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Working from Home Jobs — My #1 pick

Many people today are opting to look into different kinds of working from home jobs.  Sometimes it’s because they’ve lost their job due to the economic recession.  In some cases, stay at home moms are trying to find a way to help support the family while still being available for their kids when they need them.  After all, what good is a mom returning to the work force only to find all the money she’s making goes to pay for baby sitting services or day care.  Whatever the reason, working from home jobs are becoming increasingly popular.  However, with popularity comes an increase in the number of potential “scams” that you could fall victim to.

In my opinion, one of the best working from home jobs you can have is to start your own home based business.  When you have a “job” you are working to make someone else a lot of money.  In return, they give you a little bit of money for your time.  When you have your own home based business, the money you are making is yours.  You are working to make yourself money.  And with that you can trade more of your time for more money, right?  But wait!  Are you suggesting that the more time you work, the more money you can make for yourself?  Yes!  But that’s not that much better than a job, is it?

So what you need is a home based business that let’s you trade your time for money but not in a 1 to 1 relationship.  What you need is a network marketing business.  Lets say you start a network marketing business selling widgets.  You work 10 hours a week selling widgets — that’s it — 10 hours.  Over the course of a month (working 10 hours a day) you make $500 but you also get 3 other people so excited about the widgets you are selling that they want to sell them as well.  At the end of the month, you’ve spent 300 hours, made $500 and got 3 other people to join you in the wonderful world of selling widgets.  At the end of month 2, you’ve spent another 300 hours, made another $500 but now you have 3 other people who each spent 300 hours (and made $500 themselves) but now you’ve made an extra $75 from their effort.  At the end of month 1, you traded 300 hours of your time for $500.  At the end of month 2, you traded 300 hours of your time and made $575.  Now if each of those 3 got 3 more every month, at the end of 7 months, you’d have a team of over 2,000 people.  Your 300 hours of time would generate you over $50,000.  That’s leverage!

So the trick is, finding a working from home job that has a widget you would like to sell.  For me, the best network marketing company, bar none, is SendOutCards.  Most network marketing companies sell products that can be overpriced or that only cater to a small handbag using, makeup wearing, liking to cook market segment.  What attracted me to SendOutCards is that (a) it’s a product that costs less than it’s competition and (b) it’s a product that everyone (regardless of race, age, gender) could use.  Professionals could use it to grow their businesses.  Regular people could use it to send birthday cards, anniversary cards, thank you cards, get well cards, etc. to people they know and love (and it would mean a lot more than a Facebook status or a text message.  Plus you can send gifts along with the card.  SendOutCards is a product of giving, not of receiving.  That’s why it has my pick as the best out of all the working from home jobs available.

If you want to see what SendOutCards is all about, you can just jump to my website and check it out for yourself (and even send someone a free card on me).

Click Here to check out SendOutCards

Scarcity mentality vs. abundance mentality

Many times, I meet people who claim they don’t have enough money.  It comes in many forms.  Some say they can’t afford to buy the new toy they want.  Some are more extreme and say they can’t afford to pay their bills.  I’d like to talk about the difference between a scarcity mentality and an abundance mentality and how one is healthy and one is not.

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How college students can make extra money with network marketing

If you are a college student then you probably feel like you’re broke all the time.  You barely have enough money for your meals and you have to work at least one, if not two, part time jobs just to have a little free money to spend on the weekend.  And let’s not even begin to talk about the mountain of student loan debt you are amassing while you invest 3-4 years of your life in search of that little piece of paper that says you are allowed to get a REAL job now.

The fact is that as a college student, you don’t have to be flat broke.  In fact, you are the perfect people at the perfect time in your life to start your own network marketing business.  Perfect people because you’re young and idealistic.  You haven’t yet acquired that cold cynical side that comes with adulthood.  Perfect time because you are interacting with tons of people on a daily basis.  Plus, who wouldn’t want to help out a college student trying to earn their way through college?

So then the question is: what the heck is network marketing?  This is the stuff they should teach in college but they don’t.  Let me ask you a question. What if every time you recommended a movie to someone and they went to see it, you got a commission?  Take it one step further.  What if they liked the movie, recommended it to someone else and then they got a commission and YOU got another commission?  That’s network marketing in a nutshell.

Network marketing is finding a product you like and think other people would like, using the product, showing the product to other people and having other people use the product and show the product.  Imagine a product that gave you their advertising budget instead of the advertising agencies and television networks?  That’s network marketing.

If this sounds like something you might be interested in, then I’ve got the perfect product for you to take a look at.  This is a product that (a) people use every day, (b) is available cheaper and more conveniently and (c) has relatively no competition and has huge potential to become a household name in a couple years.  Check out my website and let me know what you think:  http://www.sendacardtosomeone.com

SendOutCards — Yeah, it’s a pyramid scheme…

I love it when I try to share this fantastic system known as SendOutCards with someone who I think could really use it.  My phone calls go unanswered.  My conversations usually end with “Ah, it’s not for me.”  Some times I hear my favorite one of all “Isn’t this one of those pyramid schemes?”  People close their minds to opportunity before they even give it a fair chance.  Folks, this is an opportunity that can literally change the world if you let it.  Let me share my favorite story of all time with you to prove it.

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Jobs for college graduates

Here’s an interesting article I came across recently.  It’s required reading for my college students out there.

 

THE KIDS ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST

written by Jordan Adler

Surprise, surprise: Thanks to a high unemployment rate for new grads, many of those with diplomas fresh off the press are making a return to Mom and Dad’s place. In fact, according to a poll conducted by consulting firm Twentysomething Inc., some 85% of graduates will soon remember what Mom’s cooking tastes like.

Times are undeniably tough.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLA7jay7shk

Reports have placed the unemployment rate for the under-25 group as high as 54%. Many of these unemployed graduates are choosing to go into higher education in an attempt to wait out the job market, while others are going anywhere and doing anything for work. Meanwhile, moving back home helps with expenses and paying off student loans.

The outlook isn’t sunshine and roses: Rick Raymond, of the College Parents of America, notes, “Graduates are not the first to be hired when the job markets begins to improve. We’re seeing shocking numbers of people with undergraduates degrees who can’t get work.”

Guess moving back home isn’t limited to philosophy majors anymore.

It’s time for us to recommend an alternative to spending more money on “higher” education and/or moving in with Mom and Dad. What if a student were to go to our “university” and learn the business of Network Marketing for 4 years? They would “graduate” with a passive, residual income that would most likely exceed what their graduating peers are making in the job market. Thus, giving them a level of freedom unmatched in the traditional business world. They would get to learn real life business skills and strategies.  Strategies not from theorists, but from real, business professionals that have built five and six-figure monthly incomes.

 

Personal Relationship Building – Toddler Style

I thought I’d take a break from talking about Relationship Marketing, Appreciation Marketing, Internet Marketing and all that other boring stuff that helps people achieve the financial goals they set for themselves and share with you something that’s just delightfully funny.

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The power of network marketing to change your financial life

A friend of mine asked me today “Why do 97% of my friends not understand network marketing?”  Or, the other, more painful question “Isn’t that one of those pyramid schemes?”  Let me try to dispel some of the myth behind network marketing and explain to my friends why they absolutely need to be involved in network marketing.

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The power of personal relationship building

Anyone who knows me knows that I have been running a very successful video production company for the past 10 years.  One of the main reasons I feel my business is successful is because I don’t have clients — I have friends. Friends who need my service and I’m very excited about the opportunity to help them.

I can almost recite off the first and last name of every bride and groom I’ve worked with over the past 10 years and many (and I do mean MANY) of them are still close, personal friends of mine. We stay in contact via Facebook, I send out Christmas cards to them, when someone sends business to me then I send them a little thank you gift in return.

I can’t emphasize enough that even in this tough economic time, it is possible to have a thriving business that is almost 100% recession proof if you stop considering your clients as clients and start thinking of them as people. People have a need to feel appreciated and wanted. It’s our responsibility as human beings to give that to each other. There have been many “clients” who have contacted me and, for one reason or another, I wasn’t able to help them by videotaping their wedding. I told them, however, that if they ever had any questions about the wedding planning process or wanted my thoughts on other vendors they were considering, I’d love to help them. I’ve even sent them anniversary cards just to be nice.

So, whatever your business is, make sure to develop a close, personal relationship with the people you’re trying to sell a product to. If you’d like to get more information on the specific strategy I’m using to help my video production business grow substantially, send me an email.  I’d be happy to tell you.

Bring the Fresh – Final Thoughts

OK, I’m not going to continue to beat this horse. Mike Long and Kelly Felix aren’t quite as responsive as the claim to be. I’ve asked for input and feedback a couple of times and gotten no replies. While I’m not saying BTF is a scam, I will say that it’s not the Utopia of internet marketing that the founders would have you believe.

They do teach you some different ways to think about marketing and they do give you a specific system for how to lay out your websites (which does make sense) but, other than that, it’s nothing new in the world of Internet Marketing.

My case study has made 1 sale since it went live and no matter what I do, I can’t get it to rank higher than 6th.  At 255 searches per day, a 6th place ranking should be pulling me in 3% of those clicks per day.  That’s 7 clicks per day.  Yesterday, October 27, I got 13 clicks so I’m doing pretty well on a click through basis.  Of those 7 clicks, 3 actually clicked through to my product offer but zero sales were made.  Now according to my initial numbers, 80% of my market should be in a buying mood.

So, I’ve asked Mike and Kelly where should I focus my efforts?  Should I abandon it all together because the number of clicks per day just isn’t high enough?  Should I try to introduce additional keywords to get additional ranking?  Should I focus on moving to page 1 and getting more of those 255 clicks per day?  Should I try to increase my conversion for the clicks I am getting?  So far, no responses from high above.

Anyway, I’m not yet comfortable recommending the product because of the limited success I’ve seen.  If, however, you want to give it a try, you’re welcome to click here to go to the Bring the Fresh website.  If you buy from my link I’ll make a little money which will help me continue to stay motivated to bring you more honest, up front, unbiased reviews of other internet marketing products.

Anything is possible with a little imagination and technology

So I was visiting VideoCopilot.net, one of the websites I like to check regularly and came across a reference to this video. All I can say is AWESOME. It really shows what can be done with a little imagination and technology. There’s nothing stopping small budget filmmakers with a dream and passion to make movies that are comparable to some of hollywood’s top budget motion pictures… Kudos to these guys for one hell of a good job.