Home Based Business Myths: Free Home Businesses

Having lived in three different countries, and having dealt with more than a dozen different ethnical backgrounds I’ve noticed a very common characteristic between us humans.

We always want something for free.

Doesn’t really matter what it is.

I’ve seen people bargain over getting a free pair of socks, to a corporate employee wanting a promotion but not willing to put in the required effort, to someone looking to start a 6-figure business from home but not willing to pay the initial monetary and effort costs.

We’ve got to come out of this mindset of wanting things to be handed to us on a “silver platter”.

I see parents constantly reminding their children of this concept but they themselves forget about it when it comes down to them actually doing some work.

So here’s where I’m going with this.

There’s no such thing as a FREE home based business. And there’s definitely NO home based business opportunity that just builds itself without you contributing.

At the very least, you’ll need to buy your own domain name which will run you about $10. And hosting costs about $6 a month.

Now, this is ALL considering that you DON’T pay for advertising, you DON’T buy any courses that will actually teach you how to market online, and you DON’T pay anyone for outsourcing the grunt work (web design, article writing, ad writing, etc.)

But let’s say that you didn’t pay for anything other than your domain name & hosting… and you got a free product from an affiliate network like clickbank.com.

Building a site that you can use to promote that particular product takes work.

It takes effort… sometimes a LOT of effort. (Especially if you don’t want to invest much capital up front)

So no matter how many times you read it online, or how badly you want it to be true… FREE home businesses don’t exist.

You’ll either need to invest some money to get it going, or you’ll need to invest some time & effort.

I know this all goes against the fantasy that has been built in the back of your mind by countless internet marketers, but I thought I should let you in on the truth.

Home businesses DO require money… and you won’t really be spending the money on the actual website itself, but on other people’s products that can teach you HOW to run your business.

And if you’re telling yourself that you won’t buy anyone else’s product… that you’ll figure it out on your own… you’re honestly making a HUGE mistake.

There have been thousands of people before you and I came along that have built successful businesses from home… using the internet.

And quite frankly, it would be a lot easier, faster, and cheaper if you learned how to do it from the people who have already been there.

I’ll try to send you the best recommendations I can as far as which courses to look for. I have spent a lot of money on courses that weren’t worth the paper they were written on, and I don’t want you to go through that yourself.

So if you haven’t subscribed to this blog already, do so because I will be updating it frequently with valuable content.

And there’s always the most complete home business course that’s out on the net today, and I’m giving you access to it for free.

So I’m doing my part to make sure that you make money from your home business, but you have to make sure that you put in the work that’s required to make it all work, too.

Deal?

Good.

Until later… stay cool,

Arman Vakili

Home Businesses For Under $100: MLM

There’s a lot of trash being talked about different MLM companies, and the MLM industry as a whole.

Some for good reason… some not.

I’ve actually promoted several different MLM companies and the most common objection I get from a prospect is…

“Oh… I’ve heard of these. This is one of those Pyramid things, right?”

And the most interesting part is that most people don’t even KNOW what a pyramid scheme really is… and how it’s different from the MLM business model.

That’s a completely different topic for a different day.

The point is, it’s a business model that works... And it’s one of the very few business models that you can start with very little capital investment. (Like it says in the headline of this article)

There are only 2 things that you need to build a successful MLM organization:

1. An easily duplicable marketing system that can do most of the “grunt work” for your downline.
2. Great upline support.

Those 2 things go hand-in-hand, together. You really can’t build a BIG business – the kind that you see in the different conventions for these companies – if BOTH of those 2 things aren’t there.

So as an example, if I brought a new distributor into my business, it would be my responsibility to make sure that he succeeds. That is my duty as his upline.

And in order for that new distributor to succeed, I have to give him a marketing system that he can easily learn to use… and more importantly, get him to actually START using it.

I can talk all day about creating marketing systems but in short, I made a website that would basically do all the prospecting & presenting FOR my distributors… and the call of action at the end of the presentation was to CALL the name at the bottom – which would be the distributor.

Now the only thing that the new distributor has to worry about is getting traffic to the individual site that they would get. And as the upline, it would be my responsibility to show them how.

And if you decide to join the MLM industry yourself, you would inherit those same responsibilities as a leader.

Your prospects will be coming to you with their hopes & dreams in hand, looking to you to show them the way to get to their goal… and that’s a very big responsibility.

So make sure that the team you join has a marketing system that you can easily learn & use… and most importantly, make sure that they have the type of leadership that can easily show YOU how to be a leader.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions from your recruiter to see exactly how they work in their team, and what type of support is available to you.

It’s your right as a prospect to know.

Alright… that’s it for today.

Stay cool,

Arman Vakili

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Home Businesses For Under $100: Information Marketing

For as long as anyone can remember, human brings have always had an urge to take record of their learning experiences. And as a counterpart to this concept, they also have the urge to be constantly searching for information on HOW to do certain things.

Before the internet, people would have to go to libraries & book stores to get this information. But now, it has become extremely easy to get access to information using different resources such as search engines.

A person looking for information about how to potty-train their dog, would go online and search for it on Google.

And as a home business owner, you have the opportunity to learn about that subject (if you don’t know it already) and create an information product that can answer all of the questions that person has on the subject.

And in order to learn HOW to potty-train their dog, that person would have to purchase your course from you… whether it be an eBook, audio, or video course.

This is usually the part where someone would say, “Well… I really don’t know anything that I can make an Information Product out of.”

That really isn’t very likely. There usually is something that you are really good at, that you can teach someone else.

And if it’s not you, it could be someone you know that’s really good at something and you can use the information in their head to create a product, and then you can focus on the marketing.

A lot of times, people are willing to do a few interviews with you for free just for the extra publicity.

And in the worst case scenario, if you don’t know anything yourself and you don’t know anyone that is good at anything (highly unlikely)… there IS one last resort that is failsafe.

LEARN how to do something new and create an information product delivering the “meat” of the content that you just learned. It’s not at all a complicated process, and you can get through it in one weekend.

And the really cool thing is that it doesn’t cos ta single penny to create something like an eBook. Just open up MS Word or your favorite word document and type away. Then you can turn that file into a PDF file and sell it as a digital download.

So there is very LITTLE start up investment required, and you can make a VERY good living promoting your own information product. And if it’s in a good niche, you can create more backend products that will help you increase your customer lifetime value.

But my favorite thing about running an Information Product business is the fact that as a product owner, you now can have your own affiliate program. Once you have a sales funnel that converts prospects into buyers, an affiliate program will EXPLODE your profits. You will only need to pay something when a sale is made, and that’s a pretty powerful position to be in as a business owner.

By the way, if you don’t know how to set up an effective marketing system to promote your products for you… you can get access to a free comprehensive course we designed that will show you the A-B-C’s of building a profitable home based business.

You’ll learn everything from product creation, to website creation, to copywriting, to advertising and driving traffic. It’s the most complete course of its kind and you can get access to the free videos on this blog.

Go here to download your home business videos.

Alright… that’s it for today.

Stay cool,

Arman Vakili

Home Businesses For Under $100: Affiliate Marketing

For this particular section, the title should’ve been “FREE Home Based Businesses”… but oh well, we’ll just leave it as it is.

Affiliate marketing happens to be the ONLY home based business opportunity that you can start literally with ZERO start up capital.

(And if you’ve been doing your research, you should already know that starting a home business online usually comes at some sort of price.)

It doesn’t cost you anything to sign up with an affiliate program, and if you know what you’re doing, it doesn’t cost you anything to market your program either… so literally any money that you make from affilite sales will go directly to your pocket.

But before I start giong off on how much money you can make promoting affiliate programs - and I can talk about that ALL day - let me give you a break-down of how affiliate marketing actually works. (That is… if you don’t already know)

The wuold-be affiliate – you – goes to any oone of the thousands of affiliate networks that are available online and signs up with them for free.

Once you’ve signed up, you get your very own affiliate link that you can use to promote that particular program. And from that point on, all you have to do is send traffic to yoru affiliate link.

That’s it.

The sales letter has already been written for you, the merchat account and shopping cart have already been set up for you, and the product has already been created.

If you were going to do all of those things yourself, you have no idea how much time, money, and effort you would need to put in to set it all up.

We’re talking $1000’s of your personal money invested, and hundreds upon hundreds of hours of work put in.

Not to mention all the headache that comes along with taking care of your own customer service.

So the simple fact that it’s been all done for you should be a very powerful motivator to choose affiliate marketing as your home based business.

But if that’s not enough, there is just one last piece of info that I want to share with you about affiliate programs. (This will blow your socks off)

For a very long time, the only way that you could get paid through affiliate programs was on a “one sale, one commission” basis. That means that any sale you made, you’d get paid the initial commission due to you, and that was it.

If the product creator made any follow-up sales to that particular prospect… you wouldn’t get a DIME of it.

But what I’m seeing a lot more now-a-days is how program owners are starting to pay their affiliates on a continuity based comp plan.

Continuity means that the product is delivered through a monthly subscription… and every month, the buyer is charged another $17, $27, or $47 for that month’s subscription.

So this means that if you refer a sale to that particular affiliate program, you’ll get paid EVERY MONTH that the subscriber stays with that program.

Pretty cool, huh?

So promoting continuity based affiliate programs will allow you to make PASSIVE INCOME from your home based business… and if you can get paid without having to do any extra work, wouldn’t that be the ideal lifestyle that we’re ALL trying to go after?

And now for your action step… Visit one or all of the affiliate networks below. (And I recommend that you go to Google and search for more “affiliate programs” that you can join)

Sign up with the network of your choice and start reviewing some of its products that you can promote. Once you’ve picked the product, head to the “Traffic” section of this blog to see how you can start generating traffic to your affiliate link.

Here are some of the most popular affiliate networks:

· ClickBank

· Commission Junction

· Amazon

· Target

There are a LOT more out there and I highly recommend that you look for them.

Alright… good luck!

Leave any comments or questions that you have below, and I’ll do my best to respond to them quickly.

Stay cool,

Arman V.

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