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BE YOUR OWN BOSS
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If you are going to be your own boss you have to have confidence
in your abilities! A young marketer recently contacted me asking
how to make some quick cash. This marketer had sold 40 copies of
an ebook at $50 each on a joint venture deal. If you do the math
on that you see that he generated $2000 in revenue from the sales
of that particular ebook. On the deal he negotiated, he made 25%
of each sale which made him a $500 profit on the 40 sales. So,
what's the problem you're asking? This marketer could have bought
the resell rights to this ebook for $1000 and made $1000 in profit
rather than the $500 he settled for because he wasn't confident
enough in his abilities! If you're going to work for yourself and
be successful you have to have confidence! This particular marketer
lost at least $500 due to his lack of confidence in his ability to
generate sales. He knew he could make at least some sales, he took
the time to put up a website, create a marketing plan, and handle
customer support, but he didn't believe strongly enough! You're
not going to make the same mistake are you?


FEATURED ARTICLE
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Remind Me Again Why I Do This?
by: Sharon Davis

I recently embarked on a large programming project that
became the most frustrating, stressful thing I've done
since I've been in business.

I won't bore you with the details, but suffice it to say
that everything that *could* go wrong, *did* go wrong.

With the deadline looming at the height of the crisis, I
needed to call my scripting guru for a solution- and I
needed to do it quick!

Right at that moment, my 5-year-old decided that she was
going to self-destruct if she didn't have my immediate
attention.

Now, mind you my daughter is not the quietly persistent
tug-on-your-sleeve kind of attention-getter. No. She's
more of a the-louder-I-am-the-faster-she'll-hear-me kind
of a gal.

As I approached the limits of my patience (and she hers),
I had to decide whether to make my deadline or to spend
some time with her.

I found myself thinking, "Why don't I work in an office,
like normal people do?" "Why do I do this?"

The thing is, I really *wanted* to play with my daughter.
I mean, wouldn't you?

But...the fact remained that I had a job to do.

These are the moments that make me think it would be so
much easier to go back to a "normal job". Working for
someone else, you do your job and then you go home. When
your workday ends, it ends. You're not tempted to get up
in the middle of the night and drive to your office so
that you can do that one thing you forgot to do. When
your office is just down the hall, it's just too easy to
do that.

I'm quite sure that I'm not the only home-based business
owner who has asked themselves this question, "Why do I
do this?"

It's not easy to stay motivated when chances are you're
working longer hours for less pay (or *no* pay!) than
your "job".

And throw in the challenge of trying to be a professional
while your children are arguing over who's turn it is to
use the self-inflating whoopee cushion right outside your
office door and well, it's a miracle we don't all just
give up and lease office space.

So, why *do* I do this? I think most of all, it's
because I get to decide whether to call a client, or play
with my daughters.

Sometimes I just need to be reminded, and it's almost
always my children who do.

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© Copyright 2001 Sharon Davis. Sharon Davis is the Mom of
two girls, the owner of 2Work-At-Home.Com and the Editor
of the site's monthly ezine, America's Home. In her spare
time she reminisces about what it was like to have spare
time. Subscribe to her free ezine here:
http://2work-at-home.com/ezine/subscribe/ezines.shtml




DOWNLOAD OF INTEREST
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Windows XP users and some Windows 98 users must immediately
download the security update available from Microsoft. A MAJOR
flaw was found in the Windows XP and some 98 operating systems
that can allow hackers full access to any and all files on your
system and possibly allow them to run malicious programs without
your knowledge! I know this download doesn't relate to all of our
readers, but the security flaw is so serious that I felt it
necessary to devote this space to warning the  small percentage of
our readers who may be effected! Please, do not hesitate, do not
do it later, do not wait, run the Windows update part of Windows
XP or 98 and have the security patch installed right away!


WHAT ARE THEY THINKING
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I recently had someone contact me about fixing a problem on their
web server. This person sent me their FTP login information, AOL
login information, and PayPal login information for payment! The
thing that shocks me the most about this situation is the fact
that I had no prior contact with this individual what-so-ever! I
know that most of you are smart enough not to do something so
stupid, but what in the world was this guy thinking? I could
have gone on a shopping spree on AOL, drained his bank account
on PayPal, and erased his website with his FTP information! Do
not provide login information to anyone without prior contact
and a specific reason to do so! Your login information is not
public domain for a reason, it's meant to be kept private!


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