Archive for August, 2010
How to Start Your Own Cleaning Business Cleaning Houses For Money
Aug 31st
This article is by Brenda Ballentine
Cleaning houses for money is one of the easiest home businesses to start up because all you really need is some elbow grease and a few cleaning supplies. Well, there are a few more things you need to know about it in order to be really successful. But, the main thing is that you can clean homes on a part-time basis and make great money once you get rolling.
While cleaning involves a lot of physical work, it’s not anything complicated. The major things you’ll need to think about before you start is how you’re going to market your services, what hours you wish to work, and what, if any, specialized services you want to offer your clients.
In order to answer these questions, you need a sample business plan for cleaning business that gives you information on how to get set up, what kind of fees you can charge and tips on how to land your first clients. Having a business plan to follow makes things a lot easier. Even though, it’s just cleaning, you’ll find that there are insider things you need to know that help you avoid making simple mistakes.
For instance, many people who are just starting out with their own cleaning service often think that charging lower rates will bring in the business. While this may be true to some extent, lower rates can quickly trap you into a cycle of doing lots of physical work, and not making enough to cover your expenses when you need to expand. So, how much should you charge?
Another thing to consider is that when you’re offering a new service, nobody knows what the quality of your work is. You have no referrals yet because you haven’t had a paying client. How are you going to get clients to trust that you can do a better job than another similar service?
And, what about those troublesome clients that you take on because you need the money, but can’t stand working with? How do you deal with these types of clients, or should you just dump them?
What type of cleaning supplies should you buy and how much of it do you need in the beginning?
These are all questions that need to be researched and answered so that you can put together a workable business plan that fits your particular needs. Cleaning houses for money can be very rewarding once you understand how to give your clients great service – they will reward you with their loyalty and plenty of referrals.
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How To Make Money With Your Own Horse Racing Advisory Service!
Aug 30th
Good Morning
I am writing this article, after spending nearly two hours studying the form book this morning, the form book is a book detailing every Racehorse in the UK and all it’s previous races to date. It has taken me that long to decide to NOT tip any horses today on either of my Horse Racing Advisory services.
Why do I tip horses ? because their can be BIG MONEY to be earned from it.
People are willing to pay good money for horse racing tips.
HOW MUCH? – you decide how much, I know a guy in the USA, who runs an advisory service on the NFL, the Hockey, the Horses etc etc and makes about 60K (dollars) a MONTH… yes a MONTH! – but he does have a hell of a lot of SUBSCRIBERS..
I have been running a Racing Advisory service since November of 2007, part time.
If you think about it, how many people in your country like a bet ? Whether it’s on the horses, the dogs, the football, online poker, you name it – if it moves, people love to bet on it. Millions of pounds are wagered every day here in the UK, just on horse racing alone
Amazingly, MOST people (98%) lose money doing this. As a manager for William Hill (Bookmakers) back in the 80′s, I learnt a great deal about human nature especially regarding gambling.
A Betting shop is not the most positive place to work in as people are very stressed and going through several emotions all at once, such as the HIGHS of Winning and the LOWS of losing. I loved the thrill of horse racing, but back then, you were allowed to smoke in Betting shops. As I didn’t smoke, I left this career for another, as each day, I felt I had smoked 60 cigarettes, I was coughing and wheezing – even though I didn’t smoke.
I started to think about all those gamblers throwing their money away each day on useless tips. Now I’m not encouraging gambling in any way shape or form, basically – if you don’t know when to stop – you just shouldn’t start. But if people want to gamble, you can help provide this information.
People love tips, they love horse racing tips. Horseracing is the second largest spectator sport in the UK – Football is the largest.
You don’t have to be an expert on horse racing to make money online selling racing advice. You just need to be in contact with people who are.
You don’t have to have contacts in racing stables – most jockey’s don’t know what’s going to win, and trainers & owners keep a tight hold on what they know.
Their are some very knowledgeable people in the Horse Racing Forums. They will give tips for free, nearly every day. Just follow the good ones on paper – once you have found someone who knows what they are doing, you can engage them with the lure of a joint venture - i.e You do the advertising, provide the website, deal with the clients and email the tips to them. They provide the information. – you split the profit 50/50
This is how I got started. I knew nothing about racing form back then. All I knew was that if you can give people enough winners to make them money – they will love you for it, and keep subscribing to your service. today, I’ve learnt to read the form book, it takes away the need for a partner.
Now, you don’t have to bet, yourself to be qualified to run a horse racing service, I don’t bet at all.
How do you get clients to join your service ? Their are numerous places where people who bet, hang out. Forums, Facebook etc, etc. Offer a free trial, people love a FREE trial, if your results are good, they will pay you to join and keep paying you.
Think about it – people will bet anyway, If you can give people good advice, they will keep coming back to you for more – if you are making them money.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s tip – any comments are welcome.
Have a great day
Keith
How a SIMPLE Website building book, started an AVALANCHE of Money Making Tricks!
Aug 29th
This is a short story about how a Free eBook started me on a trail of ideas which led me to creating this Website.
You see, I really believe that the reason people don’t make any money, is because, they just don’t get started.
If you wait for the right time, guess what? – you will be waiting for a very LONG time – because that moment WON’T ever arrive.
Their has never been a better time to start making money on the Internet. Their is a WEALTH of great information out there, most of it FREE.
It’s a Sunday, it’s a Bank Holiday weekend in UK. Most people are enjoying a nice family GET TOGETHER… BUT… on Tuesday, what will happen..?
The CYCLE will begin again! Back to work – Back on the HAMPSTER Wheel!… look forward to the NEXT Holiday, perhaps…
Why not make your life, one BIG HOLIDAY… take a few short steps TODAY. I have a FREE ebook for you
Design a Website? – How about designing your LIFE!
WHO ME ??, “You must be joking – is this you ?. This was me a few weeks ago. It used to be considered difficult to design web pages, people had to know HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) and if you didn’t have a degree in web design then it was either spend hours poring over books or just plain give up..
This has all changed, Web 2 has arrived and everything has got faster, slicker and much easier, now – website design has got cheaper and cheaper and one reason for this is because the market is much more competitive and a lot of people are designing and building their own sites
Now whether you want to build your own fan website or to build a site to make money, never has their been a better time to get cracking in this fun and possibly lucrative pass-time.
We all want to show off to the world – right ? maybe our online skills, our cool photo’s, our video’s, our articles and stuff, where better to display what you do or what you know, than on your own website.
Now I have to be honest, when it comes to design, I cringe at the word, as my design skills are practically zero, but even I can make great looking web pages designed to THRILL!! simply by following a few steps.
I am definitely not a natural at this, but it all begins with baby steps……….
If you have no idea what ftp is or http or html is, don’t worry you soon will.
Now I use a little free html editor called “Komposer” this handy tool is what I design my web pages in – you can write text, import photo’s and even upload everything (barring e-books) to the web all in a few strokes, so your first task is to download Komposer.
Next you will need a domain name – this is the web address your website sits on – you can get one fairly cheaply from Go Daddy for a yearly fee of about $10., make the domain name relevant to what your website is going to be about, only get a .com as it’s still the most recognised domain ending in the entire universe.
You will also need a hosting account – Hostgator is good, as you can host unlimited web pages for about $10 a month. A hosting account is necessary as you will be renting space (like real estate) to park your website on.
Now, do you want to make money with this site ? if you want to make money, you are going to need to create your own list and you will need to send emails to your list of prospects using an autoresponder, an autoresponder is a piece of software that lets you submit emails to your potential customers in sequence, all on auto pilot – I can recommend Aweber, this is the same one as I use myself.
Now you will need to learn how to put this all together to make it work, and BOY.. will it work, that is more than I can do in such a short article like this – I have a FREE 125 page eBook for you about creating your own website, in a short time, to start you off on hte road to making money. You learn in your own time, at your own pace. GET YOURS NOW!!
I hope you have enjoyed today’s tip. If you have one you would like to share, why not send it to me here I can link it back to your Blog, Website or Video.
Please leave a comment here
Have a great day, I will be back tomorrow
Keith
Take Care of the Dogs & The Profits will Follow!
Aug 28th
When I first got wind of this idea, I laughed. – PET CARE CENTRE ???
Then I found out that someone here in the UK was charging £35 for an eBook on the subject, so I thought I would mention it as a “Tip”.
A pet care centre (mainly for dogs)- is where you keep people’s pets amused, whilst they are away working.
This service can include dog walking and even the odd bit of grooming, if you are so qualified to do this.
Apparently, in the USA – this is a widespread service and in some pet care centres, the centre is so busy, pet owners have to book up for days in advance and commit to a specific period of care, in order to get their dogs into one of these centres in the first place
Let’s be honest, people love their dogs and would do almost anything for them.
People have pets, and conscientious pet owners don’t like leaving their pets all day to roam around in the garden, and people who live in apartments have no choice but to leave their pets indoors.
Pets get lonely, they bark and annoy neighbours. (assuming it’s a dog, of course).
You like dogs – Right ? you want to work from home, Right ?. Why not combine the two things – with your own pet, day care centre?
You could charge $10 a day for a basic service, a little extra for additional services such as grooming. Dog washing could also be an added “extra”.
Obviously you choose how many dogs you could look after in a day based on how you would cope and of course on the size of your yard or garden.
I hope you have enjoyed today’s money making tip.
I will be back tomorrow
Keith
How to turn a FIVERR into Ten Bux!
Aug 27th
Hi Everyone
After yesterday’s mammoth tip on “How NOT to Win Friends, Influence People, or Make any Money on FACEBOOK”!
I decided to make today’s tip a lot less intense. None the less for saying that, it is still an EXPLOSIVE Tip ?
What is outsourcing?. It’s where you can get those jobs you may not want to do, or may not be able to do, done by a worker in either your own or another country.
People who have perhaps different skills from you can do such time consuming things for you, like write articles for your blog, make a video ,set up your WordPress blog etc, etc.
Now, you may have heard of Fiverr by now, where you can get a huge range of tasks outsourced for just $5.
But, have you heard of Ten Bux. This is similar to Fiverr, but people on Ten Bux, will offer to do tasks for either $5 or $10, depending on the task (or Gig as it is called).
Here are some of the Gigs available today on there:
- I will create a super SEO friendly website, with free hosting for life – $10
- I will write 2 original 455+ word articles for $5
- I will produce a 30 to 40 second, HD product video with custom branding and optional voice-over for $10
Now if all this good outsourcing wasn’t enough, I just had to include a very CHEEKY money making tip here. Why not check out Fiverr, find some Great $5 Gigs, have a word with the vendor of these services, and deal direct with that person. This way, they won’t have to give 25% commission to Fiverr. Then you advertise their Gig, through you with your details on Ten Bux for $10. To place an ad is FREE, so all you have to do is pass the gig on to the Fiverr vendor and pocket the rest..Now you will have to pay Ten Bux a commission on sale, but even if it was $2, you still make 30%.
I think this idea is probably best suited for students, or teenagers but the general use of Fiverr & Ten Bux for outsourcing is a wonderful source for any Internet Marketers looking to save money.
Have a good day, I will be back tomorrow
Keith
P.S I have just found this Gem on Ten Bux – ” I will send out an advert, advertising your Website, Facebook Page, You Tube page. link or Blog on Twitter to over 126,000 followers, for $5″
