Your Work at Home Journal

Work At Home Inspiration for You-Stop the Procrastionation

2007-09-27T13:45:00.000-07:00

Copyright © Vivien Wu
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How do you rate yourself today? Are you on schedule with your projects or fall behind. There are things deemed important to us, and we like to procrastinate, write your goal down now, and get started. Do that marketing, call that person, do the research, fill out that form… do it today, so you can check that off your list.

Quotes About Procrastination

”The trouble is that you think you have time.” --Jack Kornfield

"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count." --Robert Anthony

"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task." --William James

"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday." --Napoleon Hill

”Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.” -- George Claude Lorimer

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy." --Denis Waitley

"Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy." --Wayne Dyer

"Know the true value of time! Snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." --Lord Chesterfield Stanhope

"The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in." --Charles R. Swindoll

"It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years." --Paulo Coelho

”You may delay, but time will not.” --Benjamin Franklin

"The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too." --Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all." --Mignon McLaughlin

"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment." --Robert Benchley

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Work at home? You need to have persistence and determination.

2007-09-21T16:31:00.000-07:00

Copyright © Vivien Wu
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What is your mood today? Cheers to your success, and to your still-to-come projects/goals, don't give up, persistence is the key to success. Have you seen a "Care Bear" (a stuff animal that tells songs and stories to children?) It took the guy who made it twelve years to market it to success. He quit his job, spent all his savings, borrowed from friends, living on little means, he never gave up, and after twelve years, he made it! Trust yourself and stick to your guns! It helps me to read some inspiration quotes every day, here is some for you!

Quotations About Persistence and Determination

"The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night." --Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge

"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men." --Thomas Fuller

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."--Hal Borland

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory." --Ted W. Engstrom

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." --Napoleon Hill

"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems." --Paul J. Meyer

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." --Napoleon Hill

"Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning." --Dennis Waitley

"Morale is the state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope. It is confidence and zeal and loyalty. It is elan, esprit de corps and determination." --Gen. George C. Marshall

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." --Jesse Owens

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Home Based Businesses, Don’t Give up on Google PPC Search

2006-08-17T22:10:00.000-07:00

Home Based Businesses, Don’t Give up on Google PPC Search
Copyright © Vivien Wu
http://www.NoixGlacee.com

Small and medium home based businesses find it necessary to pay for search engine ranking and advertising in order to boost their sales. The primary goal of the advertiser is not to generate thousands of clicks, but to attract a potential customer or actual buyer with each click-through. The largest search engine on the Web, Google Adwords, has a reward system of sorts with higher or more frequent placement for ads that generate the most click-throughs. Among all the pay-per-click search engines, Google Adwords is the largest network operator as of 2006.

Depending on the search engine's market reach, minimum price-per-click (PPC) varies from $0.01 to $0.50. Common search terms can cost much more. Very popular keywords that draw lots of prospective customers are probably well-known to other businesses in your industry. With everyone vying for the same keywords, the price can be jacked up to several dollars per click!

One thing that Google uses to determine the cost-per-click (CPC) pricing for keywords is the quality score of the landing page. Google AdWords has
recently revamped it’s quality scoring system for landing pages. The change affected a small number of sites. However, those sites saw significant
changes to their min CPCs (minimum amount one must pay to have an ad displayed.) Some site accounts went from minimum CPCs of $0.03 - 0.15 to $10.00.

In order to adjust to the new Google Adwords changes, webmasters should first examine the document Google AdWords Site Guidelines. These were the relevant points from that document that pertained to this situation:

1. Try to provide information without requiring users to register. Or, provide a preview of what users will get by registering.
2. Openly share information about your business. Clearly define what your business is or does.
3. Most internet users are concerned with understanding and controlling how websites use their personal information. In order to build an honest relationship with them, providing clear answers to these questions on your site is a must.
4. Develop an easily navigable site.

This usually translated into:
1. Show a sample newsletter (i.e. any other content)
2. Create an ‘about us’ page (and call it exactly that in both the link and URL)
3. Create a ‘privacy policy page’ (and again, call it exactly that in the link and URL)
4. Create some sort of navigation for the website

Then webmasters should refresh with the Google Webmaster Guidelines. Google AdWords still has more quality traffic than any other PPC engine. It is essential to use Google AdWords effectively to bring the most quality traffic available to your website. The trick is ensuring Google thinks your page will assist their visitors in finding information (remember, the act of searching is a hunt for the answer.)

To improve your quality score, go through every line of
Google Site Guidelines and ask yourself:
• Am I following this guideline?
• Could I make this guideline better from a user’s standpoint?
• Can the Google score program tell I’m following this guideline?

Once you can confidently say you are following these guidelines, your quality score should improve dramatically. Google is idealistic about how well they treat their users. User satisfaction is more important to their long term goals and success than advertiser satisfaction. This doesn’t mean Google doesn’t want satisfied advertisers, it just means that if there’s a tie between interests.

When evaluating your website, pretend you are a random web visitor and think to yourself: “Does this website answer all of my questions before I have to give up my personal information?” When the answer is “Yes”, it’s time to check your quality score and see if Google AdWords agrees with you.

Google only updates the scores a few times a year, the following website gives a Google prediction of your website:

http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction

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2006-02-27T15:57:00.000-08:00

Getting Started: Creating a Business Plan
Copyright © Vivien Wu
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You're excited. You have a great idea for a profitable
online business. Maybe it is an original idea that has
not been marketed online before. Maybe you have come
up with a new spin on the ordinary. Whatever it is
that has influenced you to start your online business,
be sure that you have a plan before you begin. This is
not the time to “pick it up as you go”. These are some
basic things that should be included in your business
plan.

The business summary should give a brief description
of the entire business and is an integral part of the
overall business plan. After you have completed the
business summary you should begin to list the
objectives or the goals that you want to accomplish
through the business. Next and perhaps most
importantly, you should develop your marketing plan.
The marketing plan will address all the specifics of
the business. When developing the marketing strategy
you should consider the following:

The target market. The target market is the customers
that you expect to see visiting your site. For example
will your product be more appealing to college
students or those who are in retirement?

Consider the competition for your product when
determining the marketing strategy. Choose a product
that will be seen as unique and useful. Visit sites
that are offering the same or similar products. Find
out the cost, and how they are marketing their
product. Finds out the pros and cons of their business
and try to improve your product based on their flaws.

Research the various methods for advertising online.
You should become educated about search engines and
how they work since each one is different. Also be
sure that you know how to submit your site to search
engines. You should be prepared to spend a small
amount of money on advertising, but the profits that
you will gain from the advertisements will prove to be
money well spent.

Think about pricing. Again, look at the competition
and see what similar products are selling for. Pricing
can play a big role in the success of your product
since selling a product well below the average price
may lead customer to think that there is a problem
with the product or that it is not of the best
quality. However, pricing items too high could also
detour customers.

Determine the shipping method. Be sure that you know
how products will be shipped so that you can have
shipping details clearly posted on your site. If you
are shipping things of great value, you should
consider providing shipping insurance. Also think
about shipping outside the country that you live in.

Think about the different methods of payment that you
will accept. If your business does not accept credit
cards, you should be ready to give up half if not more
of your sales. If you decide to accept credit cards
will you use a merchant account or will you use a
third party credit card processing center? Both will
help you get started and the third party processing
center will handle all of the business so you don’’t
have to. You should decide which you will use and also
if you will accept checks or money orders. It is
essential to have a secure server when taking credit
cards.

These few things will help your online business to
become a great success and also provide you with peace
of mind knowing that you have thoroughly thought about
and planned for the opening of your online business.

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