Most people are very skeptical about starting an Internet based home business. Their question is "If a home based business on net can bring so many riches and financial freedom to oneself, why isn’t everybody sitting at home and earning?” They are simply not ready to accept online earning opportunities and their potential. They say that it would be a waste of their time and money and reject it. They are really not conscious about facts of a starting a home-based business. In this case, starting a home-based business is not for them!

The very important factor before you start to search for a home-based business opportunity is to "believe" that it exists. You should accept its existence. Your consciousness of home based business and its money making potential is very important. When you become conscious of something, you start noticing it in abundance. If you are not conscious of something, you can’t see it, even when your surroundings are filled with it. one who can recognize opportunity and acts to tap on it is an able man. Others will not find chance or may just let it pass without utilization.

A man who seeks opportunity will eventually find one. When, how and where depends entirely on sharpness of seeker. Opportunities are already there. If we are not conscious, we won’t see them. It is only when we start becoming conscious of this, that we will start to find them.

Submitted for your reading pleasure are Lori’s Top 10 I’m Trapped on a Deserted Island and I Do Have Electricity Must Haves. **

Microsoft Outlook

I L-O-V-E Outlook – one of most important secrets of my success. I’m using 2002 version while I contemplate 2003 upgrade.

Outlook gives me all tools I need and three features I use most are e-mail, calendar and tasks. I manage e-mail accounts for numerous clients and Outlook makes it easy to setup and manage new accounts. In addition, Microsoft’s Signature facility is superb.

I use a third-party tool (see below) to help me manage calendars for my clients. Imagine having ability to manage a client’s calendar who’s three time zones away. Trust me, it can be done!

Outlook’s Tasks folder helps me everyday, letting me know what’s due for that day and what I need to focus on in future.

I use Outlook to manage my professional and personal lives, and schedules for my clients.

Tools for Home Team

Holy remote access, campers! 4Team has a great offering of products (http://shareoutlook.4team.biz/) that let you share Outlook with your clients.

I use Calendar4Outlook for a number of my clients and they’re amazed, and pleased, with software’s functionality. Calendar updates are sent via e-mail and are applied automatically. No “click here to update” hassles. I see client’s Calendar in real-time and book their appointments without having to call them to verify their schedule.

Invaluable tools which I encourage you to demo.

Believe Skype Hype

Skype’s tagline says it all, “Skype is free Internet telephony that just works.” Checkout their site at http://www.skype.com. Skype is free (cool), easy to setup and even easier to use. Skype is internet telephony and an instant messaging package all in one.

I used Skype last year when I was recruiting Santas for Desktop Santa project. I interviewed hundreds of Santas, some of whom were located in Canada and United Kingdom. Could you imagine my phone bill if I had used a conventional telephone service to call U.K. and Canada? I can and it’s a bill I’m not willing to pay! I used Skype to stay in touch with my Santas who were outside of CONUS (the continental United States).

If you’d like to test Skype, I’m more than happy to help! Feel free to contact me and we’ll test Skype together.

The Tank

I snub my nose at today’s keyboards -- they’re too small and they have no bounce-back. I’m sure there’s a technical term for “bounce-back,” I just don’t know what it is!