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I want to welcome you to my "Articles Make Money Blog". I hope you enjoy reading my articles, as much as I did researching them.

I know as time goes on you will pick up some good pointers that will help you succeed with your articles and where to submit them.

Thanks and happy reading.
Dody

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7/9/10

Home Business Taxes

Just the thought of taxes can scare people out of their minds. You have to keep all your records and documents in order to be able to file easier at the end of the year. Home business owners have their own set of allowable deductions that differ from other businesses. You have a chance to save much money by knowing how to take advantage of you home business situation.

Know what your deductions are. There are several deductibles that the home-based business owner is entitled to. There are auto/vehicle deductions that can help with mileage, gas, insurance, and/or other related expenses. You can write off your business cards and stationary, plus any business meals and entertainment. All business traveling expenses, education, and even the interest on your business credit card can be counted in your favor. If you use a computer the Internet service and web page related expenses could be deducted as well. Office furniture, supplies, your phone and other communication devices are also necessities that have deductions. Any postage or delivery of goods charges is also considered a business expense. The home-based owner can also get deductions on rent and utilities that keep the business running. Deductions that you will want to use on your 1040 form are:

* Half of your self-employment tax amount, which can offer you a huge savings.
* As much as 100% of your medical insurance costs for you and your family.

If you make more than $600 per year in self-employment you must file your taxes. You may qualify for the C-EZ form if you have had a bad year or just got started. Your total business expenses will have to be less than $5000 for that year; you have no inventory, or have to file a 4562 form (depreciation and amortization form). Make sure first and foremost that your expenses are less than $5000 and that you have taken all the deductions you are entitled to.

A large decision is who will be doing your taxes. You need to decide if you plan to do them yourself or if you want someone else to do them for you. There are several advantages in using a tax professional. They can save you much time and unneeded frustration. They can spot deductions you might miss or not know about. It also saves you from being responsible for any errors that were made in the preparation, which could end up saving you thousands. No matter how you decide to prepare your taxes be sure to claim all possible deduction to save you in the long run. A business has many breaks for the taxpayer for a reason and you should make sure you know what you qualify for and how to save.
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6/26/10

Home business idea

When starting your home business venture you will want to have another form of income. It can take a year or more to get a business up and running. It will take some serious work to go to your job each day and run your business at night but it will be worth it in the long run. You also have to look at the investment of money that you are willing to put into it. Not all home-based businesses are costly to start. First you will need to figure out what your strong suits are and fields of interest. Many of the more inexpensive businesses can be done online where it is just a matter of a small investment in hosting and domain. Other businesses that are offering services and/or products can cost you more to start with. You will have to find the right balance on what you can provide and what people need. Ask yourself the following questions when trying to get ideas.

* Who will your customers be?
* What will they get from what you have?
* Will they use what you offer multiple times or be repeat customers?
* Who are your competitors and what are they charging?
* What do you need to charge but still remain competitive?

You will need to know about your competition in detail. You will then be able to develop a niche market for yourself. You want to try not to get involved with an over-saturated market you would not be able to get much profit or business. You have to find a market that is popular, of interest to you, needed, and easy to do. A great moneymaker is to get affiliate sites up and running where all you have to do is write or have written high content articles. You can also build your business from scratch, buy into a franchise, or buy an Internet business out right that is already established. Starting from scratch will offer you the cheapest investment but take many months if not years to establish. Buying into a franchise or already established business will cost more in the beginning but will generate an immediate income.

Once you have finally decided what kind of business and how much it will cost to open the real work has just begun. It takes more than an idea to make money. You will have to be able to dedicate time and effort in promoting what you offer. This may mean long days or hiring others to do the work you don’t have time for. You will have to get a structure down so you can best accomplish your goals. Most people who start their own business no matter how small are looking to not work for someone else and are willing to go that extra mile to succeed. Are you?
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6/21/10

Organizing your Home Business

What is the best way to organize a home-based business? There is the option of having a completely separate room in your home that keeps business away from the rest of the family life but that is not as popular as it once was. Many families integrate their home business with their family life and do quite well with this type of arrangement.

One of the first considerations you should think about is how do you operate? You want your business area set up in a style that is comfortable for you. If you like looking out the window while you are working and you are very productive this way setting up your business space in a way that makes you look at a wall will not encourage you to work. In fact, you will more than likely find reasons why you cannot work. Do you like plants and artwork? Set this up in your space. It is important to make your business space reflect your personal style this will make you want to sit at your desk and work because you are comfortable there as opposed to dreading going to your work area.

Make your workstation the base of the work that needs to be accomplished but do not limit yourself not to be able to go and sit in your favorite chair or other places in the house to accomplish your work. Do not spread important documents all over your house. Dedicate an area to where those items will be kept. You do not want to feel like your business is taking over your life and that everywhere you look you see bits and pieces of it scattered throughout your home.
Copyright © Dolores Davis



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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

Http://WWW.f5m-millionaires-club.Com/?id=dody

6/9/10

Home Based Business & Reasons to Start.

There are so many fabulous reasons to start a part time home business. Maybe you are ready to venture out into the world of self-employment, but are worried about diving in too fast. Maybe the market you are venturing into is small or takes a while to actually generate an income. That is the best part about a part time home business you can still work. This will give you the financial backing you will need to get the business up and running as well as have money for bills and other things. This will keep you from feeling too much anxiety about money issues. There are tons of great businesses that can generate a great source of income once up and fully running.

At first it may be hard to get your home based business during your off time. Once you spend the time organizing it and getting it off the ground it will take on a life of its own. There are going to be days when you are too tired to even think about the business. Soon enough it will creep into your life and make you some good money. Once a profit starts rolling in regularly you can then decide whether you want to go full time with your endeavor. You will be able to either drop down to part time or even quit your other work. You have the pure freedom of being your own boss. There are several pros and cons to becoming a part time business owner. Besides the fact that you still will have income coming in from your other line of work, you will also still be covered for health insurance. This will allow you to build your business slowly and do it right.

The cons are that doing a business only part time has some time constraints. There is less time for marketing, optimizing, and building a clientele. There will be times that you will not be available to answer your customer’s questions or take their orders. This could cause frustration in your clients and they may feel they are not getting good customer service. It is very important to be able to respond quickly to your clients. Also there can be the issue that you are not taken seriously because you are only part time. You will want to work out something to make sure that your clients know that you mean business and will not slack on anything that you offer. The hardest part of having your own part time business on top of a full time job is burning out. You need to be sure to take care of yourself. If you work yourself to the bone your personal life, family life, and health can suffer. Work on the business over time to be sure you are not spreading yourself too thin. A part time can truly work. As long as you have great time management skills and self-discipline you will be great.
Copyright © Dolores Davis



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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

Http://WWW.f5m-millionaires-club.Com/?id=dody

5/7/10

3 Things You Must Do Before You Submit To Article Directories

To all writers and non-writers out there, now is the time to start digging up those creative writing skills back.
With modern communication technology comes the popularity of information-based marketing, which is one of the oldest and most effective techniques in getting targeted prospects to sites and converting them into buyers. This is why article writing, submissions and publications are also getting popular.
There are already many tools that people can use to make the process of distributing their articles more easily. Though this is invaluable in getting the contents more exposure, which is only half of the story.
Let us take a look first at the common mistakes that some people make before submitting their contents to article directories:

1. Confusing the reason to promote the articles with the reason to write them.
In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding, lead generation and promotion, which are all part of your optimization efforts.
But there is only one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your audience. If the article is not focused on this primary and most important purpose, it will fail to achieve the three promotion benefits because no one will be interested in reading them.
You need to figure out first how to get people to read what is in your article, then make them click on your resource box. You can achieve this by producing better contents.
2. Failing to maximize the promotional opportunities of article marketing.
You may know already that your articles can help you generate additional links back to your site. But do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same articles?
Mention keywords at strategic places. Just be sure not to overdo them. Some are even using anchor texts which is also an effective method. But it is important to know that majority of the directories are not able to support this.
Remember that is not only about the links back to your site. Part of doing well in your article marketing is getting picked up by publishers with a large number of audiences and gaining the ability of leveraging other brands because of the quality of your work. Better search engine results also are great benefits.
But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that can turn your article marketing efforts into an opportunity that can boost your earnings. Not just increase the number of visitors to your site.
Start out with a plan and see to it that your article will serve the function that you intended it to have.
3. Publishing content that does not help your readers.
Maybe in the process of writing articles, you are thinking that all that is you wanted is links back to your site. And any visitors it can generate are fine.
Guess what? Not all article banks and directories are going to accept your content automatically. Oftentimes, they have some guidelines and specifications on the articles that they are accepting.
You can double the number of sites you can submit to by writing articles that the directories want to share with other people. All it takes is one publisher with a hundred thousand readers to increase your potential audience overnight.
Write the articles that publishers want in their publications if you want your article marketing to work the most effective way for you. This also means you have to obey the standard guidelines, spell checks, researching on a good topic and even hiring a writer to produce a good content on your behalf.
In the end, it is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting a little exposure from increased links back but on a very basic level. Or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra time making quality contents.
It will be your choice. You may not be aware of the fact that an article submitted on directories is not meant to have the same level of exposure as highly-targeted content ones geared on a narrow group of people.
Learn the difference between these two and it will surely help you know what kinds of articles to write and to submit.
Copyright © Dolores Davis


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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

Http://WWW.f5m-millionaires-club.Com/?id=dody

4/26/10

Organizing your Home Business

What is the best way to organize a home-based business? There is the option of having a completely separate room in your home that keeps business away from the rest of the family life but that is not as popular as it once was. Many families integrate their home business with their family life and do quite well with this type of arrangement.

One of the first considerations you should think about is how do you operate? You want your business area set up in a style that is comfortable for you. If you like looking out the window while you are working and you are very productive this way setting up your business space in a way that makes you look at a wall will not encourage you to work. In fact, you will more than likely find reasons why you cannot work. Do you like plants and artwork? Set this up in your space. It is important to make your business space reflect your personal style this will make you want to sit at your desk and work because you are comfortable there as opposed to dreading going to your work area.

Make your workstation the base of the work that needs to be accomplished but do not limit yourself not to be able to go and sit in your favorite chair or other places in the house to accomplish your work. Do not spread important documents all over your house. Dedicate an area to where those items will be kept. You do not want to feel like your business is taking over your life and that everywhere you look you see bits and pieces of it scattered throughout your home.

If you are a family that has small children at home it will be important to child-proof your office space and make it look unattractive for children so that they will not want to go and color pretty pictures on your financial papers.

Consider purchasing a laptop and cell phone, if you have not already, so that you are not always tied to your desk. Sometimes it is nice to go to a park and sit in the fresh air while you are getting work done.

Decide exactly how many hours you are going to work during a day or how many hours need to be dedicated to a particular project. It is very easy when you are working from home simply to work all day and into the night because your office is so accessible. You need to be able to set boundaries as to when you will and will not work. Take breaks, step away from your work, and go to lunch even if it is in another part of your house or in your backyard.
Copyright © Dolores Davis


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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

Http://WWW.f5m-millionaires-club.Com/?id=dody

4/3/10

Home Based MLM Business

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) is the term that was used several years ago for what we today call Network Marketing. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) operates through the sales of a product that a consumer is interested in on a person-to-person basis and is not sold through a store or other form of dealership.

An independent sales representative (they may have many different titles) will contact individuals and speak to them personally to see if they would be interested in their product or services. The way that Multi-Level Marketing representatives make commissions is through the selling of the product as well a residual that comes from the persons that they have recruited into the Multi-Level Marketing business and the products that they have sold.

The difference between Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) and direct sales is that direct sales representatives make money through the re-selling of the products that are available through the company. Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) representatives also make money through their sales but also as those they have enrolled into the program sell products, they will make a profit as well. The residual continues to go up the chain of those who are involved in the Multi-Level Marketing plan.

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) differs from Affiliate Marketing in that those involved in Affiliate Marketing focus on one transaction at a time making more money with each transaction they process. The reason for this is that the product that an Affiliate Marketing company offers is usually something that the client only needs one time such as electronic equipment or household appliances. The Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) offers a variety of products that can be sold repeatedly to the consumer.

The Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) representative makes their money through the customer coming back to purchase more of their products this is called residual income. This type of income is earned every month from the sales that are taking place in your Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) business. Now what makes this interesting is that you will receive a check for all the sales that take place whether-or-not you are doing the selling. You could be on a vacation and still receive a check for the residual of sales that takes place among those you have brought into the business. This is a huge draw to those looking for home-based business opportunities.

Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) offers the average person an opportunity to make a substantial amount of money that will change their future while at the same time allowing them the freedom to enjoy a life that they have only dreamed about before. Remember to look at all home-based business opportunities carefully so that you will choose the one that is right for you and your personality as well as financial success.
Copyright © Dolores Davis



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Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

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3/31/10

Tweet Traffic Rush

You might have noticed that Twitter is the biggest news on
the internet now. With some hundreds of thousands of new
people joining Twitter each day, it is emerging as one of the
largest and fastest growing social networking sites at this time.

As there are millions of people joining up to and logging
into Twitter everyday, Twitter turns out a bigger and better
opportunity to get you loads of targeted traffic to your website.

Though you can access millions of people on Twitter, you will
need to work aptly in reaching out to them correctly. Here is
where Tweet Traffic Rush can help you out.

Tweet Traffic Rush is the easiest, fastest and most efficient
way to get a flood of laser targeted visitors to your site
through Twitter and this is... Absolutely FREE!

With Tweet Traffic Rush, you will be able to use Twitter to
spread your marketing messages virally and work in creating
an Avalanche of FREE Targeted Traffic to Your Website in a
very short time.

And how it works?

All you do is sign up for a free account. Then you will need to
add your twitter username in an appropriate category so as to
get a tiny piece of widget code. And once you add this widget
code to your websites, blogs or social networking sites, you'll
start getting more targeted visitors to your site.

If you are tired of and feel difficulty in spreading your marketing
messages across the net, TweetTrafficRush.com can get you
thousands of visitors to your site on autopilot.

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3/22/10

Home base business

Home-based businesses that become successful may end up having to leave the home eventually for expansion. This can be a very hard decision to make for the owner. The idea of now spending more money to expand can be scary. One does not have many of the money sucking problems as the business owners of yester years. The really long leases, huge security deposits, renovations, and equipment costs are not that bad anymore. There are many options today for the home business owner to get affordable and flexible space with out costing too much and having to sign a long-term agreement. When you go to a business center you will get that office with a desk but also can expect to have Internet and many other perks. So what are some of the benefits of a business office center?

* Convenient location in a high traffic areas
* Fully furnished offices and suites
* Individual Offices and/or Team Rooms
* Conference Rooms with services provided
* Business identity services or virtual offices
* Receptionist services
* Incredible phone and voice mail systems
* High speed Internet services
* Computer and networking support
* Copy, scanner, and fax systems
* LCD projectors
* Digital Camera
* Complementary coffee and water
* Convenient agreements that can range from 3 months to 5 years

There are top companies that specialize in these office centers all over the country. Corporations such as HQ Global Work Place, Corporate Suites, and SOS America offer these great services to those home business owners so they can broaden their horizons but not have to invest in more equipment or dismantle their home office space. This gives the owner the option of hiring others and still remaining at home if he or she so desires. There are even some companies that offer rental by the day or hour. Depending on what type of office space and the amenities you want you are looking at anywhere from a few hundred to few thousand per month. It truly depends on the location, services, and size office you need.

The majority of these companies also offer virtual space as well. This is a low cost method of being able to provide a more business like atmosphere to your home office. You would be able to meet clients in a space a few times per week instead of in your living room. This gives your business a more professional look with out spending lots of money on an office space. There are mail programs offered that provide you with an address so you can receive and deliver business packages and mail. These virtual spaces also provide private offices and conference rooms. This will allow you to work from home primarily but meet with clients and get your mail at a business address to keep your home information private. Programs like this start at about $70 per month, which is extremely reasonable. There are also the virtual office packages that give you the same perks as the mail program but also give you a phone number, voice mail, live receptionist during business hours plus call-screening, forwarding, and patching. This type of offer starts at about $190 per month and you get your business name listed in the lobby for free. This is great for small home business owners who want to keep their personal information private.

Copyright © Dolores Davis


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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

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3/13/10

Good Shopping Cart Scripts

You may be wondering what a shopping cart script is, could it be a script for a movie about shopping carts – not likely. Scripts track what a consumer chooses to buy from your online store. The scripts will track their choices all the way through to the checkout process. Often online consumers think that the shopping cart is a neat little icon that holds all their purchases until they are ready to checkout – just as they do in a real store but this is not the case. The shopping cart icon is used as the first part of the financial transaction. Then a gateway will send the information to the area where the customer will pay for the items that they have chosen. This process is completed through a secure connection.

The payment gateway will then send the requests, which have been processed thus far along with various other transfers throughout the financial networks as necessary. This includes the Internet merchant account that your bank has with the online store. When this is completed, the gateway will then send confirmation or denial to the shopping cart software. How do you know which shopping cart package is appropriate for your business? There are literally hundreds of packages to choose from, searching through them all can be time consuming as well as confusing, and then it may become more difficult to determine what is best for your online business.

Free or Premium Shopping Carts: Before you begin to look at what is available make sure you have a clear idea of what it is you want the shopping cart to accomplish. Look at your online business and the products you are offering. If you are beginning, you may not need all the fancy extras that come with a high-end shopping cart package. If that is where you are at in your business, you may want to consider a lower end package. However, remember, nothing is ever truly free is it? Always read the fine print and acknowledgments before you decide on anything.

Free e-Commerce Solutions: Paypal is a great e-commerce solution. The services that Paypal offer have become quite popular among the Internet businesses. Paypal integrates the necessary shopping cart functions with the payment gateways and includes the merchant account. This is very convenient. The drawback is that your consumers are required to use Paypal and become Paypal account holders this is not difficult because when they purchase your product they will automatically be taken to a page that will have them set up their Paypal account. The only cost to you is a small percentage that is taken out of each transaction and you pay no monthly fees for this service.
Copyright © Dolores Davis



Feel free to use this article online and in your email
Newsletters as long as you leave it intact and do not
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About the Author:
Dolores is a Home Based Business Operator,
Affiliate Marketer and a Network Marketer.
To find the best home based business ideas and
Opportunities so you can work at home visit:

Http://WWW.f5m-millionaires-club.Com/?id=dody


Http://mbofreebies.info