Teresa Blaes

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Is Multi-level marketing a viable business model?

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In this episode I discuss the viability of the mult-level marketing business model Please listen and share

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Announcer 0:10
Whether you want to start a faith based business or an online ministry, you’ve come to the right place. This is the Teresa Blaes show with your host, Teresa Blaes, where she’s bringing her over 20 years of consulting experience to the mic. Now, here’s Teresa.

Teresa Blaes 0:32
Hi, I’m Teresa Blaes. And welcome to the Teresa Blaes Show, we are wrapping up our discussion of the different business models you can take. And trust me by no means have I scratched the surface of different types of business model, I’m only talking about the ones that I have personally engaged in and receive revenue from. But we’re wrapping up with an oldie but a goodie. And it’s one that I actually did a series I did a series on, we’re talking about multi level marketing. Now this is very similar to affiliate marketing, believe it or not, very similar. You buy in for the rights to promote a product. That’s essentially what you’re doing. For example, my husband has been an associate with a multi level company for a very long time. I’m not going to tell you which one he’s been associated for, because it doesn’t matter. Okay. But you know what, every once in a while, we get a nice little check from them. its owner box, we you know, what, tell you some, you know, if we want to do we can ramp it up. But every year, we get a little nice little check. And it’s it’s it’s it’s a recurring revenue stream, I sell water filtration systems through a multi level company. And guess what? I get nice little checks that way. You know, again, as with the affiliate marketing, I’ve seen it done wrong, and I’ve seen it done right. It really comes down to knowing how best you operate. And, you know, moving within that framework, and I’m going to actually talk about some ways. Maybe I’m going to do a series. Yeah, I think I’m going to do a series coming up on how to promote other people’s products. Whether it be an MLM, and affiliate, it doesn’t matter. I’m not talking about how best to do that. And what I’m actually working on and what I’m in the process of doing. So. But multi level marketing, if not done in the old fashioned, drawn out, garbage way it can be done. And you know what, you can make a good chunk of money from that. In any case, I’m Teresa Blaes. This has been the Teresa Blaes show. Let’s go do this thing.

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Can you Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

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In this episode I discuss the affiliate marketing model. Please listen and share.

 

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Announcer 0:10
Whether you want to start a faith based business or an online ministry, you’ve come to the right place. This is the Teresa Blaes show with your host, Teresa Blaes, where she’s bringing her over 20 years of consulting experience to the mic. Now, here’s Teresa.

Teresa Blaes 0:32
Hi, I’m Teresa Blaes. And welcome to the Teresa Blaes Show. Today we are talking about a tried but true method. In fact, this is a method that a lot of people when they get into the online space, they cut their teeth on talking about affiliate marketing or a method where you can go in find other products to promote, and you promote them on your own platforms, your own sites, your podcast, your own whatever. And they cut you a commission. I’ll be honest, I love this method. This is a fun method for me. Why? Because there are so many affiliate programs in so many places. If you’re a mommy blogger, man, you wouldn’t believe the kind of stuff you can find. I have stuff where I’m an affiliate for Click Funnels, which by the way, if you go to Teresa Blaes, calm forward slash CF, you can get a free trial of that. And it’s just really, really cool. See, yeah, that’s an affiliate link. If you happen to buy that through right link, I get a small paycheck. Not a bad deal, right. Okay. I’ve seen affiliate done wrong. And I’ve seen it done right. Maybe what I’ll do is I’ll do some episodes on what what what’s been done wrong, what’s been done, right and what you need to do, you know, but this is a series on a different type of business models you can engage in, learn to be honest, affiliate marketing is a nice supplement a way to earn some extra income. It’s wonderful, especially if you can find something that has recurring revenue, because all you have to do is refer that person to the link once or get them to buy once. And they like whatever the product is, and they buy over and over and over again. Yeah, that’s kind of a nice deal. I kind of like getting Nia random checks every once in a while. So needless to say, yeah, affiliate marketing. Go for it. I’m Teresa Blaes. This has been the Teresa Blaes show. Let’s go do this thing.

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What is Freelancing

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In this episode, I discuss the freelancing business model, what has made us thousands of dollars of inciome. Please listen and share.

 

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Announcer 0:10
Whether you want to start a faith-based business or an online ministry, you’ve come to the right place. This is the Teresa Blaes show with your host, Teresa Blaes, where she’s bringing her over 20 years of consulting experience to the mic. Now, here’s Teresa.

Teresa Blaes 0:32
Hi, I’m Teresa Blaes. And welcome to the Teresa Blaes Show. Today we are talking about a method of generating revenue, you know, to fund whatever venture you’re doing. I have used this many, many times in the business when I ran our local marketing company, with my husband, and I’m talking about freelancing. freelancing is basically I can do something for you, a an activity, create graphics, record voiceovers link build, you know, that kind of thing. For a certain amount of money on trading, you know, I’m putting hours on my time and for money doing a task, I would, I would say that it is one of the quickest ways to earn a bit of income. But it can also be time sucking. And in some cases, to be honest, soul-sucking. And what I mean by that is, you know, you are it is this close to working a j o b as you will ever get because you have to you are accountable to these clients that you are working for. And it’s hours of time, and it’s depending on what you’re doing now. You can of course scale it, you can create an agency, there’s ways to really level that up, you know, but it has to be something that you enjoy doing. It really does. And it has to be something that you can niche down and say I’m really good at this. And yeah, I mean, freelancing is a nice way. If you really want to go that route to earn some extra revenue. I’ve done it. I won’t say I enjoy it. I we’ve kind of gotten out of the space necessarily. It’s the other way you could describe it is a done for you service. Like you know, we don’t do website design. We just don’t not for clients anymore. That’s just not our place. It’s not what we enjoy. It’s just not our thing. That said, there is really good money in website design if you know what you’re doing. So, yeah, freelancing, good way to earn some revenue. You could take that revenue and pour it into something else, or you could scale it into its own thing and really make a business out of it. I’m Teresa Blaes. This has been the Teresa Blaes show. Let’s go do this thing.

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Sites where you can freelance and make money

Fiverr.com 

Guru.com

Freelance.com

upwork.com

Can you make money on EBAY and Amazon?

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in this episode, I discuss if it is possible to make money on EBAY and Amazon. I share some examples of how we have made money on both of these Platforms. Please listen and share.

 

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Announcer 0:10
Whether you want to start a faith-based business or an online ministry, you’ve come to the right place. This is the Teresa Blaes show with your host, Teresa Blaes, where she’s bringing her over 20 years of consulting experience to the mic. Now, here’s Teresa.

Teresa Blaes 0:32
Hi, I’m Teresa Blaes. And welcome to the Teresa Blaes show. We are continuing our series on the different types of business models that you can get involved in. And today we are talking about eBay and Amazon.

As you know, eBay. eBay has a special place in my heart. Why? Because it’s where I first cut my teeth in entrepreneurship. It’s where I got introduced to the idea that you can do something, sell something and make money to get kind of give a brief overview. I talked about this early on when I first started this podcast because it was so crucial to my development as an entrepreneur.

I talked about this, the fact that Mike had given me a sort of Ginsu knives, and I ended up selling them and making money and realizing, you mean, I can write something and people buy, I kind of like doing that, you know, because I wrote this ad, not knowing a lick of marketing, not knowing what I was doing. But I started getting creative with my ad copy and it worked. And it was just really cool. And I was kind of ruined for anything else. After that, you know, I didn’t want a job. I wanted to be an entrepreneur. That said, this was not the only encounter I had with eBay and Amazon.

I remember when he sends me into this dollar store and he says, I want you to find stuff that’ll sell.

What am I supposed to look for that I’ll sell? I didn’t know. But I gave it my best shot, I brought a bunch of junk home, to my knowledge, not a single one of its own. But you know what? I understood what he was doing, he was getting me into the idea of look for things that will sell, bring them home, and let’s put them up and see what happens. I’ve had some wins, and I’ve had some losses. Most recently was the water guns that we got ahold of, we got our holder like 20 water guns, and we were trying to sell them on Amazon, but we didn’t do our due diligence. And we ended up losing our shirt on the deal. But it’s okay. Right. You know, as I said, you win some you lose some going back to this arbitrage method where you go in to like local store, you go into clearinghouses, or you go into like, you know, clearance sections of Walmart or Target or you walk into pawn shops and you find stuff, okay, that they’re trying to get rid of you, you download a little app on your phone, on Amazon, and you look up that thing, whatever you’re looking at. And you see if it also you buy it, yes, that means putting out actual real dollars and you buy it, you take it home, and you put it up on Amazon or eBay. Whichever model you’re going to use. You know what, that’s a nice way to make some extra cash. If you’re trying to fund something. Maybe you’re trying to fund a venture that you’re working on, maybe you’re trying to fund your ministry. That’s a nice way to get a little bit extra cash. Okay, we’ve done it multiple times. I’m still in the game. I have a couple of friends and I’m working with right now that I am actually selling for on Amazon. I’m working on private labeling some stuff to sell on Amazon, and to sell other places. I will be back to tell you how those ventures go. But I just wanted to kind of open that up as an viable business model. Yes, you could do it. I loved it. It’s what I cut my teeth on and it’s what I still go back to from time to time when I get that itch to do it. I’m going to go back and I’m going to say what is really driven me all this time. No risk get no biscuit. I’m Teresa Blaes. This has been the Teresa Blaes show. Let’s go do this thing.

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