You may or may not have created a plan for marketing your opportunity. The two must haves to be successful are a large and growing opt in list and massive traffic to your website. In all those forums you probably learned several methods to boost your online presence, including:

1. Listing your ezine in ezine directories 2. Signing up for pay-per-click advertising 3. Exchanging links 4. Buying leads from a lead generator 5. Signing up with traffic generators, such as searchestate 6. Buying ezine advertising

You may have tried these and several more. But did you have a plan? Stone Evans, Home Biz Guy, in his free ebook, “30 Days To Success”, says ”Some of key marketing activities that you should perform on a regular basis are starting to show up once every week: write and article, submit your article, create links back to your site, network in forums... I strongly recommend that you keep these vital practices up for life of your business.”

“ You see, it is very unlikely that one BIG event is suddenly going to make you an Internet marketing success story and cause you to become rich overnight. In truth, it's all small things you do that add up over time and ultimately allow you to become successful in this or any business undertaking.”

Execute plan

Now that you have refocused on your goals, narrowed in on your product and built a marketing plan all that’s left is to execute that plan. Set aside time every day that you will spend on your plan. Write an article on Monday, submit it on Tuesday, exchange links on Wednesday and so on.

Ultimate Success

You had your reasons for deciding to start your own home based business. You must always keep your reasons in forefront of your mind. You must always be able to rely upon your own self and your dedication to success of your business.

Success is within your reach, if only you can stay focused on your goals. You must decide to reach for your goals, and then, you must have discipline necessary to reach them.

Here’s your five-day roadmap for getting better at managing your inventory:

Day 1: Due diligence •Contact vendor to arrange detailed system review •Internal review of high level program goals and system fit •Communication program goals with customers or suppliers •Follow-up questions regarding system

Day 2: Go/ no go decision •Go - Decide to go forward with project •No go - Schedule a future review of project

Day 3: Planning •Review current as is processes •Determine/ articulate VMI goals •Reduce inventory, provide inventory information to suppliers/customers, etc. •Based upon goals determine appropriate VMI approach(es):

Vendor Managed, Consignment, Third Party •Articulate terms of program (who owns inventory payment terms, penalties, inventory levels, etc.) •Select a vendor/customer and their products for a pilot •Map out flow of data, material, and financial information

Day 4: Setup and pilot •Populate application’s provided tables •Setup users and their roles •Setup process flows •Setup integration at appropriate level and points •Provide training for various roles •Load application’s required information •Validate pilot •Measure if program goals were met

Day 5: Rollout •Adjust program if required •Add additional vendors/suppliers •Rollout additional users