CMUThought Community Thought 100 day Challenge » Web Design http://www.cmuthought.com Building a Community Smart Goal Setting 100 Day CHallenge Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:47:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 SMC and working from home http://www.cmuthought.com/2011/05/smc-and-working-from-home/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2011/05/smc-and-working-from-home/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 14:12:33 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=2565 There are numerous reasons that you should consider working from home. We have listed several below and would like your feedback. Companies like specialty merchandise corporation offer various avenues to help you be your own boss and something to consider when looking for resources. Their smc corp bbb complaints you may see are from people who may not have understood the process and not read the training materials.

1)Being your own boss
It’s a great feeling knowing that the money you are making is for yourself and not for your boss or a larger organization. This means you don’t have anyone to answer to, apart from yourself of course. You are in control of your workload; in the end you get out what you put in to your own business.
2)Fitting work around family
You finally don’t need to put off doing the important things in life, especially those moments that you will never get back with your family. Making sure you see your children grow up is very important. Having your own business at home means you don’t have to worry about taking your children to school, picking them up or taking more time off during their holidays.
3)Using the internet
The web is a fantastic marketing tool if used in the correct way. Using a laptop means that you all of your documents are saved in one place, without the need for thousands of pieces of paper. It’s possible to build up your whole business by just using a website and a good internet marketing campaign. You can look up details of the smc membership online and see for yourself the costs and what they have to offer. This is extremely cost-effective, especially when you consider how much you could potentially make!
4)Reduce your carbon footprint
Working from home means significantly less time ‘on the road’ commuting into or from work. This helps the environment, and also helps to lower your stress levels, as the morning commute is never very fun wherever you work!
5)Freedom
Last, but certainly not least is the increased freedom you will have by working from home with your SMC business. You no longer need to ask permission to do things, take time off, when making a work decision or about what time you start or finish work. You are completely free to do whatever you want to do.

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The higher your page rank the higher you will rank in search engines. You can increase your page rank by using specific keywords in your website or blog. Also getting others to link to you and have your site linked from their site can be very beneficial. We have seen our site jump from a PR 3 to a PR 6 in as little as 3 months thanks to the blog content and links that we have received from other blogs. We can definitely say do not take short cuts to try and get your site ranked as it will only hurt in the long run.

Your domain: (eg. iwebtool.com)
Search on:
Limit search to:
Keywords to search:
(The results may not be accurate because the search engine gives different results to different connections)

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1) http://www.copypastespace.com/
2) http://www.myspacelayoutscreator.com/

3) http://www.market2myspace.com/myspacelayouts

We will be putting together a step by step guide on easy integration of layouts. Once this is done then you can start marketing your MySpace URL, and find out how to use the classifieds and Blogs on MySpace to create potential customers.

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