Have you ever thought of the motivators for you to build a home internet business? What are the motivators to drive you to build a home internet business with your sweat and time when you can be doing other more pleasurable things?

These are critical questions that I have come to realize that knowing your motivators to build a home internet business is key to your stamina in finishing this marathon.

You will realize that to build a home internet business is very much like running a marathon, there are ups and downs and there are little breaks in between because once you slow down, another person is going to jog past.

And this analogy is very similar to what we are experiencing online when we build a home internet business. The moment we laze, a new software, new technology is being created and we have to keep this momentum to just keep jogging with these changes.

The purpose of this article is really for you to be clear on the motivators or more simplistically, the reasons why you want to build a home internet business.

For myself, it is the article that I have written previously, ?The ABC On Why You Might Want To Build A Home Internet Business? that I have shared the following:

A: Autopilot For those who are not familiar with the term autopilot, it simply means that your business could be automated and running without your presence. And this is what we are referring when we mention about, we are open 24/7, every single day.This is made possible with the many inventions of software that help us to automate our home internet business.

B: Business Yes! A home internet business IS A business. You have to treat it like you are running a multi million dollar business because if you treat it like a hobby, you will be paid on a hobby level.In addition, to build a home internet business has become a reality for many ordinary folks, even for a full time student like me, the investment is kept to the minimum and you can start a home internet business for less then $100 or even $10 for a start.Hence it is very accessible for ordinary people, housewives, students, working executives and many more to benefit in this.Plus, this home internet business brings in fantastic returns if you focus, and learn from people who are where we want to be.

C: Crowd Finally, ?sack? the crowd that you have to experience when you have to wake up early in the morning to prepare to go to work and then meet throngs of people at the train station or bus station or if you are driving, you want to pull down the traffic lights.These will be made possible when you build a home internet business, you can wake up at any time that you like and you will feel relax and comfortable and ponder to yourself while looking over the window why the crowd aren?t in the house.Let us do a quick recap on what?s being covered in this article of, the ABC on why you might want to build a home internet business.I shared with you that there is no longer the existence of the ?iron rice bowl? and that there is a steady rising trend on people who build a home internet business and the ABC on why people are doing that and why you might want to do that.Therefore it is important to know your motivators as you build a home internet business. They will propel you and give you the innate strength to push on. A quick recap on what has been covered in this article includes:- The motivators for you to build a home internet business-

My personal sharing of the ABC on why I have decided to build a home internet business.–This Article Is Copyright To JY Chia–

If your goal is to find a home business income opportunity that can allow you more financial freedom you will enjoy this article. The Internet is just getting warmed up in helping people just like you. Let’s take a look at four reasons why the best home business money opportunity could be staring right at you on your computer screen.

This is an article that offers suggestions why a home business income opportunity can provide financial leverage that you may not currently have. One of the ways ordinary people all over the world are doing this is using the Internet. Here are four reasons why the perfect home business money opportunity could be as close as your mouse.

1. No Traffic Jams

Ask yourself this question, what is my hourly rate at my current job, including travel time both ways. Many people around the world spend many hours every week sitting in traffic jams going to work and come home. A home business on the Internet never has that problem.

2. No College Required

You know that you can spend over $50,000 to get a four-year college degree at a state college. That is an astounding figure that will only continue to rise in the future. Now compare that to the cost of an Internet business being run from the comfort of your own home. The smart Internet marketer will spend some time and money learning how to run their business, but it will be nowhere near $50K in the next four years.

3. No Product Development Needed

If you already have a product of your own you stand an excellent chance to make money on the Internet if it is a product that people have a need for, or interest in. For everyone else product development is already done. When you do Internet marketing in the form of affiliate marketing, network marketing, or private label rights.

In cases like this new product is ready to promote in helping you start a home business income opportunity with.

4. User Friendly

Making money at home, using the Internet is user friendly for both you and your customer. Working from the comfort of your own home is a great way to make money. Shopping from the comfort of your own home is a great way to save money and time.

When you have an Internet business you are providing a great service as well as making money without ever having to go outside of your front door to do it.

I could give you more reasons on what a great home business income opportunity the Internet provides average people. This is just four reasons why you should take a look at starting your own home business online. You choose to use this information is now 100% up to you!

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There?s no coincidence that hundreds of thousands of people are quitting their 9 to 5 jobs to work at home. Having a home based business provides you with numerous benefits that no other field can offer you. Here are 6 benefits you will find with a home based business.

1. Unless you?re crazy, most people can handle a job without having to deal with their boss. If you have a home business, you are your own boss. You have the ability to create your own deadlines, criticize your own work, and never get in trouble for ?arriving? late to work again. Being your own boss does require discipline to assure yourself that you stay on task, but it is definitely a relief to not have to work for someone else.

2. While not everything associated with a home based business is run through the computer, a vast amount of the business will involve working on the computer. If you have a laptop, you are capable of picking up your work and moving at any point in time or taking a vacation and still be able to produce.

3. On the same note of being able to work anywhere, you can plan vacations around the schedules of any and all of your family members. The worst part of a vacation is coming back home. As long as everyone else?s schedules permit, have a home business allows you to extend your vacation because you make your own schedule.

4. Another benefit to being able to make your own schedule with a home based business is the ability to spend more time with the family. You now can make it to your son?s basketball game that you would have normally missed with your 9 to 5 job, or attend your daughter?s ballet recital. It is vital that you still create a business schedule that allows you to be productive and work hard, but now you have options.

5. Because the internet continues to expand ever so quickly, the opportunity for success is there. There are several different ways you can make money and millions of people that surf the internet every day. Therefore, if you develop a quality website with a compelling advertising campaign, the sky is the limit for your home based business.

6. The last benefit to having a home business is personal. It is an honor to know that you started a home business and have had success, and you should be proud to tell family and friends of your business.

Having a home based business provides benefits that no other business in the world can offer. You can work for yourself, create your own schedule, and make all of the decisions for yourself. Oh and by the way, you can do all of this at the expense of your own home.

Over the years I?ve heard many complaints from ladies who want to open a small business in their home to help support their family. Maybe it?s a daycare, selling pots and pans, or cosmetics. Anyway you look at it, it?s a small business and some husbands just aren?t supportive of it.

Why you may ask?

Sometimes I think that husbands do not want the trouble that they may think will be caused in their home. They are not interested in the pots and pans sitting in the basement in front of the work bench. Or, the baby in the high chair waiting to be picked up? The fact of the matter is any business you start will involve a commitment on the owner and also will involve some flexibility on the family?s part.

I really think it?s a give and take on everyone?s part. Ladies you need to understand that husbands and children are protective over their things and their space. When your husband is working all day he?s concerned that he?ll have to come home and work there too with feeding babies, helping ship out products, what ever your business may involve.

But on the other hand, it?s also important for the husband to realize that you are earning money for the family and that he should be happy. My husband never complained over the years about my daycare business, and in fact took an active role in running it. He never complained because I was making great money, staying home, raising our twin daughters and last but not least had dinner done when he arrived at night.

Unfortunately not all husbands think this way so it?s your job to emphasize all the great things that will happen because of your home business. And of course realize that your family will need their space so in the beginning just realize this and keep your distance till the money start?s rolling in. They will get the picture.

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Back in 1999 I started looking on the internet to be able to supplement my income.

I was a poor Youth Pastor $40,000 in debt from Seminary loans and also some major consumer debt on my credit cards.

I was the typical average American, leveraged to the hilt on credit with no place to go.

Well…. I did have one place to go, and that was the internet. I knew this medium would allow me the ideas and the opportunities to have more time freedom, financial freedom and time with my family.

Ministry can chew up and spit out its pastors as damaged goods, and for all the love of serving people and helping people find salvation in Jesus, it can be a thankless job, for little pay. It’s not that way for all Pastors, and I did have many great people to serve alongside with when I was working in the church, but let me give some people and pastors some advice….

Pastors don’t take a vows of poverty. Priests do.

Look at some of the richest people in the world, during the Biblical times… King David, Solomon & Abraham. They served and had great financial blessings.

You can change your situation and become financially free too, no matter what your profession. Many of the nations pastors make a great living from serving too, but far too many struggle financially, like I did.

So, the first money making opportunity I found, was the now famous "Send 5 Dollars" in the mail, chain letter scam. And guess who fell for it? Me! I put my $5 in 5 envelopes and mailed them out, and I actually got 2 letters from other people, 5 weeks later, one from some person in Europe… and never anything more. It was my first international business opportunity! .

Next, I became an affiliate. I learned I could sell someone else’s product. But who would I get to buy this stuff?

I spent tons of money throwing my ads out to places on the net where people told me others would see my offer, but no one bought anything.

I bought tools and ebooks and I went to conference calls, but still, I was spending way more money than I was ever making. Thank God for tax returns each year, where I would get some money back… but soon, I’d blow that wad too.

I discovered this advertising and marketing technique called a "safelist" and I joined and told everyone to join and buy my product by sending out 1000’s of emails to people who gave me "permission" to mail offers to them.

But what I did not realize was all the members of the safelist, were going to mail me an offer to buy their product too. And my mailbox filled up with 10,000 emails a month of people trying to get me into their deal. Pretty soon, everyone just sent offers, no one was reading anything.

Here is where I had my first epiphany and did something right…

CREATE AND CONTROL MARKETS

I learned from Matt Bacak, who learned this from a billionaire mentor of his, that if you want to get rich, then you have to CREATE and CONTROL markets. You have to DOMINATE and be the top and be the best in your niche, even better, create the niche!

So, I planned to create and control the safelist market. I bought a safelist for myself and I told everyone I could to come and post their ads to each other on my list.

And it worked.

1000’s of Network Marketers, stay home moms and dads, college students, grandmas and grandpas were posting their ads to my list members. Then I started charging them a fee.

And they paid it. Wow!

And then I realized, "Hey, I am the owner of this list, these people just email out to junk email accounts, and no one reads each other’s offers. But I have their REAL sign up email, and I’ll make it a policy that I can send out emails from ME toTHEIR contact, or main email, and they must give me permission to mail to them, or they cannot join my list."

And that was the first really smart thing I did to make money on the internet.

I would simply put together a rather short email, make some interesting copy, that people enjoyed reading, and then hit the "SEND" button and blast this ad to my member’s contact emails, where I was sure people would read them.

Guess what happened?

People read them, and they took my advice because I was perceived as an "expert" simply because I owned my own safelist. I started to actually make little paychecks. We were on our way finally making money on the internet.

I transitioned out of the safelist market, and decided, after attending a live internet marketing conference, that I needed to build my own list a new way, and build value to people who visit my sites by teaching them things and in return, I’d ask them to join my list, where they would get tips, tricks and special offers on the latest and greatest programs on the net.

And that worked too.

Over the last 3 years, I built a very large list of people, one email, one permission based opt-in at a time.

And I am now at a place where I can easily make $10,000 with just one mailing to my list in one day. As a matter of fact, there is hardly a week that goes by now, where I am not at least making $5000 on autopilot because of the emails I am sending out back to my list and people are responding.

I learned the power of SYSTEMIZING my business.

I learned that a marketing a business is like moving oil through the Alaska Pipeline.

You have an entry point where the lead first discovers you (your ad, or your website) and then from there takes action to become either interested or not in your product.

Your goal is to move the lead to from becoming a suspect, to becoming a serious prospect. From prospect, you want to convert the lead into a customer. Once you have a happy customer, you want that person to become your evangelist, promoting you and your product for you as an affiliate.

Here is the pipeline in action moving the lead from the start to the finish.

Suspect --> Prospect –> Customer –> Evangelist (affiliate)

You must systematize your business to move people through the information pipeline.

How?

I came up with a fun acronym to help you see the pipeline.

I call it TGIF (no…. it’s not Thank God it’s Friday)

T + G + I = F

T - is Take Action

G - is Generate Leads

I - is Incessant follow up

F - is Fortune

Let’s break down the formula for each section.

Taking action

This is where most businesses fail. 95% of all small or home based businesses fail after 12-18 months. And it is my opinion it is because there is a lack of action or activity that ceases the flow of sales, and the money simply runs out. Some people do take action, but they are putting their focus on old, outdated traditional types of media or advertising and blow their money, so it’s important to TAKE THE RIGHT ACTION, using the right tools and resources. Having a mentor share these important and working resources is one of the keys to success.

Generating leads is the key.

A website online needs traffic to create leads. A great looking site, with no visitors is just a great looking site, not making you money. So, you need to become a lead generator. This, in my opinion is one of the easiest things you can do. Generating traffic to websites, and sending quality and qualified visitors takes time to learn, but when done right, will lead your potential clients to buy from you, right on your website, without them ever talking to you!

Incessant Follow up is vital.

My philosophy is to build an email database by creating lead capture pages, websites, and blogs to do one ting only - capture leads. Once you have the lead, you need an email autoresponder to follow up with those leads. I send email to my leads who opt-in for 7 days straight, then I begin to back off a little and space it out every couple days, week, then months. BUT.. I never stop emailing people on my list.

I will email these leads until they buy, die or unsubscribe off my list.

This is the secret to success with follow up.

Most people send back ONE email follow up, and are not personal, and then end all communication hoping for a one time hit sale. Almost all your sales will come from the follow up sequence where a few buy with the first offer, but I see many more buying after touch 4-9. That means it takes 4-9 follow up messages to build trust, value in your offer and help your leads see value in parting with their hard earned money to buy your product, solution or coaching program.

Don’t End with ONE Product

Another big secret with incessant follow up is that once you have a person as a customer, teach them to consume you product or service so they immediately feel the value of owning it and then want to tell others about it as an affiliate.

I have 54 follow emails that go to my customers who join my Coastal Vacations Club business to teach and train them on how to market the membership to other home business opportunity seekers.

Then I also follow up with periodic backend offer, tools and resources to help them grow their business. Many of them join me in other ventures like our Mortgage Elimination Program as well, that allows them to pay off their home mortgage in 7-12 years, not 30, saving up to 70% on interest payments.

When you follow the TGIF Formula, the last letter is "F" for Fortune. You’ll simply create a pipeline of profits from automated sales and can build little follow up systems for an unlimited amounts of niches and products.

Here is one more secret.

Don’t try to figure out how to do this alone, learn from a mentor, like Jeff Mills and also hire someone who can build websites, who knows how to write HTML code and how to integrate autoresponders, and who has some basic understanding of website copy, autoresponder copy, and such, so that your words are selling prospect on your pages to take actions, and in your emails HOW to become customers, by taking action immediately. Use words like, "buy now", "download today", "order today", "get started immediately" - create urgency and people will follow your orders and do what you tell them to do… eventually… or they’ll bail off your list and someone will soon replace them, who really wants and needs what you have to sell.

By using a TGIF system, you don’t have to go out there and spend a ton of money buying leads and talking to leads. You make the leads or let the leads come to you, talk to you when THEY are ready and collect the money, all the way to the bank.

Your mind is a very powerful instrument. What you process through your mind and how you process it, produces the success (or lack of it) in your life and in your online home business. Thoughts are what bring about ideas, motivation, behaviour, action and results. Although it can’t be measured precisely, success is probably 80% what you think and 20% what you do. So it’s VERY important that you work on that 80% of your life.

The first step that you MUST complete is to take FULL responsibility for all of your thoughts, actions and results. Anything less is a cop-out and is just an excuse for your failures. Take note that I am not saying that you are to BLAME - only that you need to be accountable for where you are in life. If you don’t take this important step, you will just continue to blame circumstances, events, other people, luck or fate for your lack of success. Your lack of accountability will continue to hold you back for the rest of your life. Decide NOW that you will turn this around.

Your beliefs are the building blocks of your life. The thing with beliefs is that they are absolutely TRUE for the person that believes it. If you believe that you can’t create success on the internet, then you are right, you won’t have success. You can CHOOSE the beliefs that you want to adopt. Don’t choose beliefs based on if they are true or false. Choose beliefs that are RESOURCEFUL for you and what you want out of life.

Focus is the key ingredient to success. Luckily for all of us, we have complete control over what we focus our minds on (although most of us don’t exercise this control on a consistent basis, me included). When you focus on something, you create pictures of that in your mind, and if you add emotion to this picture as well, your mind gets busy trying to create that for you (it doesn’t matter if it’s positive or negative, your mind will act on those pictures faithfully and try to create it for you). So if you consistently focus on creating a hugely successful internet business and add positive feelings, your mind will help you get it.

OK, let’s move onto goals. What you need to do is spend the day deciding exactly what it is that you want for your life and your online home business. Get a pen and paper, sit down and write everything down in specific detail (even if some things seem ludicrous and out of reach). Now refine all of this into a goal statement and read this out ALOUD every day, at least twice a day. Visualize having all the things on your goal statement, add positive emotion to it and really get excited about it. This is how the human brain and mind operates and this is how successful people do it.

Finally, take action, keep taking action, refine those actions and take more action until you reach your goals. Taking action brings out a power from you that you don’t realize you have. Taking action allows you to refine and improve as you go. It’s always better to take some action (even if it’s wrong) than to stand still. At least you can get on with the job of making it better.

Make the commitment to changing your life. Be one of the 5% of people that make it big in Internet Marketing. And focus on the 5% that make it, not on the 95% that don’t. Keep in mind that practising the above tips for 30 minutes per day and then doing the opposite for the other 16 waking hours will sabotage your efforts, so consistency is the key. Never underestimate the power of YOUR thoughts. They can make or break your success.

Every day, thousands of people sit down at their personal computer with one objective: to research the internet for a business they can operate out of their home. It should come as no surprise to anyone doing a general “home based business” keyword search on their favorite search engine results in the appearance of numerous individuals marketing the same product - Coastal Vacations. A more detailed keyword search under the companies name will provide you with hundreds of results. The obvious question that surfaces by anyone marketing the product or looking to buy into the company is “how will anyone every find me on the internet with all of this competition?”

My first response to this question is that any business owner, online or offline, needs to brand themselves with a corporate identity that will distinguish themselves from the competition. Companies big and small spend billions of advertising dollars annually to promote their corporate identity and branded image. I’m sure you can think of at least 10 company slogans or branded logos right now that are directly associated with a specific corporation.

My second response to this common question is to develop a business plan on how to market your business and stick to the plan! Home based businesses have a very high failure rate for a multitude of reasons. The most common reason I encounter is the lack of a business plan on how to operate the business, especially when it pertains to prospecting. The majority of home based business owners waste hundreds or thousands of dollars in pay-per-click advertising. This method of advertising is not inherently bad, but if not done properly as part of an overall marketing plan with a unique message, you are just throwing away precious advertising dollars.

My third response to this question is to build your business the right way, not the easy way. Build the foundation of your business on anchored concrete, not loose sand. What I mean by this is that an online business will only experience long-term success if you leverage the power of back links and reciprocal linking. Carefully guard who links to your website. Spam sites with junk links will lower your online credibility with the search engines. Love and appreciate the search engines! They will be the life blood or interstate highway that brings prospects to the doorway of your business.

It goes without saying that you need a website. With this said, far too many people in all avenues of online marketing focus on the wrong thing pertaining to their website. Flash, pretty pictures, eye catching headers and banners are not the things that will generate traffic and sales from your website. While you want a positive first impression to keep a visitor from clicking off your site, what you should really strive for is great text or copy. Great sales copy always wins over graphics. Well written copy sells while building credibility. It will create the difference between a prospect “opting-in” to your website or leaving your site.

The difference between success and failure in any online home based business, especially Coastal Vacations, is a fine line. Carefully following these guidelines will help your business steadily grow. It’s great getting business the quick and easy way, but building a business that overcomes the competition and makes you stand out will ultimately make you successful.

In this article, I am going to share with you the ABC on why you might want to build a home internet business.

Before I dwell into the ABC, let us take a macroscopic perspective on the jobs that we have now. I remember my relatives telling me a decade ago to graduate and get a job so that I will have an iron rice bowl. Today the ?advice? had changed to graduate so that you will have a job.

Notice that the ?iron rice bowl? is missing?

Well, you may contest my opinion, but facts to be told, the idea of ?iron rice bowl? with a job is no more than mere fantasy in this century.

There is no one job that will guarantee you allowance in the pocket every single month without the fear of say being retrenched or have a cut in paycheck.

Hence the introduction for you to build a home internet business.

The home internet business industry is rampantly rising and it is open to everyone, now let us take a look my ABC opinion on why you might want to build a home internet business.

A: Autopilot

For those who are not familiar with the term autopilot, it simply means that your business could be automated and running without your presence. And this is what we are referring when we mention about, we are open 24/7, every single day.

This is made possible with the many inventions of software that help us to automate our home internet business.

B: Business

Yes! A home internet business IS A business. You have to treat it like you are running a multi million dollar business because if you treat it like a hobby, you will be paid on a hobby level.

In addition, to build a home internet business has become a reality for many ordinary folks, even for a full time student like me, the investment is kept to the minimum and you can start a home internet business for less then $100 or even $10 for a start.

Hence it is very accessible for ordinary people, housewives, students, working executives and many more to benefit in this.

Plus, this home internet business brings in fantastic returns if you focus, and learn from people who are where we want to be.

C: Crowd

Finally, ?sack? the crowd that you have to experience when you have to wake up early in the morning to prepare to go to work and then meet throngs of people at the train station or bus station or if you are driving, you want to pull down the traffic lights.

These will be made possible when you build a home internet business, you can wake up at any time that you like and you will feel relax and comfortable and ponder to yourself while looking over the window why the crowd aren?t in the house.

Let us do a quick recap on what?s being covered in this article of, the ABC on why you might want to build a home internet business.

I shared with you that there is no longer the existence of the ?iron rice bowl? and that there is a steady rising trend on people who build a home internet business and the ABC on why people are doing that and why you might want to do that.

A: Autopilot

B: Business

C: Crowd (?sack?)

Now you have read this, it is your choice, to make something happen, are you game to build a home internet business?

—This Article Is Copyright To JY Chia—

Honest home based business opportunity to achieve success. Discover the truth for making money online?!

Making money online is the number one task of any web site owner, yet 95% of home business websites never make any money. Web surfers spend billions of dollars online every year, but only 5% of home based business entrepreneurs actually see any of that money!

The truth is, you have very little chance of making money on the internet, you should go back to working in a real job, and you have failed before you start

?Why do you fail when you should be successful??

Making money online is easy, so easy, anyone could do it, at least that is what people think, and that is why you will fail! Making money online is the hardest job in the world, anyone who tells you different is not telling you the truth.

You will not find a genuine home based business opportunity by wasting money on an e-book. You will not get rich from reading 120 pages of internet marketing information.

Making money is a science; if you want to achieve home business success, you must learn the science!

The rules for making money have not changed in a thousand years, and the ?internet marketing spin? you see on web sites is replicated from those ?old fashioned rules?. You must do the same, you must learn the rules and you will make money; it is as simple as that!

Making money is not easy, but the rules are easy, when you know the difference, you will achieve financial success beyond anything you could imagine.

My secret tip for you is this..

Follow the essential rules for making money online, learn all you can, master them, and you will make money. Once you understand the rules, find yourself an internet marketing professional and replicate him, or her. Copy everything they do, in your own unique way, but copy them, never the less.

Remember, business success has not changed in a thousand years, how do you think people become successful? Replication is the secret for making money from a home based business. Of course, I am not suggesting you steal other peoples work, I am saying replicate them.

That is how you achieve success, and that is how you make money from a home based business. Do not try to re-in-vent the wheel. The one we have is perfect!

People fail because they think they know better. Home based business beginners fail because they ignore the essential rules. The sooner you learn to follow the rules, the faster you will achieve success. The sooner you realize the importance of replication the wiser you will become.

Let the professionals guide you to home business success; do not think you will achieve long-term success without help.

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