Monday, June 05, 2006

Are You Ready To Stop Working?

by John Colanzi

I've got a confession to make.

I don't work anymore.

I haven't worked in years.

Why?

I have so much fun online.

I would never consider it work.

The amazing thing is the more fun I have the better my
results. Once I quit working everything just fell into
place.

If you're not having fun and if you consider your
online enterprise just another 9 to 5, maybe you should
reconsider your goals.

Don't take my word for it, listen to what some of the
worlds greatest thinkers have to say about Work.

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they
toil not, neither do they spin: and yet I say unto you,
that even Solomon in his glory was not arrayed like one
of these.
Jesus

Work is love made visible.
Kahil Gibran

What we call "creative work" ought not to be called work
at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison
never did a days work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

If you feel that work is a punishment or hardship, or
if you have no desire for work, or live in the hopes of
retiring soon - do not think you are entertaining the
thoughts of a wise man; you are merely dancing to the
tunes that savages played ten thousand years ago.
Patanjali

Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that
which is the fruit of his own toil; for scripture
declares him twice blessed.
Talmud

The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some
pursuit which finds him employment and happiness,
whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or
canals or statues or songs.
Emerson

Do they know something you and I don't?

If you're one of the 95% who never make any money
online, what do you have to lose. Try doing what you
love.

Don't pick something to promote only because you think
it will make money. Pick something that inspires you to
do your best.

Pick something you believe in and gets your blood
flowing.

Find your "Magnificient Obsession." You may never have
to work again.

Wishing You Success,
John Colanzi

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How To Make More Money

by Jeff Schuman
http://www.team-schuman.com

When it comes to making money online there seems to be 2
categories of people.

1. The Haves
2. The Have Nots

That may be true in life in general, but it does bring up an
interesting question that seems to be repeated over and over in
discussion forums all over the internet...

How do I make more money with my online business?

One post was titled "Are You Making Enough Money"?

Here are a few responses.

"My wife says I am not making enough. She may be right."

"If earning 0 is enough then wooooooooo!"

"I'm making way more than enough money, infact, I have so much
that....Oh sorry, just dreaming there for a moment"

etc...etc...

It was surprising to me that I was not able to find very many
posts of people who felt they were making enough money in their
internet business. Now that can certainly mean there are people
not earning anything at all and are spending money they do not
have to try and make something. These are people who have a
little bit of a gambler in them. They are truely trying, but are
not getting the results yet. I like this group because with a
little bit of guidance they can succeed!

Then another group of people are people who sit around and spend
most of their time complaining they are not making any money,
but are not spending one penney on advertising to try and get
traffic to their websites. These people are not only not
gamblers, but they are worse than that. They are not actually
even doing any of the free things like writing articles and
posting in forums to promote their websites. These are the worst
kind of internet marketers because they waste everyones time.

I just went back and looked at my websites that are making
money. Here is what I learned.

1. All of my websites that I have at least a small pay-per-click
advertising campaign going for are making money.

2. I need more websites if I want to make more money

So here is what I am going to tell you to do if you want to make
more online. Get a PPC advertising campaign going for your
website. Bid on as many keywords as you can. The more the
merrier. Bid on hundreds of keywords. But don't bid more than
the minimum. I keep my bids at around .05 cents per click. Add
Google Adsense to your sites to create some cash flow. Track
your conversion rate. Monitor your expenses versus your income
on a daily basis.

Once you have one site making money build another one and repeat
the process over and over until you are making the amount of
money you want every month.

One big benefit of using this strategy is it will keep you busy
actually doing something as opposed to sitting around
complaining about how you are not making any money. And as you
do start to make some money you will feel a real rush of
excitement to make even more.

Jeff Schuman invites you to visit his make money online website for
hundreds of make money ideas, articles, and opportunities.
http://www.team-schuman.com