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7 Reasons You Have Failed At Network Marketing or MLM

January 20, 2009

Let me start by saying three things about past failures in network marketing: It is not your fault You alone are the driver for success or failure By reading this, you will no longer have an excuse for failure. At first blush, it seems that these two statements are at odds with each other. You [...]

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The neglectful father strikes again

January 5, 2009

If there is any “secret” or strategy to being a work at home dad, it would be to take advantage of every free minute you have.  I am able to spend more time on my business than most at home parents as I neglect things like personal hygeine and cleaning the house.  It is a [...]

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How to balance raising children with running a home based business

January 3, 2009

Anyone that stumbles across this blog will see that it has been neglected over the last year or so.  As with so many things in my life, I started with a great amount of enthusiasm which waned over time.  Surely this is the fate of many blogs – after all, it is nearly as easy [...]

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Am I doing any good?

October 15, 2008

It started with the best intentions and plans. . . I was to quit the normal 9-5 job and stay at home with Vincent.  In my spare time I would start an enormously profitable home business that would allow the lifestyle we wanted and enable my wife to quit her job within a few months. [...]

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Resurrection

October 9, 2008

Not that I think anyone reads this blog anymore – after all, I haven’t posted in nearly a year – I think I will attempt to resurrect it. I have been busily growing my business – InnovativeWealthLLC.com  and have begun a new blog that is related to my business (though not a shill promo site) [...]

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Packet8 Virtual Office

October 23, 2007

Packet8 Virtual Office Increases Productivity Any time I get discouraged, I just remind myself that it is about one important thing : TIME. The reason I chose to start my own home business, and the reason I let my children put me through near daily torture (well, its not so bad is that I wanted [...]

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News and changes

September 28, 2007

Over the next couple of days I will be making a few changes to the site – nothing huge, just some layout things and links. I had to get rid of that widget box for social bookmarking because it was slow to load – I will be replacing it with a few select buttons for [...]

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I think I am in trouble

September 22, 2007

Last year Mary and I decided to take our fledgling home business and convert it from a standard partnership to an LLC. Sounded like the thing to do for tax and liability reasons so we went ahead with it by using an online company to draw up our paperwork. Everything went smoothly of course – [...]

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Its a never ending process

September 22, 2007

Being a small business owner, I know its a never ending process to keep marketing my business and ensure my clients and potential clients are knowledgeable of my services. Because of the complexity of my business, a simple flier or business card does not always get the job done properly. In addition, I occasionally do [...]

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Where everybody knows your name

September 20, 2007

In the past I have written about my business on this blog but haven’t addressed an essential (and most overlooked) aspect of having a small or home based business – marketing. Getting your name out, letting people know what you do, etc. is the only way you will make any money (lets face it, you [...]

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