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.
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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
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
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