Pro and Cons of Home Based BusinessWritten by Mary Porter
The Pros and Cons of a Home Based Business: REAL Story! Hundreds of people a day enter into world of home based businesses. There are many "opportunities" out there, and you don't have to look very hard to find them. Chances are good someone will approach you, maybe even someone you know. The offer they make will be very inviting. They will tell you all benefits of working from home. There are many. And they are REAL. If you find right company to start up with. Do people actually get a check in mail? Really? Yep, they sure do. And after they get their check,....can they actually SPEND it? Well.... It seems like only yesterday..... It was last day of month. I had already called 99% of my extensive "customer list". I knew chances of me getting ahold of last few were slim, because this was night of first high school football game of season. No one was home to take my call. I still needed almost $200.00 in product orders to make my monthly quota to maintain level I had slaved and worked to build. My palms were sweaty. My stomach was in knots. My hand trembled as I dialed next number. It was my last chance.... "Hello," Oh my gosh! Someone answered! "Hi Aunt Jane! How are you?" "Hi, we're doing OK over here. What's up?" "Well, I'm getting my monthly order ready, and I was wondering if you needed any more XYZ Super Soap." "Oh, I'm sorry, Honey, but that stuff will last me for months. I just don't need any more right now." "Would you be interested in trying our new and improved High Energy Super Vitamin Peanut Butter Instant Wonder Shake?" "Oh, I don't think so. I don't do enough any more to be needing much energy. But I can mention it to your cousin Jake. He's been lifting weights here lately. He might like to try it. He'll be home next Tuesday. He's in Chicago." "Well, thank you Aunt Jane! I'll be sure and give him a call next week after he's home." "All right Dear. I'll talk to you later." "OK Aunt Jane. See you soon! Bye."
| | Do Search Engines Scare You?Written by Elaine Currie, BA (Hons)
Do Search Engines Scare You? What do words "Search Engine" make you think of? I get immediate mind-pictures which vary but all have similar themes. Sometimes I see one of those tiny submarines which are used to explore deepest parts of ocean bed. I have this picture in my mind of tiny submarine underwater in complete darkness apart from beam of its searchlight which is probing gloom. Other times I see a horse-drawn carriage driving through dense fog with only its weak lamp relieving darkness. This scene is from a movie where police are racing through London in search of Jack The Ripper. The final picture is of a line of policemen in old-fashioned uniforms advancing across a moor in darkness through rising mist with only their flashlight-beams to light their way. It can get a bit scary inside my mind at times. If these were dreams rather than passing thoughts, they would probably be analysed as meaning an obsession with darkness and getting lost. Maybe lights penetrating darkness symbolise a fear of ignorance (or maybe a fear of getting found out). The obvious link is that these pictures all relate to a search of one kind or another. The first one might represent a search for knowledge, second one is obviously search for a criminal and final one a search for clues at scene of a crime. Why would words "search engine" conjure up these dark visions? If you look at words we associate with search engines, I think connection will be clear. We talk about "submitting" our websites to search engines. We don’t "send" our websites or "apply" to search engines or "register" our websites with search engines. We are submissive and search engines dominate us. We adopt this submissive posture and search engines send their robots to "crawl" over our websites. Doesn‘t sound very pleasant does it? The future of your website is entirely in power of these monsters. You have spent time and perhaps some cash getting your website ready for visit. Your website, shop window to your home business, has been tweaked and "search engine optimised", now you can do nothing except hope that your efforts will be rewarded with approval by these invisible inspectors.
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