Catering can be a rewarding career, especially for a home-based businessperson. But no matter how much you enjoy the thrill of crafting excellent meals and putting together flavors, the paperwork can be a real downer sometimes. That’s why Microsoft invented Excel — it’s the paperwork eliminator that can make a surprising number of catering tasks remarkably simple.
Scheduling
Making sure that your people are going to be able to cover every event you have coming up can be a big challenge. With Excel’s ability to keep track both numerically and graphically of everyone’s availability, you’ll always be confident that you have the people to get the job done.
Customer Tracking
Put all of your customers’ details into an Excel database, and you’ll be able to search for any attribute of an order to call up the entire thing in the future. Great for resolving disputes with customers that aren’t entirely happy.
Recipe Alterations
You might find an excellent recipe for Chicken Saltimbocca, but for a small family — can you be certain of your ability to convert it to a recipe that will serve hundreds? With Excel, you can.
Inventory
Excel’s abilities to project future need based on past consumption and send an Email alert when a certain number drops below a given amount combine to make it the perfect inventory-tracking system.
Meal Preparation
With the emphasis on healthy meals today, it’s easy to understand why a customer would be upset if your offerings were lacking in a notable aspect of well-balanced-meal-dom. Use Excel’s pull down menus and assign a category or two to each part of a meal, and Excel can easily graph out each proposed meal to make sure all of your basic nutrient groups are covered.
Time Stamps
The other side of Scheduling, Excel can also track the time-in, time-out, and breaks taken by everyone working on a given project, making sure that you’re sticking to the labor laws (and providing proof should a dispute ever come up.)
Profitability
Determining the profitability of a given event can be a bit brain-twisting, with the costs for food, people, any equipment that needs cleaning or replacing afterward, and various other expenses. A well-designed Excel template will make sure you don’t miss any miscellaneous costs and tell you how profitable each event was for you.
Projecting Future Business
There’s nothing like getting caught off guard by the start of some season, and not being able to take a client because you don’t have the goods or people handy. Use Excel’s projection ability to see what future business may look like based on previous years, and your chances of being flatfooted when opportunity knocks drop dramatically.
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Jen Morrison is a writer for LastMinuteTraining.ca. Canada’s largest marketplace for live instructor led training. They provide access to advanced Excel training in cities like Edmonton and across Canada. In addition you can find training for most software applications, technical training and more.
I began searching for other legitimate sources of passive income for one main reason. Having recently moved to Quebec Canada as an immigrant. While waiting for my citizenship to go threw
I applied for a temporary work visa. Due to the current economic situation. I was denied. It was determined that I would “take the place of more qualified official residents”. Once my citizenship is accepted I will be considered one of those “more qualified residents”. Denied the ability to work in society.
Forced to find some other way to survive. Simply because I was an immigrant. It would “Deprive official residents from the few jobs that are available”. That does not change the fact that I am human! Just like anyone else! I need food and a house to live in. Some sort of transportation. I came here on a plane blind folded. With 2 bags of clothing and a guitar on my back. Literally.
Hoping to make a new life in a new world. Maybe become successful at something. Open new doors of opportunity or so I thought.
I felt that it was necessary to prove myself. Not only to the Canadian government. But to all those bastards that said “You will take the jobs from other people”. “There is already enough unemployment as it is”. Excuse my language but I feel it is necessary for people to understand this.
Realizing the Internet income potential. I began searching it almost obsessively. Determined to find some income to sustain my existence. Searching week after week. Dealing with all the scams and spam. Just as I was about to give up all hope and return to my home town. I came across what seemed to be a very lucrative business opportunity. Almost positive it was just another scam to get what little money I had left. It was everything I was searching so hard for. The ability to be my own boss. To work my own hours. Without having to deal with a work environment.
Bear marketing system. Most people might think it is a silly name. But for me it was that shiny ray of hope. The solution to my problem. An affiliate marketing program that allowed me to make money almost instantly. That which I so desperately needed. This system provided me with six of the top affiliate programs available. All of which are legitimate work at home business opportunities. Affiliate programs are very similar to free lance work. You apply to them as a sponsor. Recruit more people under you while getting paid commission per sale.
It was so simple. Instead of promoting the six different affiliate programs individually. This site allowed me to promote all of them to just one website. Allowing me to focus all my efforts on one program. Instead of juggling several projects at once. Tremendously cutting my work load by more than 50%. Maximizing the traffic by promoting all of my opportunities in one shot. Instead of
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I did not know the first thing about internet marketing. Bear marketing systems forum explained everything in detail how to maximize my traffic. Best part of it all was I did not have to be an expert on website building or html. I signed up for the free bear marketing system. Then I purchased one domain name and forwarded all my traffic to the bear marketing system website. Which promoted all of my affiliate programs for me. It seemed to good to be true at first. Promoting all of my programs at once. Allowing me to gain the most from my traffic. Now I make more money than I would working a normal job. Working when I want for as long as I want.
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“More than words to show you feel” – taken from a famous song. Indeed, with the advent of the Internet, our work from home is not just bound to words,or more specifically, to just pure text only. The world wide web and the latest technology have given us options to transcend the primitive ways of online marketing from simple article writing to video blogging and audio streaming. We have been blessed with so many tools and resources to choose from in order for us to make earning income online more possible and simply amazing.
Audio and Video Testimonials
To be more convincing and more credible, site and online business owners have incorporated these so-called audio and video testimonials. These are comments, opinions and feedback of their clients who have tried their products or service expressed in a medium other than text. They are recorded voices or interviews of real people. These testimonials hold a much heavier weight since more often than not, most people are convinced if they see or hear actual persons who say something about a certain item or event than just having it read on a web page or site.
Video blogging
The Internet defines video blogging as blogging with video as a medium or a blog that has a video content. It is also known as “vlog.” This is one way to spice up the usual text-format blogs you develop as part of your work from home. Good thing about video blogging is it’s almost easy and free to do, given today’s advanced video creation and editing tools and software plus sites that offer uploads and video displays with little or no charge. Speaking of free, just like the usual blogging where you’re free to write anything, you can also be free to do anything with your “vlogging” activity.
Podcasting
Derived from the combined terms of “iPod” and “broadcast”, a podcast, according to our friendly Wikipedia, is a series of digital-media files which are distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and computers. Imagine how useful this is when you consider entering the world of digital media to promote your site or products and drive tons of traffic.
There are a lot of benefits that these breakthrough media resources can offer provided that they are used properly and strategically. Beyond all these effective means to improve your work from home ventures, one must not forget the content and the message that he’s trying to impart to his readers or listeners or watchers for this is equally important.
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Work from home girl Christina will teach you everything you need to know to start working from home on her blog.
So you’ve decided to take the plunge, and start an online business. Good for you! But before you do, make sure you’ve got your bases covered. Here are some basic tips to keep in mind when you’re starting an online business.
*Make A Plan
Sit down and create a business plan, and revise it every six months or so. Even if you don’t think you need a plan, you do! A business plan not only lets you plan out what you are going to do, it gives you targets to hit and ways to track your progress. You will be able to see what’s working and what isn’t, and then alter your plan accordingly.
*Websites
Always get your own domain name, hosting, and website. You’ll often come across companies offering turnkey packages, that include web space and pre-packaged website templates. This seems convenient, but in the long run you will find it difficult to make changes to your website or even get the source code. You are better off using reputable platforms, like WordPress or Drupal, and hiring a web designer to create your site the way you want it.
* Security
Are you accepting credit cards or other forms of online payments? Make sure you have the proper security measures in place. Also make sure that your website is secure, and backed up in case of a problem.
*Discipline
Running an online business requires less sweat equity than a brick and mortar business, but you still need to treat it like a business. Set aside working hours, and make a schedule of tasks and activities that you need to do to keep things running smoothly. Even if you can only spend a few hours a week on your online business, schedule them in and stick to them.
*Optimize
Do you know SEO? That’s search engine optimization, and if you don’t know what it is and how to do it, you need to learn. SEO is what gets your website to rank in the search engines, so people can find you when they do a search. A full explanation is beyond the scope of this article, but there are many resources you can find that will teach you about SEO and how to implement it. Also, you can hire an SEO consultant to help you optimize your site.
*Advertising
When you have your own online business, you’ll need to advertise online! While SEO helps, you also want to get the word out elsewhere online (and maybe even offline as well, depending on your business). You can use PPC, or pay per click, advertising, where you pay for your ads to show up on search engine results (and only pay when people click on them), use article marketing, social networking, and many other methods. Different businesses will have more success with different methods, so do your research. How are similar businesses advertising online?
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Robert has had a home based business for over 20 years and enjoys writing about how others can make money while working from home. Not only does he specialize in home based business articles, you can also check out his latest website electric ice cream which reviews the best ice cream makers such as the Rival ice cream maker for summer fun. http://electricicecream.net/
If you have children or pets that share your living quarters then you will definitely have to learn the different methods for removing stains from your carpets that they can leave. Fortunately, kids don’t drink wine or coffee but your pets are another story. Animal stains in carpets can be persistent and also there is the odor factor to consider as well.
Be Patient and Gentle
What ever you do, don’t rub whatever is spilled into your carpet. Use a dry cotton towel and patiently rub back and forth. If you must dab down, do so gently but never stomp on the towel as it will drive the stain deeper into the carpet.
Use Baking Soda
Also, bear in mind that sometimes it is best to leave any residual mess alone to allow it to dry. This way you can then easily vacuum it up and away from your carpet. Another idea is to pour baking soda onto the damp mess to soak up excess fluid. Allow it to dry and then vacuum it all up.
Never Pour Vinegar
After the area has dried, use a damp towel to gently remove as much as you can with a damp towel by rubbing it back and forth. Once again, avoid applying too much pressure which can drive the mess further into the carpet. Also, never pour vinegar or any other household fluids on the the effected area.
Commercial Stain Removers
There is a litany of commercial carpet cleaners that are now available. Remember to look them over carefully to make sure that you are buying the one that best suits your type of carpeting. For pet stains, there are a number of carpet cleaners that are available that are formulated specifically for this type of stain.
Consider Calling in a Professional
If you are unable to remove the stains in your carpet by conventional means or you are overwhelmed by a large number of stains on your carpet, you may want to bring in a professional. Commercial carpet cleaners use powerful steam cleaning vacuums that can effectively pull up even the deepest filth from your carpet.
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In this article I want to take a few minutes to analyze the six main concepts to success in any business. If you understand the concepts, and incorporate them in your home business, you have the potential for success beyond your wildest imagination!
Concept No.1 – Market Position
Which do you think would be a better market to tap into typewriter sales, or personal computer sales? In this case it’s obvious, typewriters are pretty much obsolete, but personal computers are in high demand. Therefore we know which of these markets is expanding and which one isn’t. Even if you did make the right choice, you would still have to know how to effectively get your share of the business available. Just hanging a sign on your door saying “PC’s sold here” wouldn’t enable you to effectively take your share of the market.
So how do you position yourself in front of a “Huge Expanding Market”? First you need to identify the fastest growing industries. Some of the fastest growing industries on earth today are:
* Working From Home – $401 Billion Dollar Industry.
* Internet Marketing – exceeds $523 Billion according to a study done by the McCombs School of Business and is expected to reach 7 Trillion within the next 3 years.
* Mail Order Marketing – $350 Billion Dollar Industry and growing.
* Wellness Industry – $200 Billion Dollar Industry and expected to reach $1 Trillion within 10 years.
* Nutrition Industry – $4.2 Billion Dollar Industry and exploding.
* Weight Control Industry – $33 Billion Dollar Industry fueled by epidemic size obesity levels. An estimated 70% of the U.S. population needs to lose 10 – 50 pounds.
* Personal Care Industry – $72 Billion Dollar Industry.
* Cosmetics Industry – $8 Billion Dollar Industry – and steadily growing.
Let’s take a closer look at just one of those industries.
In the early ninety’s the Wall Street Journal estimated the total annual revenue from mail order marketing at between $55 and $65 billion dollars. Then the New York Times reported $140 billion a year. Then Direct Marketing Magazine reported $245 billion, and at the time this was written, the industry had grown to $350 billion, and it is expected to double in size in the next decade. If you had 1/3 of 1% of that market, you’d have over a billion dollars in sales. The Gartner Group estimates Internet business will triple in the next few years. Imagine owning a small piece of that!
Imagine positioning yourself in front of some of these industries listed, while working from home and utilizing the power of mail order and Internet Marketing to build your business.
Authors Note: To tap into an established, successful, and proven home business that can help you achieve more income & the time freedom to spend with your family & friends while creating total financial security.
About the Author
Warren Little is a successful Internet Network Marketing Consultant/Trainer and motivational speaker. His passion is empowering internet marketers to achieve greater levels of success quickly. His “Network Marketing Solutions Newsletter” has become one of most highly subscribed to & recommended training resources.
As world of Internet marketing increasing rapidly and before getting confusion with it newbies ask one question: What the possible ways to make money online? The answer is: A millions ways. And it is just more than you can think about.
Actually there is not much different in real world and virtual world of Internet marketing. In both cases, you need seller and buyer for the product. It could be just anything. It may be your product or other people’s product, tangible or intangible or it can even be any service.
Only your own creativity and imagination, ability and skills, patience and application that can limit the kind of money you can make from your online business opportunity. If you need help on how to make money online you can have plenty of advises available. Some ideas can prove productive almost immediately while some can take six months or more.
Given below is some of the money making ideas that have worked for me and I hope it definitely work for you.
Affiliate Marketing: For the newbies, By far one of the most popular methods of money making. Sell other’s product and earn some commission on it. Commission Junctions, Associate Products, Link Share, Click Bank is a few places where you can find lots of affiliate products to sell.
Pay-per-click: You can just build a website and upload ads on it to become famous and to drive traffic to your website. People normally get paid on clicking on the ads on your site. And you can earn some money for every click. Some of the popular pay-per-click income models are Google Ad -Sense, Chitika, yahoo and Kontera.
Direct Selling: It is excellent way to sell your special skills by just writing articles, programming and reviewing and you will be paid for it. And also you can share your passion with and are interested in your specialty and willing to pay for your knowledge.
You can just pick any one of three which were discussed above, although there are other unlimited opportunities that exit.
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The Global Resorts Network is often classified with Multi-level marketing businesses. However, it is not run like a MLM at all. The traditional MLM home based business offers much less income potential than the GRN, which is why Global Resorts refers to them as nickel and dime businesses. The Global Network offers much larger commissions on every sale, and rather than offering a percentage commission on sales, gives a flat rate to every new customer. The MLM and Global Network business models differ as well in many other ways. Once you see the comparison there will be no more doubt in your mind as to which company is the better one.
The traditional MLM business is a home based business format that worked well many years ago, but now there are much better ways of doing business. The usual investment for a MLM business is $40-$1000. Additionally, after the initial start up cash, there are also monthly expenses to remain in the qualification pool to be promoted. Usually percentage for commissions is 1-8%, and when people sign up under you, there is a bonus of around $50-$100. Payments are paid out about once a month, and if you do not make a certain amount, you are not paid that month at all. Most of the products offered in the MLM business model are products that require a great deal of effort to sell to people. Products are expensive and unnecessary. Not only that, but the presentation to get people to purchase products or start the business is long and time consuming. It also takes about five years to reach an income that comes even close to replacing a normal salary. To get $1000 a month in residual income, at least 600 people have to be signed up under you. There are also many meetings to attend and most people quit in less that a year because it is draining their time and finances.
The Global Network is run very differently from the MLM business model. It is a little more expensive to start, but the benefits are much greater. The typical starting fee for the GRN is $1495-$2995. After that, there are no more fees or investments to deal with. While you would still have to keep paying out money all the time in a MLM business, with this home based business the one time investment is all you ever have to pay. With this network, every sale you make gives $500-$1000 dollars to you personally. Additionally, for each person you sign up you get a 100% matching bonus. Payments are made once or twice a week rather than once a month. Selling vacation packages is much easier than selling most other kinds of products because everyone needs a vacation. It is possible to earn $1000 a month in commission within 1-3 months. To get a residual commission that is that high, all that has to be made is one sale a month. There are no products to ship, so there are no monthly fees there. It requires very little training and there are never any meetings to attend. Additionally, anyone signed up with the Global Resorts Network has access to a great discount travel program that allows people to take luxury vacations for much less.
If you are looking for a home based business to start, do not get involved with MLM businesses. They are hard to manage and usually yield small rewards. Instead, take advantage of this discount vacation business and start making money almost without trying. Not only is it easy to make money with Global Resorts, but you can also take advantage of their great discount vacation packages. Who would not want to make money while on vacation?
About the Author
Greg Mangin is a leader in Global Resorts Network, residing in Southern Indiana and traveling the world.
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This is another one of those topics that really gets my blood pressure rising. I beg you
to listen closely. I’m here to help you NOT make these mistakes. You can cut your failure
rate in half or more if you’ll follow some basic principles. This way you won’t be the
next internet home based business owner who fails.
1. Don’t market sub-par products
As an internet home based business owner your credibility is on the line. Stay away from
products that promise you the moon, claim they can give you the stars, but in the end,
wind up giving you dirt. If you push any of this to your subscriber list they will never
buy much of anything from you again.
If you’re able to, purchase a copy and see for yourself if the product is really worth it
or not.
2. “Hey… he’s got the same ad as me!”
Sound the alarm! I repeat, sound the alarm! Another internet home based business owner is
sinking. Don’t you get it? It’s very unwise to use the sample ads your business provides
as is. Often times the webmaster or training system will provide pay per click ads, email
messages, and even articles for you to use.
IF YOUR USING THESE MATERIALS AS IS, PLEASE STOP RIGHT AWAY! You need to either write your
own ads or at least change them up a bit so you stand out from the crowd.
3. Have a marketing plan to follow
Decide if you’ll use article marketing, pay per click, blogging, or link trading. Whatever
floats your boat just be sure to stick to it. For your internet home based business to
succeed set a plan up.
Maybe day 1 you’ll write articles. If you do, decide how many to write. Day 2 you may want
to run pay per click ads. If so, track your results very closely. Day 3 you may decide to
trade links to move up in the organic search results. Although this is just a rough plan
it’s still a plan. That’s what you want a plan to follow for everyday you work your
business.
Avoiding these 3 little mistakes in your internet home based business can actually save
you a lot of time and money. It will also make your business run a lot smoother.
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PLR is the acronym for Public Label Rights. When you get a PLR item such as ebook or articles, you are allowed to edit the contents and indicate your name as the author. If you have a PLR ebook, you are allowed to dissect the book into smaller portions and use them as part of a newsletter or split them unto articles and/or blog posts. Or you can combine various articles into a single book that you can either give away as a freebie or resell and keep one hundred percent of the profits.
How does this benefit the network marketer? How can PLR help the network marketer increase his website traffic? If you were to use PLR, do you need to go through the learning process all over again in order to be like he various techies and experts? If you are a newbie to internet marketing and would like to increase traffic to your website featuring your business opportunity, should you use PLR products?
Well, you need not worry about having to learn the various internet marketing secrets of driving traffic using search engine optimization, social media, etc… All that you will be required to do ist o either use the PLR product exactly as you get it if you are posting it directly on your website or blog or edit at least fifty percent of the contents if you are looking at posting on various article directories to drive traffic.
One of the easiest and most popular ways to drive traffic is to submit your articles to various article directories. When you dot hat, you are exposing your articles to the millions on the internet who are looking for information. This is a great way to drive targeted traffic to your blog or website especially when you articles are categorized correctly.
There are hundreds of article directories on the internet. Do not bother about submitting to each and everyone of these directories. Look out for those with high Alexa rankings and you can submit to these directories. Submitting to ten of these high ranking article directories site far outweighs the advantages of submitting to a hundred low ranking sites. Use your time fruitfully.
One of the largest and most popular article directories is Ezine Articles. It is not easy to get your articles published here as the editorial team is very stringent in their quality checking and do not accept just any slipshod articles. As such, they are known for quality and if you are able to get your articles published on Ezine Articles dot com, you will have a very good chance of driving targeted traffic to your website.
There are many other sites with high Alexa ranking including Idea Marketers, Go Articles, Article City, Article Cube, Search Warp,…………………… to name a few. Consistently submit your edited network marketing PLR articles to these sites on a regular basis and you will start seeing an increase in your website traffic. Ensure that at least fifty percent of the PLR articles are edited before submission.
As there are others who also subscribe to the same PLR articles and ebooks, you might come across similar articles with the same title. This is why the article needs to be edited. Another alternative is to convert your articles into audio podcast which you can submit to the podcast directories as well as video which can be uploaded to the most popular youtube channel and other video sites. These sites are also able to help increase website traffic as well.
With the same article, you can submit to as many article directories as possible. Convert them into other formats such as podcasts as well as videos and submit to the respective directories. When you have consistently done this over a certain time period, this will easily generate between 200 – 500 leads a single day.
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Veronica Tan BK is a successful home based business entrepreneur and owner of Easy Leads Mentor. Her passion is to help others achieve a full-time income working from their home. Here is a free exclusive interview with world famous internet marketing giant to get a head-start in your working online from home business.