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By Jackie Lee

 Have you been looking for a legitimate work from home opportunity only to find yourself drowning in the sea of possibilities? Have you found something you thought was going to be perfect only to find it was too complicated for you to do successfully?

It’s time to find a simple, legitimate work from home opportunity that you can really do, and enjoy. If you follow these 5 simple steps you will be well on your way to finding just that.

1. Find one strategy and learn everything you can about it.

Deciding one one strategy to make money online is the best thing you can do. Once you have made a decision about what you want to do, don’t allow the plethora of information available to distract you. The more you know the easier it will be to work your business, to a point. If you just continue to read and never apply what you are learning you won’t get anywhere. Once you have learned what you need to know, and know what you need to do, stop reading, and just do it.

2. Ask questions and follow directions.

Once you find a legitimate work from home opportunity you do not need to reinvent the wheel. There are people either in your business or doing the same type of business as you who will already know what works and what doesn’t. Listen to the people who are already successful doing what you want to do. It does you no good to listen to someone who is NOT making money doing what you want to do. You want to listen to the people who are successful. Follow their actions and you too will move toward success. If you have questions ask. There are helpful people around who will help people who are just beginning.

3. Learn how to promote and drive traffic.

This is the part that most new people miss. They think just because you build it they will come and that is far from the truth. You have to promote your site, or business. There are many ways to do that, and if you have connected with others who are doing what you are doing you will be able to find some of the best ways from them. You can always take advantage of places like forums. If you find a good forum people will be glad to help you with promotion.

4. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.

Once you have the basics in place many legitimate work from home strategies will just need to you to continue doing what you did over and over. What’s great about this is you can do the steps on your own time, and when done right they will continue to create you income without having to spend a lot of extra time on them once they are done.

5. Refuse to give up before you reach your goals.

I might also add don’t get distracted and start anything else until you reach your goals. If you fail to stop reading you will get sucked in by great sales copy, and think this is “the next best thing” and it will be easy to try that. It is easy to keep getting sucked in to the next best thing over and over. The more things you get involved in the less energy you have to give to any one of them.

Do yourself a favor and forget about trying to tackle more than one thing at a time. Once you find a legitimate work from home strategy, stick to it. It will do you no good to try to add something else, at least not until your first strategy is implemented and working.

These 5 simple steps will help you find a legitimate work at home business. You can find a lot of the information I talked about in steps 1 and 2 at http://internetmarketingformommies.com I personally recommend trying your hand at building keyword sniper sites, it is a legitimate work at home internet marketing strategy.

Writing An Attention Getting Press Release
By Chris Simpson

 Whether you are writing it for yourself or for someone else, a press release is not written like an ordinary article. The format is different and the tone can’t sound like a hyped up sales pitch. It should read more like a news item. Since you are likely to submit it to a press release web site, you want to be sure it meets their guidelines. To do this, avoid using exclamation points as these are considered hype tags.

To prepare yourself mentally to write a press release, it can help to imagine yourself as a news reporter covering the opening of a new store. This helps you get in the right mood and that can help you to write it the way it should be.

Like a news reporter, think in terms of writing the who, what, when, where and why of the press release’s topic. Also keep it in the third person. The writing should be objective, not subjective, so avoid using the pronoun ‘I’ and ‘we’ and don’t make it too personal with the over use of ‘you’.

No matter where you are going to submit the press release, the same basic format is used. Once you are familiar with it, it is easy to follow. Below are the different components of the format you will need to use.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Any press release you write should have this at the top of the page. It can be done without it but press releases that begin with this header tend to be more effective than those without it.

Contact Information

The contact information can go at either the beginning of the press release right after FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE or at the very end. It will depend on whether it is for publishing online or in print.

Headline

The headline basically tells what the press release is about in a nutshell. To make it more effective, bold it and keep it at about 80 characters.

Date and Info

People reading the press release will want to know the source, so include the name of the city and the date of the release.

Lead-in Paragraph

This is the most crucial paragraph of the entire press release. This is where you must grab the reader’s attention in order for the press release to be successful. The key information of the press release will be in this paragraph and the rest of the piece will expand on it. Remember the who, what, when, where and why that was mentioned earlier? This is where you want to incorporate it.

The body of the press release

This part of the press release may be several paragraphs and will expand on what you covered in the lead-in paragraph. Whenever possible, it is helpful to include quotes in the body. This helps to draw the reader’s attention and hold it.

Recap and conclusion

In this last part of the press release, you will want to summarize the press release and give something to make the reader think. This can be the date of the press release or something of interest about product, service, website or store.

These are the basics of writing a good press release. Just remember that you want to catch the attention and interest of the reader in what the press release is announcing or promoting. With a little practice, you will soon be writing effective, interesting press releases.

Chris Simpson is dedicated to helping people make money at home by finding honest and legitimate home based business opportunities. Find legitimate online paid surveys and other work at home opportunities today at: http://www.HomeNetPro.com

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