It’s also useful because you can create documents and spreadsheets. You can even share particular documents which would be useful for clients. They can edit individual documents if you give them access to them. I like it because I can login into my business account anywhere in the world and when you employ staff they can also access it.

Quiet area

Actually working from home may not be the best thing for you. If you have kids or pets, they will all demand attention. You could try locking yourself away in a room but even then you may still have interrruptions.

When you are starting out and funds are low, you could work at the public library. You might like to hire office space as your business grows.

Network

Get out there and talk to friends and ask them to mention your new business. You could even give 30-day trials.
BNI is a networking organisation which may be worth looking into.

Website

Make sure you have a decent looking website. Your website designer will be able to help find a suitable host if you are not too sure.

Keep sentences short (no more than 20 words per sentence).  You’ll want to make sure you include keywords – check out Google Adwords for more information.

Structure your day

Don’t forget you are actually working. Some people find it helps to dress up to work, even if they are working from home. Write down a list of tasks you want to get done – it’s very easy to get distracted.

Good luck

 Here are 3 quick winning ways to get the cash flowing in before you ebark on your exciting new venture.

 1. Ask family and friends to invest

Ok, it maybe a big ask but you never know! Someone you may know might want to invest! So it’s worth a shot.
You have to be serious about it though, so if you haven’t already draw up a business plan. It can be as simply as a double-side A4 piece of paper but would need to include what your business is all about, together with the plans you have for the company.

I would also advise a couple of paragraphs on the market research you have done and also how much the marketing costs will be. When do you think you could pay back your family or friends?

2. Ebay

A surprisingly good place to get money in from. How about de-cluttering your home, you’ll be surprised what you will find that could be sold on Ebay. Don’t forget to do a 3 day listing – this will help the listing be high up in the rankings.

3. Just start!

Seems easy, but you could just start doing your business and it see what happens. My advice would be to start on a small scale and then build up. Again your business plan is key, it will keep you focussed. There is also the satisfaction of ticking off goals.

Good luck with your new venture, it certainly has never been a better time to start!

Best wishes
Alan

How did I become so successful? I’m sharing you right now the way I turned a dream into reality.

You’ve got a great idea but can you really hack working from home?I’m going to put you off right from the start. If the idea of working from home and being a boss sounds like freedom then I want to dispel some myths – running your own business is NOT for everyone. Don’t listen to those get rich quick schemes, they don’t work.

Business from scratch

However, I’m going to share what works for me – my hobby website has taken over 300,000 orders  and believe me I wouldn’t want to not have my business. I love coming to work to our purpose-built warehouse/offices near Gatwick Airport and so do my team.

Remember I’m just an ordinary guy who has built a business from scratch! No financial handouts, nothing, nil, zero.

You have to have a vision right from day one if you’re serious about making money.What do you want to achieve, do you want to have a business the size of Amazon or want something that just helps pay the bills?

It’s up to you

It’s up to you. With your vision (write it down by the way) you can then break it down and set goals that you want to achieve – small steps and all that.

And here’s what really motivates me, it’s not just the money (who wouldn’t want to feel satisfied with seeing the money roll in) but achieving those little goals. When you tick off those goals, that gives you a push to achieve more.

As an aside, I love the video I’ve found, I wish I had something like this when I started my business all those years ago.

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Richard Branson

Take all the most successful business leaders such as Richard Branson and Lord Alan Sugar – they could have given up working years ago but it’s the satisfaction of completing a goal that gives them the push to keep going.

It can be hard working on your own and by yourself. Those goals can sometimes be hard to achieve so you do need lots of self-discipline.

In those early days I had deliveries coming to my house and orders to dispatch.

There was no time to sit down and watch tv during the day. These were my daily goals to get deliveries out  - my next goal at the time was to get staff to help me and a warehouse. I achieved both within a couple of years. I wanted a large house, I achieved that a year or so later. Amazing.

Dreaming 

So the more orders I was taking, the more it got me to start dreaming and building new goals. I knew what I wanted to achieve and I’m proud of what I’ve achieved so far – you can do the same. You’ll get down days but keep your vision in mind all the time and break down it down into your goals. You can do this!

Today, my vision is to continue building my e-commerce business and help others through How To Make Money.co.uk.

Best wishes

Alan 

Simply packed full of lots of amazing advice, simply an amazing resource which you can use time and time again.

Good luck

Best wishes

Alan

Could you turn that into a little business on the side? You could start with producing leaflets and giving neighbours a free service for their bikes – this is ideal to do as the weather warms up. What about setting up a website?

Again, you may have enjoyed sewing when you were younger say at school. Is there anyway you could expand this and make curtains and blinds?

With time-strapped families you just may have a skill that others are willing to pay for. The key is to find something you enjoy doing and that you could do without travelling too far. Good with computers?

Perhaps you could repair them or even provide a support service for neighbours who aren’t so good with technology. Here are some other ideas: – ironing – gardening – car servicing – general household maintence – CV writing – Interview tecnique training The key really is to think of what you can do, print a few leaflets and away you go.

Good luck! Alan

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Warning

I must warn you this is not for everyone and I am fed up of people being taking in for a ride.

If you don’t like spending time on the computer who should quit reading this now.

I want to set realistic expectations, that’s all.

What on earth

By now you are probably wondering what on earth this “amazing winning scheme” is going to be. The one where you don’t even have to leave the house.

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You can also choose which surveys to do as well.

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It’s information these big corporations are after – information is want they want. Your views really do count.

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Regards

Alan

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You put a listing up and not one single person wants to take your heirloom seriously. Surely, this china vase is worth more than £2.

You put something like this: China vase Green flowers Second – hand 14 cm x 3 cm

My method

You then use my technique and you see different results and much more cash for you.

So why does my method work better. Instead of just putting up a listing with all the details, I’ve caused a problem or rather created one.You see, with my listing I’ve said: Imagine a dark bare corner of your living room [I've created a problem] which lacks any kind of focus.

Part of your room that does nothing apart from collecting dust. [And then I go about solving the problem] Give some soul back to that part of your room with this delightful green vase with pretty flowers.

Past down through generations, this stunning piece pottery makes any room in our opinion. [I then go into more detail]. The vase weighs: xxxx and measures xxxx

[If you are not selling on Ebay, you could throw in another item - in the trade it's called upselling]

Buy the vase and we’ll throw in this wonderful dusting cloth and feather dust. [And then you can build the price up and the knock it down]

We really should sell this vase for £30 but need to sell quickly as we’re moving. I’m not going to offer this to you at £27 or £25 as you’re helping me out, remember this stunning vase will brighten up any corner (in our view) could be yours for £19.97.

[Say you can't hold this offer for long] I’m not sure how long I can hold this offer so buy today at this amazing price of only £19.97

Best wishes

Alan

p.s check out Chris Cobb’s video from the UK. Here’s automating income coming in, incredible. The results are amazing.

I guess I could have trained as a plumber and gone out to service customers’ appliances after my day job but frankly I couldn’t see this I wanted to spend time with my wife and my new family.

There must be away of making money whilst I was at work.

It had to be something that would take money automatically and allow me to despatch orders in my own spare time at the weekend or in the evening (if I had time).

I spent alot of time researching products that could be sold. What could I offer that other shops couldn’t. I remember walking down London’s Oxford Street looking for products that I could sell – I figured if people were buying them there was a market.

Why then couldn’t these products also do well online? I was in fact using a marketing trick of seeing what my potential competitors were selling and then improving them.

Unlike these shops, I didn’t have space. I only had a limited budget too and and a back bedroom. The product I was to sell had to be something that was small enough to fit into my backbedroom, that offered high margins.

If I was doing it again I would set up an affiliate site.

Think about what you could do, follow your passion.

To your success.

Regards

Alan

We all get down days and it’s frustrating when that extra money doesn’t seem to appear for your new business. Sales are zero, zilch, nil or close to it.

Your fantastic business start-up is still at that stage when  all your hard work just isn’t paying off. What do you do now – abandon all those hours of blood sweat and tears or keep flogging a dead horse?

Keep going

As a very successful business owner, I say keep going. The fact that you had an idea for a business, and have been running one (yes, even if it’ s a start up) means that you have passion. I take my hat off  to you for having those qualities.

Whether you are selling hobby stuff, like I do, shoes or whatever it may mean that  it’s more your business idea that needs tweaking. Unless you are bored of running the business, now is not the time to give up.

What you need to do is to find out what customers want. Have a look at successful competitors to see what they offer. Perhaps they have a bigger stock range than you could ever afford. Instead of competiting with them why not sign up for their affiliate program? You wouldn’t have to splash out on large amount of stock either. By the way, if you haven’t already have a look at my recommended video.

Here are my tips that work for me if I’m trying out a new business idea

1) Do your research, look at your competitors in the field you are choosing

If you can’t compete, can you go in with them by signing up to their affiliate programs?

2) Write down your vision, where would like to see your business in a year’s time, 5 years time, 10 years time

3) Break down your vision into manageable goals (this will keep you focussed)

4) Offer something different to your competitors – can you give a free E-book to give away?

5) Think about how you are going to market your business. A website is a must, but would flyers that you hand out be more suitable

6) Keep tweaking the idea until you find a winning formula.

Fantastic tip

If you can’t visualise a vision of where you want to be – stand on a chair . Believe or not it helps me sometimes to get a different view on a dilema.

7) To some exercise – working from home can be isolating but exercise will help invirogate you.

8) Work with other people around , you could work in the local library if you can’t afford private office space

9) Make sure you have a structure to your day, like you would at work

10) Build relaxation time in the evening and at weekends.

Best wishes

Alan

STOP! Don’t start your new business until you’ve seen this says How To Make Money’s Alan

You’ve got that brilliant idea, your idea is going to make you millions and you want to start your business off today, right now…

I love your enthusiam and your passion – those qualities are going to stand you well during the hard work ahead of you.I say hard but it won’t seem it if you enjoy it and have a vision.But where do you get started?

Let’s say you want to sell over the web – you can have a ‘virtual shop’ from your back bedroom and have sales while you carry on your day-to-day life. It’s a great way to begin without the initial outlay. It’s exactly what I did all those years ago – and look at me now operating from a large warehouse in Redhill, Surrey.

What you’re thinking of selling

Let’s look at what you’re thinking of selling. It makes sense to know you’ve got a winner and are not wasting time with a “dead duck”.

You want to sell socks for instance and handmade ones online?

You’ll want to check out how many people are looking for the term “handmade socks” in Google Keyword Tool:

https://adwords.google.com 
Click “exact match on the left”, this means that people are typing in those exact words.

Well, there’s a surprise no one is searching for that term “handmade socks” so the chances are it won’t sell well. Plus there’s lots of other competition from people selling socks.

But if the thing you have in mind has more than 21k ‘local searches’ a month you could be onto something. Plus if there isn’t much competition, you’re definitely on the right lines.

Money

Don’t have the money or the room to invest in stock? Don’t worry you can still make tons of cash. This cool site will help you get started. It’s called Affiliate Snipers and works by giving visitors more choice – current internet marketing research is that giving more personal choice to customers helps improve sales.

This software works by having a little shopping widget appear on your web page, asking visitors to click it and tell you exactly what they want to buy from massive companies like Amazon, Walmart, Target and many more  - definite worth a look.

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Domain name

Whether you are selling stocks or setting up an affiliate site, the next stages are the same.

You’ll then need to buy a domain name from place such
as 123-reg. You’ll also need someone to host your website – type in website hosts.

You’ll be told your “named servers” by your website hosts – pass this onto the site you are buying your domain name from – they’ll need to re-direct the domain name to your website host’s site and the area where your website will be on.

PayPal

Some hosts, will allow to create a template which you
can use for your virtual shop front. You may find that
they come with a way of taking payment over the web. The simpliest thing to do is to use PayPal to take your sales – at least whilst you are setting up.

If a template does not come with this PayPal facility you could ask someone to help you by set this up by posting a project on www.elance.com – one of my favourite websites. Providers around the world will bid on your particular project.

If you don’t have any web programming skills, I would again ask for help on Elance.com.

Here’s another site that we like for templates: http://99designs.com

And then it’s a question of spreading the word about your site and getting Google and the other search engines to rank your site.

Have a look at this page, which tells you more about other things you need to help your website attract the traffic magnets:

http://www.howtomakemoney.co.uk/ill-show-you-how-to-get-your-website-to-the-top-of-google/

Good luck!

To your success

Best wishes

Alan

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