Still Looking?

If you're trying to start a business online - and who isn't? - then I'm certain you have tried many different opportunities. If you're like me, you have tried several and for the most part - they didn't work. Mostly all that happened was that I lost money. Has that happened to you? You may have seen my first opportunity that I advertised - Millionaire 1000. I had a MLM chain-letter type thing that I paid $5.00 to join. Then after spending a few hundred dollars in advertising, web hosting and auxilliary products and 18 months that I advertised the site - I still hadn't made a single dime! I tried the HYIP programs and lost about $300 before I wised up. I found a work-at-home opportunity on CareerBuilders, that I figured was legit because it was on CareerBuilders. I lost $1500. That's a big chunk of change. Next I tried auto-surf. I lost $200 with them. But I'm still at. My own sites work the best. And there is a quartet of programs I'm involved with that seem to be ok. At least my account is growing. The first one I'll mention is World LPP. This is a unique product/service in that you are part owner of a venture capital type organization. I recommend this for you. But before I say anything that's inaccurate, you should check it out yourself. Go to http://www.worldlpp.com/affiliates/t.php?rid=1406 Next is My Money Dragon. Money Dragon is a program that features a lot of ebooks you can use as resources for your own e-business and provides a viable means of income. The link is below for you to check this out. http://mymoneydragon.com/member.php?id=2653 And then there is NewNetMail (http://starfleet1.newnetmail.com) NewNetMail is an email service that offers spam-free and virus free private email services. And you can make money too! Finally, we have DXGold. This is a business that allows you to take advantage of the growth in all of the electronic currencies that are on the internet. You've probably used some of them yourself. DXGold has been the most lucrative business for me to date, with my investment tripling in just a couple of months. There is a challenging learning curve with DXGold, but once you get it figured out, it's easy. And very profitable. https://www.dxinone.com/?DXLink=141071 So far, out of all the dozens of online opportunities I've tried, these are the only ones that are really working. I hope that at least one, if not all of these make you as much money as they have for me. And stay away from the HYIP programs and possibly the auto-surf sites too. And do your due diligence on every thing you take a look at. Remember what happened with me and CareerBuilder. Good luck and Happy Fortune. If you have any questions, please contact me. I'll be happy to help. -Perry

I've Been Outsourced! Now What?

"I've Been Outsourced!" Now What?

Your job is not secure.

Centuries ago - or was it the 1990's? - we anticipated that many US manufacturing jobs would outsource to Asia or other 3rd world countries.

This has occured. What we didn't expect was that just a few years later, IT/high tech jobs would follow.

Economists and career consultants all expected that the US would retain its high tech careers with many of those workers displaced and out of work due to outsourcing would retrain and find employment in the IT sector.

It didn't happen that way.

Today thousands of high tech jobs are themselves outsourcing to places like India and China. Even several formerly East Bloc nations of Eastern Europe are capturing high tech work.

With employees in India and China receiving just $5000 a year in salary for a high tech position, the US simply cannot compete - especially when those same Indian and Chinese employees hold advanced degrees from such US institutions as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.

You're standing on shaky ground if you plan on retiring in your current job if it's in a high tech or manufacturing field. In fact, it's more like standing on quicksand, because the reality seems to be not "if" that job will disappear but "when."

So what can you do?

Start your own business.

It doesn't have be a Fortune 500 company. It doesn't have to have acres of office space and 5000 employees. All it needs is you.

Doing this will require a revolution in the way Americans view themselves vis-a-vis work. Yesterday you could count on some big company cradling you from graduation to retirement, protecting you from all the ins and outs, intricacies and responsibility in earning a profit.

You simply did not need to know that.

But things have changed.

Now we have to relearn how work is done.

Creativity, fast thinking, bias for action and the ability to communicate are all essentials in the new fastpaced global economy.

You don't need to do it all yourself - in fact, you shouldn't. But you do need to communicate to others what you can't or won't do and partner with those who understand what you (your business) needs and can provide the skills and abilities you can't.

Maybe you will have a one-man or one-woman operation outsourcing your work to those Indian and Chinese employees. Maybe you will have just a few employees in the US and Europe all connected by the internet videoconferencing by web, cell phone and iPod or similar devices with your manufacturing or research or software development center in Shanghai, New Delhi or Beijing.

Now is the perfect time to figure out what makes you the happiest doing and creates the highest profit.

For more details about how you can choose to be self-employed and receive a good living go to http://how2getrich.bravehost.com/worklive1.html

The biggest change in how we perceive work lies in our own minds. That's also the location to all of our barriers to being successfully self-employed.

We need to learn to think "outside the box." The box is the way we have learned to think and work from birth. We have to rethink all our biases and opinions about working and discover ways of releasing our creativity.

The world is filled with abundance and there is enough to go around for everyone.

Don't believe in the old dogmatic lies of the industrial revolution. Your financial security depends on your ability to find out what makes you the happiest and then identifying a path within that field that will make you financially independent. Your financial security does not depend on some company that gives you a paycheck a couple of times a month.

Your financial security depends on your ability to take an idea germinated in your own mind and then nurturing that idea into a profitable enterprise for yourself.

Yes, that requires work, courage and a whole new way of thinking. But we have no other choice.

We can perceive the advent of the global economy as a great threat or we can perceive it as extraordinarily liberating.

It's all just a choice - a perception.

Choose to be free. Start your own home-based business.

Generating Traffic for An Online Business

"Build it, and they will come," is not necessarily true on the internet.

You may have built a better mousetrap, but if no one knows you're there, your mousetraps will simply collect dust.

Getting customers is fundamental to any business. It is especially important to an online business. With a traditional "bricks and mortar" store, you'll get at least some traffic from those who pass by. This doesn't happen on the internet.

Online, each website is essentially a solitary universe. It is only by making oneself - or one's website - known to those who would use it that traffic is generated and with traffic comes sales.

The primary way that potential customers discover a website that meets their interest is by using a search engine. Currently the big three search engines are Google, Yahoo and MSN. These three represent approximately 80% (or more) of all search engine traffic. Of these searches, over 50% of people will visit one of the top 5 sites listed on the first page of search engine results.

It would seem imperative that any website that wants to sell in massive quantity get itself shown on the Big 3 search engines. And then it would seem necessary to be one of the top 5 listed sites. This is a challenging proposition.

All search engines closely guard the algorithms that drive their search parameters. Any webmaster or SEO service that can consistently deliver results that put a client in one of the top 5 results is worth almost its weight in gold. This position alone can make or break a website.

Until about 1998 or '99 or so, a few choice keywords pretty much guaranteed a top position in the then top search engines. Then things began to change. Keywords alone didn't seem to cut it.

What began to play a greater role in the placement of a website was "content". You still needed the keywords, but you had to connect the keywords to descriptive content on the webpage to generate higher placement in the search engines.

A keyword is any single word or a 2 or 3 word phrase or sentence fragment that describes what your site is about. "Hotdogs" is a keyword. So is "barbecue hotdogs" or "all beef oven roasted hotdogs". Just make sure your website is about hotdogs. And feature the keywords in numerous sentences throughout the webpage.

Today, what seems to be driving the search engine results most prominently is keywords imbedded in the description meta tag combined with a content heavy site multiplied by the number of content heavy links connecting the site.

By "content heavy links", I mean links that connect with sites of a similar theme. If you have a website featuring all beef oven roasted hotdogs you may want to request links with sites that feature other types of hotdogs or condiments used for hotdogs etc. Use a separate webpage just for the links. Although this placement of links may degrade the priority of those links, having your main page feature just links would crowd out your own message and send much of your traffic away to other sites.

The more the connecting website matches your website, the higher priority the search engines seem - as of Feb. 1, 2006 - to place on the links. That's why the "link blasters" - software or services which will place links to your site on millions of classified ad sites - don't seem to work.

I've dated this priority of search engine results because the web is dynamic - it's always changing. What will work today will change tomorrow. You've got to keep at it and trying new things to keep your site at the top of the heap.

Targeted Traffic

Another thing you need is "targeted traffic." This is traffic that wants what you are selling. This is partially achieved by a content heavy site, prominent keyword phrases in the description meta tag and links to as many similarly themed websites as you can get.

You also get targeted traffic by use of ads. Pay per click/pay to read, double opt-in email ads, ads in ezines with themes related to your subject, and similar ads can all drive traffic to your site. Visit my "Secrets of Internet Marketing" blog in the archives of this blog for more ideas.

You can also purchase keywords on the search engines. Google Adsense is a prime example. This helps you achieve higher position on the search results or has your ad shown in a sidebar on the first page of the search results.

Another way which has worked very well for me is Traffic Swarm. No, I don't own stock in the company so this isn't an ad. It simply works for me and for others who use it.

Traffic Swarm is a type of traffic exchange which features 8 ads on each page. Each ad has a short paragraph describing the site. If you are interested in the ad, you are more likely to click through and visit the site. If you visit the site, you have pre-qualified yourself as a potential customer and you are more likely to buy from the site than someone who just blindly stumbles across the site.

To see more of what I mean you can visit a site about Traffic Swarm at http://gettargetedtraffic.millionaire1000.com

This comes from Traffic Hurricane I believe or perhaps the Traffic Jam. Both are software sold online to help generate traffic to your website. You may want to check them out also.

Ok, let's summarize how to get traffic to your site.

1. Use keywords in short phrases and sentence fragments in your description tag.
2. Replicate these keywords and sentence fragments in full sentences throughout your webpage.
3. Develop as many links as possible with websites which share a similar theme.
4. Follow the ideas in "Secrets of Internet Marketing."
5. Get an account with Traffic Swarm.

Good luck. I hope you get lots of targeted traffic.