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1. PET FURNITURE: If you have a knack for making furniture, you can clean up by making fun furniture items for pets with nice padded cushions.

2. ANIMAL REGISTRATION & IDENTIFICATION SERVICE: This business photographs pets and creates a dossier to help identify them should the pet become lost. The information can be used to help locate the little one.

3. BIRD HOUSES: If you have a knack for building things, create custom designed bird houses.

4. PET PICK-UP: This is a more elegant title for a pooper scooper service. You target homeowners as your clients and clean up their yards once or twice a week. You charge by the hour or by the call. Consider hiring others.

5. PET BOOTS: You can make and sell boots for dogs. They will be a hit in urban areas where salt is routinely put on the icy and dirty streets.

6. PET FOOD DELIVERY: Perfect for people with lots of pets and a perfect service to sell to senior citizens. You cart the 25-pound bags of feed or food right to your customer’s home.

7. SHUTTLE SERVICE: There are plenty of people who need to travel long distances each weekend. They are going off to their country home or going to visit relatives in another state. Often, they travel on train or air shuttle and can’t take their beloved pet. You can start a business carting the pets in a van.

8. PHOTOGRAPHY: If you have a lot of patience and a good camera, start a business taking formal portraits or whimsical photos of pets.

9. CUSTOMIZED STUFFED ANIMALS: If you have a knack for crafts, consider making stuffed animals that look like specific pets. You can work from photos and sell these little creatures online or via mail order.

10. PHOTO T-SHIRTS: Pet-crazed individuals would love to have a T-shirt featuring a photo of their pet. A coffee mug, too, would be nice. Contact companies that provide personalized products (see our biz opp listing.

11. AQUARIUM SERVICE: You can start a very-high-profit venture designing, installing and maintaining aquariums for busy clients. Target industrial parks and medical offices where aquariums are popular. We know of one gentleman in upstate New York who pockets $1,000 a week for two day’s work. Most of his jobs are in just a few buildings so traveling time is cut to a minimum.

12. PLAYGROUND: This is different from doggie day care, because you are not spending all your time with the animals, but just providing overall supervision as they prance and play on your lot while their owners do their laundry, food shopping or complete other chores.

13. PET TAXI: It can be hard to get those little devils out to the car when the trip to the vet is over. We’ve all known someone who’s been late to work because they had to take the cat to the vet or drop the dog off to have its coat washed and groomed. You can start a business that helps people out by serving as a taxi cab for their pets.

14. BIRD CAGE MAINTENANCE & CARE: You can start a business setting up birds in bird cages and then return to maintain them. This is especially good for industrial plazas, doctors’ offices and legal firms.

15. PET HOTEL: Is there a need for a pet hotel in your town? Do you live in a resort area or a college town? Do most of the local hotels and motels have a ban on pets? You can take these pets in for the night or keep them for the week.

16. BIRTHDAY PARTIES: People with money and pets spend a lot on their critters. If you cater to upscale clients you can bank on a fortune by providing dog owners with birthday parties for their pets.

17. PET WASH AND GO: There are a lot of people who have trouble giving their dogs a bath. You can make some nice money offering this wash-and-go service. For many consumers, it is not worth the hassle to try this at home.

18. DESIGNER DOG HOUSES: Are you a handyman who needs a new project? Consider creating your own line of dog houses. You can make these homes look like well-known structures such as The White House, Roman temples, and Versailles.

19. SELL PET PRODUCTS: You can buy pet goods and foods and accessories and sell them yourself, either through mail order, through flea markets or by developing your own catalog. You can purchase the goods at wholesale prices and then resell them.

20. PET SITTING/WALKING: There’s no one home to care for poochie! You can charge by the hour or by the day or by the visit. For more information, contact the National Association of Pet Sitters, by visiting their website at www.petsitters.org.

21. MATCHING SERVICE: You match pets to people and match different breeds of specific animals to your clients.

22. CUSTOMIZED PILLOWS: Personalized products are always a hit. The pillows could feature pet-themed fabrics or come monogrammed.

23.PET DAY CARE: You watch pets for the day or the hour. Charge a minimum to ensure that you’ll make money for short stays, too.

24. GROOMING SERVICE: You’ll need to look into grooming schools. Consider becoming an apprentice with a recognized business in your community and then branch out on your own.

25. PET FINDER SERVICE: A lost pet is a crisis. It’s a magical thing when the pet reappears.

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Any self-annointed guru who can’t handle a little rough treatment — and a vigorous dissection of his offered materials — needs to leave the stage. Just put your hype down, and back away slowly.

Teaching is, and should be, hard. At the public level, I think it’s a friggin’ crime both that our teachers earn shitty wages… and that the job doesn’t command the respect necessary to lure truly bright and motivated people with an aptitude for sharing knowledge and skills.

I slogged my way through 16 years of school, and I met exactly one teacher who took her job seriously. She taught the course, vigorously… she engaged each and every student individually, and strove to motivate you using every trick possible (from flattery to bullying, from deep discussion to specific challenges)… and she honestly cared about you.

Meeting her represented my first encounter with “real” teaching, and it rattled my cage profoundly. This was in community college, where I got a two-year degree in slacking off and partying. This teacher took me aside and upbraided me for being a brooding, rudderless wannabe writer… and gave me something that no other adult had ever offered before: Specific, useable advice.

And I took it.

It was my first experience with having a goal to focus on… and following through on that task required discipline (which I had almost no history with) and changing my worldview from “what’s the point?” to “this is what I want.”

Mind you, it still took me another 12 years to finally get my act together… but that’s why I’m diving into this “guru glut” subject.

That teacher was my first “course correction” in life. I was definitely headed in the wrong direction, and she whacked me upside the head (metaphorically, though I don’t doubt she would have used physical force if necessary — she cared that much) and sent me careening off on another path altogether. A new path that eventually opened up all kinds of opporunitities and possibilities.

Looking back, she gave me two distinct gifts as a teacher: First, that specific course of action, which gave me hope and direction. And second, a sense that — with just a tiny bit of concerned advice — there were secrets of living well that I needed to learn.

Those secrets weren’t going to just fall into my lap. They were a privilege, and they had to be pursued and earned.

Life is rough. Pitfalls are everywhere, and modern society seeks to lull you into a life-long slumber. Most people are sleep-walking zombies, terrified of risk and willing to trade in the wonders of this amazing ride for a safe, warm couch to snooze on.

Teachers are not a luxury. They are vital to living a full life.

Yet the good ones are few and far between. It’s your main job, until you learn what you need to learn, to search them out.

And caveat emptor applies at all times. (”Let the buyer beware.”)

When I started my career as a freelance copywriter, there were ZERO teachers available. Count ‘em, zero. I’d been fortunate to have a few bosses, while I was still working for The Man, who gave me tidbits of advice here and there… but there was no roadmap for freelancing.

No guru’s anywhere.

Joe Sugarman and Joe Karbo (look ‘em up if those names are not familiar — very important guys in advertising) offered small seminars, but not on any regular basis. Strictly for insiders, and a startling small population of insiders at that.

I met, and started working for, Jay Abraham right around the time he was stepping forward to offer more structured teaching. Still, compared with what’s available today, it was fairly meager stuff.

Mind you, for an ambitious twerp like me — chomping at the bit to devour every shred of knowledge and every trace of skill I could find — it was a cornucopia of amazing learning opportunities.

I was VERY lucky to have encountered quality teachers early in my career.

By the time I started co-producing regular seminars with Gary Halbert, in the late ’80s, more and more people were realizing the need for teachers.

That didn’t mean the best and brightest stepped forward, of course.

Still, I was happy to see so many options suddenly become available.

Today, the Web is crammed to the rafters with wannabe guru’s. (The word “guru”, by the way, means “teacher”. In case you were wondering.)

Most of ‘em are just opportunists, looking for easy ways to make a buck. For many, their plan seems to be this: Slap together a course or seminar, hype the bejesus out of it, get good at making joint ventures with people bearing large lists… and see what happens.

And yes, it’s frustrating for the guy looking to learn. Who do you believe? How do you separate the crafty hype from the serious opportunity?

Thus, we get flame wars on forums about the “death of the guru”, and angry rebellions among seminar junkies over the relentless pitching going on at many events.

And, we also get many wannabe guru’s jumping in front of that very parade, claiming to be the “anti-hype” teacher.

Whatever.

Again: Learning is tough. It’s a process… and it’s up to YOU, the seeker of truth, to do your job separating the crap from the gems. There is NEVER going to be a golden age where truth wins out completely, and it becomes easy to find your perfect teacher.

I found ONE teacher who actually taught me something as a young man coming out of the public school system. I could’ve easily lumped her in with all the others who’d wasted my time… but I’m damned lucky I allowed her to shake me up.

The “magic” in learning comes not from any secret way to master something without effort. That doesn’t exist.

No. The magic is all about finding a relationship with a teacher who not only aces the facts… but also cares enough to metaphorically smack you around until you “get” it.

The winners in life never stop learning, and never stop seeking the truth. They’ve learned to love the challenge of encountering something new, and mastering it. They don’t whine about how hard life is — they roll up their sleeves and dig in with gusto.

I’m GLAD there is a glut of guru’s out there. The charlatans are easy enough to spot, if you just pay attention. The good ones are known, too. They may not be the most popular, or the most savvy at getting attention.

But they’re the ones who get the job done, teaching you what you need to learn.

Bitching about having too many guru’s is like complaining about having too many choices at the local sandwich shop.

Just get over your bad self. As a student, you have a job to do, and part of it is finding out the right way for you to learn.

Having choices is a good thing.

And remember — the best teachers are not necessarily good at elbowing their way to the front of the crowd.

They do, however, have the most vocal fans.

Stay frosty…

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The main reason for such a high failure rate is that most people despise selling, cold calling, prospecting, and closing sales. However, these are the necessary steps to operating a successful home business. It requires time, skill, knowledge, experience, and patience, which is what most start up business owners lack. Many businesses also fail due to lack of proper advertising. Most people are not expert advertisers. They lack knowledge of how to market a home business. If you are not an expert marketer, and you don't know how to advertise effectively, one could spend a lot of money and not getting the desired results. A good automated system can eliminates selling and marketing problems.

There are many automated systems out there to choose from, after carefully evaluated all the available automated systems, the best one I found is called the Predator Marketing System. The fully automated Predator Marketing System sorts through prospects to weed out the tire kickers, only serious buyers remain in your system. Then it does the presentation by showing an extremely powerful movie, and closes sales(without pressuring the prospects) by the professionally trained and carefully selected company sales team. So that Predator system owners don't have to do any prospecting, presentation, or closing sales. They do not have to sell or speak to each prospect personally; these are all done for them by their fully automated systems. Company sales team will do all prospect follow up, answer questions, and close sales. It is completely duplicable, and that will eliminates the fall out rate most people face in the home business industry.

And by leveraging the power of Internet technology, the Predator Marketing System includes Veretekk's Traffic Portals, the most innovative automated lead generation system created by an 8-year old internet marketing company called Inetekk.

So how are Traffic Portals different? Simple - because at the heart of it, Traffic Portals allow you to offer something of real value to a prospect. Veretekk has created 20 traffic portals to generate leads by giving away valuable offers like - free vacation, free ad submission to millions of sites, free leads, free SEO Search Engine Optimization tools, free website tracking tool, free ISP service, free webpage, etc.

This then allows for an increased level of communication between you and that prospect - setting you further and further apart from the masses of bulk email they receive. Your ability to offer more and more of these valuable services to the prospect continues to widen the gap so that eventually you develop a very strong sphere of influence. This creative marketing technique is called Reverse Marketing.

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Freelance writing can be one of the most rewarding home based businesses ever and the benefits are many.

You can stay at home with your kids, and even if you are homeschooling you can freelance part time and homeschool the other part of the day

Becoming a freelance writer does not have to be hard. It’s a matter of deciding what subject matter will be your specialty and keeping up to date on that topic with the latest information available whether that is a blog or forum or even subscribing to a particular print or trade magazine.

For all practical purposes you have to become the expert in that field. Freelancing and specializing on a particular topic can make you well known in your community and you can get requests to speak at certain civic organizations, schools and other special events

You need to decide who you clients are going to be and whether you will farm your services out to newspapers and online publications, start your own publication, or do both.

The sky is truly the limit as freelance writing is one of the most flexible home based businesses you can undertake. Another option you may want to choose is to write advertising or pamphlets for local businesses as a copywriter.

Becoming familiar with the advertising field in addition to the writing professional would be helpful in that you will gain a better understanding of how advertising copy is worded and other little nuances that are indicative of that field.

If you think you need to bone up on your writing skills or you feel you did not do well in high school English. Don’t fear. There are plenty home and online correspondence courses that will have you writing like a pro in no time at all. Also you may want to checkout any extension courses offered at your local community college in your own town.

There are a number of online opportunities available to freelance writers. New websites are popping up every day and if you have web designing skills in addition to writing skills, you can write you own ticket.

There are so many local businesses that do not have websites yet, nor do they have the expertise of a writer. You could offer them a valuable service by providing both a basic website and the written copy for the pages.

Overall freelance writing can be a very profitable field and with a little imagination you can have a new career started from your very own kitchen in very little time at all.

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The PageRank of a website is determined largely by the importance, or popularity, of the site based on the PageRank of the sites linking back to it. You must take advantage of quality backlinks to increase the PageRank of your site.

What are backlinks?

Plain and simple, backlinks are links that point back to your site. They are links you have exchanged with or received from other sites, as well as links placed strategically by you in forum posts, blog posts and comments, and the resource box of submitted articles. The submission of your site to website directories also provides backlinks that are highly favored by search engines.

Ideally these links, especially those placed in your forum signature and resource box of published articles (see my related article "Your Signature - An Internet Marketing Goldmine"), will contain keywords in the text of the link to create "anchor text." For example, "Online source for anniversary gifts" instead of "Click here for online anniversary gifts". Placing keywords in the text of the link anchors your keyword(s) to your url rather than anchoring "Click here" to your url. Not only do you have a backlink to your site, you have created a link of higher quality that includes the keywords you are targeting in your overall marketing campaign.

Why do I need backlinks?

The number of quality backlinks linking to a site is one of the main criteria used by Google and other search engines to rank and place websites. This statement, written by David Austin in a Feature Column of the Monthly Essays on Mathematical Topics, sums it up: "The fundamental idea put forth by PageRank's creators, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page, is this: the importance of a page is judged by the number of pages linking to it as well as their importance."

With this all-powerful statement from the creators of Google, the importance should be clear: you need backlinks to attract the robots that determine the importance of your website. The value of your page, your website, in the eyes of Google's robot lies in the number and quality of the links that it finds from other sites to yours. As the number of other popular, high-ranking sites find your site worth linking to grows, your popularity goes up along with your position in the search results.

In other words, quality backlinks are needed to entice search engines to stand up and take notice.

Backlinks are also helpful in leading visitors to your site. In this regard, backlinks are much like bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel to find their way back home. When your site is new, the robot will not place your site at the top of the results list immediately no matter how much time and effort went into the design and SEO of your site. Links from other sites that searchers are likely to find could lead them to your site if they look through the links page to find related products that might be available on your site.

In addition, links placed in posts to forums and blogs and the resource box of published articles have the potential of being seen and followed by thousands of visitors every day. If the forums, blogs, and article directories have high page ranks, you have more than just a link for visitors to follow, you have a quality link that will serve to increase your page rank as well as your traffic.

What are quality backlinks?

Quality backlinks are links from websites that have a higher page rank than your site, links from websites that have content or purpose related to your site (also known as relevance), links that include anchored text, and links that are built naturally over time, not a sudden increase in links just for the sake of having a high number of links.

Google has made it very clear that the importance of a site in the eyes of Googlebot is greatly influenced by the number and importance of the pages linking to it. In order to increase your PageRank, your website's importance in the eyes of search engines, seek out links from higher-ranking sites that have related content, include anchored text in your signature for forum and blog posts as well as your resource box in articles, and let links build naturally over time. These practices will be a valuable part of your overall marketing strategy.

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About the Author: Claudia Pate is the owner of The Anniversary Shop, traditional and modern anniversary gifts, and Common Sense Ebiz, guide to online business opportunities. Learn more about article writing to increase your PageRank with quality backlinks.

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