Marketingtips.com Extreme Challenge

You may have heard about Derek Gehl's FREE "Build-a-Biz" video training series that's going to be released next week.

It seems that Derek was challenged by a frustrated blog reader to "put his money where his mouth is" and PROVE it's possible to build a niche website from scratch in ONE WEEK or less....

And Derek's agreed to do it!

Not only that -- he's going to videotape the whole process! These videos will be released over a 4-day period (April 21-24th) -- so you can use the strategies Derek's demonstrating to create your OWN money-making website in just a matter of days!

You can register for these free "hands-on" instructional videos NOW at Build A Biz Challenge.

According to Derek the videos will cover the following EXTREMELY POWERFUL principles

• DAY #1: Find your niche and a product to sell
• DAY #2: Write sales copy that gets people to BUY
• DAY #3: Build a website that WORKS!
• DAY #4: Start driving traffic with PPC and SEOAs

Derek uses these strategies to create his "built from scratch" website, he'll explain how YOU can make them work for your OWN website. So if you want to learn the steps you need to take to build your own money-making website in as little as ONE WEEK (or less!) Reserve your FREE "front-row seat" NOW at Build A Biz Challenge.

Mother's Day Special Offer From BizyMoms.com!

Mother's Day is less than a month away and BizyMoms is celebrating by offering $30 off the price of any Career Kit (except Kindersigns) ordered between now and Mother's Day. Just use the discount code "mom" when placing your order.

If you know a mom who would love to start her own home business but needs a little boost, what a great Mother's Day gift this would make!

Choose from Candy Wrapping, Cleaning Service, Crafting, Errand Service, Event Planner, Jewelry Store, Santa Letters, Tutoring, Virtual Assistant, or Welcome Service.

Each Career Kit comes with many extras including your own website, and comes with a money-back guarantee. Click on the link or the banner for more information.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Starting a Virtual Assistant Business

Starting a home business is becoming more and more popular for a lot of reasons. One business that is really catching on with moms who have left the workplace to raise a family is that of becoming a Virtual Assistant.

What the heck is a Virtual Assistant?

A Virtual Assistant does basic office work from home. This can include administrative duties, website design and maintenance, graphic design, data entry, phone, transcription, just about any type of work that a "boss" would need done from the office.'

The beauty of being a Virtual Assistant from home is the freedom to choose who you work for, what you do, and when.

So how do you find clients who need a Virtual Assistant? Once you get started, word of mouth through personal referrals is great. Also ads online (free or PPC), ads in the newspaper, Pennysaver, Craigslist, and posting in forums or free lance sites could bring results.

How do you choose clients? Most clients are going to want a particular set of skills, so you need to polish yours. Then, because you are no longer constrained to your former employer's line of work, what interests you?

If you are you interested in show business or archeology or some branch of medicine or art or whatever, look for people in those fields who need skills that you have! How exciting would it be to combine skills you worked hard to get, with a subject that fascinates you? Would that be cool or what!

If you would like more information, or would be interested in a kit to launch your new career, I highly recommend the BizyMoms ExpertVA Home Business Kit.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review : My Power Mall

Is it really true that you HAVE to spend money every month with My Power Mall? The same My Power Mall that shouted from the rooftops that it would always be FREE???

It wasn't true when MPM first started up, but it is true now.

They tell you to just do your regular online shopping from stores in your own Mall to make money. In reality you need a substantial downline, and I think I read that your best income potential comes from shopping not from your own Mall but from your 3rd level down.

The money comes from rebates the stores provide. It is money they would have otherwise spent on advertising but as Mall owners and MPM in general are "spreading the word" so to speak, the stores are spending less on advertising, and so rebate the difference to MPM and then to you.

The business model was explained as if everyone spent something like $300 per month shopping on the internet.



It was even suggested that you buy toothpaste, that "other tp" and stuff like that instead of from your local discount store. Yeah, right.

Anyway, they send out tons and TONS of e-mails with shopping specials and suggest that you do the same to build your Mall downline. Between that and the sappy "happy all the time" Pollyanna life is wonderful and so is your Mall outlook (happy is good - positive is good - but enough is ENOUGH!) my own Mall just languishes.

I think the idea is a good one, but it is based on people spending more money than is happening. The people who joined for FREE (back when it WAS free) joined BECAUSE it was free. They don't have $300 per month to spend on the internet. They don't have ANYTHING to spend on the internet.

How is MPM doing as a business? I have no idea. I don't read the emails and haven't visited the site in months. My guess is it is like all other businesses. It works for some and not for others.

Will it work for you? If you have disposable income and would like more of it, and have friends or relatives in your boat who can join under you, then yes, it probably would work very well. If you are struggling to keep afloat, then MPM may not be the life raft for you.

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Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: MyMommyBiz

Do a search for moms work from home on Google and you get 4,720,000 responses!

On the front page (at least when I looked) you will see MyMommyBiz. There you will find enough free information to keep you reading for a long time, and a very long list of original and unique e-books, each one on a different home business for you to start!

Check them out here!

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: Becoming The Avon Lady

For a lot of us, the sound of a doorbell ringing triggers those words in the back of our minds, "Avon Calling . . . "

Stay at home moms of earlier generations, formerly known as "housewives" would open the door to a friendly neighbor with samples of all sorts of cosmetics in a wonderful array of colors and scents. Together the two women would go through the catalog checking to see if favorite items were on sale. The Avon Lady usually left at least one sample product.

You can still do that, you know. There are still product catalogs, and sales, and a lot more stuff in the catalogs than nail polish, lipstick, and Skin-So-Soft. The biggest difference is there are fewer stay at home moms as potential customers.

So what do you do? If you work outside the home, there are always your co-workers. If you have kids, try handing out catalogs at parent meetings, in the parking lot when you lick kids up, on the sideline at the soccer game, etc. If you go to church you could see if the ladies there are interested. If you sew or craft or quilt or scrapbook, all those people are potential customers.

This is one of those home based businesses where your success depends on many things including your personality, aptitude for sales, customer base, creativity, even location.

If you like Avon products, check out the Avon website for more information.

If on the other hand you really don't want to start a business, you just want a job you can do from home, may I suggest The Home Job Group.

Home-Biz-Help BizOpp Review: That Great Offer In Your E-Mail Inbox

On several Work At Home forums you can find posts by members who received this or that "too good to be true" offer in their e-mail inbox and are asking whether or not it is legitimate.

The answer is an unqualified NO!

NO legitimate work from home opportunity or home-based bizopp needs to advertise by sending out spam.

One poor naive soul posted that the offer being questioned did not arrive in her spam folder. It was in her Yahoo inbox. Unfortunately that only means the spammers are better at sending stuff out that will get through the filters than the e-mail providers are at creating filters to stop the spam.

If you did not subscribe to that person's mailing list, it is spam.

If you get such an offer and are lazy or pressed for time, just delete it. If you want to you can open up the header, copy it, and paste it above the message body when you forward the spam to spam@uce.gov.