List of Items to Do to Accomplish Your Goals

1. Become more involved in networks. Talk about yourself and the things you like to do away from your business. People, even those on Ryze, are a little afraid to do business with someone who they don’t know a lot about. It may take time, but I can assure you if you are your self, it will help your business more because they will see your name and know exactly what you sell and begin to trust you. Be active, even if it’s only for 30 minutes a day on Ryze, it will help you out.

It costs you nothing to be involved with Ryze. Go to http://www.ryze.com and sign up for a free account.

2. Purchase business cards to leave at stores, daycares, schools, and to put into your bills and correspondences. You can reach a lot of people by looking outside the box.

3. Get a 3-ring photo album one that is small enough to put in your purse. Inside it put your “goals” in picture form, a new house, a new car, your baby’s picture, your future garden, your future vacation. Look at it at least once a week. Whenever you wonder why you are doing this take it out. Also add inspirational sayings that cheer you up, read those when you need a lift!

4. Make some flyers to hand out to businesses and customers.

5. Start a free blog account at http://www.blogger.com. You may be asking what a blog is? A blog is an online journal or miniature website that you can post your thoughts to everyday. A lot of people use it as their websites or as their weekly newsletters and send their subscribers to their URL for updates.

Get a free feeder (a feeder is a link so that others can go to your blog when ever they want) so you can post this in your signatures. I believe I got mine from http://www.rssfeeder.com or you can look at the site where you do your blog and they will have places for you to go get an RSS feeder.

6. Give out suckers with business cards strung through the stick.

7. Purchase candy wrappers and add a catchy slogan and wrap them around a candy bar.

8. You can also use bookmarks.

9. Purchase some form of promotional items with your personal information on it.

Example: pencils with your website on them. Pass them out at fairs, schools, leave them everywhere I go (everyone loves pencils and freebies). You can buy these at bulk prices at http://www.orientaltrading.com.

I’ve seen ladies get small ziplock bags and add their business card and a piece of candy to the bag. The point is to get noticed. Trust me, when people get bags the first thing they look for is the goodies and skim over the papers. Start small, go to the dollar store and buy a big bag of candy and attach them to your business card and send to the filler groups.

10. Filler groups:

What are filler groups? These are a group of home-based business owners that swap anything from business cards, flyers, and other promotional items along with information on their home-based businesses.

They then send these out to their customers, hand them out at fairs, etc.

11. Network more with those that are in your niche. For example, baby forums and mom sites (not just work-from-home moms, but all

If you cannot find a group in your area that fits your needs, start one. Meet in a coffee shop, once a week or once a month. Discuss ways you all can promote your businesses, exchange your business cards for referrals, then hand them back to that rep when you have your next meeting.

12. Offer deals to customers, both new and old customers. I always keep information from all my customers and do follow ups to see how they liked the product and if they know of others who might have a need for my products. Everyone loves free samples and discounts.

EXAMPLE: Referring others save 20% off next order or receive a free gift etc.

13. Make up labels for your mail. Put your label on everything you send out. Many people see your label and read it and eventually you will get a customer. Don’t count on this as your only avenue, but you should have many avenues and ways of advertising your business.

14. Make up some flyers and hand those out. Post them where you know traffic would be good for your products. Example: bingo halls, daycares, play grounds, senior centers, etc.

15. Run a special for a week, a month, whatever it takes to bring new customers to your site. Just be sure not to offer too big of a discount so you don’t make any profit.

16. Purchase a car magnet to use while you are running errands. You can be “working” while you are doing errands.

17. Purchase or make a yard sign.

18. Always when out running errands or shopping leave your business cards with people you meet or where people will see them.

19. Advertise in a local newsletter or newspaper.

20. Advertise in http://www.thriftynickelads.com for about $6 or so. You can pick what state and city you want to advertise in.

21. Sit down and figure out a schedule for your business, how much time you will spend working everyday. Learn to take a few hours off, the emails will wait. Put business hours on your site so customers know what your hours are and than you won’t feel so stressed about not contacting them right away.

Say you want to have your hours between 9-5 pm. Put on your site that if you contact me after 5 pm, I will get back to you tomorrow. Say the same thing for weekends. You will check all emails, but will get back to them on Mondays, or set up a couple hours for Saturday, this is up to you. Just remember you need to take time to relax and enjoy things around you or you will get burned out.

Rebecca White owns a small business marketing site that offers afforable advertising, one on one consultations and soon will be launching her new experts for wahms site that will be filled with e-books, seminars, and classes taught by successful wahms. Be sure to check out http://www.advantagemarketing4u.com for the latest and up to date resources for work at home persons and upcoming announcements on her new site.

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