supervision required, along with that particular toys and games that utilised had not been sufficiently studied for there to be any concrete evidence that educational toys and games had specific benefits. So what has changed since then, and where are we headed with children’s development through play? Here are 5 areas where change has had a positive impact.
1 – Independent reports in the United States and United Kingdom during the 1990′s have established exactly what toys and activities benefit preschool children. Furthermore, this latest research has been refined to the extent that it is now possible to target particular areas of a childs growth and encourage play with particular games and puzzles to focus on any areas where the parent or carer feels that stimulation is required.
For example, reasoning, dexterity, empathy towards others, numeracy, literacy and social interactions are among the many different skills that can be individually targeted with specific toys and methods of play.
Much of the research reinforces the common sense view is that manual puzzles promote dexterity and that reading and writing as well as basic numeracy should be encouraged at an early age.
Where this new research really has great benefits is in the specific ideas and support it gives to manufacturers of these educational toys and games as to how exactly to implement them properly for the very best benefit.
2 – Combining simple games of colour and shape matching with toys that require a basic level of agility and manual precision can lead to a child developing in more than one area at once. It is worth remembering how much information a child will absorb with little of no conscious effort. Combining various elements of growth through play has proved very beneficial.
3 – The need for emotional and social development is finally being understood.
With the world in general becoming an increasingly insular place, it is important that a child emotional and empathetic developments is also catered for. Simple ideas such as sharing, empathy and understanding are now considered a vital part of a preschool child’s education.
Again, research into the actual toys, puzzles and games which best benefit this area of a childs growth had been researched thoroughly. This area is considered one of the most important going forward. So it is good to note the research that has been undertaken to allow you to best help your childs emotional and social development.
4 – Governments and educational establishments are finally embracing the new ideas and funding for educational toys and games in the public sector is at an all time high.
In short. Not only are the benefits of learning through play acknowledged ny just about everyone, it has now been established that it is a very cost effective way of progressing a childs education.
Finally, one issue that still needs addressing;
5 – One sticking point which continually frustrates those who look to progress in the field of educational toys and games. That is the periodic “muddying of the water” that changes in government on a national level make every few years.
It is now become apparent that ownership for the continued research into educational toys and games needs a none-partisan approach. As administrations change in the United Kingdom and the USA, government bodies are restructured and support services for parents and carers aimed at giving advice on education through play are either abolished or re-formed in very different structures every few years.
What is required is a non-political body which has the continuous remit of ensuring that both ongoing research into education through play as well as the resources available to parents and carers are consistent and always reflect the very best possible practices regardless of which political administration is in charge.
This issue aside, we should take great comfort in the fact that we now live in a world where babies and preschool educational toys and games are refined to the point where a parent or carer can target specific areas of need with confidence.