Creating prosperous relationships.

Your contacts are vital. Nurture them, grow them and never ever ignore them or take them for granted.

Share your knowledge with others.

You are unique; you and only you know what you know. When you think about carefully it you will realise that you know more than you thought you knew. Recognise it, cultivate it and share it with others. This is your USP (unique selling point). Give it serious thought you will find it!

Marketing when you are not working.

Never stop thinking, doing marketing. As you become more experienced in your small home based business your entrepreneurial instincts will become very sharp. You will start to recognise opportunities that you would previously not have seen. When you do act on them. Action is key. Promoting Your Business.

It’s a continuous process. Find a process that works with minimum of effort and cost and keep it going, going, going!

WOW them with quality service.

No matter what, over deliver. You will be amazed and delighted when you and your business get recognised and you start getting repeat business and referrals. Try to know where your new clients come from.

Build trust.

Integrity is all. Never be tempted to compromise, stick to your principles and you will stand out from crowd. Be quiet about it. Some of most brilliantly successful business people are very un-assuming. But they really know what works.

Publish your way to sales.

I was recently with a new friend in his business. The business is 35 years old and is going through a lean time even though it provides very innovative manufacturing solutions.

I asked, “do you publish your achievements and contact businesses which are potential customers for product you have developed by solving problem?”

You don’t need me to tell you answer.

My friend has since indicated that he will act on my FREE consultancy. I hope he does because it can only help. He was too much working ‘in’ business and not ‘on’ it.

If you are seriously seeking a way to start your own home based business I hope these points will help you. If you have an established business I hope there is something here which has triggered your imagination so that you can and will apply it to your business.

As we proceed we all need reference points, reference points to give perspective to our thinking. We need to be able to refer to relevant, sound, proven business building information to help us succeed.

We need help and a plan to avoid 'blind alleys' which helps us get our fledgling business to fly or our existing business to soar.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do! You can build a business, a successful business if you want it. It takes hard work, persistence and stamina; but it’s well worth it.

It all adds up to exciting prospect of going forward to a more rewarding life where you are in control as you establish your exciting new life - working from home.

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Being a greeting cards home business owner would make internet your best marketing tool. You wouldn’t be able to compete with larger greeting card companies, so you will want to create a special niche for your cards on web and in small local stores.

This option requires research before beginning creation of cards for your greeting cards home business. You will need to price printing services and software. Once you have these ready, you can being creating. Go ahead a start creating cards, but at same time, think of a name for your greeting cards home business and create a website.

Websites are very easy to create, depending on provider you decide on. Research domain name registries and web site providers. The more web pages and information you want to provide will influence charge of web site. A greeting cards home business web site should be able to be effective without many extras at first. The extras can come later.

Once your website is ready, put pictures of your cards and ordering information into it. If you create web site yourself or pay someone else to do it, make sure site is search engine optimized. This will bring more people to your greeting card web site and start selling your cards.

Since some people like to hold cards and feel their quality before purchasing, it may be best to have your greeting cards home business web site offer one free card, or one free sample package per household. This gets your cards on market and helps drive customers to your web site. Also, consider creating a special “Thank You” card that you personalized by you for all inquiries and orders. This is another way to let people know quality of your cards.

Have cards printed as orders come in to web site. Offer personalized cards to increase sales. Make sure you have plenty of designs for each category. You want your greeting cards home business website to look full, but not cluttered.

You now know several of options available to start your greeting cards home business. Now all you have to do is to decide which is best option for you. This business can grow to be as large or as small as you want it.

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