The Home Business Boom- How to Work at Home Without Losing Your Mind
August 6, 2009
How to Create a Sacred Space to Perform at Your Peak:
One of the biggest struggles of working from home is creating a space to perform at your peak. Ringing phones, you’ve got mail, kids tugging at your leg, laundry piling up, dog barking to go out…sometimes it seems you’ll never get anything done. How will you ever raise your kids and be able to provide for them with your home business if you never get your work done? Here are seven tips to help guide your way to getting things done:
Working At Home: How to Create a Sacred Space to Perform at Your Peak
1. Set Goals and create rewards for achieving them. You should have personal and work goals for yourself, but it is crucial to also set goals with your family. Give everyone equal input and have a family vote if you can. Let them know what the benefits are to them when the goals are achieved. The sooner mommy gets her work done the sooner we go to __(insert reward here)__. I am an advocate of quality time goals. This is what your kids truly desire. You might even find your kids want to make a contribution to your mission when they realize they play an important part in it.
2. Determine your prime focus work hours. By now you have probably figured out what the best time of day is to dig in and work without interruption. Now you need to carve out and set aside that time and space in advance on a regular basis. This means you have a clear start time and stop time. Knowing that you have this block of time already reserved for your work allows you be fully present when you are with your kids because you know you have already carved out an created a sacred time for your work.
3. Arrange for a sitter or loved one to watch your kids during this time. If your trusted friends are also working at home, you can swap babysitting time. If your next door neighbor takes your kids in the morning, you can take her kids in the afternoon and make it an even trade. You will have the peace of mind that your kids are safe and nearby in case of emergency and that they are in good hands.
4. Make a declaration: put a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door and close it, turn off the phone and let others know that you are in the sacred work zone. Make it fun, let your kids make the sign saying something like “Mommy’s Work Space, Employees Only.” Remember you must treat that time as sacred if you want others to treat it as such. If people see you doing laundry, socializing, watching tv or surfing the net during that time, you are violating that space and inviting others to do the same. Clarify what a real emergency is so that everyone understands what is urgent and what can wait until you are finished.
5. Carve out a space. What area of your home will be command central aka your workspace? Locate a quiet, private place and rope it off so that the kids understand when you’re in it, you mean business. If you can find a room with a door, even better so you can close it… and lock it. Gasp! Disclaimer: you only lock the door if you have some sort of responsible babysitter or childcare arrangement. Your kids can be in the house but you have to have the peace of mind of knowing that they are in good hands, safe and sound. If you must, you can set a time on the hour to peak out, stretch your legs and check in with what’s happening outside. But be sure it’s an official check in, reassure the kids that you are near and retreat back to your work space.
6. Protect Your Work Space. For some reason when you work from home, people treat your time like a hobby. They assume if you’re at home, you must be free to socialize and entertain when they drop by unannounced. When your kids, friends, spouse or neighbors disrupt this space, you have a responsibility and duty to protect it. Gently remind them by saying, “I am working on my/our dreams.” If you allow interruptions, you encourage more of it so be sure to draw a clear line in the sand and honor it. Never reward behavior that you don’t want more of. Trust me on this, if you let it go, it will arise again.
7. Before You Begin Your Work, Know Your Priorities for that Time. To keep myself laser focused during my work time, I created a productivity theory called The Priority Principle. This means not only do you create an action list, but you also determine your order of priority in advance and then complete the action plan in order. Without priorities, you are doomed to do what feels convenient instead of doing what is important and necessary. Often the order in which you do things makes all the difference in the world. Think of baking a cake. What if you put in half of the ingredients, put it in the oven to bake, then put in the remainder and mix it. It doesn’t work. Create your winning recipe in advance and then follow it.
While initially it was not easy to transition into working at home like a pro, I made progress and saw the results quickly. I can tell you first hand if you do not treat your endeavor like a million dollar business, it won’t perform like one. Once I got clear and drew my line in the sand, I went on to generate over $ 26 million dollars in business from home and I’m still going strong.
Be consistent and be clear about your Goals and what you want to accomplish. Knowing this and knowing that you have a sacred time and space carved out will help you perform at your peak and be more productive. Creating and honoring your boundaries is the key to having more fun and getting more done. You will be a better parent and your kids will enjoy being around you even more when they feel they are supporting you.
Live Your Dreams.
Jill Koenig
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Jill Koenig is “The Goal Guru” A Self Made Millionaire and America’s Top Goal Coach
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Solving the Time Crunch for Entrepreneurs
May 5, 2009
All businesses, no matter the size, require various departments to function; Sales and Marketing,Reception, Human Resources, Accounting, Administration, Technology, Facilities, and Customer Service; these are vital aspects to any business and require someone to do this type of work.
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The Five Core Business Success Factors
December 4, 2008

All businesses have five critically important success factors (core profit principles) - that must be understood - whether your business is small or large. They can make the difference between getting ahead… or just getting by. And in times like these, understanding them can make the essential difference in your business’s survival.
Here, we’ll explore what they are - and how you can put them to work for you in your own business. These principles form the basis for most success in business achieved by entrepreneurs, business owners, business managers, and professionals. Without following them at least to some extent, you’ll find business to be a struggle - and much less rewarding than it could be.
As you read this, see how well your own thinking and actions in business stack up to these five core principles:
1) Profits are essential for your business to succeed - they are what pays you.
You don’t have to look far to find examples of businesses imploding due to lack of profits. (The current banking and financial crisis immediately comes to mind… Or, remember the dot-com bubble?… the spend, spend, spend your way to market share type of thinking.) And, those are just some larger, more visible examples… small businesses are at even more risk.
Ultimately, profits are the essential key ingredient for business survival - and your focus on them is key. The very existence of your business depends on a steady-stream of profits… to pay your bills… your salary… your employees… your vendors and suppliers… and to secure your financial future.
Profits make the difference between the success or failure of your enterprise. They are the fruits of your labor and the essence of why you’re in business. Without profits (or deep pockets), you can’t last long.
2) Most businesses miss profit opportunities on almost every transaction or customer/client relationship - and are limiting their incomes without even knowing it.
Here again, you won’t have to look far for examples. Just think of all the leads that don’t get proper follow-up, the customers/clients that receive only occasional communications (if any), the up-sells, cross-sells and add-on sales that could have been part of a given transaction, the unrealized intangible opportunities that exist in your customer/client or vendor/supplier relationships - and you can begin to see a sad pattern.
It’s a pattern of profit opportunities gone by… wasted utilization of assets… or under-realized profit potential in your transactions. In many cases, business owners, managers and professionals are completely unaware of their lost profit opportunities.
Make your expenditure of time, energy, capital, and resources produce more for you - and capture the money that most businesses miss. Think about your sales, marketing, and advertising process as a total package - and create, test, and put in place processes that take advantage of strengths in your business.
3) Stability and security comes from creating a “Web of Profits” in your business.
Do you have a number of different sources within your business to support you? Or, are you relying on only a few? Or, even worse, relying on only ONE primary source of profit?
The majority of businesses rely on fewer than five profit sources - and think in terms of “profit centers.” In other words, a collection of different channels of profit from individual sales of products or services (retail), bulk sales (wholesale), joint ventures, ownership interests, licensing and/or other arrangements, and so on.
But, when you create a “Web of Profits” in your business - that is, an interconnected approach that integrates a variety of profit sources and activities together into a single unit of functionality - you stand a better chance of leveraging your business in new ways.
4) The focus on Increasing Profits is more beneficial than the focus on Cost-Cutting.
In times of recession or economic crisis, sometimes cost-cutting is the only logical and sane option. If you’re bleeding… you stop the bleeding before anything else. But, when it comes to cost-cutting, the effect is temporary and fleeting. Once you’ve drastically reduced your expenses, any additional cost-cutting might hurt your business’s effectiveness and viability.
Crisis management aside, it’s much better to focus on getting more business, to create new profit sources, run better promotions, do better advertising and marketing, and generally operate your business in a more customer/client oriented way.
That’s what eases the pressure from high-costs… and provides you with what you need from your business. The thinking that goes into a profit-oriented focus and mindset can often provide innovative and inspirational breakthroughs in results.
5) Strategically plan for Profits - and take the specific action steps needed to implement your plan.
Being laser-focused on profits - rather than your strategic planning being primarily focused on revenue - takes you to the next level in your business plan. You’ll be able to see alternative profit possibilities - and the action steps needed - so you can build them directly into your plan.
By their very nature, business plans focus on the bottom-line - and usually they just focus on the obvious sources - not necessarily on the alternative profit possibilities. And it’s these alternative profits that most businesses miss… profits that could even eclipse what’s being produced by your current business activities.
Often, the biggest difference between those who are able to implement new profit sources and those who aren’t - is simply the willingness to identify what potential alternative profit sources exist… to prioritize the order in which you want to implement them… and to know exactly which action steps to take. Then, of course, to simply get started - and systematically put them into practice in your business, one-by-one.
Copyright © 2008, Guerrilla Profits International
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VIP Access: Earn Six Figures with Teleseminars
December 3, 2008

How to Create your own Financial Bailout
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re more than
aware that America (and several other countries) are in the
midst of a recession.
I am being inundated with requests from the media asking
questions about how people can stay up during these
challenging, uncertain times.
I will share with you a few of the strategies that work for
me and those who triumph over circumstance at will.
1. Control the inputs of what you’re allowing into your
brain. For example, when you first wake up in the morning,
are you turning on the tv or radio news, which is 90%
negative? You may as well as punch yourself in the stomach
because that is how you will feel the rest of the day. Instead,
begin your day by inputting something positive, encouraging,
motivational or educational. I have done this for the past
15+ years and it gives me the boost I need for whatever
comes my way. The world’s outer economic climate may not be
within your direct control, but your own attitude, outlook,
emotional and mental climate ARE.
2. Set some new Goals or recommit to old ones. This gives
you something positive of your own choosing to focus on
throughout the day. Then really go after them. Do something
every single day. Notice I didn’t say to wait until the
economy improves to go after them, I mean right now, today.
The millionaires of next month, next year and beyond are laying
their foundation today, now. If you wait until the economy
rebounds, you’re only delaying your own success and growth.
Besides giving yourself the daily spark of going after your
dreams, you will put yourself in the best possible position
for the future as well. Opportunities exist today that are
ripe for the picking because much of the population is frozen
in fear. Don’t be one of them. Give yourself every advantage
by taking decisive action every day to advance your Goals.
Winners planting seeds now will reap the greatest rewards
today, tomorrow and beyond.
3. If you are one of the many who are paralyzed by fear,
hire a coach to hold your hand and guide you through it. Even
today in this economic climate, dreams are being born,
businesses are being started, growth is happening and A LOT of
money is being made. You were given 24 hours today. How much
of your time did you invest in making your life better?
Take charge. Empower yourself and go after what you want.
Don’t wait for a handout or a bailout, create your own destiny.
Napoleon Hill taught me “You become what you think about.”
For some of you, now is your test. How bad do you want it?
Think about your Goals, Dreams and Ambitions. Focus on
what you want, it’s a lot more empowering than being helpless
and worrying about what might or might not happen. Create what
you want in your life. Don’t shrink in the face of challenge,
rise up to meet it and conquer it.
Now is the time to invest in yourself. Now is the time to
decide what really matters in life and as Rock Balboa says,
“Go for it!”
4. Invest in yourself. If you have ever dreamed of starting
a business in the area of your passion, or if you already own
a business and want a solid road map for exponentially growing
it in any climate, I have a great training for you.
DotComPreneur.com is co-sponsoring a very special teleseminar
with a Mystery Millionaire who went from slaving his life
away at a NY Madison Ave Advertising agency to following his
dreams, now earning Millions of dollars per year. Just a
few years ago, his wife was unhappy with his long hours at the
office among other things. Having no safety net, he left his
high paying job, moved across the country and set out to live
life on his own terms, taking control of his own destiny. He
started a home business, and now working mostly from his telephone,
has turned his expertise and passion into a $ Multi Million
dollar a year income. He sets his own hours, has tons of time
with his family and in my humble opinion, lives a very admirable
life. He is positively impacting the world in powerful ways.
Oh, and he’s also one of MY coaches. I hired him to help lead
GoalGuru.com into 2009 and beyond.
I hope you will join us Thursday here:
http://www.TeleseminarRoadmap.com
Don’t worry if you cannot make it live, a recording will be
made available to all registered guests.
See you Thursday
http://www.TeleseminarRoadmap.com
If you want a bigger life, if you want a bigger income, more
certainty, more financial security, set bigger Goals and
surround yourself with others who are actively doing it.
http://www.TeleseminarRoadmap.com
Live Your Dreams,
Jill Koenig
Founder of http://www.DotComPreneur.com
ps. I have personally utilized teleseminars to generate more than $ 25 million dollars in sales
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Double Your Productivity in 90 Days or Less
October 22, 2008
Just recently I was being interviewed on a well known talk show and the interviewer asked me a very important question.
She asked, “Why are some people with all the potential in the world just barely getting by while others with the same potential are thriving and succeeding?”
It is the same question that I have asked myself consistently throughout my life, the same question that led me to ultimately discover how to untap more of my own potential.
Over the past decade, I have identified 21 traits that I have found in people who lifted themselves from failure to fortune, from hopeless to joyful, from broke to Millionaire, from worst to first - in health, relationships, business and in every area of life.
While there is not enough room here to unveil the 21 traits all at once, I will tell you the 3 that you can put to work right now to create lasting success in your own life starting today.
Three traits successful people have in common:
1. They have clear, specific measurable goals with plans for their attainment
(they know where they are going and how they are going to get there)
2. They take action on those goals every single day
(they follow through on what they said they were going to do to achieve their Goals)
3. They value their time
(they schedule their days and invest their time in a way that ensures their Goals will be realized)
Most people have not made a habit of learning how to condition themselves for success. While we all have tremendous potential that has not been untapped yet, most people still have not figured out how to get the most out of themselves.
They have not yet learned how to think, act, talk or feel like a massive success yet. The potential is certainly there, it simply has not been unlocked yet.
When I was broke in my 20’s, I was blessed to discover a mentor who offered to start me on this journey of becoming everything I could be. Someone who told me my dreams did not have to stay inside my own imagination, that I was indeed worthy, that I could be, have and do anything I wanted. This person offered to take me by the hand and lead me in the direction of my dreams. All I had to do was make the commitment to implement the Success Secrets I was being taught.
I admired, respected and studied that person and I modeled as many of those success traits that I could. I copied them into my own life and they quickly became habits that I still practice to this day.
I jumped at the opportunity when a Millionaire offered to teach me how to get the most out of myself. What I learned led me on a journey to start a business that went on to generate over $ 25 million in revenue. Little old me. I developed a new confidence with new success habits that left me feeling unstoppable.
(And I’m just getting started)
You have a similar opportunity to learn the strategies I have been practicing for over a decade.
My colleague, Eben, has graciously allowed me to share some of these ideas with you in a new course he has created for Entrepreneurs. I think many of these principles go way beyond entrepreneurship and can be carried over into other areas of life. These tips could help you get a promotion at work, instill better habits for your children, help you maintain peak energy all day long and so much more, more so you can develop your own true potential.
And if a Multi-Millionaire knocked on your door and offered to show you exactly what they do to design their day to day life and reach their true potential in business and in life- so that you could copy their success traits and model their success habits in your own life, would that have a positive effect on you?
A wise man once told me, “Find out what successful people do and then go do it.”
Do you want to see exactly what Eben and I do on a daily basis to create unstoppable momentum, have more clarity and energy than we know what to do with?
To unleash your own potential, go here (it will only be up for 12 hours)
http://www.dotcompreneur.com/recommends/productivity
Live Your Dreams,
Jill Koenig
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Perez Hilton’s Top 3 Tips for Bloggers
September 18, 2008
This is a clip direct from Martha Stewart. On September 17th, she dedicated the entire show to the topic of all things blogging.
If Perez Hilton is not on your list of successful blogs to study, it should be.
With 9 million hits a day, the site is a phenomenal case study in the use of traffic, ads, photos, personality, video and pop culture to say the least.
Here are Perez Hilton’s Top 3 Tips for Bloggers:
1. Find a niche and make yourself stand out
PerezHilton.com started out as a hobby, one of Perez’ unique characteristics is the doodle on pictures.
2. Be prepared to work hard
Perez awakes at 3:57am and puts in 15-16 hour days.
3. Don’t be afraid to Network
Perez says meet people and ask for things (Perez asked to appear on Martha)
P-nasty’s influence has led to joint ventures offline as well including music, clothing lines and public appearances making him a very wealthy man.
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Seven Steps to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed
June 26, 2008
By Elizabeth Hagen
Do you look at your office or home and feel totally overwhelmed by the clutter, piles, and stuff? Do you wonder where to start? Do you want to run out in terror?!
I know what it’s like to feel like your home or office is totally out of control instead of you being in control. I know that this feeling causes stress and anxiety. And, can make you a not very nice person to live or work with!
There’s hope. I work with overwhelmed people every day and help them get focused, organized, and productive in their home and office. But, you need a plan. Studies have shown that every one minute you spend planning saves ten minutes of execution.
Step 1: Get Ready
Take out your calendar and pick the date you are going to go through your entire home or office. This will take anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours. Have a clean sheet for each room and write the name of the room down on the top of each page.
Step 2: Identify the Areas to Organize
Begin at the front door and imagine a big clock imposed on the floor. Choose where you want 12:00 and start there. Now, look around the room clockwise writing down any area that you’re tolerating or that bothers you on that room form. Before you leave each room put a * by the area that bothers you the most in each room. Go through each room in the home or office.
Step 3: Prioritize
Take a clean sheet of paper and title it “Priority Form”. Now, transfer each priority from all the room sheets onto this paper. Look at each area and decide which one you want to tackle first. You may want to pick an easy area to have a quick success story or you may want to pick a large task to get the worst out of the way right away.
Step 4: Choose a Date
Set a date to organize this area and put it in your calendar.
Step 5: Get Ready to Take Action
Look at the task that you’ve chosen to do first and decide if you’ll need any supplies. If needed, break this task down into smaller tasks and number in what order you’ll do them. Write down a reward that you’re going to give yourself when you’re done. Make it a GREAT reward!
Step 6: Do It!
The day is here and you’re ready to get started. Put on some fun music, some comfortable clothes and start organizing the area. Use my S.T.A.R.T. ™ method to get organized:
Sort
Throw
Appoint a Home
Restrict to a Container
Take Back Control
Take everything out of the area that you want to organize and START. Sort though and decide what belongs there and what doesn’t. Put the items that don’t belong there in a box and bring that away later. You need to stay focused on the area that you are working on. As you’re sorting you’ll also be throwing away items and/or putting in a box for donation or a garage sale. After you’ve sorted through everything you know that whatever is left belongs in that area. You’ve just appointed a home for those items. Now, restrict them to container if possible. Use baskets in a closet, drawer divider bins in a drawer, etc. to get ‘like’ items together into a container. Step back and look at what you’ve done! You’ve just taken control back of that area of your life and it feels great!
Step 7: Reward, Relax, and Repeat
Well done! Acknowledge yourself and enjoy what you’ve just accomplished and cross this task off your Priority Form. Be sure and enjoy your reward and when ready – tackle the next task!
It’s amazing what happens when you start to get organized in your life. You’re going to feel better about yourself, have increased self confidence, and get so much more done each day. You’ll love getting organized – I guarantee it!

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Elizabeth Hagen is a dynamic and inspiring speaker, author, and consultant who has motivated thousands to take action and get organized. She is President of ElizabethHagen.com and works with overwhelmed people to help them get more focused, more organized, more confident and more productive. Her latest book “Organize with Confidence!” is a pocket book and manual that will change your life! Subscribe to Elizabeth’s free ezine “Extraordinary Results” at http://www.Elizabethhagen.com and receive the “31 Tips to Simplify Your Life” as her gift to you.. |
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Finally, Bloggers Learn How to Create a Video Sales Letter all through the Magic of a WordPress Theme!
June 4, 2008
Bloggers can now use WordPress to create an endless amount of Video Sales Letters, thanks to DotComPreneur expert contributor and Internet Genius, Ben Cope.
Ben is the creator of numerous WordPress themes and can help you get your Video Sales Letter set-up, installed and ready to go. Whether you are a blogger, small business owner or internet marketer, you already understand the power of video. However, if you are not putting video on your websites, blogs and sales letters, you are missing the most important component that can make your message and web content much more effective.
You Don’t Even Have to Be a Master at Copywriting
You can create a video sales letter that is just as effective, if not more effective than any written sales letter on the Internet and you don’t have to be a master copywriter to do it. You can use the same proven steps that wildly successful internet marketers use to create money-making, written sales letters to make your video sales letter just as wildly successful. The fact is - video sells!
Video allows you to do so many things that the written word or audio just won’t accomplish.
Video gives you the ability to make a connection with your viewer. By putting yourself on the video, you are able to build a relationship with the viewer. It lets them get a better feeling of the ‘face’ behind the website. You are able to demonstrate your enthusiasm, knowledge and credibility all in one single video. If you are putting video testimonials into your video sales letter - it lets your prospects see first hand that you have already helped people just like them. It lets them watch and hear the excitement and enthusiasm in your current customers that in turn will pass on the excitement to them a well. People by nature get easily sucked in and persuaded by TV shows, commercials and infomercials… and you have the power of that same medium right in the pages of your own blog … using VIDEO.
All You Need to Do is Answer
The majority of people on the Internet are looking for answers to their questions and solutions to their problems. If you can show your site visitors that you are the answer - you will make money! A video sales letter will help you accomplish just that. You could utilize video in so many ways. You can teach people how to do something by making a video tutorial, you can do a weekly video newsletter, you can answer your subscriber’s questions, and so much more. Your Video Sales Letter gives you the medium to include your attention getting message, your personality, credibility, social proof, customer testimonials, offer, call to action and guarantee all in the same powerful video.
The fact that you are reading this article, tells me that you are an entrepreneur that is dedicated to your own success on the Internet. You know the importance of video and the benefits of building relationships with your customers and website visitors. Every new customer adds to your bottom line and makes you even more successful. It all starts with taking action - so begin using video as a sales tool more - starting today!
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Organizing Paper Files with P.E.A.C.E.
May 29, 2008
By Marlo Nikkila
Paper is one of the biggest issues for people. There is too much of it and it is easy to get behind, often causing people to feel like they are literally drowning.
Following the P.E.A.C.E plan you will be able to reclaim your sanity for current and future paper in your life.
How does that sound?
P = Permission to let go.
Get this…80% of the paper you keep you will never refer to again!
So, you officially have permission to let go! How does that feel? A little scary?
That’s okay, because I am going to ask you to begin with the easy stuff.
Begin with the backlog of old bills, receipts, warranties, recipes, articles, and bank statements. Make sure you have your recycle bin and shredder handy. (wink)
As a quick tip, if you are overwhelmed with all the paper around your desk, turn a pile upside down and start at the bottom. More than likely these papers can be tossed.
E = Evaluate the papers you have.
Sometimes it is out of habit that we continue to file papers we no longer need. Just because there is a file for it, doesn’t mean you have to keep it. The key to evaluating paper is asking the right questions. With better questions comes easier decisions and ultimately less paper!
- Can this paper be found somewhere else?
- Is this a duplicate?
- Have I needed this information before?
- Why am I keeping this in the first place?
- Am I required to keep this? If so, how long?
- What next action is needed?
A = Act on it.
Your piles of paper probably exist because something needs to be done with individual pieces–sign, read, pay, call, research, follow-up, errand, etc.
Am I right?
The best solution is if it takes less than 2 minutes, just do it. If it is going to require more time and energy, go ahead and jot down the info onto your calendar or to-do list and recycle the piece of paper. The paper no longer needs to serve as your reminder. (More permission to let go!)
If you find that the paper really is needed, then I suggest a tickler system or an action book.
C = Contain & Categorize your papers.
The best way to find it in less than 3 minutes is to create a specific home for your papers in places (and names) that make sense to you.
Do you have a mail center to capture your incoming mail?
Is your filing cabinet in the area that you pay bills and process your paper?
Are you naming the files appropriately?
The best question to ask yourself when filing or creating a home for your paper is Where will I find it? This is a more powerful and appropriate question than the more common Where should I put it?, because the item will likely land on any open horizontal space.
So, when naming a file, if you would naturally look for your car info under Prius instead of Automobile then by all means label it that way.
It will also help if you think in terms of categories for your paper. Examples would be, financial, health, hobbies, owner-manuals, utilities, etc.
E = Electronic solutions.
There are also several ways you can take advantage of technology to reduce the amount of paper in your life.
- Receive electronic bank statements and utility bills.
- Use auto pay for utilities and other bills.
- Opt out of mailing lists-virtual and paper.
- Keep all you password and log-in information with SplashShopper ID on your PDA or desktop computer.
- Store important documents on a secured remote server.
My hope is for you to experience the freedom that comes with making P.E.A.C.E. with your paper, once and for all.
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How to Earn Money with Your Parked Domains
May 23, 2008
I see it everyday among my fellow DotComPreneurs.
You are deeply immersed in working on your business and a new product or business idea suddenly appears before you.
What happens next is fairly routine.
You come up with a catchy name or multiple moniker that adequately represent your new bright shiny idea.
Next (usually within seconds or a few minutes) you head over to your favorite registrar and check to see if the domain is available.
Most DotComPreneurs have at least a few great ideas on the back burner.
I know I do.
Which means you may have dozens, hundreds or perhaps even thousands of unused domains just sitting there while you’re working on your other high priority projects.
If you’re like most newbies, the domains you purchased but haven’t put to work yet are parked on the domain registrars default parked page. This happens automatically until you either host your domain someplace else or forward it to one of your other web sites.
The domain industry’s dirty little secret…
What you might not know is that your domain registrar earns money every time someone visits your domain and clicks on one of the relevant ads displayed on their default parked page. The links on the page are targeted based on the words contained within your domain.
Some registrars generate more revenue on these ads than they do on domain name sales.
Something else you might not be aware of is that YOU, the owner of the domain can take advantage of any possible type in traffic and earn money per click just like the registrars do simply by utilizing a strategic parking service.
In the domain parking industry, the top rated domain parking service is Domain Sponsor
You may be surprised at the value of click through traffic of your parked domains. This week, on one domain, I earned $ 7.96 in revenue from only 7 visitors. That’s more than the price I paid to register the domain.
The fastest way to find out is to stop giving your traffic to your domain registrar and park them and take a look at what kind of traffic is coming your way.
1. Go to Domain Sponsor and set up your account.
2. Follow the instructions for adding each domain to your Domain Sponsor account.
3. Park the domain on the servers as listed.
Don’t forget to type in your domain into your web browser to ensure that domain directs to the new redirected page.
*WARNING: Do NOT click on links on your page or type any phrases in the search box*
That is considered to be click fraud since you are being paid by the advertiser for any clicks and your account will be shut down. (you can look but don’t touch or click on the page).
Do NOT link to any of your parked domains from any of your other web sites. That is against the rules my friend. If you are caught posting new links anywhere, kiss your entire account goodbye.
If there were existing links directing to your domain, that’s fair and will generate revenue, but do not try to outsmart the system.
There are a variety of factors that will determine how much money you can earn from your domains:
* The Domain Name itself. Is it keyword rich? Does it receive any type in traffic. If your domain is www.2kewl2Btamed123.com, don’t expect much traffic. That doesn’t qualify as keyword rich.
* Past use (if any) If there are old incoming links, you may get considerable traffic.
* If your Domain is similar to a high traffic existing domain. For example, I have several parked domains that are two words: XxxxXxxxx.com but someone else owns the same words separated by a hypen Xxxx-Xxxxx.com Guess who gets an aweful lot of click throughs? Yep.
* Most people when typing a URL of a web site unconsciously type in a .COM after the words. I owned a domain name for several years when imagine my surprise, a TLC television show was created with the same name and keywords. Since I owned the .COM, it generated thousands of visitors and considerable click through income until that party purchased it from me. I did have plans to develop the domain, but when approached by the buyer, whom I admired and respected, I let it go so it could serve millions now instead of later when I got around to it.
Publicly listing any of my domains would lead to traffic surges so while I can’t do that, I can tell you of the results of a few of my parked domains and you can let your imagination run wild.
Last year one of my real estate domains received 1,995 visitors and earned $ 468.54
Another domain received 9,063 visitors and earned $ 269.84
A diet domain received only 255 visitors and earned $ 179.23
I could purchase 130 more domains by reinvesting that $ 916 in revenue…park them… reinvest the revenue from those…and keep growng my portfolio.
Remember I set it and forget it - all I am doing is parking my unused domains on this service until I develop them. There are DotComPreneurs making millions of dollars each year by investing strategically in expired domains specifically for the purpose of earning revenue this way.
Note: It may take a few months for the keywords to aggregate. Each time a visitor clicks on a link or types in a search phrase, the system collects that data and modifies the words on the page accordingly so your success ratio will generally increase over time and so will your monthly checks.
Remember, those domains were previously earning the registrar that revenue. I did nothing except spend 5 minutes once to redirect them and renew the domain each year for $ 7. As you can see from just a few of my examples, it adds up.
More on domains coming soon but in the meantime, after you get set up and redirect your domains, I would love to hear about your results.
Here is the link to Domain Sponsor
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