Running a business from home can be tricky. It holds all of the pitfalls of every other small business, and has its own set of limitations to boot. Getting the most out of your home based company will require some savvy and creative marketing ideas. Standard options such as commercials or newspaper and online advertisements rarely work due to financial limitations and lack of creativity. That said, there are a few great ways to ensure that your creative touch, when it comes to marketing your in home business, is successful.
Dec
20
A Guide to Personal Goal Setting
December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Women often approach me with the question of how I've been able to enjoy so much success in my professional life as a children's author and researcher (http://TinaTurbin.com) as well as in my personal life as a mother and wife. I really have been blessed with a rewarding career, the opportunity to help people in my humanitarian efforts, three beautiful, grown children, and a loving marriage. I attribute my enriched life to my personal goal setting, a fundamental activity which is the basis of everything I do.
Aug
29
5 Reasons Most People Fail at Goal Setting
August 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Now is a great time to review your goals for the year and determine how well you are doing at accomplishing those things you wanted to get done this year. If you are like many people, you probably have a few goals that you haven’t made much progress toward achieving. You may even have some that you haven’t even started. Maybe you started to set some goals but never even went back and finished them. Many people avoid setting goals because they tried it once and when they didn’t achieve them, they decided just doesn’t work.
Aug
8
Why It Is Always Right To Do the Right Thing
August 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There were times in my life when I had precious little left but my integrity. Ive walked out of an impending business deal I desperately needed to make ends meet because I was told I had to pay a bribe for the deal to go through. I had a major contract sputter and die when I refused to remove all spiritual reference from my motivational material. It was not easy to walk away at those deals not knowing where I was going to get the money to keep going. But for the sake of my character and my future, it was the right thing to do!
Jun
15
Marketing Tips for a Home Business
June 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Apr
28
Setting Personal Goals
April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
You can identify a successful person by the company they keep, they mix with others who can give rather than take from their lives, unsuccessful people allow their social circle to keep them at the level of the group. All successful people have a vision of how they want their world; this is the common thread that has been spun down through the ages. Through persistence and perseverance, you can emulate them by developing a vision of your future. Today you are what you are because of all the decisions and actions you have taken in the past, you are the sum result of all of your thoughts to date, you have attracted to your life everything you are so you can apply the same law of attraction in the future by controlling your thoughts, decisions and actions positively.
Apr
23
The Role Of A Life Coach
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Coaching is a modern and rapidly growing method for helping others to improve, develop, find personal success, achieve aims and manage life change and personal challenges. Life coaching is effective for all situations, whether in personal life, career, sales or corporate and business life. Coaching draws out rather than puts in. It develops rather than imposes.
So lets say you decide to try a session of life coaching just to see what it is all about. Here is a little of what you can expect.
The role of your life coach is to:
1. Support and encourage you. They are not there to impose their values on you. They are there to support and encourage you to reach your daily action steps and in time to see your long term goals fulfilled.
Apr
23
Positive Attitude - Plan Your Day
April 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Most people are fully aware that to spend a really effective day, on of the most important things to do at the outset is to make a simple plan to maximize your time. Here are 5 key tips to make sure that your planning is simple, effective and completely in line with your goals.
Tip #1 – Why. The point of planning is to manage your time effectively and give you the opportunity to be realistic about what you hope to achieve. It is a good idea to decide which tasks take priority and which ones will take the most time, require you to be in a certain place or demand certain equipment.
Apr
13
7 Common Habits Of Successful People
April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
When you take a look at some of the successful people in the world, the money they possess may blind you or the notoriety the public bestows upon them distracts your judgment. At second glance (with the exception of generational money and success), there are certain factors that have contributed to their success and popularity. With almost every successful person, there are common habits that add to their wealth or catapult them into the spotlight. The good news is – you don’t have to be a millionaire to follow the same path and develop successful habits of your own.
Apr
13
Role Of Games On Character Building
April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Nobody can deny the importance of games in physical culture and character building. Games have immense influence on human personality. The main aim of education is harmonious and threefold development of human personality-physical, mental and moral development. Games and sports have numerous physical, mental and moral advantages. But they must be placed in right spirit and at right time. This is particularly true about students. The approach to game or playing of games may be different for different persons.
Mar
21
Not Another Goal Setting Article!
March 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Another goal setting article, but with a twist. Actually, if I put on my coaching hat it becomes less of a twist and more of a personal development challenge. Are you game for that? OK, let’s begin.
Take a piece of paper and write the following information at the top. By way of example, I will use my own data as it was at the start of 2007:
Name: Mark McClure
Birthplace: Northern Ireland
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Occupation: Corporate employee (IT)
Success trigger: 1977
Goal: freedom business owner
Date: 1st June 2007
You should have no trouble completing the first four fields above. (Note that location refers to the current location you are living in.)
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