I want to talk a bit about how YOU are the main resource in your business! And how to master yourself to fulfill each of these tasks to the best of your ability and beyond!

Strategies that concern your actions are extremely important, Abraham Lincoln said “Give me six hours to cut down a tree, and I will spend the first four hours sharpening the axe”.

Most of us, if asked to cut down a tree, would pick up the axe and start whaling at the tree. And if we don’t make a major dent in the tree pretty soon, we would quit and probably blame the axe or the tree!

The point of this is to show you that it is better to prepare yourself and be totally sure of what you want to achieve, make sure you have the right skills and tools before you do the task!

To help you achieve this you need to look closely at others who are successful in the field you wish to be successful in! It is imperative thet you learn this basic concept very early on in your quest to be a success!

You will find that not all of the stratagies and concepts you see will actually work for you, the trick is finding the ones that do work and building on them.

Then you do the task and complete it! Then you review it and make changes if necessary and prepare your next task, from the knowledge you have gained, and move on!

Always remember RESULTS COME LAST!
Here is the flaw in most failing business! Results matter, what’s the bottom line etc. How can you judge a course of action you’re taking by its results, when results come last? It is a fact that results come at the end of everything.

The million dollar question!
In my experience people like you and me find it very hard to get on or succeed greatly at just about anything, that was until the internet came along and gave us an exceptional opportunity.

We tend to get jobs and stick with them mostly for life unless someone makes us redundant or sacks us! Some of however realise, at some point in our lives, find an opportunity to become successful in our own right.

The internet has given more of us that opportunity, it has more or less levelled the playing field, if you know what you are doing that is!

I have managed to learn how to utilize the internet to my advantage and therfore for little or no cost I can get traffic flowing through my web sites, but traffic is not everything, you still need to have a product that people want or need although if you learn to be good enough you can actually create a need for certain things.

For more on my business visit www.six-figures-online.com

So for the average person who believes there can be a better life out there, let me tell you there is and I have found mine, all you need to do is to take that leap of faith and learn to be teachable, you do not even need to be a computer whizz, I am as average as the next person but I have a need built in to me that makes me want to build a better life for my family.

Have you got a need to build a better life for you and your family whilst still being able to spend time with that family?

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Mom’s have the most important & the hardest job in the world. Most mom’s have to work outside the home, & are unable to spend much time with their children that they would like. I am very lucky as I am a stay at home mom, I have two beautiful girls. However it hasn’t always been like this, I tried to be a Super Mom, by working a corporate J.O.B. I then found out that there was an easier way to be a Stay at Home Mom & enjoy my girls & still keep working. How? I hear you ask. Well by working a Home Based Business. Start off very part time, around current commitments & you can soon see how you can generate an income that can exceed what you are making outside the home!!!!

So what are you waiting for ?

Once you begin to look around for that first step in creating a new life for yourself, by becoming a Stay at Home Mom, you will find so many scams and illegal schemes that bamboozle with fantastic earnings with little effort, the first thing you really need to learn in “you get out what you put in!” for success you need to understand the commitment you need to make to yourself in order for you to build your business correctly, now this commitment does not have to be hard work or long hours but it does have to be focused.

If you focus the time you have properly and in the right direction you will find success will follow, I have learnt, over the years, that to do this effectively I needed to learn from experts, from people who already had or are building their success actively.

I searched for and found people with backgrounds similar to mine who had become or are becoming successful, I then followed what they were doing and learnt from them. If you follow this pattern to get you going you will save a lot of time by not running around burning yourself out trying to do things that don’t work and will never work, you will find that there are lots of successful people have failed lots of times before they hit on their success and by learning from them you will bypass those failures and take a short cut to your success.

I have been diligent in my approach to becoming successful and one thing I have learnt is not to try to take in or give too much information at once because confusion is not the place we want to be at!

So for now that will do, I intend to build a list of articles to fully explain what my business and I are about and how I got to where I am currently, also what I am doing to become more successful over the coming weeks, months and years, so if you are looking a way to change your life and don’t really know where to start then my advise would be to start here and learn how to teach yourself to become successful in your own right!

To find out more about a really easy to start internet business go to www.six-figures-online.com

Thank you for reading and come back here for the next installment.

I’ve talked about putting all your eggs in one basket in my past couple of post, some of you might think this is a bit extreme but from past experience, as I have also talked about, I know how true it actually is.

The book “The only way is up” is in reality based on this concept and what happens if that basket breaks.

So while we are on the subject lets ask that question, “What would you do if it happened to you?” I want you to actually think about this for a bit, maybe even write some of it down, look deep inside yourself and ask if you could handle it!

It is actually quite hard to imagine not being able to afford basic things like bread and milk, but that is what happens, you have to decide whether you are going to eat or buy shoes for your children to go to school in!

The friends you think you have now will probably disappear pretty quickly if you are broke, you will have a very small if not any social life because you cannot afford to go out! Counting every penny, every time you buy something or even think about buying!

I can’t stress how different life is with little or no income, or how difficult.

BUT and it’s a big but; hopefully it hasn’t happened to you so you have the opportunity to do something about it before it does happen!

Invest in you’re your future by investing in yourself now, dream, do and make it happen, you have the power to control your life. So take control and show the world you are worthy of the life you desire for you and your family.

More coming on my next post in a couple of days , if you want to see more on my business click on the link to the right and fill in your e-mail details for special inside information.

From my last post hopefully you have questions! That’s good! I did too but to a certain extent I already new the answers because my husband and I have been through a similar situation.

We both worked for the same company, albeit in different sections, in 2007 I was asked to take a severance package because I was on an older contract and therefore too expensive to employ, I did not want to leave but the new contract was shift work on a rota that was flexible over 7 days a week and 24hrs to the companies demands!

This did not suit my home life as I had a small baby and had just come off maternity leave, so I tried to stay on my old contract but the managers made it totally clear that I was to be managed out by performance! So I had no choice but to leave, not the end of the world because my husband still had his job and was fairly well paid.

In 2008 my husband had exactly the same happen to him, the company was cost cutting yet again and old contracts are very expensive!

So there we were no jobs and no income! Yes we had some money from our severance payouts but it was not that much when you have a little one and all the other expenses to think of.

We tried a few home businesses and part time work etc, full time jobs were few and far between at the time so we had to make ends meet as it were. We became self sufficient with a number of income streams including Wealth Masters via Carbon Copy Pro, we are still fighting are way back even now but with fantastic help from Wealth Masters and our team we are well on the way to becoming financially free.

Luckily my husband has found a full time job, and it’s one he can spend time at home helping me with the children and our other income streams.

If there is one thing we have learned from our experience it’s not to put all your eggs in one basket and too make sure if you lose an income you have the back up and ability to replace it or cover it whilst looking for more ways to create the income you want.

There is so much more on this subject that I want to share with you so I will be posting again in a couple of days to continue with this thread!

For a change I’ve been reading a fiction book rather than a self improvement or inspirational book because sometimes you need to relax your mind and find another world to live in for a while to see what you would change in your own world and on the odd occasion it’s good to read fiction because it can emphasise or enhance certain things within a story to make them more dramatic and hard hitting!

Now the book I’ve been reading over the last few days is by Carole Matthews and is called “The only way is up”, I’ve decided to write on this because of its content and story line.

The story is, What do you do when there’s nothing left to lose?

Lily and Laurence Lamont-Jones had it all: lavish holidays in exotic locations, a top private school for their two children and a beautiful home in the Buckinghamshire countryside.

Then Laurence loses his job, and their house and all their belongings are repossessed. With nowhere else to go, the family move into a flea-ridden council house on a notoriously rough estate and start to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. But will Lily’s dream of returning to a world of luxury ever come true – or will she learn that money doesn’t always buy you happiness.

Now it does sound a bit dramatic and it will probably never happen, but that’s where the stinger comes in, it can and does happen, it can happen to you, your friends, your colleagues or anybody for that matter.

Sit back for a moment and think about what you would do if it happened to you?

What do you think your friends would do or think?

What do you think your family would do or think?

And most importantly what would you do and think?

I’m going to leave you with those thought’s and feelings for a day or two and then I will post again with some revelations and thoughts of my own on this subject!

That is probably the most asked question I get and its not really all that surprising considering the times we are living through at the moment.

So here is my take on why you SHOULD start YOUR business now and not leave it till the recession is over!

The first thing I need you to understand is that it is YOUR business, so you make the rules you run by, unfortunately most people are quite relaxed when giving themselves rules however you need to set firm rules and stick by them!!

You should start your business now because tomorrow never comes and you have to strike while the iron is hot as it were, meaning that you have shown the desire to look at starting a business all you have to do is to take action, that action needs to be urgent and fast, start as you mean to go on!!

The recession does not really matter in the long run; businesses that start in a recession generally are more strict about their day to day running, so it is probably better to start in a recession because you will be more focused on getting value for money and be more efficient in your own work!

Also you will find a lot more people looking for your efficient and focused business knowing that their own future may lie with you!

As you know I have joined Wealth Masters, their wealth information is without doubt fundamental to a lot of successful investments throughout this recession, I do believe they even saw and predicted most of what was coming, therefore leading their people away from dodgy or high risk investments and showing the way to keeping profits rolling in for lots of people!

I just wish more companies and governments were like this.

So this has only been a short post but I hope you can see why that it doesn’t really matter when you start your business but it does matter that you do start as soon as possible for your own successful business future!

First of all I need to apologise for not posting for a while, but a few challenges threw themselves my way and I got a bit bogged down.

Just goes to show I am human after all!

Anyhow I am back so look forward to a more frequent feed from myself over the coming months.

There have been a few changes since I last posted and I only think it fair that everyone who reads this blog is fully aware of what has happened and why I have taken the decisions that I have taken!

First, Carbon Copy Pro and Wealth Masters have parted company, amicably I might add, due to the different directions the two companies decided on taking.

Now I believe that Wealth Masters is directed more toward the individual entrepreneur who wants to either build a team or to build a solo business creating wealth either way!

To me Carbon Copy Pro is more set to be a corporate set up and for people who only really want to build a team within a team, if that makes any sense!

I have decided to go with Wealth Masters as I think that it will suit my personality and business direction perfectly.

With some fantastic information and opportunities Wealth Masters is already making lots of people very wealthy and not just in money terms, through previous blog posts you will have noticed that wealth comes in many forms, this is one of the main reasons I went with Wealth masters.

Also I am part of an awesome team called Team Mclaren, at the helm is Ann Mclaren and she has built a wealth of talent around her who are there to help you and me alike build our own teams.

This is only a short post for now but please keep coming back, book mark this site, and I will be posting again very soon.

Thank you for reading, please post any questions on the site or drop me an e-mail to helensonlinebiz@gmail.com and I will be only too happy to reply.

Helen.

What is RSS?

You probably have seen this three-letter acronym in the course of your internet surfing. RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary; syndicating means republishing an article that comes from another source such as a website.

An RSS is a means of publicizing updates about websites. It may or may not include a summary and photos of the latest posting. But those that provide summaries (thus Rich Site Summary) allow users to skim through the article so that they could decide later on if they want to access the website source. The RSS feed usually contains the title of the update originating from the website. It is also usually the link to the website source.

What are the benefits of RSS?

RSS gives benefits to both readers (users) and web publishers.

1. It gives you the latest updates.

Whether it is about the weather, new music, software upgrade, local news, or a new posting from a rarely-updates site learn about the latest as soon as it comes out.

2. It saves on surfing time.

Since an RSS feed provides a summary of the related article, it saves the user’s time by helping s/he decide on which items to prioritize when reading or browsing the net.

3. It gives the power of subscription to the user.

Users are given a free-hand on which websites to subscribe in their RSS aggregators which they can change at any time they decide differently.

4. It lessens the clutter in your inbox.

Although your email address will be required to enjoy the services of online RSS aggregators, RSS does not use your email address to send the updates.

5. It is spam free.

Unlike email subscriptions, RSS does not make use of your email address to send updates thus your privacy is kept safe from spam mails.

6. Unsubscribing is hassle-free.

Unlike email subscriptions where the user is asked questions on why s/he is unsubscribing and then the user would be asked to confirm unsubscribing, all you have to do is to delete the RSS feed from your aggregator.

7.       It can be used as an advertising or marketing tool.

Users who subscribe or syndicate product websites receive the latest news on products and services without the website sending spam mail. This is advantageous to both the web user and the website owner since advertising becomes targeted; those who are actually interested in their products are kept posted.

What are the drawbacks of RSS?

The disadvantages of RSS use are brought about by its being a new technology and some user-preference concerns.

1. Some users prefer receiving email updates over an RSS feed.

2. Graphics and photos do not appear in all RSS feeds.

For conciseness and ease of publication, RSS feeds do not display the photos from the original site in announcing the update except for some web-based aggregators

3. The identity of the source website can be confusing.

Since RSS feeds do not display the actual URL or name of the website, it can sometimes get confusing on what feed a user is actually reading.

4. Publishers cannot determine how many users are subscribed to their feed and the frequency of their visits. Moreover, they would not know the reasons why users unsubscribe which could be important in improving their advertising.

5. RSS feeds create higher traffic and demands on the server.

Most readers still prefer the whole update over a brief summary of the entry, thus they still access the site.

6. Since it is a new technology, many sites still do not support RSS.

How do I start using RSS?

There are two things needed: an RSS feed and an RSS aggregator or reader. The RSS feed comes from an RSS-supported website. There are also websites that provide a list of RSS feeds of different websites. An RSS aggregator is used to read the RSS feed from the source website. It scans and collects data on latest RSS feeds from the worldwide web.

An aggregator comes in two forms: a downloadable program also known as desktop aggregator and an online or web-based aggregator. Downloadable aggregators may require payment before they can be acquired, while internet-based aggregators are usually free of charge. All you need to do is to register an account then you are ready to use their services. Both versions allow you to customize or choose which RSS feeds to enter. Paid aggregators are usually chosen by more experienced users and they usually allow more freedom in customizing feeds.

1. Choose an RSS aggregator to use. For beginners, web-based aggregators are recommended since they are usually user-friendly

2. Scan the homepage of your target website for the RSS or XML button. It contains the RSS code you need to enter in the aggregator. Copy this code. Syndic8 provides a directory of websites that support RSS.

3. Paste the code (which contains the URL of the website) in your aggregator. There is a space provided for pasting the code.

After you have done these three easy steps, you can start reading the RSS feeds coming from the website. New postings appear as they are published real time at the source website.

RSS and Internet Marketing

The original idea of RSS came from Netscape, where their intention is to provide a means for users to customize their personal homepage to contain links to websites that interest them, similar to bookmarking websites.

The application of RSS to internet marketing was an unforeseen development to RSS technology developers. Since users are given the freedom to add RSS feeds to their aggregators, those who are interested in particular products and services available in the internet can now be notified real time. Marketing becomes more specific to interested people and not a hit-and-miss operation.

Those who intend to use RSS for marketing their products and services should consider linking up with email account providers, (e.g. Yahoo, MSN, Google mail); networking websites (e.g. Friendster, Multiply, My Space, Hi5); websites of newspapers and television network websites (e.g. New York Times, CNN) for medium to big-scale companies. Small-time industries can also look into networking websites as well as personal blog websites (e.g. Blogspot) and websites of clubs and organizations that would probably make use of their products or services e.g. a fishing supplies store can look for the website of their local fishing club for possible RSS marketing.

Clearly, RSS is an innovation in information management in the worldwide web as well as online marketing. We can expect better RSS technology in the not-so-distant future as its popularity increases among users and website owners alike.

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