If you work from home it is most important to make yourself a plan of how you are going to do this successfully.

1. The most important thing is to have an area which is your working space. If you are fortunate enough to have a spare room you can set up as an office so much the better. For many this is not possible, so make sure that your ‘work’ area is defined somehow. Maybe a screen or a partition around this area would help to let others know that this is your office and not to disturb you.

2. Let friends and family know that working from home means you are ‘working’ and that you can’t just pop out for a coffee or they come over for a chat. Explain that if you were out at work you couldn’t just pop out for a coffee or take a look round the shops or drop in at the pub for a pint! Use that same working ethos when working from home.

3. If finances permit try to get a business phone so that when working hours are over you can switch that phone to voicemail and when you get back to work you can pick up the messages and deal with them. If most of your work is done on the internet then make sure that the computer you use is just for your use and not for the rest of the family.

4. Plan a work schedule. Do you work best in the morning or are you a night owl and do your best work at night, whichever part of the day suits you best then they are your working hours. Obviously this isn’t set in stone and the best thing about working from home is that you can change your working hours around.

5. Make a To Do List in the mornings or the evening before of what you want to achieve that day. Once you have completed your list then that is the time to empty the dishwasher, mow the lawn or whatever. Be disciplined in your business keep your schedule and you can combine a home business and a personal life easily.

To summarise:

• Set up your working space – let everyone know that is your office.

• Let friends and family know that you are working from 9 am to ?? am and you will give them a call or whatever after that time.

• Get a business phone or make sure you have a computer solely for your use.

• Plan a work schedule and stick to it.

• Make a To Do List that you complete each day.

Follow these ideas and you may find that life becomes less stressful!

What a huge mistake that was I had a large batch of unsubscribers. The mistake I made was to send a blanket broadcast out and covered all my lists.

If I had put my brain in gear before proceeding with this course of action I would have realised that my subscribers to a site where I give away free products would not be the list bit interested in internet marketers being grilled hence the unsubs (if they think I am going to be sending this type of information to them – they are going to just say forget it). Let’s face it we all get more than enough emails sent to us with the stuff we are interested in.

So a word of caution be very careful and selective as to what you send to your subscribers – keep it topical to the kind of list they signed up to.

Again, learn from others mistakes. I now have to work that bit harder and definitely smarter to rebuild the numbers in one of my lists.

For those of you that haven’t read or don’t know about The Secret – then click on the banner above – I have just read it again for the second time and it is amazing how inspiring it is.

To buy from this site is very expensive you can get it for between £5-£6 from Amazon.

I have been the Internet Marketers dream subscribing to every list on the Internet – or at least that’s what it feels like.

Well today I made a decision that I am going to organise my computer in some semblance of order so I can, in future, find everything I want with one click of the mouse. I am also going to unsubscribe from the majority of lists I am on. I lose valuable time each day just going through hundreds of emails just to make sure I don’t miss anything important. The time has come to do something about it big time.

So I am putting everything else aside for two days and just going to concentrate of cleaning up the computer and email – it will make life so much easier in the long run and save me a whole load of time. My mentor Alex Jeffreys taught us keep everything organised – I was obviously being deaf that day and didn’t take as much notice as I should. Well I am paying for it now.

Staart as you mean to go on, if you are just starting out in any new business – keep your computer organised and only sign up for things that you really need – not the things that you think you may need in the future.

I firmly believe that joining Giveaways is a really good way to build your list and fairly quickly.  Once you have built your list to say 500 then you can start to do Adswaps and then see your list grow rapidly.

Click on the banner to get your free gifts listed and whilst you are there you can download many free gifts, including Ebooks, videos, scripts and videos.  Use them (after checking the licence!!) to give away as free gifts, sell them, use them yourself to grow your business.  This is being run by Keith Purkiss and Michael Ottman so you know it’s going to be good!

This one I can recommend without any hesitation.!

I have been looking on the forum recently and there are so many questions from newbies and I believe I have the answer.  I recently offered a new Ebook with MMR and a free tutorial on setting up JV Giveaway subscriptions.  As an upsell there are a series of video tutorials ranging from how to set up WordPress and change the themes, add the widgets, how to set up a squeeze page and include the Aweber form, – see for yourselves.  If you go to http://www.newbieshandbook.com. (You can always unsubscribe immediately).  I had set a price for these tutorials but because of the present cash crisis times we are in I am going to slash the price and sell them for a nominal amount to help all  of you that need step-by-step instructions.

Learn from my mistakes – what I should have done was to give these tutorials away but unfortunately I messed up and therefore as I already have subscribers to this list I can’t change things.  As I said this is where I went wrong – give value away in the beginning.

Feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I have been surfing the web looking for directories to add blogs to and came across this one

http://www.marketingscoop.com/.  If you check out the link on my side bar you will be able to click on it and go straight there. (No affiliation). You can add your blog for free or pay $12 for a premium listing.  As everyone is looking for more traffic this seemed like a good idea.

This is also a good place to go to find other Internet Marketing blogs to visit and comment if you feel like it.  Traffic, Traffic, Traffic

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If anyone is interested in getting involved in a great JVGiveaway  which Roger Hyatt is involved with then check out http://internetmarketersgiveaway.com/go/513/jv.  This one has a sensible ugrade price of $9.99 or $14.95 and 100% commission.   Certainly one to recommend.

See you there!

When I first started out in Internet Marketing with Alex Jeffreys the coaching course was terrific but there are always things that can’t be covered in full such as setting up Aweber and how to send out your email campaign or creating your own product or as in the free tutorial, how do you set up your gift for inclusion in JVGiveaways.

I decided to put all these points in one reference book in the hope that it will help other newbies some time.

It can be found at: http://www.newbieshandbook.com – please let me know what you think of it.  Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I have been carrying out some research on Click Bank for a video tutorial I am doing and have discovered some very alarming facts.  In my naivety I assumed if you sold a product through Click Bank you received payment for it.  In theory you do, in fact it’s not a simple as that.

Click Bank has some rules that I was not aware of:

• Click Bank have a minimum payout threshold, admittedly you can set your own payout threshold but bear in mind that they will charge you £2.50 per payout so to make this economical you have to set a fairly high payout level which in turn means you have to wait much longer to receive any money!

• The thing that really got me was, you have to make 5 sales to 5 different customers to reach your payout level and furthermore any sales that you receive from PayPal do not count towards your five sales. The 5 sales have to be by credit card.

• That’s not all, there is also the dormant account scenario!  If you do not have activity on your account for 90 days they make the account dormant which means you will have the privilege of paying $1 per payday as a fee.  If the account goes into 180 days ‘dormant’ you get charged $5 each payday.  So it isn’t rocket science to work out that any monies you have in your account could very rapidly disappear into the Click Bank coffers!  At the time I did my research over 90% of all Click Bank accounts were considered dormant!!

Makes you wonder how anyone makes any money through dealing with Click Bank but I have discovered an Ebook that helps solve this problem and in fact it can also help you make money.  The book is called Clickbank for Newbies by Harvey Segal.  The book is completely free and there is no optin – it’s certainly worth a read.  To get your free Ebook click here:   Clickbank for Newbies.  .