Work from home gig too good to be true. Updated: Monday, 21 Nov 2011, 11:39 AM EST Published : Monday, 21 Nov 2011, 11:39 AM EST. Julian Grace. INDIANAPOLIS (WISH)An Indianapolis woman posted her resume online. Then she received the call that millions of unemployed Americans wait on each day, a job offer. The man on the other line offers the 28-year-old woman a cushy job from the confines of her home. Her task seemed easy;...
Some young people know what career they want to pursue long before they ever reach college age. If that is genuinely their choice and not something imposed by their parents, they are really lucky. They can begin the training of their choice as soon as they complete high school, and they probably will be successful in achieving their goals because their motivation comes from within.
However, it’s not as simple for many others who don’t have the right mindset for success! Even when they arrive at a decision about a career choice or a the kind of business they would like to develop, self-doubt and discouraging thoughts may cloud their thinking.
Is it possible that focusing too much on goals for the future is keeping us from taking care of ourselves today? While setting goals is important, we need to enjoy the steps we are taking right now and that includes enjoying simple pleasures like shopping for the ingredients to cook a good meal and tossing a ball around with some friends.
Good nutrition, physical fitness and caring human interaction contribute to good mental functioning and empowers us to do the work we need to do.
It’s important to remember that being successful includes enjoying our daily life and growing as a human being.
A concert-goer once said to a famous composer:’Maestro I would give my life to play like you do’ and his answer was ‘I did Madam,I did! In truth he had probably enjoyed living the life of his choice, playing the music he loved … and bringing pleasure to the world. How fulfilling is that!
It’s good to constantly remember the importance of being a well-rounded individual while we’re working toward our goals. The professional goals are one important part of our life not a destination we arrive at after a long journey. The journey is our life and we need to live it consciously, paying attention to the flowers along the path!
The first part of this article applies to young people starting out on their path to becoming productive member of society. But there is another movement going on … Seniors engaging in a new career and learning new skills!
How does it feel to start all over again? They’re getting acquainted with social media … they’re challenged by new-fangled systems … I know because I’m doing it myself!
I have written a few posts about working from home to supplement a retirement income and I plan to focus on home business information in the coming weeks.
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When you choose a niche and set up a website, you want to use every means available to generate profit. Often overlooked, keywords are a major player in the arena of making money.
The concept of using keywords is a simple one. Those are words that identify your website and bring it to the attention of search engines. Without the right keywords, your batting average for getting customers and sales will be pretty dismal.
Many online entrepreneurs and would be entrepreneurs grasp that keywords are vitally important for traffic, but what they often don’t get is that broad keywords and long tail keywords can be used to bring in the money.
How are these different from just using any keywords? Broad keywords are words that don’t narrow down the topic – think short, one word versus phrases – for example, car versus buying a Honda Odyssey, or tree versus how to plant an Oak tree.
When you look up long tail keywords, you might see that there aren’t as many results for those words as there are for broad keywords. But there are more of those types of phrases, so the actual traffic volume can exceed what you’d get with a broad search ranking.
You want to bring in people who know what they want. Someone who types in the word cars may be looking for the animated cartoon called cars, the history of cars, used cars, new cars, and more.
People type in long tail phrases are telling you what it is they want. For instance, here’s a good one – “How to buy cars without getting ripped off.” You could sell someone a guide on buying a new car because you’d know exactly what their needs are compared to someone just typing in ‘cars.’
If you were in the business of selling self-help products for depression, you could use depression as a broad keyword, but to get more specific you’d use long tail keywords such as ‘post partum depression symptoms’ or ‘signs of depression in men.’
Not only will you pull in people searching for information on depression in general by using broad keywords, but you’ll also get people searching for depression as it pertains to their situation.
When you do a search to find broad keywords, you’ll see that there are a lot of searches per month for that word or words. But the more focused your keywords, the better your site performs when the search engine spiders come crawling. You want the people who find your site to be the ones that are looking for what you have to offer.
If you want to find out much more about keywords and search engine optimization, read Basic Search Engine Optimization Skills Explained in Geek-Free Language! written by expert marketer Jonathan Leger (a free download)
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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...
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...
Image via Wikipedia Happy New Year to all my visitors and to the whole world! I’ve spent most of December involved with family and holiday events. I have also given a lot of thought to a blog post I wrote after going through Melissa Ingold’s end of the year course that I shared with you on this blog, consisting of a set of six free lessons. The first lesson was about taking your business inventory for...
Although selling information on eBay is not as easy as it was before March 31 2008, you can still use the selling potential of eBay to build yourself a profitable business… You can either use eBay classified ads to sell your products – the cost is $9.95 for a 30 day ad – or you can transfer your digital product on to a CD or DVD. The need to add extra steps before listing products probably eliminates some competition...
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