Looking to start a home based business? Is this your first time or have you tried something in the past?
Did it work for you? If so, what happened and why are you looking again? How do you know if you have found a home based business that is going to be profitable for you? How do you know if it is actually going to work before you jump into it? How can you know that you will do all that it takes to create the success you desire through this new home business of yours?

Here is an interesting fact: Thousands of people start a home based business every single day! Thousands! That is a huge number. How many of them actually experience the success they desire? How many of them can actually make a living at what they do? To tell you the truth, I have no idea what the actual stats are, but I can tell you that most home business owners are not able to support themselves without some other source of income. Many people quit before they even get into profit and this isn’t just true for a home based business, this is true for all businesses.

The only way to fail, in a home based business, is to quit. Why, because you can do it on your own time. You can work the business around your schedule until you are profitable. But, there are traits to look for in finding a successful home based business opportunity to start. Allow me give you some guidance:

1. Who is paid first, you or the wholesale company? Make sure it is you!
2. Do you have to stock inventory or pre-purchase your product? Make sure this one is a big fat no! There are home businesses out there that will ship, stock, do customer service for you and all you do is collect the profit!
3. Is it MLM? Now this is up to you, but know this, those you assist in signing up into the business will never make as much money as you do. Normally, the commissions are small, you have to stock and warehouse products and you have monthly quotas to meet. However, they are residual.
4. Are you choosing your home business to have the product or to make some money? Please, please, please say to make money! You go into business to make money. The product is the way to make money and most products are outstanding. Keep your focus!
5. Large commissions! Do you want to sell your product to half the world before you are profitable or would you like to do less work, sell a few, and make more money. Enough said!
6. SYSTEM! Is there a turnkey system in place that you can follow? This is a must. More people fail when there is no system to follow!
7. Look for the success the business opportunity has had. This is a big one. If you are looking for fault, you are sure to find it, even in paradise! Every, I repeat, every successful business has someone talking negative about it or trying to get a freebie. I mean Walmart is sued every half hour! DO NOT base your decision to get started in or not to get started in a business because of what people say in negativity forums. There are two classes of people who fail, those who fail and blame others and those who fail and take personal responsibility for their own actions. The ones who blame others are the comments you read on forums! The ones who take personal responsibility will one day succeed and the ones who are successful, are the ones still working their home business. Talk to two or more of them and ignore the failures.
8. Go on your “gut feeling.” The best way to make a decision is by following your heart! The head will just get in the way. Starting a business is about chance, confidence in yourself, and risk. You can’t rely on logic for that. It is about you! Can you succeed? Do your research and jump in with both feet!

Home based businesses are creating millionaires and there is no difference between you and those who have  already done it. Well, I guess there is one, time!

Well here it is. I have decided to give you all an inside look at how I make money. Well, at least the top 3 things that produce the most income and one or two ways that will become more profitable for me in the future.

There are a ton of ways to make money working from home and regardless of when you start, who you are or what your results have been in the past, you can do it as well. It just takes action, one step in front of the other and a strong ambition or vision of what you want.

So here we go:

1. My Home Based Business – The biggest money maker for me throughout the last 4 years has been the home based business opportunity I promote on this website. It has been the reason I created this site. Initially I make money when someone purchases a product with the potential to generate anywhere from $1,000 to $14,000 per customer. Residual and passive income are also mingled into the compensation that pays me add-on sales as I assist others in creating the same kind of success that I have. So it is a win-win situation. I make money only when others create success! It is a highly lucrative business and continues to be my main focus.
2. Adsense -  For anyone who has done research into making money with Adsense then you know the potential of this one. You always see checks being cut by Google to Probloggers and marketers all around the world for multiple 5 figures and 6 figure checks for one months worth of clicks. If you think about it, Google is a multi-billion dollar cookie. There is plenty of money to be made with Adsense. I, however, have not hit the multiple 5-figure checks as of yet but my revenue is ever increasing with Adsense. As my blog grows, so will my traffic and every source of income will also increase.
3. Text Link Ads – This is a service that allows other marketers to place an in-text link on your site for a certain price. How much money you make is dependent on the traffic to your site, your page rank and a few other factors. Not all sites are accepted but you can always apply. Some say that text link ads hurt your search engine rankings with Google while others say that Google can’t tell the difference. So this one is up to you.

So these are the top 3 ways that I generate income with the first being bar far the most lucrative of them all! I also earn commission from other affiliate programs such as Amazon and may list those is a future post as their income increases.

The cool thing about making money, is that there are a ton of ways to do it. The one factor that will determine your success, is what you give you attention and focus to. Right now, my focus is with my Home Based Business and teaching others how to create wealth the same way I have. If I spread my focus too thin between many different ways of generating income, they will all suffer and it won’t be a profitable.

So if you plan on having multiple streams of income, I recommend that you find things that work with each other. For instance, I created this site for my Home Based Business. I started this blog to teach others about my industry, educate them on Entrepreneuralism and assist them is creating success in their lives, so I put Adsense and text link ads in the mix. They all go together and they don’t take my focus away from number one! Make sense?

In what ways do you generate an income? If it is online, be sure fill in the space asking for your website.

When speaking of a Home Based Business, the words “Home Based” are a little misleading. Sure, just having the privilege of working from home over having to go to a job in some other location is enough for most people. I mean, when you work from home you are only so many steps from your refrigerator, so many steps from your bathroom and at home with your family! You will never miss out on anything right?

Well what happens when you have a family event in the middle of the week? What if your family wants to go visit the grandparents for the weekend or maybe even the entire week? What then? You are “home based” right?

I guess it really depends on what kind of Home Based Business you are involved in. Let’s do some reviews of  home based businesses that are more “mobile” than others.

Ebay – Now I am not an Ebay power seller nor will I ever be. Ebay can definitely be a home based business but requires handling and shipping of products, unless of course you do some kind of wholesale distribution. You can set it up to have the manufacturers ship the products for you. All you do is take the orders and collect the profits. But for the most part, an ebay business is “home based.”

Day Care – I only have a few words for this one…..50 kids that are not your own! Definitely “home based!”

Avon, Arbonne, etc – I don’t know much about these businesses and don’t pretend to know, but my mother used to be involved in both of these and she spent most of her time having “make-up” parties at her home, hitting up family and friends, making local visits and hand delivering the product to her customers. So from my experience, “home based.”

MLM/Network Marketing – When you think of a Home Based Business, this is usually the category to search in. These are primarily marketing businesses connected to a wholesale company. Now most MLM companies that I have known require you to pre-purchase your product. Thus, you have a garage full of stuff. On the other hand, there are some MLM opportunities where the wholesale company ships the product direct to your customer. Most of your marketing is done on the internet or over the phone and can be done Internationally. So depending on the opportunity, “mobile!”

Direct Sales – Most direct sales home based businesses have a wholesale company that ships the product for you. You are never required to pre-purchase or warehouse any product. My pick is definitely with Direct Sales mainly because I get paid first. The customer pays me directly, I then pay the wholesale amount to the wholesale company, then they deal with the shipping and customer service. In direct sales, most of your marketing is done online, in newspapers, magazines, etc and can all be done with a phone and a laptop! Direct Sales in brilliant, much more lucrative and definitely “mobile!”

There you have it. Finding a Home Based Business that is mobile is fairly simple and will allow you to experience true freedom to come and go as you please. Take your business with you on vacation, a work trip, while attending a conference, attending family events or where ever it is you decide to go. It’s a beautiful thing when you can take your cash machine with you!

Just to tell you our story real quick, if you haven’t been on the “About Us” section of this site, this will be helpful. My wife and I have been part of Liberty League International for nearly three years now. We got started on March 31st of 2005. This was the first home based business that we have ever considered being part of. There was something about the people that were in it that inspired us to get started. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the income potential is just insane, and that is why we started looking in the first place, but the community is something else.

Before getting started here with Liberty League we were making about 40k a year with what we were doing. I wasn’t a big CEO of some corporation or anything. I was just a normal guy looking to create some freedom in my life, both with time and money. My wife was actually the one who found this opportunity for us. We had just built and brand new home and had not been on vacation in nearly 2 or 3 years. Well, really, we couldn’t afford it. Disney Land is only an eight hour drive from where we lived and we still couldn’t afford to go.

Since we have been with Liberty League, in the last 3 years, we have been to Puerto Rico, Cancun three times, Sydney Australia, Miami Florida, Hawaii, and all over the United States. We have a trip planned for Rome, Italy at the end of March. We will spend a week or two there. We also have a trip planned to Honolulu Hawaii in July as well and will be taking the whole family there with us. I couldn’t have possibly imagined traveling this much with the way my life used to be. I left the country three times last year. We went to Cancun twice and to Sydney Australia. I am on cloud nine man.

Our best week in the business is $42,000. We own a few homes home here in the beautiful White Mountains of Arizona and are grateful everyday for what we stumbled upon. Liberty League International has been our savior for financial freedom. I am now there for my kids. When my first daughter was born I wasn’t even able to take my wife home from the hospital because I had to get back to my JOB. That will never happen again and we are expecting our third daughter in about a week. I can work this business anywhere and will be making money even while I am in the hospital with my wife. I love this business.

You know, I fear to imagine what my life would be like if we had not made the decision to get started here with this great company. So, let’s not even think about it. Don’t hesitate, get started here. You will be grateful you did!

We live in a time in which there has never been a greater opportunity to create wealth! I hear people speak about how the economy is slow right now and that things just aren’t going good for them. That is because they believe that. They believe the economy is bad and thus, their results will never be as good as they would have been. There are so many people, in this business opportunity and many many other opportunities that are making a ton of money.

How to create cash on demand

Every morning I have the privilege of listening to a leader in the Direct Sales industry in a 15 minute “wake-up” call. Today, he brought the term up called “Cash on Demand.” Now when I think of cash on demand I think of going to the ATM and getting cash from my bank account. But what if you didn’t have to take that out of your bank account? You could just decide to make $1,000, $5,000, or even $14,000 just by decided to work your business and deposit what you don’t use into your account! That is the kind of cash on demand that I am speaking of. Money that just comes as a result of your decision to play big in your own business.

This income opportunity works just like that. When you make a sale today, you make the money today. Whether it’s the front row tickets at the Suns games you desire, or a week to Miami or Cancun, a diamond ring for your wife on Valentines day, or just a little extra cash, then just work your business another hour today. I mean, a 4 hour work day working from home has got to be pretty rough.

OR, you could always go get another JOB! I sure trust that your level of thinking is beyond trading time for money. The best thing you could do for you and your family, is to stop going to work! Start a profitable business opportunity that can create the kind of cash on demand you know you deserve. Don’t wait around for the crumbs to fall from the table when you can have the whole cake!

We had some family pictures taken recently by a girl we knew from college. She did a great job as far as we can tell from the few photos we have seen thus far. You will probably be seing more of the new pics on this site sooner or later. But anyway, her husband is a Chiropractor. Great guy. I actually used to work with him in the glass industry a while ago. He is a very entrepreneur minded person. We had a conversation during and after the photos were taken about what he and I have been up to since we had last seen each other. Of course you know what I do, well he had gone off to school and became a Chiropractor and has a few offices that he works out of throughout the week. He seems to be doing well for himself and is looking to expand and open more offices and maybe hire a few Chiropractors to work them.

Good for him. He knows what he wants and he is moving forward with purpose. But you know what, as I was listening to him speak about locations and hiring chiropractors, I started thinking of how much work that is going to be! But really, that is the only way to make good money in a service business, leverage and employees. You can only see so many patients a day unless you leverage your business with more employees. I started to think of my business and what I do for a living and you know what…I have it so dang nice. My life is as simple as it gets and the money is good! I just wanted to flat out tell him that he does not have to work that hard for money. I gave him some information to go over and he will or won’t, and that is fine. At least he will know what is out there.

I have no doubt he will be successful in what he does, because he is an entrepreneur. I am so grateful for this business. I don’t have to worry about locations, traveling to and from those locations, employees, etc….For such a low maintenance business the income is through the roof. So if you’re a Chiropractor and looking into this business, most likely, you have what it takes. Don’t wait to get started!