With it being a statistical fact that 97% of the people who are involved in Home Based Business are not making money at it. So that calls for the natural response of well why not? How can this be with that number of people failing at anything. That would be Internet Marketing, Direct Marketing, Affiliate Marketing.This is a incredible amount of people who are spending more money than they are making. So are we left to come to the conclusion that this 97% are the means of the tremendous amount of success that the 3% are experiencing. We are a consumption based society and culture that is conditioned to believe we can spend our way out of
any situation.Now here is a thought to consider just bring it all to a screeching halt. And saying that this is not how I intended for things to turn out. So if I am spending more money than I am making then I have to be going into debt with the way I am doing my business. My Work from Home Business Opportunity has me working for it rather than it working for me creating a profit.So how can I do something about it?, how can I change the results or lack of results rather. You can just stop and completely reinvent yourself. Starting with your thinking do you really think that you deserve success?can you shoulder the responsibility of success. Can you be brutally honest and admit to yourself why you are in the current
position you are in now and fix it.Let us look at your mindset, because it is your mindset that determines your actions. Are you being consistent in your marketing of your business. Do you have a business plan that you follow that guides you on a path to your goals. Do you go over your mission statement each day. Do you have a Dream board that has pictures of your goals or the things that you want to buy.Getting back to the basics of what it takes to be successful. Everything that you do should be a habit, because if it is not a habit then you don’t have it. Success is based on your focus to meet your challenges and adversity head on and come up with a solution for them if that is by seeking out help from a fellow Online Business Entrepreneur your up line or on the forums. The most detrimental thing you can do is try to build your business by yourself.So it is not to late you do not have to settle for the results that you are now getting. Step out of the box start a mastermind group or join someone elses. Increase the amount of personal growth work that you are now doing and rekindle your happiness about being a Home Based Business owner and make it happen and stop waiting for it to happen. Shake things up in how you are approaching building your business.

One of the challenges in running an online home-based business is managing your time effectively. The opportunities available online to engage in time-wasting activities are countless. If you are going to have success with an online home-based business, you have to learn to manage your time effectively and not get distracted with unrelated issues that you are bound to find online.So how do you ensure that your time is not wasted online when it could be better spent running your home-based business?Well the answer is not much different from running any other business – that is planning carefully, instituting a time management strategy and sticking by it. But you can go further and make this task easier if you are serious about your business online.What would help tremendously in keeping away distractions is if you develop a very deep understanding of how these distractions can contribute to you failing in your online endeavors.Once you develop this understanding then you automatically develop a resolve to stick to your task and not get distracted. For example, how many sales pages do you needlessly spend reading online? Sales pages that probably have little or nothing to do with your business. Understanding just how insidious even examining a business opportunity at the wrong moment can be and how this can undermine your efforts to grow your business can make a tremendous difference in how you manage your time.The truth is running an online home-based business is hardly different from running any other type of business when it comes to how you manage your time and your focus.What is different however, is the level of distractions that you are bound to face online. These distractions for the most part are extremely tempting in nature and tempting enough to waste your time and dissipate your own efforts.It is not surprising that so many people fail with their online business. In fact if most brick and mortar businesses were to be subject to the level of distractions that are on the internet, there would be an even higher failure rate with brick and mortar startups.No brick and mortar business would allow sales people to just arbitrarily walk into the door and start delivering a sales pitch. Yet sadly, this is how some of us run our online home business – we allow ourselves to be bombarded by sales pitches for any number of widgets that are supposed to help us earn thousands.Of course you cannot allow your time to be wasted this way and hope to be successful. You have to get to understand in a very deep way how not managing your time properly online negatively impact your chances at success with your online home based business.Until you do, you will continue to allow others to frustrate your own efforts at being a success online.

Many small businesses don’t have an IT department or anyone experienced enough to handle even basic IT tasks like backup, system restoration, patching or updates. In most cases, they rely on a local business partner (typically an IT consultant or local IT support company) to handle these tasks.Unfortunately, many small business IT solutions on the market today exacerbate the situation. Their complexity…
requires the need for ever more powerful hardware
results in frequent system crashes and downtime for upgrades
compounds security problems
necessitates frequent system restorations
increases the investment in resource to upgrade systems and fix problemsWhats needed is a new generation of ‘small business servers’ that deliver all of the essential IT & technology services for smaller businesses but without the usual costs or hassle.Challenges in supporting micro and small business customersTo stay in business small businesses need help with basic IT chores, which are becoming more mission critical than ever as they grow more time consuming to deliver.Just look at business continuity and disaster recovery in small businesses. A study by Gartner found that only one third of small businesses surveyed said they were prepared for a disaster within the next 12 months.In other words two thirds of all small businesses are not prepared for a disaster or protected. The reason, in most cases, is that small businesses don’t have the IT skills of solutions to perform common tasks like backing up critical data or developing a way to restore systems that crash or become damaged when a pipe breaks or there is a fire, flood or other disaster.Small businesses also need help just backing up and restoring files when someone accidentally deletes them. Such deletions in small businesses are quite common.Whilst everyone understands the need for data to be backed up, what many don’t realise is how expensive and difficult it actually is with traditional solutions. In fact, the traditional approach to backing up data is a time consuming and resource intensive task. The normal procedure requires tapes to be rotated, in the right order and taken off site for secure storage.Plug In, Switch on & Start WorkingSecurity within smaller businesses is also an issue. Hackers today are after confidential information about businesses and their clients to commit fraud and identify theft. They employ increasingly sophisticated attacks that may use socially engineered phishing email messages. These spam messages are designed to fool even savvy computer users in to thinking they are from legitimate sources. An unsuspecting user might click on malicious executable file or URL link to a poisoned web site and automatically download malicious software.In their pursuits hackers increasingly exploit new vulnerabilities in applications and Windows operating systems as a means of infecting computers. To battle this problem, software vendors issue frequent system updates and security patches that must be installed quickly to minimize exposure to each new threat.In 2008, Microsoft alone issues 43 critical, 24 important and two moderate fixes, according to security experts. The previous year saw a similar amount, including 49 critical, 23 important and five moderate updates. Other application and browser vendors had numerous updates as well.Again, many small businesses don’t have the IT expertise to track all of these patches or the time to install them. Beyond security patches, there are typically many operating system updates that must also be applied. Such installations are often time consuming.Unfortunately many of these fixes incur downtime, which no business likes. For example, in many situations, a business must first test a patch or upgrade to be sure it does not cause problems. If the test goes well, planning must take place to be sure the changes are made at a time that least inconveniences its workers. Again, many businesses are looking for help with these matters from their business partners. The challenge for the business partner is that all of these tasks (testing, planning, applying etc.) are all time and labour intensive.Problems with traditional Small Business Server SolutionsEven the smallest business today requires certain basic capabilities. Workers need to share files and printers. Additionally, their data must be protected and their systems must be secure.The burden on the business partner to provide these services typically requires the use of multiple solutions from different vendors. The mix often includes a server OS and file system from one vendor, backup software from another, and security products including firewall, anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-spam software etc from even more vendors.Managing such a mix can add to a business partner’s workload. Each product must be managed with its own administrative system, and each must be updated on its own. There might also be conflicts when trying to get different vendors products to work together.Additionally supporting such a mix of applications might introduce security issues. For example, if a firewall and anti-spam solution are not in sync with regard to the level of protection each affords, one might work in detriment of the other.The end result when using multiple solutions is that the time investment per client grows as the complexity increases. It also increases the time investment a business partner must make in learning/training. Their staff must be knowledgeable about many discreet products in order to support their small business client’s workers.Compounding matters, the traditional choices have had their problems. Solutions designed specifically for smaller businesses often could not scale to support a business growth. For this reason, many of the solutions commonly used are not designed specifically for small businesses. But this only adds to the management burden placed on the business partner because they must customize or scale down these solutions to meet the needs of small businesses.Additionally, such solutions are often bloated with features not needed in smaller businesses. For instance, directory services might be overkill for a company with fewer than twenty people. Yet, its administration is as time consuming for twenty as it is for one hundred or more.Similarly, an enterprise solution might be so narrow focused that it lacks key features for small business, thus requiring a patch work of solutions to meet a business’s basic needs. For instance, a firewall might need a third party anti-spam or anti-virus solution to provide more complete protection.In either case, trying to force fit an enterprise solution into a small business environment can add to the management workload.What’s needed: Desirable characteristics?With these concerns in mind, there is obviously a need for an alternative to the enterprise patchwork solutions that are currently being cobbled together and used in small business today.Any solution that addresses these pain points must be designed specifically for small businesses and the business partners who serve them. It must enable customers do email, create and share documents, centrally manage files, store and secure business data, control access to information, connect offices, employees and partners whilst protecting their network and systems from unwanted disruptions and intrusions.It should be less complex so that it requires less IT support than traditional solutions. Additionally the solution should be Linux based. The reason: Linux is stable and reliable. This would simplify management and make solution subject to less downtime than some alternative solutions. Additionally being Linux based reduces many security problems, as far fewer attacks, generally speaking, are aimed at Linux than traditional operating systems.Furthermore, most operating systems are packed with drivers, utilities and services that are seldom used. An ideal solution would only use the parts of the Linux Kernel that are needed to perform the desired functions. This would reduce potential vulnerabilities.To simplify matters further, the solution should be very easy to deploy. For example, it should be offered as a simple plug and play solution in the form of an appliance. And the solution should support remote management to troubleshoot and correct small problems, as well as recover from a system crash.A solution with these characteristics will save a business partner valuable time that would otherwise be needed to administer solutions at every client’s site. This saves time and money. It allows a business provider to provide services in a more economically efficient manner to existing customers. And it frees up time to solicit and support new businesses.Enter: An affordable solution designed specifically for small businessesSmall Business Server Appliances are a new breed of Small Business Server Solution they are delivered delivered as a plug and play hardware appliance, everything is included. Its pricing structure is simple and straight forward. Business partners do not have to deal with multiple and complex licensing agreements as is the case with many alternative offerings where you are required to switch platforms (or upgrade hardware) above 75 and 100 users, or when email and data storage requirements reach a certain limit.Small Business Server Appliances offers file and print sharing; firewall, anti-virus, anti-spam protection; email, calendaring, contacts, tasks; secure remote access; data backup and disaster recovery features; office productivity tools; and automated system updates.Everything is included within the appliance as a single solution. And business partners can use the platform to deploy other applications that a client might need.The high performance appliance hardware allows a powerful solution to be delivered in a small footprint. This also provides the ability to scale solutions as a clients business grows up to 500 users without artificial licensing barriers. Furthermore, the appliance format also makes the solution very easy to deploy, typically it can be up and running in about 20 minutes.Setting the solution apart: Autonomic features and benefitsSmall Business Server Appliances are designed to run on their own at a customer’s site with little intervention from the business partner. To accomplish this we make use of autonomic features that automatically handle many routine tasks and can correct many problems on its own as they arise. These autonomic features ensure that the small business stays up and running and its systems and data are protected, all while off loading time consuming IT tasks from business partners.For example Small Business Server Appliances comes pre built and pre configured and can usually be implemented in around twenty minutes. There is no monitor or keyboard, the admin interface is accessed via an IP address securely through HTTPS which enables you to manage the appliance remotely. In contrast, alternative solutions often require the business partner to load 5 to 15 CD’s to get a system running initially.Small Business Server Appliances also has the ability to self manage automated backups to a disc based storage device (on or off site), to a hosted backup service in addition to traditional tape or USB based storage devices. A few Small Business Server Appliances also provide the option for integrated hot swap backup discs to be used which enable data to be backed up continually throughout the day.SummaryWith Small Business Server Appliances, business partners get an easy to implement and easy to manage solution that has specifically been designed for smaller businesses.Small Business Server Appliances come pre built and ready to be used this solution offers a rapid time to value.All of the attributes of Small Business Server Appliances pay dividends twice over. First, the small business client is happy, because they can do their jobs without computer related interruptions. And second, a business partner can deliver a high level of service while dedicating minimal IT resources and staff to each client.The autonomic features of the solution reduce the time and resources a business partner must invest to begin work with a new client and to support existing small business customers. For example very little training is required to become familiar with the solution, so business partners quickly leverage the solution and immediately become more profitable.