I hope you like my spin from one of my favorite shows no longer on the air The Best Darn Sports Show Period. I know that is not the correct way to say the name of the show but I hate using those vulgar words. Ok, now to the meat of the article and a little spice to keep you reading. So here is the killer hook to make you think, Wow this is exactly what I was looking for when asked Mr. Google for Best Rated Home Based Businesses. So here is the hook, If you are looking for the info on identifying the best rated home business opportunity that is the most in demand product the world has ever seen with zero competition this is going to be the most important article you read in your entire life.The truth of the matter is it doesn’t matter if the parent company you choose to be involved in a selling over priced cracker jacks. The only thing that matters is that you believe that the product or service you are promoting is in the best interests of the people you want to serve. If you don’t believe in your product you have an ethical responsibility to stop selling it,period!So here are the actions steps you must take to find the best rated home business for you.Action Step #1Find what market you want to market in. This is where most home based business owners find failure fast. They pick a product to promote and just run with it. Now some action is better than no action but the more profitable solution is to find a market you want to get into and then find a marketing system that will allow you to get the best results in the shortest time frame possible.Action Step #2Find the iron hot marketing opportunities from reputable sources, like the direct selling association, the MLM watch Dog, and top home business forums like the warrior forum. These are the best places on earth to find reputable reviews from sites that have high credibility online.Action Step #3Make a decisions and then put your heart, mind, soul, and spirit into it until you find success. This is the final piece of the marketing puzzle that literally crushes 95% of the home base business. The actually working of the business. Most people get all excited when they join XYZ company only to find there is actually some work involved with it.Finding the right home business for you is just about finding what you are passionate about and finding a way to monetize that passion. The quickest way to success is finding a group of people to mentor you into the home business building warrior that is inside you.

Hi, my name is Walt. I’m an auctioneer with 25 years of experience in the auction business and licensed in the state of MA. I own Quick Auction Service, a company that specializes in building and running custom auctions, I’m also the webmaster of my own site and have been on eBay for 8 years. Besides eBay, the types of auctions I run most frequently are antiques and on-site estate auctions, although I’ve run everything from business overstock auctions to charity & special event auctions.

I enjoy sharing my knowledge and stories of the auction business. My goal for article is to help folks get the absolute most out of their auction experience.

Whether your fresh out of the package or a seasoned dealer I think I can offer something in this article to help you with your auciton adventures.

There may be as many reasons to attend auctions as there are types of auctions to attend. Maybe you want to attend an auction to buy items for re-sale on eBay, or some other market. Maybe you want to furnish your home with wonderful antiques, or you want to furnish your home as inexpensively without sacrificing quality.Some folks are just looking for a fun night out. With a little perseverance all these things are possible.

There are antiques and estate auctions, auto auctions, overstock auctions, absolute and no reserve auctions, real estate auctions, specialty auctions where only one genre of items are sold, tailgate auctions, live auctions, online auctions, sealed bid auctions, silent auctions, charity and fund raising auctions and many more.

Can you really buy for pennies on the dollar at an auction? You bet! Many times I’ve seen folks buy and re-sell at the same auction on the same night for a good profit, although be advised, this should only be done after the auction is over.

There are a lot of ways to find an auction, but here are some tips on how to find and attend the best ones.

Visit the genre of shops in the area that apply to the type of auction you want to attend. IE: If your looking for a good antique auction to attend, stop in the local antiques shops and ask for what there are for good auctions in the area. Sounds obvious right? But listen to what they don’t say as well as what they do say. Oftentimes when a dealer speaks poorly about an auction he or she attends, it may be likely that they are trying to keep a good thing secret. Think for a moment, why would a dealer keep attending a lousy auction?

Newspaper ads: I personally like to find ads in the classified ad section rather than flashy display ads. Flashy ads are usually indicative of an auction that will be high priced, may have reserves, (a set price on an item), and usually an enormous crowd. While any auction can be profitable to attend, it is usually best to steer clear of the glitzy ones, at least for the beginner.

Here’s the minimum you want to find out before you go. If there is a phone number in the ad, call and ask for the terms of the sale. What forms of payment do they accept? Is it an absolute auction? An absolute auction is one that has no minimum or reserve bids on items. These are the best auctions to attend! Is there a buyers premium? A buyers premium is like a tax that everyone who makes purchases at that auction must pay above the winning bid price. Most auctions these days do charge a buyers premium, 10% is not unreasonable but I feel much more than that is greedy, and the auctioneer that charges over 10% is counting on most bidders not doing the extra math as the bids quicken in pace.

A fair auction will have ample time to inspect the merchandise, usually at least 2 or 3 hours. Find out when inspection starts and make sure to attend! Never attend an auction if you can’t make the inspection, not unless your prepared to gamble. Most auctioneers sell at a rate of about 100 items per hour, which is why they sell “as is”. They simply don’t have the time to give a detailed description of all the items. Since almost all items at auction are sold AS IS, there are sure to be some damaged, refinished, fake and incomplete items at any given auction. Beware of any auctions that offer very little or no inspection time.

Good auctions will usually have 150 to 400 lots. A lot may be one item or a group of items. The exception to this are specialty auctions, auto auctions, real estate auctions etc.

When you attend your first sale, take note of the 1/2 dozen or so dealers that buy the most often. See if you can find out about other area auctions they attend.

When you do find an excellent auction, attend it as often as possible. By frequenting good sales, you help increase the bottom line of that business. It’s difficult for many auctioneers to keep the quality of merchandise consistent, so good attendance certainly helps. And when an auctioneer gets to know you as a buyer, he/she will go out of the way to accommodate you, to keep you coming back.

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.