My First Rant of the Year!

Hey!

This is Stephen Beck with FamilyEbiz. Okay, I have to get
something off my chest….

I am sick and tired of selfish Christian businesses!

(Now, before you start thinking this is only a personal rant…if
you own an internet business or are thinking about starting one,
this is something you need to know.)

These are Christian businesses that want you to promote their
products, but they will not promote yours. They ask you to tell
others about their web site, promote their ebook or even hand out
their complimentary magazines, but when it comes time to helping
YOU out…”sorry, but our policy does not allow that!”

The story usually goes like this…

Feel free to recommend OUR stuff, but

- we will not allow any posts to our forums that recommends
anyone else’s product

- we will not put a link on our web site that takes anyone off
away from our web page

- we will not allow anyone to recommend anything on our Yahoo
group that competes in ANY way with ANY of our existing or
potential products

- we will NEVER recommend anyone else’s product to our email list

- we will recommend your product as long as you buy hundreds of
dollars worth of advertising from us

- give us your product and we will sell it on our site, keep all
of the emails of your customers for ourselves and write you a
check for what we sold at the end of the month

What they are saying is…

“WE want you to help us promote our stuff, but we will never help
you promote yours…but, oh by the way, can you give us a freebie
for our next promotion?”

Call this “hard ball” business, call this “smart” business…I
call it was it is: SELFISHNESS!

And small family-run companies fall for this because they think
it is the only way they can get their foot in the door.

So, what is the answer?

UNSELFISHNESS!

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I am interviewing Craig Perrine this coming Tuesday at 6pm about
how to grow a huge email list. He is the world’s leading expert
on building an email list and getting that list to TAKE ACTION on
what you are promoting.

For the phone number and private access code to this FREE call,
visit this link:
http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/expo.php
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This is the wonderful thing about doing business on the Internet.
Sharing customers and promoting other businesses is the FASTEST
way to grow your own company!

And this is something that non-Christian businesses do A LOT
BETTER than Christian businesses. Non-Christian businesses on the
Internet share customers.

I have lots of non-Christian friends who will send an email to
their list about my course on starting an Internet business (even
though it has biblical content) and in turn, I will send an email
out to my list about their product.

But Christians are slow to pick up on this and this is true even
in the homeschool community!

But we of all people should be the first to want to help each
other out. If your product fits my niche and it will benefit my
readers and we can have a MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL relationship, then
we should desire to bless each other.

So think about how you can help someone else’s business grow. Ask
other online business owners how you can help them promote their
products. If you sense that it is all a one-way street…all the
profits going to them, keep looking!

There are a few Christian companies online that “get it”! We love
to partner with people like Cindy Rushton, Jim Erskine of
Homeschool Radio and Terri Johnson of Knowledge Quest through our
companies FamilyEbiz and Curriculum Connection.

These people know the power of two companies promoting to each
other’s email lists and helping everyone, customer and business
owner alike, in the process.

Next time, I will give you a few tips on how to make this all
work.

Hey, I’m getting ready for my Tour of Texas from Jan 31-Feb 4!
Kerry and I are giving free business workshops in Dallas,
Houston, Austin and San Antonio!

So, if you live in Texas, come by and see us at one of our
workshops. If you don’t live in Texas, send this to someone who
does!

To get more information on these free workshops, plus the dates,
times and locations, plus the printable fliers…visit:
http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/texastour.htm

Blessings,

Stephen Beck

PS. Only a week and one day to take advantage of our hotel room
block for the FamilyEbiz Expo. After that the reduced room rate
will be gone and I will not be able to guarantee you a room at
the same hotel.
http://www.FamilyEbiz.com/expo.php