Work At Home Dad - Ty Tribble

Search Engines

"Anyone involved in an Internet-based home business will soon come to recognize the importance of search engines as a vehicle to attract potential customers."

Click here to read the article.

Ten Principles of Highly Ethical Business Leaders

1. Treat all employees as unique, valuable individuals.
Never treat anyone as though they are dispensable, without value, or "just a number."

2. Support each employee's freedom, growth, and development.
Never view anyone through stereotypes and images, or as fixed and unchangeable.

3. Communicate to employees by name with respect.
Never use or impose demeaning, trivializing, or derogatory names on others.

4. Model and encourage a balanced life of good work and rest.
Do not adopt policies or make demands on employees that undermine balanced lives.

5. Honor and respect employee families.
Never undervalue the significance of families and friends of employees.

6. Protect employees' life, safety, and health.
Never harm or jeopardize the physical well-being of anyone.

7. Create a working environment free of sexual harassment.
Do not allow communication or activity that is sexually inappropriate.

8. Be fair and just in financial matters.
Never tolerate unfair wages, prices, or financial practices.

9. Communicate honestly and truthfully.
Never mischaracterize people, products, services, or facts.

10. Cultivate a positive attitude toward others and their accomplishments.
Do not give in to envy or the temptation to take credit for the work of others.

From www.ethix.org

Microsoft Details New Blog Search Service

Blogbot is coming.

"The new services, called MSN Newsbot and MSN Blogbot, up the ante in the battle for Internet search market share. Microsoft has already said it is working on its own general Internet search engine, expected to be launched this year, to go head-to-head with Google. The Friday announcements were made at a Microsoft meeting for online advertisers. "

Work At Homer's Steadily Increasing

Home work force steadily increasing...

"Robyn Lane wakes up at 6:45 for work on a typical morning. While many commuters brace themselves for bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95, Lane only has to be careful not to be pounced on by her bushy Portuguese water dog, Maggie, during her commute to her art studio downstairs. And she can favor a comfortable pair of pajamas over a pressed business suit for the start of her day. "

Home Office Tax Deducation

Hi Kids! It's Tax Time! Yeah!

Here is a great article on deducting your home office:
Do you work from home? You may be able to deduct your home office

Work At Home Dad going off to Play

Over the weekend you will find me here, but not here.

You will likely find me here periodically throughout the weekend, but not here.

One weekend each year...20 guys...Golf...Gambling...Beer...not always in that order...

Targeted Web Traffic

According to Kirk Bannerman in a recent article titled, Aiming At The Home Based Business Bullseye:

"Keep your eye on the bullseye and develop highly targeted traffic by having good content on your website and exchanging links with highly relevant sites that also offer good content. Remember, traffic is one thing, but targeted traffic is everything."

A friend of mine put it this way, "If you were going to open a brick and mortar retail store, you would be concerned with location, location, location. On the web it's Content, Content, Content." Relevant content will get you traffic.

Business Opportunity Blog

The Business Opportunities Blog has linked to my post titled The Work At Home Perception. The site is run by Dane Carlson, a self proclaimed "entreprenuer to the core". This world needs more "to the core" entrepenuers. I plan on doing a lot more reading at Dane's Blog.

Pay Per Click Advertising

All marketing begins with getting attention. Pay Per Click advertising is one way to get targeted attention. Here is a snip from an article titled, The Seven-or-So Habits of Highly Profitable Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Campaigns by Andrew Goodman.

Lately, we've had some fall-over-in-disbelief success stories with Adwords campaigns. What makes them all the more unexpected is that, while they may be well-thought-out businesses, we are not talking about people with huge amounts of capital. We are not talking about websites that will ever win awards for their beauty. We are talking about sites and businesspeople who know how to get the job done, period. Nothing more and nothing less.

I have had great success using Pay Per Click, (PPC) advertising in certain business' and horrible success in others. I found the article very helpful in deciding what business is right for PPC advertising.

Persuasion Marketing

Michael Oliver truly "gets" Network Marketing.

You've most likely heard the saying, 'A man persuaded against his will is of the same opinion still'.

The use of persuasion is part of the conventional selling process. Persuasion creates resistance. It might be subtle, such as the other person agreeing to do something and then proceeding to not do it... or it might be more direct in the form of an objection or rejection. Feel what it's like when someone attempts to persuade you!

Stop persuading and people will stop resisting. Then you won't have to learn techniques to overcome objections! How do you do this? Allow people to come to their own conclusions and persuade themselves to do something different. Asking the 'right types of questions', using the magic of Dialogue, will help them do this.

Have a peaceful and prosperous week...

Michael
Best Selling Author on 'How to Sell Network Marketing Without Fear, Anxiety or Losing Your Friends!' - Selling from the Soul. Ancient Wisdoms. Modern Practice.

Reprinted with permission from Michael Oliver, Natural Selling® Sales Training
www.naturalselling.com