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July 13, 2009:
Don't Just Mind Your Own Wax!
If you're searching for a new-way to make money online, or even an old-way to make money online, then nothing should be left for chance! You need to stay sharp as a tack and remain on top of your game every minute. Coming in at second-place and being runner-up is totally unacceptable in constructing an unknown and risky game-plan!
You want immediate money in your pocket and lots of it! You need to keep your eyes, ears and mind open at all times! No idea can be excluded or taken lightly. Mind your own business (or your own wax as I like to tell my wife), but also mind everyone else's too - just so you don't miss a beat. When starting a new business, you are playing for all the marbles, which makes failure even less of an option - unless you really don't like to eat or have any recreation!
Starting a home-based business is the ut-most test to be taken within the confines of a higher-learning and serious business atmosphere. As my well-known, but also highly respected, Star-Wars friend, Yoda, would always be quick to point-out and interject with, "In this realm, there is no try! You will either do, or you won't do, but nothing ever falls in-between what anything might be, or might not be! After the struggle of receiving such a specific result, there is never, what-so-ever, any unclear meaning!"
Keep in mind that all ideas and business-plans are like those of the defendant's, those who are on trial in a court of law in the USA: all of them are presumed innocent until proven guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt! So next, you have to do your homework to line-up all of your facts for a yeah, or a ney in continuing the investment of time and money!
Now, I'm certain that you can see why off-the-wall comments and ideas cannot be just dismissed if they appear to be a bit towards the abnormal, or a bit near the unusual view to the far left, but they must be investigated very thoroughly in order to ensure nothing will all of a sudden start glowing in the dark, later-on down the road!
We really don't want any of our money-making ventures to be viewed as radical ideas yet, or to be seen as left-wing views, which could be seen as anti-govermnent. Of course, it's always good to follow the paths of what others have always done who are already successfull. On the other hand, no one expects anyone to re-invent the wheel, or to come-up with a new revelation on improving an Einstein theory.
However, we should also never forget that there is more than one way to skin a cat, or that you can teach an old dog new tricks, especially when they are taught properly! There is always room for improvement, even within the very best of and well-thought out plans! Sometimes I think patents will hinder innovation and progress more than they will protect inventors from idea-theft! Just try to review and analyze your business from every possible direction.
July 6, 2009
An Introduction To The Daily-Dream Blog
The is the first posting to the Dreamosophy Blog that was taken from the Daily-Dream - an entertainment blog which will soon only display the current day's article and only display it on the homepage of the Dreamosophy Website. I decided to only make some occassional Dreamosophy Blog entries from the Dialy-Dream, just to offer some variety in the array of the Dreamosophy Blog's archives of its infamous anals of the infinite Words, Wisdom and Wit.
The Daily-Dream was born because so very many affiliate and internet-marketers claimed an ill-fevered boredom from the distasteful over-use of way too much marketing-strategy and carrying the heavy baggage of the endless stacks of instructional blogs, which were creating something unknown, but something similiar to a nuclear deformity - a threat to the very sanity and fabric of internet entertainment.
I Have A Question, Mr. President
The news coming in from around the world can sometimes be disheartening, even down-right scary. Especially the headline news from some of the big-boys like CNN, or from the ones like NBC Nightly News (after all, Brian Williams does have a way with those heavy-duty headlines).
Today was no different! Protests in Iran are starting to turn ugly as the governing conservatives in that country are forcefully starting to quiet the protesters and keep the foreign journalists out or at least keep them subdued from telling the real story. We all know what that is.
Then the further east you go, such as to North Korea, well they just apparently call you a spy and slap a sentence on you of 12 years hard-labor, like they recently did to the two women journalists. From what I've heard, a stint at one of their hard-labor prisons is pretty much a death sentence.
Now these reclusive countries with their governments of orthodox tyranny expect us to bow down to their rules and regs and continue open trade with them; however, they somehow always find every way possible to hold us hostage to their barbaric ways of dishing out punishment (Singapore's caning comes to mind, but that's child's play compared to the nuclear roulette these two are playing).
Of course, all that is negotiable changes once one of their citizens gets in trouble in the USA. It's no big deal when one of them plots to pilot a jumbo-jet into a skyscraper because it's their religious duty ya know! Heaven forbid if we lock them up and throw away the key!
Now I'm not trying to be an alarmist, but all of us trying to make a living in the world market on the internet need to know a few things. Now Mr. President, I realize I've been a bit prejudice here, but you got to admit I just might have a good reason for thinking that way. I promise I'll ask for forgiveness in church.
However, I do have a question Mr. President. Are the recent actions in Iran and in North Korea a threat to our national security? Now c'mon and be honest. I just want you to assure me that they are not a threat to our national security. Can you do this? I hate to spend a bunch of time and money on my next marketing campaign, only to find out we're going to get nuked.
Take your time. You don't have to answer me right away. Just let me know something by next week. I have a feeling I don't have nearly the pull or the repoire with the President as the Iranians or North Koreans do. Well Mr. President, give me a call and maybe sometime we can just do lunch!
Buckboyy
March 26, 2009
Traffic Exchange Review: First Pick
At Al-Mita Marketing - through our Dreamosophy Website - we've had several inquiries concerning the amount of value you receive in using various traffic, advertising, safelist and banner-exchanges and which ones that we have listed are the best ones for them to join. We do have several links to them on the Dreamosophy Website and we do feel they all have something good to offer.
Like all the other sites linked to on the Dreamosophy site, we feel that the exchange sites do have useful and legitimate programs; however, since we already decided on doing reviews very soon on all the sites we have presented, doing a series of reviews on the exchanges would certainly be a beneficial service to internet-marketers and other Dreamosophy visitors. So, today's Dreamosophy Blog posting will be the first of many exchange reviews.
I've decided to focus on traffic-exchanges first, mostly because we participate in more of those than in ad, banner or safelist-exchanes. They are all predominantly designed to help provide low-cost promotional resources to the home-biz owner, such as with building a subscriber list, offering advertising tools (ad-space, banners, text ads) and teaching internet-marketers on how to increase targeted traffic to their websites.
Al-Mita Marketing participates in over 20 different traffic-exchanges because we wanted to investigate a significant number of them to see on how efficient they are in providing the services they claim to provide, but even more so to see how much they differ from each other in their offerings of services, appearance, incentives, rewards and in their followings. After deciding on doing the reviews, the next problem was to figure out what criteria to use for choosing which site to review first.
I finally decided to do the one that I thought was the most unique and provided a lot of incentives and bonuses, but also while still providing all the necessary services you would want in a traffic-exchange. Because there are literally hundreds (or maybe even thousands) of traffic-exchanges out there in the cyber-world, keep in mind that we have not looked into every single one in existance, only the most notable and higher ranked exchanges were considered.
In finding which ones those were, we looked into several traffic-exchange ratings sites like Affiliate Funnel or Traffic Hoopla, plus a few others to see if we were close to being on the same page. I figure that the Dreamosophy reviews will likely reveal some insights you won't find on any of the traffic-exchange rating sites.
My pick for the Dreamosophy Blog's first review is Recipe Clicks Traffic. I found this manual traffic-exchange site to be the most unique because there are so many different activties you can do there. You can keep yourself busy with business or be entertained, for a good little spell. The activities are mostly learning ones, like building your own splash pages or creating your own banner. You can also generate some HTML codes too if your into learning or doing any webmaster activities.
The Recipe Clicks Traffic website also offers some fun too, both while surfing or not surfing, and there are even activities to help you keep the kids busy too. For instance, there is a menu selection of coloring where you can print out pages for the kids to color. If you like the idea of having fun at a traffic-exchange and at a surfing site, you can actually play games while surfing, or if you tire of surfing, you can stop and go to the menu to select an ecard to put together for various occassions, or see how fast you can type, or checkout various game counsels.
Recipe Clicks Traffic is designed for a more specific audience than some exchanges, such as work at home Mom's, but this male writer also likes to cook, so I don't mind surfing for credits, while at the same time finding some mouth-watering recipes, plus a few helpful kitchen tips I can share with the wife and also match one of her interests too.
And speaking of interesting, you can always find interesting facts in many places around the site. Stuff like a sugar substitution chart, recipe conversion chart or just food facts and cooking tips. Or if your into trivia type information such as, "Hitler was a vegetarian," you can find plenty of it woven throughout the site too.
If you looking for interaction, Recipe Clicks Traffic has that too. You can post stuff or ask questions in the forum, or if you prefer more instant or live interaction, just head for the RC chatroom. There is also a guestbook to sign where you can leave an interesting factual-food comment or enter a recipe to share, or just to reply to what someone else said. A link exchange page is available to leave your own link or visit others links, plus you can participate in a webring.
If you just want to earn credits for being able to display your own ads, there are several ways to earn them, and more than one way to win them. You can earn them by viewing a featured site or view several hot links where you will earn several credits per link, or of course, through the traditional surfing method of page-by-page.
If you get tired of clicking, you can always do a mouse-over automated click called a hover-click. (It's still a manual traffic-exchange, you just don't actually have to click your mouse if you choose that setting.) I can't forget to mention that there is plenty of promotional material offered so you can also build a nice downline there and earn plenty of credits from them surfing and an income too.
With so much to do and view at one traffic-exchange, you can spend several hours there and never surf one page. You can also plan on getting very hungry while surfing the site from looking at all the super-tasty looking food pics. One of the things I like most about Recipe Clicks Traffic is the superior customer service. There is even a live support feature that I had used the very first time I had used the site.
It was really late the night I had tried the live-support feature; surprisingly, I actually spoke to the traffic-exchange owner. The funny thing was that she was actualy cooking when I reached her! With so much activity on one site, site interaction available, fun things to do and with surfing, earning and business building, I have to give Recipe Clicks Traffic a thumbs up with an excellent rating.
Buckboyy
March 18, 2009
Scam vs. Marvel
How do you know when an internet business opportunity is a scam or a real whiz-bang of a marvel that could triple your bank account within a couple of months? Well, chances are you will never really know for certain unless you actually try it, but there are several tell-tale signs you can look for that will point in one direction or the other and also various signs that will immediately raise some red flags.
In the past 4 years, while learning internet and network-marketing, both onlne and offline, I've probably lost close to $10,000, a whole lot of valuable time and some mental stability too! In any case, just from my own experience, below are some of the signs I found for useful guidelines in making a purchase decision for starting a home-biz, or just to sell as a home-biz product.
When considering signing up for a product, service or program, be sure that the person(s) names and/or numbers you are given to contact is an owner, officer, or at the top of the organizational chain-of-command somehow. It doesn't do you much good (if any) to talk to someone who has no authority in being able to make any type of decision.
This is especially true when clarity isn't apparent, or spelled out specifically in the terms and conditions, or if changes have been implemented without proper validation. It\'s also real easy for a lower-ranked associate to say they will pass on the message, but how do you know if it actually will be or not? You really should have two or more various people given as a contact too.
Also make sure you have more than one way to contact admin and/or support. Two or more phone numbers are best, but I would be leary if there is only one number you can call, andeven more so if a very limited amount of time is available for when you can contact them. this might only mean the person is very busy, but someone over-extended isn't going to solve any problems very quickly.
You should also be able to contact them by email address and through a physical address too. A respectable business or product has no need to hide, be discreet, or invisible to anyone, anywhere, or anytime. Everyone wins when all phone numbers and addresses are available for business communication. Alternative modes of communication only help to keep problem-solving methods and resolutions at an expedited pace. This then keeps business progress moving freely and makes new procedures easier to implement.
Meetings and/or tele-conferences, or webinars should be periodic occurrences on a consistant basis. In-consistant communication practices usually point out dis-organization and ineffective communication. This leads to slow reactions affecting areas across the boards of the business for: implementing and evaluating promotional campaigns, introducing product changes or new products, training, reacting to market trends, making commission payments, communicating any and all changes in operations and for tracking the competition.
I have never seen a business with poor communication be successful for very long, whether online or offline. Soon it affects enrollment or sales, or both. Consistant meetings also help businesses come up with new ideas or procedures that can help them to stay competitive. The most successful businesses even communicated their balance sheet to their enrollments. This would often prevent expenditure problems and help maintain liquidity for future investment or diversification.
There are many other signs I missed and many say much of this is just common-sense. However, you would be surprised how much common-sense goes out the window when people get greedy or excited. If one thing I wrote here helps one person, then I guess it is worth something good. I'm sure this article will be easy to come back and add more tips to it.
Buckboyy
March 15, 2009
Does Anybody Know Everything, Anything, or Just Something?
The past four years has been a long and difficult path for me in learning how things work in the cyber-world and how to make money online. But even more powerful than being long and difficult, my path has also been interesting and diverse. Through my journey, I've run through the gammit of feelings: happiness, lonliness, anger, frustration, guilt, sadness, cheerfulness, upbeat, sorrow, aloof, and probably the most often felt was total confusion. The types of people I've met vary just as much, if not more, than the feelings I've felt. For a while, I thought I could figure-out any personality type and how a person might react from it.
I thought from my long and dusty road of experience that I was infallible to being duped again. In hind-sight, there's always that one last lesson to learn. And then to accompany that lesson is the one person who can only fit outside the box - the one that is the exception and not the rule - the one that's an example of why you should never put your guard down - the best reason why you should never stop learning! Then after you learn this defensive knowledge, you also learn that there's many more rare situations that can hurt you, then there are rare people who can put you in them.
It certainly pays to stay sharp and on your feet, but also to be prepared - not just for the worst - but for the weird too. I can't tell you how many people have told me that they know what makes the world go-round and what makes people who and what they are too - judgements that I thought were only reserved for God. Even the highest order of psychiatrists, economists and politicians aren't bold enough to make those claims. I can understand some behaviors and how backgrounds might affect them, but I seldom know their true motivations, or especially the predictions on the rest of the world's reaction and what could result from one's sense of fair play.
I find it challenging to understand some people who insist on leading, because often their true self doesn't emerge until they feel all cards are on the table, or that an end has been met. Then if everything isn't to their specific parameters or agreement, their path suddenly narrows to their own focal-point, one which is likely to be slanted to fit only their perception of business ethics. Suddenly, the unselfish teacher becomes the unruly student. A different view becomes unmanageable! An all or nothing approach takes shape, where they quickly become all, you quickly become nothing.
A few people have even told me that it is possible for one business to fit all. I can never believe that! It suggests that there is a perfect business, or a perfect system of sustenance that has been designed by beings who are imperfect. I've also noted that regardless of one's success, their method may or may not work for someone else. If this were true of one's method working for everyone, wouldn't we all be millionaires? Internet-marketing and network-marketing are good opportunities, but not that good.
Maybe the million dollar question becomes, are there mentors that know everything who can guide anyone to be successful in starting or running a home-biz? Logic says no, but some are better than others. My experience says some are more over-bearing than others, but the best ones never try to be all things to all people.
buckboyy
March 12, 2009
Faith - A Winning Combination
I just emailed a friend to let him know why I haven't been around much and what I've been up to. Basically, the email went like this: in the past 3 months, our family has been tested, seeking it's limits on loyalty, unity, faith, stamina and creativity. The tests came quickly and forced us to contemplate and debate on how to resolve the unfortunate situation the family had quickly fallen victim to.
With two of us family members who had fallen seriously ill and each of us had two bouts of physical incapacity and hospitalization, many issues suddenly surfaced with unknown origins, but very quickly the affecting issues were disclosed and all problems had required serious surgical repairs. My mother and I both thought we were gone-ers.
The problems spanned emotional difficulties to financial obligations and a myraid of things in-between. After we had all put our faith and trust into each others individual ideas and talents, then we carefully implemented them in hopes of resolution, we were soon watching our problems in their retreat; consequently, they were being handled confidently and masterfully - even with little compromise. Our trust in each other was never questioned nor became an issue.
After much of the the crisis had subsided, we evaluated our offensive actions and saw how easily all of our implemented talents and ideas had worked effortlessly together - displaying the problem-solving reason and purpose of each contribution and how the efficient system worked in unison, victoriously completing the entire contingency plan. Simplicity had not been considered during the plan's conception, but complexity had been avoided.
Why couldn't we pull ourselves out of the many previously burdening family situations we endured throughout the years, but with this situation the resolution came with such precision and ease, like that representing the most prized and sought after gift from heaven? As bizarre as it was, we had somehow found a winning combination in family faith! This scenario offers you something to think about the next time your business is suffering.
buckboyy
March 10, 2009
Solving Problem X
In the last few weeks, Al-Mita Marketing's Dreamosophy columnist has been hit by a flurry of questions from various businesses about solving problems in the work place. The strange thing is, these questions came from equal footing across the board. Both large and small businesses from online and offline entities are in the que, wanting the latest skinny on problem-solving techniques.
Since I have no connection to Ann Landers or Dear Abbey for advice on such a subjective topic, this took some careful consideration and an actual thought process (geez.....now I got a headache). Ok then, I'll give it to ya straight! CEO's and managers on all levels, listen to this: it's back to basics!
Throw out all those problem-solving theories from the business gurus in the last 20 years. All that crap was great then, but obviously, it ain't nothin now. You can't solve problems Y and Z before you solve problem X. Go back to the beginning - remember the first couple years of college in your business classes? You were most likely taught the basics. Now think about your over-paid, stuffy-shirt position.
You got it now! You are a manager and you need to go back and think about the basic functions of a manager. Just in case you forgot, here they are: planning, directing, controlling, staffing, delegating, communicating and coaching. Now, you mix those functions in with some common sense and pour everything over all the individual talents under you, and if you still can't solve that problem, you are not managing.
Coaches, even on the pro level, are always telling their teams, "when all else fails, go back to basics." Just remember that a manager is one who gets work done through others. Without using the coaching function, you haven't been getting that work done and before you know it, the problems will sneak up on you. Upper-level and middle-level managers are ones who like to pawn their jobs off on others. I've seen it happen over and over again; consequently, it comes back to bite them in the butt later. Don't over delegate or you won't know what's in the closet.
Through coaching and communicating, you will always know who has what talent and also what is lacking. Having a file drawer full of talents is a handy thing to have when problem X shows up. With all those talents you can fix problem X quickly and keep problems Y and Z from ever developing.
You don't need anything fancy like an expensive consulting firm - just go back to the basics and start doing what you should have been doing all along. So, stop trying to impress the board of directors and the stockholders. Go back to using the basic managerial functions, put an emphasis on communicating and coaching and you will be amazed at how smoothly the process runs and what gets accomplished.
buckboyy
February 14, 2009
Dreamosophy Blog To Offer Reviews & Be More Consistant Offering Insights For Your Home-Based Business Success With An Affiliate-Marketing Strategy & A Newbie Niche
Since it's creation almost 3 years ago, The Dreamosophy Blog has been offering its visitors and subscribers industry news of current-events, the most often asked about results of mixing managerial conceptual-functions combined with contemporary business concepts, and how certain types of home-based business ideas and products or services compare with certain internet or network-marketing strategies. We also are planning to post reviews on all the affiliate programs, products and services that are linked here on the Dreamosophy website.
The up-coming reviews should become a reality within the next 3 months, according to buckboyy, the Dreamosophy Blog's author and business writer. He also claims that future Dreamosophy Blog articles will be more consistant in their content, which will be about offering insights on how to become more successful, or how to stay successful in running your home-based business using the affiliate-marketing strategy niche within the internet marketing industry, most specifically aimed at newbies, but also affiliate entrepreneurs too.
Alan Buck, the Owner of Al-Mita Marketing and the Dreamosophy Website, claims such a committment to content will help the Dreamosophy Website become more of an affiliate marketplace and less of an advertising bulletin-board and tire-kicking shop, especially once the product reveiws are all in place, along with a few other website features, which are being developed to spawn more website interaction.
buckboyy
February 8, 2009
The Big Surprise About Lifestyle Assurance
So many of the online business-owners I've recently interviewed think they planned their future enough to have covered, or at least insured all the variable life-style functions and conflicts that exist, those which can negatively affect their families, businesses, and social activities, that they really don't have to ever worry about fending-off such emotionally damaging disasters. They figure they have enough financial tools and elements stashed within their grasp for any socio-economic emergency, plus they also have enough of the other basic forms of problematic stressors contained and/or covered in a variety of contingency plans necessary for keeping them emotionally and physically stable, or at least in enough physical good-standing to suit those who are capable of maintaining and ensuring their lifestyle's survival. Do you really think that you are in that position?
I really thought I had that luxury for a while. Even when I was disabled and unemployed I took certain life freedom's for granted. I thought just because I was an educated American, I should have certain rights-of-passage to certain income levels, or even other levels of lifestyle perks that really should be earned. Everything changed when I realized that sometimes we have the least control over our lives, when I learned there can be no 100% guarantee of life-style assurance and when I understood that we need to be thankful for what is within our reach so we can quickly learn how to use those gifts to help ourselves and others.
Learning these realities came as a big surprise to me about any certainty of lifestyle assurance. You can prepare yourself for many things that could happen to you at any point along your journey of building the lifestyle you seek. You can constantly read, learn and teach others to be prepared. You can constantly earn, build and save more money or other financial resources. You can constantly exercise, eat a frugal diet, and build physical and mental stamina to enhance your health. You can constantly travel to learn cultural differences around the world. What happens when nature plays a nasty trick on you and suddenly you find yourself close to the end of any lifestyle with no assurance - even after you've taken a road of careful and heavy precautions?
Do you get angry? Should you give up? Should you try harder? That's where I found myself after finding out I had coronary artery disease. The biggest surprise about lifestyle assurance is that there just isn't any? Even though I had a triple by-pass surgery, that is still no guarantee that everything is going to be hunky-dorey or that I will live "happily ever after." It is up to me as to how much I get out of it and what I make of it! I expect myself to get and make all I can out of whatever life I have left - short or long!
buckboyy
January 15, 2009
Dreamosophy (StartupSpace) - Finding A Stable Ladder To Success
Everytime I start to climb the ladder of working towards success, I feel like I am going to fall thousands of feet down and watch my time and money fly out the window. Someone says come on and follow me and I will show you how to earn all of this money, but they never seem to explain it thoroughly enough so that I understand every bit of rationale.
As I fly and flutter from site to site and group to group, I wonder how the first person got there and who led them to their supposedly legitimate internet jackpot. With their dreams answered, they now seem to have all the fantastic things they need at their disposal for getting whatever is necessary, so they will have that continuous flow of people dropping money and more people at their doorsteps - so there I sit, confused ever more.
That's all I wanted too, where did I go wrong? Was it because I had that fear of falling off the ladder? Is it because I put a cushion below me and didn't reach out far enough to make things unbalanced so the ladder would slide? Maybe my ladder just isn't tall enough to reach the other side of success? Where ever I place my ladder it feels so unstable that when I get half-way up it's going to slip or slide so quickly that it will shake me off and down I go! I have already fallen many times so it is no wonder that I fear it again.
Does social networking sites like StartupSpace provide a stable ladder to success? To this point I have found that social networking eats up an incredible amount of time and I must admit that I have yet to benefit from much of my time that has been consumed. It does help to spread your name around and I have met some very wonderful people, but no one has suddenly turned my profit margin into exponential numbers. Everyone says they want to help you become successful with your business, but I fail to see how when all everyone really wants you to do is to dump your business for theirs, or to join theirs and continue on with a bunch of added expenses, plus a ton of new work and learning to do on top of still trying to run your own business.
I finally learned to stop program hopping for the next greatest thing and continue to maintain focus on my own business, even during the tough times. Many people think because I am here that I am looking for a new business, but I am only here because I already have one and want to get more exposure, only I prefer to do it without trying to spam all the other members.
StartupSpace does have some good tools for networking, but I really haven't found that big smoking gun that is going to change everything. Even if I have some of the most and best blog posts that pull in lots of comments and all of my networking activities gives me high ratings, that doesn't really mean a thing to prospects in my target market. My home-based business only grows when I find the right people and most here are already like me - they already have a business.
It remains to be seen if StartupSpace can really provide me with that stable ladder or not. I'm hoping it will stabilize my ladder because I really can't raise it any higher to reach out any further. This is also the last ladder I have left and I am going to keep it from falling anyway I can. I will continue to climb my ladder past the half-way point for that internet marketing success - so far it doesn't feel like it is slipping.
buckboyy
January 15, 2009
Dreamosophy - Can You Start A Home-Biz With No Money?
Lately I've seen a lot of articles on how to not get scammed from internet programs teaching you about starting internet businesses. However, commom sense seems as though it would guide most people away from scams; although, scammers have this great way of swerving
around common sense avenues, which is why they are indeed called scammers! I wonder about the ones that say you can start a business without having any money or with very little money.
That is the one scenario that I always question: can you really start and develop an internet home business with hardly any money? From my meager internet business experience, in theory yes you can, in reality no, you cannot. I've joined many free programs and tried countless
free products and services.
You can learn some very important pieces of information from free products, but many that are heavily promoted to earn you a 6 figure income fail to mention all the tools and other memberships you might need to purchase on the way there. Some of those can be extremely expensive and also extremely necessary.
For instance, many programs try to get you to purchse a web hosting service to build a website and sometimes you can get a really good deal or even find one for free. It doesn't take you long to find out you don't get very far without having a website of your own, nor does it take you long to find out that a domain name in your business or
chosen name is also very important. But without a domain name that hosting deal isn't such a great deal and you will be limited to a certain amount of success or to what you can and can't do.
So maybe in the offer the hosting company will throw in domain names for a special price. Usually they try to get you to agree to an extended amount of time of service, such as one or two years. That would be ok if you have some experience with the service, but why woud you want to purchase an extended amount of service if you never tried the product before and don't know how it will perform.
That's when the bill starts to climb and then you might find out you will also need several other services to completely build your website, or to do it in a professional manner and the bill climbs even more.
As you continue your journey through the steps of building the money making program, then you might find that you are indirectly obligated to join several other affiliate programs so you can make money by signing up others to those same programs. This is fine if you are prepared to manage those other programs and be able to pay all the
necessary enrollment costs.
While you may have paid nothing or very little for the original program, you can soon find yourself paying a few thousand dollars up front for a business you thought would only cost a few hundred dollars. Plus, you are now managing 3 or 4 different businesses when you really aren't sure how to even maintain one of them.
Now a few hundred, or even a few thousand dollars isn't really that much to start any new business, but it is if you were led to believe the amount was going to be much less than that and you weren't prepared to spend that much. Many times you don't find out about these costs
until you are half way through setting up the initial program and you have already invested a considerable amount of time and money in building the business, so you hate to not spend the added amounts needed to complete the business blueprint.
Many new program starters are lost before they can even give the initial business a try to see if it will produce them an income. If they do make it to complete the blueprint, once again they are fighting to also learn running some of the other businesses too and are stretched
for time between the internet and possibly their job in the brick and mortar world. One other important reality is finding out the methods and costs associated with promoting your new business. This will wipe out the success of another high percentage of new home-biz builders.
Many newbies don't feel they failed, but rather got scammed and then they put out the negative feed-back on starting a home-based business and/or on internet marketing. Some people would have likely failed anyway because many just can't or won't follow directions. But this scenario I've tried to depict convinces me of one reason as to why there is such a high failure (98%) rate among newbie internet marketers and also why you can't really start a successful home-based business withy hardly any money.
buckboyy
January 14, 2009
Dreamosophy (StartupSpace) - Ethics Of Internet Marketing
So what is your take on the home-based business industry? It appears internet marketing is a very cost-effective strategy for participating in ecommerce by maximizing the use of digital products and SEO promotional techniques, but many also find the interenet marketing industry unethical due to the lack of a real product that supplies any lasting value.
It does appear that too many products are rehashed, reshuffled and regurgitated. This only seems to add to the argument that internet marketing is simply an industry that provides a breeding ground for con-artists. After you add in the network marketers and consider some of those organizations that have collapsed, or have met illegal designs in compensation plans within various world jurisdictions, you really have a mess to sort out of distrustful business concepts, bizarre business applications and shadey, international business organizations.
Of course, some confusion and weird, or unethical, business models can be expected with any new economic and/or occupational change. A new, but unknown business arena has created a wild, wild, wild-west vaccuum within a new media vehicle called the internet. Internet marketing is designed for global ecommerce to be able to quickly develop and mature into an economic sustaining industry; meanwhile, the largest part of ecommerce appears to thrive on internet marketing and this seems to be what is actually beginning to happen and take shape.
I guess we might as well get used to this flourishing, contemporary marketing concept. It's fresh, it's new, it's different, it's growing exponentially, and it's happening right now, all around the world!
Buckboyy
January 6, 2009
Dreamosophy (StartupSpace) - Social Networking & Illicit Promotion
Lately, the latest social-networking trend seems to be geared towards membership sites for small business owners. That's ok by me because I do try to promote my business, website and offers whenever and wherever I can, especially for free. I also like to meet others with like-minded ideas and new ideas.
Sites like Plaxo Pulse, Ecademy, and StartupSpace continue to burst on the scene and many offer the same perks in various formats. Most claim to offer free promotion space of some sort to advertise your offering, but many times I don't find it, or you have to upgrade to really benefit from the site.
So I can't help but to wonder whether being a member to a social-networking site is the common denominator that gives the membership the justification to spam every other member on their business opportunity? Also without the decency to even introduce themselves, or offer a simple greeting, or for them to receive your reply before they make the first move?
It isn't just the business oriented social-networking sites that allow this type of promotion, but all of the social networking sites appear to find this practice acceptable. Some sites have added limits to the number of contacts per period of time, but many people disregard this and it would seem as though it is something that shouldn't have to be in place for adults.
This is actually the second article I have done concerning this practice. The idea of inquiring why we are becoming so lax when it comes to exercising business courtesy and new contact protocol came to me when I received several new contact messages of nothing but business offers within 15 minutes after signing-up to a new social-networking site. My previous article was entitled, "Greetings Before Sales," and I had published it on other sites back in November.
I admit that I have been guilty of this type of illicit promotion myself, but at least I would include some type of introduction. After receiving far too many offers without even a hello has certainly changed my way of thinking on just what makes promotion illicit? It has reminded me that while conducting business, having manners and treating people with common courtesy is an absolute must, and doing business over the internet should be no different!
I probably hit on some of the same points as in my previous article, but obviously they are strong points I felt necessary to reiterate. If you expect to build any type of relationship with your prospects, then a simple greeting and some small talk can never hurt. Otherwise, you might just as well post an advertisement in the classifieds section and save yourself all that apparent hassel.
Illicit promotion should have no place in contemporary business - on or off the net. I can't understand why social-networking sites won't or don't put a stop to it - especially since they are the ones that have the most ability to set precedent.
buckboyy
January 1, 2009
Dreamosophy Blog - Humans: The Self-Destructive Species
Have you ever given much thought to the fact that humans are one of the few species to take part in self-destructive behavior amongst ourselves, violent and destructive behavior to other contributing group members within our own species, and then destructive and malicious behavior against rival or competitive groups of our own species too?
Humans have consistantly exhibited three different ways to ensure the self-destruction of our own species, yet we are supposed to be the most intelligent group of mammals because we have the ability to reason and make rational choices. The problem seems to be we don't make many rational chioces.
We've found various ways to kill ourselves individually, such as in a slow suffering manner from smoking, drinking, or over eating, or we can do it quickly with a distinct method of suicide.
We've also found various ways to kill each other within our own clans and groups. Again, this can be slow or fast too. We can just up and murder for reasons other mammals will never experience (greed, lust, jealousy), or we can even pass around sexually oriented diseases that we know will result in a slow and degrading death. Unfortunately, we've possibly even found a slower form of friendly mass-murder, which can be through all forms of rejection via mental cruelty (such as racial injustices).
Our most justified form of specie destruction is the killing off of our rival groups, or to put it more plain and simple, killing our enemies in war. When we kill off our own species of competitive foe, we generally use the finest in our arsenals of weaponry, or we impose some type of economic sanction that will initiate disaster, disease or limit resources necessary for survival, which ultimatley results in a mass killing.
When we look at this behavioral flaw of self-destruction in our own species, versus the animal world (the inference to animals being predominantly mammals), who will without hesitation work themselves to death in trying to survive (regardless of the odds), you have to wonder if we are truly the more intelligent species?
So, even though we have the power of reasoning to make choices, we also seem to have a wider variety and more affluent collection of emotions than those known to other mammals. Emotions which too often casts a most negative effect on our reasoning ability; moreover, other mammals work predomninantly on instinctual actions that promotes survival - such as with Darwin's "survival of the fittest" theory.
True, in the animal world a stronger male could kill another male in a mating ritual, but then that ritual's result would only support such a theory as Darwin's and discounts any emotions the animal might have that could poison their will or rationale for survival. We have several negative emotions such as the aforementioned jealousy, greed, and lust. All of those have played into our self-destructive behavior throughout history. I have seen jealousy in domesticated animals such as dogs, but greed and lust seem to to belong to only humans - then there is also one called hate that I question if anyone really understands.
One of my readers was astute enough to point out that dolphins have been known to commit murder of their own kind and also how lemmings have their suicidal death march that ends with the lemmings taking their final plunge over a cliff into the ocean. One of my previous articles did mention certain groups of apes who practice banishment of misfit communal members guilty of selfish behavior or non-communal norms. Sometimes the dominant apes in the groups would physically punish or maime the guilty members, which occassionally would result in permanent injury or death, but banishment or simple rejection from participation during group activities was the most common course of action.
I do admit that even though I had heard of the dolphins and lemmings strange behaviors and actions, I had forgotten to take those phenomenons into account; however, we really don't know if those behaviors or actions are what they appear to be. So where does that leave us humans in the chain of intelligence and ability to ensure the survival of our own species? Are we at the top of the chain or the bottom? From this writer's eyes, clearly, to this point, we can't be at the top!
After all, we are even endangering our specie's entire population by trashing the earth and wasting our most precious resources, such as clean water. Most of our inconsiderate norms are for greed towards obtaining more leisure time or wealth.
Despite the question of our intelligence or ability to ensure our species survival, I still want to contribute to the survival of all endangered animal species and to stop the mistreatment of domesticated animals. Cleaning up the earth is a good idea, but let's face it, it just might be too little - too late! Trashing the earth is just another one of our self-destructive flaws.
If we can't manage our own survival, how in the world can we ever maintain a profitable business?
Buckboyy
December 23, 2008
Christmas Crunchtime and Holiday Cheer
Hmmm! My favorite time of year is Christmas time because it generally shifts everyone's focus from conducting "business as usual" to setting up all the holiday pleasures. Whether they are making special food dishes, arranging yule-tide gatherings of friends and family, or obtaining unusual gifts for that special someone, business dealings casually get shuffled to the bottom of the pile. Even though everyone claims they still have important business to take care of, truth is most of it will end up on the bottom of the pile of everyone's "to do" list.
After all, how can normal business take place when such fascinating holiday treasures are about to be revealed? Who can resist the last minute good cheer of a long-lost friend, or the well-wishes from a relative you thought you'd never see again? And what about the up-coming celebration with the brand new friend you just met the other day? Let's not forget to include the same old laughs and good lucks from the regular old gang we see day-to-day. They are probably the most important ones to give our special attention to, since they put up with our crap year round, while we get so involved with ourselves and our own selfish agendas that we never give our own imperfections much thought. Of course, you know how your friends are?
I'm inclined to think, what a shame we can't do these special things year round. Fact is we could, but then what would be special once per year? We wouldn't leave ourselves a darn thing to look forward to. Ok, so it takes a religious holiday to get us in the righteous spirit and make us behave like the loving human beings we should be anyway. What's wrong with that? It's only once per year. We might as well enjoy it. In fact, I cherish it and look forward to it! That's what makes it Christmas crunch time and provides the holiday cheer.
buckboyy
December 16, 2008
Dreamosophy - Maintain Focus to Learn & Earn
One of the greatest elements that makes the internet such a fantastik place is that anything and everything that anyone marvels is already there (or is that here). Search for whatever you want and there it is! It may not be the highest quality of information, or the most specific information, or the greatest variety of information, but it will be enough to get you started on any research journey and can even link you to so much more.
The same element holds true for finding home-based busines information. Any product, service, or program type offered and in use to earn an online income can be found through the appropriate search key-words. Of course, let's not forget what shows up daily in our email boxes - be it spam or requested info - all the adds, sales pitches, and free trials for trying out new businesses, or selling affiliate products and website memberships - making you the next overnight internet millionaire-sensation.
We get even more promotional business exposure from various internet and network marketing websites, forums and other informational sites. With the constant influx of sensationalized advertising, industry news and promotional hype, how can anyone possibly keep their focus on one product, system or method, or stream of income? It gets next to impossible to keep your nose clean, or at least in your own business long enough to learn it.
I was one of the worst violaters the cyber world ever saw.My first two years on the internet was nothing but program hopping, whether it was for earning money, learning internet or marketing skills, or even learning website-building and technical skills, I couldn't keep myself from signing up to the next best thing since sliced bread on a daily basis. I would claim membership to over 100 programs in as little as 3 months.
I would run out of money very quickly and would never stay around long enough to earn any, so my investment money disappeared extremely fast. That didn't matter much, though. I would just start signing up to free stuff next.When you are a newbie to an internet or network marketing process or strategy, it just isn't feasible to be able to work any program efficiently without maintaining focus for at least a short period of time, such as for 3 months, but even better if it was for 6-12 months.
Even the very best of programs will not work if you can't learn the proper way to work and promote them. And don't expect the gurus or advanced members to hang around and wait for the slow starters. They will lose too much money, or it will cost you dearly to get personal and individual mentoring from the professional marketers. After a short while, if there are any fast-start bonuses to be earned, they are quickly eaten up by the heaviest hitters.
So how do you maintain your focus long enough to start earning a profit? I'm not so sure anyone has found the best answer yet, and to some degree I think it varies to the individual's personality. As many different methods or activities that are available have worked for as many different personalities that I have asked this question of. However, there does seem to be some common threads for those who have made it and almost all (including me)have said that the problem still persists, although it's not nearly as bad now that they know how to combat it.
One solution can be to start studying the programs as soon as possible and start working it too. Don't even put it off 1-2 days, just dive right in and immerse yourself in as deeply as possible. This never worked for me and works best with simple programs that need very little infrastructure because you already have most of the necessary tools. Many programs require 3-4 days set-up time, which is more than enough time to get lost into something else.
One common denominator for the successful bunch is to stay out of your email as much as possible. Only check your email inbox enough to get any confirmation emails necessary and then stay out until you are up and running. The downside to this is that for a newbie, it could take 2 - 4 weeks to be up and running, depending on your knowledge base.
Some marketers recommend having several email boxes or at least one devoted to just starting your new businesses. That way you can be in your email inbox as long as you need to be for collecting all the business-running information you need right away. This did and still does work better for me.
Also, when you start your online work for the day is to go directly to only the necessary sites to run your business. This doesn't work well for most newbies because most don't know what those sites are going to be, especially if they have to search for marketing and website tools. However, you can ask support or any other colleague for help and most likely find out what all you will need and where to find the majority of tools. This can help, but again takes too much will power for the lost newbie.
You can try to only do programs that offer to hold your hand, or give you a lot of personal help until you are totally up and running. It will most likely cost you more, but if it gets you through the initial road blocks and into a running mode to profits, it might well be worth it. For a newbie, it only takes one or two small issues and that could be enough to kill-off any chance of success. Especially if they have already had several failures.
You can also enroll to take a few online technical classes for doing ecommerce or online business. Try learning some website building codes such as HTML or javas script or any thing that might up your technical knowledge and diminish your dependency on others. It helped me tremendously once I learned some HTML and I was able to learn most of it on my own and without hiring anybody or signing up to any classes. You can throw money at those type of problems, but it cost most of us enough just to get the very basics without buying any extras.
There are many other things you can do, but these are some of the ones that helped me the most. I will add on to this post as I collect more information on the most popular ways to maintain continued focus for newbies to achieve program success and common activities or tools used by those who found success.
buckboyy
December 16, 2008
Forums - Free Lead Generating Jackpots
Forums have probably generated hundreds of free leads for me over the past 3 years. I've gotten more free leads from forums, than all the Social Networking Sites put together and also adding in all the times I have purchased leads too. In fact, forums have also produced the highest quality and most specifically targeted leads I've ever been blessed with receiving too.
I discovered the power and high value of forum leads quite by accident, while I was actually trying to straighten out a problem I was having with an online company's services being less than an acceptable quality. I was trying to demand from the company either a refund, or an extra month of service to make up for the non-existant service I had received, which stemmed from the service's inability to perform.
The forum I was using to assist me in leveraging consumer strength and action was called, Scam.com, a website where consumers who feel they have been ripped-off by any company, whether they are an on or offline business can go to, and then they can post their complaint or problem for the general public to read and comment on.
Of course, just about every company ever heard of has had at least one complaint filed against them, but some companies acually had hundreds of complaints filed against them on a consistant basis and they would stick out like a sore thumb to the Attorney Generals, who sometimes had no problem in dishing out punishments to mmany of these unethical companies.
After filing my third complaint against that same company for the month, I read a post from a newbie, internet marketer who was really hot under the collar. She felt she got scammed by one of the internet marketing gurus. I replied to her post that I knew some reputable internet marketing programs and mentors and that I would be glad to supply her with a listing of them.
For the next three weeks, I had hot and targeted leads flooding my email box and asking for the links to the programs and marketers that I thought were the best. After recruiting almost a hundred prospects to various programs that I was participating in, I would religiously return to that forum and make a similiar monthly post. I still do it today and still get super targeted leads.
The best thing is that there are thousands of forums on any given hobby, interest or group you can think of, so your expertise can't be missed. Most of the forums are free to join, but I wouldn't mind paying to ones like Scam.com, because it is still cheaper than purchasing leads, or paying for advertising for them.
I now belong to around ten different forums and every one of them produces some prospects. It seems to run in spurts. One month you might get 20 leads and in another you might only get 5 leads. The forums sre definitely worthwhile venues to monitor and participate in. They are my free lead-generating Jackpots!
buckboyy
December 15, 2008
(OurBiz.com) Formats and Functions
I was going through all of my sites that have blogs and all of my blogs that make up sites to see which appears to have the most useful formats and functions. With so many social networkimg sites and blogs to help promote them, you can eat up all your productive online time very quickly and never really get to the most important or productive portions of your resources for the most efficient or beneficial time and/or tool use.
I think one of the most simplistic and useful formats is the one right here at Our Biz Cafe.com. You are given more than enough unlimited room for your blog messages and don't have to deal with all kinds of clutter around it by having to mess around choosing themes, skins or some other template that will distract your focus of leaving messages. Hopefully you find more time for reaching the many you are trying to reach with the proper message.
Basically, everything is set up for you and so there is also no wasting of your time having to enter tons of HTML code and other scripts like you would if you were setting up a Word Press blog. The only slight drawback is that I wish there was a little more charachter space for the title bar, but that can easily be compensated for.
The second best format I think is the Blogger format, but with most of those formats you can count on having to mess around with selecting all kinds of theme templates and other space utilizing software for including Google Adsense programs and other search engine relationship marketing scripts and functions.
Other blog setup and format software such as Word Press is most likely going to challenge your website building knowledge and patience to get to the settings most functional to the novice blogger. I still have a half-a-dozen blog setup programs collecting dust because I'm not prepared to takethe time necessary for a from scratch blog setup. I just want to write a few articles to pass along some helpful information, not become a top-notch publisher of the mid-west.
buckboyy
December 14, 2008
Dreamosophy Blog At StartupSpace
How 'bout that!? StartupSpace actually appears to be a nice, snug fit in conjunction with my own business and website, a much welcomed and necessary change considering the number of social networking sites that have just come out in the past several months.
To ensure a custom fit, it's a huge help that you can create your own copy and somewhat label the badge's to blend with for your own social networking sites or website and blogs too. With a wide variety of activities here, it will take quite some time to check them all out.
I'm trying to be tactful and not mention my own biz too much in this blog, but hopefully I'll only have to do it this way once. From now on you will know why I title my bolg posts in the manner that I do. Those of you who might already know me are aware that I post my primary blog on my website, Dreamosophy, which was developed by my affiliate marketing company, Al-Mita Marketing. The website is still a work in progress.
I designed the Dreamosophy site to provide a marketplace for newbie affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs. I also named my blog Dreamosophy, so whenever I make a blog post here I will always title it, "Dreamosophy at StartupSpace ...." and then just add the title of the new post.
So, with StartupSpace, we have another new place for Dreamosophy to be posted, which is actually another new blog, plus today is certainly a new day, and I just got to believe there are some new people to go with all the other new stuff!
Buckboyy
November 16, 2008
Greetings Before Sales
It always amazes me as to how many people talk about building relationships to build their businesses, but then they are often the first to give you a sales-pitch, without even greeting you or introducing themselves. Each time I join a social networking site or new business networking forum, I am bombarded with requests to be connected. But it never fails, after I accept their request, all I get is their newest sales promotion, only to become that person's newest promotional practice dummy.
There's nothing wrong with being enthusiastic about your company and/or product, especially if you truly believe it's really a revolutionizing and high-value product. But having some manners and common courtesy is an absolute must to accompany anyone's success.
Even when customers or prospects come to you for information and help, you still need to be focused on that person's personality to help you better understand their wants and needs. Building the relationship should come first, not selling your product!
Once you have established, just the willingness, to start a simple relationship (even if the prospect suggests that it only be one of a customer and client relationship), then a sale can take place, or will materialize if the prospect's need or want is that urgent.
When a person feels that you are sincerely trying to help them instead of just selling them, they will be much more responsive and compliant to your directions and needs. From that, the prospect already has a perceived value in the product - whether it exists or not. Once they feel their need or want can be fulfilled, the sale is done! The sale virtually makes itself.
The most significant point here, however, is that you need to extend a simple greeting and a little bit of chit-chat for the start of any relationship's development - regardless of its intensity. You can't expect to just throw a sales-pitch at someone and consider that to be the start of building a relationship.
After all, how much time and energy can it take someone to say "Hello" or "Hi" and then ask a question or two, or to offer a cordial comment, just like you would do when meeting anyone else? If this is a major inconvenience or time waster, then you are in the wrong business!
buckboyy
November 10, 2008
Multi-Tasking or Logic & Reason
For the last 3 years, I've been concentrating on learning how to earn a full-time, online income, ever since I was injured in a fall at work back in December of 2005. Needless to say, it's been a long, tough and costly road! It's hard to imagine that eventually, everyone might just have to travel down that road too.
About a year ago, our home-based business finally started earning a profit and our economic situation started improvingr - right along with my health too; unfortunately, not before I lost thousands of dollars, days and hours of time and almost my sanity (which is still in debate, LOL).
Before my life-changing and career-ending experiences, I was tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck, so I initiated some changes on my own, such as reading every night to start brushing up on business management and promotional practices of contemporary idustry and I also researched related topics like industry economics, U.S. development in the service industries, and world trade activity and output, plus a few financial markets of savvy investors.
I thought this well intentioned, but long over-due research activity, would make a sure-fire intellectual stimulator. I was certain it would be more than enough preparation and thought provoking exercise to kick-in my creativity mode of thought, the place I needed to be in to motivate me into writing about business and current events. Wrong!
It had been way too long since I had written anything of substantial value to jump start me into being a productive writer - especially for whipping-out business articles like I was day-dreaming of.
Suddenly, I realized it was going to take a few college-level review classes to update my acquainted knowledge for getting me back up to any kind of competitive standard and to re-acclaimate me into the younger world of multi-tasking everything (life)- education, business, and all personal affairs.
I always thought of multi-tasking as an excuse or reason to do too many things at once, and the result will be that you do all of them poorly. All the significant elders in my life said what I just said above. I had never heard of the term "multi-tasking" until around 1990.
While taking some technical classes to better my position for my employer at a steel processing plant, I had read about the term, but only encountering it here and there. Then within just a couple of years later, I saw the term seemingly everywhere - in the "Help Wanted" section of the newspaper, multi-tasking was listed as a duty in about every job posted.
Now, I think all employers expect you to be able to do too many things at once and don't want you to worry if you do them all poorly, just make sure you do them. What else could I think, but that the quality of work has little importance and that quantity of work is all that matters.
That type of thinking just goes against all of my beliefs and values and I don't see how I could ever return to the brick and mortar world and work for anyone but myself. The point here is that I didn't just learn online business and internet marketing for the money, or because I physically can't do anything else.
Somehow and somewhere the occupational world in the United States got walloped in the heart of reason and in the mind of logic. If we don't fix it, the rest of the world will certainly fix us. It's multi-tasking in the work-place, or logic and reason - but you can't have both. Hopefully the ho,e-based business industry will eliminate over-working and under compensating industry.
I did have to return to college for a few classes, but most learning I was able to do online. There is no way I will ever have to subject myself to the slavery caused by the greed of big business and the trade-off of losing reason and logic. Eventually business will have to buckle to the people's best interest, not the stock holders and start sharing profit and duty equally - otherwise, there will be no one left to shovel their crap!
buckboyy
August 18, 2008
To Make Money Online Or Not Make Money Online
If you have a computer, an internet connection and a few minutes of time, you can make some money online. Yes, it is that easy - but there’s a catch.
The hard part – and this is what other articles don’t tell you – the hard part is that what you’ll make each time is probably either going to be very little, or very infrequent.
Let me give you an example. Do you want to make $10 right now? Well, one way is to sign up with an online casino. Most will give an incentive for first-time members, usually in the region of $20. The condition is that this money will be required to be placed in a bet before it can be withdrawn.
All you need to do is to place two bets of $10 each on odds of 50-50 and you’ll have a 75% chance of making at least $10. 25% of the time you’ll make $20. I will not give you any links to online casino websites because I do not condone gambling, nor do I encourage this method.
But do a search on Google and you will find hundreds, if not thousands of websites that will give you a bonus for signing up. Just search for “online casino”.
Say you use this method once during your coffee break and once before you leave the office. And say you work 5 days a week. You’ll average an extra $100 per week, $430 per month and $5,200 per year. Not bad, huh?
In fact, this is the type of information that is sold in get-rich-quick ebooks that advertise how you can make $5,000 per week without any selling. The only difference is you’ll need to do it (very) much more frequently.
I hope you can see the problem with this method, because if not then you may not get what I am trying to tell you. (If that’s the case then perhaps you should stop reading and try it out for yourself.)
This method is good for short term beer money, but not for the longer term. This is because the rate at which you make money won’t increase. In fact, it will decrease because it gets increasingly harder to find new online casinos.
The real way to make money online is to create an income stream that has an increasing rate of return for your effort. I cannot stress on this enough – the RATE OF RETURN is the single most important thing. Let me give you an example.
First, think what your hobby is. Something that you are really passionate about. Let’s just say you’re a fan of cars. You visit an online forum to check on certain opinions. You ask a question. In a separate thread you reply with your own opinion. And you read one more topic just out of interest and leave a comment. This takes less than 10 minutes of your time, and it’s something that you’ll happily do.
Now let’s say in each of your posts you automatically leave a link. Anyone that reads that post will see that link, and might click on it. The link will bring them to a website. If they like what they see on that website, they might buy it – and you will make some money.
The more you use this simple method, the more exposure your website gets. The links that you previously placed will always be visible. And with every new link you place, you will exponentially increase the number of visitors to your website.
In the past 10 minutes you would have left 3 links. Let’s just say each link makes you just one sale per month. In this case, let’s say you make just $2 from every sale.
Now let’s assume you did the same in the casino situation which means surfing forums twice a day, 5 times a week. Within a month, you would have made $258. The next month – remember, the links you place will remain there forever - you will make $516. In the third month, you will make $774.
Doesn’t sound like much, right?
But cumulatively, over a year you will make $82,680!
Doesn’t this sound so much better?
All you need now is a website that sells something that appeals to a wide range of audience. It needs to be able to automatically collect payment and send the goods. It needs to be well written. It needs to be frequently and automatically updated. And most importantly, it needs to be proven to work.
buckboyy
August 6, 2008
Entrepreneurs Are Dreamers of Success
As some of you might know, I have a website I call Dreamosophy. People always ask how I came up with that name. I had a blog before I had a website and I also called it Dreamosophy. Since then, I've added the Dreamosophy blog to my website - a marketplace for entrepreneurs and a blog for dreamers. I still have a ways to go to finish the website, but most visitors understand the benefits.
The name just sort of hung in there and kept wandering around in my mind. That's when I knew I had to use it for something. I figured anyone thinking about starting an internet marketing business had to be dreaming. I also figured that anyone thinking about starting an internet marketing business and thinking they were going to get rich was really dreaming!
Then I read an article that kept referring to entrepreneurs as dreamers or idealists, not realists. Especially someone thinking about starting an internet marketing business or network marketing business and falling for the get-rich-quick schemes, all the scammers and all the liers.
The article (I really don't remember the title or who wrote it; otherwise, I would give credit where credit is due) went on to state that entrepreneurs are dreamers because they have an ability to conceptualize better and to see the big picture over a long period of time, plus, they are willing to take big risks.
Maybe entrepreneurs are called dreamers because they have an extremely high failure rate. They also align themselves with the term "innovators." Without entrepreneurs, a lot of inventions would have never came into being, nor would many products had been improved or discovered other applications for them.
Some of the world's most rich and famous were entrepreneurs - so that must make them dreamers too. Can you imagine Bill Gates or Donald Trump sitting in their 4th grade classrooms, staring out the window day-dreaming away? I certainly did my share of it (in every grade).
It's also the entrepreneurs that don't give up after the first, second or third failure. Obviously, that's not a great trait if you're a young spouse or parent. Being persistant can really kill a relationship, or be extremely annoying to a soul-mate, or make a child feel very lonely. It can lead to a lot of riff; however, when it does find its mark, it's with a very deep-rooted success.
The foundation for the success was laid because one fought tooth and nail against all the odds of failure to get there and they are not about to easily give it up. This type of victory provides the entrepreneur with an inherent amount of motivation to keep re-investing time and energy to make sure the operation continues to run efficiently, which in turn builds a very strong organization.
An entrepreneur maybe a dreamer, but they do learn from their mistakes and they most likely will win the race for creativity and endurance. So the next time someone close to you tells you that you are chasing a dream, try extra hard to take it as a compliment, rather than become defensive about it.
Of course, we know they don't mean it that way; consequently, if you take their dig as a compliment you are supporting your conviction. By turning their negative into a positive, you will reiterate that you are serious about pursuing your dream and that you are focused on turning it into a reality. It can give you a big boost of confidence!
A positive action could turn the tables in your favor. Instead of getting constant criticism, your confidence just might hook your loved one's support, be it financial or emotional. Your success can have them looking deeper into their own weaknesses. Chances are that's why they are criticizing you to begin with - they are seeing their own faults in you (it's that "green with envy" thing).
So now you have a sheild to ward off the attacks of negative thinkers. Now there is no need to fear seeing your relatives or close friends and listen to them try to drag you down for trying to live as the person you are meant to be - an entrepreneur and successful business person.
buckboyy
July 29, 2008
Occupational Change and The Cyber-World of Internet Marketing's Programs, Products, Promotions, & Previews
The internet and network-marketing industries have become a huge gateway for the growing trend in occupational change - the swift migration from a service oriented society to an information-technology laden work place. This job migration has galvanized support for the large numbers of people flocking to the home-based business opportunities in the United States and in many other countries as well.
The brick and mortar business world continues to get more expensive and complex to start any business, regardless of the industry or the government sanctions to revive an industry. Manufacturing entities continue to leave the country in search of cheaper labor, raw materials and other depleting resources.
Legislative barriers and environmental restrictions present even more reasons for American companies to relocate around the globe; consequently, foreign investers have found the trend to be a contemporary vehicle for pulling their countries out of poverty and getting closer to being a part of the mainstream in global competition and trade.
Can we even blame American corporations for utilizing a safe, economic alternative rather than to go out of business? Many Americans are infuriated that so many of the companies that had a deep-rooted heritage have left thousands out in the cold by taking high paying jobs to other countries, but also for taking beloved products with them too.
We shouldn't really be screaming too loud. After all, their bottom line is still to make a profit and for-profit businesses are not born just to appease public opinion. If they were, we would have adopted a socialized economic system long ago.
Aside from the lack of national loyalty and value towards the American worker, economists and political leaders in the U.S. predicted that the lower-paying service industry would dominate the labor markets long before they actually took hold in the mid 80's; yet, when the time came, many American leaders acted as if it were some sort of big surprise.
It's the same as the strategic crunch that was put on the United States by the oil trade and OPEC - who can make us tip-toe foreign policy around them or beg for arab mercy, all at their convenience - soon after the media dubbed the period as "the energy crises" of the late 70's. Now that the gas prices are going crazy, many influential Americans act in awe and don't want to put forth the effort for change on foreign oil dependency.
So, if Americans have learned anything from recent history, there should be no shocking surprise of the great influx to the marketing industry in the cyber-world. The entire online marketing industry agrees that now is a great time to enter the home-biz industry. There is no shortage of various ways to earn money on the internet, and the global market place keeps a steady flow of customers and prospects coming into it.
The number of network-marketing programs has increased to the point where there are now many more publications that have become industry watchdogs. They list and review the programs and audit the companies who design them; however, it is also no secret that many of them are only there to discount the competition and promote their own agendas. The same publication blitz appears to be true of the internet marketing industry, where the watchdogs are evaluating digital products and auditing their mentoring programs.
Its become extremely difficult to figure out who is an honest, internet marketer if you want them to teach or mentor you for learning how to start or run your home-based business; not to mention what interenet marketing products are legitimate or useful products. This is especially true with the large number of affiliate marketers flooding the markets and re-branding products to keep them profitable and keep them producing income for large numbers of people.
Entrepreneurs are now figuring out all sorts of ways to market promotional materials and tools, ad campaigns and subscriber list building programs and products, adding more to the internet marketing chaos in those niches of the market place. More and more Traffic Exchanges seem to be popping up and they often promote the increasing amount of lead-generating products and methods that are advertised at saturating levels.
New ways of using blogs and articles for internet marketing promotion are constantly being implemented. This provides a valuable service to publishers by giving them a greater amount of rich and fresh content that is embraced by the search engines to help evaluate a websites page ranking. The higher the page ranking, the more chance the publisher has to direct traffic to their own websites, which ultimately leads to increased sales.
Americans are trying to lead the way in an occupational and socio-economic trend of changing from a service oriented economy to an informational economy and global market-place, a creation catalyzed by the cyber world. The change experience went from a manufacturing society to a service dominated economy and now to an informational and technologically hungry world market-place that is reversing the standings of once poor countries.
Years after the U.S. population drug its feet to prepare for changes that were accurately forecasted, our once powerful nation is now held hostage by the consequences of procrastination. The current trend in occupational change is taking place more discreetly than the last, partially because economic indicating numbers are not reflecting an accurate picture of the home-based business industry, if any picture at all.
The U.S. cannot afford to sit back and wait for economic growth to be it's salvation, not without catalyzing occupatioal changes to fit in properly with the information and technology industry. The flow of labor might even have to be directed to the home-based business industry to take advantage of leading the world to the global market place to share in the cyber world's wealth.
Will Americans be prepared to allocate and/or control the world's internet and network-marketing products, programs, promotions and previews, for stability in the future of the cyber-world economy?
buckboyy
June 9, 2008
Personal-Contact Marketing: An Old Practice to a New Wave!
We just keep finding new problems and road blocks here at Al-Mita Marketing. But that's ok, for every new problem we run into, we just keep putting our heads together in a brainstorming session and find a new solution. The Dreamosophy Blog becomes one archive richer for others to reference to another solution.
We were all set to post to the site the rest of the products and then all the contact informtion. We had banners ready, text-links made, reviews were written and strategies were formed. We even took some photos of the office staff hard at work to post here so everyone could see our physical appearance.
Then it hit me like the droppings from a pidgeon - right on top of my bald little head. We forgot a key component to the Dreamosophy philosophy and the concept of realtionship building for a strong customer base and profitable business. Personal contact has to play a role for our success and our customer's too.
Even though Dreamosophy is not a membership-based site, we want to offer our customer's the best information and tips we can to help ensure everyone's success. With-in minutes we were re-thinking our strategy to include personal-contact marketing.
What is personal-contact marketing? It's using the personal contact that is missing when a marketer hides behind their auto-responder because they are too busy to personally contact some of their valued customer's - the ones who helped make them a success. It's directing the personal contact to their list that marketers think they don't need because they have an auto-responder.
With an auto-responded message you can slip your lists names in the text anywhere you want and as often as you want, but that still doesn't individualize the message. It starts to form a relationship with the prospect, but you won't know what they want or need as an individual unless you ask them and they have a way to tell you.
Not all subscribers or customers want to be personally recognized or heard, but for those that do, you can capitalize on to increase your product demand and strengthen your promotion just by including an empathetic and personal touch in your email responses.
It's almost impossible to personally respond to a huge subscriber list of thousands, but you can identify key prospects that can help you promote your business through their word-of-mouth promotion and by other media forms they might use.
Word-of-mouth is still the strongest and most valuable form of advertising; consequently, a marketer's personal reply can cut down on the number of times that you need to contact that person because it builds a relationship with the prospect much faster. Instead of having to contact them the traditional 7 times, personal-contact marketing can realistically cut that number down to two.
Now you can have extra promotional resources, increase your conversion rate and have new customers too. For that much gain, it would be well worth the time of writing a few extra emails per week.
This will also put you in closer touch with your customers and they will be more likely to purchase those higher-end products, such as your personal mentoring program. Personal-contact marketing really can be a win-win situation by applying an old practice to a new wave of prospects.
buckboyy
May 11, 2008
Comparing Prices Today With Wages of Yesterday
Usually, I write on the latest business management news or on marketing plans and tactics as topics for my network-marketing website and blog. On occasion - when a unique or rare subject hits me, I might even compose something with political overtones related to current events. However, my compelling need for writing this article was spawned by an article I read in an investor's trading publication that I received in my email called, Investor's Daily Edege.
The article was entitled, "What a Basket Case," written by investment author, Lynn Carpenter. She filled a basket of real food items compiled from 1938 to the present and compared them against minimum wages of the time to calculate inflationary figures. To no surprise, the outcome showed inflation to be much higher than most economists thought and easily shed doubt on any figures the Busch administration came up with.
She spruced up the article with reader feed back from previous articles in the series. What really caught my attention and made this article a must for me was a man who wrote of price comparisons from 1968 and how much the economy has changed in relationship to earning power. (I'm 53, so I remember the time well, even though I was only 14 at the time.)
I agreed with them on the higher inflation rate, but I also yearned to tell them about some other variables they didn't consider in figuring their calculations. I concluded they better add another 12% on top of their inflation rate.
The two major factors they left out of their calculations were the decline in product quality, and the added cost to products that was passed to consumers from the growth and usage of the quickly evolving promotional tool of marketing.
Think about this: we can't forget that the manufacturers, growers, distributors and retailers find any way they can to cut costs and sell more. For example, today's candy bar is much smaller than one from 1968.
Today's automobiles have less steel in them and what steel is left is a much lighter gauge. Service has become almost non-existent in the food industry (excluding restuaraunts) as it gave way to the supermarket, or the contemporary super-store.
In another example, we used to have a milk box on our front porch for the weekly delivery of dairy products. The price was slightly higher than the grocery store, but the goods were fresher and delivery was included in the cost.
This helped Mom because most families only had one vehicle and she couldn't up and go to the store whenever she felt like it, nor were stores open 24/7, or on Sunday. Many families counted on the personal service of the milkman and many butcher shops used to deliver their meat products too.
The larger quantity of dairy products sold in the grocery store didn't drop the prices. As the system of distribution improved, a new industry was born - marketing! Marketing was supposed to be a good thing - a vehicle to bring buyers and sellers together. No one counted on it to become strictly a sellers tool to change the face of advertising and increase sales through packaging.
Suddenly quality was being replaced by popularity as the marketing industry found name recognition and graphics to be catalysts for high-volume selling products. Mom and Pop businesses couldn't afford the extra costs of marketing and were quickly swallowed up by the giants.
Packaging became more sophisticated and informational, which raised manufacturing and marketing costs that were quickly passed on to the consumers in various forms. Within a 10 year period of 1960-1970, many small local diaries became obsolete and the milkman met the same fate as the dinosaur.
While some prices rose at a higher rate than the cost of living indexes, it was marketing strategies that really increased advertising and packaging costs to those levels. Product size started shrinking to absorb the extra costs and packages increased in size to hide the smaller product and to deliver the new form of promotion.
Consumers mistakenly associated beefed-up packaging with higher quality until watchdog groups like Nadar's Raiders started exposing corporate practices for what they really were – consumer flim-flam that was profit-driven for high stockholder dividends and not product enhancements.
And it wasn't just tangible products that went through the inflated-price evolution, but also the service oriented product too, like that of filling up your car at a service station. I really miss those days of getting your oil checked, windsheild washed and tires checked while they filled up your car with gas at no added cost. The gas station that had the best service also sold the most gas and other related products. Can you imagine someone putting air in your tires while they pump your gas and not charge you for it?
Then, during the energy crises of the 70's someone came up with the bright idea of self-serve gas pumps to offset the rising gas prices. It didn't take long for marketers to capitalize on the self-service gas pump, which undoubtably turned the station itself into the convenience mart and killing the carry-out concept for quick staple shopping.
It was quickly realized that less service could be transformed into a variety of diversified products with lower profit margins and minimum wage jobs, but prices could be inflated on the premise of conveinance if they were kept away from the pumps and put into a store setting.
Oil, windsheild-washer fluid and other accessories used to be sold out at the pumps. This should have off-set any disparity in he loss of revenue from selling less fuel, but demand kept increasing, not only for gas, but for conveinance items too.
Combining self-service with the conveinance of staple shopping and other goods meant higher profits using less resources. Soon, the gas station attendent was another fatality with the dinosaurs, but at least he turned into a cashier. No longer was a gas station a place to get your car fixed either because repair bays meant less room to sell products like energy drinks.
We are constantly reminded of the loss of service every time we make a phone call to a bank or utility company. How many recordings and menus do you get to go through before you get to speak with a real person? Now days the option isn't even on the main menu to speak with a representative - if you can find the option at all!
Price escalation on products and services now have new allies using consumer ignorance and have picked-up where the marketing industry has left off. The financial service industry, along with various political affiliations for economic development, are legislating towards government control and less competition.
Their rationale is price and interest rate stabilization, which works temporarily in the short term, but it has proven to be an upward spiral of rising costs and interest rates that often doesn't show up until a few years later in the "long-run."
Free-enterprise is also being stifled by large corporate mergers (government enabled) that were most likely not possible in the 1960's. This has had a trickle-down affect on prices.
Corporations got so large they could not police themselves or serve the public with personal service or the consumer with product quality. There usually ends up to be too many management levels where bad managerial decisions become inherent in the system. Product quality suffers as management scrambles to fix organizational blunders.
Managerial oversight happens in decision-making because managers and/or executives from one company or the other that merged don't understand the new company's mission, the process control needed, or the attributes of the larger scope of products and the new company. The mega-sized organization suddenly finds itself bailing out by raising prices or worse yet, trimming the work force.
Of course, the latest and most effective strategy for cutting expenses is in trimming, or even eliminating salaries and wages - mostly through the relocation of operations to underdeveloped countries, while also being offered added tax incentives or some other form of local government backing. If consumers still want the products that left the country, they can either buy low quality substitutes or pay extra due to unfair tax treaties like NAFTA.
Now when you figure a cost comparison of today's product to the pre-marketing and pre-conglomerate eras, what is the formula? More marketing costs with more packaging, minus less product and less service, followed by more imports and less exports, which equals the unbalanced trade agreements.
Now figure in the ultimate decline in manufactured goods and the drop in employment rates, that will ultimately lead to the decline in the GNP. My guess is: add another 12% to the inflation rate for any year past 1980. Also, you might just add a 30% rise in the self-employment rate to cover the increased business start-ups in the home-based, business industry in the next two years.
buckboyy
April 5, 2008
A New Deal: The Dreamosophy Website and Blog
Welcome visitors! The new Dreamosophy website and blog has finally arrived! We still have a ton of work to do and not much is very functionable yet, but at least it is ours so I can keep you informed with unsensored expression. We still have tons of archived business and product review articles to post so you can have reference materials to search through.
You can expect to see changes to the site quite often, possibly on a daily basis as we experiment with various formats and organizing details. There are many photos to sort through, and links to install and activate. Hopefully you will also see a daily improvement as we add products to the mix in your market-place and find other content that will help everyone. We hope you will enjoy the new deal.
buckboyy
April 27, 2008
Marketing Madness and Lunatics
I can't think of a better first entry topic than an example of the marketing madness I experienced yesterday on the phone. It was a "reverse marketing" ploy gone awry. Some lunatic called me and pretended to be interested in one of my network marketing programs. He asked what it was about and I proceeded to explain the program to him after I asked him the usual questions.
After about 3 sentences he strarted asking unusual questions and said he didn't understand what I was telling him. I tried to direct him to our short recorded call but he kept asking me to explain the program. So, I had tried it again.
He then said I didn't know what I was doing and couldn't explain the program. He also told me I was doing a lousy job and had no business trying to market my business. Then he tried turning the tables and telling me who he worked for and wanted me to sign-up for a conference call that night. He said I needed his sponsor so I could learn how to get sign-ups.
The call apparently featured his sponsor who supposedly had a downline of 3,000,000. I told the man I could come to the call at 8:30p, but would have to leave at 9p for a prior commitment. The man suddenly said, "No, that won't work. Your not right for us. We can't use you! He then hung up on me without a goodbye.
Here is my take about this call: his organization uses underhanded and sneaky tactics to lure you to the conference calls that obviously ends with a sales pitch, or another lure to another call that will end that way. Even if I believed his sponsor had a downline of 3 million, I wouldn't want to be in that group.
It must be ok to use pushy sales tactics and break commitments just for a sale. Being rude is a necessary part of business to them and I have to wonder what type of relationships you build that way. By the time I was done with his call, I was pissed-off. I found it degrading and offensive.
Please don't market this way. If that is what you have to do to get a sign-up, it can't be worth it. If this man was in my organization, I would ask that he leave. That type of marketing madness has no place in the legitimate business world. Finding contacts and making a sale by creating guilt association in your prospect's mind is a very unethical way to do business and I can't believe he doesn't make more enemies than friends.
buckboyy - Copyright: April 27, 2008.
May 26, 2007 - Memorial Day
An Officer and Some Lucky Men
Usually I write business articles for my blogs, but since Memorial Day is near, I thought I would share a story about a family descendent. While re-writing our family geneology about 10 years ago, I found some extremely unusual people on my grandmother's side of the family, one in particular whose contribution put a different perspective into Memorial Day.
The person to whom I'm referring to, Major Thomas E. Vassar (or Vasser), a great uncle of my grandmother's lineage, and a Union soldier who participated in the Civil War. He was also in the same clan of Vassar's who started the famous women's school in New York, Vassar College. Long before I edited our family history and not realizing who he was, I remember viewing a picture of him in his uniform, supposedly on the day he was awarded his promotion to Major.
The photograph was on a copper tin that had seen its better day, where the detail wasn't the best; however, in comparison to the other soldiers in the picture, I could tell the Major was of average size with a barrel-like chest and a rounded face, sporting a full, drooping mustache – the normal style for an officer of the time. He looked quite dapper and valiant, with his gloved hand resting on the handle of his long, curved sword.
As stated in the mess of geneology papers I was sifting through, twice I found the sentence that read, "Thomas E. Vassar was an officer and a lucky man." It took me a long time to understand the relevance of that statement. It all came to light as I put note after note together. My grandmother's friend had started the geneology so some of the notes were very old.
Apparently, the Major led a brigade of 35 scouts to get positions on the Confederates proximity to the Union defensive venue in preparing for a major battle. The Union generals used Major Vassar as a utility officer of sorts, sending him back and forth between commands. He mostly worked under Sheridan, McClellan, Grant and Sherman, always insistent on bringing the same men with him. Many scouting brigades consisted of 75 - 100 men, but the Major was noted for getting much closer to the enemy and his entire outfit was regarded as the prized" and best trained scouting unit in the Union Army. Many times they would complete their missions on foot, saying that horses were too big and noisy.
His unit would often return with the scouting report just hours before the battle. Then they would join the conflict, but never in the initial wave. Higher ranking officers wouldn't let them because they knew they were likely to be killed and were too valued to be replaced. The major's unit would often help set up a secondary artillery barrage and then guard the flanks.
Thomas Vassar survived major battles at First Manassas, Pea Ridge, Shiloh, Antietam Chancellorsville, Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Petersburg. He had four horses shot out from under him and was wounded three times, losing two fingers on his left hand at Gettysburg. He was also in many minor skirmishes during his scouting missions. Indeed, he was a lucky man to have survived all those major battles where thousands were killed.
When asked what it was like being under Vassar's command, his men claimed that "he could be a real quiet one at times," but he could also strike up an interesting conversation with anyone. He cared about his men and was quick to show compassion when one was ill, wounded or killed.
The men also said that the Major would talk to prisoners "as he knew them all his life," which would relax them enough to disclose classified information. His closest comrades claimed the Major was obsessed with punctuality and would discipline anyone "thoroughly" who did not comply.
One of his well respected and highly educated men, Lieutenant Eli Wellstead, had written a letter home to tell his younger brother what the major was like and wrote, "There was a meeting between General Davis, the Major and a few other decorated uniforms this morning. After they had exchanged their friendlies, I heard the Major complaining to General Davis about how the General was late. He had the General so upset that he kept apologizing over and over for his new, but half-lame horse and the abscense of his color-guard and entourage."
After the surrender of Lee to Grant at Appomattox, there was only nine of the original scouting brigade left. Major Thomas E. Vassar and four of his men headed back to Ohio together. They were traveling down a heavily wooded trail when a thunderstorm quickly engulfed the area. A gust of wind shook the trees, breaking off a large branch which swung down and hit the Major on the back of his head, killing him instantly. His luck finally ran out.
So on Memorial Day, we honor all those soldiers who have made the brave sacrifice and have fallen, even those who were an officer and those that we thought were a luckyman.
buckboyy - Copyright: 2007
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