There is no reason that you, as well as everybody, should not be able to fulfil your top business ideas without the need for big investments. There are ways, as you can see in this article, that are totally free or at least very close to free. I am sure that you probably spend more money on coffee or tea each month.The basic thing is to get a website. Here you can choose between a free and a hosted one. I definitely recommend getting your own domain registered and then rent some space from a webhost. The advantage to pay for this stage (domain and webhost) is that you can decide what you want down to the detail. You are always limited by the owner of the free website. And there is also often competition from ads that you don’t get anything from. The cost may not be more than $7-8 per month. But in the long run, you will get much more out of it. You can find a recommended webhost to the right if you choose to go that way.To be able to start make money with a home based business you need to have something to place on Internet. An absolute free way to manage that is to put affiliate links on your site. Many of the free sites and blogs give you that option. They have all different ways to implement the links and advertising. If you have your own, there are really good ways to get this for free too. Even to have the site fully setup for you. One of the ways I recommend is MyAffiliatePowersite. You will get at site fully set up with 6 free affiliate links. You only have to register for free on the separate sites.One good way to attract traffic, visitors, to your site is to use a blog. Most of the free sites have that, and you will also get a free one to your “own” site. Either you install Word Press from your webhost or you can choose to do it by yourself. Word Press is free to download and to use. To write articles is a great way to make your site interesting and when people visit your site, you will start to make money in your home based business.This is the basic way to start up your Home Business for a low or even no cost. There are different ways to optimize and to attract visitors and search engines, but these are the basics that you need to know. Last but not least, you need a PayPal account (free to get) to be able to collect your income when you have started to grow your business ideas, as described, almost totally free.
The Skills Necessary to Start Your Own Home Based Business
Public Schools: Education or Indoctrination
Educators have pondered for years the achievement gap between Caucasian, African-American and Asian students. In order to narrow the gap educators have tried segregating schools, they have tried providing comparable facilities and they have politically corrected all the pictures in the text books to reveal a member of each race of people and all gender possibilities. The academic performance of the child seems not to depend so much on these issues as the attitude of their parents toward the educational process. If the parents consider the school a glorified baby sitting service then it’s unlikely their children are going to perform well.
Like two ships passing each other in the harbor, Christians and secular humanists reveal two opposing viewpoints when it comes to the purpose and philosophy of education. Christians understand their responsibility in educating their children. Deuteronomy 6:5-7 reinforces the obligation parents have toward their children: “Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.”
The early American theologian and Civil War Army Chaplain, Robert Louis Dabney, said, “True education is, in one sense, a spiritual process. It is the nurture of the soul.” Because we are, by nature, spiritual beings we will develop our foundational concepts of spirituality during the elastic years of childhood and adolescence. Men are created to worship and worship we shall. We will either worship the one and true God or we will worship his creation (materialism) or ourselves (humanism).
The Puritan poet, John Milton, expressed the Christian view of education well when he said, “The end of learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge, to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him.” Education is not the primary responsibility of the schools, nor is it the responsibility of the government or the church. It is every parent’s responsibility to be sure his child is educated in the truth of God’s word. Even though John was talking of his spiritual converts, 3 John 4 fits well here, “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.” Christians believe that the sole purpose of man’s life is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. We find ourselves strongly opposed to anything that blocks us from that goal.
Those who believe that government schools are prohibited from promoting religion are deceived. They are prohibited from promoting Christianity but most any other religion is fair game. The religion most commonly propagated in our public schools is secular humanism. In the 1961 case of Torcaso v. Watkins the U.S. Supreme Court defined humanism as a religion. The first Humanist Manifesto openly identifies humanism as a religion and Julian Huxley referred to humanism as a Religion Without Revelation. He taught that Christianity was fading and in its place was emerging the religion of humanism.
Many are awakening to the fact that our schools have become more focused on indoctrination than education. Our public school system is based on an industrial revolution model that came out of Prussia. It is a system that is compulsory. You must send your children to school and you must pay taxes to support the educational welfare system. Why do so many Americans think education is free? The average cost of paying for a child’s education is between $10,000 and $12,000 per year. It costs a whopping $27,000 to educate a child in Washington, D.C.
The social agenda seems to be to convert our children to humanism. They are taught that homosexuality is an acceptable and alternative lifestyle. They are taught that marriage is no longer between one man and one woman but can include partners of the same sex and a multitude of other combinations. They are taught that we all evolved from nothing and God had nothing at all to do with our existence. They are taught that the fetus in a mother’s womb is simply a mass of cells that can and perhaps should be aborted as the mother wishes. The result: the minds of our children are clouded about the existence of God, they are gender confused and they no longer believe in the value and sanctity of life.
90% of Christians send their children to government schools in which federal law forbids the mention of the name of Christ. Some of them have no choice because they cannot home school and they cannot afford a private Christian school. These parents must do all in their power to counteract the humanistic indoctrination their children are learning at school. It will require an organized effort to read and explain the Bible to their children in the home setting.
Other parents use the salt and light argument for sending their kids to public schools. They often say, “My child will be a witness for Christ.”. A study done by the Southern Baptists indicates that 88% of Baptist youth who graduated from public schools left the church. Our missionaries are not converting others, instead they are being converted. They are going up against a systematic effort of organized policy and well-developed curriculum that is designed to indoctrinate social servants of the state.
I am no enemy of public education. I know many wonderful Christian teachers and administrators here in Columbus, Georgia. They love Christ deeply and they are doing all they can to be a light shining in a darkened world. Most of my Christian teacher friends stay in government schools because they believe it is important to demonstrate Christianity to their students and co-workers. I agree with them but that is only half of the command of Christ. He also said, “…everyone who confesses Me before men, I will also confess him before My Father who is in heaven.” (Matthew 10:32) We are instructed to boldly declare the name of Christ. If you follow this directive in the government schools you will be looking for another job.
Neutrality is not an option. I am teaching my six-year-old son the concepts of driving an automobile. The line in the center of the road provides a parameter for travelers. If you decide to straddle the line you may lose your life. “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.” Straddling the fence on this issue can be fatal. We must not only demonstrate the lifestyle, we must proclaim his name boldly. Don’t be deceived by the politically correct approach to Christianity in government schools. If you are not for Christ…you are against him!
Christ addressed this problem in Luke 6:40 “A student is not above his teacher, but everyone who is fully trained will be like his teacher.” When it comes to secularism, nine out of ten Christian students will cave. If our children have secular teachers they will likely embrace secular teachings, if they have Christian teachers they likely will embrace Christian teachings. Who is your child’s teacher?
A Guide on Successful Product Creation and Internet Marketing
Product creation in Internet marketing is getting stiffer and stiffer nowadays owing to tough competition between Internet-based businesses. Putting up a new product requires plenty of brainpower and finances along with an ability to take risk. With that, even if you have the product well-set already, you have to position it strategically in the Internet landscape for others to notice. You should get the interest of Web users and turn them to actual customers. Aside from the usual physical products, many different products that thrive well on Internet marketing include E-books, membership sites, and video lectures.
The long and difficult process of product creation begins with ideas. They are easy to get – compared to the effort that comes with analyzing the market for that idea. Before the idea turns to a product, businesses often spend money, even amounting to millions of dollars, to ensure the success of the new product that emerges from an idea. Businesses undertake many types of market research and surveys before releasing their products to the public. Now, you may think that because your business is small, you can’t afford research or you don’t have to do research; you can and you should. The Internet allows you to disseminate materials needed for your market study to many people at once without your having to spend a cent.
It is a common maxim in business: Look at your destination first before mapping out your journey. So what are the goals you intend to accomplish with your product creation ventures? The everyday travails of your business may make you forget the end in sight. On the other hand, prepare to entertain new developments that come to your mind in your product creation. Your conception of a product may have started this way, but a few tweaks here and there along with some market research results and it ends up another way. Take it as the result of a creative process, not as a failure to reach your goal. After all, your product creation activities are intertwined with a long-term goal that you should strive to sustain at your utmost: profit generation. So if your less profitable initial idea evolves to a more profitable product, be thankful!
With your product made up already, start doing some aggressive Internet marketing. A product purchase typically comes after more than five times a customer is exposed to an informative call-to-buy message. Thus it is important to get the contact details, like the e-mail address, of potential customers who are on the brink of a sale. Use the results of your market research to determine the demographics to which you should concentrate your marketing efforts.
With consistent product creation, you can make an inventory of your products that you can market in due time. Just keep making products – the moment you succeed in making and marketing a product, customers are surely wanting more from you, so give it to them. Keep them on your side through constant product creation.