You’ll save money on leads, back in the old school days of MLM you had to have people to talk to and that meant buying expensive leads or paying money to put an ad in a newspaper or magazine… not anymore. Today’s home based businesses are fueled by new school web 2.0 methods of getting fresh, targeted leads every month.

Things like article marketing, blog marketing, video marketing, Myspace, and Craigslist make marketing your business extremely affordable and in most cases even free.

When you start a home based business you’ll also be saving money on daycare or babysitting. Some daycare centers cost as much as $4000 – $5000 a month! It’s insane! When you work from home you can spend more time with your kids AND have the added benefit of saving money on childcare.

Another way of saving money comes when you don’t have a commute every day. Gas prices are out of control these days and the money you will be able to save when you work from home is incredible.

If you don’t believe me just track how much money you spend on gas every month… I bet it would blow your mind. It might even be more than the start up cost of most home based businesses.

Start part-time, just because you’ve decided to start working from home doesn’t mean you have to rush out and quit your job. In fact it’s recommended that almost all people start working their business on a part time level that way you can build up an income before you let your full time job go.

Come in during a promotion, many home based businesses will offer start up promotions from time to time when they will drastically lower their initial start up fee and allow you to come in the business for a lot less. If you have a particular business you’re looking at you might want to ask someone about any upcoming promotions that might make joining the business much less of a strain on your pocket book.

As you can see there are a lot of factors that allow you to start a potentially life changing home based business for a lot less than you might have thought. At the end of the day with the economy in a steady decline and so many people trying to figure out a plan B you at least owe it to yourself to get more information about starting a home based business. Find the company that’s right for you and start living a better life!

Video marketing – just the thought makes some home business owners tremble! But it’s actually very easy and inexpensive to create videos for online sites like Youtube. And everyone who has a video on Youtube wants their video to go viral because when it does… boom! Your traffic will explode!

There isn’t an exact formula for making a video go viral but here are a few tips that should help you create a popular video and perhaps one that goes viral and takes your viewer ship to the next level!

Viral Tip Number One – Keep It Short!

Viral videos are never 9 minutes long. If you want a video to go viral keep it over 30 seconds and under 4 minutes. When people see a video that’s too long often they won’t watch it because they don’t have that much time to invest. However if a video is too short they’ll assume it’s just something pointless.

You don’t have to tell every single thing about your home based business just enough to get them intrigued so they’ll want to know more.

Viral Tip Number Two – Keep It Light!

If you’re blabbing on and on about how your home based business is the greatest and how much money you can make it will never ever go viral.

Most viral videos are funny and random. If you want a plain old marketing video that’s fine but if you want a viral video keep it fun, light and don’t take yourself too seriously.

Viral Tip Number Three – Read Your Comments But Don’t Respond To Them

If you read the comments for most popular videos on Youtube there are going to be some people who love the video and some people who are making fun of it. It doesn’t matter! Don’t get offended when people talk bad about you or your video and don’t respond.

And for goodness sake whatever you do don’t delete the negative comments! No matter how mean they are if people are talking about your video it’s a good thing.

Viral Tip Number Four – Don’t Think About It Too Hard!

Like I said before there isn’t a blueprint for making your videos go viral. Very, very few do and it’s usually the on that the creator never even thought twice about. If you’re trying too hard people will be able to tell and your video will go nowhere.

Listen, out of all the videos on Youtube very, very, very few will ever truly be considered viral videos. However, if you follow these tips you’ll heighten your chances of creating a great viral video that could send your online career to the next level!

The internet has made working from home so much easier. There are so many ways that you can automate your business now that will allow you to do much less actual effort and gain amazing results.

Video marketing is one of the most effective ways to build your business on vacation. That’s because the internet never sleeps. It is always open and people are always searching through Youtube and other video sharing sites looking for opportunities just like yours.

That’s why so many people who market their business online have chosen to focus so hard on video marketing. You make a video, you put it on the internet and it’s there literally forever. So whether you’re at home or in the Bahamas someone somewhere could be watching your video and wanting to find out more about your home based business.

Article marketing and blog marketing are other strong methods that do the same exact thing that video marketing does. You do it ONCE and it’s there forever!

The next step in building your business on vacation is to set up a website with an auto responder. So when someone sees your blog post, article or video they are prompted to visit your website and when they do they fill in their name and email address.

Once the name and email address has been captured you will automatically be sending your prospects information about your opportunity. You can even set the emails up so that they give the prospect the place where they need to sign up. You could literally come home to more sign ups and you’ve done NOTHING!

So before you go on vacation next time you’ll want to think about all the things you have on the internet that could possibly be working for your while you’re away.

There is nothing in the world like coming home to a check in the mail that you didn’t even have to work for!