When starting a business venture, especially when you are presented with a home based business opportunity; fear is bound to be present as you may be treading on unknown territory. The fear of failure prevents many an entrepreneur from achieving the much needed success in their business. Starting a business is a step towards self growth.Your attitude is the main factor behind achieving success. You need to overcome your fears by doing considerable research before embarking on a home based business opportunity. Try to gear your fears towards motivation. You will overcome your fears only by taking risks and by emulating other successful business owners.Overcome fearYou need to set goals in order to get motivated. Why are you starting a home based business? What do you intend to achieve in the long run? What are your fears and how do you aim to overcome them one by one? Is lack of confidence in your abilities preventing you from going ahead?Once you start addressing these questions, you will know where you stand in your journey towards success. When you face an adverse situation in business, don’t get depressed; instead work towards setting right the situation.Take risksThe only risk in a business venture is not taking any risk at all. Only if you are willing to take risks will you open up hidden opportunities and hence bring in profits. If you are not willing to take new steps, you will never know how you may have benefitted. If you do fail, don’t let it hold you back. Failure is part of growing.Analyze your mistakesCommitting mistakes can actually teach us new learning. Mistakes teach us what we need to do and what should be avoided. The stigma of being branded a failure has prevented many from achieving success.Taking stock of your mistakes and not repeating it again by taking a new direction will make you a lot wiser, mature and confident. Of course confidence will give you the motivation to surge ahead instead of holding you back.Equip yourself with skillsMany business owners fear that they don’t have enough experience or skills to get involved in a home based business opportunity. You can overcome this fear by getting the right training and education necessary to start a business. Laziness is usually at the root of failure. Work diligently towards achieving your goals. Confront your fears rather than trying to avoid them.When exploring a home based business opportunity, overcome your underlying fears and motivate yourself towards your goal of achieving success in your business. Be fearless, have faith in yourself. The journey can be exhilarating.
Perfect Home Based Business Ideas
The shaky economy has obviously created a great impact on the employment rate. Due to this, many companies have decided to let go of some of their employees regardless of their length of time of service or worse, close down their companies before they go bankrupt. In effect, several people are now looking for serious options on how to augment their income. They are after the legitimate perfect home based businesses which are on the rise these days. Good thing, there are several ideas which are offered by the Internet these days.Now who said that you can’t be your own boss or you have to dwell on the negativities of hiring freezes, layoffs, or shortage of work employment opportunities? With a careful analysis and choice of a home based business idea, you can forget your worries about earning too little. Here is your chance of earning a good deal of wage!Determining the Perfect Home Based Business for YouYou will definitely ask how you will be able to determine the right home based business that you must try on. Basically, that will obviously revolve on how much money it can potentially make you generate, how much time you plan on taking the said business, the number of hours you are required to spend, and how you are to get the training so you can properly manage it. It can’t be denied though that a lot of those who do home based business are more of after the monetary reward they are to get out of the venture. That is clearly understandable since the financial and economic crises are the driving factors that let everyone yearn for these home based opportunities.Ideas for Home Based BusinessAlthough owning a business and running it by yourself may all seem to be a huge task and responsibility on your shoulders, it must not stop you from venturing into it. There are actually too many opportunities available and definitely, there is one that you will like best.Here are some of the perfect home based business ideas that you may want to look into.Become a yoga trainer. If you have been doing yoga for a long time already and you are confident to teach others, then, you can set up a makeshift studio in your own home. You can get paying students and cover for your daily provisions.Become a tutor. Depending on your capacity, you can decide on the students’ educational level to teach.Become a management professional. People need professional advice. You can turn yourself into a business coach and then make money by training entrepreneurs.Become a medical transcriptionist. Doctors and other medical advocates will need your service. This is one thing you can basically do at home.Become a ghost writer. Writing is both a skill and a talent. You can provide contents for website owners and be paid.Overall, the list goes on for the perfect home based business. All you have to do is explore your choices.Want perfect home based business ideas?
How Important Is the Fundraising Auctioneer to the Success of Your Event?
I want you to think about the term “Fundraising Auction”.
A “Fundraising Auction” is an event where items of value are gathered, and then sold in a competitive bidding situation, either in a Silent Auction format, or in a Live Auction format by a Live Auctioneer. And since typically the best items are saved for the Live Auction, arguably it is the Live Auction that should generate a significant portion of the proceeds in any Fundraising Auction.
So why do so many non-profit groups consider the Fundraising Auctioneer to be the least valuable component in a Fundraising Auction?
The Hosting Facility gets paid.
The Printer gets paid.
The Caterer gets paid.
The Liquor Store gets paid.
The DJ gets paid.
The Florist gets paid.
But the Auctioneer … the individual who is expected to raise the lion’s share of the event’s proceeds… is expected to work for Free. And is usually under-appreciated for the professional services he/she provides.
I’m not trying to underscore the value of the invitations & programs, food, booze, music, and decorations. All are important in their own way. But each of these are “Expenses”. It is the Auctioneer who is going to bring “Revenue”… and thus, the “Profits”… into any event. Which is the ultimate objective of any Fundraising Auction.
Here is a real-life example of how under-appreciated the Auctioneer can be. In two comparable events we worked last year, during the dinner portion of the event one non-profit group sat the Auctioneer (me) at a table with the DJ, the Interns, the Volunteer Staff, and other event “Help”. The 2nd non-profit group sat the Auctioneer (me) directly next to the CEO of their organization, where we chatted about how important the pending revenue would be to their organization. Which group do you think valued the services of the Fundraising Auctioneer more?
Don’t ever under-estimate the value that a professional Fundraising Auctioneer can bring to your event. The Auctioneer adds value as a pre-event consultant. And the Auctioneer can change an event from a moderate to a huge success.
A Case Study Once I was scheduled to call an Auction for a major local non-profit group. They represented a very good cause and they had a strong and dedicated following. Their event was sold out, quality Live & Silent Auction items had been solicited, and the Special Pledge Appeal had been choreographed and was ready to go. The facility was first class, the appropriate caterer was booked, and the food was ready to cook.
But quite unexpectedly, some unseasonably inclement weather forced the event’s cancellation. Despite all of the committee’s hard work, cancelling the event was the proper decision considering the circumstances.
So the Event Committee scrambled to re-schedule the event for the following weekend.
They confirmed with the Hosting Facility.
They confirmed with the Caterer.
They confirmed with the Liquor Store.
They confirmed with the DJ.
They confirmed with the Florist.
Since they already had the Mailing List of those scheduled to attend, no new invitations had to be printed as all were contacted by email or telephone. So with everything in place, the group went ahead and re-scheduled the event for the following weekend.
But guess who they failed to confirm? You got it… the Professional Auctioneer. They thought so little of the Auctioneer’s contribution that they “assumed” that the Auctioneer would be available and at their beck and call.
But the Auctioneer already had another Fundraising Auction booked for that date with another non-profit group. It was only hour away from the re-scheduled event, and things could have been easily worked out. All Group #1 had to do was start their event one hour earlier, or one hour later, than the Group #2, and the Auctioneer could have helped both groups on the same day.
But because Group #1 failed to anticipate a possible Auctioneer conflict, because they failed to confirm with the Auctioneer before re-scheduling their event, their preferred Auctioneer had to bow out and they had to scramble to locate substitute “Volunteer” Auctioneer only days before their event.
And it cost them.
Learning Points
The Live Auction is usually where the profits are made at any Fundraising Auction.
A Professional Fundraising Auctioneer can be vital to the success of any Fundraising Auction.
The better Fundraising Auctioneers usually get booked quickly.
You need to recognize the important contributions that a good Auctioneer can make to your event.
Michael Ivankovich is a Bucks County Fundraising Auctioneer based in Doylestown PA, and serves the Great Philadelphia PA area. He has been a professionally licensed and bonded Auctioneer in Pennsylvania for nearly 20 years, has been named Pennsylvania’s Auctioneer of the Year, and has considerable experience in conducting Fundraising Auctions. Michael loves helping groups raise needed funds for good causes and one of his specialties is the “Special Pledge Appeal” or “Fund-A-Cause Appeal” which usually enables clients to double their revenue in a single evening.