We started “trying” the Christian Home Based Business thing in the summer of 2008. Since then we have tried a ton of different things.

So this blog is here to show you:

• what we’ve done
• how we did it
• the mistakes  we made (so you don’t make the same!)
• What’s been the most profitable

There’s a couple ways for us to stay connected

1. Add your name & email in the box to the right.  We’ll be sending you emails that share what we’ve done & how we did it.  The emails will be more in depth and won’t be made public. (These are only available for the people on our mailing list)

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We look forward to working with you and helping you succeed in your Christian Home Based Business!

Many Blessings,

RK, Kelike & Kalena Castillo

In this series on Product Creation I want to tell you about the best possible resource you can invest in for your Home Based Web Business.

It’s called The Immediate Edge.

It’s is run by two geniuses in the Internet Marketing game: Dan Raine & Ed Dale (and of course their teams).

I signed up for this membership a couple times for their $1 7 Day Trial.

And finally I decided I need to invest in this resource for my business.  So I signed up and have never regretted it.

In fact, I followed the Immediate Edge on twitter and it is the only site that I wake up, grab my phone and check Twitter to see if they have posted anything new.

The info is that good!

Dan Raine is a testing nut job and is constantly testing anything and everything to see what is working in the internet marketing world today.  And since he is testing so much stuff he will tell you exactly what is working today.  Not some strategy that worked like 2 years ago, TODAY…

Here’s what they cover in depth:

• SEO
• Social Marketing
• Product Creation
• Market Research
• Copy Writing
• List Building
• Advertising
• Buying & Selling Websites
• Business Building
• And a whole lot more…

So…do yourself a favor.

Go read this letter http://www.christianhomebasedbusinessideas.com/Immediate-Edge

And sign up.

You won’t regret it.

I’m sorry! =0(

But to make it up to you I will be teaching you some ways to make money without a website, without a list and without anything else. Just the good ole inter webs and free sites you can use to market stuff to people.

So…hope you enjoy!

And more importantly hope you make some extra money for the holidays!

Many Blessings,

RK

PS These strategies will be sent to those who have signed up to the mailing list. So if you haven’t already. Add your name and email to one of the boxes on this page!

So….now that you have chosen a Home Business Idea you want to try.

The next step is figuring out how you are going to advertise your home business. Home Business Advertising utilizes the same system no matter which one of our ideas you are embarking upon.

If you haven’t read the post about the Home Business System that will help explain what I am talking about.

When you are starting any business venture you need to first focus on getting people into your sales funnel.

If you’re McDonald’s that means getting people into your doors or your drive thru.

If you are in Car Sales that means getting people onto your lot looking for the type of cars you sell.

If you are doing a home based web business that means getting traffic to your website.

Now…we utilize a number of different sources of traffic, and the sources are pretty much endless, but what I want you to do is to focus on one advertising method and stick to it to completion, test & track that and then move on to the next method.

This is really the best way to be effective in your Home Business Advertising.

So the 4 main systems we use to bring traffic to our websites are:

• Web 2.0
• Article Marketing
• Video Marketing
• Social Media Marketing

Our Web 2.o system is all about creating free websites at places like Blogger, WordPress, Posterous & others, adding content with links back to our sites and our vendor (if you’re doing affiliate marketing).

With Article Marketing we focus on getting quality articles on sites like Ezine Articles & Scribd and then we syndicate that article to tons of different sites using Article Marketing Automation.

Video Marketing is all about YouTube as they’re the 800 lb Gorilla when it comes to video sites but how you do your YouTube videos is really important.  You don’t just want people to view your videos.  You want them view your video and then visit your site.

And finally Social Media Marketing is all about Facebook & Twitter.  The thing about Social Media Marketing is it really is about being Social.  It’s like being at a party.  No one likes someone pitching their business to them at a party.  So…you gotta do this the right way.

So…if you stick around I will teach you, in other blog posts, ways to accomplish each one of the Home Business Advertising Systems.

Until then….

Many Blessings!

RK Castillo

Have you ever wondered if there was a system to starting a home based business?

Something that you could follow and it would work?

Well…there actually is a system.  This system doesn’t only work for a home business but for any business anywhere in the world.

And I made a video explaining that system.

Your home business system is dependent on these 5 things.

Leads

X

Conversion

=

Customers

X

Number of Transactions

X

Average Dollar Sale

=

Revenue

X

Margins

=

Profits

We all want more Customers, Revenue & Profits but those are a result of the other 5 things.  And they work in succession.

If you want to double the amount of money you make you can either double the amount of leads you get, double the amount of times your customers buy from you a year, or double the price you charge for you products.

So no matter what you’re doing for your home based business, i.e. affiliate marketing, multi level marketing or a brick & mortar business, this system will work for any of them.

Hope this helps!

RK Castillo

I’m sitting in the airport in San Diego on my way home to see my wife & baby!!!

So I wanted to share with you my big take aways from day 2 and 3 of the Coming Home 3 Conference.

Dan Raine, of the 30 Day challenge, spoke on Sunday and blew us all away!

There are 2 Billion views a day of YouTube videos.  That’s 23,000 a second!  And if you have 2 or more videos in your YouTube channel you are 51 times more likely to be found in Organic search.

And they are predicting that by March of 2011 there will be as many searches on YouTube as there is in Google.

Now here’s the crazy part.  17% of all YouTube views happen on Facebook.

There’s 260 Billion page views on Facebook a month.  That’s 37 trillion a year!  And 54% of Facebook users log in everyday!

So…just looking at these numbers may be a little overwhelming but the whole point is that if you are going to start a home based business you need to find the hungry crowd, find out what they’re hungry for & feed it to them!  That’s the basic key to any business, anywhere in the world.

And right now the hungry crowd is on YouTube & Facebook.

So…be there!

At the very least, begin to make videos and upload them to YouTube.  It’s free!  You don’t even need a camera or anything to make videos.  Just use the free software on your computer (Mac or PC) and you can start adding videos today!

Many Blessings!

RK Castillo

Check out my video that talks about my business building system. Master these 5 things and you can grow any business anywhere!

So here’s the business building blueprint:

Leads

X

Conversion Rate

=

Customers

X

Number of Transactions

X

Average Dollar Sale Price

=

Total Revenue

X

Margins

=

Profits

Use this step by step system to start & build any business anywhere.