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3 important ways to get more targeted visitors to your website or blog !!

2009-11-13T19:42:00.000-08:00

Three important ways to get more targeted visitors to your website or blog
You have published a blog or a website with wonderful and attracting features. But if there is not visitors all your works are meaningless. Your site or blog may promte something, may be your busieness, I mean your product or services or may sell your adplaces by Googe adsense ads or any such leading adnetwork ads. But you could optimise your site only with the visitors. Only with targetted visitors you can attain your goals. You may be aware that all visiotrs will not clicked on your ads or buy your products or services. Only a percentage, a low percentage will help you to attain your goals. Let us see some methods to attract targeted visitors to your site.

1. Keyword traffic:- So you have to attract maximum visitors to your site. With your keywords and articles you can attract some visitors through search engines and those visitors will be targetted visiotrs, those who followed your keyword by searching the web and a certain percentage of them will do the clicks. Because they are targeted visitors. So the first and foremost thing is choose proper keywords to get more and more targeted visitors through search engines.

2. Advertise your site:- This is one of the important method to attract targeted visitors to your site. When you advertise in Google adsense, Bidvertiser or such Pay Per Click advertisements net works, they also have search engines and some of them are popular also. When a person search with a keyword your ads with suitable keywords also display with the search results and most times this will be attractive and may be on the visible place. When the person see your ad which is suitable with his keyword, he will click the ads and visit your site and you can attain your goal from the targeted visitor.

3.Answeruing questions in question and answer site:- This is also interesting and helps you to get targeted visitors, when you answer questions of such site and place a link in the soruce box. But the main thing is that you have to answer questions according your niche and the site you linked with it also should be the same theme of the question, or something special should be there on your site which should be sastisfy the person looking answers.

Your route to being an Online Millionaire

2009-10-18T06:21:00.000-07:00

Have you ever dreamt of becoming an online millionaire? Perhaps your goal is to work from home in some area of Internet marketing? Whatever your online business aspirations are or your angle on how to make money, there is one particular and often overlooked first step!

You may be thinking that first step is getting a great website? Or an amazing product, (maybe an idea to create one?) Or indeed you might be thinking it's 'all in the list', as you will hear many an experienced Internet marketing guru say!

While each of the above is important and has their place in the grand scheme of things, there is one vital factor that needs to come first. You need to start 'thinking' like a millionaire.

Let me explain, successful people in general (people who are perceived by the majority to have achieved above and beyond the rest) including those who make millions online, 'Think' in a certain way that differs from the majority of people. The good news is though, that your thoughts and 'patterns of thought' are things that you can take charge of and 'control' then adjust in order to start thinking in the same way as those who are already successful at making money. To start you on your road to success I've outlined below 3 ways that you can immediately use to start thinking like the millionaire that you want to be!

How to view problems

If making money and building an online business was an easy thing to achieve then everyone would do it. Inevitably there will be problems along the way. How you view these problems can be a deciding factor in overcoming them! The high achievers view problems as, inevitable, all part of the process. They see them as hurdles to be jumped or obstacles to find a way around.

In fact the word problem often does not exist within their vocabulary; they use the word 'challenge' in its place. These people won't say, "The problem is" (that sounds like an excuse?) They just say "My challenge is" xyz and then they focus positively on the possible solutions. So from now on, lose the word problem from your vocabulary and chose to use the word 'challenge' in its place along with looking for a new perspective that views your challenge positively.

Know when to quit

When should you quit? That is a very easy one to answer, especially when it comes to chasing financial goals! The answer is NEVER quit. No matter how many challenges seem to face you in your quest, there is one sure way to guarantee that you will NOT succeed and that is if you quit!

By all means change your tactics on a particular project, perhaps try a different program to follow, or indeed if needed re-think your whole strategy and change your angle of attack. However the age old saying is as true today as it has ever been, 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again!' Keeping your dream alive, whether that is to work from home or to generate a million dollar online business, requires you to never give in to the challenges that face you, this surely is a prerequisite to success. So just keep striving to reach your goals.

Find the positive

Your third way to start thinking like a millionaire that will help you to make money, is to find the positive in 'every' situation. When choosing your perspectives on how you view any situation, choose a positive one that invokes a positive emotional response. Your alternative is in choosing a negative perspective, which can ultimately lead you into a downward spiral of negative emotions. Once negativity gets hold, solutions are harder to find. The choice is yours!

Choose to find a positive way of looking at each and every challenge and you will likely find a positively charged set of emotions to lead you in the direction of a successful outcome.

Now you know the first step in becoming a millionaire online (or anywhere for that matter) starts with you, inside 'your own mind' which is entirely under your control. Starting right now! try to incorporate these ways of 'success oriented thinking' into your everyday life.

Starting to make a money making site

2009-10-07T09:22:00.001-07:00

You cruise around the internet killing time and one common factor keeps popping up to you, Money making websites. Everywhere you go online you stumble upon a money making website. This makes you ask the question, should I start a money making website of my own?

Initially starting a money making website is a low cost low risk venture. There are free methods available online but it’s best to grab yourself your own domain for a minimal spend. So you know you can start up a money making website that has the potential to make you thousands of dollars for practically nothing but the real question you need to ask yourself is have you got the drive to make a winner out of this site.

If you go into this project with the same mindset as 95% of other people you will fail. This is because these people expect to make money over night or quick money within a week. It doesn’t work like this. It takes time to build a successful money making website, sometimes years but over time you will add to your web estate and work and nurture your sites so they are all making money.

Don’t look at this in a bad way, if you take your time to learn the ropes and slowly build up your empire the more likely your revenue will last and stay stable over a longer period. This is just good business practice whether it is online or offline. You don’t want to make big dollars today and then never see a cent for the rest of your online business career.

Start a money making website today and be one of the few that has the patience to see it through. Stay with it for the long haul and watch has your web estate becomes more and more successful.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg the Internet Millionaire

2009-10-03T23:59:00.000-07:00

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Facebook Founder

Age: 23 years old
Project: Facebook
Wealth: $700 million

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online social website Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook is a social networking site popular worldwide. Zuckerberg serves as Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins of his business and his wealth.

Time Magazine added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influential People of 2008. He fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people

10 tips to generate income from your blog

2009-09-19T22:52:00.000-07:00

Making money with the blog is easy when when you know how to do it. The following tips will give you ideas to generate money from your blog. Give it a try

1. Use advertising programs on the blog. Such as AdSense, Text Link Ads, etc....

2. Use RSS advertising. This is also used by many bloggers to generate income.

3. Join directories and link exchanges

4. Join as affiliates business sites such as Forexyard

5. Create eBooks or other digital products for the site visitors to purchase to make money with your blog

6. Join a blogging network where you post on their sites for money

7. Hire bloggers to write blog postings for you

8. Write articles for newspapers or books pertaining to special interests

9. Add a donation button to the blog to raise money

10. Selling your blogs away for money

Top 3 Ways to Make Money on the Internet

2009-09-10T06:16:00.000-07:00

The Internet offers a huge number of different ways to make money. These are 3 of the most important.

1. Affiliate Marketing: You can choose different affiliate networks such as Clickbank. These are websites where merchants offer their products and reward affiliates for each sale they make. The affiliate has to place a banner on his website to either send visitors to the merchant website or to sell the merchant's product, both in exchange for a share of the profits. Overall this is one of the easiest ways to start making money on the internet due to the fact that you don't need to develop and promote your own products, you only need to have a website.

2. eBay: This is probably the biggest market place on the internet these days. Millions of people visit their stores and thousands of transactions are made daily. Ordinary people like you and me can take advantage of this incredible opportunity. You could start right now if you wish; all you need is a product to sell, a PayPal account and a digital camera. There are tons of websites where you can find detailed information about eBay and how to make money from it.

3. AdSense: This is probably the most important money making method for those who own a website. The earning potential is unlimited. Some are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars monthly this way. Even if your site doesn't get huge amounts of traffic you can take advantage of this opportunity.

These 3 methods have something in common: anybody can use them, even those who don't have any experience in internet marketing and online businesses.

By Fabian Davila

The Changing Mind Set of an Apprentice Internet Marketer

2009-08-20T06:44:00.000-07:00

Once the smart budding Internet Marketer has failed a few times she or he will discover the value of an apprenticeship in Internet Marketing. This is the start of the changing mind set of an apprentice Internet Marketer.

If you are determined enough to have gone through the "kid in a candy store" routine or been subject to the "teachings of the gurus" or have tried the "go it alone route" you will know what I am talking about.

There will come a time when you either give up, much to the ridicule of the "I told you so" brigade and possibly your family and friends or you will look for a smarter way to achieve your goals. It is only the determined that will make it.

That smarter way involves you in researching a teacher who will "show you the ropes" without selling you the store! That, I can tell you is easier said than done but they are out there. You can and should learn the free methods of internet marketing. That will save you time and money and believe it or not most of the top methods are free!

To start with though, forums are a wonderful way to do research for your apprenticeship. Also asking questions on the internet generally through Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask or on one of the many social networking websites too numerous to mention.

Research complete, you chose your Mistress or Master as they may be known in the apprenticeship world and submit yourself to their teachings. Now you are the student and ready to begin building a business and a secure financial future in the relaxed knowledge that it will take time and that you will achieve your goals.

Be prepared and stay attuned to your changing mind-set. You are about to learn Internet Marketing at a pace and in a way that suits you then you will be on your way. Having read this far, note and appreciate the changing mindset of an apprentice Internet Marketer!

Jellybean discount coupon - for Singapore only

2009-08-01T20:52:00.001-07:00

How to improve the CTR for Google Adwords

2009-06-22T07:22:00.000-07:00

It really helps a lot in conversions and better ROI if you try to improve the CTR for your ads in Google Adwords. The better the CTR, the better the ad position with the lower CPC, which leads to quality clicks. And finally this leads to better conversions and better ROI.

Here are few easy tips which can help you to increase the CTR. Couple of them are the same old tips, but rest of them are new ones and are working well for my ads. You can test them out and let me know if it worked for you as well.

Spend money on keywords that work: Use exact match or phrase match for the keywords (use of square brackets or quotes like [keywords] or “keywords”). This helps in avoiding unwanted clicks. You will get the clicks which your ad is supposed to be clicked for. This way you get only potential customers to click the ad. Even the use of negative keywords will filter the unwanted clicks. Check for more details on Google Adwords.

Double Advantage: Have variable title for the ads like – {Keyword: Default Title} where you need to replace the default title with suitable text. Visitors tend to click if they find the keyword they are searching for in the ad. In addition to that, Google bolds the keyword which is being searched. So, you will have a double advantage to use the keywords in the title.

Create Urgency: Try to use good call-to-action lines in the ad copy. Let it create the sense of urgency to make the visitor click. Keep in mind that your ad is being shown among your competitors and you need to attract that click. Try testing these which suits the ad – Click now, Get it now, Download free trial, Try our trial today, Special Offer, only for today…

Specific Action: Direct the visitor in the ad the action he/she has to make after clicking. This will help them to make a quick decision to click or not. For example: Register now, Buy at a discount, Download the white paper, Read brochure…

Numberings: Numbers really help in attracting quality clicks. Try putting the prices in the copy. The visitor will decide prior to clicking the ad if he/she finds the price attractive. You can also put toll free numbers in the ad as it will avoid that click and the visitor will directly call you and will not click. Just give a unique phone number so that you can track the calls and calculate the conversions and ROI.

What is the purpose of e-mail?

2009-05-23T23:59:00.000-07:00

I can't imagine a senior management in a company who depends purely on email to communicate and assumes that all emails are clear and concise.

Not sure if you also have such weirdo in your company, its certainly a load of shit working with such person. I hope that he is not living in a PC!

What You Need To Know About Business Email: What is the purpose of e-mail?

The purpose of e-mail is to communicate information. It's not to have a conversation as a conversation is best face to face or on the phone when you're synchronous. E-mail is asynchronous. It's passing a message to someone to do something, request something, delivering something, asking them to send something back to someone else. E-mail is best used for communicating something in a very concise and clear manner. But we've moved conversation into that and it's caused e-mails to be confusing, misleading, vague, too long, too short, and often e-mails confuse the receiver with what they should do.

Do you know?

2009-04-10T23:56:00.000-07:00

Some Money habits

2009-03-28T04:37:00.000-07:00

Don't borrow money. Don't apply for credit cards because you want to blow money you don't have. Don't have to spend cash for everything but make sure you pay your credits on time so that you'll not end up in so much debt that you can't see over it!

Whats the advantage of posting in forums?

2009-03-13T22:56:00.000-07:00

Whats the advantage of posting in forums?

You have the opportunity to respond, to posts, ask questions, solicit joint ventures or just comment.
Plus all your replies, comments, and signature files are posted on the website and indexed by the search engines.

Some people have replied to thousands of forum posts.
This gives them unbelievable amounts of traffic and money!

You may find some valuable joint venture partners, advertising opportunites too!

Free free to search my site for related posting on forums.

Protect Your Dream

2009-03-02T07:38:00.000-08:00

“Hey, don’t ever let somebody tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me… Alright? You got a dream and you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it.”

Making money on the internet

2009-02-27T19:51:00.000-08:00

If you do the internet search on how to make money, you will find ton of ways to earn money from the internet. Yes, It is possible to earn money from internet. You can earn from 5 cents to a couple of hundred thousand dollars per month by selling stuffs, advertising and signing up with affiliate program.

Selling stuffs and advertising
Internet is a great place to sell and buy stuff. You have unlimited opportunities and the whole whole as your customers Google adsense is a great example.

Affiliate Program
Amazon is a great example of a successful affiliate program.

Another great example is forexyard

Internet is a great place to make money, but be careful of fraud and scams.

Eight ways to make money online

2009-02-21T06:27:00.000-08:00

Try out these methods to make money online

1.Virtual Store
2.Virtual Landlord
3.Virtual Matchmaker
4.Content Provider (subscriber model)
6.Content Provider (advertising model)
7.Domain Directory
8.Domain Flipping

iFinancial Freedom store

2009-02-13T23:26:00.000-08:00

Hi Friends

I have opened my own iFinancial freedom store. In this store you can find books and DVDs related to ways on achieving financial freedom. Happy shopping!

What's the excitement about year end bonus?

2009-02-08T07:41:00.000-08:00

Its bonus time! It’s the time of the year which every employee is look forward to. We get bonus and salary adjustment during this period. But wait... what's the celebration about? Everyday the media is reminding us about recession, economy is sinking all thanks to those who made this possible!

But my company is doing well! We have profits! We are acquiring other companies at this period of recession and downturn!

CEO says that the company is sorry that you will have no increment this year. Your bonus will be cut! If this is the case, tell your employees in advance!

We work endlessly for you hoping that we can have a small tiny bit of your profits end of the year, and now you are tell us all these despite still having huge profits?

This is the kind of life you end up with by working for a company

What is my defination of Financial Freedom - Part 2

2009-01-31T00:00:00.000-08:00

Is financial freedom possible for an average person who does not come with a sliver or golden spoon in our mouths like you and me?

Yes! It is possible!

How to achieve it?

Step 1. A_k__wl_ge the situation that we are in
Step 2. Setup a b_og
Step 3. Setup account at _ds_n_e
Step 4. Setup A_fl__te marketing
Step 5. Setup Google A_a_yt__s
Step 6. I_v_st your money

Sounds familar? I am sure you know where to find the answers :)

Happy Lunar New Year

2009-01-25T07:18:00.001-08:00

Happy Lunar New Year

Dear friends!!
Happy Lunar new year of the 'BULL', ;D
have a prosperous, hopeful and healthy new year and make lots of money

An interesting site - The Junk mailbox

2009-01-24T08:29:00.000-08:00

The Junk mailbox is an interesting, may also be useful website to share information that is floating around the internet.

If you have any interesting or useful article to share do send them to thejunkmailbox2@yahoo.com.au

Do you know how money is created?

2009-01-14T07:20:00.000-08:00

Paul Grignon's 47-minute animated presentation of "Money as Debt" tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. It is an entertaining way to get the message out. The Cowichan Citizens Coalition and its "Duncan Initiative" received high praise from those who previewed it. I recommend it as a painless but hard-hitting educational tool and encourage the widest distribution and use by all groups concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system in Canada and the United States

Get paid to post II

2009-01-11T08:04:00.000-08:00

This is the second site I found that you can earn money by posting messages.To me, it’s really cool, coz I always like to write and share with others.

Here you can earn money by
1) Starting discussions (The more responses you get, the more you’ll earn).
2) Respond to others’ discussions
3) Add image to your posts
4) Refer to friends

Easy?
It’s just like you join any discussion groups, but from here, you’ll get paid. Of course, your messages must be meaningful, and not only one or two lines of reply. The pay is judged by the quality of the posts, so that people don’t simply respond just to get money.

The pay rate algorithm is not known to the members. For referral, you’ll earn 25% commission from your referral earnings. Minimum payout of $10. You’ll automatically get your payment in 15th the next month, if you manage to reach the minimum payout in by end of this month.

So far I have earned about $20 in 3 weeks, without referral.

Feel free to join myLot

Removed Spottt from my blog

2009-01-05T01:49:00.000-08:00

Unfortunately after several retries (more than 5 times of submission) with Spottt, I have decided to stop and remove it from my blog.

Reason?

I have been rejected numerous times regardless of where I place it on my spottt. Anyway, not sure how good is it to promote my blog. If anyone is successful in using Spottt do share it with us here.

Weekend Specials - Get Paid To Upload Your Pics!

2009-01-04T07:40:00.000-08:00

Another step closer to financial freedom!
Upload your pictures to Sharepic and get paid.
I guess I don't have to explain this further. Click on below banner to sign up

The Science of Getting Rich

2009-01-03T06:35:00.000-08:00

The Science of Getting Rich gives you two choices. Focus all your energy in a negative way on your bills. If you do this your chances of success are almost zero. However if you focus your energy on creating extra residual income, eventually you'll get it and fall in a higher tax bracket and join the 1% that are truly enjoying wealth and unlimited income in their lives. Anyone can do this, but it's the mindset sadly enough that destroys 99% of the people today. This does not mean that 99% of the people out there are stupid, just grossly misinformed. If you can be that top one percent that's truly informed and understands what it will really take to Get Rich on The Internet, at least you can decide for yourself if you're willing to put in the work it will take to make this happen for yourself.

You'll find that taking a peek at The Science of Getting Rich is a factor that can go a an incredibly long way towards putting you where you want to be and realistically How to Get Rich Slowly when different courses will unfortunately leave folks in limbo. This Get Rich Online system comes through like gang busters when it comes to making the type of cheddar that you are really trying to make.

If you are considering How to Get Rich at Home, you'll find that you want to think where you want to be. What The Science of Getting Rich is trying to tell you on the other hand, is that you want to think about and focus on the Best Way to Get Rich. This system starts off by communicating with you that money is really not complete nor depressing and they certainly plunge all the way down and determine the I Want to Get Rich mentality.

How Do I Get Rich?

I wasn't sure if you were aware of this or not, but you get out of life what you put into it. In other words, the more people you help to achieve their goals and dreams the easier it will be for you to achieve yours. This is called the Law of Reciprocity and this rule will never change no matter what Business Sector you are in. Also you need to do what you enjoy doing, not what other people, like your parents or peers are pressuring you to do. You have to do for yourself for all the right reasons, or your income will eventually collapse.

For instance, according to this source, out of one hundred folks who are being tracked from the onset of their careers to their retirement period, one will Get Rich at Home, only 4 will be financially set, five folks will go out and perform labor through retirement out of need, thirty-six will be dead and buried and an overwhelming fifty-four will be all out broke.

As you can determine with figures affiliated with this, educating yourself on the in's and out's of the Best Way to Get Rich and making sure that you can Get Rich Online can go a an incredibly long degree towards making you feel praiseworthy about the future. This metric seems like it would be outrageous for someone who is looking to Get Rich on the Internet, still more if you are familiar with The Secret and the Laws of Attraction.

If you have discovered that these sources have enriched our way of living, why not let something that has been built on a similar basis enrich you on a much more fundamental way as well? This is a factor that can go a an incredibly long way towards getting you where you want to be. Just keep saying to yourself I Want to Get Rich. Not only do you need this captivating mentality but you also have to get on a consecutive system of properly executed action steps to ensure that each day you are closer to your outrageous goal.

To Get Rich on the Internet takes a definite type of unselfishness, a unselfishness most of us only ponder about. The problem is 85% of the people trying to Get Rich at Home quit right before they are about to experience a major break through. If these folks had of just hung in there a little big longer, they'd be living in a million dollar house verses wondering how they are going to pay their next mortgage payment before incurring a late payment penalty.

For many people, getting ahead means that they have to work and slave away, but you can make sure that you can make your money the way that you want to, and as quickly as you want to! Take the time to think about what you can do to use The Science of Getting Rich in your day to day life and don't delay when it comes to the powerful changes that can happen.

Article by: Brian Garvin

Another step closer to financial freedom - Happy New Year 2009

2009-01-01T00:02:00.000-08:00

Hi friends,

While we continue our journey to financial freedom, may 2009 be a year full of joy and happiness!

Crunch will cost UK 600,000 jobs during 2009

2008-12-31T20:07:00.000-08:00

When combined with those job losses that have already occurred since the start of the recession in mid-2008, the UK will likely suffer the the loss of about 750,000 jobs by the end of 2009.

The CIPD warned that this would be equivalent to the total net rise in employment in the preceding three years.

CIPD chief economist John Philpott said: "Assuming the economy bottoms out in the second half of 2009, job losses are likely to continue into 2010, in all probability taking the final toll of lost jobs to around 1 million."

Philpott added: "Our current expectation, based on available survey evidence and employer soundings, is that the number of redundancies will jump sharply in the early months of 2009, once employers take stock of the economic outlook.

"The period between New Year and Easter is likely to be the worst for redundancies since 1991.

"Similarly, the CIPD’s baseline forecast is that by the end of 2009 the number of people unemployed and actively seeking work will have increased to 2.8 million, 1 million above the autumn 2008 figure."

The institute's annual Barometer Report, published today (29 December), also predicts poor pay prospects over the year ahead, with more than half of the 2,604 employees quizzed expecting to receive either less than they did last year or no pay rise at all.

Overall, 28 per cent of employees believe that they will not receive a pay increase in 2009, while 26 per cent predict that they will receive a lower pay rise than the one they got in 2008.

A further 2 per cent actually expect a pay cut during the year.

CIPD reward adviser Charles Cotton said: "With job cuts seemingly lurking around every corner and trading conditions tight, employees are realistic about their pay prospects for the year ahead. Against this backdrop, employers will need to work hard to find new ways to motivate their employees to perform."

Article from : FTAdviser

Sharing what I have realized about work and life

2008-12-29T05:35:00.000-08:00

I have been spending most of my time working BLINDLY and after years of working, I started complaining why most our lives must be spent on WORKING? It will be different story if I were working as in building my OWN empire but I wasn't. I was working for PEOPLE, in another words as an employee.

In Singapore, it is so common to see people work for companies days after days, months after months, years after years. What do they get at the end? Retirement? (Which is barely not enough in future as the populations now are outliving their sources).
Furthermore, do you think you can survive till retirement? Don't forget RECESSION which means retrenchment. Nothing is guaranteed in future.

Are you happy with what you are doing? Why spend so much miserable time on life where we only live once? young once? Not unless if you're happy with what you are doing now, by all means.
But if you were like me, used to working BLINDLY? It's time to wake up and it's still not too late. Do what you have passion with, I once watched Oprah's talk show and she said during her show, one does not need to pursue success, do what you have passion with and success will come to you. Does it make sense to you?
You might not know what your passion is but don't give up, keep searching because never try never know. Why waste your time leading a miserable life? Be a daring one to search what you are good at. Time never come back so do our youth.
Although I haven't really found what I really have passion with and good at, I still searching because I don't want to give up. But luckily I woke up from my miserable life and taking action to be the person I want to be.
What is success to you? Everyone has different of definition for it. Commonly, many think that by owning a big house, a car, a good career are successful indications.
But hey, look into yourself, what kind of life do you want to lead? You don't live for others, but you and family. Example, if a lady aims to be a successful housewife who takes good care of her husband and children, keeping the house clean and tidy, helping and supporting her husband, making the family a happy one and if she achieved that aim, she is considered a successful person in her life. Why? Because that is her AIM, to be successful in what she wants to be.
So, if you're living or working blindly, please wake up and start to search. Dare to dream! Dreamers are people with goals, it's ok to be a dreamer but do what you need to do in order to achieve it. It's ok to face some failures in life because they are your TEACHERS. Don't give up. Do it before it's too late.
Live your life everybody!

But not to forget, ones must have the right attitude to continue the journey. Good Luck!

From my friend Evangeline (thanks!)

Added RSS News

2008-12-27T08:01:00.000-08:00

I have always wanted to keep up to date on investments news, blogging tips and tips on different ways to achieve financial freedom via a single platform. A better and more convenient way that I found useful is to add an RSS news reader to my side bar. Now my visitors and I can get up to date with investment news, blogging tips and any new ideas that come from other parts of the world.

If you have a site that contributes towards achieving financial freedom do let me know. We can link our sites and share information. :)

Christmas Greetings

2008-12-23T22:48:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas and may all our dreams come true. Keep our minds focus towards achieving Financial Freedom.

What is my defination of Financial Freedom - Part 1

2008-12-22T22:28:00.000-08:00

I believe Financial freedom is the state whereby the amount of passive income exceeds your living expenses. This amount of passive income streams is so huge that you no longer need to work to maintain your current lifestyle.

The fact that many of us have not achieved Financial Freedom is because we are normally trapped in the time-money trade-off where we have to invest time in running a business or earning a wage in order to earn the income that supports our lifestyle.

Weekend Special - How to grow your money from FX trading

2008-12-20T05:34:00.000-08:00

For the past months I have been following this site called Practical FX Trading to practice FX trading. So far its 80% win and 20% loss for my trades. This is a good alternative for secondary income and another step closer to financial freedom.

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2008-12-18T05:52:00.001-08:00

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Why a job is not a long term solution to Financial Freedom - Part 2

2008-12-17T07:43:00.000-08:00

Having wasted 1 weekend gathering data and formulating statistics to justify for the hard work and sweat that I have done for my company, guess what's next?

Its another time wasting 1 hour session for my boss to provide feedback and rate me on the work I have done for the year!

Problem is he does not even know what I have done.

Try my best to justify and prove to him what I have done is indeed value adding and I have gone all out to make it happen, just for the 5% increment or 10% increment if he accepts my justifications and promote me?

Why do we want to waste the whole of our life pleasing other people who does not even care and know what we are doing?

How to Advertise online

2008-12-15T05:33:00.000-08:00

You're new to marketing online, and you need to find out what resources are the best for advertising. What is all the hype about this new trend of online advertising called Pixel Advertising? Emagazine advertising is one of the most popular ways to market yourself online.

Netsurfer became the proverbial canary in the coalmine that succumbed to the hazardous winds blowing across the online advertising market. Participating in online forums about online advertising is an excellent way to get new ideas for your online advertising and for new search engine optimization techniques that are effective as the search engines change their ranking rules. Usually an unscrupulous competitor who wants to break a rival's bank, online "vandals" who get their kicks causing other people grief, or search engine advertising affiliates who want to earn fat commissions by racking up piles of bogus clicks.

The corollary to this law of web surfing behavior: Anyone who clicks through to your site via an online advertising link needs to know they've arrived at the right place as soon as they get there. So here it is, the first law of human web surfing behavior, which you absolutely must take into account when marketing your website: While surfing the web, almost everyone will hit the "back" button if they think there's a chance, they've come to the wrong web page. On the internet, your advertising through search engines, directories, email and other sources takes care of getting the visitors to your website, your "retail store" on the web.

You can overcome the advertising challenge by using the techniques outlined in Part I and Part II of what it takes to advertise your internet business. There are many different factors to consider in running an online business, but I think advertising is one of the most confusing for people to grasp and understand. Effective online advertising is based on matching the ad, or site, to people who are already interested in the products and services being offered.

For a home based start up, online advertising is a potent tool that can maximize visibility, drive traffic to the company’s website, up the sales and build a solid brand in the process. But, unearthing these online riches entails balancing the advertising content so businesses can make money while at the same time not alienating viewers who, up until now, have not been forced to endure institutional advertising in their online video clips. Though there is a wealth of techniques through which online advertising can be carried out, the most popular form at the present is through rich media sources.

Those were just a few of the many ways to do free advertising of your online business. Blogging is a technique that is becoming an extremely effective and almost necessary method of advertising your online business. The infrastructure that is necessary for online advertising can become quite pricy if one wishes to develop an elaborate set of advertisements and as such many small businesses shy away from online aspect of marketing.

The fact is that online advertising is really not all that different in principle from advertising in the rest of the world, as some of the truly successful Internet marketing gurus have pointed out. Google made a revolution in advertising introducing the contextual advertising models in their services AdWords and AdSense. Marketers needed new advertising models so they started making ads using Flash.

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A terrible weekend - You ARE FIRED!

2008-12-13T22:58:00.001-08:00

In a short one week, I recieved 3 of my friends calling me to keep a lookout for jobs.

They have been retrenched !

In this climate where recession and job cuts are widely publicised, it will be extremely difficult to find a job if you are retrenched. So, if you still have a job now, its time you begain to start looking for other streams of income.

One of the ways to start off is to follow the footsteps of someone who has made the results, such as my six steps guide to financial freedom

How to earn $ with every post or replies you make/get in forum

2008-12-11T07:04:00.000-08:00

You earn money by posting on these forums. Every post earns you some cents and if you start a thread and it gets some replies then you will earn for every reply it gets. You can also earn for referrals. If you upgrade your account for $10 a month you can earn double the amount of points for every post so your earnings will raise a lot faster. It just that simple SIGN UP NOW!!!!!

My blog is listed on first page of Google Search

2008-12-09T04:36:00.000-08:00

I hope that you have started your journey to financial freedom by following the six steps I mentioned.

Went to do a search on google for "ifinancial freedom" and found my blog to be listed on the first page results of google search.

If you stil have not taken the initative, you can still find out how I managed to cover my expenses in these 6 easy steps: http://ifinancialfreedomnow.blogspot.com/search/label/financial%20freedom

My Blog is available in all major languages now

2008-12-08T08:03:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the feedbacks and comments of fellow bloggers, my blog is now available to all major languages. Please scroll down to the bottom of the side bar you will see a language translator like the one below.

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Billionaires of ZIMBABWE

2008-12-07T20:24:00.000-08:00

500 million dollar bill, just printed in May 2008.....everybody can have it.... just enough for breakfast/lunch (equal to about USD 2)

Everybody is a billionaire ....

To buy tidbits in a plastic packet......you have to spend at least 10 million

To buy eggs........6000 million

If you want to eat in a restaurant, please prepare the money......... Your monthly salary.........you need to hire a taxi or lorry to bring the money home.....

Young kid - already a millionaire.......

Weekend Special - How to make money online with Amazon $1000 a week or more

2008-12-06T20:08:00.001-08:00

How to make money online with Amazon $1000 a week or more

Blog Traffic Tips - Google AdWords

2008-12-05T05:52:00.001-08:00

This is for those advanced users. If you want a sudden influx of traffic, then you will want to read everything you need to know about Google AdWords. This is not something that is easily done - otherwise everybody would do it.

Now that's not to say you can do it, or even succeed your first time. You simply have to sign up for Google AdWords, find the correct keywords to what you think people will type in who are interested in the content you have to offer - and in the end; you'll enjoy the amount of people who visit your blog over a lifetime.

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Blog Traffic tips - Video Marketing

2008-12-03T08:10:00.000-08:00

This is one of the greatest ways to drive traffic to the blog. People will go to your video on these following sites:

• YouTube
• Google Video
• Veoh
• Daily Motion
• AOL Video

Or many of the countless video websites around the web. It's a great tool that you should definitely think about starting today. Video marketing allows your visitors to visually identify what you and you blog is about, it makes you look professional, and in the end - you can use keyword targeting to recommend people to your blog as lifetime subscribers!

Blog Traffic tips - Social Bookmarketing

2008-12-03T07:24:00.000-08:00

It's actually social bookmarking but you are actually social bookmarketing. You want to establish a community, relationship with tons of friends, and even book mark other websites. Social bookmarking websites with "do following" links are the best because you can build up backlinks and attract the social bookmarking website links to your website.

You should definitely start today as well! Search engines find these social book marking websites and eventually find your blog, this can instantly bring traffic to your website, and bring you a great deal of lifetime subscribers who are eager to click, read, buy, shop, or do whatever you want them to do!

Why a job is not a long term solution to Financial Freedom

2008-11-29T20:33:00.000-08:00

This weekend I am not able to do much posting on my blog and other activities.

Why?

Its year end! And my boss want me to send him my achievements for the year to convince him that I am still a valuable asset to the company. It's frustrating despite working 10hrs everyday I still have to spend my weekends gathering 'statistics' to prove what I have contributed just because my boss does not keep a record of what I have done.

For the numerous Bosses that I worked for nowadays, they are just interested in protecting their own job and getting a fat bonus and pay check end of the day. An employee to them is just a tool, if you are perceived to no longer be able to portray that you are a valuable asset you are just wasting your time working in the company.

Noticed I used the word perceived and portray, because in my company everything is about perception. How well you 'work' with your counter parts and managers. Did you buy them coffee or beer to make them happy for the past few months? This will determine your pay check.

I have awakened to realize the opportunity and time lost over the years of selling my time to get a few thousand dollars of salary.

Do you think it is worth selling your life time for just a few thousand dollars?
I know I will not if given a choice!

Take a look at How To Build Recession Proof Income

Latest Christmas Carol for 2008!

2008-11-26T06:50:00.000-08:00

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

It's hitting you once,
It's hitting you twice
It doesn't care if you've been careful and wise
Recession is coming to town

It's worthless if you've got shares
It's worthless if you've got bonds
It's safe when you've got cash in hand
So keep cash for goodness sake, HEY

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town!

Finance products are confusing
Finance products are so vague
The banks make you bear the cost of risk
So keep out for goodness sake, OH

You'd better watch out
You'd better not cry
You'd better keep cash
I'm telling you why:
Recession is coming to town.

10 Steps Techies Should Take to Keep Their Jobs in a Financial Meltdown

2008-11-25T07:50:00.000-08:00

As the economy gets shakier each day, workers everywhere are concerned about losing their jobs. Here are 10 steps the corporate techie toiling away in the server room or the help desk can take to help keep his or her job.

OK, the stock market is falling like a rock. Big banks are being bought and sold like overripe bananas. The masters of the financial universe are looking like suckers at the horse race track buying tip sheets printed after each race. And now, even the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley are telling their captive companies to skip the party, tighten the belt and get yourself sold.
So, with all the highly educated financers showing that they have no clothes, what is the corporate techie toiling away in the server room or the help desk supposed to do to keep a job and pay the mortgage? Here’s my 10-step program.

1. Heads Up!
Don’t think that just because you are doing a really good job at your one task that you can avoid the corporate grim reaper. You really need to understand not just your little corner of the IT world, but all the technology tools that keep your company running. The more you know about all the parts of the machine, the more valuable you become as the company looks for utility players rather than specialists.

2. Take a Hike
That’s right, get outside of your cubicle and spend some time visiting other parts of not just your company’s technology universe, but also the business brains. This is not easy, but after your first small forays, you will be surprised in just what regard the company holds the techies. You’ll learn the language of business and soon find yourself in the ambassador-at-large role, able to form your own opinions about what tech projects are seen as valuable outside the world of the techie cubes.

3. Make Friends
This is foreign territory for lots of techies. It is a lot easier to deal with your computer than a real person. But unless you want to see that e-mail that puts you on the goodbye list, you need to build some sources in the company who can give you an early storm warning. Without access to the corporate radar, you will be flying blind. Become the unofficial computer help desk, and you will soon have the chance to make lots of new friends.

4. Lose Friends
You are trying to keep your job, right? You know how much corporate time is being taken up with fantasy leagues, Web surfing, non-business e-mail, IMing, YouTubing, etc. Someone is going to drop the dime to the higher-ups on the huge waste of time taking place as employees run eBay stores and exchange photos of the party the night before. Might as well be you.

5. Protect the Boss’s Wallet
Make one of your corporate walkabouts after hours. How many terminals are still glowing, printers are running and computers are sitting idle? Take a good guess at how much power is being wasted and let the boss know. Pick another simple target: printer supplies and costs. All those printers add up to a lot of supplies and paper being wasted. Wade through all those software license agreements to find out exactly what your company is paying for. You can become not only the boss’s favorite cost cutter, but you can fashion yourself as an eco champion as well.

6. Watch the Cloud
It used to be really difficult to learn a new application or programming environment. You had to get access to a system and attend a class or certification seminar somewhere, and, after all that, you were never quite sure your new knowledge could stand the corporate computing environment test. Now, you have a computing cloud you can tap into. Take some time to understand Google’s corporate offerings, Salesforce.com and Amazon’s cloud. The corporate cloud is one of the hot topics these days, and you need to be the one who can explain why or why not the cloud is right for your company.

7. Keep the Boss Happy
How many times has the mystery of why one corporate geek keeps his or her job when the layoff scythe is swinging been solved by figuring out who really is the one that the boss uses to keep his or her system running? Who makes sure the boss has the latest laptop or makes sure the boss’s BlackBerry is always up to date and tied into corporate apps? And who is the one whom the boss uses to keep the family computers running and is the one who acts as the help desk for the boss’s college kids? Enough said.

8. Tune Up the Old Engine
In downturns, companies hang onto their old servers and network equipment far longer than the equipment’s warranties. Someone has to be the person who knows the ins and outs of the sputtering server, the dying disk drives and the flaky network router. It should be you they call when the system conks out.

9. Kill an App
Somewhere, maybe many somewheres, there are apps running on servers in your company that haven’t been needed in years. No one knows who created those apps, who used those apps or why they are still running. Killing an app means you can usually kill a couple of servers, save some money in the server room, free up resources and generally look like someone who knows what’s going on. Good for you.

10. Pull a Plug
Keep track of the servers you take offline, the printers you turn to off instead of putting on idle, the computers you shut down instead of putting on standby. Those acts alone will put you in the green cost-saving category. Now, take on the bigger task of sitting down with the bean counters and HVAC and figure out how much that data center is costing each month. You find out this information and you have the keys to the castle.

source: eweek

How to build a focused website that is pulling in tons and tons of traffic?

2008-11-24T06:50:00.000-08:00

Keyword research is a very, very important part of having a website. The internet is a huge place, and if you are not spending time planning things out before you build, you are wasting a true opportunity.
Sometimes the internet seems crowded, sometimes it seems vast. What you need to do is find the holes in the crowd, and build your pages there. Fortunately this can be done with keyword research, and wordtracker has created a free service for us to use!
Wordtracker is a keyword research company, that operates a massive keyword research tool. To fully take advantage of wordtracker's power, you would need to subscribe to its services. Fortunately for us, the free tool will suit our purposes.
To start using the tool, simply decide on a root keyword phrase that you would like to explore. Essentially you will feed this phrase to wordtracker, and it will spit out up to 100 related keywords. It will also show you how often each one of these terms is searched for on the internet.
This is very valuable information, because it helps us to understand what area of your niche has the most demand for traffic. I would suggest plugging in as many "root" keywords as you can, to get a thorough overview of what people are typing in to find your niche on the internet.
This can also help you better understand how you should expand your website, to meet the demands of your visitors.
Once you have a list of potential keywords, it is also important to look at the amount of competition each has in the search engines.
Before you know it, you will have built a focused website that is pulling in tons and tons of traffic.

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How to insulate yourself from the impact of the economic crisis

2008-11-24T02:12:00.000-08:00

We all know it’s getting ugly out there. Jobs are going, share prices have plummeted, year-end bonuses look shaky and anxiety levels are sky-high. Time, then, to batten down the hatches.

For many people, that means keeping their finances on track until the economy turns the corner.

Experts have various tips on how to do this, but they mostly boil down to belt-tightening and taking a hard look at expenses and liabilities.

Ms Anne Tay, OCBC Bank’s vice-president of group wealth management, encourages people to go back to basics and revisit some principles of managing wealth.

‘I agree that we are entering turbulent times now and cash is king. But bear markets or financial crises come and go and things will recover,’ she notes.

‘The real test is how long it will take and can we hold out that long. This is an opportunity to rethink our wealth-building strategy.’

Here are 10 tips to ride out the recession.

1 Take stock of your cash position

It is vital to get a handle on your cash flow - income versus expenses - so that you know how vulnerable you are if, say, you get retrenched.

Ms Janice Poon, Standard Chartered Bank’s general manager of wealth management, believes that managing cash flow is the first step towards planning for a rainy day and it could mean having enough cash for emergencies.

‘It’s something you should be doing all the time but it’s even more critical during a downturn,’ she says.

The chief executive of financial advisory firm New Independent, Mr Joseph Chong, says people must ensure they have enough emergency funds.

‘This should be in the region of six to 12 months of your monthly expenses. The downturn in the global and Singapore economies will see more layoffs and fewer hirings,’ he says.

2 Home loans

In this high-inflation, low-interest-rate environment, one of the best things you can do is to review your debts and refinance wherever possible.

It is crucial to prioritise your debts and manage them.

Your home loan should rank high in this scheme of things simply because it is a big-ticket item. This means it could provide the single biggest cost-saving option.

Consider moving to a variable rate mortgage pegged to the three-month Sibor or Singapore interbank offered rate. This rate fell to a near five-year low of 0.89 per cent on Tuesday and was 0.95 per cent on Friday.

Mr Chong notes that central banks around the world are slashing interest rates to head off a steep recession, so short-term rates are expected to stay low next year.

This means big savings for those on variable packages.

Alpha Financial Advisers’ chief executive, Mr Arthur Lim, suggests that home owners look for refinancing savings by checking out the different mortgage rates - but take into consideration any penalty charges.

3 Credit card debt

With hard times coming, consumers should be wary about credit card spending and unsecured debts such as credit lines.

‘The good times experienced by Singapore over the last few years have lulled individuals into complacency and some bad habits have been built up, such as not paying your credit card bills in full,’ says Mr Kuo How Nam, president of Credit Counselling Singapore (CCS), a non-profit group that advises debtors.

‘This is a good time to tighten their belts, pay off the unsecured consumer debts as fast as possible and build up a buffer fund as a cushion if something bad happens to their jobs and incomes.’

One way is to curb spending on non-essentials.

Ms Chenise Lim, vice-president at ipac financial planning Singapore, warns consumers that credit card debt is one of the most expensive loans available.

‘Don’t be taken in by the minimum payment option on your statement, as outstanding balances can attract an annual interest cost of up to 24 per cent. If you’re unable to pay your debt in full, try to pay as much as possible and then set aside your credit card and avoid using it until your debt is fully cleared,’ she says.

4 Consolidate your debts

As a guide, your monthly long-term debt commitments should not exceed 35 per cent of your monthly gross income.

Consider debt consolidation if you have outstanding balances with different credit card companies and have difficulty paying. CCS can negotiate with these banks and help restructure the repayment of these debts on your behalf.

Ms Poon suggests taking advantage of balance-transfer promotions offered with a lower interest rate to refinance your higher-cost debt.

5 Review insurance policies

Mr Chong urges people to ensure that their hospitalisation policies are in force.

‘Remember, you cannot rely on your company’s insurance coverage, especially in a downturn, as the company may not always be there,’ he says.

An exception is if you have a portable medical plan that follows you even when you leave your employer.

Check if your policies still meet your financial objectives. You may want to discontinue them if they are no longer necessary. Otherwise, it is prudent to take a policy loan, says Mr Lim.

This means you maintain your protection while you take a premium holiday.

During this period, premiums will be deducted against the policy’s cash value so you still enjoy your cover.

6 Review your investment portfolios

It is very likely that many investors’ portfolios have suffered big losses with gains wiped out and even the starting capital reduced.

Given that your objectives, time horizon and risk appetite remain unchanged, Mr Lim recommends restructuring the portfolio to cater for more risk.

But if taking on more risk is not consistent with your investment profile, then either moderate the target amount needed or extend your time horizon.

Here’s a suggestion from Mr Chong on how to restructure a portfolio: ‘At least rebalance your portfolio in accordance with your investment-risk profile. A 60 per cent equities and 40 per cent fixed income portfolio would probably need to be rebalanced by selling one-third of the fixed income and deploying the proceeds into equities.’

This discipline means you automatically buy cheap as equities now are at bargain prices with an average dividend yield of 4 per cent. ‘The economy and the stock market will eventually recover as global money supply is beginning to pick up in response to the aggressive central bank rate cuts,’ Mr Chong adds.

7 Investment checklist

If you are planning to enter the market, Ms Lim says you should ensure that your investment strategy is well diversified across asset classes, countries, sectors and stocks.

In addition, practise dollar-cost averaging, which involves buying into the market via a fixed sum regularly so when the prices are low, your money buys more units.

Over the long term, your portfolio will benefit as markets tend to trend upwards.

For stock traders, DMG & Partners head of research Terence Wong’s advice is to stay away if they need the cash in the next couple of months.

Enter only if you are willing and able to wait for the long haul. While stocks appear cheap now, he expects better opportunities next year as the negative sentiments are expected to weigh on the market.

8 Use of CPF top-ups

Enjoy tax relief on your income when you top up either your own CPF Minimum Sum or those of your immediate family members.

You can enjoy tax relief of up to $7,000 a year if you use cash to top up for yourself and/or receive cash top-ups from your employer.

You can enjoy an additional tax relief of up to $7,000 a year if you use cash to top up for your siblings, spouse, parents or grandparents.

Your siblings and/or spouse must have earned $2,000 or less in the preceding year to qualify for the tax relief.

The giver can claim tax relief in the following year’s tax assessment.

9 Use the Supplementary Retirement Scheme (SRS)

Contributions to the SRS account bring income-tax relief. You can contribute any amount each year subject to a cap of $11,475 for Singaporeans and permanent residents and $26,775 for foreigners.

Besides providing you with the discipline to save consistently for retirement, SRS gives an additional nest-egg on top of your CPF account.

Note that 50 per cent of your withdrawals from SRS is subject to tax at retirement. Withdrawals can be made over a period of 10 years. With lower or nominal income at retirement, you may end up paying little or no income tax.

10 Recession-proof your job

With job cuts reported more often now, this is not the time to take an extended holiday or sabbatical. Be visible, go beyond your basic responsibilities, upgrade yourself and continue to network.

Remember, no one will lay off a star performer.

But, update your resume just in case.

Source : Straits Times - 16 Nov 2008

How to start an Internet Business

2008-11-23T18:40:00.000-08:00

Many individuals ask themselves - is it really possible to run an online home business part-time and still continue their full time office job. The answer to this question is Yes. Many people wonder, How would they make the time? It's just too much to do all at once, How could someone manage all of this? All of these questions and comments are involved in juggling an outside job and an online home business, but the main to keep in mind is that it is possible – but are you capable? These are three important things that you would want to keep at the top of your head if you to be successful. What really matters is you must have the desire and drive to have an online home business. If it is your wish to maintain your current day job and at the same time start an online home-based business you have to be really focused on being able to do so. If you do not want it bad enough and don't have the necessary drive you would be setting yourself up for failure. If you think you are ready to make a commitment to do both jobs and are prepared to do whatever it takes to maintain them both,then are defiantly moving in the correct direction. What this means simply is that you must use all the available time you have from your full time job and use it to your online home business, this might mean cutting back on normal everyday recreational activities like going to dinners, the movies and other similar activities. Holidays as well as weekends can be used working on your online home-based business. As long as you are prepared to use all your free time on your online home business it would be possible for you to do both. It all comes down to you possessing the drive and desire to do what it takes to get what you want. Nowadays there is never enough time; everybodys' daily routine is all about juggling, stretching and rushing what ever free time they have. This is the same when it comes to juggling a home-based business and you regular job you, have to be prepared to make the time. After investing the time and effort to find the best home business to start, you would not want to fail by poor time management. Patience, Time and Drive all go hand in hand when working an online home-based business and a regular outside job, you must be efficient and manage your time wisely. Keep very focused on your plans and goals. Don't lose track and have patients because being successful does not happen easily and not everyone you meet will have understanding or patients. You can have a full-time job and run a successful online home business as long as you are prepared to make the effort and do what has to be done. If you would like to know more on this topic check out the link Google Secrets For Small Business that Shows Small Business Owners How To Apply The Power Of Internet Marketing To Their Business.

Boss's Reaction During recession

2008-11-23T07:45:00.001-08:00

Boss Reaction During Recession
In the beginning.....Boss: Be good, you will be fine.

After a week... Must Work Hard k?

After a month...Must Work Hard for " Lim Peh " yu know!
After a Quarter....Can you hear me? you must work hard!!!

Can you afford to fall sick without a job these days?

2008-11-23T03:57:00.000-08:00

I fell sick during the weekend. Spent about $30 to consult my neighbourhood GP.

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Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part6

2008-11-21T20:15:00.000-08:00

Create traffic in your website
After setting up your own website, adsense account and affiliate account, you need to start creating traffic in your website. Meaning you need a lot of people to go into your website, then there is a higher chance that they will click on adsense ads and open account. You need to write contents that will interest people to come to your website. And the content of your website must be updated regularly so your readers will go your website again and again. 1st year of blogging can be very disappointing for your online revenue as few people know about your website. Usually after the 1st year, your website will be more popular, more people will be aware of your website presence and revenue will increase.

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2008-11-20T22:29:00.000-08:00

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Smart Money Drives the Financial Markets?

2008-11-20T07:52:00.000-08:00

What drives financial markets? Who manipulates them, and how? Why are 90% of retail traders "weakholders"?

Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part5

2008-11-20T02:42:00.000-08:00

Install Google Analytics in your website. This allows you to track a few information that will be useful to you:a. Where do your readers come from? b. What is the referring websites?c. Which contents are being actively being read?d. What are the keywords that leads the readers to your website? e. How many readers go to your website each day?f. How much time do your readers spend reading your website?

You really still want to rely on your job?

2008-11-19T04:04:00.000-08:00

Neptune Orient Lines, the world's seventh largest container carrier, said on Wednesday it will shed 9 percent of its workforce and warned the outlook was grim as the shipping sector faces up to a prolonged downturn.
NOL shares fell almost 3 percent after the firm said in a statement it will cut 1,000 jobs, mostly in North America, as it battles to weather a global economic slowdown.
The Singapore-based firm said last month its container shipping business, APL, will reduce capacity in Asia-Europe trade by about 25 percent. NOL said this capacity reduction will save $200 million in costs next year.
In the latest statement on Wednesday it said the firm will incur a $33 million restructuring cost in its fourth quarter.
While analysts were positive about NOL's move to cut costs, they expected NOL to incur losses over the next two years as the shipping industry faces a double-whammy of slowing demand and growing supply.
Deutsche Bank analyst Joe Liew said in a client note that he expects NOL to lose $100 million in 2009 and $115 million in 2010. Regional brokerage CIMB said the job cuts alone would not be enough to keep NOL in the black.
"While we are positive on the measures announced by NOL, the cost-cutting initiatives may not be able to offset the severe top-line pressure at the Asia-Europe trades," said Raymond Yap, CIMB analyst.

Source: Reuters 18 Nov 2008 07:34 PM ET

Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part4

2008-11-18T07:00:00.000-08:00

Tie up with a company to do marketing for them. Many people has this misunderstanding that if they setup a website, they must create their own things to sell. This is absolutely not true, you can do marketing for other companies. Whenever your readers open account OR purchase items from your website, you will earn some commission. In short this is call affiliate marketing.Currently I am doing affiliate marketing for a European trading company call ForexYard. Commission for 1 standard account opened is US$250, commission for 1 mini account opened is US$100. You can tie up with ForexYard by registering yourself below.

Still want to rely on your job?

2008-11-18T04:01:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK (AFP) - - Citigroup said Monday it was slashing a near-record 50,000 jobs worldwide as the US banking giant tightens its belt further to cope with a global financial crisis and heavy losses.The company, in a document for a presentation to employees by chief executive Vikram Pandit, said that the headcount was "expected to be down 20 percent in the near-term from peak levels."At that peak, in the 2007 fourth quarter, Citigroup had a global workforce of 375,000 employees, according to the online document.By the end of September the workforce had been trimmed to 352,000; the additional job cuts announced would pare it to approximately 300,000.It was the second largest job-cut announcement on record, according to global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas, tying with 50,000 job cuts by retailer Sears, Roebuck & Co. in 1993 behind the all-time largest the same year: 60,000 by IBM.The approximately 50,000 job cuts "would be split into the current divestures, and some natural attrition, plus lay-offs," a company source said on condition of anonymity.Citigroup, whose shares have been battered amid the credit crisis, said it was "getting fit -- fast!" and would reduce its overall expenses by 20 percent in the short term from peak levels, to some 50-52 billion dollars in 2009.But the string of announcements has failed to calm investor fears that the bank, once the country's largest, may not weather the financial crisis.Shares plunged 6.62 percent to close at 8.89 dollars, after losing some 24 percent last week.Citi, a component of the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average, has tumbled 70 percent since the start of the year, with the bank hit by hefty writeoffs linked to the US real estate crisis.Douglas McIntyre, analyst at 247 Wall Street, said the company's plummeting share price "leaves the question of whether Citi becomes the next Wachovia or the next AIG," referring to government actions to prevent the collapse of the bank and insurer, respectively."If the problems at Citi deteriorate quickly and it falls, as it certainly does, into the 'too big to fail' bucket, the government may simply have to pour cash into the bank in exchange for a majority ownership position," McIntyre said."That would involve bringing in new management to sell off enough assets to get the bank stable."On Friday the bank announced that Pandit and other key executives had bought 1.3 million shares to show confidence in the company.Citigroup said its capital position was "very strong" and it had made a "significant reduction in risky assets."The ailing bank was among the nine big US banks that agreed last month to give the US government equity stakes in exchange for a combined 125 billion dollars under a 700 billion dollar financial sector rescue plan. Citi got a 25 billion dollar injection.Citi has penciled in 2.1 billion dollars in charges this year for the planned elimination of 22,000 jobs, of which some 13,000 have been completed.Last month, Citi reported a third-quarter loss of 2.8 billion dollars, its fourth straight quarter in the red.The troubled bank is saddled with billions of dollars in losses tied to mortgage investments that lost value in the collapse of the US real estate market and the credit squeeze that erupted last year.Since last year Citi has raised more than 50 billion dollars to shore up its balance sheet, reduced its investment portfolio by more than 100 billion dollars, reorganized activities and sold several businesses, such as CitiStreet, CitiCapital, BPO in India and a retail bank in Germany.

Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part3

2008-11-16T08:28:00.000-08:00

Setup account at Adsense

Adsense is a pay-per-click advertising system from Google. By setting up adsense into your blog, you can earn revenue when your readers click on the ads from Adsense.

Weekend Special - The Perfect Business

2008-11-15T23:40:00.000-08:00

Do you know that owning a house is a liability, until you had paid off all your mortgage loans?

Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part2

2008-11-15T18:48:00.000-08:00

Think of something that you like, such a your hobbies, food, entertainment, girls... and set up your own websites from free provider at blogger.com. Some people may prefer to buy a domain and pay for a server maintenance because it has a nicer website address but this incur costs. I prefer to use a free provider because whatever that I earn from online is net profit for me. Cost of my blogging is zero.

Having Multiple streams of passive incomes - Part1

2008-11-15T05:25:00.000-08:00

In today's world, there is no such thing as a stable and secured career. If your company is not doing well in this recessionary environment, employers may choose to reduce its labour cost and retrench some of its staff. But we as people in the society still have bills to pay, we cannot afford losing a job, income must still flow into our bank account on a monthly basis.This is why we must try to create a few income streams, so in the event that we lost our job, at least our secondary incomes are still flowing in. One of the way to earn secondary income is through blogging.

To be continued ...

A Stock Market Crash

2008-11-15T00:52:00.000-08:00

Many people are frightened by the stock market because of the stories about past market crashes. Yes, those crashes did happen, but the fear surrounding them is more hype than substance.

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Your fear that the market will collapse as it has done in the past is best dismissed by learning that the probability of another crash is infinitesimal and that the damage caused by previous crashes was not as bad as the public’s perception of them.
On October 29, 1929, the Dow, a measurement of the stock market as a whole, fell 30 points to close at 230.07. This represented a drop of almost 13 percent in the whole market. The loss of market value was roughly $14 billion, a staggering sum even now. This meant that $14 billion of the total amount invested into the market by people and by entities such as pension funds was simply gone. The severe ramifications of this event affected even those people who had not actually invested in the market. The subsequent depression, while not directly a result of the stock market crash, further entrenched the idea that investment in the stock market would later reduce the investor to selling apples on a street corner while wearing a barrel. Finally, the stories and depictions of grown men throwing themselves off roofs and crying at their desks assured the general masses that stock investments could only cause heartache.

Taken From : 10 Minute Guide to Investing in Stocks