Saturday, June 5, 2010

Make Money With Persistence

If you analyze how people make a lot of money you can see that there are very few general routes. One of them is to receive it from a dead relative. This is very rare. If you receive money from a relative who passed away, you probably have money already and that is why you happened to have a rich relative willing to leave you his money.


Other option is to win the lotto. Just by reading the ticket you will realize how low the probability is to hit the jackpot. Lottery issues around 100, 000 to 1,000,000 tickets, so, the probability to hit the jackpot goes from 1 out of 100,000 to 1 out of 1,000,000 opportunities. This means you need to buy from 100,000 to 1,000,000 tickets along your life to be almost sure that you will hit the jackpot.

If you wan to be 100% sure you will win the lotto, then you need to buy every single ticket at once. As the total cost of the tickets is higher than the prize, then you will loss money. So, for sure you will not make money if you do this. After seeing the numbers it is difficult to understand why so many people buy tickets with the hope to become rich some day. I would suggest buying tickets as a support action for the lotto organization, and that it is.

Of course there are more options similar to the previous one described here where you can receive a big amount of money at one shot. And if you analyze them thoroughly you will very soon discover that the probability to happen to you is extremely low. If you do not believe it, make the numerical analysis by yourself. Make it without emotion, just guided by the numbers.

A third route to make money is to start building channels to funnel the money to you. Start by accepting that this is a long time process. Then include in your inner thoughts the faith needed to believe that it is truth. It is possible to make a lot of money through the time. It is not easy and it is not fast. It is not magic and it does not happen by itself. But it is entirely possible. Other persons have made it, so it is completely possible.

Let’s make a simple exercise. Imagine that you start a journey that will take you years to accomplish. This journey has as an objective to make you money. The target you define can be to earn 1 million dollars per year. Then you learn a method to achieve this target that requires working during the next 10 years in a structured manner. You do not question the method, just start to implement it. If after 10 years you happen to be making half a million dollars every year, would you complain about the method?

Now, let’s comeback to this moment, you are not making that half a million dollar every year, and I am pretty sure you do not believe you can make it, not even after 10 years. You are not willing to learn a method to make it in 10 years. You do not want to invest 10 years. You feel that is a waste of your time. Let me tell you something, if you are older than 10 years then you have already wasted those 10 years and still you are not earning that half a million dollars per year.

What makes you think that your situation will be different 10 years from now? Are you changing something in your life? Are you doing something different in your life? Have you started a process to achieve a target for money making objective within one year, within 2 years, within 5 years, within 10 years from now? If you are doing the same things you have done during the last 10 years, what exactly make you thing that things will be different 10 years from now?

If you are thinking the same way and believing the same things I bet you that you will be in the same situation after 10 years. Well, not exactly in the same situation, you will be 10 years older. That will be the only difference. You can take a picture of yourself from this day and just add a few creases and then you can see yourself 10 years from now. You will have lived some moments that you will remember with joy or sadness. One of those sad moments will be to think that you did not start something new to make money.

If you decide to start a process to make money, then you need persistence. Think of this, you need to change your mind and habits. In that order, change your beliefs and then your actions will change. For example, if you think that money is evil, then you tend to move away from it. In order to walk towards the money, you need to believe that money is good. It serves you. You are the master; you control it and use it for good. It helps you to help people. At this moment you may not provide job to some body because you do not have enough money to build a company or a factory.

If you make money, then you may hire people to work with you to help you to make more money. Meanwhile that person may see you as the savior. He may have been in a very bad situation because of lack of job until He found you. Now you provide him not just with money but also with peace of mind. If He has a family, then the benefit extends to them. You will be blessed by them. Because of you providing a job with your money, the little son of your employee will have a good education and will become good citizen instead of an angry potential criminal.

Just with a small example you can see money is good. And you master it, so you make good things with money. Thinking good of yourself will help you to stay still looking for your objectives. Create a powerful vision of yourself and stick to it. Create a vision that makes you feel good and motivate you to move forward. Then make a plan to achieve it. If you invest your life in this process, you will die as a happy person. You may not ending earning 1 million dollars a year after 10 years, but I can assure you that whatever the outcome you get, you will be living a better life by then.

You need to stay motivated and in the rote to make money. When we receive a new idea that makes us a lot of sense, we feel that the light we have found will enlighten us forever. It does not happen that way. We need to maintain it fueling it with new ideas that support it. It is like when you get married being deeply in love. Love will keep you together for a few years. And then you need to commit yourself towards your spouse. You need to find new reasons to be together for the rest of your life. The relation matures and grows and you grow with it.

Process to increase your income is similar to marriage. You know the method and feel the ambition like love and you may find an idea to marry to. After awhile, if the results are not as fast and delightful as expected, you may feel the desire to quit. At this moment you must review the results. If they are positive, meaning the results are going in the right direction but not as fast as expected, you may better learn how to speed them up instead of abandoning the idea.

In the overall process to make money, persistence is one key factor. It is the characteristic that will rescue you from leaving when results are not as good as expected. It is not easy and we are not born with persistence. We need to learn to be persistent. We need to forge the habit to keep the focus and invest our efforts beyond the easy slot of the journey. We need to prove ourselves by trying new manners to make thing even though we are not familiar with it. We need to defeat the fear to change. We need to change that fear into motivation to improve. If we are able to change our feelings towards an idea we will be able to implement it with conviction.

Look around and you will find countless examples of persons who have entitled themselves in a journey regardless the obstacles. Some times they do not have a clear idea as to how they will arrive to the goal. They just have an objective and put targets in the route. Remember an objective is to improve something, is the vision you wish to achieve. And a target is the numerical step defined to measure the advance. For example if you want to increase your income, that is your objective. And your target can be 10% after a year. You can define several targets along the time for an objective. You can think about another target by setting to increase your income 20% after 2 years and so on.

You may expect to receive money from a passed away relative. You may also hope to hit the jackpot by purchasing a lottery ticket. Those are valid expectation although the probability is very low and the time frame is uncertain. You can also start a long time endeavor by changing your mind and putting your faith on practice. This perspective takes time, some economic investment and a big effort from your side, but the probability for you to make money is very high. A collateral benefit for you is that you will learn a lot of new ideas and develop new skills that you would not by buying a lotto ticket or attending a relative’s funeral.

It is not easy to change our mind in order to achieve different results. As we get older we increase the resistance to accept new ideas. After we convince ourselves that a new concept is true and if we include it among our beliefs we will improve our lives, we still need some extra mind work in order to fully incorporate it into our background. When you feel that you are in this situation be honest to you and candidly accept that you need help in order to increase your income.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Make Money Online

There are a lot of people looking for ways to make money online. Unfortunately there are very few persons doing so. I have found two main ways to earn some money. One of them is by developing an e-product and create an affiliate system. The network that is created provides the potential customers that will purchase the e-product.

Another way is to create a page and work hard to make it reach to first place in SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) for some keyword that is actively being typed at such search engine. In order to do so, you need to find those keywords being searched, then create a page with unique content related to that topic, and finally get an insane amount of backlinks with those keywords as anchor text.

This is very hard to achieve. And it takes time. That is why a lot of people buy products that claim to be the ultimate secret to make money online in a quick manner. Most of the internet surfers think that there must be some very well kept secret by some skillful persons that do not want to share it for free. That make me smile. Do you really think that such a magic product exists? Then you deserve to give it a try in order to get experience by yourself.

The affiliate systems are like multilevel type of schemes. You will need to look for a lot of new affiliates in order to get some of them to buy the product and then make some money. This is also hard work. You need to maintain your business in a similar way to a brick and mortar store. You need to work hard every day looking for more affiliates. You can not disconnect from there. Problogger.net is a good example of such a business. Darren Rowse can not let his blog go by itself. He needs to be writting every day. He must update his blog very often in order for his readers to come back once and again and buy the new e-products he promotes.

This is an example of a full time job to make money online. There are thosuands of pages or blogs working under that model. They make a lot of money. If you think that you have enough skills and knowledge to share with others in some sepcialized field, then you can create a page like that and provide information services to your visitors. After some months or years you will be recognized at internet world as a specialist in your field and your visitors may purchase e-products that you create or recommend. You will make money online by either selling e-products from your own or advertisement for other people´s products.

Taking a page to the first spot in a search engine requires another process. First of all,  find a market niche that has companies paying for advertisement. Then perform a research to find keywords related to that market niche that are being searched in the search engines by internet surfers. Check that there are not sites very well positioned at first page of the search engine for those keywords. After that you create a site with the keywords in its name. Just go to a hosting service provider and register your site and pay for the hosting. If you do not have money then you can use a free service like blogger.

Once you create your blog, write unique content in it. You do not need to create an enciclopaedia, just coherent contente related to the market niche you selected. You create posts containing your keyword or keywords and provide useful information to your visitors. Your keywords may go in the title and inside the post content in a natural manner. Write 5 to 10 posts containing around 400 to 500 words or more. The more words the better.

And then, use all the time and knowlegde you have to get backlinks. Make your schedule to spend 10% of your time writting for your blog and 90% creating backlinks. Your backlinks must be built with your keywords as anchor text. Search for sites that are related tou your market niche. Also pages that have authority for search engines. And that is all. Create an insane amount of backlinks. Create thousands of backlinks. Create millions if posible.

Once you put your page on the first page of the search engine, you will need not more big efforts to receive visitors. They will come to your page through the search engine. And if you made a good research for your market niche, your visitors will probably buy your products or click your ads. And there you will make money online. The difference with affiliate systems is that, once on the first spot, the maintenance work is very low. You do not need to be writing every day, just when you see your blog drop from first spot at the search engine. You write another post and get a few more baclinks.

Of course there are more methods to make money online such as surveys, product testing and similars. Those methods give you a few dollars and they are like being a regular employee. You need to work every day and there is a limit for the money you can make. The methods I described in this post require hard work and time but there is no limit for the money you can make. It is your decision which one you select. Good Luck.