My Worldwide Internet Business

Thousands of people find great joy in learning how to create novelty candles. Candle making has been around for many thousands of years. To people in the ancient world like the Egyptians, the Greeks and later, the Romans, it was a critical commodity because without it, they would have spent all their nights in darkness. Even today, many countries celebrate the candle by observing religeous occasions.
Candles play a huge part in almost all holiday occasions.   All the major religions have rituals which involve brightly lit candles. creating candles is as popular today as it ever was, even more so since candle making techniques have seen a boom in the last few years.

Today candles are no longer a necessity, yet most people are naturally drawn to candlelight for the aura of romance and the strong links to the past. It will be a rare family who doesn’t have at least a packet of plain candles tucked away in a cupboard. Is it any wonder that so many people want to learn how to create novelty candles either as a hobby, or yes, even as a business.
Many hobbyists make candles just for their own enjoyment, or for a new way to share interests with their children. When it is personalized, a gift made by candle making wax for example, will become a very personal gift with special significance. Any memorable occasion can be celebrated in this way.

Candle making is an enjoyable craft  and it is easy to learn. Most local craft stores supply the tools, like wax, wicks, and the molds you will need to make your candles a personal signature . Soon you will create beautiful candles you will be proud to show off to relatives and friends.
Children seem to show an intense interest in candles and when the youngsters show enough maturity, many parents grab the chance to share their hobby with them. They can then teach their children the fun and enjoyment that comes with making something with your own hands It is a perfect way to create memories of shared experiences with your children.

Some people want to expand and go into business , either by selling their range of candles direct to the local stores or, by getting a website and selling them from there.  There are people who do both. They sell to the community and offer a website address for referrals.  Either way, it can become an additional income for the hobbyist, or a lucrative extra income for the family.

Given the popularity of candle makingcraft shops that provide candle making supplies have broadened their wares to include colors, decorations, and fragrances which will give your home made candles that professional look we all strive for. Other hobbyists will gladly introduce you to new, ways to expand your candle making.

To begin making your first candle, your first step is to prepare the wax.  To do that, you have to melt the candle wax  For that you use a double boiler. If you do not have a double boiler here is how you can create one. You will need two different sized pots. One pot must fit into the other. Fill the larger pot with water, then spray the smaller pot with non-stick cooking spray and place the solid wax inside. Then place the smaller pot inside the larger pot. {The water in the larger pot will prevent the wax from burning.
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When the wax has melted, you hold the wick in place in the middle of the mold and pour in the wax.  Let it cool for four to six hours before you try to take it from the mold. If you find it difficult to remove the candle from the mold, you can place the entire mold into the freezer for half an hour.  You can then remove the finished candle from the mold

There is no limiit to how many uniquely different candles you can make. . You will learn how to make scented candles using a great variety of fragrances. You can also use colors and decorations  with an unlimited choice of options. As you develop the necessary skills you will find the confidence that comes with experience.

Ambitious candle makers  even make their own candle making molds by using liquid latex. This method finally frees the candle maker from being copied by anyone.  The only problem with latex molds is that they are generally too flexible to stand on end so that you can pour the wax into the bottom of them.

To overcome that, you cut a hole in a piece of sturdy cardboard.  The hole will need to be big enough to allow the mold to slip through, but only as far as to the lip.  All latex molds need to have a lip at the bottom for this purpose.  The wax is then poured into the bottom of the mold where the cardboard will support it.

We have seen several smart entrepreneurs, who have discovered that candles can be a very lucrative business.  Some have decided to turn their hobby into a profitable business.  They buy their supplies in bulk at discount prices.  They take extra care to package their product in the most appealing way, knowing full well that ‘packaging sells’. These are creative people driven to success by using their skill and imagination .  There will always be people who will want to learn how to create novelty candles. What a great way to add interest and excitement to your life.

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Kirsten Plotkin

I just want to let you all know that I have updated my health and weight loss blog blog today.  Every day for the next 2 weeks I will be posting a new article.  So if you want to learn more about why diets never work, how you can lose weight without dieting, and how you will never have to diet again, you should go and read some of the new articles.  If you are overweight or you have a member of your family who is overweight, I honestly don’t believe you can afford not to read this.

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Kirsten Plotkin Author

I have just completed 4 articles about a subject close to my heart; namely diet free weight loss. For anyone who shares my interest and would like to learn some revealing new information, which will not be available anywhere else, I strongly recommend you read these four articles.

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/my-personal-diet-free-weight-loss/

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/is-diet-free-weight-loss-possible/

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/244/

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com/2009/12/diet-free-weight-loss-what-does-that-mean-to-you/

I hope you find the information very enlightening.  Comments posted here, or at My Own Plan Blog, are always appreciated.

Kirsten Plotkin

Author

I thought you just might  be interested to read my two latest press releases.  They concern a book I have written called:  My Own Plan.  It is about why,  in only thirty years,  we have gone from a nation of  mostly slim people to a majority of fat people.  It is about the fact that diets never work.  They can’t.  The principal of reducing calories to lose weight conflicts with the natural function of your metabolism.  We have been duped and we are paying a heavy price, even today.

http://www.prlog.org/10414088-at-home-weight-lose-result.html

http://www.prlog.org/10414079-when-did-america-get-so-fat.html

Kirsten Plotkin

Author of My Own Plan

http://www.my-own-plan.com

Newcomers to the internet, who hope to make some quick money, often end up with one or more expensive products before they have given any thought to how they will promote them.

The few, who have done their home work, will realize that to get sales they will first have to advertise. Their priority is to get qualified business sales leads that can turn into actual sales.

Whether you own a business in an office building or you have a website online there are only two critical things any business requires to survive and make money.  They are customers/leads and sales. Everything else is just a means to get one of those two things. If nothing ever happens in your business except customers and sales, you will become a very wealthy person.

Yes, things are different on the internet. Your shop or business is called A Website and the customers are called Prospects or Leads but they are still customers and your income depends on them. So unless you know a way to get some leads, any products you may have already bought will end up in some forgotten folder on your hard drive.

Unlike the real world, where you can put your product in the window to be seen by passersby, A product on the internet does not attract anyone unless you advertise. There are no passersby at your website. Many an inexperienced internet marketer has lost many hundreds of dollars advertising in places like Google Adwords, only to realize months or years later that it is unlikely their ads were ever seen by anyone.

If you are new to the internet you really do need to be careful.  When you look around, you will see temptations everywhere.  You will be drawn to products that look great, sound very exciting, but are unlikely to appeal to prospects who are familiar with the market. That is because they are specifically designed to dazzle the newbies.

But it is not all bad news. If you ask around and learn before you buy, you will discover that there are other options. For example; you can join both free and paid Safe Lists and send your emails to thousands of their members. There are also Traffic Exchanges where you can place a capture page. Then all you have to do is surf the exchanges to earn the credits which will run your ads.

It’s a tough way to get business and it is unlikely you will make a 5 digit income but at least you are learning and gaining experience before you spend your money. You will find people who want to talk to you about keywords, SEO and Adwords. For a newbie this is dangerous territory because to succeed in that bullpen requires an enormous learning curve.

Even when you tell them, few newbies will believe that it is THAT difficult to do something that seems so easy. That’s why so many newcomers spend money they cannot afford to run their ads on Google.  They get caught up in expensive adword campaigns because they hear it is where the big money is. Sadly that is only true for the few who have the knowledge and experience to know how to make it work.  Adwords is not for the feint hearted and it is definitely not for the newbie.

So we come to the heart of the matter…Leads.  You will see many opportunities to buy leads; you might even find offers of free ones. But they rarely if ever live up to their promises. Top quality leads, like genuine business sales leads, are very expensive, and what you get is not always as advertised. Less expensive and yes, even free leads can be found everywhere. Most of them will be as useful as a telephone book filled with email addresses.

No matter how you get your leads, you will be faced with a big question: What are you going to do with them?  If you send out unsolicited emails, using your regular email address, it will be very time consuming, but much worse, it can get you into serious trouble for being a spammer.  You are also likely to be spammed yourself, with thousands of unwanted emails in your inbox.

Auto-responders will not allow you send emails through their system using purchased or free leads. Even leads from people who have already bought from you will be put through the wringer.  Not many past buyers, let alone unknown leads, will survive that process.

The fact is there are many ways to go wrong when you are new to the internet. The so called gurus who make all that money you hear about are not likely to be smarter than you are, but they have one unbeatable advantage. They have had time, often years, to accumulate prospects, thousands of them.  These are prospects who have bought from them before, who trusts them and look forward to their emails.

When these guys get a product, they vet it carefully because it will carry their recommendation.  The wrong product can quickly shorten a treasured list of prospects. All these gurus have to do is send a personal email to their customers recommending the product. In fact, they do not even do that. Their auto-responder takes care of it. It’s that easy.

For you to be like them, means you have to get a customer base, a list of prospects, who know you, trust you and look forward to hearing from you. Impossible?  Not at all. But it takes a little time, it takes having access to the tools that let you do that, and it takes some help from people who are there to teach you how to create your own personal business sales leads. These are also people who will provide you with the tools necessary to do the job.

So yes! It is possible to create your own leads. In fact an endless supply of quality business sales leads. They are the best leads you will ever get because they are from prospects who have already agreed to listen to what you have to say. You will be given access to a complete auto mailing system, which will work no matter how many thousands of leads you end up generating.

To prove to you that they really can get you to where you have always hoped to be, these same people are prepared to accept a token one dollar payment for a two week, ‘access to all areas’ trial of their lead processing system, their unlimited website creator, their easy step video producer, their conference centre and their unlimited hosted websites. But the real advantage you will get from this is a fast learning track to any type of business you want and they will teach you how to turn it into money.

www.my-own-plan.com/gvo

Kirsten Plotkin

Pay a token one dollar to get a great position in this powerful Matrix and have

two weeks to confirm it’s the right thing for you.

www.my-own-plan.com/gvo

This is your opportunity to get,

• Unlimited free websites with hosting included, from the web host known to be
• the best in the business.

• A method to generate a list of unlimited new Business Sales Leads.

• A mailer to process your old leads and send out unlimited emails to your lists.

• An autoResponder to send out unlimited campaigns to your lists.

• Your own easy Video Creator.

• Your own personal conference room.

This is simply the best opportunity you will ever get to make your business an

income producing, easy to learn, easy to manage, profit making enterprise.

Is’n that what it is all about?

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If you have any doubts about that,  $1  gives you two full weeks to use the

system. Plenty of time to test drive all the products.  You will have the time

to make absolutely sure that this is the business for you!

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So many people, who come to the internet in search of an income, are very quickly distracted from the main game.  It is easy to do because internet business has been designed that way.  It is rather like driving down the only road in town, and it has nothing but billboards.  You quickly get caught up in programs and systems like MLM’s, affiliate marketing, blogging and a dozen other temptations.

All of them promise to make you rich.  All you have to do is buy this program or that system, follow the step by step instructions and go for your life.  The two things none of them stress, is the importance of getting genuine business sales leads and converting them to sales.  Once you have figured out the product, those things will just happen, in some vague way, to do with ‘traffic’ if you just learn the program.

Traffic is code for; this is not really leads but it will keep things vague, it sounds easy enough to do and it will not confuse the prospect.  You see, traffic in itself is meaningless it is a list of email addresses, in line with a list of names from a phone book.  The only traffic that counts is business sales leads because they are at least people who are likely to buy your product. That is, if you have something of genuine value to sell them.

If you are reading this, and you do have some business experience you are thinking; well, so far this is all very obvious!

But that is probably just before you stop to realize that a large percentage of newcomers to the internet have had zero experience in business. Even those who have had some offline experience tend to think that an online business is in a completely different category where different rules apply.  They are of course encouraged to hold this belief by every hot shot marketer they run into.  In any case, how many dud products did you buy before you found your feet?

Offline and online, there are just two fundamental things required in any business, anywhere: #1. customers/leads.  #2. Sales.  You get #2 by concentrating on #1.

Everything else that goes on in a business will involve one of those two things. In the real world it is a lot easier to have clarity about that because there is rent to pay and staff to emply, shelves to stock and nobody seems to come through the door.

It doesn’t matter whether you are in a real world business, or you are doing your best to make it online, you cannot afford to lose sight of those two priorities.  Get a scratch pad and keep it on your desktop and etch those two words into it in bold letters and never lose sight of your main aim because just about everyone you bump into online will try to take your focus away from it and put it wherever THEY need it to be.

People always know what they want they just do not always know what they need.  It takes tenacity and persistence and patience to learn a new craft. To be able to stay single minded and ignore the sparkling temptations along the way.  The less experience we have, the more our WANTS are likely to be out of sync with our NEEDS.

In the real world, very few, if any people go into a business they do not understand.  Online, almost everybody starts out with a business they have little if any clues about. Often it is a business no one can profit from except the person you buy it from.  Your chance to profit from a business you do not understand is nil.  The trick here is to realize that if you do not understand it, you should not buy it…Ever!

Well before you spend the money you need to ask yourself; who besides me, is going to fall in love with this package.  How and where do I find people just like me who will buy this package on my recommendation, when I don’t understand it.  If you don’t consider these questions before you buy you have likely done your money and wasted a lot of valuable time.

Even on the internet, business knowledge is essential and knowing and believing in your product is a given.  All skills can be learned, including business, but only by those prepared to take the time to learn.

That is why those two little words; Leads and Sales, are so important.  They keep you focused on the main game.  They lead you to the things you need to learn and they help you make the right choices.  They will ultimately drive you to succeed.

It is not easy for me to say these things, I started with business experience offline, yet, like most people, I too lost focus and made mistakes.  If someone was to ask me today ‘what is your dream product?’ I would say, I have a few great products, but I have only one dream product, and ironically, I found it just a few weeks ago.

For the first time in two years I am totally confident that I will achieve my ultimate goals.  It may not be the same for you.  For whatever reason, it seems all of us must go through some crazy ordeal of suffering, a trial by fire perhaps, before we get to where we can make a real income. You may still be going through that, or perhaps it is still ahead.

Unfortunately everybody seems to have gone through it, I am just grateful it is behind me.  I have found a place that totally satisfies my two priorities. I get an endless supply of business sales leads which takes care of my #1 priority.

I have unlimited websites which include hosting and that is taking care of my #2 priority and the strangest thing of all is that I’m cash neutral on cost because I have been able to replace my expensive auto-responder and  webhost with superior products that do not cost me a dime extra.  That’s without mentioning a few other huge advantages I suddenly possess.

So it has been a big win for me on both counts and I can cross out my scratch list items for good.  I wish for you what I have found for myself, an easier life, with a lot more income and some real joy in whatever you do.

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Kirsten Plotkin

Goldcoast Australia

kirstenplotkin@gmail.com

On today’s worldwide web, affiliate marketers are very well catered to.  It has become one of the most common and most popular professions on the internet.  There are two prime affiliate marketing payment systems, Clickbank and Dotcom.com.

There may well be other affiliate marketing payment systems, but Clickbank and Dotcom.com are the two largest and most popular, particularly Clickbank which is by far the biggest of its kind with over 10.000 products on any given day.  Both these systems are free to join.

There are many reasons why so many professional online marketers use affiliate marketing payment systems.  First of all they know they will always get paid promptly, twice per months. They also know the company has a long, respected track record and will always be there to honor their commitments. They know they can expect the products to live up to expectations, or they would not be there.

Not only will you find the biggest and best range of products, you will have the greatest variety.  There is a product to cover every possible niche market, even the most obscure. The products are sorted into categories, making it easy for affiliates to find just the right product for their particular niche market.

It beats buying and promoting that exciting new products, with all the bells and whistles and then waiting and hoping for some individual vendor to pay you on time. You begin to fear they will not stay in business long enough to pay you.  Even worse you can land a product that bears no resemblance to the description on the package. Often the package is the product.

Internet businesses are renowned for starting up with a big, impressive bang and little else. They soon fizzle out, to leave a string of unsatisfied customers and unpaid affiliates.  It is also common for compensation plans to change and that too can leave the affiliate high and dry.

Clickbank and dotcom.com can be relied on to have the best products.  That is because they closely vet each product before accepting it. This process means many products are rejected.  If you are new to the world of internet business, there is no better, or safer way to get your feet wet than through affiliate marketing.

Instead of paying for an expensive product which can be a flash in the pan and never make you a dime, you will have thousands of products to choose from, all of them guaranteed quality products, and you will not have to pay one cent for the privilege of promoting a single one of them.  I don’t know if you realize it yet, but this has to be anyone’s dream business.  Just consider, no business overheads, except, possibly advertising, and these days even that expense can be avoided.

There is a vast array of marketing and advertising options which do not cost any money.  It is possible today to successfully market any product, make a good income, and never have to pay a dime.  Where else in the world can you find a genuine free business?  Think about it; no rent, no staff, no stock, no fittings, no furnishings and no service costs.  This is a no cost, risk free business that anyone can afford.  It is certainly the best business for anyone who is new to the internet and wants to gain some experience before deciding what to do next.

The easiest and most lucrative way to market a business today is through social network sites. If you can find a product which is desirable to the majority of the population, say for example, a proven way to lose weight and not have to diet or count calories ever again, do you not think a lot of people would like to check that out?

In other words, regardless of experience, a person can simply cruise the social network sites and talk about this new way to lose weight without a diet.  Anyone asking for a link to check it out is a potential customer.  Through social networking, we make friends who go on to become long term, repeated customers for our home based business.  And the thing to remembers is this, you are socializing, not selling and you never have to pay.

Affiliate marketing payment systems are the best thing that could have happened to internet marketing.  It gives everybody a chance for a no risk shot at success.  If you would like to see my personal recommendation, for social marketing, you can find the details below.

http://thenpn.com/at/?id=20975

Kirsten Plotkin

Goldcoast, Australia

It has occured to me that some of you may be interested in checking out my other blog,  My Own Plan blog by Kirsten Plotkin.  It is about how, more than five years ago I achieved a permanent weight loss.  I can say permanent because till now, almost six years later,  I  have never put the weight back on again.  In the book, I explain how I  did it, why it worked and why it has continued to work.  At the very least, the blog will give you a lot of diet information that you may find very helpful, if not for yourself, maybe for someone in your family.

http://www.my-own-plan-blog.com

Hope you enjoy it!

Regards Kirsten Plotkin