Rewarding The Internet Marketer's Spouse

Written by Joe Bingham


Consider these factors:

I work at home, full time overrepparttar Internet. I have a business that most people just plain do not understand. I work in a field that most people do not even know exists. I stay home all day. I often stay up all night working and sleep in very late.

This looks very bad to 'regular' folks.

It's of no concern to me. I'm literally immune to other people's opinions. I've always been a bit of a loner anyway.

What I'm wondering, though, is how does my wife deal with this? I mean, she's not really sure just exactly what it is I'm doing here anyway, and yet she backs me up. For that, I'll have to reward her someday.

It's tough on her at times, though, and it's especially tough on her when talking to others.

I've seen her try to handlerepparttar 121617 questions before. I remember specifically what it was like when my wife's aunt and uncle first met me. We were just starting to look into moving to Montana, and we stopped by their house to let them know we would be coming torepparttar 121618 area.

"So, what does your husband do for a living?" her aunt asked, as I sat acrossrepparttar 121619 room talking to her uncle.

"He works overrepparttar 121620 Internet," my wife answered. This is where Aunt gave my wife one of those looks that's easier to read than a 10 foot neon sign.

Her look said, "Butrepparttar 121621 Internet is a just a play toy for computer geeks and college students. He can't be making any money from that --- unless he's a scam artist."

"What does he do overrepparttar 121622 Internet?" Aunt replied politely in spite of her thoughts.

"He sends out newsletters," my wife answered. (That's her take on what I'm doing here. For a better explanation, see my web site. It's actually just a LITTLE more complicated than that!)

"Uncle," Aunt called to her husband in return to my wife's simplistic explanation of my business, "Joe there is looking for work."

I can only imagine what my wife was feeling at that moment. Wives like to be proud of their husbands. Heck, wives like to BRAG about their husbands. So having a job that leaves people thinking I'm, well, basically a bum and a thief is probably a just little hard on her ego.

She tries to explain that yes, I do make money, and that no, I won't be going to jail for it, and that yes, I do actually accomplish something, and that no, I'm not just trying to get out of having a real job and...

It doesn't really work, though, and I feel for her. Someday I'll have to reward her for her loyalty.

It probably doesn't help when Aunt comes to visit at 11:30 a.m. and I'm still in bed asleep either. She doesn't know that I was up until 5:30 a.m. working away. She doesn't know that I usually end up working at night because duringrepparttar 121623 day I like to do things with my wife and kids.

All she sees is a bum that "sleeps in 'til Noon!" Of course,repparttar 121624 relatives wouldn't dare say anything to me about their opinion. Instead, my wife gets blasted with it.

Friends don't help any either. I've heardrepparttar 121625 talk. "How can you stand having your husband around allrepparttar 121626 time like that?" Or, "Run him out ofrepparttar 121627 house! Tell him to get a real job!" Or, "I bet all he does is sit atrepparttar 121628 computer looking at porno sites all day."

The entrepreneur's survival list

Written by Godfrey Heron


Small business owners and entrepreneurs are quickly becomingrepparttar dominant business species. Small businesses create thousands of new jobs each year, while floundering large companies lay off scores of people.

Starting a new business venture can be an exciting yet risky project. Our survival guide detailsrepparttar 121616 steps to take to ensure your business not only survives but indeed thrives.

1. Determination - "ARE YOU INSANE?"

Implement your plans with total commitment. Don't give up even when obstacles seem overwhelming. Starting your business will instantly make you an outcast. People whom you love will openly question your sanity. The anticipated competition will berepparttar 121617 least of your worries, you'll be fighting your friends and family to get your business going. They will sit and wait expecting you to fail. Now that doesn't mean they don't love you, but there's no way to prevent this, it just happens. So be forewarned.

2. Devotion -"THE LOVE AFFAIR"

Your business should be something that you love to do, It's this love that will sustain you whenrepparttar 121618 going gets tough. And it'srepparttar 121619 love of your product or service that will make you effective at selling it. Don't attempt to become an affiliate or sell a product that you have not used or assessed for its merits. At best you will be unable to answer legitimate concerns of purchasers andrepparttar 121620 worse case scenario is that you will appear to be a fraud.

Now this does not discountrepparttar 121621 fact thatrepparttar 121622 only business idea that will ever succeed is one that fulfills a need...preferably a *considerable* need. Therefore if no one wants your product your business will never get offrepparttar 121623 ground.

3. Dollars- "OOOOH SWEET MONEY" Getting rich should NOT be your PRIME motivating factor. Persons who have that mindset will inevitably make short term decisions for immediate financial gain atrepparttar 121624 expense ofrepparttar 121625 long term health of their venture. You will also have a difficulty motivating employees who don't stand to profit as much as you do.

Invest all that you can in your business, but be frugal with what you have at your disposal. Keep in mind that your business could either triple in size or go belly up within six months. So it would REALLY be wise to avoid that TEN year lease you've been considering.

If you are running an Internet based business you may even dispense with expending money on office space. Several online businesses are operated successfully from a spare room or basement.

4. Dedication- "100 HOUR WEEKS?"

You will have to make some adjustments to your life when starting up your business. You'll need to work tirelessly just to keep up withrepparttar 121626 competition. Twelve hour days and seven day work weeks are not uncommon when an entrepreneur is striving to get a business offrepparttar 121627 ground.

5. Doers- "THE BIG MISCONCEPTION"

Perhapsrepparttar 121628 biggest misconception about an idea for a new business is thatrepparttar 121629 idea must be unique. Chances are that almost any ideas you can think of also occurred to others. When Einstein was developing his theory of relativity, another scientist, Poincare' formulated a similar theory aroundrepparttar 121630 same time. History is full of examples like these.

It's notrepparttar 121631 idea which is important, they are really a dime a dozen. What is important isrepparttar 121632 ability to takerepparttar 121633 idea, implement it and build a successful it.

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