Saturday, July 08, 2006

Putting Christ in Commerce

Copyright: Earl Williams
The NetMarketer

If an entrepreneur wanted to buy an established Christian home based business there are several resources on the Internet dedicated to that. One Christian home based business marketplace that we studied included not only the listings of Christian businesses for sale, and Christian franchise opportunities but several other features as well helpful to would be Web entrepreneurs.

The categories of information and pages on this Christian home based business site included the mall itself (where the businesses for sale were displayed), Christian blogs, a category called Bible, one entitled E-cards and another called Articles.

Under the Christian home-based business mall heading we found the ten top choices in home-based businesses. What was questionable, though, about these so-called opportunities was that each wanted the consumer to fill out a feedback form but not one of them indicated the type of business or the contact information. So, while this site offered some good articles and information it may likely be one of the Internet marketing ploys disguising themselves as Christian home based business resources simply because the term Christian suggests honor and trustworthiness to many. This is something an entrepreneur looking for a home-based business opportunity must be wary of.

The blogs section of this Christian home based business mall is set up with the mission of answering important Christian topic questions on marriage, evangelism, theology, prophecy, salvation, hell and yes, Christian home based business. Over 4000 questions are presented her.

The Bible section is a category of quizzes one can take to test and learn about what the scriptures say about dozens of topics. The user can choose to test their bible expertise on finances, creationism, poverty, abortion, stem cell, world religions and many other subjects.

The free e-cards might be just the thing to create top of the mind awareness for a Christian home based business. For little time and no expensive whatsoever the owner of the Christian home based business can send a birthday card, a happy holidays message, a sympathy card, a congratulatory message and many others to clients, co-workers, vendors, business associates and friends and family.

The articles portion of this site offers tips to the owners and managers of Christian home based businesses on topics as diverse as home equity loans, affiliate programs, getting an online degree, buying business insurance, and taking care of her or his health.

So, while the home based business opportunity list of this allegedly Christian site is somewhat questionable it’s still a helpful resource.


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1 comment:

R.J.Keller said...

Good Morning Earl,
While I was doing my daily chore of surfing TrafficSwarm I happen upon your website and clicked through to your blog. I wanted to let you know that I found both your website and blog to be very professional looking and well put together. This article was very interesting to me. When I first started to look for an online business I had looked at several Christian type websites and the one's that I had found left me less than confident that they were indeed as they claimed to be so I passed and moved on.
Anyway, again you have a very professional look to both your website and blog, great job.

Best of Luck To You,
RJ
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