Carmel Sullivan felt isolated and alone after her sudden divorce, and attempted to find a roommate, preferably a single mother like herself. She found that no service existed to help her, so she placed her own ad and eventually found a match. This gave her idea to help other woman like herself who were in similar circumstances. She found that there were 14 million single mothers many who were struggling financially and emotionally. She decided to create a web site with member profiles dedicated to helping single mothers look for roommates. The web site also offers a “Circle of Friends” page where members can go to get support. How does she earn an income doing this? She has over 4,800 users who pay a $30 annual fee for membership. That adds up to $144,000. Her business has been featured on CBS News, Good Morning America and Inside Edition. Her web site can be found at www.co-abode.com.

What do you enjoy doing that serves a need in public? Remember, key word is ENJOY. Don’t start a business you don’t enjoy for sake of being an entrepreneur or for money alone. If you find something you enjoy doing, money will follow. Picasso once said that being a success is having no line of demarcation between “work” and “play” in one’s life. To read more of Jonathan's articles, visit www.careercalling.com/Archives.htm!

The best affiliate programs come with a lot of backup with hints and tips on how to promote and sell their product. You must realise that if you don't make money, neither do they. The downside is that you don’t get full value of product. You will be working on a commission basis. Somewhere in region of fifty percent of actual price. Whilst you are getting experience in selling side of business you should be studying other aspects. ie. Downloading, collecting money and capturing email addresses.

Don't be too eager to branch out on your own. Walk, don't run.

There are thousands of people who are making more than a good living using nothing more than affiliate programs. They don't do it with just one program. Once they have one up and running, they start another and another.

That is when website comes into it's own. If you set up all of programs on a website, you only need one advert to cover all of them.

This saves a lot of hard work, but if you can do it, advertising each one individually will in long term bring in a much better response.

Think about it. Some of top business people have little technical knowledge. They let experts do ground work and concentrate on business side of things. They concentrate on what they do best.

Running any business is a learning experience. You must be constantly learning just to stay in business. Learning better ways of doing things.Learning from other peoples mistakes. Trying not to make too many of your own.

Don't let this put you off. Learning can be fun. It's just a state of mind.

I didn't start until I was nearly seventy years of age. I did it. So can you.

Once you start to believe you can do it, You can.

Have a great time. Bob....

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