Tip #4: Develop a Marketing Plan. You may be best writer in world, but your work is not going to get published if you don't know anything about marketing your writing. Take a marketing course at your community college. Check out copywriting books from your library and learn how to create marketing materials. Even freelance writers have to write "sales letters" promoting their work (known in freelance writing business as "queries"). Take notes in your journal about marketing, and develop a plan that will make people who are not interested in your product and service pause just because you are so creative. Journal about types of marketing materials you will need. They may include business cards, a web site, direct sales letters, postcards and fliers promoting your business or an ad in local paper. Get a haircut, eat well and exercise. You are your home-based business, so keeping yourself in good shape will give you confidence when looking for clients.

Tip #5: Brainstorm Session: Who Needs Your Product or Service? Brainstorm in your journal about who needs your product or services. If you don't have any experience in business you want to launch, give free products and services to a few of these people. For example, my friend, Kelly, loved creating silk flowers and wanted to make it a business. When I was planning my wedding on a shoestring budget, she offered to create my flowers for cost of materials. She also asked if I would give her one of my wedding pictures so she could start a portfolio of her work. I gladly provided a copy to her. Another reason it is a good idea to give away a product or service is to get feedback from your customers. Follow-up with a phone call, e-mail or reply card. When you get praise for your product or service, write comments in your journal so that you will remember them and be encouraged. Also, add testimonial to your web site or marketing materials (with permission, of course). Testimonials are great incentives for others to buy your product or service.

Journaling is best route on your journey to your goal. Essentially, you are writing your own book about how to start a home-based business. Journaling is not just about planning. It's also about recording small successes along way. It's easy to forget time you've invested in a goal and progress you've made. A journal will show you that, day by day, you are moving forward with your plans.

It is pathetic! Even when both parents are working, they still have mountains of bills to pay: mortgage, car, credit card bills and personal loans.

When they lose their jobs, they are unable to continue with payments, so they lose their car, then their homes and credit line and probably end up on skid rows.

This leads to marital strife, discontent, divorce and depression.

And life in other continents and countries of world are not better!

Since economies and currencies of other countries of world depend largely on American economy and currency, whatever happens in America ultimately affects other countries!

America gives billions of dollars in financial and military aids annually to many countries in world.

But many of governments of these countries (especially developing ones) are corrupt to bone!

They steal these billions of dollars and salt them away in secret Swiss Bank accounts.

They don’t use it to build manufacturing industries that will create jobs for their country people.

They don’t use it to build infrastructures to enhance quality of life of their people.

Their people have no modern amenities and infrastructures, good roads, electricity, running water, telecommunication service, or jobs.

They have no business, no future and no hope!

That explains why some of them dabble in scams, while others escape to seek a better fate in America and European countries.

Instead of giving billions of dollars to these corrupt governments that enrich a few corrupt politicians, why not give same billions of dollars to American corporations so they can go to those countries and help them build up their economies and create jobs that benefit people?

That is what American government should be doing, if it is seriously interested in helping people from other countries of world.

This may help improve international relationships and restore respect and love that other countries once had for America.

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Have a happy new year filled with sunlight, success, good health and may your dreams and ambitions come true.

Warmly,

I-key Benney