Work At Home Musings

If you are a SAHM or WAHM you may have dabbled in the eBay market. I have sold a few items myself and have had mostly a great experience. One of the blogs that I read about eBay selling is Suzanne Wells’ blog. She includes tips on hot items to sell from drugstores or other places. Her tips are very useful. She also has a great ebook about selling on eBay - The SAHM eBay Guide. This book is a step by step guide so that you can get started right away. There are tips on what to sell, how to photograph your items and how to use eBay to its fullest potential.

Find this gem of an eBook and its free! Thrift Shopping for eBay is an eBook that tells you what items you can buy at a thrift store and then sell for profit on eBay. All you have to do is comment on the blog post at eshopowner.com and make sure that you leave your email address. A copy will be emailed to you!

Recently I wrote a post about the Treasure Tower and how it might be a good home business opportunity. The Treasure Tower looks like a gumball machine with little treasures in it and is great for a dentist or doctor’s office.

Yesterday, I took my daughter to the dentist and they had replaced their treasure chest with one of these Treasure Towers. If you are interested in the opportunity, you might want to act quick!

Are you looking to make money online, but you don’t know where to start? Sign up for the Thirty Day Challenge. The Thirty Day Challenge is in its fourth year and starts on August 1, 2008. However, there are a lot of “preseason” lessons for you to go through before the real challenge starts.

The Thirty Day Challenge is an absolutely free program and is all about making your first $10 online. Even if you are already making money online there are a lot of tips and tricks that will help you optimize your online earning.

I have signed up for the challenge and have already listened to the first video preseason lesson. This stuff is very interesting and I can’t wait to listen to the other lessons as well!

Do you love books? Than you might want to consider a Bookwise home business. Bookwise was founded by Richard Paul Evans, a best selling author. Bookwise works like a book club program. When you enroll in Bookwise you pay a $39.95 enrollment fee. For this fee you receive a starter kit. You then must pay $35 per month as a membership fee. This includes a bestselling hardcover book of your choice each month, 40-50% discounts on other books, free ebook and free audio book each month, a monthly newsletter and other bonus materials. You can quit Bookwise at any time that you like.

You earn money buy signing up others into the program. For each person you enroll, you earn $35. You also get your own personal bookstore. You can earn commission of any sales from your bookstore, plus commission off sales from your downlines’ bookstores.

Do you know someone who wants to write a book? If you sign them up for the Writer’s Publishing Package (includes coaching from writing the book to publishing to marketing), you can receive a total of $1,400 in commission.

If you are interested in Bookwise, contact one of the Consultants below or download a free eBook about the opportunity.

Consultants have said:

Well, I can honestly say that I think this is one of the best decisions I have ever made. I’ve joined probably 15 to 20 home based businesses or “programs” in the last 10 years, and this is the only one that has ever worked for me. I love this company, the products, their compensation plan, the way you aren’t punished if you decide to take a week off and go on vacation, lol. There aren’t any quotas to meet, other than your own personal monthly commitment. As you grow with the company, it doesn’t change, if you lose reps, you don’t lose rank, because there is no rank.

I just joined Bookwise and I already have gotten 2 checks with them, when I have never gotten a check from any company before. They have regular meetings, not just about recruiting but about how to build a business, how to help your taxes and more.

Bookwise Consultants:

Sonya Smith, Earn With Books
Martha Jo Schrader, LemonadeShop

I just received an email about this work at home business and thought I would pass along the information. I have not tried this, so I don’t know the full details, but it looks like it could be a good home business.

Treasure Tower is a tower of gumball machines, except that they do not hold gumballs. Instead each section is filled with different trinkets. You provide these units to doctor and dentist offices. The Doctor or Dentist gives each child a token at the end of their visit and they are able to visit the Treasure Tower and pick out their own trinket. You would provide the Tower and refill the trinkets as needed.

If you feel that you can not cold call dentist and doctor offices, this is not the job for you. It would take some leg work and phone work to get the product out there. If you could be the first in your area, it may turn out to be profitable for you.

I have seen many a scam in my time, but this is not one of them. When I first heard about Build A Niche Store (or BANS), I thought that it must be a scam, but after hearing many reliable testimonies, I realized you could actually make money with this system.

BANS utilizes eBay auctions to produce your “sales”. Every time someone purchase a product from your site they are actually purchasing from eBay and you get a commission. You also get a commission every time someone finds your site and then signs up for an eBay account.

eBay has its own affiliate program. They actually invite you to promote all of their product listings and in exchange, they will pay you up to 75% of the revenue they make from each sale. You can read about the eBay.com affiliate program here.

The KEY to making this process successful is finding a niche that will bring your profits. For example, maybe you will choose sports memorabilia, laptops, mp3 players, etc. After choosing your niche, you will utilize the Build A Niche Store website that you will receive. Here is an example of a BANS store that has been setup to focus on race cars Race Car eBay Affiliate Website and one for golf equipment Golf eBay Affiliate Website

Your store will automatically update as new products are listed for sale and old listing expire from the eBay marketplace and the software has built in development features which enable you to create new store pages, add content to these pages, create content pages, modify your template etc etc.

Build A Niche Store comes with a step by step user manual which will walk even the most technically inexperienced through setting up their eBay affiliate website, 9 professional template layouts which can be customized (from inside your admin panel) to match your target niche, lifetime member forum access, comprehensive product support and possibly most importantly – an UNLIMITED domain license which means you can build as many of these niche websites as you want for the small one time fee.

WARNING! You must be willing to make a time investment and well as spend a few dollars on advertising if you want this to work for you. I would suggest the following:

• Purchase a few articles to get your store name out there. You can even write the articles yourself. heck out Digital Point Forums, Buy, Sell and Trade section. There are many people offering to write articles and post to blogs or websites to get your name out. Look for members who have received good reviews.
• Submit your site to Social Bookmarking Sites. There are members at Digital Point Forums who will do it for you, for a fee.
• Submit your site to Website Directories. Check out my listing of free web directories to submit your site.

The Body Shop At Home is a business that specializes in bath, body and skin care products and gifts. The company was founded in 2001 and representatives are found in the United States, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Turkey, United Kingdom. The company has five core values: no animal testing, defend human rights, support community trade, activate self-esteem and protect our planet.

Consultants are able to sell products online, at home shows and fundraisers. Website are available to consultants for a monthly fee. Consultants make 25% off the top on all sales and once sales reach a certain level, additional compensation can be earned. The company offers a Sure Start program, allowing new consultants to earn an additional $450 in products in their first three months. Consultants can also earn free products based on the number of parties they have each month (2, 4 or 8 parties). The Body Shop At Home also offers a “kit builder” program - $500 in sales by the 21st of each month allows you the option of purchasing certain products and business tools for half price.

New consultants can purchase a starter kit for $220 plus shipping and tax. However, at various times throughout the year, the kit is offered at discounted prices. Currently (until June 30, 2008), you can purchase the kit for $150. Plus, if you have $400 in sales in your first month, you will receive a bonus kit of products and business tools valued at $50 for free. The starter kit includes products for four different types of parties and well as catalogs, order forms, party cue cards and training DVDs.

Each month, the company offers specials for hostesses and customers. Each new host usually receives approximately $50 of products with sales of $350 or more. Plus, each hosts receives the regular host gifts as well. Customer specials are offered every month and often include purchase with purchase specials. Charitable promotions are also promoted and is a way to give back to the community. The Body Shop at Home has supported The National Coalition to End Domestic Violence and The Staying Alive Foundation.

What The Body Shop At Home Consultants say:

“I enjoy working with The Body Shop At Home very much. It is really rewarding to be with a company that has such wonderful principles. Being able to set my own hours is also very important to me since I am single mom of a toddler. I also really like how supportive my upline is when it comes to training and any questions I might have. There is a wealth of information available to us on our consultant website as well.”

“I absolutely love the company. They do so much for us, and just when you think that they can’t do anything else for consultants, they do more.”

Contact a consultant:

Liz - http://www.TheBodyShopAtHome.com/web/lizproctor
Emily - http://www.thebodyshopathome.com/web/ebowman

I drove down to Atlantic City to attend an embroidery show today. The weather was horrible, but the show was very cool! I was able to look at a variety of products that are new on the market and even get some free samples. I took a short break for lunch, turned up my Bose headphones and relaxed for a while.

Back at the show, I found a new product made out of terry cloth. They are shorts that can be worn after swimming, showering, etc. and look great with an embroidered logo on the leg. I picked up a sample for my daughter and plan to embroider them. Maybe this will get me an in with the high school crowd!

A friend of mine asked me to embroider a few bibs for a friend of hers who just had a baby and named him Leo. So instead of using my exercise equipment today, I decided to embroider the two bibs:

I have been doing custom embroidery for some time now. Usually I embroider sports towels and blankets, but branch out when I get a request.