The first thing you should consider in starting a home-based business is the type of business you are interested in beginning. Is it multilevel marketing, is it direct selling or marketing, is it internet or network marketing, or something in between those previously mentioned, or something else all together? The type of home-based business you choose will determine what kind of foundation will be more advantageous for your business. When you are starting out, it is very important that you have a complete understanding of each of the most common types of home-based businesses. You need an understanding of the way the business will be run. Will it depend entirely on your own efforts or will you have affiliates, down-lines, or up-lines or other agendas to follow? Is it really a business you own and that you control, or are you just a player in the line of a money flow in a business that belongs to someone else?There is a lot of material written on each type of home-based business. No home-based business has to be a mystery and each type has principles of its own. Each type has its own pluses and minuses. You may not like them all, and you should know the differences. The different types may indicate things or requirements like the amount of work that you will be required to do, the amount of money required to get started, or the amount of time necessary to be spent and when.How will you attract leads or make sales? How much of the money that you generate will be yours? How many down-lines or up-lines are allowed and from how many levels can you generate money? How much inventory will you be required to keep on hand? What kind of company support can you expect or are you on your own? How much client contact will be necessary and how are you expected to do it; cold calls, evening and weekend meetings, knowledge of internet or network marketing, or something else?The products and services of a home-based business are just as important as any other aspect. The more interested you are in the product or service that you are going to be involved with, the more effort you will put into being a success. At this point, I should say that the number one rule for starting a business should never be to make quick money. To consider a successful business, you must be serious about the foundation you have in the beginning. It is wise to have a strategy in mind as you begin your business. You cannot start out on a trip without a road map. Beginning your own home-based business can be as exciting as you want it to be or you can fall into pitfall after pitfall and loose hundreds of dollars and your interest in the business itself. With a little time spent researching the different types of home-based businesses that are available can save you money and disappointment. Sometimes the frustration suffered from a lack of research before you begin a home-based business can be the determining point when you give up.This may seem like a lot of effort before beginning a home business. Consider though, the effort you put in before starting a home business will allow more time toward making money once you get started. Money and success are the goals for every business. There is a learning curve for everything in life. The things that seem simple or unimportant, may be the road blocks on your road to success. Money is not the first and only measure of success. It is not even the beginning. There are so many things to consider before beginning your home business. There are schemes everywhere out there that are just waiting for the unformed person looking for a quick buck to buy into their hype. P. T. Barnum said, “There is a sucker born every minute.” He made a fortune on those suckers. Do you want to be part of that fortune?Do not be a sucker. Know what you want and know why you want it. Be aware of the most important areas that will make your business a success. You cannot be too serious about what you put your time, effort and money into. Whatever the outcome of your efforts at a home-based business are yours own. Take the time to make every effort to be a success. Learn the ropes and go into your business with your eyes open. A surprise does not have to be lurking around every corner. That is not to say that you will never be surprised, just that you will be prepared and not totally discouraged. It is as easy to be a winner as it is to be a loser, it just takes more preparation and awareness to be a winner. Think it over.
5 Ways Parents Can Support Special Educators
In many schools across the US, special education teachers are often at the short end of the stick regarding getting support from their classroom. The student-teacher ratio is unusually low, and there’s almost no parent participation because of the smaller pool of people in the first place.
We are still in an age with a large number of self-contained classrooms that run low on supplies and adequate support. This is because they aren’t connected to a grade level school where resources are shared. Here’s how you can support special education teachers and help them get through the year.
Become a room parent
There are times when a special educator goes without a room parent. There’s no fault with the students’ families though. They are already stretched thin. If your child receives special education and participates in general education for most of the day, try splitting your time with another parent for providing support. A special education classroom often needs coverage for attending special luncheons and school-wide events.
Donate supplies”
Hand sanitizers, cleaning wipes, tissues, and similar things, usually exhaust fast in a special kids’ classroom. Ask the educator whether there’s any stock that you can replenish. Special educators often get used to asking for supplies. It thus comes as a surprise if someone comes and gives some stuff and sound words of encouragement. Maybe some parents can contribute funds to buy a real world gaming app tab as a teaching instrument for the class.
Join a PTA
This is one of the best ways by which you can help a special education teacher. Some parent-teacher associations (PTAs) have a committee to include families of special needs children in school activities. If your child’s school doesn’t have a PTA, suggest having one at the next general assembly. You can also contact the PTA president. Part of a school PTA’s mission involves including all students to align their mission at the national level.
Communicate regularly
Well, some teachers often get frustrated with the parents over-communicating. Everyone has his/her own comfort level. Special educators find it easiest to communicate with those with whom they have a professional relationship. It’s important that the classroom teacher knows how things are going in home, or how the family spent its weekend, especially where children are working on functional communication. Communicate with your child’s educator regularly, and at home, introduce real world gaming apps to improve social skills.
Say “Thank you”
The National Teacher Appreciation Week, popularly known as the national teacher’s week, is held in May every year. Parents and schools take time to thank teachers for what they have done for their children. Unfortunately, special educators are often left out of the larger celebrations. This is because room parents are the people who coordinate gifts, encourage cards and treat each other to thank you. This is often found lacking for special educators. Say thank you to special teachers. They may not be used to it and come as a surprise. But they’ll love it and get encouraged to teach better.
Plan To Succeed With Information Product Creation: Why You Need To Split Your Process Up
One of the keys to succeeding in information product creation is to break the process up into discrete steps. This frequently isn’t an instinctive reaction for the typical information marketer. Especially on the internet where small sized learning products are the norm.
However, it is extremely important to your ultimate success. In fact, I would go so far as to say that if you don’t do this you probably won’t succeed… even when you are starting out let alone as you move forward.
Your product creation system should do this for you if only to help you to understand the overall task.
But why?
In this article, I’m going to ignore chunking and focus on the practical aspects. That’s not to say that chunking isn’t important. It is. It’s important to understanding and to learning the process. But while you can use the same chunks as you move forward, long term your focus needs to be on the operation of the system not the understanding of it. Unless of course you are constantly training new people!
So why is chunking important to long term use of the product creation process? (Yes, I know systems design uses a different term for this process but I’m not teaching you systems design. So I’m going to use the word learning content designers use.)
The first reason that having individual discrete tasks is important is one of schedule estimation. Frequently it is very difficult to estimate how long the total task of creating a product will take. After all, the size and type of the products matters as does the number of products in your product funnel. And those are just the most obvious elements. However, estimating a discrete task is often much easier. The total can then be estimated as the total of the discrete tasks.
Secondly, scheduling a large task can be problematic. However, by segmenting the task into a number of discrete tasks, you gain a much greater flexibility in scheduling. Not only that but as your business begins to add people you are able to schedule multiple people to the product creation.
Finally, segmenting a large task into smaller discrete tasks allows you to have much better control over the product creation. This affects two different areas — status and quality.
By segmenting your process into discrete tasks you are able to schedule and record the progress at much more detailed level. As a result you are more in control of the status of the product creation. You know what everyone is doing. When they should complete it. And how much it should cost. You also know exactly what has been done.
You also improve your overall quality. Instead of waiting until everything is done you can check quality as you go. This allows you to immediate react to low quality products without absorbing their costs. This means that you have less rework and your rework costs less. And if the product is not going to meet its quality requirement you will know about it in time to stop the development, change the requirement or fix the product.