Yesterday I wrote about how "ideas" for making money were much less important that executing ideas. I’m still in hopes that i can get a few more of you to start the new year by actually taking action as we follow along with Drew’s MrGPT seven-week build a website for success series. We’re actually starting week two of the project, setting up the site with WordPress, but hey, it’s the holiday season and no one is going to fine you for being late. [...] Continue Reading…
A friend spoke after my last post on selecting my niche and domain name for this project. He seemed mystified and a bit alarmed that is was "giving away" my idea … his thoughts ran along the lines of "someone else will take your idea and run with it." Know what I think? Good for them if they do. As a matter of fact, type "K1 visa" or "Fiancee visa" into Google and there are about a million pages that have something to [...] Continue Reading…
How many are following along with the Seven Week money making site project I mentions being run by my colleague Drew over at www.mrgpt.com? If you aren’t, and you’re even at all curious about whether you even can make money online, I urge you to try. This is not any kind of scam, membership signup deal or any of the other Internet marketing "techniques" that many of you are sick of. It’s a guy who can and does make money online showing you [...] Continue Reading…
Not too long ago I wrote a piece titled The World Is Not Flat. The thrust of the article was about online US companies ignoring the huge market beyond US shores … especially those markets made possible by the power of the ‘Net. It is now easy to see that it is not just online companies who are waking up. Tide Is Shifting On U.S. Exports Companies Finding Markets Overseas For Niche Items By [...] Continue Reading…
I don’t think I have ever mentioned my friend Frank Rumbauskas here on the Retired Pay World blog before, but I’ve learned a number of valuable lessons from Frank over the years. You see my wife and I used to operate our own small sales corporation, and cold calling was (we thought) essential to getting our business up and running. I absolutely hate making cold calls, and as you might guess, I do very poorly with them. I came across a book/audio CD product [...] Continue Reading…
Merry Christmas. yes I am still blogging. We have a lot of family activities going on here at the old Blog Central but while the Unofficial Cook is busy in the kitchen and the many cousins here for the holidays chase themselves round the Christmas tree yours truly finds he has a lot of time here in my cave ,,, and there’s a lot to write about so I should take advantage. Those of you who read with their eyes open (which sometimes [...] Continue Reading…
My colleague Drew over at MrGPT.com has started a neat looking 7 week series to show you, step by step, how to build a website that makes money. This won’t be for everyone, perhaps, but it will be a great help for many who are suffering ‘analysis paralysis". Most people who fail to make money online … whether their goal is to empower their retirement, earn a little to pay for those Christmas bills or even just to expand their knowledge, fail because [...] Continue Reading…
One of my most popular posts here talks about quitting your day job. several of my online friends have some degree of notoriety for doing that very thing. Others are planning to do so seriously within the coming months. In my case I already quit my day job years ago … and my only regret so far has been that I didn’t do it a few years earlier. But I never quit work … and I never will until my energy or [...] Continue Reading…
But Dave, you say, I don’t want to deal with any of the "Internet Markety" sort of making money online you have talked about recently. I’m older, I don’t have the huge "need" to be online you seem to have and I really wish I knew some more conventional way of making money to empower my retirement. Fair enough. There’s no such thing as a "one size fits all" solution. Here’s two nice examples of real-world seniors making money using the Internet as [...] Continue Reading…
Just was reading the "make money" blog of a friend of mine, Bob Martin, and saw this interesting piece on that age-old blog versus website question. Watch the video, it’s quite useful in explaining some things and it gives an excellent example in how to effectively use video … many of today’s self-produced videos are quite poorly done … the blogger putting the vid together didn’t bother to edit out the dull parts and fails to get to the point. This one is a [...] Continue Reading…
It’s getting really close to 2008. seems like 2007 just started. But just yesterday I got an email from the office that pays out one of my annuities reminding me that I could download my IRS Form 1099R from their website. They technically have until February before they have to furnish the form but they are already done paying me in 2007 so they are getting their ducks in a row. Made me realize how lucky I am that a., I’m and old [...] Continue Reading…
Paul on the Elder’s Forum has published a series of articles that frankly would curl my hair … if I had any left. I’m not totally aligned with all his opinions and I can’t verify every one of his facts … but I know enough to realize how happy I am with my decision of several years ago to leave the US, likely never to return. For a country built upon the principles of freedom, non-discrimination and equality for all my own [...] Continue Reading…
There’s an old story or "trick question" often used by law professors or logic teachers … the prosecutor asks the witness "When did you stop beating your wife"? pretty hard to answer as a yes or no question, isn’t it? What if you’ve never beaten your wife? what if you have no wife? How dare you ask that question? OK, I’ll ask a broader question that applies to everyone, with or without a wife: Have you stopped being a racist or a sexist [...] Continue Reading…
Just came across this new service on John Chow … remember, I told you you’ll learn from the masters if you read them. Why am I writing about this today and calling it time sensitive? Jobs and job posting boards are currently a fairly hot item on the Web This site’s approach is unique and brilliant … they’ll make money from "viral" volunteer helpers and a proven advertising platform, instead of the complex model [...] Continue Reading…
Bloggers make money from blogging in an every increasing array of ways – but in general they can be broken down into: 1. making money directly from their blog (where the blog makes money – typically from advertising or affiliate programs) 2. making money indirectly because of their blog (where the blogger makes money because of their blog – for example by landing a book deal, consulting or a job) [...] Continue Reading…
