Stay Home and Save the World? That's Right
60What is really the "good life"?
While there may not be one answer, I would challenge you to give me a better one than I am going to present to you.
Life is about balance. Sure balance is different to everyone, so how do you come up with something that will give freedom to pursue the things you want that make you happy. You would probably hate the balance that I strive for, but i will tell you about it. You can adapt a successful process to your life, too.
Well, let's start with what it isn't. For me, the ole 9-5 rut is absolutely not the means to the end here. What is so bad about the 9-5 rut? Well, gas prices are sure making it worse, huh? Is your job fun? How do you know? Well, what would you be thinking about if you did not have to concentrate on your tasks? Really, would you be thinking about that?
I know I ask a lot of questions.
OK, let me relate this to me, then. I like my hobbies. "How could I concentrate on my hobbies and make money at it?", I used to wonder. I really kind of knew that I needed to work for myself to do that. No one wanted to pay me to ride horses, since I was a mediocre English and Western rider. I did not like the hard work of mucking stalls either. What about gardening, fishing, hunting, ATVs, boats, guitar, skateboarding and golf, to name a few?
Well, I did it...really I did. It has been hard work, and that hard work will continue. However, I think my hard work will pay off.
I decided on ecommerce websites. I build blogs and websites that sell these products, and I make a small commission. Those small commissions are adding up. I started with http://gardentrainer.itmh.org and http://equestrian.itmh.org. I made those sites work, first. SEO, content, networking and analysis. That one under my belt successfully, I built a bunch of sites just like them - http://fishing.itmh.org, http://hunting.itmh.org, http://atvparts.itmh.org, http://boats.itmh.org and http://boatparts.itmh.org, http://guitars.itmh.org, http://skateboard.itmh.org and http://golf.itmh.org.
Feel free to check out what I did to make a few bucks, if you like.
Some sites are earning well after only a couple of months. It takes a month for the site to be up and running, I think, just to get something going that can start to earn some money. So, if you are tired of the grind you are in or unemployed, get started on this. Learn how to find products to sell, learn a little about blogging, then find the right products you want to sell.
I am not here to tell you that it is easy to learn and practice this, but you really can do it. By the way, I am not here to sell you the process. I am not sure I know enough to teach you. However, the training is out there. Once you learn it, I am convinced that you can make a decent or good living from this.
Now, I have another slant on this process, but I don't think I could convince you to go to this work just to find out how to cure poverty. Still, that is my plan for this. After all, the secret to a good life is balance.
I have to know that my life has meaning. I get that from helping others, and I don't get satisfied helping one or two. I have sure not felt fulfilled taking stuff to Goodwill, giving money to my church or makein a charitable donation. But that's just me. Figure out how to work from home doing ecommerce, and you too can find the freedom to work on the things that interest you.
Oh, by the way, I have opened this business by investing about $200, and I have not seen too many $200 legitimate businesses out there.
Go ahead and let me know what you think, and I will be happy to help you help out - others, hopefully, but you, too. GBY
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MIdnightPiper;
Thank you very much. I really have used countless internet training to some extent. Of course, most of them are pretty much worthless. Others are good, but they do not go far enough for you to actually create the product that works.
Of course, I do not make one cent from these recommendations, and these are just my opinions.. Clearly the best internet training is stompernet.com, but it is also expensive. There is a long list of other good internet marketers, Frank Kern, Jeff Walker, Jeff Johnson and many others. Each of them gives out free tips, and I have picked up good ideas from many of them. Their courses might be good for people with different skills than me.
The worst models are network marketing and multi level marketing.
My wife is very skilled in implementation of the tools we want to have in our blogs. It is important to have some understanding of programming. I think that is the language of the future. If you can program, then you can do amazing things totally free.
*The worst models are network marketing and multi level marketing.*
Yes! They are so full of it! Why do people get into that crap? For every 1 that makes $1000 there are 99 that get virtually nothing but they don't admit it they just shut up and/or go away.
I honestly thought internet marketing had faded away. How it can still be operating is amazing to me, too. I even see some internet marketing scams being played on Hubpages. I want to go on those threads and scream "RUN". Maybe I will, come to think of it.
Whoops, I meant to say network marketing, not internet marketing.
midnightpiper 3 years ago
I like your style, Viralprospector. For too long, people get stuck in a job that sucks the life out of them and makes them miserable. Doing the things you love is brilliant, you're an example for the rest of us to follow.
By the way, which Internet training did you use to get going in your online adventures?
Keep it up!
MidnightPiper