Tag: home business
Sep
02
The First Homeschool Home Business Course!
I apologize for the lack of posts in the last few weeks, but there was more to publishing an ebook than I figured on! How to publish an e-book will be our next series of blogs, hopefully to help you to get your ebook published a little easier and faster!
Anyway, it’s finally done! At least it’s available…..I intend to continually update the resources…to the Homeschool Entrepreneur 9 Week E-Course. It’s the result of three years of research and compiling resources online to teach your teen how to start a home business. It’s nine weeks of lesson plans, M-F, to lead you from step one all the way to having and running a successful home business. Boiling down all there is to know about running a business was challenging, but all the resources for the ambitious student to continue their learning is included.
Personally, I have found nothing like it, and believe me, I have looked!! Most business courses we have come across usually include a great deal of information about business that most home business owners will never use. Then, while wading through all that information you don’t need, resources and links to what you do need is usually scarce. Of course, there are all those ebooks on how to make mega bucks doing this… or doing that….but none really gives you a foundation for managing or choosing the right home business.
So that’s what we did. We wrote a course that in a very short time you can get a home business…of your choice…up and running while at the same time laying a foundation for good ethical business sense. If you would like more information about this course, go to homeschoolecourse.com. I also offer free ads in our newsletter and our main site for your new business with every purchase!
Jul
25
Anyone Tried Fat Brain’s Biz Course For Kids?
I came across Fat Brain Coffee’s website a few weeks ago and found something you will definitely be interested in if you have an 8-12 year old! It’s a course you can do with your child that teaches them sales and marketing techniques, accounting skills, day-to-day business operations, and public relations by starting a coffee business.
So I ordered the course and a box of coffee for Benjamin, since he is always wanting to do some kind of business. (Gee, I wonder where he gets THAT from?) Arriving within a week, Ben was ready to do the first lesson immediately. Now why doesn’t he get that excited about his writing assignments? Anyway, it had seven easy to follow lessons with everything we needed to start a sustainable coffee business. It comes neatly arranged in a black, 3 ring binder, and a CD containing the forms and graphics for a label or other advertising. The lessons require little or no preparation to teach them, and offer a great beginning business basics curriculum. We’ll keep you posted on how Ben does as we go along.
Of course, we had to try the coffee, too, and their unique selling proposition is FRESHNESS and QUALITY. All coffee is ground to order, and is targeted to arrive at your home within 1 week of roasting. It’s reasonably priced, and you are free to set your own retail price. It’s comparable to Starbuck’s coffee. We even did a blind taste test (my husband’s idea) and it won hands down!
One of the best parts of this course is the emphasis on giving back. The lessons encourage giving a portion of your profits to a charity of your choice, and rightly budgeting the rest of your profits in a healthy manner. In every lesson, there is emphasis on character in the marketplace, which is one of Homeschool-Entrepreneur‘s core reasons for making entrepreneurism a part of your homeschool. Making right decisions, good stewardship of your money, and ethics in all your business dealings are all principles you can’t teach early enough.
Nicole Hunt and her daughters have made quite a splash in the short time they have been in business. They have been featured in several local newspapers, and have even made it to the big screen! You can see the news clip that Tampa Bay’s CBS News did on their business just last week. Nicole has a flair for the PR side of business and that is reflected in her success and in the course! The stir they have created is a sign that people like the idea of teaching kids how to run a business.
If you would like more information on how to buy the course or Fat Brain Coffee, you can go to FatBrainCoffee.com, and take a look at the news clip about them too. Nicole is a delightful woman, and even makes herself available by phone. Of course, if this gets as big as I think it will, that might change soon! They charge $20 for the course, and a offer a discount if you buy the course and your first round of coffee together. Let me know if you try it, and what experience you have, we’d love to hear!
Jul
17
A WP Plug-in for Flickr!
OK, so most of you already know about Flickr, but I discovered it when I found this great plugin for photos. It’s called PhotoDrop, and it will just drop in any photo off of Flickr….at least any photo that is open for viewing. I couldn’t even begin to think about putting in all our photos onto Flickr, but it looks like it is a great place to start organizing all our photos, at least.
In fact, this could be the start of a great home business idea that anyone that’s picture and computer savvy could do. See “Picture Organizing Business” in our ‘Home Business Ideas’ page on our website for more details on how to get started.
Jun
07
Great Blogging Tutorials
Today I watched over half of the blogging tutorials that Yaro Starak has posted online to see if they were worthwhile, and was really impressed! I’ve gotten Yaro’s blog Entrepreneur’s Journey via RSS for awhile now, and it’s not the best of the entrepreneur blogs, but he does have alot of good information. The biggest downfall of his blog, IMHO, is he is too wordy. They say you are bothered the most by faults in other people that you struggle with personally….so be it.
These tutorials at Become a Blogger.com are a little annoying because they cover every little detail, right down to how to type in an url and fill out a form. I can deal with it though, because I know there are people that are very new to everything online, and, well, been there, done that! Ideal for the ground zero newbie, there was also good material on how to put an RSS feed on your blog, which I had been anquishing over the last 3 days. Every place I went to assumed I knew MUCH more than I did, or was teaching you how to place someone else’s feed on your site. This alone has endeared these tutorials to my heart. Thank you, Yaro!
Starting with reasons to use WordPress hosted on your own domain, moving on to getting your own domain name to signing up with a web host, I have a big money saver to add to his suggestions: use wordpress.com (it’s free) with your own domain name. You can get domains for $6.99 at One & One, and it’s very easy to navigate their site to make the changes, and if you can’t figure it out, they have fairly quick tech support.
If you do want to sign up for a web host because you are in this for the big bucks, then be sure to get the coupon codes on this site to save substantial moola. I try to keep them current, and if you can’t find them, just do a search in the search box (at top of page) for “Host Gator”. You can always email me, if you still can’t find it, it’ll be worth your time, I promise! Host Gator is being recommended more and more by the online ‘gurus’, and for good reason. They are feature-rich, reliable and no gimmicks! And their support is in-house! Anyway, this post isn’t about Host Gator…sorry.
So, other than disagreeing with Yaro’s domain and hosting recommendations, these videos are perfect for anyone just getting started. I think I’m going to do a separate post on how to figure out the RSS post via these videos, just so others don’t have to go through what I did trying to find info on it.
Find the videos at: Become a Blogger
or on Yaro’s blog: Entrepreneurs-Journey
Have a great weekend!
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Jun
06
How To Make Money Blogging-Part 4
Ok, now the last 3 blogging “lessons” have been on getting your blog set up, and hopefully you have found a comfortable home for your blog. I have hopped around looking at and trying different platforms and it’s such a pain to move your blog once you’ve started, be ABSOLUTELY sure you are happy where you’re at before you get started and you will save yourself alot of time and frustration.
There are two books that I have bought and will try to pass along the essentials to you. One of the books is a Startup Guide by Entrepreneur Press called Start Your Own Blogging Business (Startup)
My favorite part of the entire book is a little story they tell at the very beginning that I think you find encouragement in also. It’s a story about Caroline, who publishes a blog on everything about iPods, her favorite thing in the world. Currently, her blog receives an average of 15,000 visitors per day-reportedly a modest amount of traffic for her chosen topic, receiving the “typical” amount of ad revenue of $.80-$1 per click from her readers. If only 1% of her daily traffic of 15,000 (150) click on her ads, she will earn between $120-$150/day in ad revenue. That’s $4500/month, or $54,000/year with very little business expense, which isn’t bad at all considering she is doing something she loves!
This gets better… NOW…if Caroline increases her traffic, let’s say to 150,000/per day with the same daily percentage of 1% clicking the same ads at $1/click …that’s $1500/day or just over a half million dollars per year.
Seem a little outrageous? Not really. 1% is a low percentage as well as $1/click is a low estimate, too. As your traffic increases, your advertisers pay you more to advertise for them. Granted, 150,000/day visitor traffic will take a bit of work (duh), but it is not an unrealistic goal if your subject matter is a popular one.
If you’re thinking that you could never acheive 150,000/day traffic to your blog, there are a variety of opinions on this. In the reviews of ProBlogger’s new book, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
What is the final lesson here? It’s two-fold: choose your topic carefully, and really work at building your traffic. Go to the website Problogger.net for lots of tips and information on building traffic, or check out their new book, ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
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