Best Work From Home Ideas

Thinking about Working From Home? Here we explain the benefits, the pitfalls, some ideas, and the KEY Ingredient

Work From Home Ideas

When I first started looking for Work From Home Ideas, I realised that not everybody wants to quit their day job.

Some do for sure, and for some it is forced upon them, but many people just want to earn a little bit of extra money part time – maybe a little extra cash earned at home in the evening when the kids have gone to bed, or at weekends around their regular commitments. Is this you? Does it sound appealing? If so, a Work From Home Idea might be just the thing.

You may not want to start a career working from home. You may just want a way to earn extra money to pay off the latest bill, afford a nice holiday, or treat the kids. Working from home might be just the way to do that.

That is a different situation from maybe 12 months ago when lots of people were going online to find a way to quit their day job, maybe because of stress at work. However, following the credit crunch, the Government cuts, and poor wage rises, many people NEED to look for ideas for working from home. They need to earn extra money simply to make ends meet.

So what ideas are out there, for working from home?

Well, help is at hand in the shape of the internet. What the Internet has done is open up a whole new world of earning opportunities, including ways to earn extra money I bet you haven’t even thought of. There is a huge numbher of Work From Home Ideas out there, just waiting for you top find the right one for you.

If you’d like to find out more about working with me, click here

Bye for now

Chris Smith

Work From Home Ideas – Which one is right for YOU?

Work From Home Ideas – Which one is right for YOU?

 

When you first start looking for a Work From Home Idea or business, you will probably take one of two approaches…

 

  1. Do a thorough research of the Work From Home Ideas available before deciding on one.
  2. Try out the first Work from Home Idea that you find, because you saw the advert in the paper

 

…..and I have to say that most people that I come across in my industry join through the second option. Whether it was through a friend, a paper advert, a leaflet, a poster, an Internet advert, you have a look at it and it is pretty black or white – you either like the look of it, or you don’t.

 

If you don’t like the first Work From Home Idea that you see, then sometimes you just forget about it, until the next one that interrupts your day, and you then take a look at that one. However, at some point you may realise that you are not happy with some aspect of your life, and that one of these “Work From Home Ideas” might help.

 

At that point you might start looking into the different Work From Home Ideas to decide which one is best. Specifically, which one is right for YOU?

 

Now most Work From Home Ideas, or opportunities, are companies that have a Network Marketing, or Multi-Level Marketing structure.

 

That means that you earn money in two ways – firstly by selling some product, and secondly by introducing other people to the business, and showing them how to sell some product.

 

There is usually a limit to how much product you can sell yourself, and the bigger incomes are achieved by the team building aspect.

 

So when you start to think about which one is right for you, look at both aspects of the opportunity.

 

Firstly, the retail side. With most Work from Home Ideas, this is usually how you earn some money at the beginning. This will consist of selling some product. This can be done by, for example:

  • Sharing your experiences with your friends
  • Selling some to your neighbours
  • Having a party and selling some
  • Delivering catalogues to homes and businesses nearby

 

As this is how you will earn money initially, make sure you know how much you can earn by JUST selling the product, and how much can you REALLISTICALLY earn by just selling the product.

 

For example, if you need to use this Work From Home Idea to pay your £350 rent, which is due in four weeks, find out EXACTLY what you need to do to earn £350 in four weeks. It may involve selling 350 widgets, and you do that by sharing it with your friends. Do you have 350 friends who would all buy one? Or 35 friends who would all buy 10?

 

If you need to deliver 100 catalogues a day which will take you two hours each day – do you have that much time?

 

….and don’t just ask for theoretical earnings. Ask your potential sponsor to show you the actual earnings of people in his team, especially those who have just started. If he cannot, or is unwilling to, what is he hiding?

 

These questions should help you find the right Work From Home Idea for you.

 

To find out more about my Work From Home Idea, enter your details in the boxes on the right of this article, and I will send you a FREE info pack.

 

Best wishes

 

Chris Smith

What are the benefits of a Work From Home Idea? Being part of something BIG!

Whenever you ask someone about the benefits of a Work From Home Idea, you usually get the same answers:

 

  • No boss!
  • Financial freedom
  • Flexible Hours

 

Today I am going to explain one of the other benefits of most Work From Home Ideas. This might not seem like much, but it is HUGE!

 

When you start a Work From Home Idea, you get to choose who you work with: Like minded people with similar interests, who will often become friends for life.

 

In a traditional job, you have practically no control over who your work colleagues are. You apply for a position, if you’re lucky, you get it, and then you find you have to work with Jim, that obnoxious bigot from accounts, and Sue, that bully from payroll, and Graham, the guy who smells a lot, and always gropes the young women in the office.

 

You may not enjoy that, in fact you probably hate it, and your boss always bullies you, takes credit for anything good you do, and never praises you when you do something well, just moans whenever you make a mistake.

 

Sound Familiar?

 

Let me introduce you to your colleagues in your Work From Home Idea:

 

Your sponsor, who always wants to help you, because if you are successful, they are successful. They praise every success you have. They explain things to you gently when things go wrong.

Your new team member, who is keen, enthusiastic, and looks to you for help when they are just starting, thanks you for all the help you give, because they have joined this business to make money, and you are showing them exactly how to do that. And as you show your team members how to be successful, that makes you successful.

 

In the words of Zig Ziglar – “Help enough people get what they want, and you can have anything that you want”

 

That philosophy is so important in most Work from Home Ideas, and throughout Network Marketing, it is the cornerstone to your business – help people get what they want. As a result you have a lot of grateful, successful people working with you.

 

Can you imagine what that feels like? The people you spend most of your time with are grateful to you for the help you give them, and they are successful too!

 

….And guess what – the bullies, the ungrateful, the pessimistic, the moaners – that might join your Work From Home Idea – soon leave of their own accord because…., well because they just don’t get it, they don’t get the support because nobody wants to help them, and they are unwilling to help others, so they soon whither and die and move on to some other job.

 

As I said at the beginning, the ones that are left in your Work From Home Idea are the like-minded people with similar interests to yourself, with whom you choose to work. That’s right – You can choose who you work with! How fantastic is that.

 

In my Work From Home Idea, I have the pleasure of working with a fantastic bunch of people, who are now friends, and you can do the same!

 

If you’d like to meet me, and some of the people I choose to work with, then enter your details in the box on the right.

 

Bye for Now

 

Chris Smith

How do you get the most out of a Work From Home Idea?

What a great question.

 

If you have decided on a Work From Home Idea, how do you get the best out of it?

 

Well, I introduced the KEY Ingredient in any Work From Home Idea here. So once you know the KEY Ingredient, you need to focus on it.

 

What was that KEY Ingredient?

 

YOU!

 

So to rephrase the original question, I would ask How do you get the most out of YOU?

 

Well, I have a friend who might be able to help. Unfortunately he passed away a couple of years ago. However, he left us a lot of his teachings, so we can still learn from him today.

 

His name is Jim Rohn.

 

If you want to get the most out of yourself, and therefore out of your Work From Home Idea, you could do a lot worse than study him. Read, listen to, and watch, Jim Rohn.

 

Jim was a philosopher, on life, and on business. He had some fantastic Inspiration and Ideas that helped me when I first heard him, and still help me now. When you listen to him, he sounds like a helpful Grandfather, giving you advice of the wise and experienced. And he makes me laugh.  Every time that I listen to him. And I listen to Jim often. Over and over again.

 

So I want to give you a few of his philosophies and ideas, and then recommend some of his works, so that you can meet Jim for yourself. I hope you get on well.

 

“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons”

 

When you start your new Work From Home Idea, you must implement some disciplines. For example to talk to five new people about your business everyday.

 

Now if you follow that discipline every day, it might be difficult at times, but it will lead you and your Work from Home Idea to success. When you have achieved that success you will look back on the discipline that you followed and think – that weighed nothing at all. If you decide however that the discipline is too heavy, so you do not talk to anybody, then in your future that has debts, financial difficulty and stress, you might look back with a lot of regret, and that regret weighs heavily on your shoulders.

 

Another of Jim’s wonderful stories is that of the sower of seed. He uses the example of a farmer, sowing his seed, and how his harvest comes. Then he compares that with somebody trying to build a team in their Work From Home Idea. The farmer will lose some seed to the birds. Some will fall on stony ground, some will get strangled by thorns, but despite all of this, he will have a successful harvest if he follows some simple disciplines. The same is true of you when you speak to people about joining your Work From Home Idea.

 

These are just a few examples, and I have not done Jim justice at all, but if you would like to meet Jim, I recommend a couple of his books or CDs:

 

  • Building Your Network Marketing Business
  • 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness

 

I am using the philosophies I have learnt from Jim to build my Work from Home Idea. Look here to find out more.

 

Best wishes

 

Chris Smith

Work From Home Ideas – Get the best support!

Looking to find the right work from home idea?  What things should you look out for?

 

In previous posts I explained how to check that the company behind the Work from Home Idea is offering a genuine, ethical , work from home opportunity - click here

 

I also explained what to look for in a sponsor,  or rather what to look out for! Click here

 

Here, I want to explain to you how to find out what support and training structure to look out for.

 

Now you may think that work from home ideas should be simple, and require very little support or training. That could be true if you just want to stuff envelopes for £1 an hour, but if you’re looking for something that gives you more satisfaction, an immediate income, and the ability to build a large residual income, then you will require some support and training.

 

There should be training on the retail side of the Work from Home Idea, for example different methods of selling the products, sharing with your friends and so on.

 

There should also be training on the team building side of the Work From Home Idea, if that is something you would be interested in (and to be honest, you should be, as that is where the big money and freedom is. You may not want to look at that straight away, but perhaps in the future!).

 

So ask your potential sponsor “If I join your Work From Home Idea, what training will I get?, and what support will I receive?”

 

Believe me, he will be delighted to hear you, because it shows you are serious, and curious. Two vital qualities for a successful team member in any Work from Home Idea.

 

He should be able to provide a variety of different training and support methods:

  • Meetings
  • Remote via webinars or conference calls
  • Books, CDs

 

Support via

  • telephone
  • face to face
  • text
  • Facebook

 

There should be a variety, because people learn  and communicate in different ways.

 

If you have a particular preference for one method, and the company behind your Work from Home Idea, and your sponsor can’t provide it, then you may not get the level of support and training that you need.

 

The level of support and training you receive in your chosen Work From Home Idea will make or break your success, so make sure you are happy with it before committing yourself.

 

To find out how we support and train our team in our Work From Home Idea, click here.

 

Bye for Now

 

Chris Smith

Work From Home Ideas – Find the Right One

How on earth do you find the right Work From Home Idea?

 

There are so many out there aren’t there? How do you find the right one? Just go into Google and search on Work From Home Ideas: trillions!

 

Here’s a blog I posted earlier that will give you a start… Click Here

 

Now, if you’ve already followed the suggestions there, you may have found two or three work from home ideas that you are interested in. What should you do next?

 

My suggestion would be to meet up with your potential sponsor. For example my Work from Home Idea runs monthly Open Evenings, aimed at existing members AND guests. This would be a great opportunity for you to meet your potential sponsor, and find out what sort of people are in the business already!

 

When you meet your sponsor, ask him to show you proof of his earnings. There are many work from home ideas out there that claim to offer you unlimited income, but how much did your sponsor earn last month?

 

If he has been running his Work From Home Idea for 5 years, and last month received a cheque for £67, then you have to ask yourself if that is what you had hoped for. If he doesn’t wish to share it with you, then what is he trying to hide?

 

Meeting your potential sponsor will also give you a much better idea of what kind of support he will give you. If he has lots of team members at the open evening, and they are all chatting to him, and asking him for advice, then clearly he is a good sponsor. If he is pretty much on his own, despite being in the business for a while, you might get the feeling that he is not very good at supporting his team.

 

Do this for the two or three work from home ideas you have identified, and that should help you narrow it down to the right one.

 

Then go for it! You can spend a lot of time analysing and thinking about it, but there is nothing better than taking action. Getting started on your work from home idea should ignite your enthusiasm, and start to earn you an income straight away.

 

If you don’t feel enthusiastic about it, then you are not looking at the right work from home idea. Keep looking until you find one that enthuses you!

 

When I found my work from home idea, I couldn’t wait for the starter kit so I could get started straight away. Make sure you feel the same!

 

To find out more about my work from home idea, or about working with me CLICK HERE NOW.

 

Bye for now

Chris Smith

Work From Home Ideas – the pitfalls

Work From Home Ideas – the pitfalls

 

Today I want to explain a little more about one of the pitfalls you must avoid when starting your work from home idea: Lack of Discipline.

 

Simple Disciplines in your daily routine will earn you a fortune. Most of them are easy to do, but they are also easy not to do. And there lies the problem.

 

Let’s say you have decided you want to grow your work from home idea by explaining to your friends about your new opportunity, to see if they know anyone who might be interested in joining you.

 

So you call up Susan, and arrange to meet for a coffee. You take along your information pack. You have a nice chat, you explain how your work from home idea works, and what you have achieved so far, but Susan says she is not interested, and she doesn’t know anyone else who might be.

 

That is disheartening. You were sure Susan would be interested, she is your best friend. So you start to think twice about speaking to your other friends. What if they all feel the same? What if nobody is interested in your excellent work from home idea? The self-doubts creep in. You decide not to call Peter. Maybe you’ll feel more enthusiastic tomorrow.

 

But stop. You are already falling into bad habits.

 

The whole point of speaking to Susan was not to get her to join, but to make sure she knows you have started on a new work from home idea. You have sowed a seed.

 

A couple of months later, she has a really bad time at work, has a big argument with her boss. She gives you a call. “Hi, it’s Susan, are you still doing that work from home thing?” You say yes, explain that you have achieved two bonuses in your last 2 months, have made some great new friends, and you are treating yourself to a weekend away with your bonus. Suddenly she is interested in your work from home idea and wants to talk to you about it. The point is, the time is right for her now.

 

So your original meeting with Susan was a success! She remembered what you said, and when the time was right for her, she contacted you.

 

So the pitfall to avoid is thinking that everyone you speak to will want to join your work from home idea at that time.

 

Simply sowing the seed, explaining the work from home idea, lend them the opportunity video, is a success, whether they join you or not. When the time is right for them. They will come and see you.

 

So stick with that discipline – sow as many seeds as you can – success is how many seeds did you sow, not how many people joined up.

 

If you’d like to know more about working with me, or my work from home idea, Click Here

 

Bye for now

 

Chris Smith

How do you find the Best Work From Home Ideas?

How do you find the Best Work from Home Ideas?

 

Now that’s a good question. If you are looking for a Work From Home Idea, where do you start?

 

I have to say that the best place to start is with your friends and family. If you  know someone that already has a work from home idea, and you like and trust them, then ask them about it.

 

Most Work from Home Ideas allow you to increase your income by introducing other people to the business, so your friend should be delighted that you are interested.

 

Ask yourself these questions….

  • Are they happy with their Work from Home Idea?
  • Are they successful?
  • Is it the sort of thing you would like to do?

 

Then, if you are happy with your answers, get started! Take action! Strike while the iron is hot and you have your enthusiasm for this new work from home idea.

 

If you don’t have any friends doing the sort of thing you would be interested in, then the best place for your research is the Internet.

With search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask, etc, you can find out everything you ever wanted to know about the different work from home ideas.

 

Make sure you are aware of the pitfalls, such as Work from Home scams, and also the disciplines you will need to Work from Home.

 

When researching the companies behind the Work from Home Ideas, there are many areas to consider, but two in particular are the company, and the people you will be working with.

 

The company – does it have a good track record? How long has it been around? There are lots of get rich quick schemes that have been set up in the last year or so, but look out for unsubstantiated claims of high earnings.

 

Check out the Direct Selling Association website – they have a list of members running Work from Home Ideas that meet the ethical standards of the DSA.

 

The people you will be working with. Most companies behind Work From Home Ideas work with a Network Marketing or Multi-Level Marketing structure. This means you will have a sponsor, who will introduce you to the company. They will earn commission from your sales, and they are responsible for supporting, coaching and training you. So choose wisely. If you end up with someone who just leaves you to get on with your Work from Home Idea, it can be a lonely life.

 

Again, most serious sponsors will have a website where they explain about their Work from Home Idea, and how their team works.

 

For example, you can find out about me and my work from home idea here.

 

Have a good look around, if you like what you read, and you like the company, and the Work from Home Idea, then make contact with the individual. Speak to him or her – you should be able to tell after a few minutes if you think they are someone you could like and trust, and that will make a huge difference to you and your new venture.

 

If you’d like to find out more about me or my work from home idea, click here

 

Bye for now

Chris Smith

Work from home Ideas – The KEY Ingredient

Work From Home Ideas – The Key Ingredient

 

In a recent BLOG I introduced the KEY Ingredient in any work from home idea – YOU.

If you want to improve yourself where should you start?

 

My recommendation is to start educating yourself on people. As I said in this article about Work From Home Ideas,  the main cause of your exciting, challenging, rewarding, and frustrating days is how you communicate with people.

 

So in a moment I am going to recommend a couple of books. But before that I want you to think about how you learn best.

When you were at school you basically had a teacher stood at the front of the classroom telling you what to learn. You would also have some books to read.

But now that you are educating yourself you can choose how you do it.

 

Reading a book, of course; but have you ever thought of turning your car into a classroom? To help me improve my work from home idea, this is my favourite.

Instead of buying a book, buy the audio cd of the book. Then stick it in the car when you are driving to work, driving to the shops, driving to pick up the kids. Every time you drive anywhere, listen to another chapter of the book. You would be amazed how much you learn, squeezed into pockets of time you didn’t think you had. Soon your work from home idea will start to grow…

 

So – my first recommendations for you are….

  • Dale Carnegie – How to win friends and influence people
  • Florence Littauer – Personality Plus

 

Dale Carnegie’s book was written in the 1930′s but his principles on how to work with people earned him a fortune, and I run my work from home idea, in fact my life, by those principles. They are not new and earth shattering, and when you read it you say to yourself “I knew that…”, “that makes sense…”, but at the end of every chapter you come out thinking, right, I am going to do that from now on. It is amazing.

 

Florence Littauer’s book comes from a completely different angle. She explains how people tend to fit into different categories in terms of their character and behaviour. I am sure you all know a bubbly, life of the party person, that never finishes anything, or a shy studious type that finds it hard to make friends, but is thorough and precise in everything he does, and so on. If you can start to understand the differences, and how those people like to work with other people, you will find it a lot easier to work with them. This will have a huge impact on the success of your Work From Home Idea.

 

So – go out and buy a book, or an audio CD, and start educating yourself today.

 

In the next few days I am going to make some other recommendations on how to improve for work from home idea by improving that KEY ingredient: YOU!

 

Bye for now.

Chris Smith

PS – If you’d like to find out more about working with me Click Here.

Work from Home Ideas – Scams

Which Work from Home Ideas are Scams?

 

It’s a worry. You have explored  the idea of working from home. It would fit around your other commitments. It would give you that extra £50 – £100 a week, and build into something much bigger to transform your lifestyle.

You are excited, you cant wait to get started. But STOP! There are a lot of scams out there.

 

How do you know if this is a genuine Work From Home Idea, or a Scam?

 

Actually, it is fairly straightforward.

Firstly, all of the old “Pyramid schemes” are illegal, and I will explain why, and what has replaced them.

Secondly – there are national organisations that you can check before you commit yourself to a Work From Home Idea. I will explain about those, and how to check, too.

 

So – what is a pyramid scheme?

Basically, in a pyramid scheme, you paid a lump sum up front to join. Then, for everyone you got to join, you would receive a share of their up front payment. The more people that joined, the more you got paid. You would usually get your money back after 3-5 people joined. After that you were in profit. To persuade people to join, you just explained to them that they needed to get 3-5 people to join, then they would be in profit too. Easy!

However – as you can see, after a while, there is nobody left to ask to join. The pyramid is full. All of the ones at the top have made their fortune. All of the ones at the bottom are out of pocket.

These schemes are illegal. There was no product or service to sell to customers, or share with friends.

 

So what has replaced them? Most Work from Home Ideas now use a structure called Network Marketing or MLM – Multi-Level Marketing.

The concept is similar, but with ONE KEY DIFFERENCE.

 

You join the Work From Home Idea, and you make money by selling products or services. These could be health products, household goods, utilities – basically anything that people would pay for.

So you earn money from the Work From Home Idea by selling some product or service to friends, neighbours, people that you come across.

 

In addition – if you come across somebody who wants to earn some extra money, you can introduce them to the Work From Home Idea. However, YOU EARN NOTHING from simply introducing them to the business. This is the key difference to the old Pyramid Schemes. You only earn money when they sell some of the product or service. They earn their commission from the sale, and you get an extra commission or bonus on top.

So now you know how to tell if it is an illegal Pyramid Scheme or a genuine Network Marketing business.

 

Secondly – when you know the name of the company behind the Work From Home Idea – check if it is a member of the Direct Selling Association. Click Here for the DSA website. This will give you confidence that they are a genuine company, that meets the highest standards of ethics and integrity.

I did this when I was looking for a work from home idea, and I am really happy with the way things are going.

 

To find out more about my work from home idea, or about working with me, Click Here.

 

Bye for Now

Chris Smith