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November 18, 2009

Working at Home Jobs

When you had your kids, did you dream of staying home and raising them? And now they’re being raised by strangers at day care. Would you like to shape your children’s character and formative years? Do you want to be the main influence in your children’s life instead of the teachers and children in daycare? Are you living paycheck to paycheck with no chance of getting ahead? Ready for something different? Your answer may be no fee work at home jobs.

My Story

I was able to stay at home and raise my children. I’m very blessed in that way. I got to go on outings and field trips, work in their class rooms, be in the PTA and be available and have the energy to help them with homework, coach their sports, and give them all of my values and morals. When my kids got older I decided to go back to work. After being gone from home from 7am to 6pm, five days I week I didn’t have the time or energy to keep up with my kids interests, concerns, problems, desires, plans and dreams. I felt so totally disconnected from them. And there was still the matter of all the laundry, cooking, cleaning and shopping. I would spend the whole weekend just trying to catch up on chores. Even with the help of my wonderful husband I just didn’t have the energy for my kids let alone for my own sanity and rest. I just knew there had to be a better way than wearing myself out. I knew I could some how have the best of both worlds, staying at home with my family and making the money I made at work.

Home-Based Job or Business

A home based job and a home based business are different. To illustrate what I mean: selling products on eBay, creating websites, writing e-books, data entry, surveys, mystery shopping etc. are all examples of home based jobs. That’s all good, but do you know how to do any of those things? If so, that’s awesome, go for it. If you have no idea where to start there’s a good chance you’re frustrated even before you can begin. That’s when I started looking into home-based businesses. These are legitimate work from home jobs. A home based business would be like an MLM company or sales(your product or someone else’s) or a service like alterations or interior decorating. I did get tired of inviting my friends over and over to opportunity meetings just for them to tell me ‘no way’ or try to convince them to sign up under me and bring other people to the opportunity meeting and sign up and the constant search for new clientele. That’s when I started looking on the internet.

Internet-Based Business

Do you want to work from home stuffing envelopes? No? An internet business is a business that is promoted primarily on the internet. The internet makes your selling territory global, that is over 6 billion people to sell to! Right now about 134 million people are born ever year. We add about 77 million people each year if we take into consideration the global death rate of 57 million per year. If the consumer age ranges from 18 to 80, that gives you 4,774,000,000 people to market to each year. And if you want to concentrate on the United States, well that’s 305,529,237 people to market to. The numbers are on your side. You’ll run out of time before you run out of people.

1. Pyramid Schemes - Businesses have pretty much eliminated this model, mostly because it’s illegal - duh. In some instances Multi-level-marketing companies (MLM’s) build on levels to generate your income. Be sure to check out how your income is generated thoroughly. The new business model is matrixes. But still, the top people make most of the money. Do your due diligence, research the numbers and the compensation plan. Recently I was shown an MLM company where the compensation plan was so complicated that it would have taken a rocket scientist to understand it. She told me the company had my best interest in mind and to just trust her and sign up. No thanks, where money is concerned, everyone has their own best interests in mind. Don’t go near it if you can’t understand it.

2. Products and Services - You may need more than one product if you decide to go into business promoting products. Usually you’ll want to offer a complementary product or an add on to the product you’re offering. For an example you may have a pet care company that sells a hundred different products. However, they are all focused around dogs. Look for a business that offers a variety of products that you can market to several different niches and reach different groups of consumers.

3. Mentoring and Coaching - Whatever you decide for your home-based and/or internet-based business, the most important decision is to choose a mentor or coach who will guide you into your success. You can have the best products, service, or program but if you don’t have the support you need to get yourself up and running and learn how to become an internet marketing pro, then your money will be wasted and you will be frustrated and discouraged.

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May 29, 2009

Jamorama, The Best Guitar Lesson Online?

Is Jamoram cracked up what it is to be? This is a program that promises to teach you how to play a guitar without the boring theories - only by listening. And with the feed backs I have heard, it appears that this is a nifty program

If you considering Jamorama, then read the following reviews before you buy it-

1. “Jamorama was designed by Ben Edwards. Ben Edwards was the former lead guitarist of the popular down-under band “DegreesK”. Ben designed Jamorama to be fun and easy to use. Inside this cool program are jam tracks selected exclusively by Ben for people to play and practice. One does not have to endure repetitive and boring tracks or drills. These jam tracks were designed by professional musicians and are interestingly different from those usual play-along practice sessions. This session is designed like an actual live jamming session. Thus, by doing jam tracks, it is like you are practicing with these professional musicians in a live environmen” - By Mike Darwin, Ezinearticles

2. “It is a guitar learning kit for beginners to advanced players that uses a software program called Jamorama maestro to load 2 E-books and can be downloaded for free. There is book one for beginners and book 2 for advanced players. A key is provided to register after installing and when you open the program the books are listed and ready for download. Then you can start.” - By A Ghielli, Ezinearticles

3. “The interesting thing in the program include the clear message that it gives to you when you read the manual and guide. You can easily understand and will be able to do it by yourself. The videos are similar to having private tutors for the step by step approach. It made the learning process faster and easier.” - By Jim Somchai, Ezinearticles.com

So if you need a guitar program that will get you jamming in months, then Jamorama is worth the investment. Not only is it a great program, it is much cheaper to learn online then paying someone to teach you!

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