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The Best Advice This Week I Got From My Barber
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by:
Timothy Spaulding
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I went to my barber a few days ago. We talked
about his hobby, which is playing poker, and his nephew who is a boxer,
and about my job and my kids, etc., etc.
I told him where my son, a high school senior, wants to go to college.
It is a rather expensive private school in the city where we live.
Jerry, my barber, said he knows several people that attend and work at
this college, and that he believes it is an excellent school. And then
he said something that is very true.
“If I stop learning, then I am through. I’ve been a
barber for forty years and I still am learning.” He then
related a story about a former customer. This fellow came into the shop
one day and said “I want you to cut my hair the same way
every time I come in.” The conversation continues:
Jerry: “I’ve been cutting your hair for years.
Isn’t it always the same?”
Customer: “You never use the same method. I want you to cut
it using the same method.”
Jerry: “Doesn’t it come out the same every
time?”
Customer: “Yes, but I want it cut the same way every
time.”
Jerry says to me “I know several ways to cut hair and I am
always learning more. If it comes out the way he likes it, what
difference does it make how I cut it.”
The need to continue learning applies to your home business as well. As
the online market changes, so do your marketing and promotion
techniques. There are new products and affiliate opportunities to look
for.
Articles
One great source for learning about online business is to read
articles, like this one. There are thousands of sites offering business
related articles. In fact, doing a search on Google for
“business articles” results in over twenty million
entries.
For the newcomer to home based online business, Stone Evans, The Home
Biz Guy, has a nice series of articles
(http://www.workathome-awesomeopportunities.com/homebiz.htm) including
“Finding Your Home Business Niche“,
“Advertising Your Home Business on a Budget“,
& “Networking Your Home Business within Circles of
Influence”. These are just a sampling of the information
available in articles.
Or how about this: did you know that you can get a million hits a month
without a top listing on a search engine? Jack Humphrey, in his article
“How to get 1 Million Hits Without the Search
Engines”
(http://www.workathome-awesomeopportunities.com/powerlinking5.htm)
tells you how.
Or another – Charlie Page, owner of The Directory of Ezines
http://www.directoryofezines.com, writes about why people are leaving
their internet business in record numbers, and ways you can avoid the
same fate in “Why are people Leaving?”
(http://tinyurl.com/5mh46).
Forums
Another source of information is online forums. These are sites where
business owners get together online to exchange ideas and get answers
to questions about their own online businesses. One of my favorites is
the >Warrior Forum (http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/). This
forum includes links to an article database, joint ventures and money
making information.
There is a recent discussion on the Warrior Main Forum on whether it is
advisable to put your picture on your website
(http://www.warriorforum.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28449). Some
commented on how a picture of an “ugly” person
could result in a potential customer clicking away.
Another discussion was on what type of hardware to use in a home
business. This included monitor type and size, processor, graphics
card, etc. This is a very interesting topic for anyone with an internet
based home business.
And since I am a Plug In Profit Affiliate a forum I recently
discovered, the PIPS Builder Forum
(http://pipsforum.1affiliateprofits.com/), has provided me with several
valuable marketing tips and business resources.
Training Sites
If you are a member of a MLM or affiliate program there is a wealth of
training material available to you.
In my own journey down the online home business trail I find that being
and affiliate of several programs has given me more training than I can
absorb. The learning curve is steep, but it is better than starting out
from scratch.
One of the programs that I am an affiliate of is SFI Marketing Group.
They have an extensive amount of training materials for the affiliates
as well as a discussion board.
Another site with a wealth of materials for the online business owner
is the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs
(http://www.moreinfo247.com/8813721/iahbe). There is a small monthly
fee to belong to this one, but the amount of fresh, timely content
makes it worth it to me.
There are many, many more and I encourage you to check them out.
Trial And Error
And of course there is the old standby of screw it up and figure out
how to fix it. I have done this on many occasions and I am sure you
have too. But if you approach your errors with the right attitude it is
possible to learn an immense amount from your own mistakes.
Don’t Stop Or You’re Through
As Jerry said, “If I stop learning, then I’m
through”. And I believe this is true for me and you.
I have a goal to consciously learn something new everyday. I recently
saw a site that will help improve a golf swing. Another for woodworking
tips. Yet another for training a dog. There is probably a site to learn
about any interest you may have.
Don’t take for granted the wealth of opportunities to learn
something, not just about your business but about anything that
interests you.
Or you’ll be through.
About the author:
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Timothy Spaulding is the owner of the Work At Home Business Resource
Center http://www.workathome-awesomeopportunities.com
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