Last week I attended a very informative one day seminar designed to help participants learn specific strategies that they can use to create and sell a profitable business that makes money from home. Anybody who is self-aware will know that they encounter certain blocks that are stopping them from setting and achieving ambitious goals in their career or their business. If you have been working for a while trying to make money from home, you will have faced many challenges along the way. Online Home Businesses are often affected badly by outside forces that can reduce or remove one of their income streams overnight. A good example is the recent Google slap following the page rank update in October. This Make Money From Home website attained Page Rank 4, after nearly a year of writing highly targeted material on the blog. But after just a few days the page rank fell back to 0 after Google changed the ranks of sites that had been carrying so-called paid links.

Everybody needs goals and a plan if they are to achieve anything in their career, whether that career involves working online from home or pursuing a corporate career progression. That plan also needs to cover contingencies like the Google page rank slap, so that you have another idea to follow if Plan A does not deliver the online income that you need. I will be writing about my online business strategy for 2008 over the course of the nest few weeks, so that I can begin next year with a viable online business plan that will achieve my income goals for the new year.