Deborah's Work At Home Business Gazette

Transcription Software

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 04:40:00 +0000

After much research I finally found some great transcription software. It's called Express Scribe. It was very affordable. You don't need a machine. You use it right on your computer. You don't need a foot pedal if you don't want too. Some people want to use a foot pedal and some people prefer not too. I'm going to start without a pedal. I also started to build my website. Just did some of the basics. Once I start using the transcription software I'll be able to rate it for everyone.

DOMAIN NAME COMPLETE

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:07:00 +0000

Tonight I purchased my domain name. Tomorrow I will decide what I will charge my clients and start working on my website. Until tomorrow....

I'm Back Once Again!

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000

I'm back again. I put off my virtual assistant project because I found a job in downtown Pittsburgh for a while. Again, I got laid off. Now the company I worked for is letting go 50% of its' workforce.

I am continuing with my previous project. I think the best thing to do is just continue on with a home business. No one ever lays themselves off. To supplement my business I have taken a job for 4 months in an accounting/tax office. This will give me a chance to get my business off the ground so I don't suffer so much financially. I'm starting over on everything. Right now I'm working on my business plan and deciding what services I will offer and calculating what my rates will be. Tomorrow I will let everyone know what I have decided about my services. I want to open my business before tax season ends, part time.

Website Software

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:56:00 +0000

Today I was searching the internet for website building software. One of my services to my clients with my Virtual Assistant business will be building websites for them. I think I have found a good one, provided I can create multiple websites with the software. I emailed tech support and asked them if their software would enable me to create multiple websites. Hope I get an answer tomorrow.

Business Books

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:39:00 +0000

Today I went through some boxes and found some very important books that will jog my memory on all kinds of business forms, reports, proposals, designing visuals, graphic art, order letters, inquiry letters, special request letters, sales letters, etc..the list goes on. I need to review all of these things because it's been a long time since I've had to do or use all of these things. Even punctuation and grammar. The book is called Successful Writing at Work. The other book that has always been my "Office Bible" is called The Gregg Reference Manual. I used this book when I was in business school and since have acquired the latest edition which I have used ever since. If you ever question any rules of writing in business or personal, these 2 books tell it all. If you refer to these books, you will never have to worry or question yourself when you write.

Business Approved By Secretary of State

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:26:00 +0000

That sure was fast! I guess when you file your business online it happens much faster than the old paper and traditional mail way. My business has been approved by the Secretary of State. Now the tax department has to review their portion and approve it. That should not be a problem, but since I registered an LLC it HAD to go through the Secretary of State first or the other departments would not approve.

Next, I am going to brainstorm for a domain name, see what is available and purchase one. That's all for today.

Step One for the New Business Process

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0000

Today I registered my business with the Secretary of State. All Corporations, S Corporations, Limited Liability Companies, Limited Partnerships, Associations, and Limited Liability Partnerships must first register with the Secretary of State or the registration and licensing applications will not be processed.

As I was researching everything on the internet I came across the West Virginia Secretary of State website and discovered that I could register everything on that site, so that is exactly what I did. I didn't have to worry about getting the forms to fill out by hand and mail. This was very convenient.

My business is going to be an LLC, or Limited Liability Company. I am the sole owner so I did not need to have a EIN or FEIN number. I can use my social security number. My business will be registered as "Help For You By Deborah, LLC." I did a check on the name and it was available. Apparently no one else is using that title. All I have to do is wait until everything is processed and legal.

In the mean time, I will be working on my business plan, marketing plan, carrying out a self assessment, decide on my exact services and rates, budgeting, develop my mission statement, create goals, set up bookkeeper, accountant, etc., I already have 99.9% of the equipment needed for my business, accept for some minor things.

New Business

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:36:00 +0000

I have not been paying much attention to my blog lately. I have been busy with businesses and have neglected to post here.

After much thought and after working very hard at various businesses, I have come to the conclusion that MLM and Network Marketing are not for me. My reasoning for this is because I feel that when something new or a new idea comes out, it is unique in its own way. Very soon everyone is copying it and it is no longer a niche. For example, I thought MLM Lead System Pro was one of its kind when I first found it. Well, it was one of its kind, but very soon there were others duplicating it and now it seems that every solicitation I receive is just a different name and version of MLM Lead System Pro. One thing I can say for it, is that the marketing training was much more advanced and I learned a ton of things that I probably would not have learned had I not been involved with it.

The way I look at it, is that I can now take what I learned and apply it to my own thing. One thing I do agree with, is that you must position yourself as a leader, but with everyone duplicating these business types, we know that the only true leaders are the ones that created these programs and everyone else is just copying and pretending to be as much of an expert as the creators.

I feel that we need to learn all that we can---never stop learning so we actually have something of our own to give to others and we can be leaders in our own right.

I have decided to stop getting involved in all of this hype. Actually, I'm really very tired of all of this hype and feel that is has wasted my valuable time. Although, I have no one to blame but myself.

I have decided to put all of my skills and knowledge in one package and market myself and my own business to those who want and need my specialized services. I have so many skills that I can use to help others in their businesses to help them grow and take care of the tasks that need taken care of so they can have the time to do other important things in their businesses. I will be what is called a Virtual Assistant. I will market to small and medium businesses and take care of many projects that need done for them and they won't have to hire a full time or part time employee or a temp. I will work by the hour and when the project is done, it is done and they won't have to pay an ongoing employee to stay on and do nothing in between projects. They also won't have to pay taxes on payroll, provide health insurance or any other benefits. And when their next project rolls around, they can use my services again.

I am just getting started. My first step at this is setting up the type of business that I will be. After much thought, I have decided to set up as an Limited Liability Co. (LLC) instead of a sole proprietor. This way I have all the benefits of being a sole proprietor, but not with all of the liability that comes with it.

Today I am going over and filling out all of the paperwork involved with this so I can get started. I will be posting all of the steps as I progress through this process. So, until tomorrow......

GLOBAL DOMAINS INTERNATIONAL - GDI

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:02:00 +0000

I have found another very lucrative business that makes sense. It's called Global Domains International, GDI.

In my opinion, the reason it makes sense is because the internet is growing at lightening speed. As more people lose their jobs, they are turning to the internet to find something they can do at home to earn money. To make money on the internet, the name of the game is branding yourself so the internet community gets to know you and gains your trust.

You have to have something of value to give and then people will trust you and follow you. Create a niche for yourself, get all the education you can so you can give to others, help others and in turn, you will reap the benefits of success.

My point is that with GDI, you and others can brand yourselves. Domain names will always be in demand and with this company, you can brand yourself, help others brand themselves and earn money at the same time.

In my opinion, it is a very unique business and like I said before, the domain name business does not fluctuate with the economy. Internet marketers NEED domain names and the NEED branding. What could be better?

This business is very easy to get started and is very low on investment. You also get to try it out first. The training is awesome as they give you all the tools that you need.

Give it a try. You really have nothing to lose, and if it suits you, you have everything to gain.

Good luck!

VN VIRAL NETWORKS CONTINUED

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:06:00 +0000

I just wanted to add a little bit of information regarding my last post of the video regarding VN Viral Networks.

I feel that this business networking site is very well worth joining. You can send 3000 emails every 3 days and send messages to your downline every 5 days. This is on the Gold membership which I highly recommend.

If you market your links and people join using your link, you start to make money. They provide banners and sample advertising copy to use in promoting your link. They also have a blog set-up to get your business known even more. There is much much more that I haven't gotten into yet,but I fully intend too. The first time I sent everyone in my group on Facebook a message about VN Viral Networks using their promotional materials, I received 5 people that joined me. I think it is worthwhile networking on this network. It just opened not too long ago.

There will be more later as I continue to use their tools.

VN VIRAL NETWORKS

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:55:00 +0000

FACEBOOK GROUP WEB ADDRESS

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:04:00 +0000

If you aren't on Facebook yet, you might want to get started with a profile. It is a great place to network your business. I've got over 1,000 business contacts and I have over 400 in a group that I created. My high school graduating class is also connecting there and we have our own high school group for our class reunion in July.

Click above and check out my group! You could be networking just like this and getting more leads for your business! There are other networking sites that I will share with you later. I'm just in the process of seeing how well they work for business networking. When I've been networking for a while longer, I will share them with you, but only if I feel they are worthwhile! There is nothing so frustrating as wasting your precious time!

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:35:00 +0000

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I wish peace, joy and good health to everyone always!

This year I had a very quiet, but wonderful Christmas. There is so much to look forward to in 2009 and I have so many goals I want to accomplish. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. There is too much at stake for that!

Veretekk Continued

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:45:00 +0000

I've been working everyday on Veretekk and it is proving to be very profitable as far as marketing is concerned. I work on certain tasks everyday, get thousands of leads in my various marketing portals. I send an email out to them asking them to verify and approve of me to send them further mail. I then create sequential mailers to go out to these leads. In the system, I created sequential mailers (letters) to automatically go out every 7 days to all the leads that verify. It is important to get their permission so as not to send out spam. I created a marketing center for 997MakeMoneyNow, Purple Cowboys, so my sequential mailers are a series of Purple Cowboy letters. I have been getting leads in my 997makemoneynow back office as well as in my Veretekk back office. I have even gotten people that just join me in 997makemoneynow and Veretekk that I have not even spoken to yet. Of course, I call them and offer my support because I am their sponsor. I am still thrilled about how this all works. Generating my own targeted leads! And I absolutely know where all of them are coming from. That sure beats buying leads and not knowing how old they are or if they are really targeted to my business as the lead generators claim.

VERETEKK TRAINING

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:05:00 +0000

Today I did 2 Veretekk live trainings. One at 8:00 am and one at 8:00 pm.

The system can be very confusing at first, but what it is actually capable of, in terms of marketing any business leaves me speechless. I can't even really explain it to anyone so they would believe it.

There is so much to learn, that I think my brain is over loading! I will learn it all though, because I see how very powerful it all is. It is worth every bit of time that it takes to learn and apply it and for the gold membership, $41.00 per month is definitely worth it! Don't tell anyone, but I feel it is worth much more than that!

You can use Veretekk for your own personal businesses or you can use it as a business in itself! And what's great about it is that you can be a silver member for free to see if it is something you will benefit from.

TIME FLIES WHEN YOU'RE HAVING FUN!

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:21:00 +0000

Hello everyone! Time flies! I can't believe it is already Wednesday and the last post I made was last Thursday!

Well, I tried to publish my website boutique to the internet last night, but ran into some minor complications that will probably delay it 3-5 days. I'm not too happy about it, but there is nothing I can do about it, so I might as well not make a big deal about it. I was really very excited about it and then.......well, that's enough. I don't want to talk negatively because the universe might come down on me.

I just got off of Purple Cowboy Marketing training call. Tonight we discussed color personalities. This is always very interesting and informative. It really helps to know what kinds of personalities there are in the world and how to identify them so you know how to better communicate and connect with all kinds of people.

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:28:00 +0000

Ok, ok, I know, I'm a lot of talk and no action. I was reviewing my previous posts and realized that I have not posted anymore about the ingredients that are in Gano Coffee like I said I would and I have not yet created another blog, but I promise I will in the near future. I think the next blog I create will be dedicated to healthy coffee and everything exciting that is going on with it. Within Purple Cowboy Marketing, the Gano Coffee people have taken a great interest in us and 6 of us were chosen to work directly with the top sales lady in the company. I have been chosen as one of the 6 people. What an honor that is! I'm so excited! Hard work pays off and this time it has been recognized. I'm ready to roll!

The good news! I only have 2 more steps to complete before the launching of the boutique. These last 2 steps are on the technical side so I really have to sit down and have a great deal of patience with myself, but I will do it and do it right, even if I make a few initial mistakes along the way.

Happy New Year to All!

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:19:00 +0000

Well, I always talk about how I'm not posting enough! This time it's been 2 whole weeks! I thought I was going to get so much accomplished since the dance studio was closed for a week. But with my daughter visiting and my SO's kids coming in to visit, my time was very divided. But the good thing is that I should be launching the boutique in just a matter of days! I'm very excited about that. Just in time for the next event---Valentine's Day!

I'm also posting on the right hand side of this post, the links to my favorite blogs.

Creation Of My Online Boutique

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:49:00 +0000

I'm finally seeing some light at the end of the tunnel on the creation of my online boutique. It's challenging to do the meta stuff and research key words, etc. I have to create key words on each product and each page and do ongoing research on these key words to make sure they stay up to date so the spiders carry them up closer to the top of the search engines.

I realized I hadn't posted in a week. I need to post more, but time seems to get away from you when you are busy. I've also been busy with Purple Cowboy Marketing, so I've really been tied up. Time flies! I'll have to be more consistent with my posts!

New Blog Coming

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:23:00 +0000

I've been a little lazy today. I've only worked a little bit. I've been up until 2:30 am for about 4-5 nights now trying to get everything done that I want to do. I've got to get the boutique up and running soon. It's taking longer than I want it to because I'm very inexperienced. But at the same time it is fun. I love being creative and learn at the same time. I've got to be on the dance floor teaching dance very soon , so I've got to make this quick. I'm going to start another blog on Bloggerparty.com very soon----like today; or should I say tonight.

ReviewParty owns Bloggerparty. ReviewParty is a site where you can write reviews and get Google AdSense credits and also Amazon credits. These sites take care of the traffic for you. Well, I've got to be going. More on this later.

And by the way. The Purple Cowboys and Purple Cowgirls are still going STRONG!!

997MakeMonyNow Purple Cowboy Marketing Press Release

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 04:52:00 +0000

I just launched a press release a few minutes ago and bookmarked it on quite a few sites. I've got to go to my email and confirm the rest which I will do tomorrow.

I think I'm going to create another blog.

Purple Cowboy Coffee

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:28:00 +0000

Did you know that Purple Cowboy Coffee is actually Gano Coffee? We all know that 99.9% of the population loves and drinks coffee, so this is a no-brainer. But, there is one thing that makes Gano Coffee different from the rest. It is healthy coffee!

It doesn't taste weird or anything. It tastes like normal coffee, but it has healthy antioxidants in it to counter act the free radicals that roam through our bodies like there's no tomorrow.

On my next post I'll post my research on the ingredients in Gano Coffee. One thing I do know for sure is that it tastes wonderful! My entire family is drinking it. My significant other is always a skeptic and coffee is one of his favorite loves. Now that he's tried it, he drinks it everyday! He is even drinking the cafe mocha flavor! I like the hot chocolate and the tea also. So if you like coffee, tea or hot chocolate, you may want to take a look. Either go the the links above or I'll make it easy for you.....Gano Coffee ............Healthy Purple Cowboy Coffee

Forum Posting for Networking and Effective Marketing

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:11:00 +0000

I am finding that posting to forums is a great way to meet people, develop relationships, and network my business as well as find out what other people are doing and what works for them.

For me, it is very time consuming, but is proving to be effective. I am also learning more things I didn't know by reading and responding to posts. I also have a few forums with a topic of my own on them. As far as responses to my topic goes, it seems to be different on each forum. On some forums I get lots of responses and on others, not many. On one of the forums, only 1 person has responded to me and we just seem to talk back and forth regarding the topic. The topic gets viewed by others, but they don't respond.

Today Monday November 26th

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:55:00 +0000

Today was pretty busy. I was trying to catch up yesterday and today. Last week I came down with the flu and was unable to do a lot with my businesses. When I say businesses, I mean 997MakeMoneyNow and also the online boutique I am creating.

I am creating a website/online boutique that will display products from the exotic South Pacific. I'm excited about it.

After much research, I finally found a drop shipper from a little island off of Australia called Vanuatu. It is a real life paradise where there are virtually no chemicals, pesticides or cancer causing agents to destroy the environment. Everything is grown normally, or what I call organically. All the products are the purest you can find on the face of the earth.

I am an amateur website creator, but after this first one, I am sure that the next 5 will go much smoother. I will be creating 6 mirrored websites. Mirrored, meaning all relating to one another and linked to one another. For example, I also found drop shippers that have similar products for dogs and cats. This would be a mirror of the 1st website, only with products for pets instead of humans.

I will be using the fantastic marketing tools that I am learning from Purple Cowboy Marketing for promoting my mirrored websites.

Also, I was pleased again to see that I had another lead in my back office requesting information on 997MakeMoneyNow. I can see that the part time work I've been putting in is starting to pay off. I will continue to do as much as I can everyday and it will slowly get bigger and bigger.

Where else can you get such innovative and detailed training for just $9.97? I'll answer that for you. NOWHERE!

Lots of Traffic-Websites Down

noreply@blogger.com (dmbunny) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:27:00 +0000

Today was pretty exciting. On one hand, I was a little frustrated because our 997MakeMoneyNow websites were down for some time today, but when I talked to Brad Slinkard, one of the founders, he said that Mo was busy fixing the problem. The problem was that the Purple Cowboys were getting more and more traffic, which is a great thing that's happening!

I'm happy to say that everything is up and running again, thanks to the technical talents of Mo Young, one of the founders.

I also was excited because everything that I'm learning and applying this past month is really starting to show that it is working. I had 2 leads sign into my site this week. For being in the program for only one month and working part time, I don't think that's so bad. I've just been consistent. Doing something everyday, no matter how big or small. If I had more time, just think how much quicker things would pull together. But, even though I'm known for being impatient with myself, there is no way I'm quitting. I'm really enjoying myself and I'm really enjoying the relationships I'm developing in the process.