Make Money in Retirement — As These Ladies Do

Posted on 19/03/2010 by RP

I have been very gratified to the response to the recent article/promotional piece I wrote about Kim Hoffman and her son Ryan … a single mom, working from home, who is really doing what she says she is, and doing what many readers here wish they could … no matter what their age.

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I decided today to highlight someone I have known of for years who also works from home very profitably. I published this article in my Make Money Working At Home blog , but it is also very appropriate here as well.

Years ago, long before the Internet came along my mom worked for a fellow with a really cute little work at home business. He literally worked from home … his one car garage was filled with printed products, mailing supplies and my mom’s desk. She would sit and open mail for a couple hours in the morning, writing names on address labels and putting checks and cash (yes people used to send cash in the mail) into neat piles for bank deposits, and then she spent the afternoon stuffing the product into envelopes and applying the address labels and stamps. On her way home she went to the post office to drop off the outbound mail and through the drive-through window of her employer’s bank to make deposit of the checks and cash that had come in that day.

The product? Simply little 12 or 14 page manual about how to fix hydraulic jacks that, well, wouldn’t jack any more. It’s something the business owner had learned in a couple years working for a repair company who paid him a pittance to repair jacks. When he lost that job, instead of schlepping around to find another dirty, low-level job fixing other people’s jacks and making at least three times his salary in profit for a new employer, he tried something different. He just took what he learned and wrote down the simple parts, and had a little mini-booklet printed and set out to sell it.

Now how did he sell it? Well that’s the interesting part. With no Internet (this was years ago, mind you .. in the 1960′s) and no chance of making mass market media like TV or radio spots work, he looked at special interest magazines … “Popular Science” was one of his best advertising venues .. world-wide circulation and not too high a price for a little classified add in the back.

But could you start a business from a classifies ad? How would you know if it would work? Well my mom’s boss explained his secret to me, and it was dirt-simple. Read magazines you think your prospects might also read. Look at the ads to see if one of yours would ‘fit’. Then go to the library and look up issues of that magazine from 5 or more years ago, noting who was advertising then who still is advertising today … if you see many ‘familiar faces’, bingo … ads in that magazine produce, since people have been paying for them for years and years.

Well today, the Internet is my “Popular Science”. But the same key ways of deciding what is worthwhile hold true. At least 5 years ago I started making money online, and one of the ‘regulars’ I came across was a lady name of Rosalind Gardner. Here’s a little excerpt of her journey….

This is the amazing true story of how a woman with NO business experience became a Super Affiliate earning $500,000+ (*) per year selling other people’s stuff online .

July 23, 2009

Dear Aspiring Affiliate Marketer,

Although I hate the term and don’t own a tiara, my colleagues call me the "Affiliate Marketing Queen". A January 2009 trade magazine pegs me as the female affiliate marketer (since 1998) with the most experience.

Over the years, thousands of ‘regular, non-technical folks’ (just like you — and me) have learned how to start and run their own successful affiliate marketing businesses using the methods I teach in the Super Affiliate Handbook (and as an industry expert speaker, magazine columnist and consultant) and YOU can learn them too!

I teach by example – using my own affiliate sites. From blog installation, to design, content creation and all methods of marketing – I STILL do it all. (Note: Many other affiliate training packages use MY affiliate sites as examples without my permission. That’s because those so-called ‘trainers’ don’t have affiliate sites. They pretend to be working affiliates to take your money, but they don’t have any real experience.)

So, if you’re tired of bogus claims and hype and want to learn how affiliate marketing really works, keep reading … here’s a lady who has been succeeding at this game more thna 5 years now … she has staying power, her methods work, and they can work for you, if you chose to actually sto[ "searching" and start "doing".

As Rosalind says, your search can end here, just the way my mom’s employer built a whole successful work at home business out of a simple magazine ad ... merely by leveraging knowledge and common sense he already had. Well you leverage yours? This is a fork in your road, as Yogi once said, “Take It”.

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