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September 3, 2009 volume 9-issue 33

Your editor: Jan Tallent, rimdigest@usa.net

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Today's Issue Contains:

Publisher's Spot

Featured Article: How To Start A Profitable Home-Based Business

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Positive Quote

Tips, Warnings or Useful Information :-)

Feedback

Recommended eZines

Publisher's Goodbye and Legal Stuff

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Featured Article

How To Start A Profitable Home-Based Business

More and more, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make ends

meet with just one source of income. It makes sense that more

and more people are investigating the possibilities of starting

their own extra-income business. A lot of these part-time

endeavors can be started and operated from the comfort

and privacy of the home.

Most of these people are making the extra money they need.

Some have wisely and carefully built these extra income efforts

into full-time, very profitable businesses. Others are just

keeping busy, having fun, and enjoying life as never before.

The important thing is that they are doing something other than

waiting for the government to give them a handout; they are

improving their lot in life, and you can do it, too!

The fields of mail order selling, multi-level marketing, and

in-home party sales have never been more popular. If any of

these kinds of extra income producing ideas appeal to you,

then you owe it to yourself to check them out. Of course,

these aren't the businesses that you can start and operate

from home, with little or no investment, and you can learn

as you go.

As an adult I went to a nearby technical school to learn

to use computers so that I could compete in this more modern

world after years of being home raising my three children.

I took Computerized Medical Office Technology as that was

the course with the most aggressive and productive courses

to give me the skills I wanted and needed. I learned to use

a computer, do medical billing and transcription and many

other skills I have used since then in my own home based

businesses. In fact, the first business I ever owned was

my home based office services business, which I started

in 1998 with my first computer, a printer and some desk

top publishing software. Through the years I have eased

the tangible office jobs over the now popular Virtual

Assistance office services and assignments, but, in all

honesty, I have to work that business along with my

newsletter AND digital business to make ends meet and

this is what we are talking about here.

If you type, you can start a home-based typing service.

If you have a truck or have access to a trailer, you can

start a clean-up/hauling service. Simply collecting old

newspapers from your neighbors can get you started in the

paper recycling business. More than a few enterprising

housewives have found success and fortune by starting home

and/or apartment cleaning services. If you have a yard full

of flowers, you can make good extra money by supplying fresh

cut flowers to restaurants and offices in your area on

a regular basis. You might turn a ceramics hobby into

a lucrative personalized coffee mug business.

What I'm saying is that in reality, there's literally no end

to the ways you can start and operate a profitable extra

income business from your home.

The first thing you must do, however, is some basic market

research. Find out for yourself, first-hand, just how many

people there are in your area who are interested in your

proposed product or service, and would be "willing to stand

in line and pay money for it". This is known as defining your

market and pinpointing your customers. If, after checking

around, talking about your idea with a whole lot of people

over a period of one to three months, you get the idea that

these people would be paying customers, your next effort

should be directed toward the "detailing" of your business plan.

The more precise and detailed your plan - covering all the bases

relating to how you'll do everything that needs to be done - the

easier it's going to be for you to attain success. Such a plan

should show you start-up investment needs, your advertising plan,

your production costs and procedure, your sales program, and how

your time will be allocated. Too often, enthusiastic and ambitious

entrepreneurs jump in on an extra income project and suddenly

find that the costs are beyond their abilities, and the time

requirements more than they can meet. It pays to lay it all out

on paper before you get involved, and the clearer you can "see"

everything before you start, the better your chances for success.

Now, assuming you've got your market targeted, you know who your

customers are going to be and how you're going to reach them

with your product or service. And you have all your costs as

well as time requirements itemized. The next step is to set

your plan in motion and start making money.

Here is the most important "secret" of all, relating to starting

and building a profitable home-based business, so read very

carefully. Regardless of what kind of business you start, you

must have the capital and the available time to sustain your

business through the first six months of operation.

Specifically, you must not count on receiving or spending any

money coming in from your business on yourself or for your bills

during those first six months. All the income from your

business during those first six months should be reinvested in

your business in order for it to grow and reach your planned

first year potential.

Once you've passed that first six months milestone, you can set

up a small monthly salary for yourself, and begin enjoying the

fruits of your labor. But the first six months of operation for

any business are critical, so do not plan to use any of the

money you business generates for yourself during that period.

If you've got your business plan properly organized, and have

implemented the plan, you should, at the end of your first year,

be able to begin thinking about hiring other people to alleviate

some of your workload. Remember this: Starting a successful

business is not a means towards either a job for yourself or a

way to keep busy. It should be regarded as the beginning of an

enterprise that will grow and prosper, with you as the top dog.

Eventually, you'll have other people doing all the work for you,

even running the entire operation, while you vacation in the

Bahamas or Hawaii and collect or receive regular income from

your initial efforts.

To your success!

Jan Tallent

Jan Tallent is the editor of Rim Digest ezine for marketers

and small businesses and the owner of Tallent Agency

Virtual Assistance at http://www.tallentagency.com/

Once you get some cash-flow going to grow your new business,

check with her about out-sourcing some of the office duties,

advertising, customer service, etc. aspects of running either

an online of an offline business.

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Positive Quote

Life is no brief candle to me.

It is sort of a splendid torch

which I have got hold of for a moment,

and I want to make it burn as brightly

as possible before handing it on to

future generations.

-- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Playwright

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Tips, Warnings or Useful Information

Vista Security

"Mandatory" security patch for Live Messenger

Due to a vulnerability in the Windows Live Messenger IM program,

Microsoft is planning to distribute a "mandatory" fix later this

month. The versions affected are WLM 8.1 and 8.5. In mid-September,

all users of these versions will be required to upgrade WLM.

If you don't, you won't be able to continue to sign in.