Top new home based businesses are available in online marketing, network marketing and affiliate marketing. Internet marketing has revolutionized the way businesses all over the world are connecting with their existing and potential customers. It is a great way to promote their products and services online.Most companies, which provide their members the opportunity to earn additional income, also provide training as part of the program. The training kits consist of tutorials and videos, which explain in easy steps the various concepts and strategies to be followed.Members who join the various programs which are on offer are required to pay annual or monthly fees. In certain cases the membership is free subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. Top new home based businesses might require their members to sell their products to customers, which will then make them eligible for commissions.There are various compensation plans available for members and for some programs, as the rank of the member increases, so does their commission earning capacity. Members usually join at a particular level and as they achieve sales, they will progress to the more profitable rank levels. It is very important to build a good team of individuals as their performance will also determine the commission earned by the member.There are a number of legitimate MLM opportunities, which provide the potential to earn lucrative income in niche areas. Members would be able to earn a residual income from the MLM business opportunity. The members can make their choice of type business based on the reviews available on the internet. Companies, which promise the stars could probably be overstating the truth about their business and could be using exaggerated income figures to sell their business.The most genuine companies online would always make it clear that significant work and effort are required, as well as, state the facts about what opportunities they provide. Individuals must be aware that some companies will make false claims and promises to promote their business.There is a growing number of legitimate opportunities online, which offer their members a substantial amount of money. It is important to remember though, that it requires significant work and perseverance. Top new home based businesses are not get rich quickly concepts as it is necessary to have a solid work ethic and some skills in internet marketing to be successful.

To Start a Home Based Business does not mean that a person cannot have the official work environment and the fancy paper work, and that it is not a legal business. A home business is an easy way to start making money. The best thing about the home business is that the investment it demands is typically small and easy to handle, also it can be easily managed through simple ways. Anything involving the exchange of goods and money is business, start a home business if you think you can provide something people will buy.There are a few things that can help the business flounder from the start. First things first, the person starting the home business must have a clear idea of what the people want to buy and what he/she can offer, only then can a business prosper. Analyzing the market before jumping right in the middle of it can prove very useful and can save lots of time and money.Advertising is very important in business. Internet is the best platform to advertise, it is free, easy, and everyone uses it. One of the basic needs is to create a website or an online account where people can look at the products available from the creator. Promoting a website is not an easy job, one starts from telling their friends and family and goes as far as paying successful bloggers to promote their websites and other SEO methods. Once out in the open market,quality control and an active mind is necessary to keep the business afloat. Using one’s hobbies to help in the business might be a good idea.Online home business is not always about physical (hardware) goods.There are a lot of people providing tips and advices to people in their respective fields of life. Suppose if someone can play a musical instrument really well, they can teach stuff online and charge their visitors with membership fee etc. if someone is good at giving people psychological advice then they can start a home business about that,the things that matter are being professional, skilled, authentic and legitimate. People do not pay for copied stuff and even the slightest mistakes may turn down a whole business. In this type of work, the person may also need an assistant or an advisor who can share the work load or provide answers to what the publisher him/herself cannot answer. This can be a very healthy practice.If the person wishes to start a home business selling physical goods then hiring the services of a drop shipper becomes almost necessary. A drop shipper may store your products in their inventory and provide them to customers at the designated time. A customer logs on to the website and places their order. The attendant at the website would then have to inform the drop shipper of the customer’s details(address, contact etc.) and the drop shipper would transport the product, very simple. A home business may be one of the easiest ways to start making money also establishes a firm understanding and work experience of the market.

You’ve asked yourself this question for the thousandth time. You’ve heard all the hype and skeptically turned your head away from the opportunity, only to find yourself attracted to it once again. You’ve seen the advertisements and laughed at the idea, but somewhere deep inside you wonder if it’s really possible.The question keeps coming back…Is it crazy starting a home-based business?With all the negative misconceptions surrounding home-based businesses, I feel it is important for you to understand the main reasons people start a home-based business in the first place. The purpose of this post is not to sell you on any one business opportunity or to convince you to even start your own business.The purpose is to help understand the mind-set of individuals who seek to create a different future for them self and/or their family. Perhaps you landed on this article, because you are looking for a better way to secure your future.Maybe you have already convinced yourself to start a home-based business, but are skeptical that you even have what it takes to succeed in your own business. Whatever your purpose may have been that found you reading this post, I hope you take away a fuller understanding of what led you to the world of entrepreneurship.It is well known that a home-based business is not everyone’s cup of tea. So, why do so many even venture into this career path?1. Dissatisfied With Current EmploymentHow many of you have walked into your place of employment bright and early on Monday morning and said to yourself, “I can’t wait for Friday afternoon to come!”? I can safely assume that the majority of you right now are raising your hand in your mind.There is no shame in feeling this way. Most of us live for our weekends, when we can relax with our families and get tasks completed from our to-do lists. We can sleep in past 6:00am and go to bed later than 9:00pm.Weekends = Freedom.Now, many are perfectly content with staying in their current 9:00-5:00 job. This is okay, because this equates to familiarity and stability for so many.For others, however, they are dissatisfied with their job and with the restrictiveness of its expectations. They are tired of missing birthdays and holidays, vacations with the family. We spend more time with our co-workers during the day than we do with our own family and friends.Activities and events are all planned around our work schedules and, many times, it is easier to just cancel the event than to try to request the time off from work.Now, there are two types of individuals who are dissatisfied with their current employment: those that are hungry to do something about it and those that will continue punching that time card. Again, it is respectable to stay in one’s current job, because they are taking care of their responsibilities and, possibly, working hard for that next promotion.However, for those that are hungry to make a change, starting a home-based business has proven to be the answer to their problem.As a home-based business owner, you make your own schedule and you dictate the amount of time you are able to spend with your family and friends. You are afforded the luxury of time, because there is no boss to report to but yourself.2. The EconomyIt is no secret that the state of today’s economy is one of uncertainty. Property values have fallen and unemployment rates have risen. Recent college graduates struggle to find employment, after racking up thousands of dollars in student loans. More and more families have to apply for government assistance just to meet their most basic needs.We are currently in the middle of a presidential election year and what has been a significant focus of both campaigns? The economy.With the current state of the economy, more and more people are looking for ways to secure their financial future, because they are not confident in placing this in the hands of their employers and of their government.With a home-based business, many have been able to start building a financial cushion for them self and for their family and all from the comfort of their own home. This is especially suitable for those currently employed and/or have families, as they are able to grow their business part time if need be.3. Financial Freedom & SecurityWith a home-based business, the potential to earn a significant amount of money is so much greater than with a traditional job. In a regular private or government job, the only way to increase your income is to obtain a promotion or get hired in a higher paying job.With a home-based business, your efforts and commitment truly does predict the amount of money you can earn. There is no interview, there is no politics. There is simply your ability to reach the maximum amount of your target audience (your ideal consumer) and be able to attract them to your product or opportunity.The dream of financial freedom and security is realistically attainable, and more individuals are recognizing this potential within the home-based business industry. Financial freedom and security is important to many in various ways, but there is one common benefit to all: the opportunity to live the lifestyle one has always dreamed of.

For the last little while, about a month and a half ago, I decided to start another website in addition to this one I currently have.

I’ve wanted to create another website for a while now, but haven’t had the opportunity.

Basically because I was focused on providing content and trying to make this site the absolute best I could make it. But the thought and concept of this other website, which I won’t reveal at this moment since I’m still monitoring results, has been eating away at me for quite some time.

But I got to thinking about that other site ALOT over this American long weekend that just passed (Thanksgiving). I was talking with an associate of mine, the same one that I mentioned in SOI Podcast 002, and he was attempting to work on yet another project.

This time though, it would be a blog/website about marketing.

Curious to know where his newly found knowledge of marketing came from, I simply asked him.

He simply replied that he had absolutely no intention or writing a single word. He’s going to outsource all of his writing to others and build up his site by link building and social media.

After all, that’s how the pros do it, he added.

(In my mind, my hand was slapping my head repeatedly but I continued to ask questions.)

So I asked him what made him believe that this business will work when other business he worked on before, failed.

“Well because people are interested in marketing. Whether it’s affiliate marketing, direct marketing, email marketing, offline marketing, whatever type of marketing it is, they’re interested in. And I’m going to bring it to them. I’m going to be a one stop shop for all of their marketing interests and questions.”

“After all, that new website you told me about is almost the same thing. It’s a one stop site for information relating to what you’re talking about.”

That comment had my heart pounding.

The LAST thing I wanted was for one of my sites to be considered one giant hub for a wide variety of information.

So on Sunday night, when I went to check out some of the content that I already wrote for that website, my stomach was in a knot.

My associate was right.

The content I had already wrote did come across as being all over the place. Which is something that I didn’t want. And if you’re creating a site, it’s not something that you want either.

Creating A Blog About Everything Is A Horrible Idea

Sorry to say this, but there’s at least a 75% chance that my associate is going to fail in this new business of his.

The main reason is because he’s focusing on too many things.

He plans to have relevant content on affiliate marketing, content marketing, social media marketing, etc. and having your hand in many baskets at once is a sign for trouble.

Mainly because you can’t specialize.

Let’s say, for instance, I was interested learning about email marketing and from learning as much tips as I could on email marketing. If I went to his website, I would be greeted with post on email marketing and almost every other type of marketing out there.

Basically because he chose to cover all topics instead of specializing in just one.

If I came across a situation like that, more than likely, I would search for another blog that is 100% dedicated to email marketing and would be more inclined to follow the tips, strategies and advice that person gives.

If you’re thinking about creating a site about everything, you need to seriously reconsider.

If you do a search on the Internet, you’ll find that a lot of people that are the most successful, are the ones that are focused in on a niche.

And that’s what you should be focused on.

What Is A Niche Market?

I looked up Wikipedia to find their definition of what is a niche market. Here’s what they had to say…

“A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focusing. The market niche defines the product features aimed at satisfying specific market needs, as well as the price range, production quality and the demographics that is intended to impact.”

Pretty self explanatory.

Unlike the example I gave earlier about an associate of mine, and his determination to focus on the wide market, when you focus in on a niche market, you’re focused on one particular thing. For example, instead of focusing on all of the marketing markets, each one of those markets are separate niches.

Creating a marketing site around social media cater to those who want to do social media marketing.

Blogging about email marketing tips & tricks would be welcomed by those who want to see better results from their email marketing campaigns.

And so on.

How Can Choosing A Niche Market Help You Succeed?

If you haven’t already started writing about a specific niche in your market, then there are two things you definitely need to remember that will help you succeed.

1. Make Sure Your Niche Isn’t Too Wide

The main reason that you DON’T want to have a niche that’s too wide is because you won’t be able to build a targeted audience.

If you’re interested in health, you can certainly write articles related to health, but there are just far too many topic to cover. And because there are so many topics to cover, you most likely will struggle when it comes to getting any quality traffic to your site.

Sure you’ll probably get some visits to your site, but people should generally know what your site is about when they first visit. If you have one post about acne and then another post about pregnancy and another post about pregnancy, then visitors will be confused about what your ultimate message is that your site is trying to provide. And that will hurt any attempts to turn them into subscribers.

But say, for instance, you were interested in a topic like How To Stop Acne or Acne Remedies, then you would write about that and that alone. Any audience that you will build from that, will be of people who are interested to learn as much as they can about acne remedies and how to stop acne.

And that list will be much easier to build that way rather than just writing about a general topic like health. Mainly because you’re delivering that specific information, and only that specific information, that they’re looking for.

To succeed with your niche market, you must try to niche it down as much as you possibly can.

But also…

2. Make Sure Your Niche Isn’t Too Small

Now, there’s a thing called niching it down too much. Which you really don’t want to do.

When you choose a niche that’s too small, you won’t get enough visitors and you won’t be able to build your blog. This is mainly because there just aren’t too many people that’s interested in the topic.

For example, let’s say you were interested in knitting.

Now that topic of knitting is a HUGE topic and something you really shouldn’t focus on by itself. So you decide to find a niche to focus on. And you see the wide abundance or clothes and boots for dogs but nothing really for cats. So you decide to have your niche be “knitting mittens for kittens”.

Yes, you have certainly selected a niche market, but it may be far too small of a market for you to succeed in. So by knowing this, you shouldn’t focus on “knitting mittens for kittens”, but instead “knitting mittens.”

When you’re trying to figure out your niche market, there are two things you need to remember:

1. Would people read my site and the niche topic I’m talking about?

2. Would people be interested in my site overall?

Final Thoughts

Everything in this post is what I told that associate regarding his new attempt in business. Regardless, he’s fixated on creating one site and making that the hub. Even though I told him that crating multiple blogs on the different topics he’s interested in would be the better choice… since he’s outsourcing everything.

He disagreed.

But I’m tell you this… if you are interested in a topic that has many layers to cover, create multiple blogs on the different topics you want to create.

This is probably the best method to choose that you would be the most successful with.

Sure it’s a lot more work, but by doing it this way, you’re sure to see much better results because you’ll be creating a single website for each of the topics.

If you want to create a successful blog, then I highly suggest that you focus on one particular niche. Because at the end of the day, nobody’s truly winning when you try to write about everything.

You’re losing out because you’re not putting your best efforts in to solve the problem.

All you’re focused on is coming up with more content that may or may not be useful to them. And your readers are losing out because they’re not getting their questions and concerns completely answered.

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