Marketing is crucial to home business success. But marketing is much more than placing an ad or running an article. People are bombarded with marketing messages all the time…every one of them claiming to “care”, “give results”, and be “#1″. For the most part people no longer see or believe these messages. So how can [...]

Looking for tips to help increase your recruiting numbers? Prior to talking about some of the things you can do to help grow your team, it’s important to talk about what not to do.
Before you say, “But that’s not focusing on the positive, Laurie” let me say that I am positive that if you are [...]

I’m a project and idea queen. I have so many great ideas and usually I just jump right in. The problem is, I have so many projects, that I can’t seem to manage it all. And because I jumped in, many are live and active but aren’t being cultivated. It comes to a point when [...]

We’ve talked about website pet peeves before.  It’s a subject that’s actually talked about ad nauseum, but for some reason the message doesn’t appear to be getting through to those who need it most.
The glory of being an independent consultant or freelance business owner is that we do have the autonomy (in most cases) to [...]

Over at Lifehacker there is a simple script that can help you stay on track with your work projects. The scrip will provide a pop-up every 20 minutes asking you if you’re on task. While such an application could get annoying, if you find that you waste time surfing the net, Twittering, or reading about [...]

A successful business trainer and I were talking one day about how people give up their goal of working at home before they get started. “The Martians get them,” he said. He calls the dream stealers Martians, but I like to think of them as lemmings.
Lemmings are those creatures that follow everyone else even if [...]

So you’ve just started a Direct Sales business. You’re pretty excited, aren’t you? Your mind is going a million miles a minute. You haven’t even received your starter kit yet and you can’t stop talking about your new business.
That’s how many new consultants feel when they first decide to start a new venture. To keep [...]

Sparkplugging is continuing our tradition called ‘Spark an Idea Thursday’. Each week we’ll be sharing some great ideas for a topic of interest to our readers. We invite you to grab our image and carry the tradition through to your own blog! If you do, please link back to this post so we know where [...]

Adapted Excerpt from The Work-At-Home Success Bible.
I’ve been providing work-at-home information and support for a long time. I’ve talked to a lot of women who were gung-ho about working at home one day, and then after a discussion with their husbands are content to commute and send the kids to day care. What happened?

If you want a crash course becoming successful in direct sales, the information below may help!
I discovered a new way to become proficient in direct sales – work a political campaign. Within a very brief time frame you’ll become proficient and comfortable approaching people and you’ll also learn to let rejection roll right off.  Additionally, [...]