It's up, and it's good!!!!

The following is an excerpt from a previous blog. The blog discussed setting goals for your home based business. View the entire blog here.

Short term goal: I will use the internet and multiple websites to create income by developing Affiliate and Referral partnerships.

Cost to maintain websites will be paid from monies generated by sales and referrals from those websites. Along with monies generated from PPC viewing of internet advertising.

Advertising cost for websites will be paid with monies from above as well as “click exchange” credits.

1 year goal. All websites will be self-sustaining. Traffic flow shows moderate to steady increase to all sites.
2 year goal. All websites show positive cash flow. Expand number of sites by 25-50%

I hope you notice the plan does not include being rich in 90 days. As long as I am not investing any money out of pocket, I am not overly concerned about the time it takes to be profitable.

I began this project in February of this year (2011) it is now May. I am now 90 days into the project. My websites are moving slowly, but they are consistently showing an increase in traffic to the site and the affiliate marketing partners I advertise at the sites. 

Just looking at impressions, the advertisers have seen 12,892 impressions, with a click through rate of around 5%. Here is where my site differs from other opportunity and/or review web sites. I don’t have a problem showing you the zeros. It serves no purpose for me to “gild the lily”.
 
Offering you “photo shopped reports” doesn’t help my cause (or yours for that matter). It won’t take you long to figure out the numbers are manipulated.

I have said this more than once and I will continue to say it. You have to invest time and effort to have a successful business at any level.

If you need money today to pay your bills, you will need to find a traditional job. Building a successful, profitable online business cannot be accomplished in one day.  Or in one week or one month. 

I continue to use Amazon Mechanical Turk, MySurvey and Vindale Research daily to create small amounts income. (less than $100 a month).

My quest for a profitable business also opened a door for my wife to become involved with Alpine Access (she now works from our home) a company I reviewed. It also helped me get a part time job setting appointments for an Independent sales person.  

This message is for the 99ers, Do not give up, even though the economy has changed drastically, there are still many opportunities to create income with non-traditional work models. Keep in mind you will need to be patient and creative.

I have to date, not spent a single penny out of pocket. In fact I have made a couple of hundred bucks with sites like M-Turk, MySurvey and Vindale Research. And I am receiving more and more followers every day.

I still believe the affiliate marketing partners will prove to be profitable over time. If you look around the site you will see a couple of new partners like Russell Simmons Rush Card, Outright.com and National Pen Promotional Products.

Like my other affiliate partners, they offer products relevant to running a home based business. National Pen Promotional Products offers a free business card pen to those visiting the site.

I have always been a big fan of “swag” (small inexpensive advertising gifts) from sales people. I bet I haven’t bought a coffee cup or ink pen for myself, to use at work since the early eighties. 

Business cards, pens, coffee cups and coasters are great ways to have you business name out in front of people. They end up being a very good and inexpensive advertising tool that people actually keep and use. 

Swiss army knives, clocks, Frisbees, snow scrapers and so on, are fun for a minute, but you end up seeing most of those at garage sales.

I will give a more complete review of my new affiliate marketing partners in the next few days.

Like always, join and follow the blog, click the banners and text links to start making money. You can use the EWAHR forum to post questions or request a review of a site. You can also email me directly at ewahr2011@yahoo.com
 

Peace.

EWAHR Newsletter and choosing a blog topic

Welcome back! I will begin today with the EWAHR newsletter. For those of you who have already signed up, Thank You. The newsletter will be emailed in the first week of each month..

The news letter will include: a review not posted at the EWAHR blog, upcoming topics, special coupons and discounts from my affiliate marketing partners and links to affiliate marketing partners not advertised at the blog.

I would also like to invite followers of the blog to submit a short article (200-400 words) on how you are building your home based business. I will feature 1 submitted article each month in the newsletter. I will also add a link to your website or e-mail. Articles may be submitted at ewahr2011@yahoo.com

Selecting a blog topic can be the toughest task of all when starting a home based online business. There are so many factors going into the equation. Subject, content, webpage, traffic, SEO, audience, advertising, affiliate marketing and the list goes on.

Subject matter to me, is the most important concept. The idea is to create a blog that will have some longevity. If you have been doing this (building an online business) for any length of time, you know it doesn't happen overnight. So, pick a subject that will keep your interest for the next few years.

You will need to add fresh content to your blog at regular intervals. I update my blog daily. This is the only way to keep traffic coming back to your webpage. People won't return to read the same thing they read a month ago.

You don't need to be the world's leading expert on a given subject to write about it in a blog, you just need to relay your perspective.

Subjects literally range from A to Z. It can be animal, mineral or vegetable. For every subject, there is an audience out there dying for more information. You have an opportunity to provide that information.

Hobbies, work experience, musical or artistic talents, opinions, poetry, children's stories, life experiences, relationship advice or just about anything else you can imagine can be used as a blog subject. If you have been employed as a Doctor. Lawyer, Indian chief, Butcher, Baker or Candlestick maker you have blogging material.

Like I have said before, I spent a number of years in manufacturing. I have met 100's of “Experts” (degreed persons) and even more, useful non-experts (those of us with out degrees, who have been doing the same job for 10 years or more) who had more practical knowledge than the “Experts”.

Do not sell yourself short 99ers!! We worked hard for many, many years. The knowledge we have collected over those years is valuable and needed. Whether you know the best cleaning products for mopping tile floors or you can re-build a diesel engine with your eyes closed. You have information other people can use.

Make a list of 10 things you could talk about with your friends or neighbors. Put the items you like the best at the top. Now look at the top 3.

Any of them look like something people would want to read about? Are you passionette about any of them? Could you have a conversation with a friend or neighbor about the subject?

Well then my friend, you have a blog topic.

Like always, join and follow the blog, click the banners and text links to start making money. You can use the EWAHR Forum to post questions or request a review of a site or, you can e-mail me directly at ewahr2011@ yahoo.com

Peace.