As I was perusing the newspaper this weekend, this headline jumped out at me–

‘Jobless ranks hit 10 million, most in a quarter-century; unemployment hits 14-year high‘

Now, at first glance, this is not good news. It means that there are more people out of work today than there has been in the past 25 years.

Are you one of them?

It means that, depending on what kind of work you do, the competition for openings that could arise in that field is going to be fierce.

How would you like to go into a job interview and find out that there are, say, 15 other people who they are interviewing for that position?

Unless you have perfected the interview process, the chances of you landing that job are slim…and even if you do, the salary for the position is probably going to be lower than what you were previously making…

So you have a couple of choices here…stay on the job search merry-go-round and become more and more frustrated as time goes by or until the economy takes a drastic upturn and companies start hiring back the people they let go.

How long is that going to be??

How well honed are YOUR speculation skills?

That’s what I thought.

Teaching Opportunity

Here is where the teaching opportunity comes in. How many of those 10 million people have internet access? I would speculate somewhere in the 60-75% range, which means that there are 6-7.5 million people out there who MAY just turn to their computer to find out how they can make some extra moola.

Ok, let’s look at the low side…let’s say that you could get just 1% of those people on your list. That’s an additional 60,000 subscribers.

How would you like to have access to that many potential subscribers or customers on your list? I bet every single Information Marketer out there would!

How about one half of one percent? Would 30,000 subscribers make a difference in your business? I know it would in mine.

Do you have the skills to teach people HOW to make extra cash using their computers? If you were a subscriber to my K.A.R. (Knowledge-Application-Results) newsletter, you could be learning those skills!

It’s a win-win. I teach you.

You teach them.

All of us are making extra income.

I say that because not all of us are going to be targeting the same audience. Some of you may be targeting dog lovers, some motorcycle riders…that’s just two of the thousands of niches that you can target with your business.

So what are you waiting for? Grab my bonuses for subscribing to the K.A.R. newsletter and let’s grab this teaching opportunity by the horns and shake it up!

Or, stay on the merry-go-round and keep honing those interviewing skills.

Til next time….

Here’s to YOUR successes!

Ron

Are we in that bad of condition economically? The second half of the headline says it all, I think.

From what we read in the media, be it in the newspaper, online, perusing magazine covers going through the checkout line, we are being told that we are in the middle of dire economic times.

When I read the headline about the Minnesota lottery sales, I was dumbfounded. You can read the short article here.

It seems people are still seeking that ‘silver bullet’, that ‘big win’…the prize that will set them up for life so that they won’t have to work anymore.

Are ‘we’ THAT lazy?

Are we THAT dissatisfied with our present work situation that we are seeking a way to get out of it?

Great idea, but where do the funds come from to pay our bills for the next whatever period of time?

Don’t get me wrong…I use the word ‘we’ carefully, because there are people who don’t spend money on lottery tickets weekly, and I am one of those people. There are people who are satisfied with their present working situation and don’t have a problem with not changing anything. I am NOT one of those people, I am not satisfied with status quo and I am working towards being financially independent (I am not there yet, but don’t have too far to go).

What if there were a way that you could work on replacing your full time income, but do it starting in your spare time, with very little monetary output on your part?

Is Internet Marketing, or Information Marketing, as I like to term it, the answer? Doug Champigny has a good take on that…..you can read it here.

I am not saying that this is the ‘silver bullet’ that is going to make you thousands of dollars overnight, but it can put you on that road to making a couple of hundred dollars a month and with more effort, possibly replacing your full time income and allowing you to ‘retire’ from the rat race.

Believe me, there are thousands of people (and probably millions) out there right now that are looking for a way to make money from home. If you get any of what Doug mentions in his post, there are going to be many more thousands, possibly millions more, coming on line in the next year or two who are going to be looking for a way to replace their incomes by working from home doing some sort of Information Marketing.

I want to position myself to help them choose whatever vehicle that they want to use to get them to whever they need to go. My K.A.R. (Knowledge-Application-Results) system will definitely help them, and you. I strongly suggest that you sign up for my newsletter (the form is in the upper right hand side of the page)…..not only will you get some great reports, but you will also get more ‘inside information’ on what I am doing, how I am doing it, and the results that I am getting.

Did you know that the statistics show that fully one third of all lottery winners are broke within 5 years of winning the big money?

So who are you going to listen to? The media that is telling us daily that things are crumbling around us, or to your ‘inside voice’ telling you that there IS a way that you can change things and make yourself a better person?

So hop in to my K.A.R and take a ride. You’ve got nothing to lose, but OH so much to gain!

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR success,

Ron

Which of those is Your Internet Marketing Vehicle?

Whether you are going to work, taking a walk, surfing the internet, you need a way to get from point A to point B. The way you do that could be termed your ‘vehicle’, which you use to move you between those two points.

Internet Marketing is no exception. You need a vehicle to get you from newbie to experienced. That vehicle is Knowledge. How you acquire that knowledge is based on how you learn things.

If you are a newbie, more than likely you are using the AMC Rambler (remember those?) and if you are seasoned, you may be on your way to using a Lamborghini. Whatever you are using, you had to learn how to do it somewhere along the line.

Maybe you learn the fastest by reading, or it could be by watching videos, or maybe it’s listening to an audio recording or teleseminar, whatever the method is, you will need to use it to get the knowledge that you need to make yourself successful in the IM business.

For all of the methods I mentioned above, you can find any number of different sources for them scattered all over the web. A good place to start would be giveaway events (here’s where I input a shameless plug for the Halloween Giveaway) where you can find ebooks, videos and software on Internet Marketing and many other subjects.

You can also try ‘ebook stores’. These sites have large selections of electronic books (ebooks), most in pdf format. Check out my ebook store here.

In order to read these these books, you will need a pdf reader installed on your computer and also some sort of zip program. Windows XP and Windows Vista come with a zip program built in, but if you need one, you can find one here. If you need a pdf reader, you can find that here.

If your preferred method of learning is videos, you can find a plethora of sources for those also, even the giveaway events will have some videos available for you. One of the better ways to get started with Internet Marketing is using PLR material. My friends Doug and Teri Champigny have a great set of videos teaching you how to use PLR to jumpstart your IM business. You can find those videos here.

The great thing about videos is that if you have a hard time grasping a concept that is being presented, you can rewind the video over and over again. This is good because if you are trying to learn something and it just isn’t working, you pause the video, do whatever you are trying to do, if it doesn’t work, rewind, relearn, and reapply, until you get it right!

Audio–maybe you learn the quickest by listening to live or recorded information. There are several membership sites that offer audio recordings of their past teleseminars.

A teleseminar is a ‘meeting place’, if you will, where people call into a telephone number and the moderator of the meeting talks about the specific subject that is being covered that day. Some of the live teleseminars are interactive, some are not, depends on how the moderator wants to handle that. Audio recordings are great resources for learning concepts also for the same reason that videos are. If the moderator or the participants are talking about something that you don’t quite get, or a specific website is mentioned, you just rewind and relisten.

I use audio and video quite extensively when I am in learning mode, mainly because of the above reasons. If I read something and then try it, and it doesn’t work, it’s difficult to understand WHY it didn’t work. Whereas with video, you can actually follow along, make your changes, and if it doesn’t work, you can go back and find out why it didn’t.

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