Monday, 19 August 2013

The Rising Cost Of Working From Home

By Russell Howe


Before you attempt to learn how to become your own boss with an internet business such as Empower Network or Amazon, you should take a good look at the huge risks involved. What may look like an easy life in the advertisements you see online, is actually a very difficult lifestyle to lead.

Most affiliates who fail to make their online business work have one thing in common. They were mainly attracted to their chosen opportunity because it carried a very low investment cost and represented what they believed to be little risk. This often comes back to haunt them.

What may initially seem like a low cost is actually not. Sure, your affiliate program may only cost you $25 per month and that certainly is a lot cheaper than running a business in the high street. But that's not the only outgoings you should expect.

Every member of an affiliate program receives the same two items, i.e. some products and a website. Some go on to make the most of the opportunity by building themselves into a relative powerhouse within their chosen company, whereas other struggle to see any financial results.

In order to get the most out of the free resources you have available to you, you will need to be able to combine them with some tools which aren't free. There are hundreds of tools out there which claim that you need them and are little more than hype, there are a few useful products all entrepreneurs should grab:

* A website address where you can sell your products

* Sales orientated lead capture pages

* An autoresponder to follow up with the leads you generate

* E-courses and marketing training

* Pay per click advertising campaigns

Anybody can obtain the tools listed above, but very few people are prepared to spend any money other than the cost they must pay for their membership to the affiliate program they work with. That is not the right mentality to succeed in the tough business world.

It would actually do you a lot of good to take a look at those who are already succeeding on the internet and get an idea of what they do in order to separate themselves from the competition. By using tools such as autoresponders you are able to free up a lot of your time and leverage it towards your marketing efforts. Although no business is truly automated, you can certainly manage your time more effectively by following the example of those who are succeeding with it already. []

You should not make the decision to get involved in a home based business if you can only spare enough income to pay for your monthly membership to the program. This leaves you in a position where you are unable to compete with your rivals and under a lot of pressure to succeed using only free advertising methods.

Treat it with the same mentality you would treat a real business in the offline world. You wouldn't start a business with the bare minimum income, you would more than likely save a little bit more so that you could advertise and work with a little bit of freedom. Learning how to become your own boss is a tough procedure and there will be many bumps in the road. So many affiliates in programs like Empower Network fail because they don't take the extra costs into consideration. Don't become one of those.




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