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9 Things To Look For When Choosing A Home Based Business

Learning how to choose the Best Home Based Business for yourself can be a daunting and confusing venture when you don’t know what to look for. With so many out there to choose from, the possibilities are virtually endless! Here are 9 things that you should consider before taking the plunge into becoming a Home Based Business Owner.

1. The first thing that you will want to consider is the track record of the company you are looking at. What is their history and reputation? A good place to find this out online is Citizencorps.com. They list the top home based businesses and give you a pretty good idea of how that company performs. Check them out.

2. The second thing that you want to look for in a company is great Sponsorship. You will want to seek out someone in that company WHO IS A LEADER AND IS CAPABLE OF TRAINING YOU. In order to be successful, you will need to have someone who is willing to share their knowledge with you so that you can bring value to your team. Ask questions and feel out the person you are considering to sponsor you. Follow your intuition.

3. You will definitely want to know about their Compensation Plan. Investigate what their product is all about and find out how much you will earn in the sale of that product. Also determine if there is a “No Pass Up” zone. What this means is that YOU benefit 100% off of your first sale and not your sponsor. Most MLM companies “pass up” your first sale to your sponsor. This is something I know you definitely don’t want so be wary of this.

4. Find a company that has a 100% Money Back Guarantee. In choosing a Home Based Business, make sure that the product reflects something that you strongly believe in or value. You don’t want to represent something that you are not passionately connected to.

5. You will want to choose a company that offers continual training from the top earners in the Network Marketing Industry. Are you going to continue to grow once you join or just throw your money away?

6. Be inquisitive and find out if they are going to give you access to some of the best kept secrets in the industry? Are they willing to take you to the top also?

7. Investigate if they have a SYSTEM IN PLACE that will allow you to leverage the internet and grow your business. Will they provide you with your own #800 number? Does the business come with LANDING PAGES and a COMPLETE SET OF AUTO RESPONDERS?

8. Make sure that you align yourself with a community of LIKE MINDED INDIVIDUALS who can support you and make you a part of their networking family. Having a great community that really cares about you makes all the difference.

9. Finally, a great Home Based Business will not tell you to CHASE FAMILY AND FRIENDS! It should be teaching you how to GENERATE LEADS on a continual basis, and help YOU to become a leader.

These are the 9 things to look for or consider when choosing a Home Based Business. Good luck on your search and welcome to the world of online business ownership!

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E-Learning and the Potential for Global Education

“If Bill Gates is excited about online education, you should be too,” says Anna Malczyk, a communications executive at GetSmarter- a South African online training firm.

The internet has changed the way we live and the way we work. So, asks Malczyk, why hasn’t the education sector caught on? It’s true that online education has expanded and that it’s a popular learning platform for non-traditional students, but in other ways, says Malczyk, the online education sector has a lot of catching up to do. In other words, online education needs to become much more global and much more expansive.

Bill Gates, a champion of the online education movement, believes that the internet can “dramatically improve global education,” but a few things need to be done first. The amount of information and content on the Web is vast. Students often pull from this storage of information and college educators are beginning to make their courses and other learning resources available for free online.But, what Gates suggests and Malczyk reiterates is the need for structuring. “It’s not enough just to have good content,” says Malczyk, “it needs to be organized in a useful way and backed up with a solid teaching support network.” Once this is done, the real learning can start. And, unlike in a traditional classroom, students across the globe will be able to have instant access to whatever learning resources and materials they need.

In addition, technology needs to be both better implemented and further expanded. Working out of South Africa, Malczyk sees this first hand. She calls underdeveloped computer skills and limited access considerable obstacles to South Africans. But, she notes, the potential undoubtedly exists and needs to be further developed. Moreover, says Malczyk, with iPads and other E-readers fueling the shift towards online education, educators need to continue thinking of innovative ways to utilize technology for learning.

The online education sector needs to catch up in order to fulfill its mission of educating students digitally. It needs to continue to expand in order to further provide all deserving students-across the world, with an accessible and flexible way to learn. Malczyk like Gates believes that education is “the next place where the Internet will surprise people in how it can improve things.”

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Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up

One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.

However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.

Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.

But why?

In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!

So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)

The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.

Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.

Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.

By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.

You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.

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