If It’s Broken…

Home business owners love to make videos. How many of them have considered providing testimonies in the form of unsolicited video to support other home business owners?

For the most part entrepreneurs who learn how to build their own websites are resourceful enough to face any challenge. I read a lot about html, css and java-script but still run into challenging situations where I need to solicit help.

Today I came to a conclusion after wrestling with a problem for many days and part of that conclusion includes soliciting help from other home business owners.

… Fix It!

Entrepreneurs like engineers don’t care if something works they just feel compelled to make things work better.

If you have a content oriented website, landing page, squeeze page or lead capture page as opposed to a simple page with a straight forward offer, unsolicited testimonies from other home business owners personally saying how great the lifestyle is carry weight.

For all of the same reasons why social proof is a valuable asset, being able to offer unsolicited evidence that isn’t pushing a particular product or  service, isn’t making outrageous income claims or guaranteeing success, helps people see more of the home business community.

What’s In It For Me?

Fame, fortune and recognition may not result in what you make available, but it’s a known fact that the measure by which you give is the exact measure you can expect to receive in return.

This thought process began because I saw something that I recognized immediately as having great potential; great potential that I had no access to.

When I’m done I hope to see generic unsolicited videos changing hands across different businesses, tribes and troops.

The Disclaimer…

Not that you need to make a disclaimer if people are just giving their opinion of why home business is so great but you’ll need to have the actual video files on your web site’s server.

Why? With very few exceptions embedded video code always has a link back to the source and if that’s not bad enough they sometimes go away leaving a hole in your site.

That is not a good thing if you’re working toward lead generation or setting up an interview. You definitely don’t want anything as obvious as a video giving people the capability of clicking away from your site.

Questions I love… send them my way… share this with your friends, followers and associates.

Anytime Anywhere

Running a home business from anywhere is all about being able to do what you want when you want which includes work. Being able to create a banner in minutes means that while your sitting at the airport, coffee shop or the park you can create a banner if you have a laptop and internet access.

This video teaches banner creation with a tool called MyBannerMaker.com but be sure to visit the site and see some of the exceptional banners created with this tool. Quick, easy to understand and powerful, this tool puts the capability to finish a creative product in the hands of the entrepreneur who imagined the product.

Outsourcing will never go away but we work with a constant stream of people who are just getting started that need to know there are options out there… powerful options to do some really good work without paying someone else to do it; and waiting for them to finish it.

Banner marketing continues to be one of the most effective skills an internet marketing professional can learn and apply. An effective banner that draws quality traffic needs no maintenance; just set it and forget it.

Whether you decide to have banners created for you or learn to do it yourself this knowledge is valuable to everyone who doesn’t have that option. Besides… making banners is fun.

I hope you find this information useful. Please leave comments or questions below and as always… Read It (or watch it) Feed It & Tweet It!

It’s Not What I Do…

It’s who I am.

When you realize the freedom that comes from a fully automated online home business… work gets really exciting… even thrilling;)

I knew we would be bringing the video camera to the amusement park because having video capability with me at all times is part of this lifestyle. It wasn’t until the long drive there that this idea for a video came to me.

My idea of combining work and pleasure… Trying To Hold A Video Camera While Riding A Roller Coaster!

I won’t say, “Don’t try this at home!” (unless you have a rickety wooden roller coaster) but I will say this, “Wear a wrist strap!”

You Call This Work?

Seriously when you love what you’re doing it’ll never feel like work. Choices have never been more robust for anyone thinking of starting a home business so finding what really excites you should be the first goal.

When I think about the things that just leave us flat out exhausted (like going shopping with 5 girls) it’s usually something that we simply love doing. The exhaustion is typically caused by never saying, Enough!

Not only can’t I stop doing what I love to do… I don’t really want to. When what you do becomes who you are all of life coalesces into a seamless river of fluid excitement and fulfillment.

If this touches you, encourages you, prods you… stay tuned!

Leave comments… funny stories… and of course;) Read It, Feed It & Tweet It… oh and watch it again!

Planning To Succeed

I have nothing against business owners who lead with their primary company or market affiliate products out of the gate but this home business game plan is clearly the choice for the top 1% earners in the world of online home business.

So much depends upon forming a relationship with our followers online.

What we lead with is not only important if we want to attract people to us but also if we want to extend that relationship.

More and More Everyday

Thousands are getting into home business. Millions are waiting on the sidelines ready to get in the game… waiting for a real game plan.

New online home business owners need coaching, mentoring and a solid game plan.

It’s getting to the point where screening is becoming critical because while helping others succeed always helps our business efforts, it takes time and energy. You have to choose who to invest in very carefully.

Sharing The Plan

This concept has been revealed to me by many different people in a variety of ways.

My latest video is one of the ways I share this game plan.

If you find this helpful please let me know… if you know someone who is interested by all means share it with them… and as always; READ IT, FEED IT & TWEET IT!

“Who Else Wants This Online Home Business Blueprint?”

Why Tools Need Hands

They just lay in the toolbox otherwise?

Tools just do what we tell them to do. All the tools I’ve accumulated for home business are truly remarkable but unless I actually use them guess what…

The other picture is with a little kid playing fix it or build it with tools who not only doesn’t know how to use them but quite honestly doesn’t care because they have no idea how to build or fix.

Why The Hands Need A Brain

When I think about how many hours I’ve spent using these incredible tools to build stuff without any idea about how they were creating a viagra business, I’m sort of amazed that I never actually asked the question.

Do you ever wonder how everything is supposed to come together and work cohesively to generate profit?

Would a blueprint help?

If you know anyone else who might be interested in this home business design please> Read It, Feed It & Tweet It!

Where Most Of Us Begin

When the idea of owning an internet based business first crossed my mind, the first action step I took was to experience as much free online home business training as possible.

Social – Ads – SEO

It was all new to me at the beginning. Putting the pieces together happens a lot quicker these days. Like a child’s puzzle that only has a few large pieces.

Any number of pictures can be drawn, and the puzzle pieces can have a variety of shapes, but if you have them all, know that you need them all, and use them all, you get the picture.

How Valuable Is Free?

Completely subjective is the two word answer.

Even at the beginning I found a lot of the training material to be just common sense.

The idea around training isn’t just about the specific class or topic, but the quality of the resource.

MIT Is Free

For anyone that isn’t aware, MIT offers their entire curriculum online free of charge. Sounds crazy but only a few people are smart enough to figure that stuff out on their own and I suspect MIT would love to meet them.

In the same way, if the source that is offering the free training is valuable, it’s like letting people peek inside a vault at what is available, or letting them hold the goose that lays the golden eggs.

It Only Takes A Second

The beauty of doing business online is the internet. It’s fast, convenient and affective.

Within minutes of a scheduled training session going public, internet pathways can be constructed around the world leading people from everywhere back to where the training will take place.

Try doing that with the pony express.

Over Your Shoulder Support

The avalanche of entrepreneurs turning to internet based businesses has given rise to the need for online business coaches. While the online coaching business typically remains within tightly knit business networks, independent home business owners are either offering, or being offered services from outside their normal sphere.

Who’s Watching You?

Have you ever been in a public place and overheard frustration? Sometimes we can’t help but get absorbed in other peoples difficulties even if we can’t help.

I’m a troubleshooter and fixer upper by nature. I live for the rush of making things work, or making them work better.

Even as an employee your world suddenly crystallizes around something you did, especially when no one else could do it.

It’s A Miracle!

Have you ever taken credit for unexplained phenomena? When you do it makes people laugh because they know how ridiculous your assertion is.

Our local library is small. While I’m busy looking for my daughter’s favorite ‘Winnie the Pooh’ video I can’t help but overhear a woman who’s frustrated with the printing program.

The library charges for the paper so if you want to print something out their secondary program has to kick into gear or the process stops.

Have you ever clicked away with a mouse dozens of times with the same negative results? That’s the frustration I heard in her voice.

I Love To Help

So I’m done checking out my videos, (tonight is movie night in our house and my youngest usually ends up in another room because she’s not interested in what we’re watching) and I make my move over to where this woman is sitting.

“What are you trying to print?” I ask politely.

While she’s showing me the ‘Print Ready’ button she automatically clicks it. I’m guessing she’d done that about a dozen times already.

“This is the printer friendly version of the screen you were just on…” I start to say but she’s already clicked on ‘File’ ‘Print’ and for the first time since she started doing this 10 minutes ago, the library print window pops up.

She’s speechless.

I have to ask her if this was what she was looking for.

Nodding her head, perhaps a little embarrassed, she’s already clicked and started the print process.

{This is the punch-line}

Sensing the tension (I’ve done this before) I turn to walk away, look her in the eye and say, “Sometimes it depends upon who’s watching it.”

I have a great dead pan delivery and she thought that was hilarious.

When I told the story to my wife it rang true. This phenomenon isn’t an isolated event. I watch what people are doing and their problem seems to vanish; almost like the computer is intimidated by my presence.

In reality computers and computer programs get glitches. Just because I’m looking at what’s happening makes no difference in functionality at all.

Coaches Find Solutions

We’re starting up our online coaching business and while initially we’d considered doing group coaching, I’m leaning more toward the one on one approach.

Too many clients have such divergent concerns it would be disingenuous to lump them together hoping to address their specific needs.

There is an incalculable advantage to having someone objectively watching and discussing what you’re doing.

Just like the woman in the library we can get fixated on what we’re doing and lose our objectivity.

The solutions aren’t as easy but the process is the same; the person who’s watching you offers a fresh perspective.