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		<title>Multiple Streams Of Income&gt;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multiple Streams of Income! It just seems these days that no matter what I do and hard I work that I have never been able to get ahead. I am working three times as hard as I did a few years ago and I am bring home less money. There is no question that things [...]]]></description>
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<p>Multiple Streams of Income!</p>
<p>It just seems these days that no matter what I do and hard I work that I have never been able to get ahead. I am working three times as hard as I did a few years ago and I am bring home less money. There is no question that things have changed and I don’t know if it will ever be like it was. <br />
Have you notice that when you can get some extra work or put in a little extra time, get a little bonus and even pick up a side job how that “little” money helps out a ton. So that’s what I set out to do when I came across <a rel="nofollow" href='http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/cash_gifting_work_home_cash/688/1' target='_blank'>cash gifting work home cash</a>. Everything I was look at wanted me to pay them or to buy these and to re-sell it and make a little profit. I just didn’t want to do that crap. I wanted to make some real money with just putting a little bit of my extra time in a day. This was it!! Only a $10 Admin. Fee and they gave me four affiliate links to market with. And it started with only $25 out of pocket, and with a potential of making $62,000. That’s not bad! <br />
I have not made $62,000, but I am bringing home a few hundred dollars extra every week in cold hard cash. (If you want to see how I market for free you can look at my blog @ <a rel="nofollow" href='http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/abundant_living/688/2' target='_blank'>abundant living</a>). I did not have to spend a ton of time and or money to get the ball rolling. Like I said it all started with free marketing resources  in my spare time now it is working better than I had even hoped for<br />
	What more could one ask for. The team that you work with is great.  They respond to every email within hours of send it. They are great! It’s worth a look.</p>
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		<title>How Making A Secure Income Can Be Simpler Than You Think</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Making a secure income can be a very common idea in today&#8217;s uncertainties this may be done through starting your own business. Though before you start your own business you are going to have to learn some good practices before you jump right in. You have to keep in mind that if you do something wrong this is now your money you are spending. I am going to give you some starter tips on a good way to start <a rel="nofollow" href='http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/making_a_secure_income/679/1' target='_blank'>making a secure income</a> through Affiliate Marketing.</p>
<p>Step one you should find a good school to teach you how to be a good Affiliate Marketer, anybody can be one, though to make money at this you have to be knowledgeable about the subject. Once you find this school you then must learn to earn, what I mean by this is that if you think it is a job that you are going to have and do like a factory job then you are wrong. To be an Affiliate Marketer you are building a business, your own business, so you need patience, drive, and the willingness to do things you may not want to.</p>
<p>Step two in making a secure income is to start out small even if it means you are not making money right away. You will probably not see the effects that you would like right away, you do not want to go your first year off and running in the red. So the first method of Affiliate Marketing I suggest is Article Marketing. This is free and it will get the word out that you are starting a business about advertising. This costs you nothing so the overhead is low and the risk is minimal. It will take some devotion from you because you are spending more time doing this than other methods.</p>
<p>Step three is simple after you have made your first sale or a few sales, now it is time for you to shine. This is where making a secure income is simple, when you know how to be a successful Affiliate Marketer. Now you are ready for the big leagues, now you need to learn about pay per click and how this works. You will spend much less time advertising for your clients and the return on investment will be good because you learned relevancy from article writing. Do not forget about the basis where you started from though continue writing articles, don&#8217;t forget that article writing is free and 100% profit is good to any business.</p>
<p>Here I listed a few easy steps to start you off in your career as an <a rel="nofollow" href='http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/Affiliate_Marketer/679/2' target='_blank'>Affiliate Marketer</a> and some ways you can start making a secure income. As you can see making a secure income is not as simple as some may portray though it is well worth the time if you would like to work for yourself and make your own future. This is a very untapped field as far as Affiliate Marketing there, are more ways to make money in this field than you could think of, if you have imagination and are willing to do what it takes to start your own business that is.</p>
<p>Obtain realistic advice about <a rel="nofollow" href='http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/green_products/679/3' target='_blank'>green products</a> &#8211;   go through this site. The times have come when concise info is really only one click of your mouse, use this chance.</p>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Have to Build an Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jim Daniels I know exactly that person feels. I was in their shoes about a decade ago and had the same goals. I didn&#8217;t have any grand visions. I was just getting tired of the job I had and wanted to find a way to make some money working for myself. That&#8217;s all. Boy, [...]]]></description>
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<p align="left"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">By Jim Daniels</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I know exactly that person feels. I was in their shoes about a decade ago and had the same goals. I didn&#8217;t have any grand visions. I was just getting tired of the job I had and wanted to find a way to make some money working for myself. That&#8217;s all.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Boy, that sounds pretty boring eh?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I guess the point I&#8217;m trying to make is that you don&#8217;t have to have a grand vision either. Sure, if you are the type who likes to think big, and you draw motivation from it, then dream away. Set lofty goals. But if you&#8217;re like many folks who have modest goals, that&#8217;s a good enough starting point.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">You never know where you&#8217;ll end up once you get started. But you do have to get started. And that&#8217;s the secret to reaching even a modest goal&#8230; get started. Today. Right now.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Here&#8217;s a step-by-step list of what I&#8217;d do if I were starting from scratch today&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Decide what niche I want to work in (something I enjoy or find interesting and also something with related products or services I can either create or sell as an affiliate.)</p>
<p>2. Get a domain and put up a professional looking website, optimized for Google of course.</p>
<p>3. Add an irresistible giveaway at my site and and an opt-in form where people can request it. (Upon their request they&#8217;d also see a special offer, or one-time offer so I could make some easy sales.)</p>
<p>4. Add a follow-up sequence of emails so that every person who downloads my giveaway gets an email every few days for a period of at least a few months. This series of emails would be a mix of helpful content and recommended products and services, via affiliate links. Every recommendation would fit nicely within my niche of course.</p>
<p>5. Publish a newsletter every other week with more content for my subscribers.</p>
<p>6. Submit articles to goarticles.com and other article directories with my URL in the footer (signature) of each article.</p>
<p>7.Create a product or service of my own for the niche I chose.</p>
<p>8. Build credibility and website traffic by using social marketing tools such as MySpace Groups, FacecBook Groups, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups and more.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">9. Invite other sites and newsletter publishing in my niche to promote my product/service at 50% commissions and reciprocate their efforts to my list.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I know, that&#8217;s quite a list. But you don&#8217;t have to do it all at once. Once task every couple weeks is fine, you just have to get started!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Now I&#8217;ll give you a real, working example.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Let&#8217;s say you are someone who likes to do arts and crafts. Many people would assume the best way to make money would be to sell their arts and crafts online. While you <em>could</em> go that route, your income would be capped at a certain level. After all, you can only make so many projects a day.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A better way to go about profiting from your hobby online is to help others who have the same interest. Here&#8217;s a condensed version of that formula above, that will take you from scratch to profit in a month or so.</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Step 1: Create a giveaway item.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Put together a quick ebook, guide or manual that solves a  problem that people in your niche have. It does not have to be anything big, just something helpful and with good value. Here&#8217;s a <a rel="nofollow" style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/video/56/1" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">video</span></a> that shows you how to create a PDF ebook for free.</p>
<p><strong>Step 2: Set up an attractive Squeeze Page. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">This is where you will <strong>give away</strong> the basic product you created in step one above. That&#8217;s right, you&#8217;re going to give it away for free. Your squeeze page should be short and to the point. Tell your visitors how they&#8217;re about to solve their problem quickly and easily.</p>
<p><strong>Step 3: Set up a One-Time-Offer page. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">When people sign up at your squeeze page they should immediately be taken to a one-time offer page. The page can offer them a special deal on something you created for that niche. For example, you could offer an expanded version of the guide they just requested. Or maybe a related product. If you have not created anything of your own just yet, the page can send people to an affiliate product you personally recommend. (If they buy, you earn a commission.)</p>
<p><strong>Step 4: Setup a follow-up email sequence. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I know, this sounds like a lot of work, but you only have to do it once. You just write the messages, plug them into an autoresponder service such as Aweber and then everyone who downloads you giveaway gets regular follow up emails from you. The messages help them with other questions they may have in your niche. They also get occasional recommendations for related products and services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">One you have these four steps completed, all you need is traffic. After this quick message I&#8217;ll show you how to get that for free.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">OK, so you set up your squeeze page with an irresistible giveaway, an opt-in form and a great one-time offer. You have a follow-up emails ready to go out like clockwork. Now all you need is some quality traffic. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><strong>Step 5: Start getting website traffic. </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">While many marketers will tell you to head over to Google Adwords and buy traffic, I do NOT recommend that. There is a decent size learning curve to get traffic from Adwords without spending a lot of money. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Remember, you&#8217;re in this to make money, not spend money. So you should focus on getting traffic for free. Here&#8217;s how&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Start spending some time hanging out with other people who have a passion for your niche. You&#8217;ll find them posting questions, comments, feedback, replies and more at all of these popular places&#8230;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Yahoo Groups, Google Groups, Myspace Groups, FaceBook Groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">This is where your action is. When you get there, don&#8217;t start posting right away. And don&#8217;t start splashing your squeeze page address all over the place. You have to be subtle in these group settings or you&#8217;ll be labeled a spammer.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Instead, read lots of posts and get a feel for what people need and want. Then help a few people by posting an intelligent response to a question or two. You want to be a credible source when you start to mention your site, eventually. First you need to build trust slowly by posting relevant info regularly.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Once you&#8217;ve built a bit of a reputation, you can start to mention your website address and the help you have there.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I realize this strategy will take a little time, but you may be surprised at how well it really works. And it&#8217;s 100% free!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Once your traffic is flowing and your list is growing, you can take the next step and invite other sites and newsletter publishers in your niche to promote your product/service. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Even if you pay them commissions as high as 50%, you&#8217;ll add quite a bit on income to your bottom line. You can and should also reciprocate their efforts, but sending a promotion to your list, for their product or service.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">There. You have a plan. It&#8217;s a proven plan that works in just about any niche. Just watch </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/this_customer_of_mine/56/2"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">this customer of mine</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> explain how he did it. He built a nice business around this very plan. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">I realize it takes some work, and that&#8217;s precisely why most people never implement that plan. It&#8217;s human nature to want easy money, not money that takes time and effort. But once you understand that you WILL be earning easy money once you do that work, you may decide to try it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">You have the plan, now all that&#8217;s left for you to do is get started. Whether you want to build an empire or simply supplement your household income, you have to start somewhere. Why not take this  proven plan and run with it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">If you think you may need help getting it all set up, </span><a rel="nofollow" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/come_to_my_new_coaching_site_/56/3"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff; font-size: small;">come to my new coaching site.</span></span></a></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">* </span><small><small>Article used with permission from JDD Publishing&#8217;s Internet marketing site. Their <a rel="nofollow" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/website_marketing/56/4" target="_blank">website marketing</a> guide and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/internet_marketing/56/5" target="_blank">internet marketing</a> news help you grow a business on the Internet.</small></small></span></p>
<p align="left"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;">Note: JDD Publishing affiliates are invited to replace live byline links with their affiliate links. Affiliate links can be attained by downloading this special </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: #b50000; font-size: xx-small;"><a rel="nofollow" style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/work_at_home/56/6" target="_blank">work at home</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"> report.</span></p>
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		<title>Worried About Monthly Bills?  A Home Business Can Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that from time to time EVERYONE has been worried about how to make ends meet.  A recent Gallup poll found: The percentage of Americans saying they are worried about keeping up with their monthly payments over the next six months reached 23% this month Can you cut enough from your monthly budget to [...]]]></description>
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<p>It seems that from time to time EVERYONE has been worried about how to make ends meet.  A recent Gallup poll found:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The percentage of Americans saying they are worried about keeping up with their monthly payments over the next six months reached 23% this month</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Can you cut enough from your monthly budget to meet your obligations routinely?  It is possible for a short time but consider this:  what changes are going to happen to your family over the next year?  few years? longer?  In nearly all cases, your need for additional income is increasing not decreasing and that does not include the ever-present inflation factor.</p>
<p>So what to do then?  The answer comes down to simple arithmetic.  If you want or need to spend more, you need to make more.  For most of us, even a few hundred dollars a month would make a significant difference.  The real question is how.  I am not talking about some get rich quick scheme you can find every day by searching on google.  If that is for you, buy a lottery ticket.  In the end, it will cost you less money.  If you are truly interested in legitimate activities to make some additional income, read on.</p>
<p>The answer is probably right in the mirror.  That is right, it is <b>YOU</b>.  You have interests, talents, skills,etc.  In a word, you have qualifications.  Can you use your qualifications to make money while working from home?  Sure, there has never been a better time to leverage who you are and what your passion is to make extra money.  Let&#8217;s look at some possibilities:</p>
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<li>Blogging book reviews</li>
<p>Everyone is too busy these days.  That means that you could possibly make money charging a little for the &#8220;cliff notes&#8221; of best sellers, business, self improvement, etc. books.  A modest income to be sure but it could be a start.  You could become an Amazon.com affiliate and provide your recommended book list for sale.  Does it fit your qualifications?  Only you can answer.</p>
<li>Are you good at paperwork?</li>
<p>There are many organizations that need people to stuff envelopes, type documents, scan documents and other administrative tasks.  It is time consuming and again pays a modest income but maybe it appeals to you.</p>
<li>Network Marketing</li>
<p>Oh No!  I said a dirty word!  Hang on a minute.  Where else can you earn hundreds to thousands monthly with a relatively small investment?  If you a serious about changing your financial condition, this could be an area to start from.  I should point out that Donald Trump and Robert Kiyosaki, among others, are involved with network marketing and the legitimate companies are making billions in revenue.</p>
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<p>I have provided you some examples.  You can also find additional ideas on our <a rel="nofollow" href="http://livingwithasmile.com/goto/Resources/22/1">Resources</a> page.</p>
<p>Remember it is said, &#8220;Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.&#8221;  Venture out a bit and see what your world looks like with a few hundred or thousand a month of additional income by working a home business.</p>
<p>If you want to get more information, please sign up for our newsletter with the form on the side of this page.  Thanks and have a prosperous day!</p>
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