Archive for May, 2008
Why You Don’t Make Money Online — Part 2
This post is not only of great interest to my seniors making money online readers and my retiree friends learning to supplement their retirement, but to everyone who is interested in making a buck online, from 8 to 80.
Just a couple days ago I posted what I thought was one of my little "secrets" about [...]
Why You Aren’t Making Money
There’s a question guaranteed to get the attention of a lot of my readers here … mainly people who are interested in learning how seniors and retirees can make money online.
Recently I had an exchange via comments with a nice lady who mentioned she was writing for helium.com, making very little money at it, and [...]
A Few Words That Should be Said
Looking back a few of my recent articles makes me feel I have drifted a bit toward the money making side of things without offering enough advice on keeping and growing what we already have. After all, that is one of the primary ways strangers come to this site … one of my most popular [...]
Write Your Way Rich
ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income> Shameless plug for my friend Darren. I’ve written here numerous times about using your life talents to make money from a book …either and "eBook" or a real, live print book.
I’ve also written many times about my fellow blogger Darren Rowse, founder and a principle [...]
Financial Independence With a Motorhome — Is This Guy Insane?
One of the things I noticed when I go through the server records that show searches made here at retired Pay World is that an article I published some months back that was partially about a family who was free of the senses grind of a regular job by means of their own unique [...]
Making Money With No Money — Another Installment
Update: I received a report that the links in this post were broken. I just tested them agin and they resolve just fine. Mysteries of the ‘net. There IS a sales page after you click the Gold key but you should clearly see, on the righ, a place to enter your email [...]
Not Shooting Yourself in The Foot — Part 3
I wanted to wrap up this three part series on how to avoid being your own worst enemy with some real world examples about the all too common practice of "hiding" the price of things. I had a few favorite examples filed away … but then this morning a much better "near-real time" example came [...]
More On Not Shooting Yourself in The Foot
A day or two ago I expanded on my "Frustrated Teacher" comments by explaining how foolish I think it is to hold up customers trying to buy something by asking them all kinds of sign-up information. It seems that many sites, even those whose sole purpose in life is to allow customers to place an [...]
Do You Want a Signup or a Sale?
A few days back I wrote a post that was well received (thanks to those who emailed or commented) about the difference between selling things ("conducting eCommerce" for you MBA-types) and forcing, or "teaching’ users how you want them to perform on your site.
I’ve decided to write a bit more on each of these main [...]
You Are What You Say
Darren has a very interesting article here:
Today I was scanning through some emails from readers and it struck me that so many of those that I hear from are suffering from a similar ailment. Let me share a few excerpts from emails I received today and see if you can spot what it is:
“Darren, [...]
