Home Business: The List Is The Thing

The List Is The Thing

Written by Ken Leonard Jr.

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large part of your viewers may not use these features, and being in a hurry, they are just a click away from another new and interesting website. Many of your "hits" are just that, a quick click, and they're gone forever. The visitor that clicked away likely found your site by using a search engine. They were interested in repparttar 117462

search term that was one of your site's keywords. That means that they may be your "target customer". Isn't it a shame that you only had one chance to sell this visitor on your product or service? Don't you wish that you could follow-up on that "lead" at a later time? With a better offer or a different related product? You can. The focus of your online sales business "has" to be capturing lead information (email addresses) and building a database of prospects and previous customers. This "house list" enables you to keep in touch with your leads,

BusinessMom.com Comes To Town

Written by Shannan Hearne-Fortner

Milana Leshinsky started her first home business in 1994, making cute magnetic hats for 20 cents a piece. After two months she realized that she wasn't a work-at-home mom... more like a slave-at-home mom, making less than $5 an hour. What a disappointment. And this realization is not uncommon for women starting a business at home.

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Six years after this first self-employment experience, after having her second child, Milana tried becoming a work-at-home mom again. This time her business has outgrown any expectations, any predictions and any hopes she has ever had on becoming a home-based mom.

She didn’t just do “okay”, she is completely successful.

Milana's first order arrived in February 2001. In April of 2002 she quit her job - repparttar 117459 job that only a few years ago (after graduating from college) she called her "dream job". "My business brings as much as my salary did, I work only a few

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- It has repparttar 117466 biggest potential at a minimum investment.

- Your business schedule is 100% flexible.

- You can work as little as 3 hours a day & still be successful.

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