know your rivals

Have you taken attention to your business rivals when you work at home? If not, take some time on knowing of your rivals.

Why do i think it's too important for those who do home based business? Well, there's a word said 'If you know your enemy and yourself, you will win every battle.' Knowing well your business rivals (treat them as your business enemies) is useful when you run a home based business. You must know what your rivals are doing, who they exchange links with, where their articles often appear, and what keys they use, and so on. Once you have known what your rivals have been doing, you could get the helpful information about your rivals.

As a beginner in the home business market, you have known what your rivals have done, you could follow their steps and do what they have done, of course, and it's pretty good to do other aspects what your rivals haven't done. But if you have done your home business for several years, knowing well your rivals is not bad idea. You might realize their actions on the business, and above all, comparing with them, you could find which aspects you have done, and which aspects you haven't done. So based on the information, you could set your own plan on home business market, and do what you haven't done well.

After knowing your rivals well, you have a complete idea about what you should do, and what you shouldn't do. With the time passing quickly, you do every step well, and as a result, your home business can get successful.

ask yourself some questions

Have you ever asked you questions? "Have you replied the questions and left your site on the forums?" "Have you exchanged the link with others?" "Have you written the articles and submitted them to the ezine?" "Have you written the press release for your products?" "Have you communicated with your users?" "Have you..." There're so some many questions about 'have you..'.

Why do you have to ask yourself so many questions? Well, you have worked at home and managed you own business, it's maybe a download site, or a product site, or an affiliate site, or an advertisement site, and so on. Now you have done the first thing what you have to do, so the next thing is what's about your site's fate – to be dead, or to be alive. It's the sale market.

Why do i say the sale market is so important in your home business? Here, i tell you a real story about a guy who's one managed a home business by programmed some softwares about education and run a site. Although the softwares he programmed were pretty excellent and had been recognized by some users who had already used them, the sale was not what he expected. After consulted those who have done well in this, he found there's a problem happened on him. It's that he only concentrated on one task of programming, and ignored the important thing – sale. He had done nothing but just submitted his site to Google. So no wonder why he wouldn't be very successful.

From the example above, it's not difficult to find out the reason why you have to ask you some questions, and above all, if you have already taken action. If not, do it now!

earn extra pocket money with Adsense

If the traffic of your site is pretty good, you should think about adding Good Adsense into your site and earn extra pocket money. It's not difficult to do this, just apply one Adsense accout on Google.

Why do you think about to add Google Adsense into your site? The answer is so simple, it's that you can earn extra money when you work at home. However, make sure your site have enough traffic, for you can only earn money with using adsense by more people clicking the ads on your site. Therefore, more traffic means more visitors, more visitors mean higher click rate, of course, you can earn more money. In the final analysis, the traffic is the most essential for your site. But it's not mean this cannot stop you from using Adsense to earn money at the time of the beginning of your site. And what you need to do is to draw a great of attention in the internet by using all kinds of ways, then you'll earn more money with Adsese.

So how do you apply your Adsende account on Google? You could open Google, and click Advertising programs to find Google Adsense, then enter it to apply an account, but before applying one, you should read the item "Quick Tour" to know more about Adsense. Here, there're step-step instructions to help you understand the benefit of using Adsense, and how it works, and how to apply it. After reading the item closely, you may begin to apply one by filling all the application form, and then you have to wait for Google checking. It'll take you one or two days to wait for Google confirmation. Now you could copy and paste a block of HTML and targeted ads start showing up on your website.

It's so simple, isn't it? You can do it, now go starting to apply your Adsense account and begin to earn extra pocket money.

know your customers

You have already become the one who works at home, and done it for long time. Here, i'd like to ask you one question about your home business. Have you indeed known your customers?

Whatever you do by working at home largely depends on your profession or favor, in spite of the projects differences, the basic fact is to earn money. No matter what you do, you would find it difficult not to tempt, earning more and more money. However, it's not so easy to make it, and you need to learn many tips. Here, i just discuss one point with you. It's that you really know your customers.

You have known the purpose of your product is to serve your customers, so if your product meets your customers demand, the goal you earn more money is not far. Then you should ask yourself at first, where are your customers? what do they need?

Where are they? You may say it's so difficult to locate them in the huge universe, but the function or the purpose of your product already clear, then you can mainly know whom your product serves. That's enough. The next step you need to do is to publicize it by using all kind of means, like submitting your site, submitting articles or news release, writing your blog, etc. A typing software, for instance, might be submitted to these education sites. Go wherever your customers stay, introduce your product, tell them the benefit your product offers them.

Know your customers demand. What do they indeed need from your product? They need the product simple, useable, and more powerful. So when you do your product, stand on your customers' shoes, think about what they demand. It's not only simple to use, but also powerful in its function. You may ask others who are not familiar with your product to test for you, and give your reasonable advice if it's not very good. Also you could email your customers who have bought your product and ask them to give your advice. You continue to improve your product until it meets your customers demand better.

Here, i just discuss the one point about your home business, hope giving you some help, and also wish you happy new year. Good luck, all guys!