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June 27th, 2009 | 
Author: Business Success With Money Back Guarantee
An email writer has asked recently why there is no money back guarantee on a certain advertised website. There are a lot of online offers with a money back guarantee. Thus many people expect a money back guarantee on offered solutions.
Money Back Guarantee As Bait?
You also might have read such kind of advertisment: Make 100000 a year guaranteed The website of this home business solution offers to remit you the money if you do not succeed after a year. Its even possible that this kind of turnkey website of a home business has worked in the early days of the internet. The readers can be sure that it does not work longer in these days. Anyway this kind of offers still are advertised. The suppliers just hope that the people forget to claim their rights after a year. If you look around these websites you even may detect some warnings in forums that the people claim in vain their money.
There are tools for search engine optimization and a lot of further make money or extra income opportunities offered with a money back guarantee. Some of them may remit some money for failures but most of them hope for forgetful customers. The money back guarantee is rather a clever bait to boost sales than a serious consumer protection.
It is difficult to claim money back from businesses where the ownership sits thousands of miles away. It even can happen that a letter to a physical address of an attractive home business website bounces because nobody is there. Only a recorded voice answers telephone calls. This shows the obstacles of getting the guaranteed money back in the online business world. It is not worthwhile to acquire a solicitor to get some dozens or hundreds of Dollars back. This is the reason that people do not really insist on a promised money back guarantee.
There Is No Risk Free Business Opportunity
The reality is: There is no risk free business opportunity. The higher the yield the higher the risk. There are promising opportunities but they are rare and they can be found by accident after doing a lot of researches trial and error tests.
Where Does A Money Back Guarantee Make Sense?
This article does not state that consumer protection is worthless. It is very important in our consumer society. It is however difficult to execute consumer rights in the weakly regulated global world wide web. It makes sense to have a warranty on goods e.g. cars TV sets laundry machines etc. There is a reliable physical address of the supplier. Law and social control are very effective in this field.
Common Sense Is Needed
The best advice is to decide with common sense about a home based business or make money opportunity in the internet. Promising opportunities to earn extra money still evolve in the internet. Furthermore: Persistence and patience are important preconditions for success. How many people give up too early in frustration because they expect to get quick rich easily?
About the writer:
Lil Waldner is a business economist. She is experienced in project management and marketing. She has worked as editor of newspapers and she has written booklets and essays with economic and public issues. Visit the web site: http://www.makemoneytip.com.
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Business Strategies Straight From The Horses Mouth
When I became a coach six years ago I had a dream that took me a while to admit toeven to myself. What I really wanted to do was to combine the two great passions of my lifecoaching and working with horsesbut I had no idea what that might look like. As I bravely shared my fledgling dream with others people began to point me to other people who had the same dream. I started exploring and discovered that the field of Equine Guided Education is a lively and growing one where theres plenty of space for the coaching process to be incorporated.
You might be surprised to learn that coaching with horses provides a depth and immediacy that brings new information even about business development. Synchronicity happens in the domain of energyenergy from our thoughts our emotions our body our spirit. Horses unencumbered by language read and reflect this energy providing unbiased feedback. How does coaching with horses work you ask? To give you an example of how this process works I want to share my experience of doing my coaching process with horses around my own business questions.
Heres what happened
Background: I am deeply committed to bringing Equine Guided Coaching and Education to the world but unsure of how exactly to grow my business. So the question now is Whats next?
Equine Guided Coaching Process: One warm sunny October day when I had a few extra minutes at the barn I went out into the pasture where the six horses I work with were grazing. As I stood in the middle of the pasture I posed the questionto myself and so to the horsesWhat is next for my business for this business with horses?
Very quickly a horse named Digby came up to me. Digby is a thoroughbred horse who takes his rider over those 4 and 5foot jumps you see in the Olympics. His athleticism and performance are not small potatoes. I said Hi Digby why are YOU here? As I looked at him the thought occurred to me (openness to the synchronicity of thoughts is key to this work with horses) that he is large the second largest horse in the pasture. I said Well you are big. Am I supposed to play BIG with this business? Just as I finished that thought Colin came up. Colin is a Clydesdalequarter horse cross and is the biggest horse in the pasture with big feet bones and a tall strong stature. As I looked at Colin and petted his nose it came to me that Im supposed to play REALLY big. Gulp! I immediately noticed the fear that came up for me around this. Then I thought: What does playing big mean for me? How would it look in my business? As I accepted that this was the message they came to tell me both horses turned and went back to grazing leaving me alone to let this idea settle in confirming that Id understood what theyd had to say.
Now these messages from the horses come quickly and the full implication doesnt always sink in immediately. What happened in the hour after my time with Digby and Colin started to clarify what playing big actually meant. My business partner and I had invited our insurance representative to the pasture to experience a sample equineguided coaching session since she had expressed interest in what we were doing. As is typical she experienced deep and profound shifts in her thinking about the actions she could take in her life. She became aware of important new options that had simply never occurred to her before. For example normally a type A personality she had never thought of the possibility of a more relaxed lifestyle. She saw that she could use space and openness to see what is next for her rather than more busyness. As we talked about it over lunch afterwards our agent expressed such enthusiasm about our work and strongly urged us to incorporate our business to fully professionalize our work. And she asked if she could invite people she knows in the horse world to a workshop so that they could also experience the power of this process!
Synchronously once I offered my question about how to direct my business to the process of equineguided coaching I not only received an inner direction to consider building my business to be really big but also began to discover what that might entail actually taking a first step to begin to grow it. Coaching with horses this way grounds the process so that we step out of our minds and invite all of ourselvesbody mind and spiritto engage with our intentions and clarified direction. The response is almost always startling and exciting filled with the lively energy of newness. In these few months since Digby and Colin made the message known to me we have conducted a workshop with eight influential friends of our insurance representative incorporated a new business called Wisdom Horse Coaching which will serve as an umbrella for all of our work with horses and have presented a demonstration of our work at the first annual EquineGuided Education Association conference held in California to 70 people from all over the USA and seven other countries in the world who are doing this work with horses.
For more equine coaching information go to www.WisdomHorseCoaching.com.
About the writer:
copy;2005 Wisdom Horse Coaching
Ann Kerr Romberg MS CPCC
Ann Romberg is an internationally recognized Equine Guided Coach and Educator. Anns gift is creating a space for people to discover their unique gifts their dreams and the actions that manifest those dreams. She is a master at working with horses as guides to help people make these connections quickly and authentically. People leave her sessions with deep insights and the ability to take action not previously possible.
Anns personal life transition experiences provide a strong base for her work. Her business experience includes over 20 years working within Fortune 500 companies in IT leadership positions and consulting with privately held business.
Wisdom Horse Coaching (coowned with Lynn Baskfield) offers a variety of experiential equine guided personal and professional development services:
Individual coaching programs
Powerful EquineGuided workshops
Custom Training for organizations and groups
Apprenticeships customized programs for individuals who want to become equineguided practitioners
Partnerships with other professionals who want to offer EquineGuided Education to their clients but dont have the horse experience to do so.
Guided by their horse partners Ann Lynn give you that competitive edge youve been searching for; new ideas wisdom and action not previously accessible.
Ann has a Masters Degree and is a certified CoActive Coach through Coaches Training Institute and a certified Equine Guided Educator. She and Lynn Baskfield have presented at both the EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association) and EGEA (Equine Guided Education Association) annual conferences on Equine Assisted Learning. Her personal business can be found at www.carrotcoach.com.
Business Partners Marital Partners Will The Marriage Survive? Part 2
In the last article we concluded by saying that keeping your business and personal relationships separate is very important to the survival of both your business and your marriage. In this article we will talk about how to achieve this goal.
One of the most important ways to accomplish this is to set up distinct business hours and when they are over don’t discuss business concentrate on your relationship. It is difficult but make a concentrated effort at it. Confine your business discussions to business hours or set aside a specific time to discuss the business.
For example take the last half hour of the day and discuss the business day; any suggestions you have what was accomplished what needs to be done tomorrow during the week how are the monthly goals you set at the beginning of the month progressing. Remember to couch any criticisms or suggestions in a positive vein. Think of how you felt in the work situation and how supervisors dealt with you when making suggestions. Negatives only cause resentment. They do in the corporate arena and even more so when dealing with a spouse you must live with 24 hours a day. Be sure to set aside time for each othergo for walks out to dinner or just for a drive with your spouse. Do not discuss business.
You should have outside activities that are not business related. If not join a group that interests you. It will allow you to meet with others who are not connected to your business. Running a homebased business can be very lonely; getting away from the home and having outside interests is imperative.
In addition to the problems inherent to couples running a business starting a homebased business presents its own set of problems and questions. Before you start be sure to ask yourself the following:
- Are you selfmotivated? Organized? Able to prioritize your work? You will no longer have a supervisor or a boss to tell you what to do. You will be the decision maker. You will have to motivate yourself. One way to accomplish this is to use a To Do List and stick to it. In addition set definitive business hours and stick to them.
- Will you be able to deal with the isolation? You will no longer meet people in the halls congregate around the coffee pot or take a break to talk with your coworkers. To combat the loneliness and isolation be sure to join groups that meet outside the home or schedule luncheons with friends and associates.
- Write up a business plan. Be sure the business is something that interests you. You might want to start on a parttime basis and grow from there. Research the business carefully make sure there is a market and the competition is not overwhelming.
- Be sure you have at least six months living expenses set aside. This will give you the time to work through the marketing strategy outlined in your business plan and avoid bad marketing practices. In addition if changes need to be made you can do so without monetary concerns becoming an issue.
- Be sure your office space is located in a separate room or area of your home that offers the least distractions. A separate office is best especially if you are meeting with clients. Remember to always present a professional appearance.
- When will you do your regular household chores? Make up a schedule of when you will deal with them. Some individuals find getting chores done before the start of the work day is best. At the end of the day close your office door and then deal with the remaining household items that need to be handled. Time management will be a very important factor in running a homebased business.
- For husband and wife teams it becomes imperative to have some form of disability insurance for each other. Remember even though your partner may be your husband or wife he or she is still your business partner. An accident or illness to one of you can severely impact the operation of the business.
A business is only as good as you and your partner make it. It takes a lot of dedication time and energy to run a business whether it is homebased or not. It can be a very rewarding experience. Think carefully and ask yourself a lot of selfsearching questions before you begin.
Copyright 2000 DeFiore Enterprises.
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About the writer:
Chuck and Sue DeFiore are investors consultants and coach/mentors. They specialize in two areas. The first a niche of Creative Real Estate known as Lease Purchasing; the other in the establishment of homebased businesses. Through their consultations and investments in Lease Purchasing they help sellers move their property in 30 days or less; and help buyers get into their dream home today that they can buy tomorrow. Chuck and Sue are active both locally and nationally.
They are the authors of “Who Makes It Happen We Do: Back On The Road To Success With Creative Real Estate” and “The Anatomy Of The Deal Series: The CoOperative Strategy: How You Can Generate Quick Cash Flow In The Creative Real Estate Niche Of Lease Purchasing” and “The Anatomy Of The Deal: Consulting Your Way To A Six Figure Income In Creative Real Estate”.
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