How to Get Your Piece of the Information Age

Information Age Success

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(last updated 30 December 2007)

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As a "baby boomer," born in the 1950's, I have seen a lot of changes in the world during my life. Most of the changes resulted because of significant improvements in information and technology. In America, we moved from a market driven by industry to the information sciences. The Montgomery Ward and Sears catalogs are gone, and now, we can shop for many more items directly on-line with our personal computers via the Internet.
We moved away from life-long employment with one company, and became a mobile workforce. It is likely that most Americans will have 5 or more jobs in a career, or better yet, seek financial freedom by owning their own business. Since the 1950s in America, financial planning expanded beyond the privileged, and ignited a growth industry. Now anyone working can get help to retire rich or wealthy beyond any wildest dream. This is possible through network marketing using the Internet.
Medical care blossomed to new heights in the previous 4 decades. Now, mans health and womans health issues, concerns, and options flood the air waves of TV, radio, newspaper, magazines, and the Internet.
The digital revolution moved us to use all kinds of new products like the cellular phones, satellite TVs, PDAs, DVD players, the CD Walkman, and cheap long-distance telephone service that linked us to the world. Do you notice the success theme is related to information sciences?
Man jumped way ahead of advanced flight over Earth in the 1960's with manned space flight. NASA continued to excel in this quest and sent men to the Moon, probes to Mars, and Jupiter. Even now, America is planning manned travel to Mars! Man is reaching for the stars, and continues to dream big. As a child, Mom and Dad let me stay up late with my cousins to watch Neil Armstrong step on the Moon. Then, I watched this facinating event from our living room on our new Admiral 19 inch color TV. Recently, I watched pictures of the probes sent to Mars in color on my Internet browser whenever I wanted! Notice important information is now available on your Internet browser whenever you want it. You don't have to stay up late or go somewhere else to get important information you want right now!
Leisure time available to Americans today includes: sports, video games, travel, cruises, mystery tours, hobbies on just about anything like Beanie Babies, digital photography, collectibles, hunting on public lands, fishing, bunji jumping, theme parks, hiking, horse riding, and much more. The increases in wealth and leisure time also brought Americans outdoor camping in the motor home, the jet ski, SUVs, snow boarding, hang gliding, golfing on 100's of public and private courses, and parachuting. Advancements in auto racing developed way beyond the two famous races: The Indianapolis 500 and the Grand Prix.
Now, choices in motor sports include: Motocross, NHRA and AHRA drag racing, baja racing, monster trucks, midget racing, and mud racing. Sports events mushroomed in numbers to include professional, college, high-school, amateur, and Olympic events. In most large American cities, you can find sporting events nearly everyday to enjoy the pass time. If you aren't sure what's available, you can open your Internet browser, and use a search engine like Google to find an event near you in a matter of seconds! Notice, the Internet provides information about things you want, when you want them. This capability makes the Internet a perfect market place to get information to the widest audience - a global audience!
Also, Americans have the opportunity to enjoy our culture through a  plethora of artistic works such as: art, plays, opera, theater, the cinema, and music concerts. If you don't have enough time or money to attend live events, digital technology has come to the rescue - you can watch it on your DVD player or listen to music on a portable CD player while you work out on a treadmill. Did you know you don't have to buy DVDs? Now, through the Internet, you can rent DVDs to avoid lines at the video store! Try renting some DVDs today at NetFlix or WalMart. Search for any title you want on-line, and order it whenever you want it from Amazon. com click here.
The discovery and mapping of the Human Genome brought understanding and advancement in genetics, which is spawning medical discoveries at an algebraic rate. Scientists are serious about increasing our longevity in the next decade and isolating or eliminating the effects of cancer! To find out the latest information in Human Genome Research, click here to visit the National Human Genome Research Institute web site.
What's interesting is that the most amazing accomplishments in health have yet to be discovered. Who can tell what amazing discovery awaits future generations? Click here to read the recent chronology of 20th Century Science at the University of Chicago Press.
We are not at the end of an era of greatness. Success breeds success. What should you look for in the future to gauge the rate of improvements and success? I suggest you look for technology advances in commerce- friendly nations. Nations with the richest investment in technology, education, and those who foster commerce will have the most gains. You may see more about the latest technologies at the U.S. Department of Commerce web site. Click here to find out more of what is going on in America's technological improvements. Continued improvements will last as long as a nation has the ingredients present to keep generating new ideas. These ingredients fueled the culture I enjoyed for more than 40 years and brought about the areas mentioned above. Some of these ingredients include:

Freedom

A Strong Currency

Faith

Knowledge

Trade

Rule of Law

Accurate Information (Truth)

Did you know that you can start participating in future successes today? You can have a piece of the pie and begin building wealth today in America. Today, people like you have noticed the ingredients of success are present and stable in America. After relizing they are on fertile ground, these entrenpeneurs started working towards financial freedom and set goals including spending time to enjoy the American Dream. They stepped up to participate in our great economy. They decided to start home based businesses. You can too. How would you like to get in on a hot opportunity that is in high demand today? One of my favorite MLMs is AMSOIL. Contact an AMSOIL dealer near you to check out this Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) program that is easy to start and available to you today. 
Have you wondered what it would be like to make another $100 per week? What about another $500 a month? Actually, you can make much more because you have an unlimited global market at your fingertips. The Internet and eBay auctions opened the door a few years ago that permit just about anyone with time and desire to make full-time money part-time without quitting their full-time jobs! If you don't believe me, go to www.ebay.com and look at the number of sellers with special markings. For example, take a took at DVD items by clicking here to open a new window and come back here to read the instructions that follow. Open a few items to find sellers with 4 or 5 digits. Click on the number to review the items they sold recently. You can tell DVD sellers are making a lot of money by the number of positive comments and sales within the last 90 days. When you are finished looking around, close the eBay window you opened. Have you started selling on eBay or other simular Internet auction sites? This Internet auction technology coupled with PayPal provides you with a great way to market items and earn serious money part-time. To see more about PayPal or to get an account, click here to start today:

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Look for a supplier of wholesale items that people want, and then  follow Ms. Colliers' advice (in her book on "eBay For Dummies"); get an auction manager to help you manage and sell all those items. Ms. Colliers also provides some resources in her book to get you started finding wholesale items.  eBay.com has an auction manager that works well. You can also check out channeladvisor.com at www.channeladvisor.com/. Channel Advisor offers a 14-day free trial. I am not affiliated with Channel Advisor at this time, but you can refer their service to others with your e-mail address (once you are a registered client) and earn back your monthly user fee. Close the Channel Advisor window after you look around, and continue reading below.
Actually, you don't have to use auctions like eBay or Yahoo to make money on the Internet. Another marvelous idea took off during the "boomer" generation called multi-level marketing (MLM). I got ahead of myself a few minutes ago by recommending MLMs.

MLM is a fun way to enjoy unique products with friends, family, and neighbors. When you recommend friends to join you in a group to buy products from a parent company, you receive bonus income streams as everyone buys products from the company. Normally, after new friends join in other groups with your group, they develop new downline cells of consumers that continue to generate income streams to you. These downline groups can help you earn credits to exchange for cash and/or points for buying great items offered by the company. A company that generates new products, provides training, and great marketing materials will give you the resources to grow wealth and residual income streams that last for years! My favorite MLM has 7 ways to earn money from products that people want and use for their homes, businesses, and health.

You can also join affiliate programs. Did you know that many companies want to reward you for sending friends and associates to their web site to buy things they want and use everyday? This is called network marketing. Internet affiliate programs ask you to promote their web sites to your friends and people who read your web pages. In turn, your affiliate partners reward you for people clicking on their ads and share some of the sales profits with you by sending you a check in the mail. It is possible for you to generate multiple income streams while you sleep with network marketing! Many of my favorite affiliates also allow you to purchase what you advertise on-line to save over retail!

All the information you provide is private and safe with the companies. You can safely shop and buy products today with a credit card using Secure Socket Layer coding between your Internet Explorer or other Internet browser and your leading bank credit card. If you sign up with LinkShare today, you can start earning today by putting affiliate links on your own Internet web pages.  To join LinkShare today click on the text below:

"Partner for free with 500 of the Internet's top online merchants! "

Affiliate web pages are fun to build and post on your web server. It's a lot like writing your first e-mail. You save the file to a folder on your PC, and transfer it to your Internet web file server using a freeware program like Core FTP LE 1.3c build 1447.6 By clicking here, you can download your free version today! In fact, look around for other free software downloads while you visit DOWNLOAD.COM.  Do you like to spend time tracking record collections, or playing games on your PC?  Check out the free stuff at this web site; it's incredible!  When you are finished looking at DOWNLOAD.COM, close the Internet browser window you opened above, and continue to read more below about making your own web site.

You will have to work to build your affiliate web site. Building an income stream with affiliates is not a "get rich scheme." It takes time to research what you want to market (pick something fun you like), build your web site, and start a marketing plan.  In 2004, I jumped in fast after I got a neato lead on a 5-day affiliate marketing course by e-mail.  I have enclosed a web link below where you can get the same free course or buy for a small fee the tools to help you build your site.

5-Day Affiliate Masters Course Free!

 

You will also need to stay motivated about your affiliate business links.  You do this by talking up your partners to your friends to build your confidence and generate new income streams.  I recommend buying motivational audio tapes and books to stay sharp.  One of my favorites is on-line called "Science of Getting Rich," by Wallace D. Wattles.  I included the download link below for you to get a free copy today:


By now you probably wondered what it takes to write web pages. Actually, it is really easy with tools like Microsoft FrontPage. Eventhough you can edit most web pages in a text editor (like Notepad), a web design software tool like MS FrontPage saves time when you are attempting to get a special look to your pages.

My version of FrontPage came used from an eBay auction that I won.  In fact, I shopped on eBay until I found my used copy along with two "how to" books (these tools are worth more than $200 new).  Also, I wanted to see how experts sold on eBay, and Marsha Colliers' book, "eBay For Dummies," gave me plenty of ideas and saved a lot of research time.  Altogether, the FrontPage software and books cost me around $50 to get started!  I paid for these items through my PayPal account to get the items quickly.  I had everything I needed in only a few days.    However, if you are patient, you may want to shop for your Internet auction books and software at half.ebay.com by eBay to save even more!  Close the half.ebay.com window when you are done looking and continue to read below.

With very modest web writing skills, you can build your own affiliate Internet web site.  It took me about one week (working part-time) to build my first affiliate web pages.  I  researched and signed up with my affiliates, built my customized affiliate links, uploaded the links on my web pages to the Internet, and registered one or two of these web pages with search engines like Google and Webcrawler. Using an FTP program like Core FTP LE 1.3c build 1447.6 made loading my finished pages to the Internet a snap.

Remember, promote your web pages to the search engines and tell everyone about your affiliates and MLM products to get interest in your web site.  It's fun, and easy.  Be careful how you promote by e-mail; your ISP may consider the same e-mail to multiple clients a form of Spam.  You can change each e-mail slightly and give each subject line a slightly different title to keep everyone friendly.  Believe me, it's worth being a little creative, and it's fun tell everyone about the great news at your affiliate sites.  I could tell you for hours about the affiliates I'm linked to, but I won't do that because it's more fun if you find out for yourself.

W hatever you decide to do, You are only limited by your desire and available time to reach your goals.   Be advised the ideas presented in this article are not get rich quick schemes. You have to work affiliate, MLM, and eBay auction programs to earn money.  These programs work like a farm, you will get out of them what you put in to them.   By the way, with MLM programs, you should use the products that you promote, but it is not absolutely necessary if you set up commercial, retail off-the-shelf, web, or catalog sales.

Be advised there is no guarantee of success with any business. However, if you have the desire to achieve success, apply yourself to acquire knowledge and information, find quality products that you like, promote your products, and keep the "Golden Rule," you can take advantage of future successes in our information economy.

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Charles Clayton
graylake@yahoo.com

Practical discipleship with Jesus Christ