I don't know about you, but I don't have the time on inclination to read long sales letters. I think they are better suited for people who have too much time on their hands.

I wrote "Be Your Own Boss" for self-starters who live with a sense of purpose. If this sounds like you, you have come to the right place.

The Facts

"Be Your Own Boss" is an ebook about inventing your own successful home-based business based on your own individual strengths and your passion. It covers over 80 topics related to growing your home-based business online.

I have integrated "Be Your Own Boss" into an archive of almost 2,000 articles written by well known, full time Internet marketing professionals. In addition, I included access to over 60 months archives to the Internet Marketing Newsletter.

"Be Your Own Boss" costs only $29.95,

In less than 3 minutes, you can l have full access to everything it took me five years to learn. It's not more of the hype you see all over the net, it's the really important stuff you really need to understand in order to develop your own unique selling position.

I don't expect you to blindly follow in my footsteps either. I I back up everything with my searchable archive consisting of hundreds of pages of Internet marketing information written by the web's most respected and successful authors.

I will not make any outrageous claims about how much you will earn using this information, it depends on what YOU do with it. If you do nothing you will earn nothing. It doesn't matter if you purchase "Be Your Own Boss" from me or any reseller, if you are unhappy in any way, for any reason, just ask for a refund.

The Internet - The Opportunity Of A Lifetime.

Over thirty-three years ago when I was only17 years old, I was an apprentice printing press operator. At the time, I was paid three dollars an hour for my efforts.

One day I was operating a printing press while a customer waited to sign off on the print job. He mentioned that he thought I should be working faster because my time was costing him $100 an hour.

This was a real revelation for me.

My boss explained how he had invested his life savings in the business. He purchased a building, had a lot of money tied up in equipment which wears out, and he was assuming all of the risk by offering me a regular wage that I could count on.

He explained how capitalism works. "The employees must earn more income for the company than they are paid." he said. "As I learned, more, I would earn more."

When we work for an employer, on average, we actually need to be more productive than if we operated our own business.

The employees must earn enough to pay the bosses wage AND to earn a profit for the business. Today the workplace is heavily taxed and regulated. This is why our jobs are so stressful. It also explains why surveys indicate that at least 85% of all Americans would like to own their own business.

It's getting more difficult all the time for the employer to be an employer. There is a growing trend for companies to offer income opportunities based on production to private contractors rather than to hire employees. The contractors are responsible for their own taxes, meeting regulations and providing their own benefits. We can view this trend as a problem or as an opportunity.

I see current trends as better alternative for both the employees and former employers. Today nine of ten families require two working family members just make ends meet. A home-based business offers advantages that are unavailable in most professions. We can reclaim the true freedom missing in our lives through growing a home-based business.

The Internet offers the opportunity of a lifetime. It is leveling the playing field, making it possible for anyone to compete with the big corporations - worldwide.

Don't jump to the conclusion that you will get rich quick. Some do, but most do not! It takes time and effort, especially in the beginning, as with any worthwhile project. The transition is not fast or easy. You first build a foundation, then gradually "grow it" from home".
A great tree starts with a small seed. The potential for an entire tree is already present in the seed. If you can envision the potential, you can achieve the results. This is a foundation of a more productive income model for almost everyone.
For this new age income model to work we need to grasp our changing role in the workplace. We must step up to the challenge, beyond what we have done in the past. It requires a leap of faith and preparation to assume the vision and the responsibility required to "Be Your Own Boss"

The Vision Behind "Be Your Own Boss"

The concepts in "Be Your Own Boss" were conceived over 5 years ago as the result of a personal "Vision Quest". Due to changes in the printing industry, skilled artisans with 20+ years invested in the trade were being replaced with computer jockeys earning less than half of the customary wage.

After 30 years as a Color Separation specialist for the printing industry, I lost my job. While I already had developed excellent computer skills, I could not support my family on less than half the income I had learned to depend on.

It became clear that the skills I had developed over the years would no longer provide the security I had come to expect. In less than two months, I realized I was in trouble.

I was flat broke.

The Problem

In western culture, we are accustomed to following the leader. We work for a boss who has already paid our dues. This income model depends on a company earning much more from our work than we do.

As we learn more we earn more, but we never really earn enough to actually gain any real control over our life. In most cases we are expected not to think for ourselves but just do as we are told.

The problem is only magnified online. Now everyone wants to grow their own home-based business resulting in too many sellers and not enough buyers. Now that the Internet Gold Rush has come and gone, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work.

The solution

A vision is like a seed, it contains everything needed to replicate itself in reality. Once you fully develop your own vision, you can use it as template, the details are easy, like paint by number.

After six months of turmoil, in an instant of clarity I conceived the vision that IS "Be Your Own Boss". It has taken me five years to bring this vision into reality both in my own successful Internet business, and to share with others in the ebook.

I can't guarantee you WILL get rich from the information contained in "Be Your Own Boss". I can guarantee you CAN use the information in the book to obtain more control over your life and destiny. Everyone reselling this ebook, as a condition of offering the book for sale gives you Smithfam's normal 100% satisfaction guarantee, just in case, you you are dissatisfied for ANY reason.

Inside Be Your Own Boss

Learn Why...

- Success attracts more success
- Hype actually works against you
- People with the best skills earn the most money
- 94% of the network marketers are losing money
- It may be more profitable to sell someone else's products

Learn How To Find...

- Untapped markets
- High profit products
- Complementary products

Learn How To Develop Your Own...

- Affiliate program
- High Profit Products
- Information products
- Search engine strategy
- Long time residual income
- Product marketing strategy
- Keyword placement strategy
- Personalized sales strategies
- Multi-level marketing products
- Automated followup program
- Personalized marketing strategy

Learn Why You...

- Need an associate program
- Should develop your own product.
- Should be selling consumable products
- Earn residual income after you do the work
- Should use personalized follow up messages
- Need to develop your own unique Internet identity

Learn How To...

- Track your visitors
- Manage HTML code
- Write articles & ad copy
- Earn lifetime customers
- Discover niche markets Choose the best keywords
- Develop compelling content Earn long-term residual income
- Determine salability of products
- Choose the best products to sell
- Sell the benefits of your products
- Understand multi level marketing
- Attract more traffic to your web site
- Get the search engines work for you
- Do things your boss does every day
- Earn income from the efforts of others
- Get higher positions in the search engines

Learn How To Find...

- Pay for placement search engines
- Personalized follow up messaging
- Associate programs to sell more products

Learn To...

- Plan your internet business
- Build a responsive opt-in e-mail list
- Market back-end, or after-the-sale products
- Treat your business as a business, not a hobby!
- Develop a product specifically for a target market
- Promote every page as if it was a complete web site
- Boost your profits with programable autoresponders
- Focus on selling products - not on recruiting sub affiliates
- Sell products repeatedly to the same customers

Get Free Access To...

- Free software
- Free visitor tracking
- Free hosting services
- Free submission tools
- Free Interactive scripts
- Free HTML editor demos
- Free Keyword generators
- Free visitor tracking account
- Free web site tune-up utilities
- Free web site search engines
- Free Business automation tools
- Free & low cost software & utilities

10 Key Concepts Used in Be Your Own Boss

Everyone wants to boil it down so here we go. The following is an over simplified approach, but let me explain anyway.

A Vision
You must develop a vision in order to know where to start and what to do. Your vision is about what you have to give NOT what you want to GET. A business is defined and directed by its vision.

Everything you need to know about growing your business is already contained in your vision. Be Your Own Boss will help you find your unique gift. Once you have discovered your unique gift there is no doubt left, it will require you greatest strengths. When you find it, write it down where you can see it every day.

A Vehicle
You need a vehicle to get there. The vehicle in Be Your Own Boss is the Internet but includes much more than that. Just as a vehicle must follow a map, a business must follow a plan. A business plan starts with a unique selling position, and a series of clearly defined and easily achievable goals.

Attraction
In order to sell anything you MUST have a strategy to attract targeted traffic. Be Your Own Boss goes into great detail about how to use the principal ofattraction to attract prospects and generate sales.

Content
Developing unique and compelling content is the most powerful way to attract visitors on the Internet. If money is water, then content is the pump. Every popular radio or TV program uses program content to attract a demographically unique audience. Our culture rewards content development through various forms of sponsorship. Be Your Own Boss details various content development models and how to implement them into your business.

Passion:
Passion is the most important and least understood ingredient in any business. Passion is also the most unstable element and the most difficult to control. Passion is like gunpowder, uncontrolled it's explosive and unmanageable. Yet it's your passion what shapes your vision giving direction and power. Be Your Own Boss helps you to control and take full advantage of your passion.

Targeting
If a gun was your vehicle, gunpowder your passion, effective targeting is the bullet casing that shapes the charge. Taking careful aim at your target market insures a bull eye every time. Our target market must be ready, willing and qualified to buy.

Community Building
On the Internet, real communication is more difficult, which makes it even more important. Maintaining some form a mailing list, a newsletter or a visitor's forum are all good ways to develop a sense of community. People won't buy from you unless they feel you can be trusted. Be Your Own Boss explains why you should always say what you will do and do what you say, and set a good example for others to follow..

Success
Success is not the end point in the process, it's just feedback that something you are doing is starting. However, once you taste success you know you are on the right path, You are ready to fine tune and automate your selling system. Be Your Own Boss can't insure your success but it can remove any excuse for failing.

Duplication
This one is simple. You simply do more of whatever is working best and less of what isn't working. If McDonalds would have stopped after their first successful drive in fast food business business you would have never heard of them today. Success is developing a Franchise Mentality. Selling consumable products and renewable services are examples.

Back End Selling
There will never be any sale as easy as a sale to an existing satisfied customer. Once you have earned a customer your emphasis shifts into a service and support mode. You want to support your products and services. Be Your Own Boss goes into detail about how you can actually actually take advantage of almost any problem using superior support and communication.

Table of contents:

Insider's Basic Training

- The Power Of Residual Income
- What Do You Bring To The Table
- Evaluating Home Business Opportunities
- Want To Earn Money Online? - Get Your Training

Internet Marketing Boot Camp

- Working Outside The Comfort Zone
- Fishing On the Net
- Planning Your Internet Business
- Fool's Gold
- How Not To Get Ripped Off Online

Choosing Products To Sell

- The Easiest Path To Success
- Find A Desire & Feed It
- Launching A Complementary Product

Going Professional

- Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
- Internet Based Business Hobby-To-Pro
- Smaller Size Has Advantages

Home-Based Business - Strategies

- Growing Your Home-Based Business - The Basics
- Cooperation or Competition
- Grow Your Own Associate Program
- Don't Play Follow The Leader

Building A Strong Foundation

- Some Things Never Change
- Earn Free Traffic Through Planning
- You Can't Fake a Marathon

Achiving Marketing Success

- Successful People Make More Mistakes
- Success = A Lot of Time and A Little Money
- Start Swimming Or Sink Like A Stone

Developing Compelling Content

- Prime The Pump - Give Before You Get
- Providing Valuable Content Content On Purpose
- Facts Tell But Content Sells

Digital Electronic Publishing

- Publish Your Own Information Product
- Earn Unlimited Profit Publishing E-Books

How To Sell More Online

- 10 Ways To Market Your Business Online
- The Seven Most Popular Sales Strategies

Mastering Your Web Site

- Choosing Your Business Hosting Service
- How To Make A Custom Bookmark Icon In Microsoft Internet Explorer 5+
- Using JavaScript Templates

Developing Traffic

- Web Site Submission & Promotion Basics
- Your Domain - Home Sweet Home
- The META-Tags
- Where Are Your Visitors Are Coming From?

Understanding Keywords

- The Proper Selection Of Keywords
- Developing A Keyword Strategy - In Detail
- How Many Keywords - A Tutorial

Submitting Your Web Site

- The Submission Process Step-By-Step
- Submitting Alone Is Not Enough

Multi-Level & Network Marketing

- Is Multi-Level Marketing Dead On The Web?
- Choosing The Right Home-Based Business Opportunity
- Winning The Opportunity Lottery

Marketing And Training Resources

- Smithfam's Primary Internet Marketing Resources
- Highly Recommended Internet Marketing Publications
- Educational Training Resources

Webmastering Resources

- Free & Low Cost Web Site Tune-Ups & Utilities
- Interactive Scripts To Automate Your Web Site
- Search Engine Promotional Tools And Resources