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Creating a Second Income

July 31, 2006 Julie Onofrio Massage Websites, Self Care, Start Your Massage Business

The easiest and best way to create a second income is by creating a website that promotes affiliate programs. These are programs offered by other business that pay you for referring people to buy their products. The most common is amazon.com who really started the whole idea or they were one of the firsts to offer such a program.

The way to really make the most using these programs takes some time and planning, but once you get everything set up, the money just continues to come in with only minor updates or you can continue to increase your income by adding more products etc.

The main thing to think about is choosing programs that you use yourself and know about thoroughly otherwise you will have angry readers if they purchased something that wasn’t reliable or had bad customer service.

The other ‘trick’ to making money using these programs is learning to talk about them in a way that is more personal and don’t try to push them on people. People know when they are being sold to and usually resist.

I try to do this with my website hosting package that I promote – Sitebuildit! I have written a few different sections on it and am testing to see what works the best. My Creating a Website that works has generated a lot of interest.

There is also a free manual that I recommend to people who are thinking about a website and thinking about making money through affiliate programs – it’s the Affiliate Masters Manual from Sitesell.com. In this invaluable resource, you can learn how to set up a website for the main purpose of selling other companies products.

Right now I am making a few thousand a month on affiliate programs, Google ads and selling my own products – not bad for a novice. But the thing is it keeps building so it keeps me working on it and learning. I hope to be able to live on my income from websites in a few years and then retire on it in a few more later …

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Planning

July 30, 2006 Julie Onofrio Start Your Massage Business

Whether you are just in the stages of exploring a massage career or have already graduated from massage school, the key to your success lies in planning what you are going to do.

For the most part you won’t really know what you want to be doing, but part of the plan is to just start taking steps so all the steps can come together to lead you to where you want to and are supposed to be.

Planning for massage school, you need to start thinking about whether or not this is for you. Start reading everything you can, get as many massages as you can and talk to massage therapists in your neighborhood, start talking to people at the schools, take a weekend massage class or a longer 6 week class to get your feet wet and see if you really would like it.

If you are planning your career, start taking steps to find out where you want to be working on and on who. Start writing a business plan or start creating a website using Sitebuildit! which has all the tools for brainstorming and researching your niche or service and it will also be like implementing a business plan.

But remember a plan is just something to get you started. It isn’t written in stone and things change along the way. You often will discover new information that changes your plan and outlook for where you want to go.

But as with anything, you just need to start taking steps. Taking small steps builds your self confidence and helps you in making an even bigger plan and achieving or accomplishing that plan. As you get better at taking responsibility for yourself, your career choices and business, you will be a stronger person which will also allow you to be more vulnerable. It is in the vulnerability that you will find more strength.

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Creating Your Vision

March 5, 2006 Julie Onofrio Start Your Massage Business
One of the first steps in creating a Business Plan involves creating a vision for your business.But before that even, you must have an idea of what your personal vision is so that you can see if your business and personal vision are in alignment.
If it isn’t you most likely will not get very far with either.

What do you picture happening in 10 years as far as your vision for your self and your practice?
Talk about everything!! Your health, how much money you will have in the bank, how many kids you will have, where will you be living?

Creating a vision is based on what you value.
For more on values…

If you don’t know where you are going, how will you know if you have gotten there?

If you don’t have a vision, how will you know what steps you should be taking to get you closer to that vision?

The thing about visions is that they can also be constantly changing. If you take a few steps and see that something is different on the trail, you can change courses and head for something else that you now see differently.

The hardest part is usually taking a few steps and doing something so that you can see what is next.
Taking steps requires self-confidence and commitment.

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