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Most People Work At Jobs
The Few – Less Than 5% – Work For Themselves!
J.O.B Just Over Broke
A friend sent me an email comparing two environments.
Can you relate to these images?
In PRISON you spend the majority of your time in a 10X10 cell.
At WORK you spend the majority of your time in an 8X8 cubicle.
In PRISON you get three meals a day fully paid for.
At WORK you get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it.
In PRISON you get time off for good behavior.
At WORK you get more work for good behavior.
In PRISON you can watch TV and play games.
At WORK you could get fired for watching TV and playing games.
In PRISON you get your own toilet.
At WORK you have to share the toilet with some people who don’t have good hygiene.
In PRISON they allow your family and friends to visit.
At WORK you aren’t even supposed to speak to your family.
THERE IS SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE. Maybe that’s why they call it WORK.
I applaud you for wanting to start your own home-based business.
While it is not always easy it is worth it!
Those of us who work from home, leveraging the power of the Internet will NEVER go back to a J.O.B. (sometimes defined as “Just Over Broke”.)
Check out the Making Money section for some current ideas on working from home!
Check out the Marketing Training section for help maximizing your results!
I am glad there are so many people that have jobs that they like – or at least that they show up for! But I am even more glad to not have a job and being able to work from home!
Randy writes about topics that affect your finances, including Making Money and Saving Money. Randy is especially passionate about entrepreneurship. The Marketing Training section includes EXACTLY what Randy is using NOW to earn a full-time income as an online marketer - and how you can do the same!
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U.S. Economic Policies Are Being Written By Math Dunces!
Obama Is A Math Dunce
Obama may be a smart, college professor.
Then again, he may be the ultimate representative of “those who can’t do, teach!”
The latest pronouncement “from on high” will distribute $26 billion to delinquent mortgage holders and those who have been foreclosed.
Here is a summary of this plan, announced yesterday by the court jester, Eric Holder. (Due to his random and capricious enforcement of the laws of the land, he can NOT be honored with the title of Attorney General.) This is quoted from the February 9, 2012 edition of The S&A Digest (Stansberry Research.)
The U.S. government today announced a $26 billion foreclosure settlement with five of the country’s largest home lenders. The deal settles charges surrounding allegations of “robo-signing” – or improper foreclosures made without proper paperwork. The money will go to reduce the principal owed by borrowers who are “underwater” (meaning their loan is worth more than their house) and/or behind on their mortgages.
In short, this deal will give relief to people who took bigger loans than they could afford and those who have stopped paying their mortgage. Meanwhile, folks who continue paying their mortgages on time get nothing. Financial analyst Dick Bove calls it “the mortgage deal from hell.” He made his comments on CNBC this morning…
If you’re going to do something which is going to reduce the value of existing homes where people are making payments, then every American should stop making payments on his mortgages and send a letter to the Attorney General in his state and say “I qualify to have my principal reduced because I’m not going to make any more payments on my house.”
This deal is a crowning achievement for Obama… allocating bank money (which came courtesy of U.S. taxpayers) back to his government to enable even more entitlement. Bove drove the point home, saying, “There is no sanctity of contracts in the United States. Only fools meet their financial commitments. The nonpayers are truly enlightened.” (END)
“The public debt has increased by over $500 billion each year since fiscal year (FY) 2003, with increases of $1 trillion in FY2008, $1.9 trillion in FY2009, and $1.7 trillion in FY2010.[3] As of January 31, 2012 the gross debt was $15.356 trillion.” Note for our legislators and President: that is $15,356,000,000,000.00.
The article includes this statistic: “The national debt equates to $44,900 per person U.S. population, or $91,500 per member of the U.S. working population, as of December 2010.”
The debt in 2010 totaled $13.562 trillion. Combining all these numbers, we can extrapolate that the CURRENT debt ($15.356 trillion) equates to $103,603.75 PER WORKING PERSON! That is an INCREASE of $12,103.75 (or 13.2%) in JUST ONE YEAR!!!
(Another note: this also assumes the same number of working people as in 2011 = 148,218,570, since the Department of Labor Statistics keeps reducing the number of citizens available for work in order to “cook the books” in terms of unemployment statistics. In reality, there may actually be FEWER people working today than in 2010!)
You have also heard the statistic that ONLY about half the U.S. population actually pays anything in income taxes. The rest are net tax recipients! So we have to make another assumption that those NOT working are not paying any net taxes.
Less than HALF the U.S. population is financing government operations. Over and above these taxes, the government is spending MORE than ONE TRILLION dollars per year. Nothing is projected to change in the near future, with a Congress obsessed with buying votes to guarantee reelection.
Conclusions:
1. Debt per tax paying, working person will increase another 12% – or more – next year.
2. As the S & A Digest article stated, part of this debt includes dollars that were “created” in order to provide bailouts to the banks. This money is now being redirected to those who are delinquent on their mortgages.
3. To the extent that any delinquent mortgages are held by non-tax payers, the tax payers are funding the financial mistakes of the minority – NOT “the banks”.
Ayn Rand (and others) have predicted a quiet revolution when the tax payers – those who are paying for everything, in effect “pulling the wagon” – look back and see more people “riding in the wagon!”
What Are YOU Going To Do About It?
1. Earn more money? (See the Making Money section for ideas.)
2. Change your investment strategies? (See The Elevation Group section for more information on defensive AND offensive strategies.)
3. Vote out the “status quo” politicians who allowed us to reach this point of financial Armageddon!
Randy writes about topics that affect your finances, including Making Money and Saving Money. Randy is especially passionate about entrepreneurship. The Marketing Training section includes EXACTLY what Randy is using NOW to earn a full-time income as an online marketer - and how you can do the same!
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Are you enjoying the economic benefits of almost non-existent inflation?
The chart below, created by respected economist John Williams, clearly shows how large the gap between truth and fiction can be.
Inflation Statistics Are Lies
While the official US government inflation rate is 3%, Williams’ calculations point to a real inflation rate of closer to 11%. That means unless you took home more than 11% in returns last year, your investments have actually lost value.
How does this compare to U.S. Census statistics that show household income is declining?
Declining Household Income
Bottom Line: You are being lied to – and this will continue and accelerate in this pivotal election year!
You KNOW that inflation is more than 3%. Your expenses are increasing and your household income is decreasing!
What are you doing to protect yourself from inflation? Changing your investment strategies to a more defensive posture? Starting a home based business as a “lifeboat”?
Randy writes about topics that affect your finances, including Making Money and Saving Money. Randy is especially passionate about entrepreneurship. The Marketing Training section includes EXACTLY what Randy is using NOW to earn a full-time income as an online marketer - and how you can do the same!
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The Unemployment Statistics Are Intentionally Manipulated To Deceive You!
Are You Gullible Enough To Believe Unemployment Statistics?
Unemployment Statistics Are Lies
Wake Up! Government unemployment statistics are INTENTIONALLY manipulated to achieve the desired political objective: get Obama reelected!
Look at the graph above. ALL the government needs to do to show a “decrease” in the unemployment statistics is change the number of people available to work!
In January 2011, the Bureau of Labor Statistics determined that only 63.7% of the population is available to work. This means that the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low!
Unemployment Statistics Are Lies
In order for the government to announce a reduction in unemployment, the BLS had to calculate that 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month!
That is NOT a typo!
Many analysts state that the U.S. economy needs to create about 250,000 new jobs per month just to maintain level employment numbers. This also means that to publicize declining unemployment statistics – in the middle of the “Great Recession” – the BLS has to play with the numbers.
Just watch: unemployment statistics will continue to be manipulated until the election in November!
The only question is: Are you dumb enough to believe them?
Are you unemployed? Do you know others who are unemployed – or “under employed”? Then you know these statistics are imaginary!
What can you do to defend yourself against these lies – and unemployment statistics are just the “tip of the iceberg”! A homebased business may be the “lifeboat you need!
Randy writes about topics that affect your finances, including Making Money and Saving Money. Randy is especially passionate about entrepreneurship. The Marketing Training section includes EXACTLY what Randy is using NOW to earn a full-time income as an online marketer - and how you can do the same!
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Step 1. You Need A HUGE Volume Of Leads and/or Traffic
Your options are:
a) “Organic” traffic as a result of SEO, blogging, articles, videos, Facebook, Twitter, etc – but these methods are slow, time consuming, and very competitive.
b) Paid methods including pay-per-click, banners, and classifieds – but you can lose a LOT of money in a BIG hurry with these methods – and you are competing with “gurus” with huge advertising budgets.
c) Harvested leads from established sites. These sites often generate THOUSANDS of pre-qualified leads PER DAY! The sheer volume allows them to sell these leads cheaper than you can generate them yourself.
For example, how long would it take you to generate 500 leads?
Months? A year? Never?
Why waste months when you can buy 500 targeted business leads for about $50.00? Unless you like working for 10-cents per hour!
d) FREE leads accumulated with Internet software. The secret here is that your BEST prospects are ALREADY involved in online marketing! That means they have IDENTIFIED themselves – and ALL you have to do is use software to build an email, phone, and mailing list!
There are literally MILLIONS of prospects available – for FREE!
You build your marketing list when “leads” voluntarily add their names. This is through “opting in” to your “landing pages”
(sometimes called “squeeze pages”.)
Until they “opt in”, they are not prospects – they are suspects.
To encourage the sign up, you have to offer something of value. You can try to write something yourself – or you can outsource this to experts.
Which is more attractive? (and effective in building a list?)
a) A report that you have written, or
b) 23 professionally-prepared reports, each with its own optimized squeeze pages.
The choice is obvious. With my 23 squeeze pages I will generate
MANY times more prospects than you will with your own product.
In addition, each of these squeeze pages is tied to 20 autoresponder messages. Then the free report subscribers are offered a series of “upsells” for a library of 40 products.
These products sell for as little as $7.00. This revenue isn’t a big business in itself. But it accumulates to offset your marketing costs, and helps build your list at a net PROFIT!
Make Your Offers MORE Attractive AND Productive
Check out the “done for you” system that generates subscribers – AND generates a marketing profit!
Step 3: You Need A HIGH PROFIT 100% Commission Main Business
It is a WASTE to generate leads (paid or “free” – at the cost of your time and effort) if you are going to market a product or
opportunity where you earn $20.00 – especially if you don’t get paid for 30 to 60 days!!!
I also don’t want my income based on the “hoped for” actions of
ANYONE – either their purchases over the next year or their marketing efforts of expertise.
Have you been “burned” by the endless promises of one “opportunity” after another? Are you still waiting for people to come looking for your business?
Here is a BONUS secret: it is NO HARDER to make a $1500 sale than
a $150 sale. Online marketing is simply a “numbers game”. If you
are going to generate THOUSANDS of leads, have HUNDREDS opt in to
your marketing list, why short-change yourself selling a low profit product?
Watch this presentation for the TRUTH on a “business in a box” that cuts through the “myths” of online marketing – and delivers HIGH DOLLAR sales daily – on autopilot!
I challenge you to dispute these three steps to online marketing success:
1. Leads
2. An “ethical” bribe to generate subscribers
3. A profitable “back end” product
Review the links to the three steps above. Any ONE of these will
enhance your marketing success – guaranteed. ALL of these combined
will provide EXPONENTIAL improvements!
To your success, Randy
PS. Check out the full Making Money section of my blog for even more information.
Online marketing success is NOT a mystery. Follow these simple recommendations to slash your learning and earning curve!
Randy writes about topics that affect your finances, including Making Money and Saving Money. Randy is especially passionate about entrepreneurship. The Marketing Training section includes EXACTLY what Randy is using NOW to earn a full-time income as an online marketer - and how you can do the same!
If you think any of the posts or articles would be interesting to others, please forward to your contacts.
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I have made it my mission to help as many people as possible MAKE MONEY, SAVE MONEY, and HELP OTHERS DO THE SAME!
Entrepreneurs will save themselves, and the country in the process!