There are many marketing tools that are being taught to affiliate marketers in order to plan their strategy to succeed in owning a home based business opportunity. This type of business is one of the easiest ideas of launching a home business at reasonable cost. Sometimes people think there is a magic formula that is readily available for them.Affiliate home based business plan for triumph:1. Information Base – You must be willing to learn and be trained. Following a plan and the experience required to implement the plan is necessaries.2. Self-determination. You are your own boss so act like it. It is your responsibility to construct your online home business. Working with a team can enhance your efforts but never expect anyone else to be structuring your online business but yourself.3. Affiliate Programs – Often described as turn key home based business opportunities because the product, marketing and compensation structure is already developed.4. Building Your List – Building an opt-in email list is one of the best reasons to gather prospects. Offer a newsletter or an Ezine.And, it goes without saying, you’re encouraged to explore other ideas, and adapt other strategies besides these, in order to help you become a high rolling, well paid, online marketer. The possibilities are endless and are limited only by your imagination, creativity, and resourcefulness. There are qualities you must ultimately possess if you want to achieve the glory for this business to be able to stand out among the rest. A quality one must possess is the willingness to invest time and effort even if direct results do not seem at all apparent.It is better to avoid them than be regretful in the end. But some people do know simple hints to make it big in this kind of market. Try to use these strategies for your home based business opportunity. It is just using action strategies that have been valid over years of hard work and dedication.
Security for Your Home Based Business
If you have a home based business, you know that when it comes to residential and personal safety, things have to be taken seriously. This is, after all your livelihood. With an estimated two million reports of robberies in the United States annually, if you haven’t taken a look at this important aspect of your business, you need to.
While many home based businesses are lucrative, a budget friendly security solution is vital. If the cost of home security looms too large – many people dismiss it as something to ‘do later’. Unfortunately, the chance of becoming a target of asset theft or personal attack increases without visible security. A burglar will more oft than not choose a home without security measures in place over one where these measures have clearly been taken. Add the lure of home business assets, such as extra computers and stocked product and you have a recipe for trouble.
If you’re still not convinced, I encourage you to take stock of what it would cost if your home based business were robbed – or you yourself sustained personal injury. Compiling a list of all furniture, stock, electronics, computer software and downloads, stationary and whatever else is essential to run your home based business is a great place to start. Remember to consider the cost of recovering from a personal injury, whether it be physical or mental if you were to be assaulted – and the cost to cover your absence if it occurred.
Now take a look at some of the simple ways you can effectively secure your residence. If you’re not familiar with the various types of home security devices available to you – there are some extensive stores online where you can compare prices easily.
Some budget savvy home security options you might consider include:
· Driveway Alarms
Designed to monitor your entrance way and alert you when you have a visitor or unexpected guest.
· Alarm Dialers
Use these alarms to protect against acts of nature or intrusions while you’re away.
· Security Cameras
While these may seem a bit extreme for a home based business; there are extremely realistic (and extremely cheap) fake surveillance cameras available on the market that can be a very effective deterrent to would be thieves.
· Door and Window Alarms
Be alerted when a door or window is opened.
· Intercoms
Relatively inexpensive video door intercoms exist on the market today that allows you to see and talk to visitors before opening the door. Many of these also keep an image record of who came to your door when you were out.
Once you calculate the actual figures for what a burglary and/or possible home assault would cost you and then compare it to what a relatively simple but effective residential security system would cost (not to mention that it would be a tax write-off for your business) – the decision to secure your residence against intruders becomes an easy one.
Auction Listings Are Vital to the Success of Fundraising Auctions
Fundraising Auction Tip: You should always provide potential bidders with a printed Auction Listing of both your Live and Silent Auction items at any Fundraising Auction. A printed Auction Listing is vital for several reasons:
An Auction Listing informs bidders of the order of sale, and what is coming up next. If you keep your bidders guessing, they will simply not bid.
If bidders are not 100% certain of what they are bidding on, they will not bid. A printed Auction Listing should answer any and all questions about what is being sold in order to encourage bidders to bid as much as possible.
Bidders often need time to plan their bidding strategies, especially on multiple and/or larger value items. A printed Auction Listing helps them to do that.
Couples often need time to consult with each other about what they are willing to spend on something. A printed Auction Listing helps them to do that.
Potential bidders need to know the specifics, the benefits, and the restrictions on any item they are going to bid on, especially on travel and/or other higher value items. A printed Auction Listing should answer all of their questions, in writing.
After bidders see that they have lost an item to another bidder, a printed Auction Listing makes it easier for them to re-strategize on what else they can bid on.
Printed Auction Listings generally come in 3 forms:
Printed in the Event Program or Auction Catalog.
Printed on loose sheets of paper and hand-inserted into the Event Program or Auction Catalog.
Printed on loose sheets of paper and hand-delivered to all attendees, or left on each dinner table in the room.
Auction Listings cost practically nothing to produce and they can make the difference between the success and failure of a Live and Silent Auction. You should never conduct a Fundraising Auction without one.
A Case Study
Let me share a real-life experience with you. Once I was hired to conduct a Fundraising Auction for a nationally renowned organization. The event was held in a major hotel, in one of the country’s largest cities, with several hundred “black tie” participants attending. It was an extremely professional event, with the music, singing, lighting, speeches, and awards all perfectly timed and choreographed. Everything was done to perfection… exception the Fundraising Auction.
Although I had signed an agreement to serve as their Auctioneer nearly one year in advance of the event, no one bothered to contact me for any advice or help. Approximately one week prior to the Auction date, I contacted the group to see if they had replaced me with another Auctioneer. But they said that I was still their man.
Upon arriving at the event I asked for a copy of the Auction Listing. I was told that there were none. I’m not sure whether they felt that the Auction Listing wasn’t necessary, or whether someone forgot to have them printed. This was never made clear. When I asked what I was to use at the podium, I was told to copy the list of Live Auction items from a committee member’s computer. It took me about 30 minutes to copy three pages of hand-written notes in order to prepare for my role as their Auctioneer.
I knew that they had created a PowerPoint program showing the various Live Auction items. When I asked whether the PowerPoint slide order corresponded to the order of sale I had copied from the committee member’s computer, I was met with a blank stare. The committee member left to check the slide order, and returned to let me know that the slide order did not correspond my notes, and he provided me with the correct slide order… hand-written on a paper napkin. This forced me to re-arrange my three pages of hand-written notes before taking the podium.
There was a Live Auction Table with descriptions of the Live Auction items that were to be sold, but the table was not clearly marked, and it received significantly less attention than the Silent Auction Tables, which were clearly identified. Since the Live Auction Table was located adjacent to the “Raffle Table”, it appeared that most people thought it was part of the raffle and therefore paid very little attention to it.
According to the event program (which did not include an Auction Listing), I knew approximately when I was to begin the Live Auction. At the designated time the Master of Ceremonies announced the start of the Live Auction to the several hundred people in attendance, and introduced me as Auctioneer. As I approached the podium I realized that photographs of award winners were still being taken… directly in front of the podium where I was to stand… which required me to stand aside for several minutes until the photographers were done. Can we say “awkward moment”?
As the photographers cleared, I approached the podium and began my Live Auction introduction. Approximately one minute into my introduction, the “Raffle Committee” approached the podium and stopped my Live Auction Introduction in order to pull the 8 or 9 Raffle Winners. These drawings lasted about 5 minutes. Upon it’s conclusion I was allowed to resume the start of the Live Auction.
When standing at the podium two intense and extremely bright spotlights were pointed directly at the podium. The lights were so bright that I literally could not see the center 1/3 of the room. I could see the tables on the right, and on the left, but was totally blinded when looking straight ahead. It took perhaps five minutes before the spotlights were turned off.
While at the podium and describing Lot #1, I had to ask someone to start the Lot #1 PowerPoint Slide… because apparently no one was assigned that job.
So with only the Auctioneer’s verbal description, and a PowerPoint slide, it appeared that few people in the room had any idea about what we were selling… or when we were selling it… until it was announced by the Auctioneer. As a result, bidding was extremely light and the final results fell several thousands of dollars short of where they should have been
The learning experience is this:
The Live Auction is where you place your better items, and where the real money should be made at any Fundraising Auction. Let bidders know as far in advance as possible what you will be selling, and the order of sale, so they can get excited about the Auction, and plan their bidding strategy accordingly.
Auction Listings are absolutely vital to the success of both Live & Silent Auctions. In my opinion, revenues at this Auction fell thousands of dollars short of where they should have been, because no Auction Listing was provided to the guests.
If bidders are not perfectly clear on what is being sold, including both the item’s specifics, benefits, and restrictions, they will not bid.
When you have a committee of volunteers, especially volunteers having full time jobs and/or very busy schedules, the services of a professional Fundraising Auctioneer can help to keep the committee on track.
And once you retain the services of a professional Fundraising Auctioneer… use the services that you are paying for.