Why You Should Start A Home Based Business Online...

By Ken Leonard,Jr. © KLJ Online

"Running An Online Home-Based Business... From The Road"

Running an online home-based business really lends itself to mobility. Giving you the freedom to live as you would like, while running your business, is the appeal of the internet as a powerful money making vehicle.

The idea is to automate all that you can, so your promotion machine works 24/7, while you're asleep, or wandering around Northern Europe. You'll still have a small number of tasks left that demand your prompt attention, which are very do-able as you travel, in your spare time.

The advertising and promotion methods you have put into action will continue to work for you day after day. Articles you have written for use in other online publications will be printed and seen by countless subscribers, growing your house list. Ads you have set up in other publications will run per schedule. Any viral subscription programs or co-ops that you use will continue to grow your list, while you have lunch in a cafe in Cologne.

The use of autoresponders to host a free course or report on your subject matter is a valuable tool to the mobile marketer. I have many fr ee email miniCourses on autoresponder that bring in leads and subscribers for my ezine (and other lists) anytime and automatically. "7 Essential Steps To Small Business Success" is an email series dealing with basic concepts for the small business owner. Specifically, for those with no prior marketing or small business experience. It is available by sending an email with this link:

http://www.kljonline.com/cgi-bin/privacynotes/msb.cgi?5

These email miniCourses generate subscribers or makes sales 24/7, if I'm walking the Vondelpark in Amsterdam, or watching the midnight fireworks at the Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.

The list manager I use automatically adds new readers to my ezine list, or to other lists I own. It automatically handles remove requests, and allows me to send unscheduled mailings to either list any time I want. I use this function to mail my ezine weekly, which I can do manually or at a pre-scheduled date and time. I am using the service today from an internet cafe in Amsterdam. I bring a copy of the login URL on a floppy, with copies of ezines and ads and such. Just bring up the page, login, and you're ready to go. It's called AutoResponsePlus. You can check it out here... http://www.kljonline.com/arp.html . You pay once, install it on your website server (or have it installed), and never pay again.

I recommend using a service like this, as it is very convenient while traveling, since it is web-based. There is no software to run on your PC, no mailing to do through your ISP. You can manage multiple lists, and you get unlimited sequential autoresponders, that I use for courses, series, an ezine and follow-ups.

Every couple of days you stroll back to your favorite internet cafe, and casually check your email. Or you can do it once a day if you want. You'll have to have access to some kind of web-based email checker. My local DSL provider in South Florida, (BellSouth) gives me a webmail page that I can use to check all of my mail, even other POP3 accounts, as an added benefit. You file some emails for later, you answer customer and other important messages, and you're off to the Diamond Exchange in Antwerp. You know, Belgian beer is some of the best I've had. And I've had great beer, in 20 countries.

This pace of checking up on your email and running some simple tasks via the internet (occasionally) is easy to keep up. You will find that a break to sit down for awhile and relax (while you do some work) is nice and welcomed. It's a lot of work to see five countries in two and a half weeks. It is easy to find the time you need to keep your business running smoothly, when you are having the time of your life, and getting rid of all of the stress from the last year.

Getting 'out of town' will help you to be more productive the rest of the year, and your business won't miss you for a minute. You may prefer to travel with a laptop for your office tasks, but you really have to consider the fact that you have to keep an eye on it the whole trip. You have to watch yourself, you know. That's where the web-based email and mailing service comes in handy. To do Europe or 'the islands' right means to 'travel light'.

The future is now. It's here for the taking. And the world is bigger than your backyard. An online business is the perfect way to make a good income as your own boss, while living each day like it's your last.

Travel is freedom. The Internet is business freedom.

Do it because you can! You'll be glad you did.

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Ken Leonard Jr. will teach you to think and act like a successful person in 30 days or less. Get the new eCourse... "7 Essential Steps To Small Business Success" and see how! End your frustration, get going in the right direction! http://www.kenleonardjr.com

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