Thursday, June 11, 2009

Maybe it's Time to Build Your Own Big Website

By Ron Knowles

The Sure Way to Retirement vs. The Work From Home Alternative

When one can associate with co-workers, swap ideas, socialize and work to solve common work-related issues together why would anyone choose to work alone at home? After all, companies supply the best equipment, continuing education, retirement and health benefits.

Most working people seek out these kinds of jobs or careers. They will get up, use whatever their mode of transportation to the job is and gladly trade their skills and labor for a pay check. They are the strength of America. Their skills, knowledge and dedication have made our country the economic power it has become.

Who could possibly blame the American worker for the recession we're in? He had nothing to do with it. He has only to suffer the consequences in silence.

Many moms choose to stay home, raise their kids and run a home-based business, too. Their reasons vary but most would say it's because they love the fact that they have the needed influence on the raising of their children coupled with the opportunity to appease their entrepreneurial spirits with money earned from their home offices.

With men, reasons to work from home vary but the drive to succeed at it seem stronger than the allure of so-called "corporate security."

The men and women who work from home are similar in so many ways. As an example, most seat themselves before their computers each day and nurture their blogs or websites by networking, emailing, copy writing and otherwise promoting themselves and their businesses. They have accepted the risks of failure and dedicated themselves to succeeding at their work-from-home professions by earning profits exceeding ten thousand dollars a month or more, paying for their own insurance plans and planning for their retirement dreams.

As in all business, big incomes are not universal. Most work-from-home entrepreneurs only get by. But they all hold fast to the dream of doing it right and one day making it big.

The successful work-at-home folks have learned the way to do all the right things. Those who fail (and many do) have not. As in all businesses there are right and wrong ways to grow and capture your market. Work at home people must discover these lessons as well and apply them diligently or fall by the wayside as do some brick and mortar business owners.

Fortunately, there are some fairly simple ways to ensure that an online business becomes successful. The first thing a newbie absolutely should do is associate him or herself with someone who already is successful in this method of business. Nobody should have to learn to re-invent the wheel. I made enough expensive mistakes myself before I learned this lesson. The second thing I would recommend is to polish up your article-writing skills as this can be a fantastic method of attracting people to your blog or website. Call it luck or a blessing, I have found a way to make that method of promoting oneself far exceed anything else that's available.

Now you can decide for yourself if continuing to work at your conventional job or venturing into uncharted waters as an Internet entrepreneur will suit you and meet the needs of your future.

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