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Are There Really Any Free Work At Home Businesses?

Filed Under (Home Business) by Derek on 25-02-2008

Are you looking for the best work at home businesses? Do you want to make money working at home in your own business, but you don’t where to start? First of all we need to address a common problem people have when they come to look for a work at home business. They want to make money online for free!

Think about this for a minute. Is it reasonable to think you can start your own home business and work at home without investing anything into it? There is an old saying that goes something like this..”there ain’t no thing as a free lunch” and that is true when it comes to starting your own business and making money working at home.

You are going to have to invest something eventually. Affiliate programs make it possible to make money selling other peoples products, but even with those you are going to have to spend some money on advertising, building your own website, and on internet marketing tools to help you build your business. You are going to have to spend a little money on learning how to run your own work at home business as well.

Now the good news for you is that the internet has leveled the playing field for everyone. Regardless of where you live, your appearance, your income level, your knowledge, etc. you can start your own home business and make money working at it in the comfort of your own home.

In it’s simplest form you are going to need 3 things.

1. Products 2. A website 3. An advertising and marketing strategy

I know there is a lot that goes into these 3 things, but all work at home businesses have these 3 things in common.

When I first got started I had a simple goal in mind. I wanted to create multiple streams of income using the internet to do it. I had no idea where to start or how I wanted to do it. What I found helpful was to get a legal pad and start taking notes as I surfed around. Let’s face it the internet is a big world. Everyone is an expert. How do you no what to believe?

Ultimately I stumbled into what is now know as the Plugin Profit Site. It satisfied all of my requirements for starting my own work at home business with multiple streams of income. And there was one huge benefit that I have used over and over since joining them in 3 easy steps. The Internet Marketing Warriors is a group of thousands of online marketers that are doing the same thing as us. The common goal here is to answer questions about making money online. This forum has proved to be invaluable to me because you can trust the advice you get here.

In a nutshell you get several work at home businesses in one with your own Plugin Profit Site. Your own money making website, your own plugin profit sales page, your own autoresponder set up with a pre-written 400 day internet marketing newsletter, training, the best ways and places to advertise and more.

I could go on and on about what this program has meant to me. I now run several work at home businesses and it all started for me by joining getting my complete money making system in 3 easy steps.

One last thing. Although it is not free it is an affordable way to start your own business online and stay at home and run it. You are going to have to pay for hosting and one of the affiliate programs has a monthly fee associated with it, but it is not expensive and with everything all set up for and ready to go you will not get your own work at home business going anywhere else for less than this.

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Avoiding Trademark Infringement When Choosing a Domain Name

Filed Under (Computer Tips) by Derek on 25-02-2008

Many webmasters erroneously believe that just because their domain name registrar says a particular domain name is ‘available’ that it truly is.  This is not necessarily so.  Even if a domain name is physically available, it may not legally be open for use. Why? It’s because there might already be a company that has the rights to the keywords used within the domain name.

If this happens yet the webmaster claims the domain name anyway, they are at risk of losing it through a domain name arbitration proceeding.  They could even be charged with trademark/copyright infringement if things get really ugly.  For this reason it’s best to make sure the keywords used in a domain name aren’t protected for someone else.  This article will explain how webmasters can make such a determination.

First, webmasters need to check and see if their chosen domain name resembles any existing trademark that is on the books.  They will want to do this before actually investing any money in the domain name.  To search existing trademarks, webmasters can visit the website of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which is USPTO.gov.  From here they can search a database that contains current trademarks as well as those that are pending.
 
If a domain name is similar to a registered or pending trademark, webmasters need to evaluate whether the domain name is still worth taking.  Usually, if a site is not selling the same types of merchandise or services that the other business is selling and the trademark is not popular, a webmaster probably won’t get into legal trouble if they decide to go on and register the domain name.  To be completely sure, webmasters can run the domain name by a trademark attorney.  It shouldn’t cost too much for an hour consultation.

Of course, if a webmaster would prefer zero percent risk, they can simply try to think of another domain name.  When they go about doing this, they need to be more generic and less creative in what they come up with.  Using search engine keywords for a domain name is one such strategy.  Webmasters can also look into using dictionary terms.  If all else fails they can take a generic term and combine it with a term that is less likely to be taken, such as their first and last name.

Either way, once a suitable domain name has been chosen, webmasters should consider getting it trademarked themselves, especially if they are using it to help brand their business.  With an official trademark, a webmaster has more legal power should another company try to take them to court.  And since there’s no shortage of domain name bullies, (companies that try to steal profitable domain names from smaller enterprises), a webmaster should use all legal avenues available to protect the rights of their business.

In conclusion, by checking whether or not a domain name has keywords that are part of a trademark, webmasters lessen the risk that they will have legal problems in the future.  If there are problems, and a domain name arbitration proceeding does not rule in a webmaster’s favor, they can turn to The Domain Name Rights Coalition.

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Google more powerful than you think

Filed Under (Computer Tips) by Derek on 01-02-2008

As I’ve already told you, I love spending time surfing the
net - and I wanted to tell you about this superb site I came
across!

Have you been to www.google.com?

You’re probably thinking “Of course - it’s Google!” You
might think of Google as a way to find things on the
internet, but it’s actually a very good way to find answers
to your computer problems.

If you’re getting an error message with any program, just do
a Google search for the name of the program and the error
message you’re getting. Put double-quotes around the error
message ( eg. “File Not Found Error” ) to get the best
results.

If someone else has had the same problem, you’ll probably
find the solution. It’s pretty unlikely that your problem
would never have been seen before.

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