Make Money at Home — Proven

Years ago, long before the internet came along my mom worked for a fellow with a really cute little work at home business.  He literally worked from home … his one car garage was filled with printed products, mailing supplies and my mom’s desk.  She would sit and open mail for a couple hours in the morning, writing names on address labels and putting checks and cash (yes people used to send cash in the mail) into neat piles for bank deposits, and then she spent the afternoon stuffing the product into envelopes and applying the address labels and stamps.  On her way home she went to the post office to drop off the outbound mail and through the drive-through window of her employer’s bank to make deposit of the checks and cash that had come in that day.

The product?  Simply little 12 or 14page manual about how to fix hydraulic jacks that, well, wouldn’t jack any more.  It’s something the business owner had learned in a couple years working for a repair company who paid him a pittance to repair jacks.  He just took what he learned and wrote down the simple parts, and had a little mini-booklet printed and set out to sell it.

Now how did he sell it?  Well that’s the interesting part.  With no Internet and no chance of making mass market media like TV or radio spots work, he looked at special interest magazines … “Popular Science” was one of his best advertising venues .. world-wide circulation and not too high a price for a little classified add in the back.

But could you start a business from a classifies ad?  How would you know if it would work?  Well my mom’s boss explained his secret to me, and it was dirt-simple.  read magazine you think your prospects might also read.  Look sat the ads to see if one of yours would ‘fit’.  Then go to the library and look up issues of that magazine from 5 or more years ago, noting who was advertising then who still is advertising today … if you see many ‘familiar faces’, bingo … ads in that magazine produce, since people have been paying for them for years and years.

Well today, the Internet is my “Popular Science”.  But the same key ways of deciding what is worthwhile hold true.  At least 5 years ago I started making money online, and one of the ‘regulars’ I came across was a lady name of Rosalind Gardner. Here’s a little excerpt of her journey….

This is the amazing true story of how a woman with NO business experience became a Super Affiliate earning $500,000+ (*) per year selling other people’s stuff online .

July 23, 2009

Dear Aspiring Affiliate Marketer,

Although I hate the term and don’t own a tiara, my colleagues call me the “Affiliate Marketing Queen“. A January 2009 trade magazine pegs me as the female affiliate marketer (since 1998) with the most experience.

Over the years, thousands of ‘regular, non-technical folks’ (just like you — and me) have learned how to start and run their own successful affiliate marketing businesses using the methods I teach in the Super Affiliate Handbook (and as an industry expert speaker, magazine columnist and consultant) and YOU can learn them too!

I teach by example – using my own affiliate sites’>my own affiliate sites. From blog installation, to design, content creation and all methods of marketing – I STILL do it all. (Note: Many other affiliate training packages use MY affiliate sites as examples without my permission. That’s because those so-called ‘trainers’ don’t have affiliate sites. They pretend to be working affiliates to take your money, but they don’t have any real experience.)

So, if you’re tired of bogus claims and hype and want to learn how affiliate marketing really works, keep reading’>keep reading …

As Rosalind says, your search can end here, just the way my mom’s employer built a whole successful work at home business out of a simple magazine ad .. merely by leveraging knowledge and common sense he already had.  Well you leverage yours?  This is a fork in your road, as Yogi once said, “Take It”.’>This is a fork in your road, as Yogi once said, “Take It”.

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Work At Home Resources — Talar Recommends

It just occurred to me that I haven’t given a shout out in a long time to one of my colleagues in this online earning/work at home world.  http://www.whydowork.com/ .

In addition to having one of the coolest URL’s I have come across lately … talk about stating your purpose and mission in just a few words, Why Do Work has been de-mystifying and debunking this powerful, but also scam-filled niche for years now.

They offer concise, honest advice, stories about the fly-by-night scammers who are always out there to take advantage of the unwary, as well as proven, ‘will work’ techniques that will allow you to earn an honest living from home.

Their active and well-managed forums alone are worth a visit, but for added value they also have a great online job listing, easily searchable, and frequently updated to get rid of bogus ads.

This site has been online serving the work at home/home business/make money online community for almost 6 years now, and I have yet to detect a false note in the progress.  Highly recommended.

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