Those of you who are dreaming of creative ideas now is the time, to start your own internet home based business and make those dreams come true. There are many ways to do this and today I want to show you just one example.Samantha did just the right thing in life. Early in life her mother recognized her keen interest in sounds and rhythm and had ensured that Samantha went for music lessons. Over the years Sam learnt to play quite a few instruments. However, Sam was now a career woman working as a pharmacist, married with two children. Despite juggling around home, children and career she had never given up her dream of music. From time to time she snatched a few minutes and at times a few hours during weekends and holidays. Music was Sam’s soul and she always knew that someday she would devote her entire time to music.One day while browsing through the internet Samantha got to read an article on how E-Learning was catching up on the internet. The opportunities for internet based teaching and learning was very interesting and just the right thing for people who had busy lives. While reading through stories of how many people had started and were running flourishing online businesses from home on the internet, Sam stuck upon the idea of combining her passion for music with the technology and the platform available. It seemed just the perfect solution for Sam to be able to start teaching piano and guitar instruments.Sam worked on the idea and in three months time set up her profile on the internet as a Music Teacher. Few enquiries began trickling in and in a few months Sam found that there was too much demand for her music lessons. Internet was the most convenient way for people living across the country to be able to learn music at their own convenient time.Today, Sam has given up her career as a pharmacist and is teaching music through her internet home based music academy. Sam is earning more than she was while working as a pharmacist with her home based internet business. She has successfully managed to combine her passion with the internet to make her dream come true. So can you.A home based internet business gives you the unique advantage of being able to work from home and yet reach across your clients and manage your business professionally. The geographical barriers of market do not exist in internet based home businesses. Sam has been able to access students wanting to learn music from across other countries which would not have been possible had she not been running her home based internet music academy.Do not give up on your dreams.
Why The Best Home Based Business Has To Be Internet Based
Never in history have so many people been attempting to make money with their own home business. The questions becomes how to go about doing that in the most profitable way. In this article I want to provide a few of the basics and make a case for why the best home based business is run on the Internet.
The basics in a home business revolve around providing a product, to a customer, getting paid for that product, and delivering it to them.
One of the best business models for this is affiliate marketing. The Internet works perfectly for people who want to make money doing affiliate marketing.
Depending on the type of product you are selling it can be very easy to get that product to your customer. For example, if you’re selling digital information the consumer can access that instantly. Ebooks are a perfect example of this. ClickBank is the largest digital affiliate network on the Internet today.
You can sell products as an affiliate for them with one ID number. You can target customers based on the type of eBook you are selling.
ClickBank collects from the customer and provides a download web page for the consumer to get their product. You are totally out of the loop on all of this outside of driving traffic to your affiliate sales page.
Even if you decide to sell physical products affiliate marketing is a great way to do it. A perfect example of this is Amazon.com.
They are the largest online retailer in the world. They also have a great affiliate program you can join and sell products for.
These products are laid out in various categories and range in price from a few dollars to several hundred thousand. Again this is all done online with your own Amazon.com affiliate website.
There are various strategies that home based business owners use as affiliate marketers. There are three ways that affiliate products are primarily sold.
1. Use the affiliate website.
2. Create a review page or a pre-sell page on your own domain name.
3. Build an email list and follow up with it.
Most affiliate marketers will sit at home in front of their computer and do a combination of all three of these. Building a list gives you the advantage of going back and following up with your potential customers to sell your product.
Creating a review page lets you influence the sale and get the consumer in a buying mood before passing them through to your affiliate website where they can purchase the product.
These are several ideas on why I feel the best home based business is Internet based. And the best business model for that is affiliate marketing.
Future of Education Isn’t What It Used To Be
All my life, one thing was about as certain as death and taxes: that is my kids would go to a school designed about the same as the one I attended and that my parents had attended. Further, I find my grandchildren today attending a very similar system. However, there are signs that that might be changing in the near future.
Obvious signs of the coming change are the current controversial tweaking of the public education system, through the creation of magnet schools, charter schools and voucher systems. But, according to a discussion between myself, Brandi Elliott, Marketing and Admissions Director for Northwest Academy in ID and Kimball DeLaMare, LCSW, Senior VP for Interchange, a network of three schools headquartered in UT, many other changes are happening that might profoundly change the way we conduct education.
Changing attitudes of parents will have a profound impact as parents, who still are more influential on their children’s success than almost anything else, take more responsibility for making education choices for their children. This will increase as more approaches and choices become available.
Online education expands tremendously the range and depth of subject matter available to the student in even the most rural areas. Although all the research indicates that an adult in the role of teacher (or mentor, facilitator, or proxy) is vital, online education can give students many additional educational options they could select from with the collaboration of their parents.
Another important trend that will impact education is the rapid increase of psychological knowledge of child development, and especially that being learned from brain research. From this increased knowledge, the ability to more effectively intervene with emotional/behavioral problems and learning differences on an individual basis will become possible. No longer feasible will be the “one size fits all” approach which of necessity has been the focus of mass public education for the past century.
What future schooling will look like is impossible to say with certainty, but what is fairly certain is finally, after a century of the factory model that has dominated education, the way we educate our young will be radically changed by these developing patterns in our society. Hopefully, children will no longer be plugged into a narrow category that only vaguely reflects the education they need, but parents and educators can meet the needs of all children and not just focus on the happy medium.