Work from home ideas & starting a home based business - Choosing business classification, business tax issues, retirement plans for self-employed, accounting, marketing and sales, computer automation and web site design.

When starting and operating a home business there are numerous factors to consider. Accounting or bookkeeping systems, business plan (goals), business software, marketing, sales, web design to name a few. This web site will help you with the needed resources to reach your business goals.

Private practice since 1983 , I have used numerous strategies which would include business software, marketing, books, training, online marketing. I will discuss what has worked ,what has not, the good, bad and ugly in the world of small business.

If you are interested in starting an online internet business, specifically an affiliate marketing home based business, you will find this as a extremely valuable business resource. I will provide you with the best resources I found and in the case you are already in the affiliate marketing business or have reach super affiliate status, this will help you keep what you have earned. Through the use of proper business classification, tax planning, retirement planning, cash flow analysis you can reach your business and personal financial goals.

Useful tools such as software, books, ebooks, subscription services will be reviewed. Some are available for free, others low or moderately priced.

What is affiliate marketing - In it's simplest form it's promoting a merchant's products or services on your website and receiving a commission or fee when your visitor clicks through and makes a purchase. There are some variations to this concept such as pay per click (PPC). Traffic and conversion is the key to success. The more traffic you can generate to your website and the ability to convert that traffic to sales (conversion) the more successful you will become.

Sources of products and services - Where do you find products and services to promote? Easiest way is joining an Affiliate Network such as Commission Junction, Link Share or Click Bank three of the largest networks. I would suggest Click Bank to get started as all the products and services are digital, pay higher commissions upward to 70 % or more in some cases. In addition Click Bank products and services are almost guaranteed to be approved as an affiliate. The other networks mentioned above you have to apply to each company on the network individually for approval and that can take hours to many weeks for approval. Don't be surprised if you are not approved on a case by case basis. Each company on the network has it's own requirements for approval. Finally you can find companies that don't belong to any network but do offer an affiliate program directly. Easiest way to find out is to go to the bottom of their home page and see if you find a link titled "affiliate". You can also search their site map.

Affiliate Marketing and Search Engine Optimization

Rather than re-inventing the wheel, I will share with you products and services for affiliate marketing that already exists and I judge to be the best of the best. I will be adding addition products and services as I discover them providing I feel they have merit, so check back often.

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Veretekk - Founded in 1996 Veretekk is a online lead generation and automated marketing system. It can be configured to promote any business opportunity you want. This system will allow you to fill your pipeline of prospects indefinitely! You will never run out of people to market to. The system also offers live & recorded Veretekk training sessions 24/7, covering in-depth subjects such as internet marketing, search engine optimization, HTML, web design, PowerPoint, Blog creation, Word press, article marketing and writing content to name a few. Best of all you can get all this training and sample the power of Veretekk for free by joining as a Silver member. For more information on Veretekk and two free internet marketing ebooks click the above link.

Affilorama - an affiliate marketing training portal, offering free written and video lessons, tools, tips and support; allowing beginners to build up a successful affiliate marketing business from scratch. While Affilorama training material is designed for the novice user in mind - with simple to understand language - the site also provides advanced and in-depth material including paid premium memberships and AffiloBlueprint, a complete 12 week, 40-video, step-by-step course to creating a profitable affiliate website. Select above link to get detailed information.

Traffic Travis - Free powerful SEO software that features a keyword finder, page analysis, back links to sites, graphs and reports, top sites for keywords, keyword lists and most popular keywords. Select above link to get detailed information.

Web CEO - 12 SEO Tools in one search engine optimization suite. You can find your niche, promote your site, analyze your site and maintain your site all with one product. Check out their free edition and upgrade when ready. For detailed information click on above link.

Honest e Online - Two major factors to be successful as an affiliate marketer, can your guess? "traffic" and "conversion". Increase your net profits today, give your customers and clients a reason to "trust" your eBusiness today!. Included with monthly subscription is an often humorous monthly newsletter that features very helpful marketing tips. Click on the above banner.

Bryxen Software - Brad Callen's Bryxen Software an extremely valuable source of SEO tools to automate many of the day to day operations of running an affiliate marketing business. His organization offers SEO training in the form of ebooks and bite size PDF ebooks that I found to be easy to follow, very well written and free. He has in addition a host of software tools the makes your affiliate marketing efforts very productive. This resource is one of the very best I've found for learning the business and software tools to help grow your business. Select the above link to explore further his list of SEO tools.

SEOLinkVine - Free automated content for your Blogs. To get traffic to your website, you must have both quality content and unique content. Automatically feed your site unique, quality content for as long as you want! and absolutely free! Click on the above link to join or for further information.

XSitePro2 - Professional websites made easily.

Web design I have used Microsoft FrontPage and most recently these past two years Microsoft Expression 2. Very pleased with both products over the years. More recently I discovered XSitePro 2 which is more designed for affiliate marketing than any other software I've used or read about. Product offers many automated processes that requires no HTML or other code to product website and pages. Follow this link for XSitePro for more details on the product features and benefits.

Socrates - Premium Wordpress Themes

Create and monetize custom niche Wordpress Blogs with this advanced theme. multiple layouts, custom header graphics, backgrounds, styles, social media. Instantly monetized with Adsense and Click Bank. Click on the above link to view a short video on the product or place an order. Socrates comes with Video Tutorials to help you get started faster.

Version 2.0 will be released soon, free upgrade. It will include: - more niche headers. such as the following niches including real estate, health and finance, among others. - Sales page, Mini site and Video squeeze templates. This allows you to added video embed code, headline, text and auto responder code to a page. Instant squeeze template, all using Wordpress. - More social media, such as LinkedIn and YouTube.