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    If you are reading this article you are probably one of the many people who have spent countless hours searching for unique ways to make money on the internet. Very few people have gone on to succeed and most have failed miserably time and time again.So how are some people succeeding? The answer is quite simple; they are finding a business that works with their specific strengths and needs. The majority of people today trying to get into the home-based business industry are not salesmen and genius marketers. People fiddle around looking in all the wrong places wasting loads of money on advertising that isn’t working and E-books that promise wealth.It took me five years to find a business that did not involving selling, building a down-line or that required me to r
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    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of res

    To Survey Or Not To Survey
    I have learned over the years that when it comes to online marketing as I know it, it's not about what I want in my business. It's really about what people who visit my website want. For awhile I didn't understand that philosophy. How do I find out what people want?Finding out what people want is not something you, I or anyone else for that matter can pull out of thin air. If we are going to be successful online, even offline in the brick and mortar world, we have to take our eyes off of ourselves and put them onto our potential customers.So how do we do this?The answer is quite simple yet complex.That is to conduct a survey or surveys.Conducting surveys is simple. On your website you can create forms for people to fill out. If you are going to put a form on your we
    I grew up in the 1960’s and 70's when there were no computers, PDA’s or cell phones. There were no microwaves, no DVD’s, no MP3 players and there were only about 7 good stations on television. We didn’t stay home and play video games all day because there were no video games to speak of back then. Instead we played outside, talked to our friends on the phone and listened to music.

    I was telling this to my two sons the other day and they sat there stunned as they found this concept hard to wrap their brain around. I suspect that I did the same as a child when my own parents told me about their childhood and what the world was like.

    Today we are told that technology is here to make our lives easier. The microwave helps us cook food faster. The internet helps us get information faster and allows us to stay connected with friends, family and business associates. We have more television stations to give us more choices, we have cell phones so that we can stay in touch with each other and we have laptop computers so that we can access the internet anywhere in the world.

    Ok … let’s look at that last paragraph again.

    From where I’m sitting, it looks like all our sophisticated modern technology has done the opposite … it has made our lives crazier! It has given us less time instead of more.

    If you are in your twenties and thirties, think about your parent’s childhood and what life was like back then. If you are in your forties or older (like me … sigh) then think about your own childhood. What happened to everybody when office hours came to an end? What happened when people left work and went home?

    What did they do?

    They rested.

    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of rest

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    s the other day and they sat there stunned as they found this concept hard to wrap their brain around. I suspect that I did the same as a child when my own parents told me about their childhood and what the world was like.

    Today we are told that technology is here to make our lives easier. The microwave helps us cook food faster. The internet helps us get information faster and allows us to stay connected with friends, family and business associates. We have more television stations to give us more choices, we have cell phones so that we can stay in touch with each other and we have laptop computers so that we can access the internet anywhere in the world.

    Ok … let’s look at that last paragraph again.

    From where I’m sitting, it looks like all our sophisticated modern technology has done the opposite … it has made our lives crazier! It has given us less time instead of more.

    If you are in your twenties and thirties, think about your parent’s childhood and what life was like back then. If you are in your forties or older (like me … sigh) then think about your own childhood. What happened to everybody when office hours came to an end? What happened when people left work and went home?

    What did they do?

    They rested.

    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of res

    Website Copywriting Secrets - How Being Boring Will Help You Be Found Online
    Website copywriting secrets – how being boring will help you be found online.To be found on line by prospective clients we need to rank high in search engines. How many times have you given at page three on Google when searching for something on line? The search engine robots must view your web page as being relevant to what your prospective client was searching for. So how do you make sure that your copywriting is relevant and that your page is able to be found above your competition when your prospective clients are searching for your products and services? This is where your brand can be boring. Boring? Yes, boring through repeating your keywords – the words your ideal clients will be using to search for your services and solutions - in your copywriting. You can
    ends, family and business associates. We have more television stations to give us more choices, we have cell phones so that we can stay in touch with each other and we have laptop computers so that we can access the internet anywhere in the world.

    Ok … let’s look at that last paragraph again.

    From where I’m sitting, it looks like all our sophisticated modern technology has done the opposite … it has made our lives crazier! It has given us less time instead of more.

    If you are in your twenties and thirties, think about your parent’s childhood and what life was like back then. If you are in your forties or older (like me … sigh) then think about your own childhood. What happened to everybody when office hours came to an end? What happened when people left work and went home?

    What did they do?

    They rested.

    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of res

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    ives crazier! It has given us less time instead of more.

    If you are in your twenties and thirties, think about your parent’s childhood and what life was like back then. If you are in your forties or older (like me … sigh) then think about your own childhood. What happened to everybody when office hours came to an end? What happened when people left work and went home?

    What did they do?

    They rested.

    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of res

    Web -- An Information Market and its Market Makers
    As every market, the web market is ruled by supply and demand. The major product in demand & supply, is information.A huge number of web sites compete in attracting the web user’s attention, by offering information or service content of high interest. In the book ‘Economics of Attention’, by Lanham the following is mentioned: the most successful artists and companies are the ones that grab attention and shape it, in other words, that exercise influence. With so much information, simply paying attention is the equivalent of consuming a meal’.It is like a continuous voting process in which millions of Internet Users vote on the sites which host the most valuable content according to their individual interests. The results appear on the most visited web sites. Moreover
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    They had time to think and reflect and do something very few of us do in today’s world … they relaxed!!!

    When I was growing up, we didn’t have cell phones and laptop computers so we relaxed, went out to dinner, took walks, watched television, listened to music and read a book. We turned our minds off for a while and allowed it to reboot itself.

    Modern technology has taken this away from us. Instead of resting when we get home from work, we work on our laptops and constantly check our PDA’s. We take our cell phones and answer them wherever we are … in restaurants, airplanes, movie theaters, soccer fields, in our car … everywhere!

    When exactly do we rest and allow our minds to turn off for a little while?

    Modern technology has made things harder. It has unleashed a monster called stress that is making our world sick and tired. It distracts us. It owns us!

    Have you seen the Terminator movies? The one where machines rule the earth? Guess what? Machines rule our earth. Not in as nasty a way as the movie, but they rule the earth nevertheless. Technology rules.

    Stress is a nasty thing that causes some even nastier diseases, and there are no antibiotics you can take for it. Stress kills and there is only one cure for it.

    You need to rest.

    Recently, Ron and I went to Disneyworld in Florida with our boys. We took our cell phones and the laptop because we wanted to check our email and voice mail while we were there. For some strange reason though, the cell phones mostly stayed in the room because we kept forgetting to bring them, and we never even turned on the laptop. Before we knew it, we went almost an entire week without checking any of our messages. I checked them about halfway through the week and returned a few calls, but for the most part everything stayed off.

    Did the world end? Did we lose our company? Did clients walk away?

    Nope.

    We came home with our minds refreshed and returned the calls, answered the email and life rolled on. We were tired of course (have you ever done four theme parks in four days?) but n

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