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A chai wallah does one thing: he makes tea.
He makes tea day in and day out. Over and over.
I remember when I was in India how the chai wallahs would enter the trains at every stop and each had their own way of calling “chai”. They would squeeze up and down the aisles with their pots and glasses, at all hours of the day or night (you never got a quiet time). They would shout about their chai is such a way that the words ceased having meanings and became a song.
They were all experts at the same thing, making tea, but they each had their own way of doing it. (For a wonderful website devoted to the chai experience in India, visit chai pilgrimage.)
To become a wallah, you must specialize. Avoid distraction and do the same thing over and over until you become good at it. And after you have repeated it over and over, your own unique mark will develop.
Focus on one thing and ignore the rest until you become good at it.
“When you go all in, it focuses your attention and effort, doesn’t it?”
—Seth Godin in his blog post Chai Wallah
If you focus your attention, practice until you’re crazy, you come up with your expert call. You will become a internet business wallah.
Envelope stuffing, daycare, making candles… What is the best home business for Mom?
The best home business for mom is an internet business. With the internet, you can reach people world wide who want exactly what you have to offer.
Are you selling all natural make-up? Use the internet to find the women who want just that.
Do you know the best way to arrange flowers for wedding centerpieces? Use the internet to teach what you know and sell supplies to brides.
Gone are the days psyching yourself up to face rejection about the products you know are good.
While there are many businesses for a work at home mom, all of them could benefit from an internet presence. By using the internet either as your sole marketing tool, or as an addition to what you already have, the best home businesses use the internet.
Many wahm moms already have a network marketing or multi-level marketing business. Some of these companies have a marketing plan built into their structure–a party plan, or training in using the “3 foot rule”, expos or cold calling.
For some, this marketing really works. I have met women who build a thriving MLM using these techniques.
But for many moms, this type of marketing fails. The party plan means that Mom must be out of the house and away from her family during the nights and weekends. The 3 foot rule means that Mom must be comfortable pushing her products on anyone near her. Expos are exhausting and expensive. Cold calling is relentless.
The beauty of an internet home business for Mom is that Mom can attract the customers who want her. When you build a well-constructed website, full of good, valuable information, the women wanting the information will be attracted to your site. Most of your work is already done. And you do the site building when you want to–you can be home kissing you kids good night.
So even if you business is already thriving, an internet business is an excellent addition to your marketing plan. Build a blog or website showcasing your niche, and you will have even more customers coming to you. Use online social networks to compliment your offline networks. Use the power of the internet to build your lead list.
I have done many home businesses and know the pros and cons of all of them. By far, the best home business for mom, the most flexible and substantial is an internet business.
Social media sites are great places to get free traffic that already has a relationship with you. You interact with your customers, gain your reader’s trust and then you can direct them back to your site.
Social media sites are social. Blogs, comments, forums, wikis–all of these are ways for people to interact online. When you use these tools in your business, you interact with your viewer. Once they blog with you, they already feel like they know you.
Leads that come from social media sites are fantastic leads that want what you offer–in fact, they followed you from the social media site to your site. They have already made a commitment to you.
And leads like this mean that you can grow your business easily. Your leads will request your help.
The best training for social media, bar none, is found at Renegade Professional.
Renegade Professional is unique in that it gives not only the basic click by click details of using social media marketing, but also it gives a broad perspective of building a business plan. This training gives you the tools and the understanding of when and how to use them.
Ever dreamed of working from home? Managing your own schedule and having the flexibility to care for the kids while still earning money?
Starting an internet business can seem daunting.
Besides the mysterious techie stuff, how do you know what to do? What are the options?
The best way to start a profitable internet business is with a good guide.
I have just completed a Squidoo lens (a type of article) which gives a broad overview of the process of building an internet business. This would be a great place to start your investigation of the possibilities.
If you want more information, there are many sources I can recommend. But it is always easiest to give a recommendation, if I know specifically your needs and goals. Contact me through the comment form, and we can schedule a free 30 minute consultation about what your business goals are, and how best to go about meeting them.
In our consultation, we will discuss:
By the end of the call, I will help you formulate a plan to begin your internet business–a plan that is tailored to you. If you love writing, maybe you need to blog. If you love chatting on the phone, maybe your business model will involve a lot of customer consultations. Do you spend a lot of time online clicking around? Maybe you’re good for social media. Got money but no time? Try PPC.
There are many, many business models online and they are not one size fits all. But when you begin, you don’t know where to start.
In my free 30 minute consultation, I will help you make a plan which points you in the direction that fits you best.
The best way to start a profitable internet business is to not do it alone.
Your Two Step Plan to Start an Internet Business:
Are you prepared for the coming depression?
Robert Kiyosaki’s new book “Rich Dad’s Conspiracy of the Rich: The 8 New Rules of Money” will be released in September. In this interview, he asks us whether you are prepared for both types of depressions.
What? Two types of depressions?
If you listen or view the news, I’m sure you are as overwhelmed with the news about the economy as I am. Every day I hear more friends loosing their jobs or getting their hours reduced. Every day I hear of businesses going under and loved ones having their homes foreclosed.
The economic forecasts are confusing and daunting.
How can we protect ourselves from the ever shifting economy?
Robert Kiyosaki has always recommended being a business owner or investor as a way to control your financial future. When I started out with “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” many years ago, I completely agreed.
But when I started my business, I soon found out that it was much harder than I thought. I had great products. I had lots of enthusiasm. I even said all the affirmations.
But I had no sales.
My education in business has been long and slow but I have finally found the mentors who help me get on track.
Renegade Professional is the most thorough, the most complete system of step-by-step training I have found. There are dozens and dozens of click-by-click tutorials of how to use the internet to build your business (and more added every week).
Before I joined Renegade Professional, I had been fooling around, tying to get traffic to my websites and get that traffic to convert to sales for years. Renegade Professional is a one stop shop which showed me how to put it all together.
For example, through Renegade Professional, I learned how to twitter. Now twittering is not that hard, but how do you use it to drive traffic to your business? And once you get new people to your site, what do you do with them? What are the twitter rules of etiquette? How can you get like-minded twitterers in one “room” to tweet together?
All of this became clear when I joined Renegade Professional and had one aha moment after another.
Before I knew it, I had traffic to all my websites from twitter.
Renegade Professional pulled it all together for me. Years of study about internet business had taught me many techniques and skills, but forming them into a cohesive business plan had eluded me. With Renegade Professional, I not only learned new skills, but learned how to use them to make money.
Join Renegade Professional to get your internet business flying.
If you have wondered how to join the “Work from Home Moms” club, and thought that you could never do it, Lori Ramsey will inspire you.
Lori Ramsey is a successful work at home mom who raises 6 kids while building her internet business. She makes a full time income by developing and managing 4 websites, including www.stages-of-pregnancy.com.
On April 17, 2009 I had the opportunity to interview Lori and find out how she does it. This interview, takes you through Lori’s story–from learning to open an email to eventually creating an income that exceeds her husband’s. And she tells her story as a chronology of having babies.
Find out how Lori:
Lori’s story is an inspiration to every woman who has dreamed of working from home and caring for her children.
To learn more about Lori Ramsey, please read Work From Home Moms.
Many moms (or is it every mom?) dream of working at home while caring for her kids. But how do you get started? Internet business classes are the stepping stone to that dream, but how do you find them?
My favorite website building classes, Site Build It, or “SBI”, not only teach about building your business, they show.
As you work, you actually build your business. Less theory and more practicality.
You learn by doing and at the end of the class, you have a business, not just a certificate.
Now SBI has a new way to learn: e-learning classes.
You get all the convenience of learning at home, on your own, but with a structure that focuses you.
I started my SBI websites on my own. It has been a great journey, but it has had a long, slow learning curve. As a beginner, it was easy to get off track or muddled from all the possibilities.
When I started my websites, e-learning classes at SBI did not exist. If I had it to over again, I would have started with e-learning.
I like the fact that you have an real, experienced instructor to take your through the process. As much as the e-world offers flexibility and convenience to the WAHM, there is nothing better than working with a real person.
If you are thinking about starting an internet business, check out my Squidoo lends; Internet Business Classes for tips about deciding if its right for you.
And to learn more about this great e-learning program, read about SBI’s New E-learing Classes.
