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Home-based businesses continues to provide great potential for entrepreneurs, according to the latest exclusive report on the franchising industry by Franchise Direct. With a proven track record during past economic downturns, and with thousands of opportunities to avail of, this sector is really prospering.

Over the last 12 months, Franchise Direct has been releasing informative reports on many sectors within franchising. Home-based franchises are popular because they fall into a wide range of industries, and so while the profitability of a home-based business varies to a degree, the industry itself is on the rise.

Generally speaking, home-based franchises are at the cutting edge of a shift in the American workplace. The report found that more and more people are choosing to work from home, strengthened by the personal freedom it provides. Home-based franchises are specifically attractive to women because it allows them to manage the demands of work and family with much greater ease. With cheaper technology making the office only a click away,  home-based franchises are enjoying a true renaissance at the moment.

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Working and providing a service for someone is a very viable option to make money online, there already exists many available jobs online like writing articles, providing SEO service, submission services, graphic creation, mini-site creation, blog creating, etc.

However, instead of choosing one of those and basically getting myself another job (which I’ll eventually hate), I decided to look at what I have got to offer that can satisfy people and at the same time, keep me interested.

So, I headed to the Warrior Forums, a place I hang out quite often to pick up on internet marketing tips and strategies, to offer my service. I bought a thread, offered a service to turn written articles into audio or video format. Taking the exact same content and turning it into another format will bring a whole new audience.

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One of the recommended strategies in article marketing is to have the articles on your own site first before submitting it to the article directories.

Previously, if you check my blog… I place all my articles and thus, it kind of cluttered up my actual blog content. While the 2 can usually be linked together, there is a subtle difference between articles and blogs.

Articles tend to be informative and sometimes, quite formal.

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What leads to more money?

You know the answer already: More Leads = More Money!

I got something really special for you… I was only *just* told about this so it’s brand new. The Lead Generation TeleSummit will be running on July 20th to 24th, 2009 and you get to attend it for FREE! (Ah, but what if you can’t attend it? Don’t worry – I’ll get to it real soon).

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It’s 9AM. My phone rang… “Hello?”, I croaked. Apparently, my voice isn’t that well acquainted with morning calls.

A friend of mine called me and asked about his site – he’s in the Forex market and he wanted to know “How do I do SEO for my site?”

Here’s my answer: “When you want to do SEO, there are basically 2 things you need to do – optimize your own site and create links back to your site.”

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