Dave Rankin asked:

Are you tired of your job and looking for a new opportunity to work directly from your home? Are you looking for ways to diversify your family’s income using your free time and home computer? Do you simply want a chance to be more in control of your income and how and when you live and work? I worked for a reputable financial services company and had a nice, safe position making about 45k/yr with all the benefits.

However, I couldn’t help but feel that I wasn’t in control of my life and that everything I did, or wanted to do, revolved around my job. By chance, I came across a website that talked about an opportunity to work from my home and be in control of how much I work and when. Furthermore, the website proclaimed I have the opportunity to earn an income I never thought possible. I was obviously skeptical at first. I read on and it soon dawned on me that the principal of the website was relatively simple: By combining my marketing creativity, the power and scale of the Internet, and the right guide to help me out, I could possibly earn some extra spending money if I was given a little help and point in the right direction!

Unless you have been under a rock, you know the extent of the Internet and it’s global impact on business. Internet driven sales are estimated to make up 80% of all sales transactions by 2012 and companies all over the world are looking for ways to harness the power of the greatest marketing tool of our generation. Realizing this, I began to think that this opportunity might be worth a little of my time and effort. I became a member and devoted some free time practicing several of the strategies and techniques and quickly learned that the income I earned did have some connection with how much time I devoted to working.

However, as I became more adept at using the tools, strategies, and information provided, I started seeing account numbers that seriously made me question why I drove to work everyday if I could be financially free by working from home. While I initially did not set my expectations all that high, I soon realized the tools I gained access to helped me bridge the knowledge gap and showed me how I could market to a global audience for almost any company I wanted! Since becoming a member, the most important thing I have learned is that you are only bound by your own creativity and time and can truly live the way you want. I was a normal guy and feel like I stumbled across a golden opportunity that absolutely anyone can cash in on. Want to learn more?

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Sarah Short asked:




Party plan as a vehicle to become a Business Woman is an option that many women contemplate at some stage in their lives.

When our youngest child has started nursery or school, we mothers find ourselves left with a dilemma: Do we return to work part time, with all its limitations, or do we start our own business? Returning to work has several serious limitations, let me list them for you:

Unless you are fortunate enough to have left a career that you are able to return to part time, most part time jobs are paid minimum wages. By the time you have factored in the new clothes you will need, the travelling costs and lunches etc, not to mention tax, it can mean that you are working for very little more then the privilege of calling yourself employed! You need the hours to fit around your family. Your employer needs workers who can fit around customer volumes. Customer volumes are higher (be they visitors to shops, or telephone callers) when school is out. Not a great match, I think you would agree. You may find, that having to compromise on your hours so that both you and your employer are happy, means that you end up paying child care, which eats even further into your pay.

Unless you are committed to returning for work for reasons other than the money, part time work really isn’t a great option.

So, we mothers find ourselves looking at working from home, for ourselves. We look at becoming a business woman using party plan as a platform from which to launch ourselves. On the face of it, this seems great. We are our own boss, we work the hours we choose, we can, to an extent, dictate our own pay. Perfect! So why do so very many women fail at this? What information is it that we are lacking that causes us to fall?

I believe that the reason that most women fail in this type of business is because they are too caught up in the “how”, with not enough attention paid to the “why”. The how is the lovely products we get to play with (cosmetics, kitchen items, lovely candles etc). The why is the financial details behind the business.

“EEK!” I hear you cry! “I just want to sell a few cosmetics and not worry about anything other than how much I sell at each party!”.

The difference between those women who succeed beyond their wildest dreams with party plan and those who potter along and subsequently discover that they actually LOST money when they take what they spent overall from what they earned, is that the former had a plan. Several plans in fact – a marketing one, a sales one and a business (including financial one). I can guarantee you that for every successful party planner, there is a woman who carefully drew a map of where she was and where she wanted to be. That map is called a business plan.

Most women have no idea at all how to formulate a business plan. You can download them from the internet, but it can be very confusing about which information goes where. A great way to get a fantastic business plan is to employ a business coach (like me) but we can work out to be quite expensive. Most party planners however, don’t have lots of money to spend – they want to make money, not spend it! Fortunately, there are now inexpensive online coaching packages available. These packages can be designed with specific users in mind. As I am The Business Woman’s Coach, guess which people I had in mind when I designed my Business Coaching program?

So always remember

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

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