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By
Bruce Scher
Instead of thinking about your start-up fears, let`s focus on something more
interesting like; free home-based business opportunities, and free
advertising. This new thinking will greatly increase your confidence in being
the boss.
By Bruce Scher
All of us who tell the truth will admit to having fears. Many people live
their entire lives with one fear or another, but Anne Block, discovered how
to side-step her fear factor into a home-based business reality.
Anne always dreamed of owning her own home-based travel business, but the fear
of losing her savings kept her dream parked in neutral. Anne says, "finally a
business associate told me how I could start it with no money, and to start
looking forward not backward." Well, she started it in 1995, and her business
is growing strong to this day. The 7 tips to lowering your fear factor are:
Having A Great Idea
By concentrating on why you want to start your own home-based business, and
visiting other like-minded websites, reading ezines and newsletters on the
subject, plus trade publications, gathering more knowledge about the subject,
will raise your confidence and simultaneously lower your fear level. Repeat
after me, more confidence, less fear.
If you don`t have a great idea at the moment, visit the site below for a free
copy of "100 Hot Home Business Opportunities," a survey of home business
owners on which business they would start in 2003. http://www.
homebusinessfree.com/home-business.htm (http://www.homebusinessfree.com/home-
business.htm)
Be Your Own Boss
Numerous surveys have confirmed this to be the number one reason why business
owners decided to go out on their own. As you research competitors websites,
and read all you can on the subject, you will find your interest rising, and
your belief in yourself increasing, to the point of you saying one day, I can
do this. Your level of fear will definitely lower when I show you 5 ways to
advertise - free. Read my previous article, "12 Free Tools For Starting A
Home Business With No Money", request a copy by emailing me at:
bruce@ownsmallbusiness.com
Paul Purdue, who founded ifulfill five years ago, with no money leverages the
web`s free benefits, saying, "I use the top free search engines, to avoid the
need for spending any money." Presently, Paul ships about 800 packages per
day, and hopes to reach 1,000 daily by midsummer and 5,000 by the end of next
year.
With no money needed to start-up your home-based business, what are you
waiting for? Now is the time to get started. Here are the 5 ways to get free
advertising with specific links below. search engines writing
articles reciprocal links banners press releases
Search engines are the most important element for bringing huge numbers of
traffic to your website, and with no money expended. You can submit your
website for free placement on the following search engines and directories:
http://www.google.com (http://www.google.com)
http://www.lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com)
http://www.altavista.com (http://www.altavista.com)
http://www.alltheweb.com (http://www.alltheweb.com)
http://www.about.com (http://www.about.com)
http://www.dmoz.org (http://www.dmoz.org)
http://www.goguides.com (http://www.goguides.com)
http://www.allbusiness.com (http://www.allbusiness.com)
The Freedom To Be Creative
Many people in today`s workplace do not feel inspired, challenged, or excited.
The idea of working on your own interests, or hobbies for a profit, however,
is very appealing.
By focusing on what type of home-based business you will start, and why you
really need to get started today, should help to lower your fear factor one
level. The 3 levels of fear are: high, moderate, and low. Lowering your fear
factor just one level, should be enough for you to realistically consider
starting your home-based business. Everyone has fears, but at this lower
level, this should give you more confidence to pursue your dream.
The second most product type of free advertising is writing articles. It`s an
excellent way not only to get your goods and/or services sold, but to build
up a sense of authority and trust in your customer`s minds. A great place to
start is: http://www.goarticles.com (http://www.goarticles.com)
Make More Money
Money is certainly a big motivating factor, and it may even be number one in
your books. A lot of business owners start their home-based business for
different reasons in the beginning, and learn to cherish the other reasons
after being in business a while.
Having links on your website is very important to offer your visitors
alternative places to go, giving them a sense that your site is complete and
fair in distributing the information they are seeking. Also, it`s your
trading post with other website owners, as you build reciprocate links as a
traffic builder. And lastly, search engines like Google give much importance
to the number and quality of links in determining your ranking. The following
site offers a free report containing step-by-step instructions on link
building, as well as extensive links to articles and resources. http://www.
linkingmatters.com (http://www.linkingmatters.com)
Convenience
Everyone has different motivational triggers, and for you the idea of starting
work at noon and quitting at 4pm might be the biggest draw. Or perhaps, you
prefer to work only 3 days a week, and spend more time on other areas of your
life. By seeing how life can be different and of better quality, might be
your answer to that drop in fear, and a rush in confidence.
Continuing with free ways to advertise, so money will be not be a hindrance to
starting your own home-based business, banners are another way to get your
message across to new and potential customers. The banner site helps you to
easily design your own banner with prepared templates, so you just add your
own text. Visit the largest banner exchange at: http://www.bcentral.com/
products/bn/default.asp (http://www.bcentral.com/products/bn/default.asp)
Job Loss or Job Insecurity
As many as 2 1/2 million Americans have lost their jobs since our economy
started to weaken in 2000. Although this worry was not prevalent before the
economy tanked, I know it concerns many to give up the corporate world in
favor of your own home-based business.
Remember, some of the best companies were founded during weak economic times,
that`s when entrepreneurs with a good idea begin, because they know business
goes in cycles, and good times are just around the corner. And by developing
your business in the soft times, you`ll be ready to profit in a stronger
economy.
Because of the uncertain economy possibly effecting their job security, Ray
and Cydi White were interested in self-preservation of their financial
future, and started a successful real estate service company. "We couldn`t
afford to be without income if something terrible happened, and started our
business part-time while we were working to financially protect ourselves."
By starting part-time with 1-2 hours a week, working on your idea, if the
unfortunate should happen, you`ll have your home-based business as a back-up
plan to keep you afloat.
The last method of free advertising is the press release. It`s quite possibly
the biggest tool in your free tool-box and the most effective way of reaching
a mass audience at no-cost. Just recently, we have seen the phenomenon of the
press release igniting the launch of the Segway, the human transporter of the
future, as it was billed. It received a massive amount of free publicity,
even getting corporate orders from the U. S. Postal Service and Amazon.com
For free press release distribution visit: http://www.prweb.com (http://www.
prweb.com)
Getting Started
First step is to take your new home-based business idea on a search. Enter the
keywords of your business into Google, and visit the top 30 websites listed.
Look over the sites making notes which website design you like, which has
good content, or great e-commerce products and services, and sign up for all
the newsletters they offer.
This is valuable intelligence you are gathering, and after you assimilate all
this information, along with a lowered fear factor, you`ll be ready to open
the doors to your own home-based business.
Arina Nikitina operates Home Business Resources (http://homebizinfo.8m.com/
(http://homebizinfo.8m.com/)). There you can find everything you need to know
about Internet marketing, website promotion, affiliate programs and more.
Hundred of FREE e-books, two hundred of articles, free guides and tutorials,
business consulting and more.
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