Get $100 Credit to Advertise on Business.com

Buying targeted leads can be expensive, especially business leads. I'm always keeping an eye out for bargains. If you are in the B2B market and want high-quality business leads, Business.com is now offering $100 worth of clicks on their search engine, which specifically targets businesses. A good deal not to be passed up. Check it out.

"Where Do I Find Good Online Classified Advertising?"

After testing ads on seriously hundreds of online classified sites, we found that USFreeAds classifieds works best for us.

The site lets you place ads for free, but we found that the upgraded version is where we got results. It's a bargain, because you can have unlimited ads running, and you can place ads for all sorts of different items. In fact, we have over 250 ads running right now, and it costs only about $9 a month.

The best part of the upgraded version is that your ads stay above all non-paid ads. (Ahem... this explains why we didn't get the results we wanted when we placed free ads - customers never got to our ads because we were below the upgraded advertisers).




Deal of the Day

How to Earn 6 Figures as a Personal Shopper

With our busy lifestyles, more and more people find the need to hire people to do their shopping for them.

As a professional personal shopper, you can provide service for a variety of reasons. You can offer shopping services for busy families, buy designer items for wealthy people, help businesses find gifts for clients, assist senior citizens with grocery shopping and lots more.

Looking for a flexible work schedule? Many of these tasks can be scheduled at times that work convenient to your lifestyle. You can deal with the type of clients you enjoy working with.

You'll also find that as a personal shopper, you become a much-needed problem-solver (sometimes at times of crisis). Helping to provide solutions for clients can be extremely rewarding work.

Find out how - How to Become a Personal Shopper 1-2-3

Event Planning Business Plan Sample & Templates

Use a business plan template made for your particular type of event planning business. There are many types of event planning companies. Event planners can work on the personal level or corporate level. They can specialize in wedding planning, corporate events, seminars, retreats, children's parties, etc.

Have questions about start-up costs?

What also can be helpful is to look at a event planning business plan sample put together by a real event planning company. It can give you a starting block from which to launch your own plan, and sample business plans can also give you insight as to expected start-up costs and potential revenue.


Another money-saving tip is to download event planning business plan templates from the internet rather than paying a higher price for a hard copy. This also means you can get instant access and finish your plan sooner.


Deal of the Day

Why Incorporate and How to Pay Less

Incorporating has several benefits.

Besides protecting your personal assets, you can get lots of tax advantages too. If you have never incorporated a business before, you may be surprised at how easy it can be to incorporate - with online incorporation forms that take minutes to complete.


Why Incorporate?
- Reduce Your Personal Risk and Protect Your Assets
- Get Tax Advantages and Cut Your Taxes
- Establish Credibility: Boost Your Business Growth and Attract Investors

There are also different ways you can incorporate your business. Form a C Corporation, Limited Liability Company, a Non-Profit Corporation or an S Corporation. You can either incorporate in your own state or form a Nevada or Delaware corporation, as these states have several tax advantages.

Find Out How Your Can Save Money - How to Incorporate Online

Start Your Own Staffing Agency 1-2-3

Do you want to start your own staffing agency?

You don't have to stick with temporary staffing. There are markets in medical and nurse staffing, modeling agencies, high salary staffing and more.

At a time when workers are actively looking for employment and employers are hiring part-time, contract and short-term employees to meet their needs, you can fill a necessary need.

Find out how - How to Start a Staffing Agency 1-2-3

Answers to Website Business Ideas

More and more people are flocking to the internet to find work - whether you've lost your job, need some extra cash or want to start working from home full-time, website businesses offer lots of opportunity.

You want to treat your website business like you would a brick-and-mortar business, even though it can be much easier and cheaper to operate. You want to design a business plan, get a license, set up a strategy for daily operations and figure out how you will get customers.

There's lots of information on the following site that can help you with all of these areas of your new website business.

Beyond all the internet get-rich-quick and business scams is an idea guide from a successful work at home mom (Nicole Dean) who is showing others how to do the same.

Read more - Website Business Ideas

Cleaning Business Plans - Samples & Templates

As we all know, laying out a plan for a start-up business is important. What many entrepreneurs don't know, however, is that creating a business plan doesn't have to take weeks or cost an arm and a leg.

By taking a look at sample business plans and using professional business plan templates specifically designed for cleaning businesses, you can save yourself lots of money and have the job done quickly.

It's also a good idea to go with a cleaning business plan template made for your particular type of cleaning business. There are many types of cleaning businesses. Different equipment and supplies may be needed.

Get Paid for Blogging

Companies are looking for bloggers to write about their products and services, and they will pay these bloggers for their posts. 

If you enjoy writing, or want to make some extra money with your blog, PayPerPost.com is an online platform that you can use to find these companies who will pay you to write.

You start by submitting your blog to PayPerPost.com and can start receiving advertising offers right away. Decide which offers to take and what payment you will accept. Sign up is free, by the way.

The 60-Second Referral

Just released!

This budget read is co-written by a mentor of mine, and is an excellent addition to any small business owner's client-getting arsenal. It's especially useful for small business owners who do their own marketing, are short on time and who despise selling (yeah, that's probably all of us).

Anyway, The 60-Second Referral contains 9 simple techniques for easily winning more clients (did you notice I didn't mention selling?). You could just use one of the techniques mentioned and not worry about the rest. It's that good.

Still My Favorite for Starting an Online Business

Insider Secrets eBusiness Start-Up Program

Get a 30-day risk-free trial of the Internet Marketing Center's best-seller!

This step-by-step program contains the most up-to-date techniques, including expert-led webinars covering Twitter and Adwords money-making techniques. (PS. This is one of my favorite online business start-up programs. If you want to make money online you'll really like how quickly this works.)

Get complete access (not just a small portion) to this famous start-up program. It's essentially a roadmap to making money online. Get $200 of additional start-up training for a limited time, so activate your 30-day free-trial today.

Easy Way to Find Clients (for Caregivers)

Does your business offer services like pet care, senior care, tutoring, child care, housekeeping, babysitting or nanny services? If so, you can list your services on websites like Sittercity.com to find customers actively looking for those services.

This online resource is easy to use and enables you to reach many potential clients without a lot of work. Before people hire you for these services, they often want to get to know you and find out more about your background and hear what other people think. SitterCity.com makes it easy by including background checks, references and reviews. It's an effective way to sell yourself and get more customers.

Get Paid $3 Per Survey, Free Signup

PineCone Research is now paying up to $3 for each survey you complete.

Give your opinion about new products and help market researchers in product development. Sign up free. Surveys can be completed online at home. Only one registration per household.

Sign up Free - Start Today

"Are Foreclosure Deals Coming to an End?"

MSN Money says: "One of the best places to invest is in foreclosures and bargain residential real estate. You can buy foreclosures for as cheap as 30% or 40% below market."

I invested in some real estate myself about a year ago in California, one of the worst hit spots as far as property values go. Even though values declined after I bought, I now see what looks like the market bottoming out. I'm glad I have secured my investment, as the value has already gone up.

I'm no real estate specialist, but I think now is the time to buy, and I'm not the only one. There are bargains to be had, and the deals won't last forever. Access all foreclosures in your area

Using the Foreclosure Search Network, you can view over 487,000 foreclosure property listings with prices as low as $10,000. Get Instant Access and Free Report

Freelance Writing Jobs - Online

With the growth of the internet and development of contextual websites, freelance writing opportunities online have exploded.

You can get paid to write articles, stories and now blog posts. You don't even have to be an experienced writer.

Sign up for a free account and view writing assignments that are available now. All work can be done from home. This is a great way to make extra money part-time or start a lucrative full-time writing career using your computer.

More information: Freelance Writing Jobs

Holiday Marketing Made Easy, Free Offer

It’s a great time to start thinking about your holiday promotion.

Right now, Vertical Response is having their own promotion. Just for trying out their service, they’ll send 500 emails to your customer list for free.

The benefit to using Vertical Response is their automated program. They make marketing easy you you because they can print and mail postcards for you, send emails, even email customer surveys to your clients.

Don’t know what to write in your email? They have 500 email templates you can use.

This special offer is limited (really), so sign up now and get them to send out some free emails for you. (It’s a great excuse to get your holiday promotion underway before your competition!)

How to Become an Expert in Your Field

Being an expert in your field doesn't only have a nice ring to it - it can make you money!

Today, social media and blogs are starting to play a large role in marketing and customer acquisition. People are listening more to conversations that are going on - rather than relying on ads to make their purchasing decisions.

Become an expert, and potential customers will be listening to you and your conversations. If you are knowledgeable in your field, provide quality information and supply a valuable product, you're bound to make some money in your business.

So how do you become that "expert"? Read More.

Beginners: How to Start a Website

These days, websites are an important part of business - whether you sell products through your site or you simply use it for informational purposes for your clients. In addition to being an important marketing device for your business, it can be easy and cheap to produce - if you have the right tools.

For beginners - How to Start a Website

How to Start a Day Care Business 1-2-3

There are more families with both parents working full-time jobs, and there is a growing number of single parents in the work force who are unable to be with their kids throughout the day. So it makes sense that the demand for child care has increased.

You're likely to find many opportunities to provide childcare service, but with the increased demand comes parents with a greater awareness of health and safety issues - so you want to make sure that you're prepared before you enter this business.

See the 9-Step Daycare Start-Up Checklist and how you can get step-by-step detailed instructions on how you can launch your own Daycare Center. (Real, valuable and sound advice.)
How to Start a Day Care Business

New Yoga Teacher Training & Certification

Do you want to teach yoga or open your own studio? Learn from one of the best professional yoga instructors on how to teach yoga.

When you have your own yoga studio, keeping clients can be as much of a challenge as finding them in the first place - But when you know how to teach effectively, you can have a steady stream of clients returning again and again.

Learn from Yoga Instructor Paul Jerard, who has taught yoga professionally for the last 21 years. Study from home and be part of the popular online yoga community with over 17,000 members. You can also receive certification through the course.

There are many businesses you can start with yoga experience. Often, focusing on a more specialized niche can make your yoga studio stand out and bring in more clients. Some of the most popular niches are Hatha Yoga Instructor, Prenatal Yoga Teacher and Kids Yoga Instructor. All are included in this course.

Getting Your Personal Trainer Business off the Ground

If you are info physical fitness, becoming a personal trainer as a career has its benefits. Starting your own personal training business offers a flexible schedule, relaxing and social atmosphere and rewarding work just to name a few benefits.

And based on a survey done by the American Council on Exercise in 2005, the average hourly wage of a personal trainer in the USA was $35. As you would expect, running your own personal training business, you could earn significantly more.

Educational requirements are flexible, and certification can even be done at home. Professional Certified Trainer Paige Waehner has some really good start-up advice for entrepreneurs who want to start their own successful Personal Training Businesses.

Discover creative ways to train your clients and  simple, low-cost techniques for marketing your business. With the right guidance, starting your own personal training business doesn't have to be so hard.

Get Started: Become a Personal Trainer

10 Real Online Businesses You Can Start Now

Lots of people have asked me about online businesses that they can start. They're tired of the scams, they just want to find something real without having to weed through all the junk opportunities.

There's a very special live webinar coming up that will be discussing "10 online businesses that you can start from home". These are real businesses, proven to work by other successful business people. Not get rich quick stuff.

Some of these ventures include getting paid to do online research, successfully selling arts and crafts online, how to profit on Amazon and eBay, starting a virtual assistant business and more. This is not a "rah-rah" session - there's lots of in-depth details on how each of thee businesses work. Just what internet entrepreneurs need!

You can register here for free

4 Additional Benefits to Business Bank Accounts

Business bank accounts are important for keeping business and personal finances separate, both for proper tax records and easier business accounting.

But did you know that having a business bank account can offer you a wealth of other benefits?

• Get help with loans, lines of credit - even a business credit card
  
• Merchant services for credit card processing
  
• Payroll tools , even online payroll
  
• Guidance and assistance in other areas of business management, such as accounting form preparation, budget planning, cash flow management, information on protecting your intellectual property with patents, trademarks and copyrights and more.
  

Take advantage of what small business banking has to offer you. Your bank can make running your business a whole lot easier.

Starting a Business? Get Your Questions Answered

If you're starting your own business for the first time, you've probably got a lot of questions. Many of these questions apply to different areas of business - tax advice, legal issues, insurance, bookkeeping, etc.

Rather than ask lots of people to find the answers to all of these questions, wouldn't it be easier to get the answers all from one source? In fact, if you are new at this, there are probably several questions that you need answers to - that you never even thought to ask.

I saw a guide today called "Working for Yourself: Law & Taxes for Independent Contractors, Freelancers and Consultants". It's got all the essential information that new businesses need, and it's published by NOLO - which means it's written in plain English that we can all understand.

A worthwhile invesment for all small business owners, you'll be able to refer back to it over and over again.

Steps to Opening a Retail Clothing Store

1. Get some experience. Whether it's merchandising classes, a previous retail store job, volunteer activities or assisting others in the retail field - the more experience you have when opening your own retail store, the better.

2. Specialize in a niche. Don't try to please everyone. Focus on a specific market and offer products exclusively for those customers (i.e. tennis apparel, second hand store for kids, Halloween costumes, etc). Ideally, you want to represent a niche in your local are that is not yet represented. Also offer a unique advantage that you can offer your customers that other stores don't offer. This will attract more customers to your store.

3. Figure out your start-up costs. Start-up costs vary widely, depending on your store location, size, types of products, etc. I think a great way to see what your potential start-up costs would be is to look at what other retail business owners have spent. How do you find this out? You can view several business plans online for free, and often they have a financials section, including start-up costs and income projections.

4. Decide on a location. Look at several location and local zoning and other regulations that may apply. Will the location bring in enough foot traffic to cover the rent - and does the area offer future growth potential? Is there enough floor space and storage for your products and customers and parking space for shoppers?

5. Advertising. While keeping your ads simple, you want them to grab your customers' attention and provide quality information about your merchandise or store events. Focus on what makes you different from other stores and give people a reason to come see (and buy from) you.