Hello to all!
To all those people who want to start a blog that will eventually make you money, I have two words for you: START NOW. As the saying goes, any journey starts with a first step. So don't just tiptoe forwards timidly and bolt two steps backwards just as quick. Keep that tiptoeing forwards up.
But just don't go in willynilly. Pick a topic you are passionate about. I talked a few days/weeks ago about what passionate means to you. Any subject that you are passionate about is something to base your blog about, unless of course, it is just a one-off, and you can include that in a blog once every now and then. But do pick something where you know there is a target audience.
What I mean by target audience is just that. Like submitting a book in the old days of paper, or a market article. You would never have dreamed of writing an article on the sun, for instance and sending it to a vampire magazine. If there are any vampires about, they will either already know what the sun does, especially to them, and they certainly won't want to know that it is X amount of miles away of full of Y gases. So pick your market.
Check on Google or Amazon for topics. You'll be sure to find something that you can build up to peak condition in a while. Forget about buying shiny new objects. Pick ONE if you must, or at the most two, ideally to compliment each other and work with them for a while.
Above all though, please understand that those who say you can push a button and be a millionaire overnight are full of it, or they have gone through the same problems you are facing. There is no magic formula, at least not at first.
Find that topic that YOU are passionate about, set up a bog and get on with it. Send a few articles to Ezines too, about the topic, so you get some exposure. In coming weeks, I'll share some sites to submit to, mainly after I've tested them, so I am not giving you rubbish to follow. There are so many out there now, you may find it hard to decide on one which will genuinely help your case, and many which are very dodgy indeed.
Happy New Year and here's to you getting started on your blog. Remember, EVERYONE has 500 words in them about something, either feelings or perception or interest on it. Just fake it until you make it!
And all the best for this new Year Coming!
Sunday, 30 December 2012
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Lessons from the past Part One.
Hello to all!
Got everything ready for your New Year? Your drinks, eats, RESOLUTIONS? Yes, that nasty word. Of course, most of us won't be able to keep them ( with me, I think I just make them to be up with fashion!), but it's fun to do so.
One of my big dreams is to actually write and publish a book( one at least!) on Kindle. This year, actually. I have already booked a person to tweak and twitch it when it's finished, and, like most others, having actually PAID the money, I am now stuck with making good my word. It's always been a bad habit of mine - to put myself in a situation where I have to come up with something fairly good.
I did that often in University, but I was very lucky or God was sitting near me - everything came off right. But, when I did push myself to keeping my word, I found I could have done it with far less stress if I had just kept pottering along and not left it all to the last minute and added a bad hangover as the same time. In my time since those heady days, I have learned, mostly the hard way, to keep at whatever I am doing, and not quit quite so quickly.
This is probably a trait that I learned from my father. He would try one way, but not over and over. If that way did not work after two attempts, he simply went to another way, and kept doing this until he got whatever done properly. He would walk away and get done whatever else needed doing in a hurry and come back, again and again. He drove my mother mad by doing so, and even more when he would finally walk in with a smug look on his face.
So, I plan on using this approach this year coming with some other projects. Like the title says: Part One. I'll let you know how it goes somewhere later!
Anyone care to join me?
Got everything ready for your New Year? Your drinks, eats, RESOLUTIONS? Yes, that nasty word. Of course, most of us won't be able to keep them ( with me, I think I just make them to be up with fashion!), but it's fun to do so.
One of my big dreams is to actually write and publish a book( one at least!) on Kindle. This year, actually. I have already booked a person to tweak and twitch it when it's finished, and, like most others, having actually PAID the money, I am now stuck with making good my word. It's always been a bad habit of mine - to put myself in a situation where I have to come up with something fairly good.
I did that often in University, but I was very lucky or God was sitting near me - everything came off right. But, when I did push myself to keeping my word, I found I could have done it with far less stress if I had just kept pottering along and not left it all to the last minute and added a bad hangover as the same time. In my time since those heady days, I have learned, mostly the hard way, to keep at whatever I am doing, and not quit quite so quickly.
This is probably a trait that I learned from my father. He would try one way, but not over and over. If that way did not work after two attempts, he simply went to another way, and kept doing this until he got whatever done properly. He would walk away and get done whatever else needed doing in a hurry and come back, again and again. He drove my mother mad by doing so, and even more when he would finally walk in with a smug look on his face.
So, I plan on using this approach this year coming with some other projects. Like the title says: Part One. I'll let you know how it goes somewhere later!
Anyone care to join me?
Friday, 28 December 2012
learning from a bird
Hello to all!
The smallest things can appeal to me, and yesterday, I found another. A small, bedraggled young butcher bird, trying to call/sing/whatever. There had been a bad storm and obviously he/she got caught in it. These birds have the prettiest song, although they are nothing to look at, either black and white or grey and white.
People rave about how magpies can sing. Personally, I prefer these little guys, about a quarter the size of a magpie and very much less aggressive. I have seen them cringe when a much tinier honey-eater flies over the top of them. Besides, I have a personal aversion to magpies. I cannot bring myself to feed anything that is your best friend for six months, and then acts as though you are the worst enemy in the world for the next six months.
I know this is parent-care. And I can understand it very well indeed being used on strange people. But these dumb birds dive-bomb the hand that feeds them and still expect to get fed. So no, I don't feed them at all. Funny, as a child, my elder brother used to rear ones that had fallen/got pushed out of a nest and I can never remember them attacking any of us when they were grown and with their own families. Come to demand a hand-out, yes. Attack us, no way.
Anyway, my little friend sat on the clothesline and shook and shivered and tried its heart out to sing. I gave it some mince, very gratefully received, and it went back to trying to sing. Very much like an opera singer tuning up, except this was a series of very low squarks. But it finally got there, after about ten minutes. And it sang its little heart out for about five minutes, then went off, dry and fed.
Which makes me wonder: How many human beings give up the minutes things don't go their way? I think we are all guilty of that at some point, and maybe we should have tried a bit longer, like that little bird. It was so determined to sing, nothing was going to stop it, even food and being dry. I have no idea why the singer couldn't sing, just it couldn't. It was so determined though: the features fluffed out, it's small neck bulged with the effort.
So, there's a simple lesson in that, I guess. Keep trying, you'll get there sooner or later. :)
The smallest things can appeal to me, and yesterday, I found another. A small, bedraggled young butcher bird, trying to call/sing/whatever. There had been a bad storm and obviously he/she got caught in it. These birds have the prettiest song, although they are nothing to look at, either black and white or grey and white.
People rave about how magpies can sing. Personally, I prefer these little guys, about a quarter the size of a magpie and very much less aggressive. I have seen them cringe when a much tinier honey-eater flies over the top of them. Besides, I have a personal aversion to magpies. I cannot bring myself to feed anything that is your best friend for six months, and then acts as though you are the worst enemy in the world for the next six months.
I know this is parent-care. And I can understand it very well indeed being used on strange people. But these dumb birds dive-bomb the hand that feeds them and still expect to get fed. So no, I don't feed them at all. Funny, as a child, my elder brother used to rear ones that had fallen/got pushed out of a nest and I can never remember them attacking any of us when they were grown and with their own families. Come to demand a hand-out, yes. Attack us, no way.
Anyway, my little friend sat on the clothesline and shook and shivered and tried its heart out to sing. I gave it some mince, very gratefully received, and it went back to trying to sing. Very much like an opera singer tuning up, except this was a series of very low squarks. But it finally got there, after about ten minutes. And it sang its little heart out for about five minutes, then went off, dry and fed.
Which makes me wonder: How many human beings give up the minutes things don't go their way? I think we are all guilty of that at some point, and maybe we should have tried a bit longer, like that little bird. It was so determined to sing, nothing was going to stop it, even food and being dry. I have no idea why the singer couldn't sing, just it couldn't. It was so determined though: the features fluffed out, it's small neck bulged with the effort.
So, there's a simple lesson in that, I guess. Keep trying, you'll get there sooner or later. :)
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
definition of passion
Hello to all!
I sincerely hope you all had a great Christmas and you didn't get too many lumps of coal.(LOL) For those of you who wished the day would go away fast - guess what? Only 363 days until it's here again. And this time you can't hope the Mayans were right!
What is your definition of passion? Bit dated, but: Tom Cruise, jumping on Oprah's sofa, yelling he loved Katie? Or something else? A child, giving you all his/her reasons why you should buy them them latest iPad or iPhone? Your husband giving you reasons why he had too much to drink at the party? Or you to your husband, excusing why you maxed the Credit Card out on that absolutely divine dress or outfit or the kid's presents and his?
Or maybe it is what you do for a living? And, before you snort at that: we ALL must have some passion for the worst jobs we have taken at the beginning, although we know that this job is going to be dead-end, have no possibilities for advancement and drive us silly with its SAMENESS every day. Don't bother saying that's wrong. It does happen, and we know it. But we all have different reasons for taking that boring, repetitive, downright draining job where absolutely NOTHING ever happens, apart from it is never-ending. The passion dies quickly however, often as quickly as some Hollywood marriages.
So, what is YOUR definition of passion about your work, online or off? For instance, article writing falls into one of the categories above, in that, if you are writing one of the best ways to getting content into your sites, then it is never-ending. And the research involved can also be never-ending. It reminds me actually of being in University again, and having to look through book after book, huge, heavy, BORING things, to find what I wanted. What a wonderful way to spend a good day that was meant for anything but that! If nothing else, the Internet has made that easy for the kids and students of today, and everyone should be grateful for that.
The thing with research is, DO NOT take the first little bit you find which is relevant to your site and either use it as is(Plagiarism) or not take the time to look for even one other source as well. If you can surf the net looking for ways to lose weight, then surely you can spend five minutes extra when you are researching your subject. Use something that rings when you have got to say five or ten minutes searching, and quit when the timer goes off. Five minutes is usually ample to get four facts together, and anyone who cannot stretch four facts into an article of around 500 words. 300 - 350 words don't really cut it these days, as clients want more, so 500 - 600 words is great, if it is proofread, small glitches fixed, and it as good as you can give. But, do be aware, articles can drain you severely, even to the point of burn-out.
So, pace yourself, it's worth it.
I sincerely hope you all had a great Christmas and you didn't get too many lumps of coal.(LOL) For those of you who wished the day would go away fast - guess what? Only 363 days until it's here again. And this time you can't hope the Mayans were right!
What is your definition of passion? Bit dated, but: Tom Cruise, jumping on Oprah's sofa, yelling he loved Katie? Or something else? A child, giving you all his/her reasons why you should buy them them latest iPad or iPhone? Your husband giving you reasons why he had too much to drink at the party? Or you to your husband, excusing why you maxed the Credit Card out on that absolutely divine dress or outfit or the kid's presents and his?
Or maybe it is what you do for a living? And, before you snort at that: we ALL must have some passion for the worst jobs we have taken at the beginning, although we know that this job is going to be dead-end, have no possibilities for advancement and drive us silly with its SAMENESS every day. Don't bother saying that's wrong. It does happen, and we know it. But we all have different reasons for taking that boring, repetitive, downright draining job where absolutely NOTHING ever happens, apart from it is never-ending. The passion dies quickly however, often as quickly as some Hollywood marriages.
So, what is YOUR definition of passion about your work, online or off? For instance, article writing falls into one of the categories above, in that, if you are writing one of the best ways to getting content into your sites, then it is never-ending. And the research involved can also be never-ending. It reminds me actually of being in University again, and having to look through book after book, huge, heavy, BORING things, to find what I wanted. What a wonderful way to spend a good day that was meant for anything but that! If nothing else, the Internet has made that easy for the kids and students of today, and everyone should be grateful for that.
The thing with research is, DO NOT take the first little bit you find which is relevant to your site and either use it as is(Plagiarism) or not take the time to look for even one other source as well. If you can surf the net looking for ways to lose weight, then surely you can spend five minutes extra when you are researching your subject. Use something that rings when you have got to say five or ten minutes searching, and quit when the timer goes off. Five minutes is usually ample to get four facts together, and anyone who cannot stretch four facts into an article of around 500 words. 300 - 350 words don't really cut it these days, as clients want more, so 500 - 600 words is great, if it is proofread, small glitches fixed, and it as good as you can give. But, do be aware, articles can drain you severely, even to the point of burn-out.
So, pace yourself, it's worth it.
Monday, 24 December 2012
World War Two Christmas
Hello to all!
First and foremost, a very wonderful Christmas to you all for today/tomorrow and whenever Christmas is for you. I hope it brings you peace, happiness, and love, for a little while at least. Enjoy it, for it is a day in which everyone deserves to be happy and at peace with his or her neighbour.
Even during World War Two, the opposing forces took the time to play football with each other and a few actually scored a beer from the opposition. I wonder why we can't do that for just one day nowadays? A very dear friend who was in Viet Nam once said to me after he came back: That has got to be the stupidest war anyone was ever involved in. We couldn't win it; no one who was not actually from that country could win it. And the silliest thing of it all was that, even though they are Asians, I could have had a beer with anyone of them, and maybe been good friends with them all, apart from this bloody war.
So true. Maybe our powerbrokers, who want everyone in strange lands, but which have not themselves any idea about and which our people have no idea about, should have listened to that man. After all, it is not what they are doing, or what they should be doing, but what we want them to do. And who knows what friendships we lose because of this stupidity?
And we have all seen childhood scraps in the sandpit when even a very little one decides not to do what another little one wants him or her to do.
Very sombre, I know.
Just something to think about after Christmas.
So, everyone have a lovely time!
Merry Christmas.
First and foremost, a very wonderful Christmas to you all for today/tomorrow and whenever Christmas is for you. I hope it brings you peace, happiness, and love, for a little while at least. Enjoy it, for it is a day in which everyone deserves to be happy and at peace with his or her neighbour.
Even during World War Two, the opposing forces took the time to play football with each other and a few actually scored a beer from the opposition. I wonder why we can't do that for just one day nowadays? A very dear friend who was in Viet Nam once said to me after he came back: That has got to be the stupidest war anyone was ever involved in. We couldn't win it; no one who was not actually from that country could win it. And the silliest thing of it all was that, even though they are Asians, I could have had a beer with anyone of them, and maybe been good friends with them all, apart from this bloody war.
So true. Maybe our powerbrokers, who want everyone in strange lands, but which have not themselves any idea about and which our people have no idea about, should have listened to that man. After all, it is not what they are doing, or what they should be doing, but what we want them to do. And who knows what friendships we lose because of this stupidity?
And we have all seen childhood scraps in the sandpit when even a very little one decides not to do what another little one wants him or her to do.
Very sombre, I know.
Just something to think about after Christmas.
So, everyone have a lovely time!
Merry Christmas.
Friday, 21 December 2012
Spend a little time
Hello to all!
Ready for the big day? I'm not, but what's new about that? Christmas has always been interesting in my home, with people coming and going and the house looking like the wreck of the Hespredes. If any of you can remember that saying :)
No, Christmas is a day of well ... whatever it is. Giving thanks to God, or whomever you consider created you, with no arguments for once( that is a strict rule or you are OUT!), being truly grateful for what we have or don't have, good food, good drinks, and, the most important of all, the good company and love that is shared.
Some days, we may have 50 or 60 people through this tiny farm cottage. They all seem to fit though, and that is a true miracle. A usual day around here is probably 8 or 9 people, not all wanting anything, but just to share a minute or two, and, believe you me, that is also a miracle that is gratefully taken. Not that we want particularly to see people, but it is humbling that others seem to need some little thing from us, not material, but a hug, a talk, peace, I don't know what it is we give them, but every day it goes to someone.
And that is very humbling indeed. We are not anything special. We just share a little time with these people, some we may only know by a brief visit when they are with someone else.
We are not religious either. We do not preach or demand people do things for or in the name of God. That is for the visitors to do of their own free will. We expect nothing from them, but the pleasure of their company for a little bit of time.
It doesn't hurt to give anyone you know a tiny portion of your time at ANY time, not at celebrations or significant times. This time is the best time you can give anyone. Not summonsed, not dragged there, but given gratis. What you do today and any other day will be repaid over and over in ways you could never believe.
Ready for the big day? I'm not, but what's new about that? Christmas has always been interesting in my home, with people coming and going and the house looking like the wreck of the Hespredes. If any of you can remember that saying :)
No, Christmas is a day of well ... whatever it is. Giving thanks to God, or whomever you consider created you, with no arguments for once( that is a strict rule or you are OUT!), being truly grateful for what we have or don't have, good food, good drinks, and, the most important of all, the good company and love that is shared.
Some days, we may have 50 or 60 people through this tiny farm cottage. They all seem to fit though, and that is a true miracle. A usual day around here is probably 8 or 9 people, not all wanting anything, but just to share a minute or two, and, believe you me, that is also a miracle that is gratefully taken. Not that we want particularly to see people, but it is humbling that others seem to need some little thing from us, not material, but a hug, a talk, peace, I don't know what it is we give them, but every day it goes to someone.
And that is very humbling indeed. We are not anything special. We just share a little time with these people, some we may only know by a brief visit when they are with someone else.
We are not religious either. We do not preach or demand people do things for or in the name of God. That is for the visitors to do of their own free will. We expect nothing from them, but the pleasure of their company for a little bit of time.
It doesn't hurt to give anyone you know a tiny portion of your time at ANY time, not at celebrations or significant times. This time is the best time you can give anyone. Not summonsed, not dragged there, but given gratis. What you do today and any other day will be repaid over and over in ways you could never believe.
Monday, 17 December 2012
Reports - big and small
Hello to all!
And no, I am not going to apologise for the diversion yesterday. It was my opinion, for what it was worth, and if it made anyone at all THINK, then I am happy.
Back to the "real" world. Have you made any progress on your writing or planning skills? I hope you have, because this year( so close now: SCARY!) I am thinking of having a little challenge for you. But more on that later. After all, it isn't New Year - YET!
What do you think about reports? You can have small reports about 3-5 pages long. Then you can have the other end of the scale, whereby your report is as long as you like in order to convey your information. But there is a rather blurred line between a report and an eBook. Personally I think anything that is over about 25 pages is verging on an eBook. That is not a hard and fast rule, but figure out how many words fit into those 25 pages if it is non-fiction. 25 x 400 words = 10000 words. Not many, perhaps, but when you have read it all, you would definitely need to give your eyes a break if you are reading it on a Kindle appliance.
These things are not the easiest to read a big article on, although they are very handy indeed. At the moment, I am still very reluctant to lose my traditional paper books in order to store my books on a Kindle. But it will come. I just need to get accustomed to it.
Back to reports. You can write reports on anything. How-To are probably the most popular as they do not need frills and large descriptions. You need to fit the information you want to impart in quickly and concisely, so that any help held in it can be implemented immediately.
Putting together a quick report should really only take a day, or two at the most. At the end of a weekend, even with distractions, you could have a report up and earning you some money, or ready to give away with something you wish to sell.
This is not to say you can't sell a larger report by itself. Many people do and make a reasonable living out of it. Spend an afternoon searching out information online about the topic you have chosen. Don't include just anything, really sieve it. Get three or four of these reports up and running, add your copywrite to them and let people know you are available to write one for them.
This is a very simple way to get yourself known and pick up a few dollars too. Keep your research. You can always craft At least three or for more reports or Ebooks from this. After all, it is YOUR time you are using, so why not make it work?
And no, I am not going to apologise for the diversion yesterday. It was my opinion, for what it was worth, and if it made anyone at all THINK, then I am happy.
Back to the "real" world. Have you made any progress on your writing or planning skills? I hope you have, because this year( so close now: SCARY!) I am thinking of having a little challenge for you. But more on that later. After all, it isn't New Year - YET!
What do you think about reports? You can have small reports about 3-5 pages long. Then you can have the other end of the scale, whereby your report is as long as you like in order to convey your information. But there is a rather blurred line between a report and an eBook. Personally I think anything that is over about 25 pages is verging on an eBook. That is not a hard and fast rule, but figure out how many words fit into those 25 pages if it is non-fiction. 25 x 400 words = 10000 words. Not many, perhaps, but when you have read it all, you would definitely need to give your eyes a break if you are reading it on a Kindle appliance.
These things are not the easiest to read a big article on, although they are very handy indeed. At the moment, I am still very reluctant to lose my traditional paper books in order to store my books on a Kindle. But it will come. I just need to get accustomed to it.
Back to reports. You can write reports on anything. How-To are probably the most popular as they do not need frills and large descriptions. You need to fit the information you want to impart in quickly and concisely, so that any help held in it can be implemented immediately.
Putting together a quick report should really only take a day, or two at the most. At the end of a weekend, even with distractions, you could have a report up and earning you some money, or ready to give away with something you wish to sell.
This is not to say you can't sell a larger report by itself. Many people do and make a reasonable living out of it. Spend an afternoon searching out information online about the topic you have chosen. Don't include just anything, really sieve it. Get three or four of these reports up and running, add your copywrite to them and let people know you are available to write one for them.
This is a very simple way to get yourself known and pick up a few dollars too. Keep your research. You can always craft At least three or for more reports or Ebooks from this. After all, it is YOUR time you are using, so why not make it work?
Saturday, 15 December 2012
You cease to exist
Hello to all!
This post is going to be completely out of whatever zone people think I fit into, but I want to ask a question that maybe psychiatrists won't ask.
And that is: What the hell made that boy so twisted at that age as to go kill a lot of little kids who weren't that much younger than him? I know, I know: he had a bad upbringing, his mother/father didn't give him any attention/love/whatever, the little ones made a mess/too much noise/ got more of his mother's care than he did at the same age/ blah, blah,blah.
All damned excuses. What I absolutely HATE though, is the gutless wonders usually die as well. So why bother killing these others, if they p****d you off so bloody much to start with? If you believe in Heaven or Hell, then some of them are going to be there with you. It's that simple. And, if you are dead, maybe all of it's over for you, and maybe not.
I really don't believe in punishing these people. Sure, put them to death if it is an open and shut case, but the biggest punishment i can imagine is being placed in a cold grave or a vase, and not....being. in any shape or form. Dead. End of story. No reincarnation, no Heaven or Hell, just absolutely nothing. And being forced to watch your body disintegrate, as there is no way to escape, not even as something undead. As a movie I saw many years ago said: You just cease to exist.
That, to me, would be the biggest punishment of the lot.
I am so sorry for everyone who had anything to do with that attack. It would have broken your hearts.
This post is going to be completely out of whatever zone people think I fit into, but I want to ask a question that maybe psychiatrists won't ask.
And that is: What the hell made that boy so twisted at that age as to go kill a lot of little kids who weren't that much younger than him? I know, I know: he had a bad upbringing, his mother/father didn't give him any attention/love/whatever, the little ones made a mess/too much noise/ got more of his mother's care than he did at the same age/ blah, blah,blah.
All damned excuses. What I absolutely HATE though, is the gutless wonders usually die as well. So why bother killing these others, if they p****d you off so bloody much to start with? If you believe in Heaven or Hell, then some of them are going to be there with you. It's that simple. And, if you are dead, maybe all of it's over for you, and maybe not.
I really don't believe in punishing these people. Sure, put them to death if it is an open and shut case, but the biggest punishment i can imagine is being placed in a cold grave or a vase, and not....being. in any shape or form. Dead. End of story. No reincarnation, no Heaven or Hell, just absolutely nothing. And being forced to watch your body disintegrate, as there is no way to escape, not even as something undead. As a movie I saw many years ago said: You just cease to exist.
That, to me, would be the biggest punishment of the lot.
I am so sorry for everyone who had anything to do with that attack. It would have broken your hearts.
Thursday, 13 December 2012
Winning money
Hello to all!
What are your real goals for this coming year( Mayan calendar be damned!)? To live comfortably, according to YOUR idea of comfortably or someone else's idea? And what does comfort mean to you? All the shiny new toys, like jet skis or whatever has taken over from them, a boat with all the fancy tricks, a car that goes from 0 - 100 in 1 second, a new house, a second house or just to be able to pay your debts each week and have enough over to be able to afford treats when you want to, instead of having to squeeze every penny until it screams?
You see, there are many ways that you can be comfortable. It is simply your choice. I have known a few people who have done extremely well in big lotteries. Not the big prize to themselves, but sharing it. I have met five of these lucky people. You judge if they have been lucky.
No 1. Won a share of $10 million with his friend. They were the only ones who shared first prize. Within a month, they had moved to a brand new house on the beach and changed their two children to private schools, although the children were happy where they were and in high school. Mother had a face lift and other bits lifted and trimmed and ran off with her son's best friend. dad had a breakdown. Daughter was removed from the new school by a very concerned aunt and returned to where she was happy.
No 2. Won almost a million dollars as second prize. Bought the newest Four wheel drives, one each for him and his wife, and a car capable of everything except driving itself for their only son. Son took the car for a spin a week after Dad bought it, lost control on a corner and died instantly when he crashed into a wall. Both father and mother are now in therapy.
No 3. Single mother. Won over one million dollars with other people. Bought the kids every new toy their hearts could want and took them everywhere they had ever wished. Met up with a handsome man around her age. Had a fling with him and found herself relieved of almost every penny that was left. But she is almost glad to go back to the boring job she left, and counts herself lucky that was all she lost.
No 4. Old couple. They have not touched a penny of the five hundred thousand they won. Have three grown-up children who refuse to speak to their parents and will not let them see the grandkids, although they are all going to inherit equal shares from the father when he dies and the same from the mother.
No 5. A lazy layabout. Plonked several hundred thousand in trust for his nieces and nephews, because he does not want any children ever.- There are too many starving and being beaten every day -, spent $10,000 on setting up a state of the art music and computer centre, and happily now continues at the job he does part time. He does not smoke or drink, does not do drugs, and worships at a tiny Church which is lucky to be standing. And he is as happy as anyone could be.
So who really are the happy ones? Money is not everything. But it does make life easier, at least in the beginning. So work out your priorities and go for them. But make sure that your priorities do not run YOU.
What are your real goals for this coming year( Mayan calendar be damned!)? To live comfortably, according to YOUR idea of comfortably or someone else's idea? And what does comfort mean to you? All the shiny new toys, like jet skis or whatever has taken over from them, a boat with all the fancy tricks, a car that goes from 0 - 100 in 1 second, a new house, a second house or just to be able to pay your debts each week and have enough over to be able to afford treats when you want to, instead of having to squeeze every penny until it screams?
You see, there are many ways that you can be comfortable. It is simply your choice. I have known a few people who have done extremely well in big lotteries. Not the big prize to themselves, but sharing it. I have met five of these lucky people. You judge if they have been lucky.
No 1. Won a share of $10 million with his friend. They were the only ones who shared first prize. Within a month, they had moved to a brand new house on the beach and changed their two children to private schools, although the children were happy where they were and in high school. Mother had a face lift and other bits lifted and trimmed and ran off with her son's best friend. dad had a breakdown. Daughter was removed from the new school by a very concerned aunt and returned to where she was happy.
No 2. Won almost a million dollars as second prize. Bought the newest Four wheel drives, one each for him and his wife, and a car capable of everything except driving itself for their only son. Son took the car for a spin a week after Dad bought it, lost control on a corner and died instantly when he crashed into a wall. Both father and mother are now in therapy.
No 3. Single mother. Won over one million dollars with other people. Bought the kids every new toy their hearts could want and took them everywhere they had ever wished. Met up with a handsome man around her age. Had a fling with him and found herself relieved of almost every penny that was left. But she is almost glad to go back to the boring job she left, and counts herself lucky that was all she lost.
No 4. Old couple. They have not touched a penny of the five hundred thousand they won. Have three grown-up children who refuse to speak to their parents and will not let them see the grandkids, although they are all going to inherit equal shares from the father when he dies and the same from the mother.
No 5. A lazy layabout. Plonked several hundred thousand in trust for his nieces and nephews, because he does not want any children ever.- There are too many starving and being beaten every day -, spent $10,000 on setting up a state of the art music and computer centre, and happily now continues at the job he does part time. He does not smoke or drink, does not do drugs, and worships at a tiny Church which is lucky to be standing. And he is as happy as anyone could be.
So who really are the happy ones? Money is not everything. But it does make life easier, at least in the beginning. So work out your priorities and go for them. But make sure that your priorities do not run YOU.
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Hello to all!
I have no idea who, if anybody, reads this blog, but if you are spending a few minutes on it, then thank you. I hope I give some light relief and maybe some help with a problem.
It always intrigues me why so many people need and ask for help on chats, blogs, many other methods of communication, but can't/don't think that their advice is worthwhile in the least, and don't/won't contribute to these sites at all.
According to friends of mine who have followed the cyber-business trail, traffic is almost the be-all and end-all. Well, be prepared for a little surprise. If you help someone else out, chances are they will visit your site, even if it is just to say "thanks". It costs you absolutely nothing to give those few words of advice and you most likely get a back-link, free of charge and legally, keeping you away from Google's nasty little alogarhythms and them off your case.
Forums are for people to share, much like the old gatherings of clubs and people were: to share information and meet other like-minded people. Unfortunately these sorts of gatherings are now few and far between, thanks partly to the Internet, but the Internet also makes it so much easier to get in touch with others. So don't be shy.
Is there anything you've always wanted to know about, but were too shy to ask about? Another friend of mine is very shy(the real shrinking violet in public!) but NOT when she is confronted by her absolute favourite subject. I mean, I like chess too( I play it and have a reasonable idea of what each piece can do, but am NOT by any means as serious as this friend.) She is always looking for forums anywhere on chess, not to strut her stuff, but to see if she can help another learn a tricky move.(She'll kill me if she sees I've used her as an example!)
So be brave and actually get in touch on a forum and answer a question. It doesn't matter what the topic is. Exotic reptiles are not one of my favourites( I saw the movie Anaconda; lousy movie, but as a young woman that was it for reptiles!), but it could be yours.
All I am trying to say is: get out of your comfort zone. You never know just what you may find in odd little corners( fair enough, some are too creepy for words), and you might even discover something that desperately needs articles, anything at all to grow itself. Often the people who own these sites pay well for what they want. Another friend found a site which dealt in ancient England, with the swords and the armour and all that stuff, wrote a few articles, offered them and was gleefully asked for more. She has since grown an interest in it herself.
So, as i said, get out of your comfort zone and find something else. You may not be totally interested in it
I have no idea who, if anybody, reads this blog, but if you are spending a few minutes on it, then thank you. I hope I give some light relief and maybe some help with a problem.
It always intrigues me why so many people need and ask for help on chats, blogs, many other methods of communication, but can't/don't think that their advice is worthwhile in the least, and don't/won't contribute to these sites at all.
According to friends of mine who have followed the cyber-business trail, traffic is almost the be-all and end-all. Well, be prepared for a little surprise. If you help someone else out, chances are they will visit your site, even if it is just to say "thanks". It costs you absolutely nothing to give those few words of advice and you most likely get a back-link, free of charge and legally, keeping you away from Google's nasty little alogarhythms and them off your case.
Forums are for people to share, much like the old gatherings of clubs and people were: to share information and meet other like-minded people. Unfortunately these sorts of gatherings are now few and far between, thanks partly to the Internet, but the Internet also makes it so much easier to get in touch with others. So don't be shy.
Is there anything you've always wanted to know about, but were too shy to ask about? Another friend of mine is very shy(the real shrinking violet in public!) but NOT when she is confronted by her absolute favourite subject. I mean, I like chess too( I play it and have a reasonable idea of what each piece can do, but am NOT by any means as serious as this friend.) She is always looking for forums anywhere on chess, not to strut her stuff, but to see if she can help another learn a tricky move.(She'll kill me if she sees I've used her as an example!)
So be brave and actually get in touch on a forum and answer a question. It doesn't matter what the topic is. Exotic reptiles are not one of my favourites( I saw the movie Anaconda; lousy movie, but as a young woman that was it for reptiles!), but it could be yours.
All I am trying to say is: get out of your comfort zone. You never know just what you may find in odd little corners( fair enough, some are too creepy for words), and you might even discover something that desperately needs articles, anything at all to grow itself. Often the people who own these sites pay well for what they want. Another friend found a site which dealt in ancient England, with the swords and the armour and all that stuff, wrote a few articles, offered them and was gleefully asked for more. She has since grown an interest in it herself.
So, as i said, get out of your comfort zone and find something else. You may not be totally interested in it
Perennial resolutions
Hello to all!
Okay, Christmas is just a heartbeat away, and New Year's not far behind. Time for all the old Resolutions to surface. Or are you sick and tired of making New Year's Resolutions that you never keep anyway? Well, you aren't lonely. Probably three quarters of the entire world don't manage to keep even one of their said-with-hand-on-heart resolutions, and that includes those of us who are either smart enough not to make any or simply do not let anyone know what they have resolved to do/not to do/ gain something/lose something.
Mind you, this last one is very hard to do, as in NOT telling anyone what you have planned. For some reason, keeping resolutions secret is harder for some than breaking the two-minute mile would be. Or leaving that last eclair on the plate.
The perennial: Lose X amount of weight. It doesn't sound too hard.If you say it quickly. But who wants to walk an extra kilometre to work when God-knows what may be watching you and hoping for a chance to strike? Better keep the weight. No. It really is not. Grab a long-suffering colleague who has plenty of patience and who travels the same way as you and rope them into walking with you. Preferably a male, but anyone will do. With any luck, they may just be courteous enough to agree, or they may need to lose a few spare pounds themselves. Either way, you have more chance of remaining safe, and getting a bit more exercise.
Another perennial: I am definitely giving up smoking. Yeah, right. You know all the don'ts concerning quitting. You know all the good reasons for doing so. You just cannot get it right. This is a really hard one. having quit the dreaded weed myself, I know how hard it can be. I learned those lessons and more the first three times I tried to quit. (By the way, the average tries a smoker has before he/she succeeds is four or five.) I was so frustrated with myself I took to chewing gum, the nonsmoking stuff. And I used it far longer than the recommended time too, I was so determined. Somebody up there must like me, because I got to the end of the second week with the chewing gum, and slowly began to cut back. I must admit, a very dear friend of mine died a painful death from a smoking-related disease around the same time as I decided to quit, so I had another good reason to stop, apart from my daughter who was not that old then.
So don't regard a slip-back as having fallen big-time off the wagon. If you find yourself with a cigarette in hand, but not lit, place it back in the pack and give whoever you believe in a heartfelt thanks. If you are actually smoking it, think of all the nasty things it is doing and feel what your body is feeling when you inhale. Is your heart starting to gallop? Are you breathing faster? Has that ghastly cough sprung from where it has been hiding, just waiting to cause you grief again? If you take notice of these factors, the thought of the damage being done may shame you into stopping immediately. If it does not, simply smoke the cigarette to the end, stub it out and commence deep-breathing. Tell yourself you are not a failure and try to stop the next time happening. I once smoked 75 cigarettes a day, more if I was stressed. I learned very fast to cope with my stress by any other means I could, and kept healthy pink lungs working perfectly in my mind. I even drank water as soon as I felt the urge to smoke. My bladder and kidneys hated me. :)
So, the best of luck with whichever resolutions you are about to make.I hope you manage to succeed with whatever they are. But, don't give up. Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes. So, when you tink you've failed, simply pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get straight back on that horse. If you succeed for one or two days, then flop, simply challenge yourself to go an extra day next time. YOU WILL GET THERE. Where ever there is!
Okay, Christmas is just a heartbeat away, and New Year's not far behind. Time for all the old Resolutions to surface. Or are you sick and tired of making New Year's Resolutions that you never keep anyway? Well, you aren't lonely. Probably three quarters of the entire world don't manage to keep even one of their said-with-hand-on-heart resolutions, and that includes those of us who are either smart enough not to make any or simply do not let anyone know what they have resolved to do/not to do/ gain something/lose something.
Mind you, this last one is very hard to do, as in NOT telling anyone what you have planned. For some reason, keeping resolutions secret is harder for some than breaking the two-minute mile would be. Or leaving that last eclair on the plate.
The perennial: Lose X amount of weight. It doesn't sound too hard.If you say it quickly. But who wants to walk an extra kilometre to work when God-knows what may be watching you and hoping for a chance to strike? Better keep the weight. No. It really is not. Grab a long-suffering colleague who has plenty of patience and who travels the same way as you and rope them into walking with you. Preferably a male, but anyone will do. With any luck, they may just be courteous enough to agree, or they may need to lose a few spare pounds themselves. Either way, you have more chance of remaining safe, and getting a bit more exercise.
Another perennial: I am definitely giving up smoking. Yeah, right. You know all the don'ts concerning quitting. You know all the good reasons for doing so. You just cannot get it right. This is a really hard one. having quit the dreaded weed myself, I know how hard it can be. I learned those lessons and more the first three times I tried to quit. (By the way, the average tries a smoker has before he/she succeeds is four or five.) I was so frustrated with myself I took to chewing gum, the nonsmoking stuff. And I used it far longer than the recommended time too, I was so determined. Somebody up there must like me, because I got to the end of the second week with the chewing gum, and slowly began to cut back. I must admit, a very dear friend of mine died a painful death from a smoking-related disease around the same time as I decided to quit, so I had another good reason to stop, apart from my daughter who was not that old then.
So don't regard a slip-back as having fallen big-time off the wagon. If you find yourself with a cigarette in hand, but not lit, place it back in the pack and give whoever you believe in a heartfelt thanks. If you are actually smoking it, think of all the nasty things it is doing and feel what your body is feeling when you inhale. Is your heart starting to gallop? Are you breathing faster? Has that ghastly cough sprung from where it has been hiding, just waiting to cause you grief again? If you take notice of these factors, the thought of the damage being done may shame you into stopping immediately. If it does not, simply smoke the cigarette to the end, stub it out and commence deep-breathing. Tell yourself you are not a failure and try to stop the next time happening. I once smoked 75 cigarettes a day, more if I was stressed. I learned very fast to cope with my stress by any other means I could, and kept healthy pink lungs working perfectly in my mind. I even drank water as soon as I felt the urge to smoke. My bladder and kidneys hated me. :)
So, the best of luck with whichever resolutions you are about to make.I hope you manage to succeed with whatever they are. But, don't give up. Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes. So, when you tink you've failed, simply pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and get straight back on that horse. If you succeed for one or two days, then flop, simply challenge yourself to go an extra day next time. YOU WILL GET THERE. Where ever there is!
A couple of reasons to write
Hello to all!
Time to return to a topic that I've touched on a couple of times: why don't you write a book? How about I give you some reasons to do so?
1. You may be the lousiest writer in the whole Universe, but that shouldn't stop you. If you really want to get one book out there, there's plenty of help to do so. Go and look at Elance.com, Freelancer.com and Guru.com. These are all sites that have writers on them, and MANY, MANY of them. Don't just grab blindly, but inspect each writer's credentials for a while, until you find one who appeals, preferably with some testimonies. And don't be prejudiced either. if you don't want to spend a lot of money, choose one of the so-called Third World writers, and NOT for the price either. Some of them can write as well as say, Americans, English people, and those whose natives language is English, which says something, but I won't go there. You would probably be better choosing a single person to write what you want, instead of a team. More on that later.
2. Even if you think you are a one-trick pony, done properly, an ebook WILL sell a few copies. It may not make you a fortune; it may only make back the money you spent putting it out, but it will give you enormous personal satisfaction. People are always interested in each other's lives, so if you take a couple of strange occurrences during the time you have been on the earth, add a few paragraphs at the beginning and the end just to say who you are, and where you've got to, to make the ebook up to around 10,000 - 12,000 words, that's it. No need to rabbit on for ages. Ebooks are tiring to read, and, unless you are John Gresham or one of his ilk, n one is going to read something that is 150,000 words by you. Well, not until you've built up a following, anyway :).
3. Play a game of "what if" and 'how' with yourself. Or your baby. The baby won't understand a word, but will love the noise of your voice, especially if they are very young and you want them asleep. It is amazing what this type of trance can throw up, even if you are the most staid of people. Be quick to make notes however, and then turn it into a mind-map, or the wonderful dream will float into your subconscious forever.
See? I was going to simply set out a few ways to stimulate you to write, but I've excelled myself, and even more surprising, the words make sense. Oh, well, there's always time to do that, and I had fun. I have no idea where I go next post, but I'll find out when I get there!
Time to return to a topic that I've touched on a couple of times: why don't you write a book? How about I give you some reasons to do so?
1. You may be the lousiest writer in the whole Universe, but that shouldn't stop you. If you really want to get one book out there, there's plenty of help to do so. Go and look at Elance.com, Freelancer.com and Guru.com. These are all sites that have writers on them, and MANY, MANY of them. Don't just grab blindly, but inspect each writer's credentials for a while, until you find one who appeals, preferably with some testimonies. And don't be prejudiced either. if you don't want to spend a lot of money, choose one of the so-called Third World writers, and NOT for the price either. Some of them can write as well as say, Americans, English people, and those whose natives language is English, which says something, but I won't go there. You would probably be better choosing a single person to write what you want, instead of a team. More on that later.
2. Even if you think you are a one-trick pony, done properly, an ebook WILL sell a few copies. It may not make you a fortune; it may only make back the money you spent putting it out, but it will give you enormous personal satisfaction. People are always interested in each other's lives, so if you take a couple of strange occurrences during the time you have been on the earth, add a few paragraphs at the beginning and the end just to say who you are, and where you've got to, to make the ebook up to around 10,000 - 12,000 words, that's it. No need to rabbit on for ages. Ebooks are tiring to read, and, unless you are John Gresham or one of his ilk, n one is going to read something that is 150,000 words by you. Well, not until you've built up a following, anyway :).
3. Play a game of "what if" and 'how' with yourself. Or your baby. The baby won't understand a word, but will love the noise of your voice, especially if they are very young and you want them asleep. It is amazing what this type of trance can throw up, even if you are the most staid of people. Be quick to make notes however, and then turn it into a mind-map, or the wonderful dream will float into your subconscious forever.
See? I was going to simply set out a few ways to stimulate you to write, but I've excelled myself, and even more surprising, the words make sense. Oh, well, there's always time to do that, and I had fun. I have no idea where I go next post, but I'll find out when I get there!
Monday, 10 December 2012
FAKE IT
Hello to all!
Do you ever have days when, no matter what you do, it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference to your work, your home, YOU?
You aren't alone. Everyone is the world has one of them, including the most powerful figures you could think of. You might think they don't, but behind whatever façade they have stuck on their faces, they do. So HOW do they manage to present this air of competency and calm, while their world may be smashing into a million pieces around them? Do you really want to learn how to?
Easy. You simply FAKE IT. Practice this in the mirror every day for two minutes, while you shave or put your make-up on. It may feel funny at first, but gradually you WILL get the hang of it. Put the best spin on it that you can, and walk out the door with that on your face like a mask.
No doubt you will probably frighten horses, dogs and all of your colleagues the first time you put it out in public, but that's okay. It's better than some television shows! Well, to be honest, stuff them! Keep practising and you will soon have it perfect and natural.
While you are doing that, also practice some self-esteem mantras. they can be as simple as you like: I'm Okay. I'm okay. Or they can be more explicit: I'm okay with being sacked. I WILL find something else. Don't worry about anyone seeing you do this. Pretend you are chewing gum or something. If you have a long way to home from work, all the better. If it's a train ride or a bus, pretend to read a book. It'll just look like you are a bit illiterate. If you are too shy, buy a newspaper instead. Or you can even pretend to knit, even if you have never knitted before. This one is good, if you don't make too many obvious mistakes and the thing grows a bit. People just assume you are counting stitches. Men CAN do this too. After all, who says knitting is for girls any more!
Do you ever have days when, no matter what you do, it doesn't seem to make a blind bit of difference to your work, your home, YOU?
You aren't alone. Everyone is the world has one of them, including the most powerful figures you could think of. You might think they don't, but behind whatever façade they have stuck on their faces, they do. So HOW do they manage to present this air of competency and calm, while their world may be smashing into a million pieces around them? Do you really want to learn how to?
Easy. You simply FAKE IT. Practice this in the mirror every day for two minutes, while you shave or put your make-up on. It may feel funny at first, but gradually you WILL get the hang of it. Put the best spin on it that you can, and walk out the door with that on your face like a mask.
No doubt you will probably frighten horses, dogs and all of your colleagues the first time you put it out in public, but that's okay. It's better than some television shows! Well, to be honest, stuff them! Keep practising and you will soon have it perfect and natural.
While you are doing that, also practice some self-esteem mantras. they can be as simple as you like: I'm Okay. I'm okay. Or they can be more explicit: I'm okay with being sacked. I WILL find something else. Don't worry about anyone seeing you do this. Pretend you are chewing gum or something. If you have a long way to home from work, all the better. If it's a train ride or a bus, pretend to read a book. It'll just look like you are a bit illiterate. If you are too shy, buy a newspaper instead. Or you can even pretend to knit, even if you have never knitted before. This one is good, if you don't make too many obvious mistakes and the thing grows a bit. People just assume you are counting stitches. Men CAN do this too. After all, who says knitting is for girls any more!
Friday, 7 December 2012
experimentation
Hello to all!
Further to yesterday's talk, let's elaborate a little on it, although you probably are sick and tired of all this yammering! Well, feel free to stop reading any time you wish. Some of what I write you may think you have seen elsewhere. You may probably be right, except it is not plagiarism. I have taken a few ideas that I found interesting and put them in my own words. No problem.
Okay, back to the shiny new toy syndrome. The sad fact is it works with both adults and children, but how many of us actually follow a child's reasoning back to the beginning and play with the old toys once the 'new' has lost its gleam? Very few is the answer.
Say you have a fair system that, if you worked on it a bit, tweaked this and that, experimented, in other words, spent some time on it, may get you more money and traffic? Okay, that is called work. But the biggest companies in the world did not get that way because the founder or founders sat on their hands and said: It works great now, let's not improve it.
That should not be the way you view your business. There is absolutely no harm in seeing how far you can push the envelope before it falls off the table. Budget a little to do this with and try different things, while leaving the base alone. Maybe you could change to a more friendly host, ask a specialist blogger would they do a guest spot for you. Just small things that may or may not work, but you have at least given your business a chance to grow.
And everyone, rich or poor, has to have a point where they start from.
As long as you have that small leeway whereby you can afford to drop, say $10 or even $50, why not go for it? If you play pokies or something like that online, why not cut out whatever is your bet for just one day or weekend and invest that money in your business? You will get far better odds for doing this type of thing and your business may just get a start on growing. Besides, it is an investment, not a donation to a system that already has thousands or millions of monies from people who thought they would strike it rich with one jackpot and have simply contributed to that jackpot? Not really a fair deal by any means.
Further to yesterday's talk, let's elaborate a little on it, although you probably are sick and tired of all this yammering! Well, feel free to stop reading any time you wish. Some of what I write you may think you have seen elsewhere. You may probably be right, except it is not plagiarism. I have taken a few ideas that I found interesting and put them in my own words. No problem.
Okay, back to the shiny new toy syndrome. The sad fact is it works with both adults and children, but how many of us actually follow a child's reasoning back to the beginning and play with the old toys once the 'new' has lost its gleam? Very few is the answer.
Say you have a fair system that, if you worked on it a bit, tweaked this and that, experimented, in other words, spent some time on it, may get you more money and traffic? Okay, that is called work. But the biggest companies in the world did not get that way because the founder or founders sat on their hands and said: It works great now, let's not improve it.
That should not be the way you view your business. There is absolutely no harm in seeing how far you can push the envelope before it falls off the table. Budget a little to do this with and try different things, while leaving the base alone. Maybe you could change to a more friendly host, ask a specialist blogger would they do a guest spot for you. Just small things that may or may not work, but you have at least given your business a chance to grow.
And everyone, rich or poor, has to have a point where they start from.
As long as you have that small leeway whereby you can afford to drop, say $10 or even $50, why not go for it? If you play pokies or something like that online, why not cut out whatever is your bet for just one day or weekend and invest that money in your business? You will get far better odds for doing this type of thing and your business may just get a start on growing. Besides, it is an investment, not a donation to a system that already has thousands or millions of monies from people who thought they would strike it rich with one jackpot and have simply contributed to that jackpot? Not really a fair deal by any means.
Slowly slowly catchem monkey
Hello to all!
Have any of you taken the plunge and actually got into IM? If you have, if it is not a rude question, how are you doing? Statistics show that around 95-98% of IM marketers do not cut it. that is a very disappointing statistic from anyone's point of view.
Even worse, those damn statistics show that around the same amount find themselves having to go back to a dead-end job, sometimes in a lot worse financial state than they started out. Really great. Your savings gone, and your dreams shattered. Just what everyone wants and needs.
And yet it is not that hard to make money online, or so it is claimed. Millions of people holding out their credit cards for you to stamp. You are rolling in money and clover. You wish. So you chase the leprechaun's rainbow with every get-rich-quick scheme you can find. This does only ONE person any good. THE SELLER of said scheme. Yes, some of them do have some good in them. But who wants to buy a hundred programs in order to ferret just one piece of information out of them?
Yet, you CAN make money. If you try and do not expect big houses, rich vacations and shopping sprees to be available overnight. It is simply not possible. Yes, there are people who have done it, but they are few and very far between.
So let's look at the whole picture without any disappointment or anger. Sure, you may be only earning $5 per day through all of your efforts. But over 7 days, that adds up to $35. And 28 days later, you will have $160. Yeah, not nearly enough to buy everything you want/need, so why bother?
But say you work on making that $5 per day into $7 per day? At the end of a month, there's something over a thousand there. Now, that is not to be sneezed at. And, if you really push it, you can get up to gasp! $10 per day. Now that is getting to be serious money. $70 per week can buy your groceries, or some of them. It can pay for a pair of shoes for one of the kids. And it can add up to $3640 per year.
This was something an old friend explained to me once, except she had a bricks and mortar shop. A florist's shop. Her first payday, after she paid for her flowers and the girl who was helping out part-time? The princely sum of $15 for the week to spend on the family. The next week was double. $30. But by the time she had fought and scrimped for a year, she was turning over $1,500 per week. Nothing in that to sneeze at. But this lady worked her butt off. She simply did not believe in a free lunch. Dutch, yes, but not free.
So, don't be disappointed when your first week only puts in a small dribble into your account. Resolve to experiment and find what works. You can guarantee that each and everyone who boasts that they are earning hundreds of thousands per week started the same way. A few dollars popping into your account at a time.
My friend used her shop-girl to fill in the times she was working as a solicitor's clerk, which paid the bills. But, as the money came into the shop, she cut back on her hours as a clerk, until she was wholly self-sufficient. This seems to be the way to prosper online. Do not bungee-jump into the wide blue yonder. Even these people have a life-rope attached. Don't throw yourself off the cliff without that rope.
Have any of you taken the plunge and actually got into IM? If you have, if it is not a rude question, how are you doing? Statistics show that around 95-98% of IM marketers do not cut it. that is a very disappointing statistic from anyone's point of view.
Even worse, those damn statistics show that around the same amount find themselves having to go back to a dead-end job, sometimes in a lot worse financial state than they started out. Really great. Your savings gone, and your dreams shattered. Just what everyone wants and needs.
And yet it is not that hard to make money online, or so it is claimed. Millions of people holding out their credit cards for you to stamp. You are rolling in money and clover. You wish. So you chase the leprechaun's rainbow with every get-rich-quick scheme you can find. This does only ONE person any good. THE SELLER of said scheme. Yes, some of them do have some good in them. But who wants to buy a hundred programs in order to ferret just one piece of information out of them?
Yet, you CAN make money. If you try and do not expect big houses, rich vacations and shopping sprees to be available overnight. It is simply not possible. Yes, there are people who have done it, but they are few and very far between.
So let's look at the whole picture without any disappointment or anger. Sure, you may be only earning $5 per day through all of your efforts. But over 7 days, that adds up to $35. And 28 days later, you will have $160. Yeah, not nearly enough to buy everything you want/need, so why bother?
But say you work on making that $5 per day into $7 per day? At the end of a month, there's something over a thousand there. Now, that is not to be sneezed at. And, if you really push it, you can get up to gasp! $10 per day. Now that is getting to be serious money. $70 per week can buy your groceries, or some of them. It can pay for a pair of shoes for one of the kids. And it can add up to $3640 per year.
This was something an old friend explained to me once, except she had a bricks and mortar shop. A florist's shop. Her first payday, after she paid for her flowers and the girl who was helping out part-time? The princely sum of $15 for the week to spend on the family. The next week was double. $30. But by the time she had fought and scrimped for a year, she was turning over $1,500 per week. Nothing in that to sneeze at. But this lady worked her butt off. She simply did not believe in a free lunch. Dutch, yes, but not free.
So, don't be disappointed when your first week only puts in a small dribble into your account. Resolve to experiment and find what works. You can guarantee that each and everyone who boasts that they are earning hundreds of thousands per week started the same way. A few dollars popping into your account at a time.
My friend used her shop-girl to fill in the times she was working as a solicitor's clerk, which paid the bills. But, as the money came into the shop, she cut back on her hours as a clerk, until she was wholly self-sufficient. This seems to be the way to prosper online. Do not bungee-jump into the wide blue yonder. Even these people have a life-rope attached. Don't throw yourself off the cliff without that rope.
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Overkill with emails
Hello to all!
Yesterday, I got a rush of emails in my letterbox. Not one from a person whom I even knew. Sometimes I feel that, in order to get a person's email, these email addresses are shared. They probably aren't. but when I have inquired about ONE thing from an address and even signed up for a report, what else am I to think? The last such occasion ended me with something like 15 spare emails which I had no interest in whatever.
I know marketers need to grow their lists, but surely ONE can send out one email alone and not involve all his or her joint marketers. This really does annoy me on occasions and often one person whom I may be interested in later on gets deleted forthwith. I also tend to remember these people and ignore them when I see their efforts online by themselves.
I know, I know. Shouldn't judge a person by their company. But it really does peeve me. I rarely sign up for anything, not exactly being interested in much that is being tooted online, except writing and information on a few topics, so this deluge does nothing for me. It is more likely to lose the person a sale, as a result.
Okay, so you want the report. badly. But i am beginning to think that it is easier to pay $5-$10 for one report which will have almost everything in it that I want without getting all these others which I want to know nothing about, apart from what I already know.
So maybe this is one thing you can look into when you start up your own online business. Don't be in such a hurry to hitch your wagon to just any JV. The other person may be one who likes bombarding email recipients Again, I know, there are spamming rules in place, but some marketers do ride very close to the fence on this. I would be much happier if each marketer found a friend to market with who is an expert on some aspect of the article being sold. For example, instead of chasing a graphics designer around when I want to make a new website, I would be most grateful if I had the opportunity to hire both the web designer and the graphics all under one roof.
I can at least look at the package anyway. I do not have to take it, and a little yea or nay never hurt anyone, if accompanied by a smaller please or thank you!
Yesterday, I got a rush of emails in my letterbox. Not one from a person whom I even knew. Sometimes I feel that, in order to get a person's email, these email addresses are shared. They probably aren't. but when I have inquired about ONE thing from an address and even signed up for a report, what else am I to think? The last such occasion ended me with something like 15 spare emails which I had no interest in whatever.
I know marketers need to grow their lists, but surely ONE can send out one email alone and not involve all his or her joint marketers. This really does annoy me on occasions and often one person whom I may be interested in later on gets deleted forthwith. I also tend to remember these people and ignore them when I see their efforts online by themselves.
I know, I know. Shouldn't judge a person by their company. But it really does peeve me. I rarely sign up for anything, not exactly being interested in much that is being tooted online, except writing and information on a few topics, so this deluge does nothing for me. It is more likely to lose the person a sale, as a result.
Okay, so you want the report. badly. But i am beginning to think that it is easier to pay $5-$10 for one report which will have almost everything in it that I want without getting all these others which I want to know nothing about, apart from what I already know.
So maybe this is one thing you can look into when you start up your own online business. Don't be in such a hurry to hitch your wagon to just any JV. The other person may be one who likes bombarding email recipients Again, I know, there are spamming rules in place, but some marketers do ride very close to the fence on this. I would be much happier if each marketer found a friend to market with who is an expert on some aspect of the article being sold. For example, instead of chasing a graphics designer around when I want to make a new website, I would be most grateful if I had the opportunity to hire both the web designer and the graphics all under one roof.
I can at least look at the package anyway. I do not have to take it, and a little yea or nay never hurt anyone, if accompanied by a smaller please or thank you!
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