Want To Start A Home-Based Business? – These Three Steps Are Key

Have you been thinking about making a change from a regular day-to-day job into starting your very own home-based business? Do you crave freedom, do you desire to be your own boss and work hard for nobody else but yourself, and do you want to earn a six-figure income within the next year and potentially scale it from there? If any or all of this sounds good to you, then you are probably the right person to start a home-based business.

There is no greater feeling that earning money for yourself, built from nothing but hard work, desire, and the will to succeed. Even though all of these are very real rewards that come with owning your own business, they will not come easily and they will not come overnight. There is no readily or easily available information out there that teaches people how to start a business online from home, so when you come across some high-quality information that gives you real steps to making it happen, be sure to take it to heart and run with it.

So with all of this said, the following three steps are extremely important to understanding how a quality home-based business is ran, and make up three of the four pillars that are what I have built my online business upon, they are:

#1 – Quality products that are your own

#2 – Building quality customer relationships

#3 – Driving massive numbers of leads to your online business

Let’s take a closer look at each of these three pillars for success:

#1 – Quality products that are your own

The fastest way to build a solid income is to create your own products and sell them through an online medium. Now there are smarter types of products to build in order to make your business much simpler and there are products that will significantly hurt your bottom line and take up much more of your precious time. The most lucrative product types that give you the best return for your investment are digital products.

#2 – Building quality customer relationships

Owning a business means you have to find customers, and people just wont buy from you unless they like you and your products. So you have to find smart ways that build quality relationships with people who are interested in your business. There are ways to achieve this on an automated basis, one of the best tools for the job is an autoresponder.

#3 – Driving massive numbers of leads to your online business

Business is all about numbers, and the more people you drive to your website/business the more you will ultimately turn into buyers. The goal will be to figure out what gets the most people to your business and then do it well and do it on a larger scale.

A Brief History of Real Estate: The Fee Simple Ownership

Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852), Duke of Wellington, is reputed to have been the one to exclaim ‘All good things come from England, but cavalry is not one of them’ while facing Napoleon’s French Army at Waterloo on June 18, 1815. Wellesley had learnt his military trade in India applying his study of the art of war and had became a master of the reverse-slope tactic – keeping his forces screened from artillery fire behind the brow of a hill. At Waterloo, however, Wellesley’s Armies were outwitted by Napoleon. The French Emperor had imitated Wellesley’s tactics by positioning 200 heavy artillery guns behind a ridge at La Haye Sainte. When the Hussars and Dragoons cavalrymen led by Lord Uxbridge attacked in the famous Charge of the Scots Greys, Napoleon commanded the guns on the topline of the ridge and one of the epic artillery bombardments in history began. It was at this very moment, at the height of the Charge and while his 3,000 cavalrymen were being slaughtered by the rapid artillery fire of Napoleon’s heavy guns, that the phlegmatic English General is reputed to have exclaimed his now famous remark, directed at Lord Uxbridge who had apparently ordered the Charge without Wellesley knowing it. The day was saved by Gebhard von Blucher (1742-1819), Field Marshal of Prussia, who led the assault of the Kaiser’s Prussian Cavalry against the French right wing, thus causing the entire French line to collapse.

Wellesley’s famous remark has been retouched several times throughout the years, depending on one’s point of view. The British dropped the second part – the reference to the ill-fated cavalry charge – thus creating the popular short version ‘All good things come from England’ – period. When about a century later Britain had the unwise idea of attacking the Ottoman Empire and the British and French Armies were fighting the Turks side-by-side in WWI, General Mustapha Kemal – the English-speaking Commander of the Turkish Garrison and victorious defender of Gallipoli – paraphrased the English dictum after 289 days of siege by turning it, somewhat deprecatingly, into: “No good things ever come from England”. And Mahatma Gandhi throughout his teachings of non-violent conflicts resolutions makes reference to the fact that “All good things come from India”.

Alas, no matter what your point of view is, I shall submit to readers of my Blog that “at least two good things comes from England” : Fee Simple Ownership and Organized Real Estate.

English real estate law (or ‘Estate Law’ as it was known back then) was imported, through colonization, into the earlier forms of law in the U.S.A., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Many of these states, or their territories, have since modified this historical law, to varying degrees. A study of the old feudal land system of England provides us with an invaluable glimpse of legal history regulating the most valuable asset of them all: land. In medieval times, land was the sole form of wealth and it depended primarily on possession. You had it, you owned it. You wanted it, you fought for it. You found it, you kept it. There were no courts or police force ready to recognize or enforce “legal rights” as we know them today. All this changed with the Norman conquest of England in 1066. William decreed that he owned all of the land in England by right of conquest. Not one acre of England was to be exempted from this massive expropriation. This sudden vacuum of privately-held land was promptly filled by a variety of huge land grants given by the new King to either his Norman officers or to those of the English who were ready to recognize him as king. The device used by the King to control and administer his land was that of tenure. Tenure was the key component of the feudal system. The King struck a bargain with a Lord for a large chunk of land. The Lords that held their tenure directly from the King were called Tenants-in-chief. It was this group of persons who formed the basis of English aristocracy and began, by the process of subletting the King’s land, the implementation of the feudal system.

Tenures were of a variety of duration known as “estates” and the Fee Simple Estate was the most extensive and allowed the Tenant to sell or to convey by will or be transferred to the Tenant’s heir if he died. In modern law, almost all land is held in fee simple and this is as close as one can get to absolute ownership in common law. It was in this context that the British began their dominion over the seas and their explorations which led to the modern nations of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States of America. The concept of developing an informal association of local real estate agents originated in the United States in the 1880s, and by the turn of the century about 15 Real Estate Boards had been established. The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) was formed in the U.S. in 1908 with 19 boards and one state association. Organized real estate in Canada is almost as old as the country itself. The very first Real Estate Board was set up in 1888 in the growing community of Vancouver. Back then, a commercial lot on Hornby Street near the Hotel Vancouver sold for $600. The Vancouver Board – as it was known then – was active until the start of the First World War, when operations were suspended. It resumed in 1919, and has been operating ever since.

The distinction of the oldest, continuous running Board belongs to Winnipeg, Manitoba. It started in 1903, and the Winnipeg Real Estate Board was the first in Canada to celebrate its 100th anniversary. The Toronto Board was incorporated in 1920, followed by boards in Ottawa, Hamilton, Regina and Victoria in 1921. More than half of the existing Real Estate Boards in Canada were created after 1955, in part because of the evolution of the “Photo Co-Op System” that was introduced in 1951. That was the forerunner of today’s MLS®, introduced in 1962. The Co-op System not only created a need for an organization to establish rules and promote co-operation among agents, but also to provide funds to operate a real estate board. That’s when technology first changed the real estate industry.

How to Stop Procrastination From Stealing Your Seventh Step to Success in Your Home-Based Business

Your telephone feels like a hundred pounds when you pick it up to call your leads. You made the decision to be a success in your home based business yet you procrastinate in making those phone calls. Napoleon Hill in his famous book “Think and Grow Rich” states that decision is the seventh step to riches. The Latin root for the word decision means to cut off from alternatives. You looked at all the different scenarios, and then you severed the unacceptable ones. The scenario that is left is the one that you pursue. Your decision making process must be very efficient and effective. The opposite of decision is procrastination, ironically procrastination is normally the decision that most people make. When you don’t make those phone calls, then you are allowing procrastination to run your home based business. Your success or failure in your home based business is dependent on your actions or in actions.The people who overcome procrastination will allow the results to make the necessary statement. A 26.2 mile marathon is not completed until the runner makes the decision to take the first step. The majority of failures may be attributed to a lack of decision. Inaction is a major cause of failure in the decision making process. Major corporations that previously use to sweep failures under the rug are now looking at them more closely. These corporations are trying to learn from these failures to avoid the same thing happening in the future. Most successful people make decisions quickly and are very slow to change them. The unsuccessful person makes decision slowly and changes them rapidly.The ultimate goal is to make the proper decisions in ensuring success in your home based business. If people with opinions change your mind frequently, you will never attract money to your home based business. Your carefully selected mastermind group is the only people that you should receive an “opinion” on your proposal. There are a number of different ways to evaluate a situation, choose one and use it to come to a final decision. When you reach decisions in a timely manner you, then you become a master over procrastination. The toughest decisions to make are those that not only impact your life, but also your family.The value of your decisions is depended on your courage to make them. The great decisions made by leaders, such as Abraham Lincoln was reached at great risks. Abraham Lincoln made decisions that ultimately led to his death. The decisions you make not only impact you but affect everyone in your life. The conclusion that you reached after consideration must not be taken lightly. Procrastination is a twin to indecision. You must make the decision to be successful in your home based business and commit to it. If you don’t make decisions, then procrastination will steal your success in your home based business.