Retirement:Are You Getting The Life you Wished For?

03/05/2011
Retirement:Are You Getting The Life you Wished For?

What’s that saying? Be careful what you wish for? Retirement, the beacon of hope that winked at you for the past four or five years? Well, it finally was more like blinking and getting dimmer amidst more pressing signals: emails, telephone calls, 401k after shocks, official forms to fill out, and then finally goodbyes, laughter and tears, well-wishers envious or gloating in their youthful and blissful ignorance. After a long and fulfilling work life, this is...

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Freelance Writing and Job Sites:Supplementing Your Retirement Income

02/23/2011
Freelance Writing and Job Sites:Supplementing Your Retirement Income

Although it’s generally thought that these jobs don’t pay as well as you would wish, it’s a fact that you need some client feedback to help you get writing gigs and if you don’t have that or some work to show a prospective client, getting an order for a writing project will give you valuable experience and the opportunity to get a good rating from a satisfied client. ELance As a  follow-up to my...

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Apprentice Marketer Gazette Gets Reviewed by Blog Tyrant!

02/13/2011
Apprentice Marketer Gazette Gets Reviewed by Blog Tyrant!

One of my last 2010 posts was about  getting your business in shape.  That was after going through an extensive evaluation enabled by six video lessons offered by Melissa Ingold, Sweetie Marketing … (details in that post). I had concluded that I needed to find better ways to make money with the work I was putting into this blog. For the past 2 years I was recommending helpful resources, mostly free and a few earning...

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How to Uncover a Hot Profitable Niche in Just a Few Hours

02/06/2011
How to Uncover a Hot Profitable Niche in Just a Few Hours

The author Suzanne Myers has written a tight report that thoroughly covers what the readers want to know about a niche and what makes one profitable … she explains the two main factors that motivate people’s decision to buy. Then, she goes on to describe various ‘tests’ she performs every time she wants to uncover a hot profitable niche so she has a good idea of how profitable it might be before spending any time...

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Retirement: Baby Boomers Can Take Action to Create Internet Income

01/30/2011
Retirement: Baby Boomers Can Take Action to Create Internet Income

Image via Wikipedia Thousands of baby boomers are hitting 65 beginning this year and going on for the next 19 years – and many are not cash-ready to retire! Many of them are turning to the Internet to look for work at home job opportunities, and there are plenty of options. Finding a way to boost their income is almost mandatory for most retirees. With the rise in cost of living, medical needs and the economy...

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Making Money from Blogging: Darren Rowse Speaks!

01/23/2011
Making Money from Blogging: Darren Rowse Speaks!

Cover via Amazon I’ve suscribed to Darren’s Problogger for years and I respect his opinions!  He has achieved the success that many bloggers, including me, wish for … but hey I never get tired of learning! Here is what he says in a video followed by the text and comments: “I recently had a conversation with a friend who has just started out with making money from blogging. He had been struggling to get over the initial...

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Year 2011:Making My Blog More Profitable

01/12/2011
Year 2011:Making My Blog More Profitable

My plan for this blog in early 2009 was to share what I had learned during the many months I was gathering information with a special emphasis on baby boomers … any revenue I expected to get would come from referrals to products I recommended in my free email course or in some blogposts  … not through a bunch of advertisements on the blog … Here is an excerpt of an article titled ‘How does...

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