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July 17th, 2012

Business Ideas for Women that Want Their Independence Back!


I was thinking about business ideas for women yesterday that would not only appeal to those that are stay at home moms, but for those that just want their independence back too.

Either way, it's refreshing to know that you can work for yourself and spend your time how you wish, isn't it? I don't know about you, but I hate it when I am crunched for time and I can't do what I want, when I want. I have a family and they are the most important thing to me, and the only way I can spend the time with them that I want is to work from home.

I speak for all women I think when I say that working for yourself is the key to unlocking the best life possible for you and your family. I am going to share with you your many options for working from home so that you can take care of your home, your family, and have some time each week to spend however you wish!

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Business Ideas for Women that Any Woman Can Do!

If you are looking for easy business ideas for women, then consider that sometimes the best business is one with lowest capital required for start up. Be creative ladies, and I do mean super creative!

I love to browse sidewalk sales and often find great deals, and even if I am not at home I often find that treasure away from home. If you know what to look for you can start a collectibles business or even possibly antiques. While some say antiques are a tough market to be in, I beg to differ.

It's all about having a good eye, and knowing where the right buyer is. If you know these two things then you can make it work for sure. It's all about checking out the piece that you are admiring, checking for hallmarks o

n china, pottery, and jewelry, and choosing things that follow the current trend.

You will also find out that there are buyers for things you have, and even if they don't pop up right away you will be able to sell it easily when the right buyer finds you and what you have to offer.

Remember, the key is keeping a fresh and varied inventory, so if you choose to open up an eBay store you can post great photos, great descriptions, and you will sell your pieces quickly!

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Business Ideas for Women of An Entrepreneurial Spirit

While starting your online store or boutique is still showing the entrepreneurial spirit, there are still more great business ideas for women.

Women are great at this entrepreneurial thingy, and with that being said, women comprise about 70% of the network marketing industry. You are probably familiar with names like Mary Kay who's story inspires many, and the likes of more modern day women like Diane Hochman who have really wrapped their mind around internet marketing and stepped up their game.

It seems to me that if there is an opportunity to go make money online and I can do it from home, then I have no reason to wait to get moving, right?

I know that you are probably thinking the same thing, and I can teach you how. You can choose from network marketing and affiliate marketing to really boost your income online. The best part? You can earn while you are sleeping. That is the beauty of internet marketing, don't you think?

You can choose a network marketing company that carries a product you love, and with the passion to promote it you will be earning a solid income in no time!

Do you want more freedom in your day? Would you enjoy spending more time with your kids? Could you stand to earn more of an income? If so, then I want you to CLICK HERE now, and I can teach you more about the business ideas for women that I know will work and help you earn an income, while giving you the freedom you want!

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June 22nd, 2012

Leadership For Success – 5 Daily Actions To Take


Leadership For Success In Your Business

 

If you’re new to running your own business then you’ll want to develop leadership for success in whatever it is you are selling or promoting. Leadership is a key element to the successful running of any business and listed below are 5 very important techniques that many of the successful leaders in industry use every day.

“Why does my business need leadership for success?”

Because in order to be successful in a variety of businesses, you have to position yourself as a leader and expert in your field. People want to follow people that are successful – people they see as leaders and people that really are experts in their field. And when they get to know, like and trust you, they will buy off you.  It’s as simple as that. Most businesses need great leadership for success.

So what ARE the 5 DAILY actions that successful leaders take?

1. Daily Visualisation And Meditation Of Your Goals

Did you know that you have the power to influence your subconscious mind? Did you also know that your conscious mind is tiny compared to your massive subconscious mind?

You need to work out your goals and they have to be very specific.  You can’t just say you want to be successful in business.  You have to define what that success is and what it looks like.  To give you an idea, it could be a goal of earning $10,000 per month by a certain date. You can’t just say that you want to earn lots of money – that’s not going to work on your subconscious mind.  You have to work out the specifics of what you want to achieve and dates by which you want to achieve your goals.

I recommend you put your goals into a list and visualise them each day. Say them out loud so that your subconscious mind can start to find ways to deliver solutions to you to enable you to achieve those goals. You’ll find that in time, the more obsessed you become with something, the more likely it is to happen. Think back to things in your life that you’ve wanted so badly, that they’ve eventually happened for you.  You made them happen.

2. Income Producing Activities

You have to be disciplined to do the things in your business that are going to make you money.  You must market your busin

ess daily or you simply won’t get any leads or customers. That could be placing adverts on the Internet, writing a blog post,  interacting with your customers through social media, email or by speaking to them.  Imagine if you had a shop on a high street, are you just going to rely on passing trade to come into your store or are you going to proactively market it?  Without customers, you have no business. Same applies online.

3. Mastermind With Other Leaders

Make sure you mastermind with as many successful leaders or mentors in your industry as possible. Can you access live calls, conference calls, trainings or webinars? You’ll find that the more you can mix with other leaders who are like-minded and positive, their influence on you will have a dramatic effect.

As time goes by, the more you immerse and surround yourself in the company of other leaders, you’ll start to speak their language and your transition to becoming a leader will be much easier.

4. Cultivate The Expectation Of Leadership For Success

Don’t wait to HAVE what other leaders have before you DO what other leaders do so you can BE what other leaders are.  Do it the other way around.  BE the leader, DO what leaders do and you will HAVE what leaders have.  So have belief in yourself and create that vital leadership for success, the life-blood of any business.

5. Personal Development

Never miss an opportunity for daily personal development or training. Always be a student and increase your knowledge and expertise. You can read books, listen to audio, do training courses and best of all, attend live events  Try and learn something new every day. If you’re not learning, you’re standing still.

I was taught the importance of these 5 daily actions from my mentor Jay Kubassek, Co-Founder of SFM & DEA – top leader in Internet marketing and entrepreneurial education. I spent quite a bit of time with him at the first PRO-U PEAK Mastermind event in Costa Rica. Click here to view a video of us chatting.  David Wood, Co-Founder of the Empower Network was also there and he and I had a really interesting chat one afternoon.

 

Here, take a look at David and I chatting by the pool……..

Lindsey Meets David Wood in Costa Rica

Lindsey Meets David Wood in Costa Rica

 

Can  you imagine the effect meeting these top two leaders had on me? It was awesome!

So there you have it. If you get into daily habits of doing these 5 things, you’ll soon realise  the importance of leadership for success in your business.


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May 1st, 2012

Internet Entrepreneurship – Meeting PRO U’s Founder Jay Kubassek Was A Game Changer


Meeting Up With The Big Guns!

Here’s a video of Jay and I at the event, take a look if you like……

Internet Entrepreneurship Gets Turbo Boost From Jay. 

I was privileged to attend the PRO U PEAK Mastermind Retreat held in Costa Rica from 12th to 15th April 2012. My colleague, Anita Patel from Brisbane had invited me to go and it was an offer far too good to refuse. We were going to be masterminding with some of the top leaders in the industry including PRO U Founder, Jay Kubassek no less, mega superstar in direct sales. Nobody more successful than Jay in the industry.  This was seriously going to be a game changer for sure. Click here to view a previous post about the event.

Jay’s company – PRO U – is the premier online business mentorship company for individuals aspiring to become online entrepreneurs and has since become the number one incubator for most of the successful online entrepreneurs today. A variety of world-renowned experts, best-selling authors, gurus, business and thought leaders deliver mentorship to thousands of members in over 200 countries.  What was really awesome was that most of them were in Costa Rica with us at the PEAK Mastermind.

Internet Entrepreneurship – Getting Advice From The Leaders Makes A Huge Difference

During the mastermind sessions Jay had some great advice which made perfect sense to me. I know it’s going to have a positive impact in everything I do which is why I want to share it with you.

Jay said we need to attach a mental zipwire to our goals and focus on them. Let me explain ……..

Internet Entrepreneurship – An Afternoon Spent In The Costa Rican Forest Helped Change My Mindset

A group of around thirty of us went out in the Costa Rican forest zipwiring one afternoon, and, come to mention it, that was where I started to have a mindset shift.

Just imagine if you can, being up in the canopy of the forest, seeing a terrifying ravine ahead of you which you’re about to traverse with nothing more than a clip or two on a thin metal wire anything up to 40 metres above the forest floor between you and certain death if you were to fall.  Just a helmet on for safety, no safety nets. Nothing.

When standing on those wire mesh platforms high up in the tree tops waiting for your turn, you realise you have no choice but to place your trust in the Costa Rican guides that hook you up to the zipwire.  They’re confident, they do this every day. They’re not terrified (not like me – I was shaking like a jelly). They know the zipwire is securely fastened to the trees on the other side of the ravine.

However, how better to sum up our goals in what we do in our businesses? Jay Kubassek, during a presentation the following day, likened the zipwire to succeeding in our businesses.

Internet Entrepreneurship – Jay Says We Need To Have Crystal Clear Goals To Be Successful

Jay says we need to have crystal clear goals in our minds, set a mental zipwire to them and focus our thoughts and energies on achieving them. Simple as that. Without clear goals, how can we know where we are heading or what we want to achieve?

He says we wouldn’t get on a plane or a zipwire if they didn’t have destinations so it’s the same in our businesses. We have to have that mental zipwire firmly attached to our goals.

Jay went on to say that we need to face our fears and limitations head on and overcome them.  Trying to solve problems using logical, rational thinking isn’t always the best option as it’s our powerful subconscious mind that will work out what we need to do and invariably will come up with the solutions. We need to face our fears just the same in both our businesses and zipwiring. Just like taking a leap of faith.

Internet Entrepreneurship – Attach A Mental Zipwire To Our Goals

Jay says if our mental zipwires are attached to our goals very clearly in our minds and we focus on them daily, our subconscious will help us find a way of getting there.

Think about it for a minute……….Think back to a time when you were trying to remember something and it just wouldn’t come to you – then the next day the answer pops into your head and you have what is called an ‘AHA’ moment. Well that’s the power of your subconscious mind at work and our subconscious brain in much larger than our conscious one (something like eight or nine times the size). When we have a problem to solve, we need to think about the problem or talk about it and our subconscious will delve down deep and usually find the answer. Go ahead and try it if you don’t believe me. I use this technique all the time now thanks to Jay.

P.S: Why not go and meet Jay yourself and find out more.   Click here to go to Jay’s FREE webinar where he reveals his three secret tips to success online. 

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February 23rd, 2012

Internet Entrepreneurship – Mid Life Crisis Was A Blessing In Disguise


Life doesn’t always turn out as you expect, but even when everything went wrong with my career and I experienced what I thought was my mid life crisis and I needed a career change, Pro-U offered me a solution which has turned my life around!

Just over 18 months ago towards the end of 2010, out of the blue I was made redundant from my job as a Marketing and Schools’ Liaison Officer at a Further Education college in the South West of England. I was one of around 100 that we’re made redundant that year, others before me had suffered the same fate in previous years and others have since – due to ongoing budget cuts in the downturn in our global economy.

I’d spent a lot time advising students on the importance of transferable skills and flexibility with careers, and suddenly I found this advice applying directly to me! I’d told them that whilst the majority of our forebears had the luxury of one career throughout their lifetime, this day and age was different and many of us could expect to change careers several times.

In a dismal job market, I realised that it could be extremely difficult for me to find a new job, and besides, I’d had enough of working for a boss from 9-5, ending up putting my work before my family, almost always – can you blame me? So, I took the plunge, and became my own boss. So what I thought was a mid life crisis actually turned out to be a blessing in disguise

Pro-U has been instrumental in transforming my life. Pioneered by the wildly successful Jay Kubassek, Pro-U is a mentoring scheme, providing members with more than 10 hours of live training a week in varying areas of leadership and marketing. Members can access a myriad of tools, coaching sessions, resources, webinars and more, and it’s an ideal online education platform where you can learn at your own pace, meet likeminded individuals and above all, to live your life as you please. Why is that? The opportunities with online marketing are limitless, and Pro-U helps give you the relevant skills, tools and support that you need to be successful.

I met Jay and other top industry leaders at an event in Costa Rica recently, you can take a look here if you like. What an awesome experience that was!

So what do you have to do?

New users are entitled to a free webinar to see what this is all about. Just click here to organise this at a time that suits you, where you can learn from Jay Kubassek himself. He’s helped thousands of people over the years to become successful online, and if you’ve come to a crossroads in your life just as I did, then perhaps this is an opportunity for you to start something new!

Pro-U offer various packages based on the metaphorical ‘mountain’ of online success – Gear Up, Base, Ascent, Summit & Peak – to suit your own needs in terms of levels of mentorship and commitment.

Rest assured, you’ll receive a first class education, unparalled opportunities to learn and mix with the best of the best online and an unrivalled skill-set to help you achieve your true potential online.

Pro U can really allow you to live life as you choose, earning the salary you choose! So if you are in a mid life crisis, why not take a leaf out of my book and turn your situation around? If I can do it, so can you.

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January 19th, 2012

Top Tips For Blogging Success For A Work At Home Mum In An Online Marketing Business


If You’re A Work At Home Mum Like I Am – I Hope My Blogging Tips Will Help You

If you’re a work at home mum running an online marketing business, you need to understand the importance of blogging. Anyone can write a blog, but not just anyone can write a blog that will be pulling in the viewers and gaining you those much needed hits and ultimately leading to sales.  It’s a crucial element to running a successful business. So, what can be done? Let me share with you a few hints which will help bring your blogging alive and kickstart your online presence.

If You’re A Work At Home Mum – Be Interesting

Now, for some this might seem to be a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised and like I’m sure you all do, I too read countless blogs and some of them don’t really inspire me.

Sometimes we get caught up in trying to post as many blogs as possible and then we lose that crucial spark. A boring blog post is a wasted blog post, but creating something fresh, new and informative is the perfect opportunity to attract much-needed traffic to your site. Think about what you’d like to read yourself and you can’t go far wrong.

It’s all about reputation, and the only way you can achieve status as an expert in your field is to demonstrate that. Create first-rate content offering solutions, ideas and more and your readers will be hooked and engaged, exactly what you need.

If You’re A Work At Home Mum – Be Regular

I would suggest the ideal situation is to post on the same day (or days) each week, preferably at the same time. If you’re setting yourself into a timetable to write the posts then more than likely your readers will come to expect them and if they know some new exciting content is on its way on a Tuesday at 10 am, then perhaps they’ll head over to your site to check around that time, or they’ll open their RSS Feeds at some point too.

If you’re still a fledgling site then you’ll be wanting to post as much as possible, but don’t flood your readers. There’s a fine line here, you don’t want to be posting endless dreary content but then at the same time if your posts are sporadic and half-hearted then you risk alienating readers too. It’s up to you to establish what’s appropriate, but just strike up a rhythm, and see what works best for you and your viewers. Every other day is a great place to start.

If You’re A Work At Home Mum – Be Savvy

I cannot emphasise enough just how crucial keywords are to your articles and posts. A few minutes of efficient, useful keyword research can plug you into the massive traffic arriving through search engines, and furthermore, it’s not just limited to your new posts.

Think about it, if you’re using appropriate keywords in all your posts, then there’s a real likelihood that a casual browser on Google, Yahoo, Bing or any of the other search engines might just stumble across your article. If they like it, then maybe they’ll hit that crucial subscribe button. After all, what’s the harm in trying? A small amount of effort can reap huge rewards over a long period of time if you get this right.

If You’re A Work At Home Mum – Be Vocal

Nobody wants their blog to just be one in a sea of other blogs, so you need to make yours stand out from the crowd. High quality articles goes some way, but it’s up to you to use your Facebook page, your Twitter account, YouTube and other social media to really get yourself heard. If you can make interesting comments on other peoples’ content too then again it will raise your profile. I’m not talking about you hijacking a post with blatant spam linking to your own page. Be a real person, make some insightful comment and perhaps somebody will have the presence to click on you and have a look around.

Like it or loathe it, online you’re always presenting yourself, and there’s no reason why you shouldn’t harness this power to your own advantage as a business.

If You’re A Work At Home Mum – So What Now?

Blogging, as we know, is a perfect way to demonstrate your talents in your field, so persevere with it. If you’re a work at home mum running your own online marketing business then it’s crucial you understand the importance of getting your blogging right and hopefully, these tips will help you on your way. Remember these tips each time you’re writing and you’ll start seeing results in no time. I wish you success.

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January 17th, 2012

Simple Tips And Strategies For Article Marketing To Make Money Online In A Home Based Business


Article marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote any website, bus

iness or blog. To get great traffic and rank highly on search engines particularly when you want to make money online in a home based business, you need the benefit of some great tips and strategies to use in your article marketing to help you on your way.

Although many strategies exist, one which is an absolute must as a starting point, is researching keywords or keyphrases as they are also known, and these should be included in your articles. A keyword or keyphrase can be just one word or several words in length but not longer than a sentence.

Let me just take you back to a year or so ago to when I used to work in a traditional job working in a college. I loved it and thought that’s how my life would be forever but due to the desperate economic climate affecting most parts of the world and like so many thousands before me, I was made redundant and needed to find alternative work. That’s when I turned to the Internet and decided to work from home and work online. As it turned out, being made redundant, although terrible at the time, has turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Until that point, I’d never known anything about keyword research before. Never had any need for it but all that’s changed now. It’s become a very necessary part of my daily routine and if you work online, maybe in an Internet marketing business or another type of Internet business, then a brilliant strategy to use is article marketing as it’s so effective in driving visitors to your site.

Finding the right keywords for your articles is absolutely crucial because they are the foundation on which the whole article rests and if not done correctly, will affect the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

Most people go to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing when looking for products and services. Keyword research indicates what words or phrases people are using to search for products or services in your particular niche.

There are several tools which can be used to conduct effective keyword research and one of these is the Google Keyword Tool. This is a great one to use because it shows what terms people have used to search for keywords on the Google search engine and it’s completely free to use. To get the most out of this tool, it’s best to make use of keywords which have very little competition.

Once you’ve completed your research and the keywords have been identified, go ahead and write your article and make it interesting and educational to the reader. Preferably both but make sure you incorporate your keyword in the both the title and the article or nobody will be able to find your article. Once your article is complete, submit it to EzineArticles.com to obtain their approval.

Conducting accurate keyword research is the foundation of the entire marketing strategy. If you don’t get your keyword research right, nobody is going to be able to find your articles and you will have wasted your time and effort. Get your keyword research right and you’ll find your article will show up in the right places. It will get your website and business known by those who already want to buy from you through these proven methods.

So if you want to make money online in a home based business and you implement these tips into your article marketing, you’ll soon get your target market reading your articles. Who knows, you may get lots of positive feedback and comments to them on your blog too. This is very rewarding and will spur you on to write more articles for certain. I wish you all the best of luck in your endeavours. If you’ve found my post useful, I’d be grateful if you’d share it with your friends and leave me some comments. Thanks!

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