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<>Motivational Thought!
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<> Business Coach of the Day
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EDITORS' REMARKS
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Today's ezine has some information to further your home business toward helping you become successful, if you aren't there, or more successful, if you are already succeeding. Whichever the need may be in your life... Read and glean!

Do what you must to be successful as long as it's honest, something you enjoy and doesn't hurt anyone.
 
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MOTIVATIONAL THOUGHT
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"It's so important to believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief keeps you searching for the answers, and then pretty soon you get it."
 
~ Wally "Famous Amos"

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Slim To None

Many people who live in a colder climate go south during the winter.  Others move there permanently after retirement, and some find it's not all "peaches and cream". Their retirement income may not enough to live the life style they wish, so they look about for other ways to generate additional earnings.

While many do odd jobs, many are attracted to the Internet, and some do very well while others do not.  Those that do not may get quickly disenchanted, and write the Internet off as just a lot of hype, where you can't earn anything. That's like getting a flat tire in your car, and swearing that the automobile has no future.

Anyone going into business on the Internet, must do several things if they hope to achieve success.  Probably the first thing is to recognize and avoid the "get rich quick" schemes, that promise great earnings in a short period of time, with little if any effort on your part.  People quickly find their email overflowing with all kinds of offers like this.  Everything from illegal chain letters, to the Nigerian money laundering scam that promises you 25 percent of 35 million dollars, start arriving and unfortunately a lot of people bite.

Believing the hype of some affiliate deals, they join a few and quickly find that they don't have to install a bigger mailbox to hold all the payments they thought they would get.  Many of these programs require that you pay a monthly fee to be involved, and the founders are the only ones making money. If someone tells you that you don't have to work, forget about it. Like any other business, if you don't put forth any effort, your chances of success are slim to none.

Even if you do all the right things, like your car, you may get a flat tire along the way.  That is not the time to quit.  You may experience several failures before finding the right one.

Before "jumping in with both feet" however, examine some of the offers being made on the Internet.  The very best way to do this is to subscribe to some online publications and review the ads. Paid ads that appear on a regular basis are a good sign of potentially good opportunities.  If the advertisers were not making any money, they wouldn't be spending their hard earned money to run them.

While free advertising has its place, it cannot be the only method you use.  The old saying "that you have to spend a buck to make a buck" is equally true on the Internet. Consider placing your ad in the ezines or newsletters that have a high repeat rate with their advertisers.

Your ad headline and copy are critical to your success.  Don't use the copy supplied by the affiliate program, as many people use them, and those ads get tired very quickly.  If necessary, get some professional help in writing your ad. A good ad will pull - a bad or tired ad won't.

Target your ads toward those you think will become a prospect. Millions of ads sent out as unsolicited email (spam) will do little if any good.  A well constructed ad in an ezine, targeted to the proper audience, even if they only have a few thousand subscribers, will out pull the spam.

Something as simplistic as being an Amazon.com affiliate, can generate income.  If you are an expert in your field, and get recognized as one, an affiliate program with Amazon might be the way to go.  You may not become wealthy overnight, but as your exposure grows, so will your income.

If you don't have your own web site, forget about it.  That's like a merchant without a store trying to do business out of the back of their car. The cost of web space is so low today, that you can't afford not to have one.

If you are retired, or simply someone wishing to supplement their income, you can achieve success on the web. But it does take work and some common sense. If you don't, your chances for success are "slim to none" and it just may be your business that "went south".

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"Do Ask, Do Tell" -
Top 10 Most Helpful Online Customer Survey Resources

One of the key factors in a successful business is to know what your customers or clients are thinking - about your business, your products, your services. As a business owner, you'll get feedback from your current customers just in the course of day-to-day business. But the results can be skewed by the interaction itself, and so most business owners find it useful to allow their customers to answer questions anonymously. And that's where surveys come in.

Some businesses hire market research firms to survey their customers or target customers. For new or smaller businesses, this can be an expensive proposition, and it's helpful to have a set of resources in your tool box that offer the option of conducting your own surveys. Here are some great online resources you can use for surveys.

They range from the simplest polls which you can create and place on your web site to much more elaborate options. Many of them allow the survey respondents to see the results from themselves and others as soon as they complete the survey. Some of these companies offer a set of services for free as well as more powerful paid services; others offer free 30-day trials of their most robust services. Some are geared towards smaller businesses, other towards large enterprises with thousands of employees. There's also a wide range of continuum between letting you design and add your own surveys to your web site, versus having them create a survey, find your target market, query them, and report back the results.

1. SurveyMonkey - If you have a large mailing list or want to send a lot of surveys, the best deal here is the professional subscription. For $19.95 month, you can send an unlimited number of surveys and receive up to 1000 responses per month.

2. Zoomerang - I love their slogan, "Easiest way to ask, fastest way to know." Offers a basic product (free) plus paid packages geared to education, non-profit, and a professional version, which can send surveys in several languages, and has no limit on the number of responses you can receive.

3. SnapPoll - Simple site which offers you an easy way to put a one-question survey on your web site and receive results. Requires no sign-up, allows you to customize colors for the form, and prevent multiple "votes" from the same person. Free - supported by what they call "non-obtrusive
advertising."

4. PHP Form Generator - This is a free survey generator that is written as open source code. You can choose as many questions as you'd like - in any format - check, text, drop-downs, etc.) You do have to create your own stats, but it's a fairly simple procedure for small surveys.

5. OneMinutePoll - Software - available at a yearly subscription price - that teaches you how to write surveys correctly to find out what your customers want, so you can provide it to them! Software automates your polls, generates code for your web page, and allows you to see results in
real-time.

6. Advanced Survey - Free and paid services that offer both web page surveys and email surveys (where you invite participants - via email - to take a survey). You can ask multiple questions in one survey, and can ask yes/no questions, open-ended text questions, customizable number scales (Pick a number from 1 to 10 with 10 being best, for example), and multiple choice.

7. Question Pro - Very sophisticated system for surveying customers. Has predesigned templates for common surveys: Customer Satisfaction, New Product/Concept Testing, Product Surveys, Conference Feedback, and more. These surveys can also be designed with "branching," where the answer to one question is used in a subsequent question. No free options here, but there is a 30-day free trial.

8. Relevant Tools - This company offers custom web forms with automatic email response for as little as $10/month for a basic membership, which includes up to 500 database records and up to 500 email messages/month.

9. HotScripts - A great resource for programmers and webmasters. It has a host of scripts in various programming languages and is constantly being updated by programmers from around the world. If you search on "surveys," you'll find lots of scripts in lots of programming languages you can use.

10. NetReflector - Offers a very sophisticated self-serve solution for the do-it-yourselfer, and assisted and automated solutions for companies who need to survey customers and/or employees worldwide on a regular basis. Offers webinars, articles, and other resources on creating the invitation, the importance of regular surveys, and using online technologies for surveys.

So whether you're querying current clients and customers, a potential target market, vendors, or employees, these online surveys can provide valuable tools for smart business owners. You can set up and monitor your surveys or pay someone to do it for you, but online surveys are a great way for you to gain information. The results may surprise you, or send you in a new direction you hadn't thought of. But one thing's for sure; if you don't ask your customers, clients, or employees, they probably won't tell!


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