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When Is A Work From Home Gig Too Good To Be True?

Fran Civile — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:31:13 +0000

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; Wait for FEDEX to bring her money orders, cash them, and send part of the money to another location.

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To make a long story short, Investigators for Indianapolis Police Metropolitan Dptmt confiscated the evidence the young woman held and detectives are trying to track down a man listed as the sender of the money orders.

“Legitimate job opportunities will not advertise you will make a lot of money in a short amount of time,” said Nick Ostergaard, a Spokesperson for the Better Business Bureau.

Ostergaard goes on to say that employers from legitimate stay at home companies are very transparent. Many of those companies have an interview process, and they don’t offer a job just based on an email or an online resume.

If you would like to find out if a stay at home opportunity is legit, you can go to Better Business Bureau website.
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Work from home information and advice is available on many legitimate blogs, including The Apprentice Marketer Gazette. Check us out!

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Is Your Road to Success Paved with Fears of Defeat?

Fran Civile — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 03:32:59 +0000

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.

1. How to Overcome Discouraging Beliefs.

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.

2. Getting the Training We Need to Be Successful

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!

3. Living a Good Life While Working Toward Our Goals

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!

4. Life After Sixty and Planning a New Career

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.

Be looking for helpful downloads too!

Fran_C

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Keywords are a Major Player in the Arena of Making Money

Fran Civile — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:17:07 +0000

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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.

Broad Keywords vs. long-tail keywords.

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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Apprentice Marketer Gazette Gets Reviewed by Blog Tyrant!

Fran Civile — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 03:20:16 +0000

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 an affililiate commission, with very little financial returns.

I was coming to the conclusion that I needed to get over my reluctance to advertising on my blog, when I saw Blog Tyrant’s offer to do Blog Reviews for any of his subscribers who applied, I added my blog to his list … #24 and the first randomly picked one after only a couple of weeks! There are some good tips and suggestions to learn from in the comments as well as the video.

Link to Blog Tyrant’s video critique

Who is the Blog Tyrant?

Here are some excerpts from Blog Tyrant’s About Page:
In classical politics, a tyrant is one who has taken power by his or her own means as opposed to hereditary or constitutional power. This mode of rule is referred to as tyranny.
and
Plato and Aristotle define a tyrant as, “one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage rather than that of his subjects, and uses extreme and cruel tactics — against his own people as well as others”.

That second definition is not me. Not by a long way. Blog Tyrant is a blog all about dominating the blogosphere. But not in a bad way.

I am just a 25 year old guy from Australia who owns several online businesses, works from home and plays video games at lunch time. I have sold several websites for large sums of money and own a network of blogs and websites that make money with Adsense, affiliates and advertising.

What is this site about?
Blog Tyrant is all about helping you dominate your blog and your blog’s niche. I am going to be completely open with my strategies, tactics and tips and I will show you how to make money with your blogs and websites.

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I am one of this savvy tyrant’s willing and satisfied subscribers and he is not the only very successful youthful blogger I follow!

The Internet has really upset the old order of things, when success came with years of business experience!

Here is the link to Blog Tyrant’s Video Critique

There are some good tips and suggestions to learn from in the comments as well as the video and I would like to get your thoughts on the subject … please leave a comment

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Year 2011:Making My Blog More Profitable

Fran Civile — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:24:47 +0000

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 an Aspiring Internet Marketer get Started‘ I wrote a few weeks ago:

“There is a lot of free information on the internet and it’s very tempting to spend hours everyday reading and gathering all the information you think you might need to start some form of internet marketing business.

Wandering from blog to website to blog you could be spending a lot of time somehow believing that you will find all the information you need to start your own business and of course this might happen if you know what you’re shopping for!

When you go shopping for ingredients for a meal you start with a list in hand for the specific ingredients you know you are missing so when you explore the internet for information it would make sense to be looking for answers to questions you already have!

However, if you don’t have a definite plan, you’re going to run into business models you had not even thought about so you get a glimmer of another way you could be doing business and begin to follow that path until some other tempting offer catches your eye!

Then you have the problem of copying, printing and filing all that information … I know what that’s like because I did it all and I ended up more confused in spite of the piles of so-called information I was accumulating and all my newsletter subscriptions.

I got some binders, and spent many hours organizing and filing so that even if I was not actually in business yet I had a file clerk … ME! At the end of a day spent in that file clerk role I would sometimes experience the sense of accomplishment a company employee gets after a job well done but only for a moment – no paycheck!”

To get back to Jackie Lee‘s article, she says:

“Do you know what work you need to be doing today, and tomorrow and the next day?

Creating a profitable business comes down to, first and foremost, clarity.

You have to be clear about what you’re doing, what your business model is.

If you aren’t clear you’re going to end up spinning your wheels.Taking ineffective action. Wasting time chasing money around.”

OK! I don’t want to be wasting time chasing money around … but I do want to generate more income and I prefer to not have a bunch of ads greeting my visitors.

So I’ve made some decisions and here’s what I need to begin with:

1. Offer some useful and desirable services providing me some affiliate commissions

2. Pursue and maintain connections with other people online that provide value to my clients and me.

3. Write helpful blog posts and articles that will benefit readers interested in a home business.

4. Continue to offer free downloads with valuable information.

This list will probably be growing in the coming days as my plans take shape.

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Year 2011 New Direction: Where Do I Go From Here?

Fran Civile — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:45:33 +0000

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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 clarity… So I did and as a result wrote a blog is not a business!

Then Jackie Lee published a related article titled: What is Your Business on her blog Internet Marketing For Mommies

Here are some of the questions she asks:

What is it that you do online to make money AKA ~ your online business model?

Are you creating a website that you love that will sell things ~
be it goods or services?

Do you know what you’re doing?

You have to be clear about what you’re doing, what your business model is.

If you aren’t clear you’re going to end up spinning your wheels.

Creating a profitable business comes down to, first and foremost, clarity.

And there is that reference to clarity again!

When I had a gift basket home business from 1998 through 2006 I knew exactly what my goals were: sell gift baskets and in order to do that I maintained an attractive website with good photos of baskets in different gift categories …

I won’t bore you with all the details that involved but I can tell you that it was a lot of work! Nevertheless there were clear goals and outcomes – when I got an order I got paid for the gift basket and delivery charges.

That answers Jackie Lee’s question: Are you creating a website that you love that will sell things be it goods or services? Yes, I loved creating beautiful arrangements that gave pleasure to the buyer and the person receiving the gift, and in that sense I had a good business … but it needed to be taken to
another level to be really successful.

I was making an income BUT not in a range that would allow for adding workers so it was a whole lot of work for one person … the only part I was able to outsource was the deliveries because I had the clients paying for them.

As I have related in my About page, I couldn’t help reading a lot about affiliate marketing and I transitioned to an online business and created Apprentice Marketer Gazette because I hoped to share the information I was
getting with other beginner marketers … that was one clear goal I had.

Boomers can Make Money with eBay Classified Ads

Fran Civile — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:18:22 +0000

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 because only determined
information marketers will see the value of developing this new phase
of their business… and that’s a good thing!

Classified Ads

Fran

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