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3 Highly Profitable Home Based Businesses You Can Start

By Angel Low

Are you still thinking of the best home business to start? Before you delve into this, why not take a look at how home business owners make money? There are many ways to earn an income from the comfort of your own home. Home business owners make a monthly income of a few hundreds to hundred thousands of dollars working from home. Lets take a look at 3 highly profitable home based businesses you can start.

1. Creating Your Own Product

Many home business owners create their own products and then market them online. They are mostly information products such as ebooks, audio mp3s or videos. Many of these Internet marketers create products in areas of their expertise. For example, an experienced lawyer may write an ebook on how to decrease your taxes legally and ethically. However, creating the product is only a part of the business. Equally important to having a great product is your sales system and the way you market your product. Many people create products, but only successful marketers make real money.

After creating your product, you need to put in place your sales system. This will include putting up your website, having an autoresponder to capture leads and following up with them. Putting up your sales system alone will require some time and effort, especially if youre doing it for the first. Always get guidance from someone who has done it before if you can. This will save you a lot of time.

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2. Marketing Affiliate Products

This is a very popular home business model. You dont need to create your own product because someone else has already created the product. And you can sell his/her product for a commission. If youre selling an electronic or digital product, you can get commissions from 30 70%! Its also a great way to test your own marketing abilities. If you cant even sell someone elses product, why would you want to spend the time, effort and capital to create your own product and sales system just to find that you arent able to market your product? Some Internet marketers also start out by marketing affiliate products to test the market. If that affiliate product sells well, you may create a better product for that category. Of course, there are many marketers who make a very comfortable living or a fortune should I say, from marketing affiliate products.

You see, in the offline world, many competing companies see each other as competitors that they want to devour or destroy. In the online world, its quite different. Although there are many competing products, these competing companies can also be great joint venture partners. If you are selling health products, you would build a database of customers who are interested or in need of health products. So what stops you from selling someone elses health product and getting a good commission from it? The great thing about the online world is that the win-win culture is practiced to a far greater extent than in the offline world.

3. Joining A Proven System With A Great Product

As a new online marketer, you will need to test many things. Which email copy sells best? Which lead capture page works best? How many emails should you send at what intervals? All these experiments take up time and can be very costly. If you want to get started marketing online fast without spending too much time in the laboratory and spending thousands of dollars in product creation and putting up your sales system, you can consider joining a system that is already working well for others. There are programs in which the product is created for you, the sales system is created for you, and all you have to do is to start marketing it. Thats not all, you also get to build a team of people working for you.

Before joining such programs, youll want to select the best program to join. Select a program where there are many success stories from people who have made real income from it. Youll want to make sure that the company provides great support. And youll want a program that gives you great products to market.

I have found a company with a proven system and great products. However, these are not get-rich-quick schemes. Whether youre creating your own product, marketing an affiliate product or joining a proven system with a great product, they all require you to put in effort and time. You have to invest time and effort to build your home business. Hey, if your home business is supposed to feed you for the rest of your life, shouldnt you spend time to nurture and build your business now?

So why start your own home business? Its because if you are working in a normal job, you may only be able to relax in 20 50 years time. But starting and building your own home business may give you the financial option to relax in just a few years time. For many people, it has been worth it.

About the Author: Angel Low is an Online Home Business Marketer. Learn How To Start Your Own Home Based Business And Earn An Extra $4,240 – $40,000 per Month By Using Simple, Tried And Proven Methods. Click here to find out how you can be a part of this ==>

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Do I Really Need A Degree In Graphic Design To Start A Career?

By Brian Scott

High school students who are interested in a graphic design career may wonder if it’s essential to attend a college, university or design school to earn a degree or a certification in graphic design or liberal arts.

Although you may excel at sketching or painting (or other forms of artwork), or you can use Photoshop, Illustrator or Flash like an expert, many professionals advise beginners to attain a college degree or trade certificate.

Working as a graphic designer is not just about using your creativity with certain software packages. You need to know how to visually solve problems, as well as meet the needs and requirements of a client. A client or employer does not necessarily hire you to create something spectacular, but rather to sell the product, service or idea in a way that visually captivates the client’s target audience.

Attending a reputable graphic design school, university or college will help mold and shape you into a solid, versatile, knowledgeable graphic designer.

Although you could learn on your own, you will need to discipline yourself. The reason being: you will need to handle and learn about many roles of a graphic designer.

You will need to learn about design theory, typography (art and style of printing) as well as the history of art. Learning about the history of art will help you see for yourself what a good or bad design was, historically.

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Although you may find it difficult to prioritize these programs, you should realize a good graphic design program is all-encompassing: the syllabus has everything you need to learn to become an expert designer.

You may decide not to attend a graphic design school, university or college to obtain your degree or certificate, but you will miss out on many opportunities.

You could miss out on establishing important “inside” connections that will land your first job. Sometimes employers partner with schools, colleges or universities to solicit students for permanent employment or internships.

You will not be able to spend time with like-minded people — you will miss out on the teamwork side of training. This can be extremely important if a graphic design studio hires you. It is essential that you can work alongside others.

Also, attending a college or university offers a wealth of knowledge — classmates and teachers can answer all your questions. Plus, you can receive feedback on your work, as well as have your work critiqued. You will learn and grow a lot faster than if you study on your own.

If you learn graphic design by yourself, you may not make informed decisions if what you are producing is good or bad. Plus, you won’t be sure that you are on track, or that you have hit the mark during the progress of a design.

Many schools, colleges or universities will include hands-on work experience, where you spend time within the working confines of a graphic design business. This could help you in the future, and the company may offer you a position because you have finished your work experience training with them.

Many of these programs are aimed towards helping you to produce a good quality portfolio, which you can present to prospective employers in the future. Your portfolio can showcase your best work to sell your talents to any potential employer.

Although you can create your own portfolio if you train yourself — and you may fill it with the best design work possible — many employers will not consider a designer who does not have a degree in graphic design.

Even if you are good enough at what you do, a potential employer prefers to know that you understand the processes of graphic design completely. Employers also want to know that you will not have difficulty working with others, and more importantly, they want to know you understand the various aspects relating to design, including:

1.Design Principles

2.Art and style of printing (typography) 3.Color 4.The art of selling something to a target audience

As well as attaining a degree, many teachers at these schools, colleges or universities, provide students with a reference also. This will help any future employers know that you have a solid foundation of design skills and principles on which they can build and succeed in their chosen career.

About the Author: Visit Brian Scott’s website, FastCashDesign.com and learn about freelance graphic design and how to make money as a graphic designer .

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