10 Commandments of Personal Finance

For some people, getting personal finances in order is more grueling than wandering the desert for 40 years. But it doesn’t take a miracle. If you are looking for some basic guidelines, just follow these 10 commandments:

1. Thou Shalt Take Action
Reading about how to improve your personal finances is a start, but it has absolutely no meaning if you don’t take the action of putting what you learn into motion. Before you can get anywhere with your personal finances, you need to begin — right now. If you are reading this article, you know that you should be taking steps to get your personal finances in order.

Print out this list and place it where you will see it every day, so that you are reminded that personal finance is a priority in your life and that you will take some action each and every day to try to improve your lot. If you aren’t sure where to begin, start with getting your banking accounts in order.

2. Thou Shalt Pay Off All Credit Card Debt
Credit card debt is, in most cases, continue reading »

11 Easy Ways For You To Grab (FREE) Traffic…..

My oh my where has the year gone? We say that ever year though. The truth of the matter is, time IS flying so let’s not waste any more of it. On to some important year end business…

How would you like a legitimate "list" of FREE traffic generation techniques that have been proven to work over and over and over?

I can’t think of a better way to end the year than with "11 FREE Traffic Tips" you can implement right away for 2009 to explode your Home Business empire…

One of the most common questions I get from new Home Business Owners and Entrepreneurs I coach when they begin marketing online is:

"How do I generate leads and get consistent traffic to my web site if I’m on a budget?"

…A valid question.

Well, first of all the truth about online marketing you need to know…

You’re only working with two tools: Money and Time. That’s it.

The easiest way to drive traffic to your site is to continue reading »

What if You Are Forced to Press Pause?

In a time when we rely so heavily on technology, what would you do if one day you woke up to not having access to all the familiar "tools" to run your business, even simple things such as your computer?  In a nutshell, you’d be forced to press the "pause button" – just as I am today!  It appears my system was overtaken by something bigger than what my skills could eliminate, so off to the "computer whiz" shop it went.  I am borrowing my husband’s "clunker" this morning until he needs it.

While I won’t be able to run my business today and possibly tomorrow "as usual", it will give me an opportunity to catch up on other types of business activities that I tend to put off such as filing, and possibly reading the last couple of issues of Success magazine!  (Yes, I am that far behind).  Meanwhile, here are some items for you to think about doing, so an event like this doesn’t turn catastrophic.

1.  Perform Regular System Backups – I cannot stress this enough.  It will make a system "hiccup" or hard drive failure much less stressful when you know all of your files can be retrieved.  Either back them up on a disc, a thumb drive, or as I do, on an external hard drive.  This is the easiest because continue reading »

The 55 Most Popular Reference Sites

As a marketer of any business whether online or off, you probably spend significant time reviewing the best channels to advertise and market your business. Here are 55 of the most popular reference sites, based on inbound links, Google page rank, Alexa ranking, and general traffic altogether. Take a look at these, but with a "different set of glasses" than you normally wear. See if you can find a golden nugget with a slightly different twist that will move you ahead of your "competition". Just because these sites may not be in your same "industry" doesn’t mean there isn’t an opportunity for you. continue reading »