What NOT to expect from your e-commerce home based business!

Written by Lynette van Greunen


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Also don’t forget to be alert and observant each time you leave your home. You must be onrepparttar lookout for anyone that is still breathing without too much difficulty. These are your cold prospects. Get their names and telephone numbers and attempt to call them to set up an appointment.

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When you do manage to catch someone home, they listen to you politely but you readrepparttar 100360 message on their face - how long this is going to take - or they are lounging onrepparttar 100361 sofa, one eye glued torepparttar 100362 TV andrepparttar 100363 other blankly staring at you.

Does all this sound familiar to you? No kidding, hundreds of individuals have been down this lonely road. No wonder 95% of people quit. After all, any individual with a little dignity can only tolerate so much rejection without developing a serious complex about their abilities.

And yet we all know that building a business that will automatically multiply itself without you physically having to be there 24/7 is by farrepparttar 100364 easiest way to success.

Looking for a business model that never requires you to attend meetings, make personal contact with complete strangers, never leaverepparttar 100365 comfort of your computer…then you have just stumbled intorepparttar 100366 wonderful world of e-commerce. Hundreds of different business models abound andrepparttar 100367 cool thing about them is that you can work more than one atrepparttar 100368 same time. You can develop multiple streams of income and start livingrepparttar 100369 liferepparttar 100370 salesman in my article only dreamt of.

Lynette is the webmaster for http://www.naturalindoorwaterfountains.com where she teaches you how to energize your surroundings naturally with negative ions, which leads to more productivity, and therefore more success, in all your undertakings.


My Identity Crisis

Written by David Leonhardt


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At social events,repparttar accountants and lawyers had it easy. "I am an accountant," says it all.

I was not so fortunate.

"I am a consumer advocate," I would say.

"So what do you do?"

"Well, I talk torepparttar 100356 media and torepparttar 100357 government and to industry," I would explain.

"Ahaaa... and I talk torepparttar 100358 tooth fairy. So what do you do?"

Now, I have an even harder time when somebody asks what I do. Most people have no clue what search engine optimization is, which is my main "career". Few people really understand what freelance writing is, except if they read a freelance writer's article in a magazine . I don't even try to mention that I run three websites and do affiliate marketing. But people do understand what it means to be an author.

"Wow, you wrote a book on happiness? Congratulations. So when's your next book coming out?"

Which is when I have to explain how a book really doesn't feed a family, and if I tookrepparttar 100359 time to write a second book, it would take time away from search engine optimization and affiliate marketing...

"Huh, what's that?"

"Never mind," I answer. "I'm a stay-at-home dad." Which also is true. People might look at me weird, but at least they understand me. Or, so they think.

All of which brings me back to that question I never answered when I was young: what do I want to be when I grow up? I guess I'll just have to wait a little longer to find out. Like when I grow up.

David Leonhardt is author of Climb Your Stairway to Heaven http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/Item.asp?Catalog=Books&Item=059517826X Read more personal growth articles: http://www.thehappyguy.com/self-actualization-articles.html Visit his liquid vitamins store: http://www.vitamin-supplements-store.net Or his happiness website: http://www.thehappyguy.com


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