I try to pass advice along to my kids but they are stubborn like I was at that age and because of this they are destined to repeat the mistakes I made.. I am far from perfect and still tend to make errors in my own life. Recently, while working ay a local restaurant, I lost my temper and just quit. I thought I'd be able to replace this job easily enough but it has now been over a month and I've applied everywhere and for everything and I still have yet to find a replacement.
My youngest son has a web business that produces a good income. He first outsourced a programmer to build an app for sites like MySpace but the only problem was as soon as he found somebody who said they could build the app he stopped looking at others. Had this programmer worked out it would have been great but he was in a country with limited online access and he was always demanding more and more money. The original quote from the programmer was $3,000 complete for everything including the source code. After the programmer finished the coding he then was asking for like $50,000 for the source code.
Had my son had several different programmers he could then have decided on the one that worked the fastest, the less costliest, and the one with great support. The app ended up costing less than a thousand dollars and this was with the source code. The next problem he ran into was with payment processing. At first he chose Paypal but after several months they froze his account and several thousand dollars at the time was in his account. He then got set up with Authorize.net but in the end they had problems with web based businesses. He should have just applied with as many as possible plus I had him sign up for Mobilepay so that he can offer his customers other options.
Nowadays besides just having the one product has has 15 products and he is always planning for more.. My eldest son does the same as his brother. Recently he needed to find a new job and rather than apply at every place he could in the same day he applies for one job and waits until he heres back from them before applying for another. This way it is going to take him all year to find a damn job..
As of today I now have 1 full time job, another part time job and I take freelance programming assignments. Never count on just one income for everything. Even with Spyware solutions for my computer, I have several programs and the same goes with antivirus software. I have Internet Explorer, Firefox and two other browsers I can use and if something happens to my connection I have other options. The easiest way to put everything into perspective is never have just one pair of underwear that you wash every night. Instead have like 14 pairs otherwise if something happens to the washer or dryer you have other clean pairs.
]]>Look at the damage that hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans. Was the money just laying around someplace so we can rebuild after these disasters? I would think that it would cost us a lot less if we could study weather and create something that could help us control this. We know what conditions are necessary for a tornadoes to evolve, the same for hurricanes, thunder storms, etc... How much money would we save if we didn't have to spend so much rebuilding after a disaster. Not to mention the lives that would be spared if we could control our weather.
We are able to send unmanned ships to planets like Mars and retrieve pictures, videos, and stats so how hard would it be to put together a team of scientists to study the weather and to create something that would allow us to stop these things in their tracks? We like clockwork send men and women into space to orbit our planet.
Unfortunately our government is only interested in short term cures.Preparing towns for disaster but not in finding a way to end these disasters. If we look at all we have accomplished all that we have created from this big hunk of rock then we will know that nothing is impossible. I think we could look at Star Trek to get the ideas that we must have so that we can invent something.
Imagine how much we would save and the lives that can be spared if we would just invent something that would help us put an end to all these disasters. If we are able to predict these storms and hurricanes a year in advance then why not invent something to end these disasters before they ever happen.
Most religions are telling us to visualize what we want in life and it will be. The past has taught us that everything has to start with an idea. We just don't start tinkering and invent something without a plan. There is an old saying "Don't Re-Invent the Wheel" but I strongly disagree with this. If this were the case then we'd still only have rotary dial phones. The same light bulb that Edison created would be all that we have now. Instead there is always room for improvement.
No matter what we believe in everything is basically saying the same to us.. Get an idea then set out to turn that idea into a product. Nothing is impossible, that has been proven time and time again.
]]>If we had been able to fight this until the end we would have won but our jobs were telling us to end this or they would have to let us go and money was very tight throughout this ordeal. Paying high dollar amounts for legal counsel, missing work, etc... Finally we for force to make a plea agreement in order to end this. My wife for misdemeanor trespassing and me for misdemeanor petty theft.
It costs a great deal of time and money if you want to take a stand to prove your innocence. This is how the justice system gets so many damn convictions because people are force to accept these plea agreements to end everything.. One of the worse parts concerning this is if you ever apply for a new job and they ask you if you were convicted of a felony or misdemeanor then you have to tell them the truth.
The majority of people who are forced to accept some sort of a plea are not guilty of anything accept the issue that they don't have the time for a lengthy trial, the money for good legal counsel, and the interruption of their lives. A truck rear ended me last year and I was given a traffic ticket for improper yield or something like that. I just plead no contest because I didn't have the time to take off from work. This year when looking for replacement auto insurance the quotes were $1000 higher because of this traffic ticket on my record.
I have not spent a lot of time looking at other countries and their justice system but for some reason I doubt very seriously whether any of them are as corrupt as the United States. I have seen reports where of all the inmates doing hard time here that a large percentage of them were wrongfully accused. Two kids spent over 30 years of their lives in prison for rape and then because of DNA research it turns out they didn't commit the rape and the only compensation they were offered was some piddly amount.
]]>My wife and I, even though we have income, are still living paycheck to paycheck because after paying bills there are still bills that we owe and yet we have no personal money left. I have been told to look for additional work in the paper but a lot of these jobs want me to spend the money that I do not have to fax them my resume.. Some ads to allow me to just mail in my resume but the only problem with this is the number of people mailing in a resume to this ad chances are mine will never get opened.
Phone companies need to give everybody who is paying for service the use of a free fax number. They are already giving me unlimited calling all over the USA for one fee of only about $40 per month. Have you ever signed up at one of those job boards like monster or Careerbuilder? You can answer ads at no cost unless you want one of their optional services where they send your resume to a list of job recruiters. I still have not discovered any of these job boards that will do this for their users as a courtesy.
With gas prices nearing towards $4.00 per gallon I am still surprised that unemployed people can still afford to drive their cars. If I had a bike I would be riding my bike everywhere. This would save me a lot of money plus it is healthier. Where to companies, the ones that are looking to fill a position, get the idea that everybody has a lot of extra money to play with. Another issue that pisses me off is after applying for a job the company cannot give you any sort of decision or time frame. I had one job today that on Friday they said they still had not filled the position yet today I was told that the position had been filled a week ago.
It is looking like the only thing I may be able to depend on is if I sign up with a temp agency and only work temp jobs from now on. I just don't have the additional money to play around with to get the better results.
]]>Nowadays I have berm seeing a lot about these programs called cyberbegging or just cyber beg. I've always hated when at the store in the parking lot some panhandler approaches to get money from me but with the cyberbegging they are telling you a story that you believe to be true and if you have a little extra money then why the hell not. There are a lot of people out there that could use some help, I am one of them. I get disability from the government because they once FDA approved a drug that was found to be killing people. With me it just damaged a lot of my internal organs, I'll never see any money from the legal action against the manufacturer because they will keep appealing the courts decision until I have been dead by several hundred years.
The first site that started the cyberbegging niche was that of savekaryn dot com. Funny that her first name is spelled the same way that my wife spells hers. Karyn had chalked up like $25,000 in credit card debt at came up with the idea of a website asking for donations one night when she was in bed. She now has been interviewed on shows like the Today Show and she has written a couple books. Plus i heard she even has a movie now. She no longer needs money and any money that still comes in goes to charity. Basically it all comes down to begging online for donations.
There are many sites out there that allow you to do this but the majority of them are charging a fee for this. One site that I found wanted to charge $39.95 in order for you to get a page that does e panhandling, cyber begging. In the past I have heard many stories about people after setting up a page telling their story have made a lot of money. One kid in England created what is now called Pixel Advertising when he was trying to raise money for college. I hear he made like seven figures doing this.
I believe that everyone should offer help to the needy at some time in his life. Sometimes people with poor credit need some help from someplace. Karyn only had her debt from overspending on credit cards and visiting Starbucks too often. I, on the other hand have had a need that was created because I could not find enough paid work to sustain life. I have a lot of bills that need to be paid otherwise utilities are going to be shut off. Electric, water, car payments, money for our car insurance. It just keeps on adding up, increasing in the amount each month. My income, the little that I have, pays our rent, my wife's income pays our bills and the grocery bill. Nothing left over and we still manage to not pay some of our bills.
I am a person who does not like to just sit around, I would rather work 2 jobs if I could find the work. I almost thinking about one of those daily pay jobs, minimum wag and long hours but we need the income. I have see these business opportunities that sell for ^997 and maybe have $100 of product but I have not been able to join any of them because I felt like I would be ripping people off. Remember that GasupUSA where people would prepay for gas because the were supposedly saving up to 40 %? It all was a scam, there never were any gas discounts, all the money that was made was from sign up fees.
But the truth is that even though I did not become a part of one of these programs the people that would have joined under me probably did join under somebody else. Whether I sold them or somebody else sold them there are always people who will buy into these programs. Maybe it would be worth a little guilt so I am not always broker. I am in my forties and feel I should have a lot more than I actually have these days. I can pick things to blame it on but I must start taking the responsibility.
]]>OPEC raised the pricing on par barrel oil cost when Bush started making these frivolous attacks against countries in the Middle East. Yes these men had to be dealt with but could another less costly solution have been implemented. Look at how bad things have gotten and then think about the fact that we actually elected Bush for a second term. How insane and archaic is that.
The only real possible solution I can see is out with the old and in with the new. We need to shut down our current governmental system and the people need to create a new one. One like that of our Eu counterpart would have many great benefits. It would eliminate the problems with Medical care for our citizens, retirement, immigration, education, and everything else we are currently suffering with. If our forefathers were somehow able to be around in our current economy they would all commit suicide.
We need to look closely, the entire World, at the philosophies of the famed show Star Trek. A life where the only gain is from that of helping others. No more wars, hunger, or poverty. Maybe we will never travel at warp speeds or be able to transport living creatures but the philosophies need to be incorporated or someday we will be visited by life from another planet and we will still be fighting amongst ourselves. Star Trek is the Nostradamus of the 20th century
There is hope for us but this comes not without some drastic change in the way we live in what we hold of value. We don't need War, homelessness, starvation and poverty. We should be well ahead of ever having the need for any of these things.
]]>The rest of these so called Free reports are nothing more than very long sales pages. They are filling up the pages of the report of why you need to now invest your money into the product they are trying to sell to you. None of these Free reports actually give you a way to produce any results unless you maybe go ahead with what they are trying to sell to you. Do you think any of these products the marketers are selling to you will actually make you any significant amount of money? Do you think any of these products will produce any success for yo?
These marketers never want to show you how to actually produce but instead all they want is to have you as a customer on their list. Most of these marketers will tell you that the market of people seeking ways to make money is over saturated. This is a big lie. They just don't want you selling things in their market niche. The biggest niche today and this will be the way it almost always is is people looking for ways to make money.
Notice that after you buy a product the marketer does not check in with you later to find out how much money you are now making. No no no, instead the only time you ever hear from them is when they have something else they want you to buy. If they were truly looking to save you money then everything they sell you would be less than ten dollars but I have never found this to be the way. For years there was this one marketer who would hold a free call in on Saturdays and during these years he would give a lot of great low cost and free info but eventually he grew tired of this and started pitching out these produce with price tags of over a thousand dollars. So maybe you will find somebody who does give great assistance at little cost but this will not be the way it always will be. They will grow impatient and start pitching more expensive products to you.
The way they look at it is on a ten dollar product maybe they will earn 6 dollars from you but with a product that sells for a thousand dollars they will make around six hundred dollars. The number of sales they get will be the same but the value will be more to them because they will be earning much more per sale.
Just always remember that everything will cost you something. Nothing is completely free. The best way for you to not spend a lot of money is to get one of those prepaid Visa cards and only put the money on it that you are prepared to spend. This way there will be no hidden or re occurring charges.
]]>Because of the Do Not Call list it has gotten almost impossible to make telemarketing calls anymore. So many people either have unlisted numbers or they are on the list that out of 1,000 people you may only be permitted to call maybe 100 or 200 of these people.Have you ever heard of a man named Joe Girrard? He started selling cars in the sixties yet he wasn't allowed to handle the floor traffic. Instead he would just call everybody in the phone book and tell them that their new Chevy was ready for delivery and then he would ask them if they'd like to go ahead and pick it up tonight or wait until tomorrow morning?.
Joe Girrard holds the record for selling the most cars in one year. Most dealerships are lucky if they sell that many cars in a year but here is a man that by himself sold that many cars year after year. Joe Girrard was one of the first that I ever heard used the technique of Wrong Number Marketing. With the great success that Joe Girrard had I have been totally surprised at how many few salespeople have ever tried using this technique.
I guarantee that I could call everybody in my local white pages and tell them that their Pizza was ready for pick up. None of those people would have ordered a pizza bur by the time I get off the phone with them 30 percent or more would be eating a hot pizza soon. The others would probably be eating the Garlic bread or chicken Wings that the local pizza place also had on their menu.
I worked at a local Pizza Hut last Christmas Season. I just needed to get out of the house and make a little extra additional income. I was totally shocked that the majority of people that they had answering their telephones only took orders for pizzas. When I was answering the phone I mentioned the Cheese Bread and the Chicken Wings and the variety of soft drinks we carried. Sales of these items increased so much when I was working there that the Manager actually told me that they used to hardly sell any of these other items until I started working for them. I would start a shift and they would maybe only have $200 in sales for the day but by the time I left those numbers were well over $3,000.
What Pizza Hut should have done was to create some sort of incentive for the people answering the phones that the higher their sales numbers the more they would earn. Most businesses these days have taken away almost all commissions which I think is one of the biggest mistakes. Employees need some sort of incentive to produce greater sales numbers for the places where they work.
Marketing in the 21st century is still possible but now we may have to be a little more creative that we used to in the past. I used to shoot plates on Sundays during a time when I was in car sales. shooting plates is the process of writing down their plate numbers of visitors to the lot on Sundays. These people are probably going to be buying a car within the next 72 hours. In order to shoot plates you need a way to look up the peoples info from the plates on their cars but I used to sell 7 or 8 cars a week doing this.
]]>For the past few months I have been trying to find a good programmers application generator because outsourcing to countries like Indonesia was getting expensive and taking too much time. Mt son, Jake, has had a lot of software created over the last year and he is making a lot of money with these programs and it is time that I follow in his footsteps but I don't have a lot of extra money to throw into outsourcing programmers. It turns out that my son had downloaded this Free software called Microsoft Visual Web Developer a few months back and he says that he told me about this but I do not recall him ever telling me.
Microsoft has created some great products which is geared for people without any programming skills and will allow people like myself to create software without having to spend a lot of money. Microsoft gives this software away completely Free. Anybody can got to the Microsoft dot com website forward slash express and then forward slash download and if you have never thought about programming this is by far the best and easiest way to learn. There are a lot of great videos and other help resources that you get when you install this product.
The only thing I could find wrong with this product was that the site had you download the new 2008 version but yet the training is still the training for the 2005 product which has a slightly different navigational system. I was going through the 2008 training and couldn't figure out why certain things gave a different GUI. Finally after a little research I discovered that I had to install a previous version of VWD, the 2005 version in order for the training to match up with the application. Both versions will run side by side however so there is no need to have to uninstall the 2008 version in order to install the 2005 version. Hopefully Microsoft will include some 2008 training on their website or at least show the differences between the 2005 version and the new 2008 version.
If you have some knowledge of programming then you can start off with the tier 2 learning that Microsoft provides and they also told me about ASP.Net and their great training resources which help to fill in a few blanks. I have never been too hip on Microsoft but with the VWD product that opinion has greatly changed. With VWD you will also learn VisualBasic and Visual C and Javascript. Everything is in plain english which is very different from the old manuals you used to get when you bought an older version of a MS product like Office which back then I thought those manuals were created for the people at NASA.
Just so you know that a regular non express edition of this software could cost you several hundred dollars and the regular version of Visual Studio will cost you over a grand. Now we can get the same product with just a few less features completely at no cost whatsoever. Because of this I applaud Microsoft and I applaud Bill Gates.
I used to think that Microsoft was against all Open Source programming but they have made Open Source Templates readily available to users of their Visual Express products. They say that when you refuse to let go off the past that the past will hold you back and I think that my negative opinion about Microsoft has been holding me back. It's time that I put my entire past behind me and from now on only move forward in life. When people do a search on Jeffrey A Solochek in the search engines only good things will be coming up in the results
]]>The easiest way is to just read each article you have and write each one in your own words as an article. Everything always has a different meaning to each person who hears it. To do this you are maybe looking at just 15 minutes of your time for each article. Do the math, How many would you then be able to write with just an hour of your time? How many with an entire day?
There are still some people who are not able to do this if it means missing a sporting event or a favorite show on TV. For these people there is still a way. Is there a local college or school near you? Then make a contest or game out of it and ask some students to read an article and re write it in their own words. Make sure that each student forfeits all rights to whatever they write though.
I have seen hundreds of marketers who use one of the above 2 techniques. They are doing this because each site that they submit these articles to will no be a one way link back to them. These one way links are vitally important if you want to achieve a high page rank for your site or blog. Now you can try the other route which would be to pay money for these types of links but most of us do not have this kind of money to just throw a way.
]]>It's like when you were a kid and it was your Birthday. As soon as that first card showed up in the mail you started getting them from everybody. When we are kids very seldom do we think about things like bills. We think about Birthday cards and we start to get a lot of them at a time. A lot of adults are always thinking that they have too many bills or not enough money and that is what is being attracted to them because that is what they are thinking about the most.
With that PT Cruiser that my wife and I bought what we also did was to buy that thought and now we were seeing it everywhere. We bring in to our lives what we think about most. Like the saying that trouble comes in 3's all we are doing is attracting all those troubles into our lives. I used to have all my salespeople keep a funny picture on their desk that they could use as a switch. When they were feeling down they would flip over the picture.
There is a practice called NLP which will help a L;ot of people with this. Do Not always concentrate on the money you owe and the bills instead replace this picture with a picture of you receiving money in the mail. If you right foot hurts then only concentrate of the left foot that doesn't hurt. If you are having a bad hair day then wear a nice hat.
When I was a kid I hated wearing a pair of Jeans that had holes in them but nowadays people are actually paying more for pants with holes in them. Everything is just some ones perspective. If you open up a container of butter in you fridge and its green then you probably will not be using this butter but what if all butter were green? We were all brought up with Yellow butter and this is the only reason we are programmed to only use butter that is yellow. Our programming can always be changed.
Like the famous book "Think And Grow Rich" it all boils down to the way we think about certain things. Our thought can always be changed. Starting now lets all start focusing on the positive things in our lives. Think good things and you will see more good things following.
]]>During this time I had left my job and started my own company. Phillip and I had made a mutual agreement that if he became interested in a lady that worked for me he would not pursue a relationship with her as this might cause future problems Several years later Phillip did become interested in a lady that worked for me and Phillip took me aside and asked for permission to date this lady. This caused a huge argument between Phillip and I and our friendship almost completely disappeared because of this.
About a year later I has some legal problems where I could have really used a friend to talk to every once and awhile and Phillip was nowhere to be found. I tried to initiate our friendship about 10 years later but the things we once had in common were no longer there and Phillip had a new wife and was very much into his religion.
When I was growing up there was this one kid Tony who was my best friend. We both loved baseball, the movies Raiders of the Lost Ark, Flash Gordon, and Grease. He had gotten a computer back in 1976 and he taught me how to program it using Basic. He could do so much with that computer and I had always figured that someday he would make a lot of money creating computer applications. After high school we had both gone in separate directions. I did not see him again until our 10 year reunion.
Tony was now one of those phone operators working for AT&T plus he was married and this lady was to put it as nice as possible very homely looking. I had 2 businesses back then, a retail computer store and a wholesale computer business. I was on top of the world at that reunion because both businesses were doing phenomenal. Tony and I stayed in touch via chat after the reunion and a couple of years later AT&T was laying him off. I always thought that he should have gone into computers because he was so good at it but he was only looking for another job like the one at AT&T.
I had an extra computer at my house and I thought that if I sent it to Tony along with a programming package like Visual Studio that maybe it would motivate him to pursue something in computers. I didn't even say anything to Tony and I just sent it after gift wrapping it. Ironically it was real close to Xmas when I did this. I asked for nothing in return from Tony but it would have been nice if he had maybe said Thank You.
When he got everything the next week instead of just saying thanks he complained about all the accessories he now needed to get. He also stated that he preferred Intel CPU's as opposed to the ones by AMD. He never opened the Visual Studio but instead sold it for a few hundred dollars. It's now been about 4 years and I never hear from Tony any more. I haven't even gone back to my hometown to visit in the last dozen years.
Several months ago at Booksamillion there was this lady that would serve me coffee at Joe Muggs. After several visits we started talking and I went out of my way to help this lady out along with her husband and kids. Just little things like creating a website for their part time business and I helped them with some minor research on the net. I had figured that maybe they would become friends with myself and my wife. In the end all this family was maybe interested in was just becoming casual with me and my wife.
Currently I have taken a part time job outside the house because I figured I would meet other people plus have some extra money. I am the oldest employee that this place has, everybody else is in their twenties or even younger. I have tried to maintain contact with my half brothers but I am part of my Dad's old family and very seldom do I even hear from my Father. I am not an alcoholic but I thought about joining a local Alcoholics Anonymous just so I could be amongst other people who might even eventually become a friend.
Over the many years of my life I have always tried to help others like other business people or people I have just met somewhere . For some reason none of these others are ever interested in maintaining a friendship. With everything that my wife and I have going in our lives we don't have the time or the money to join things like a bowling league and neither of us drink so we will not be going out to any clubs.
]]>Are these things to become our destiny? Will robots have personality someday? There are no answers to this phenomena only a lot more questions. How far is this to go? What will become of the human touch? Do we want robots to ask us how our day has went? With robots will anybody ever stand out from the crowd? Will there ever be a Purple Cow with robots?
Will robots be able to Service Customers some day? I did a lot of R and D on robots in the early days and I even attempted to build one now they are everywhere. I work a part time job at a local fast food establishment to get out of the house and I was actually told that if I continued to converse with customers they would have to let me go> So many customers have complimented me on how I have treated them. Pleasant conversation was to be the reason I would be dismissed.
So many people have told me that they didn't like the robots in all the establishments in todays times. To be honest I did not care much about the job because pay was sub standard, no breaks, always on my feet. I enjoyed being a person though. I pride myself as being the Purple Cow of people, the one who stands out from the rest. I apply this same principal in everything in life. I do not ever wish to become a robot.
I have never seen a computer, much less anything else, that had a personality of any sort except for that which a human person has programmed into them. I have been programmed by life that I have lived can this be put into a robot? do not mean to just ramble on but I am trying to see advantages of the destiny that is becoming of us. Can a robot personality become unique? can a robot have a personality?
I just went to the local WalMart. There was only self checkout available. no one asked me if I had found everything I needed. It only wanted my money then it was goodbye. Now I did see a bagger that had on a funny Top Hat. I bet a robot will never have on of those. At least not intentionally.
In the living room my kids are plating XBox live and are talking about killing a warthog and being mutilated by Banshees. Can a robot ever do this? What about just a computer? Boy, I am just filled with nothing but questions these days. Will robots someday become self aware and recreate better robots?
Why did I write this that is the question everybody should be asking themselves. I just wanted to give everybody something to think about
]]>I have spent almost the entire past decade seeking out this information. Most of the so called directories that are out there will charge a small fee and may have 2 or 3 legitimate companies actually listed. Unfortunately they will have a lot more bogus listing there also.
I did discover that females have a lot more options available but most of the ones I discovered do not care just as long as you can do the work. There are sites out there like phoneactresses.com that will only hire females. These people that they hire will be paid to talk dirty to guys. Have you ever seen the ads in your local paper for female dancers? The only way for a male to get past the front door would be to pay some cover charge.
I have yet to see an ad like these for a male dancer. Besides, Ben Affleckwould be the only male that might respond to an advertise for male dancers at a gay strip club. Maybe someday I will be able to stand up on stage and take my clothes off in front of gay men but this may be a long time away.
I did find a few good sites that do give some good listings of work from home companies but unfortunately most of them charge a fee before giving you access to this info. There needs to be 1 site that has a good listing of the best companies to work for, I mean for telework opportunities. Craigslist has some great ads but in-between all the good ones there is a lot of bogus ads. If anything, craigslist is a web 1.0 site
A good site would be one that has a listing of companies that hire people to work from home but do not charge some BS start up fee or something of the sort. There should also be a forum section where people can tell others about the success they have had and which companies to definitelystay away from.
I, over the years, have applied at hundreds of companies. Any company that ended up trying to charge some sort of fee did not make it to my A list. Now over time some of these companies will cease to exist because of the way the world changes all the time and this site needs to let you know when this happens.
In my vast research I even found out that there are legitimate paid survey sites and mystery shopping opportunities. With these companies I wont lie to you there is an extreme amount of junkout there. My son one time had me fill out a survey on some site for a free laptop and guess what happened. 3 hours later I was still not done with the laptop survey site. Every time when I thought I was finished another popup would say that I still had a few more offers to complete. To this day I am still getting SPAM email because of this.
Putting up one of those mini sites was my first thought but the problem with these is that most people create them and hell would have to freeze over before they are ever actually updated...Sites like YouTube and MySpace is where everything is headed these days so I wanted to create something that would get new visitors every day.
In the days when I was putting together my A list I did accept some of these jobs for aperiod of time. One of them I actually did for almost a year on a part time basis. On this site I will be sharing all this information plus I will let you know my likes and dislikes about these companies
A lot of marketers out there will send you an email aboutsome report they have on emergency cash generators or about some new opportunity but yet these marketers will actually put a price on these reports and I am a normal person and I know for a fact that during the hardest times in my life when I was looking for legitimate work that I did not have any extra to throw away on these reports.
The site that I have created to solve all these problems will be a membership site but guess what? There will be no membership fee initially. Maybe someday there will be but for the first half of 2008 there will not be. I will also be sharing a lot of advicearticles plus during these times when I had very little cash I was looking for sites related to living a more frugal life plus looking at all the many ways there is to earn money.
I still have not gotten a domain name like jeffslist or anything but I have had the site firstnamelastname.com for the past few months and I decided to build this site using Joomla on this domain. There are a lot of great courses on how to use Joomla and design a great site but unfortunately they all have these price tags so instead I have put together all the free info for building a membership site in Joomla
]]>What do you think about all those emails you get offering some free report or giveaway? Every time after you enter in you information low and behold you go to the one time offer page Does anybody ever give out anything for free these days? Free must be the most popular bait on the market today. Some marketers even keep on lowering the prices of these one time offers until you finally buy at some price. I hear that the Untied States is the richest country in the world but how much of this wealth is actually legitimate wealth. Look at Bill Gates and Microsoft, What message do we get from this? Stealing is the only way to get ahead today.
I have spent thousands over the past decade on these so called m arketing material, business opportunities and money making information. I understand what its like to be strapped for cash and to have all the walls around me crumbling down. During times when I have been unemployed and had no money coming in and then to spend what little I had for something that was supposed to help me. One freelance site charges $2.95 for a 7 day trial and then $29.95 a month thereafter. I have never found any legitimate work from this site and many others that are out there.
I've collected all this info about the scams that are out there and the whole time I was looking for the legitimate ones. In the very near future, Hopefully before New Years I will be putting together a membership site that will allow users to give honest feedback about companies they have worked with. The cost of the membership will be zero because I am hoping that once somebody finds legitimate work they will remain a subscriber for all my rants and raves. I could have been like all the others and charged a good price for everything but people that need help usually don't have the extra to spend. In my research I have found hundreds of legitimate work from home companies that cost nothing to start up and they will pay you an honest hourly wage for your time.
Who am I to provide all of this information? I am someone who has been there and done that and I realize that not everybody has all of this money to throw away. I will not be an affiliate for any of these companies that have passed my criteria and in fact I have gone through all of their application processes to make sure there are no hidden costs or fees. I am still debating on whether I will allow any of these companies to advertise on this site and I guarantee that no company that has not passed my criteria will ever be allowed to advertise on this site.
If in the future any of my members need to contact me they will have all of my contact details not just an email address and a link to some help desk ticket area. I will also never sell or rent out the members info because I know what its like to be bombarded by all these marketers all with some product that has a price on it. I will also be including a special section on the reputable paid survey companies, mystery shopping companies and so forth which are companies that I have discovered over the years that actually pay real cash or merchandise.
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