Monday, December 15, 2008

Make Money In A Recession!

So we find ourselves in a recession! This is bad for most people, but, it is also very good for some people that have a business well placed to help others. (You can do this too)!

Rather like how the plague could be good for funeral directors! - ok, - bad analogy, but what I'm trying to say, is that many more people are now turning to the Internet to make a living. That is great for people like me who are already placed to help them avoid the pitfalls, (I fell into most of them myself), and hopefully I can help people avoid them and make the right decisions.

I'm going to assume that you need money!
Why else would you be reading or listening to me! This is the BEATING the 9 to 5 blog after all! So, I'm making a logical assumption. I know I'm entertaining, funny and witty, intelligent and handsome, wise and of course very modest. (ha ha). but, if you are here looking for a cake recipe, you are in the wrong place!

I'll assume, that you know what you want. Money, income, lifestyle. You are in the right place!
How are you going to make money online? First, you are going to concentrate on setting everything up online, it is basically the same process for whatever area or niche you finally decide upon specializing in.

You will then concentrate on making your first dollar online. If you can do it once, you can do it again and again, thousands of times! When you have a bit of a hobby income, you can decide to go into business properly and start part-time or full time depending on how successful you are!

"Common sense", may make you think that, in this time of recession, you'd have to be crazy to start up a business. After all, it seems logical, who will buy from you if no-one has any money because of the recession.

I would like to believe there is such a thing as common sense, but what I actually see and believe is people making common assumptions! There is no-such thing as common-sense! Most people do exercise good logical thinking, but common sense, certainly is not, common. If you drive a car on the public road, you will know that!

It's like a giant game of space-invaders, where everyone is out to cut-you-up, or p-you-off in some way. Everyone else seems to be arrogant and stupid, with a death-wish to match. Rushing about everywhere, not- giving-way, taking your turn at the cross-roads when you was there first, and you are in the larger vehicle! Look, just don't get me started, ok, pass me that brown paper-bag, so that I can stop hyperventilating.

That's better. OK. People aren't stupid, they just go on ASSUMPTIONS. We all do it. Things need to be pointed out and backed up with a bit of history, before people can use logic and make an informed decision either way. That gives me an idea, just a minute.

2 hours later. Well, if you read the previous post, called "Hi I'm AndyGold", you'll know where and what I've just been up to. - Let's continue.

So, you will need some background information from history, to help your self-belief, to show you that it is possible to start a business in a recession. What's more, you need to know why this is the very best time to start an online business. So, here it is.

The information age.
Skip this history lesson if you like - but I warn you, that would be a newbie mistake!
• William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939, when the Great Depression had been underway for a full decade. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic recession. Starting in 1929 and ending at different times in the late 1930s to early 1940s, it was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history.

It is used today as an example of how the whole world economy can fall. - But HEY! They didn't have the Internet!• 1945, Hiroshima. JAPAN was struck by the Makurazaki Typhoon. (Typhoon Ida), one of the largest typhoons of the time. August , 1945, the nuclear weapon was dropped on Hiroshima, then again in August, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb attack.

In 1946 Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka, co-founded Sony Corporation, originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. All this was done whilst the country had been devastated by war and nature, and was still occupied by a foreign power.

If Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka, had failed to start their business back then, no-one could have questioned their excuses, that the state of the war torn country and financial environment was against them!

So, what is your excuse? I could list several more scenarios like this, but I'll leave those for future posts if I may. All I'm saying, is take a long, hard look at whatever your excuses are, and they will be nothing by comparison to Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka's, when they were building their business!


• In times of recession, people are looking to find more income. That's where YOU come in! Provide honest answers to peoples money problems, solve their income problem. Teach them to fish!A business start up can not only survive, but thrive in times of economic crisis. YOU can do the same as me. By leveraging the power of the Internet, your bright financial future will be a lot easier and faster to achieve. You can be making $100, $1,000 or $100,000 a month in an amazingly short period of time, compared to working at a day job. Think About It!


THE INFORMATION AGE!


Newbies especially let themselves get taken for a ride, not deliberately, but may I suggest that its more out of their lack of knowledge, that they take themselves for that ride. Trying every little method half-heartedly, not ever doing it right, making simple (and stupid mistakes), not putting the time required into their program. Just simple things that will cause newbies to fail.

The above is a correct definition of why newbies are called NEWBIES!

For you, it doesn't have to be this way! You can cut out the pit-falls and do it the right way!
For a start, don't go giving up your day job just yet! You will need time to learn and absorb this new way of working. It is a new way to work for you anyway, as many hundreds of thousands of people are already making fantastic incomes, (by comparison to an average day job wage), already.

You can start making money online, without spending any, but it will take you a lot longer to get started, and you will be mostly alone in getting the tuition you need. Except for where you can pick up bits of information, that will be all disjointed and not come to you in any specific order! You may know, or think you know, what you need to learn next. But how can you be sure? You will eventually learn enough to start making money online, but you could be years away from making your first dollar, or it could happen once tomorrow, then never happen again.

I enjoy helping others, but I don't have the time to labour over any one single persons online accounts and activities, to make sure that they are doing everything correctly. If you are going for the no-cost route, (except time input and ISP costs of course), you will have to take your chances with everyone else! Following blogs like mine, will give you the edge, so please hang in there and I will try to post as much useful information and free help as I can for you!

However, if you stick with it, you will eventually get around to investing in the tools and programs I use. They really are essential for your success. I just hope that you will purchase any of these tools and education courses and products through my blog links. It will be a way of thanking me for all this time and effort I'm putting into, helping you!

As by way of full disclosure, I want you to realise that I will make a small commission, if you purchase any product or service through any links on my blogs and websites. That's standard with any link you click on, on any site where it leads to a sale or purchase. Someone makes money, somewhere along the line.

Why tell you this?  Well, in the same way, you will learn to follow my example and build your own online presence with links that help people, where if they purchase, you will get paid a commission for the sale!  

Where do you go from here?
You need to get yourself educated to make money online, one of the ways I personally do this is by studying with online companies like PPC Classroom - That's The SECRET! - So, If you want to learn about The Secret, look for the banners for The Secret in the side bar on this blog.

Enough said for now, here endeth the sermon.

This is, AndyGold. Beating the 9 to 5. That's dub, dub,dub, dot, Beating the 9 to 5, dot, blogspot, dot com.  
http://beatingthe9to5.blogspot.com/
www.Andy-Gold.com - that's,  w,w,w, dot, Andy, hyphen, Gold, dot com.
http://earnagreatincome.blogspot.com  That's  Earn, A, Great, Income, dot, Co, dot U, K! All one word, no hyphens or spaces. Earn, A, Great, Income, dot, Co, dot U, K!

Hi I'm Andy Gold.

I thought I'd use this first post to introduce myself, I'm new-ish to blogging, well about my stuff, the things I want to blog about. I'm used to adding comments on other peoples views and interests etc, but I thought it was about time I started doing my own thing!

I'm sick of all this talk of recession, I get upset when people loose their jobs, yet I am surprised that, despite one put-down after another, one lay-off after another, wage cuts and three day working weeks,  people still have faith in working for someone else!

My aunt who lives in Australia, visited yearly throughout my childhood, my uncle was / is a church envoy. They did loads of travelling all over the world. They always had magical and mysterious stories to tell. So from a very young age I dreamt of travel, being rich and being my own boss.

Yes, that last one seems a bit strange. A small boy, thinking of being his own boss. I just always expected it to be. I was always
in charge when playing games, (and 'no', I wasn't a bully or anything, in-fact I was always referred to as gentle and polite). I just made sure that I knew the rules of the game and made sure everybody played by them! Even the other kids in the street used to come to me to sort their little disagreements - like I would always choose the fair option, or tried to make sure everyone came out a winner!

I have always hated cheats, (even to this day, as I admit to playing the odd PS2 or xBox game now and then, (an understatement if any), I refuse to cheat and use the short-cuts). Anyway, I digress, I like to have the odd modifier of course, so long as everyone is in agreement.
e.g. Monopoly, the youngest player, or new player who needs help - gets it, that sort of thing. I love fair play.

It's important to me to tell you this, because that is why I am actually a very bad sales-person, I suck at it! That is, if you measure my results by fellow team colleagues that I've worked with in the past, or other competition. I put it down to the fact that I cannot sell something to someone, if I think it will harm them, not be the right thing for them, be too expensive, not as good as they can get else-where. So now you know why, I HAVE TO WORK FOR MYSELF! - I don't think anyone would offer me a job, not in sales anyway.

I digress again! My aunt 'Irene' from Australia, once said to me when I was a small boy,
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a good man healthy, wealthy and wise!" It just seemed to stay with me.

I think truths and beliefs are what you make of them, you see,... I believed it! - I still do. As a result I have most everything that I want in my life. My wife and I are still in a loving relationship after 25+ years, (yes - with each other, I just thought I'd clarify that)! We've had five children together, two have flown the nest and three remain, but are growing up fast.

I worked, helping my father from around the age of 6 or 7, there were always jobs he needed help with - (or so it seemed, maybe he was just being a good father and was teaching me good work ethics, anyway, I thank him for it). I worked as a child / Young musician professionally from the age of eleven. I've been self-employed ever-since.

I love those sayings, especially the ones you know are truthful, make sense and fall into line with ones belief system. Here's one I hold in high regard.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Show him, 'HOW TO FISH', and he can feed himself and his family for the rest of his life".

I don't know how accurately I've recited that, people seem to have slightly different versions, but the meaning and implication remains the same.
So perhaps I'm finally getting to the point. As you can see, I like everything to be fully explained, so if you are still reading this, hopefully with some interest as to where I'm taking this, you can start to see what type of person I am, and the fact that I like a certain amount of detail.

This detail is good for you, I am my own man, I like to earn my own money. I have a good head for business and making money. I do it with ease these days online. I like to teach and or show people 'how to fish' for their own income, to make it on their own efforts. That is why I run a site called Websites-Make-Money, (dot com and dot co dot u k).-
If you want a piece of the pie, (feels like another 'saying' coming on), your going to have to WORK for it.

Don't believe all the hyped claims that, you can do X or Y business and it only takes 2 hours a day, heck, I've spent 4 hours just sorting out stuff for this blog, plus I've been working all day on my other websites! (and its a Sunday)! If you really want to make money online, or do already, you'll soon find out that it takes a little longer than the mighty claims from some of the self-proclaimed guru's. (I'm not one of them)!

Take a look at my posts I'll be making, comment on what you think and feel about the businesses that I use to make a lot of income with. I tend to use affiliate marketing / business to business and marketing to newbies, people looking to find financial Independence online. So, finally getting to the point, I'd like to tell you why my business is booming, or rather, the industry I'm in, but you'll have to read my next post, because that's where I started writing. I then realised that I should really give you some back-ground about me and had to back-track. So here we are and off you go...

This is, AndyGold. Beating the 9 to 5, dot, blogspot, dot com.  
http://beatingthe9to5.blogspot.com/
www.Andy-Gold.com - that's,  w,w,w, dot, Andy, hyphen, Gold, dot com.
Websites-Make-Money DOT com

Friday, September 19, 2008

The Place Where I Make My Money!

Beating the 9 to 5.

I hate having to go to work - 9 to 5 or even 6 to 6 - 12 hour shifts. The shift work was good pay, thick end of £600 per week in your hand, with plenty of overtime, I could push that to £880 take-home-pay on my best ever week.

BUT, (and its a BIG BUTT), I hate being away from my family day after day and being too tired when I finally do make it home, to do anything but eat and sleep.

I used to have to travel, just over an hour to get to work, when I was a welder for a short part of my career.

Getting up at 4am, getting ready for work, breakfast, my wife would make my pack-up lunch.. Sometimes the kids would get up to see me off, then they'd go back to sleep on the sofa for a couple of hours before having to get up for school at 7am.

One hour travel to work, 12 hours at work, with 30 minutes for my lunch and two 15 minute breaks spaced evenly somewhere in there. (That's if we got the time, get behind on production and you kiss your breaks goodbye)!

Then, often, in the last hour of work, the boss would ask us on short notice, to work till 7, 8 or even 9pm. It was made clear that you didn't 'have-to' do it, yet that the company would loose the order, and that you could kiss your job goodbye by the end of the month! (So, there was no-pressure there then)!

If you did finish at 6pm, you would only spend an extra 30 to 45 minutes stuck in nose-to-tail traffic, especially if there were any accidents delaying the journey home! But basically, add another hour and a half travelling back, plus I'd spend 30 minutes after work just getting somewhere near clean enough to get in the car, so that I didn't get the interior of the car black with carbon dust and grease from the steel I worked with.

Then I'd make a flask of strong coffee to keep me awake on the journey back home, then set off with the radio blasting out and the windows rolled down to stop me falling asleep at the wheel!

Arrive home 7-30 to 7-45pm at best, if there was no over-time to do. And if the traffic was OK,  (with no accidents blocking the road etc, probably caused by people falling asleep at the wheel)!

I'd spend a short part of the evening chatting with the kids, whilst eating my evening meal, then taking a long soak in a hot bath. Where my wife often had to wake me up, to go to bed. Or I'd fall asleep whilst eating my evening meal and simultaneously working on the computer, online, learning and building my online presence.

Often getting to bed for between 10 pm and midnight, or often falling asleep at the computer. My wife would wake me, and remind me, I've got to be up at 4am to do it all again! Six days a week! (except stopping at 4pm on Saturdays).

The Pay-Off!
So I swapped all that crap, yes I said 'crap', for sitting at home in my chair working on the Internet, doing an hour on my exercise bike every weekday, being a full time father and husband.

And... oh.. making many more times the money I used to make, when I was digging my own grave, in that rut of a welding job! So please get yourself some perspective on your life, if it is anything like mine was!

Take a look at this business, that is always growing for me, even without my constant intervention.
(If you've got any time).

And LOOK, my hands aren't even dirty!

Websites-Make-Money.Co.UK

This is AndyGold, clocking-off, (I'm not doing any over time)! Have fun, live long and prosper!

Friday, August 8, 2008

SBI SiteSell

The Ifs and But's for you!

You should be able to hear this letter read to you, if not I'm sorry about that, the podcast reader can be a little picky from time to time. At the bottom are a couple of videos, start and pause them so that they down-load the stream and play ok when you get to them.


SBI, what is that?
Site-Build-It, is a unique all-in-1 package that takes you through the process of building a website that is optimized for the search-engines (SEO) and SBI gives you the guidance and help that enables anyone to create Web sites and build profitable businesses.


Site Build It!


If I get SBI, what can I do it?
With SBI, you can build not just one, but as many businesses as you wish in many different niches. It gives you the flexibility to try your hand at a lot of new things and eases you through all of the harder to understand stuff like SEO. You will learn how to build a website and how to make money with it!

SEO, whats that?
It doesn't matter whether you know a nothing about SEO, don't let anyone frighten you with this stuff, besides which, no-one really knows all there is to know about any subject anyway. (You'll learn this much as you start to work online with people). Save all your questions for when you have your membership, trust me and don't worry about anything. Everything you can possibly think of, has already been experienced and solved by SBI and its members!

The search-engines themselves keep changing their requirements for what makes a good search-engine optimized site anyway. The only-thing you need to know, is that SBI has SEO covered for you; with simple-to-use tools. They keep up-to-date with what is required for great SEO and do it all for you.

But, I don't know where to start!
That's the easy part, just put yourself in the nurturing arms of SBI, they will take you step by step through every process of building your website and your business. There really is no-need-to-worry once you have an SBI membership!

Support?
SBI has 24x7 Support and their business-building assistance is second to none. SBI, also known as SiteSell, has "help and be helped" forums, where you can ask and get help on any topic of your website and business. This is a real community of success oriented entrepreneurs that are really willing to help.

But, I'm still unsure!
Maybe you think that I am a good sales-man, and I could probably sell snow to the Eskimos! Look, I am a good sales-man, and do you know why?

Because I only sell things that people really need and want; but most importantly, I am a good sales-man because I sell things that really help people and are good for them.

I have not had many 'returns' as it were, because I like to make sure that the products or services I sell are top-notch and right for the customer or client. If a reader takes my advice and gets hurt, that hurts me too, not only financially and though loss of good faith, but also within myself I'd be upset. I would not be able to sleep at night.

This is why I only promote products and services that are the best of the best. I had one person, who now has a successful online business, tell me that, he loved SBI, but has now moved on to even greater things. He pointed out that he could not have done it without the help of SBI, since he knew nothing about owning and running his own online business before SBI. I know you'll say the same!

But, I don't know you, can I trust you?
Here's the thing, you have heard me introduce this SBI website and business building tool to you. What I'd like you to do now, (is bookmark my site first with CTRL+D, so that you can find this letter again), then please go off on a little search, use google or your preferred search engine and type "SBI SCAM" into the search box.

I hope you will understand that I know what I'm doing here, risking you seeing someone else promoting this to you, with the possibility that you will end up buying it through someone-else. I'm not bothered about that too much, its just that I would like the acknowledgement, (and the commission of course, as would anyone else), that goes without saying. I've done my part showing you this, the ball is now firmly in your court!

No-one has an excuse with me, to not be making money online, working from home!

At least you get a great start online. Where-ever you buy it, it will be the same price, just that a different affiliate will get paid the commission! You will find plenty or reasons and good stuff in favour of SBI and I'm hoping no critical or negative results. That is how confident I am about SBI.

To top that off, there is a full money-back-guarantee, so you won't be out-of-pocket if you don't like SBI or if you want your money back for some reason. My only thought on that, to be honest, is that people are not really serious about wanting to make money online! Are you serious about wanting your own online business?

I've covered some of your "ifs and buts", do a bit of research online for yourself, read everything on the SBI site by clicking here, its the wise thing to do! Then please purchase through any of my links on this post. I hope to hear from you, let me know how you get on with SBI. Post a comment or look for my email address in email from my newsletters.

All the best of everything that you wish for yourself.
AndyGold.

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