Briket Arang sebuah Energi Alternatif

Rumah tangga mana yang tidak membutuhkan BBM saat ini?..rasanya sulit untuk tidak mengatakan tidak ada rumah tangga yang tidak membutuhkan BBM. Lalu bagaimana jika BBM semakin hari semakin sulit didapat karena kelangkaannya? apakah rumah tangga juga harus menghentikan aktifitasnya?

Pertanyaan-pertanyaan diatas telah melahirkan banyak penemuan alternatif penggati BBM, sehingga rumah tangga tidak perlu kuatir akan terjadinya kelangkaan BBM dan tidak perlu antri berjam-jam untuk membeli minyak tanah.

Briket Arang merupakan energi alternatif yang terbuat dari limbah batok kelapa dan kayu. Dan ternyata harganya jauh lebih murah dari Minyak Tanah. Anda berminat memproduksinya?


Bahan Baku:
Limbah Batok Kelapa
Serbuk Gergaji
Kulit padi

Proses Pembuatan:
1. Limbah Organik dikumpulkan
2. Kemudian dibakar menjadi arang selama 1 jam
3. Setelah 1 jam, dinginkan arang sampai api mati
4. Masukkan arang ke mesin giling atau ditumbuk sampai halus.
5. Hasil Tumbukan diayak.
6. Arang hasil ayakan diaduk (mixer) dengan komposisi air yang tepat
7. Dicetak
8. Dikeringkan dengan cara dijemur atau di oven
9. Packaging
10. Siap Pakai

Diberbagai negara maju telah memakai briket arang ini yang ternyata diimpor dari negara kita, seperti Korea, Turki dan Jepang. Jawa Tengah tepatnya Weleri Kendal merupakan kota penghasil briket ini. Anda bisa membeli langsung ke pabriknya kemudian anda packing dengan merk anda lalu menjadi sebuah usaha baru bukan..? Info briket nasional.

Institut Kemandirian

Satu lagi lembaga pelatihan kewirausahaan yang berniat mulia membantu pemerintah mengurangi pengangguran pada saat ini, yaitu Institut Kemandirian, berlokasi di Jl.Kecapi Raya No.4 Jagakarsa Jakarta Selatan.

Lembaga ini berdiri pada tahun 2005 atas prakarsa Baznas Dompet Dhuafa dengan dimotori oleh saudara Ir. Zainal Abidin, seorang konsultan bisnis dan entrepreneurship trainer. Menurut bang Jay (panggilan akrab Zainal Abidin) Lembaga ini bukan Perguruan Tinggi atau kursus tapi pabrik wiraswasta untuk kaum dhuafa.

Disini pelatihan dibagi 2 tahap: Tahap Pelatihan Kewirausahaan dan Tahap Pelatihan Keterampilan Tehnis. Tujuan tahap pertama adalah merubah mindsed peserta latihan dari pola pikir dan mental pekerja menjadi pengusaha sedangkan tahap kedua bertujuan memberi bekal usaha yang diminati seperti : pelatihan elektro, pelatihan otomotif/mekanik motor, menjahit dan mainan anak.

Sebagai pendukung program, institut kemandirian ini membangun unit bisnis yang menjadi tempat magang peserta latih setelah selesai mengikuti pelatihan dan juga menjadi cikal bakal donatur agar tidak selamanya bergantung kepada Baznas Dompet Dhuafa.

Bang Jay sangat yakin peserta latihan setelah lulus dari Institut Kemandirian lebih cepat mandiri...semoga amin..

Sell A WebSite and Retire

By Tim Phelan

Some people are making tons of money selling websites. I am increasingly getting in contact with others who are not just making four, five or six figures, but millions per year. One of these is interested in a web site I have and this time instead of selling it I may just get a partner and then sell it later.

One guy who is interested in becoming partners is currently in the middle of working out a multi million dollar sale of his network of sites.

I see some people ask in forums:

“How much can a site sell for?” or “what is the most that a site has sold for?”

Well, I am not sure what is the highest amount but the largest sale of a web site I have heard of was when Ebay bought Skype a couple years ago for $2.5 billion. YouTube was recently bought by Google for $1.6 Billion. This is a web site that was only about two years old at the time. Ebay also bought paypal a few years ago for something like $1.5 billion. Myspace was sold for just under $1 billion. Well, by “just” I mean a couple hundred million under.

There are many other examples of huge amounts of money made by selling websites. The idea of selling some web sites or just one for over a million may seem hard to imagine for many but with the right idea and hard work it is possible. I certainly hope to do it some day. At my private forum www.buy-alert.com I am going step by step over a plan to increase the value of one of my prized web sites. It may take a year or two but this site has a good chance of becoming worth hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions. However, in the meantime, I plan to keep buying, building and selling websites as a main way of making money online.

Online Home Business Ideas - Beginner's Guide

By Cynthia Minnaar

If you are new to the internet or consider yourself a beginner when it comes to owning your own online home business, there are various options available to you on the internet. This article will discuss two different types of online home business ideas that are ideal for beginners.


What it takes to setup an online home business…

Before we discuss the business ideas that are ideal for beginners, consider for a moment what it actually takes to setup an online home business from scratch.

Firstly, you would need to decide what you are going to sell on the internet to make a home business income, then source products from reputable high paying affiliate companies that are guaranteed to pay you. As a beginner you probably would not know where to start looking for reputable affiliate programs or good products to add to your website.

A website will need to be built (which requires a good knowledge of html) and a good, longstanding, reputable hosting company sourced to host your site.

You will need to incorporate into your income generating website a method to ensure that you can communicate in the future with the visitors to your site. This will mean offering the opportunity for visitors to sign-up for a free newsletter or free products. This will require a reliable auto-responder to be found and set up and incorporated into your site. The series of newsletters will then have to be written so that you can keep in touch with your subscribers for a period of about 400 days with an email going out to them every 3 or 4 days.

I can hear you thinking “Wow, I do not have the knowledge or experience to be able to do all that!” But, guess what? There are programs that do all the research for you, they build an income generating website for you and provide you with a ready made online home business.

The reputable online home business programs will go out of there way to assist beginners in the form of full training and support, training videos, internet income training, internet marketing training guide and a discussion forum. So it is very reassuring to know that you will not be left stranded after you get your online home business website.

Affiliate Marketing…

One online home business ideal for beginners is where you get a fully automated e-commerce website setup free that is ready to accept online payments enabling you to make multiple streams of home business income from residual income affiliate programs.

The reputable high paying affiliate programs have already been chosen, the hosting company selected, the auto-responder with prewritten emails installed. All that you have to do is start and apply the training that is provided and learn how to build a successful online home business.

You are able to choose your own domain name and as you gain more experience and learn html you are able to make changes to your website and add more programs if you wish. Having this option puts you in total control of your online home business.

Retail Internet-Based Store…

The other idea for an online home business that is ideal for beginners is the fully stocked e-commerce enabled retail internet-based store. This is like having your own shopping mall stocked with hundreds of products. You do not have to keep any inventory at home as they drop-ship directly to your customers when they place an order on your website. They teach you how to market your own website and provide you with full training and support.

You can buy products from your own retail internet-based store at a discounted price. Once your confidence grows, you can learn how to sell the products on eBay. You would have to first purchase the stock yourself as well as handle the payment and shipping of the products.

Finally, to your future success…

The great thing about both of these online home business ideas is that they are not only well suited for beginners but everything is provided to help and encourage you to gain the knowledge, experience and confidence required to become an experienced, successful online home business owner and internet marketer.

Your Own Online Money Earning Guide

by James_Little

Like other people who go online everyday, we are in constant search for better or “Great” ways to make money….which these “Great” ways happen to be popping up everyday and everywhere! So how would you decide where to start your online business journey then?

Some people are just looking for a little bit extra bucks, while the more serious people would want to turn a part time hobby into a steady nice little source of passive income, and there are those who are aiming to build an internet business empire for themselves. Regardless of their initiate objective, all are having one very same basic desire in common: The aim for generating money online.


However, we ought to understand that successfully earning money on internet via any online business form not only will require some selling activities, it also needs other related supporting business activities. Whether it is in form of selling product or providing service, the money is still very much generated by form of “Selling”. This is the basic fundamental business principle. However, for many people on the street, ability to sell is not a skill that would just come naturally within. Thus, selling and making money on internet, is something critical that must foremost be learned!

In today business context, many of the “Gurus” have made considerable good fortunes by mainly selling business informational product or so called e-book to those who are having deep interest in online business. If you look really hard on these business information materials, the main contributing factor in their success in earning good money on internet is thru distributing their business theory or experience, and business strategies in small pieces or parts, and would be requiring you to get the next part of their serialized e-books for the next small step in their whole business process. This is indeed very smart business strategy.

For you and me the layman, the major obstacle with this type of product is that we get our information being delivered in several small parts, and we might instead end up just spending money to learn how to make some money online. After spending our money, you too, got to spent time reading all these information. At the end of these, you will start wondering when you actually would have the required motivation to kick start any of the strategy.

Making internet money is possible still, it can be achieved too without having to buy any “How To” e-book out there on internet. What you just need is to get the ONE right book! Get yourself a best suitable book just for yourself. Make sure it is written in plain English, and can easily be understood by you, and could be implemented the next moment without you having to spend a big buck.

Forgo those hype e-books; Only get the one that will actually get you kick start your business almost immediately, not the one that keeps you waiting for more. There should be guides which cover online business basis, marketing tips, strategy, tricks and techniques that would assist you effectively in earning money online right away. Yes, right away, not waiting for year and years from now. And by the way, making money online should not have required you go spending some big money in your own learning curve, and you just don’t have to spend unnecessary.

Now, if you are truly serious about building business online and earning money there, you must then make a much serious consideration at the e-books that you are searching for. You will find the one that suit best for yourself, don’t just follow others blindly, everyone have their own learning journey. And your own business model would most likely be different in some way or another even if you follow closely by the guide. Yes, everyone is different!

Do get yourself the most suitable guide that you could read and understand it easily, then able to implement it, and could be making money online actually, you just got to stop spending further getting more and more unsuitable guides. I am very much sure that you have already know how to buy, where to buy and shop everyday in your life; It’s of no issue when comes to spending money right? Now it's your turn to learn how to sell, and to sell it well.

Start to get your internet business kicking today? Cheers to your business success.

Easily Start Your Own Internet Based Home Business

by Jessica VanderHaar

When I first began to search for my own home based business opportunity, I knew I wanted something that would be an easy start up. I did not know much about starting my own business, I just knew that I wanted to be in business for myself. I had very little experience in building an internet based home business so I needed something that I could start up easily and provided adequate training along the way. The PIPS business opportunity fulfilled all my requirements and now I am enjoying owning my own home based business.

I recently met an individual who was very interested in starting their own internet business. They felt a strong pull to be in business for themselves and wanted something that would eventually provide them the means to build their dream home. I spoke to them about Internet Marketing and told them how they could easily start their own business without having to stock and ship product. All they had to do was market the product, program or opportunity and receive commission on each and every sale. They were interested. I talked to them about the PIPS (Plugin Profit) business and explained what was included in the start up. The ability to start their own business for under $100.00 intrigued them. I spoke to them about the residual income opportunities PIPS offered as well as the fully customizable website, in-depth training and 24/7 customer support. They began to get excited.

"What is holding you back?" I asked the "all important" question. The truth was that they were interested in technology and wanted to explore a business of marketing technological products. What they didn't understand, however, was that they could do this with the PIPS business. The website that is built for you provides you with a way to earn residual income while learning the ins and outs of internet marketing. I explained that they could, once they felt comfortable, change their website to include those products that interested them. In addition, with the training they would receive, they could eventually start completely new websites and market within a number of different niches. PIPS is a business you can start up easily, get your feet wet and learn how to be an internet marketer. How far you want to go and where you want to end up is entirely up to you. The sky is the limit in this business.

The internet never closes. Your internet home based business, regardless of whether you are sitting in front of your computer or not, is always open for business.....worldwide. You are not restricted to your corner, your block, your neighborhood. In this business, there are no restrictions. You can go in any direction...or in all directions. Your only limitation is your imagination.

Accept the challenge today. Start your own internet home based business. You CAN find success!

Entrepreneurs Need to Take Ownership of Work-Life Balance Discussion

by David B. Bohl

The mantra of the late 90s and the first decade of the 21st century is "Be proactive." And corporations are doing a fine job of being proactive in claiming ownership of the "work-life" discussion.

They're doing this because when they launch the discussion first, they get to define the parameters--they get to make the rules.

To many companies, good "work-life" balance means providing on-site amenities and conveniences so that employees don't have to leave work often ... and thus, they stay later.

It might also mean that a company allows telecommuting so that employees can work from home via computer, since studies have shown that employees will actually put in more hours per day at home, working online, than at the office.

In short, companies attempt to frame the work-life discussion in a way that is most favorable to them.

The problem is that those solutions generally don't benefit the employee or enhance his/her life balance.

Therefore, entrepreneurs and small business owners should not try to emulate what large corporations do. Instead, you should look towards owning your own work-life discussion.

The discussions that companies have with their employees about work-life balance are adversarial by nature. At the heart of it, the company wants more work from the employee and the employee wants more time off.

Thus, company-employee discussions are win-lose propositions because they invariable end up being about the corporation versus the employee.

The good news is that this needn't be the case for the entrepreneur and small business owner. For you, your business and your family are not mutually exclusive -- they're intertwined.

Particularly in the case of home-based businesses, you can do things that most companies wouldn't allow, such as tend a sick child during coffee breaks, or spend lunch doing laundry with your spouse.

Or you could take a page from pre-World War II life, when traffic in cities had yet to become horrible, and sit down and have lunch with your spouse and kids (pre-WW II, most men who worked in offices drove home to have lunch, since traffic wasn't the huge issue it is now, and cities were not as large).

As a business owner, you own the discussion when it comes to balancing your life and your work. You can make trade-offs. If your child needs a chaperone for a school field trip on a Thursday afternoon, you can take off and go (don't forget to change your voicemail and email to reflect that you're out of the office).

David Bohl of Reflections Coaching, LLC, has these suggestions for taking ownership of your work-life balance:

1. Define your priorities.

2. Define your work boundaries, such as where you work and what your business hours are.

3. Define possible exceptions to business hours, such as your child's field trips, doctor visits, birthdays, et cetera.

4. Make a contingency plan for how you will deal with exceptions. (For example, "If I take off a weekday afternoon, I'll put in a half-day on Saturday.")

5. Talk with your spouse and kids and find out what they'd like as far as time spent with you, and when.

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