money for my life

Positive Mental Attitude: Help Set The Tone

When it come to getting traffic to your website, it helps to have a Positive Mental Attitude. You want to attract people to read what you have to say and to purchase what you are offering as a solution for them. I can recall some of the training that I have had in sales when I worked for a major telecommunications company (”Can You Hear Me Now?”). They did not encourage you to be negative. People hear enough negative things out there in the world now, why at fuel to their fire.

Make your website to be a place of excitement that people may have the chance to dream for what they want to do with their own lives. Try to offer something unique that is going to fill a need that they have in their lives. Perhaps they are overweight. You wouldn’t want a sebsite that is full of fat and unattractive people. You would want to have a website that has healthy, fit, and trim people that are living life. You typically don’t go to the Internet to find things that will lower your self-esteem.

Fill a need and offer a solution to people and people will be drawn to your site. Find a way to answer a question that they may have. Offer a way to achieve a goal that they have. It takes work and research because nobody is going to have somebody do everything for them. Is there money to be made out there? YES!! Can YOU do it? YES!! Will it happen in one hour with no effort? No. What you put into your endeavor, you will see return. Put in a half-hearted effort, and you will get a half-hearted result.

Have a GREAT day!!

Tags: financial independence, money, positive mental attitude, web trasffic

The Key To Success In Making Money On The Internet: Belief

Somebody told me that it should be listed as a secret ingredient to success, but it doesn’t need to be a secret anylonger. It is true what is said when it is said “whether you believe you can, or you believe you can’t, you are right.” This is especially true with making money on the Internet. There is an unlimited supply of money out there waiting to align itself with you, but you have to believe.

There is strenth in the power of belief. First you have to transition from “like” to “belief”. What is that? Simple. Look at the difference in intensity of these two statements: “I would like to make a million dollars on the Internet” and “I believe I will make a million dollars on the Internet.” The first statement has a light, almost airy feeling about it. There is no conviction. If ou say that to somebody else they will just smile and dismiss you and not think that you are well on your way to have a million dollars in your banking account.

The second statement, however, carries a certain amount of conviction with it. There is a definite-ness to that. People will be more apt to take you seriously if you utter that statement. Subconsciously, you start to attact things that will draw you closer to that goal and make it more of a reality.

This is not just about making money on the Internet, but it can have applications to any area of your life. Stay tuned for further details as there is so much to say and so little space in which to say it!

Have a GREAT day!

Tags: finincial independence, goals, internet marketing, making money on the internet, money, positive mental attitude

Writing: It May Be For YOU!!

There may be a hidden source of wealth inside you that is just waiting to be discovered. You may find that writing articles for ezinearticles will serve multiple purposes.

* It will serve as an ongoing stream of visitors to your website. You are allowed to mention your website or blog in the resource box. The nice thing is that people that copy your article are supposed to include your resource box in their “copy” so the word will get spread around nicely.

* Article writing will hone your writing abilities if they need honing. Personally, I have always enjoyed writing things and this was a perfect opportunity for me to do so.

* Ezinearticles.com has a plethera of useful information for perfecting your writing. It’s free. Free is good.

Currently, I have been writing an eBook about one of my passions: saving money. Tentatively, it is set for release on June 14, 2009. You can sign up for the newsletter on the right side of this page. As you cater to your niche, you will find that you spend a lot of time researching that niche and learning a lot of information. Why not share that information with other with both free information and with a more in-depth book that you have offered.  Writing an eBook doesn’t require a publisher and there is no physical product involved, so there is no inventory that you have to worry about.

The Internet has changed how businesses are now different from their brick-and-morter forerunners. Change with the business changes and make a little bit of money for your life in the process!

Have a GREAT DAY! Here is to YOUR success!!

Tags: article marketing, eBook, money, wealth, writing

Going My Way?

Once you have a website going, the key to success is getting traffic there. Sure, telling your friends and your family are good starts, but if you are to make any sort of money on Internet, you will need to drive traffic.  Here are a few ideas

Pay Per Click - You can go with Yahoo! or Google and you can bid on keywords that will have ads displayed. The great thing is that you don’t pay anything, until somebody clicks on the ad.

Blogs - You can set up a blog for free (I have six) at www.blogger.com. You will need a google account (they are free) and just besure that you include lots of key words so that the search engines will pick up your blogs. One way to do that is to regularly ”ping” your blog through www.pingomatic.com. If you have wordpress on your blog (free) it will do it automatically.

Comment On Other Blogs - search in google for other related blogs, and post a comment on that blog with a link to yours. Traffic will come soon enough.

Have You Blog With Your Signature On E-Mail - that way if you happen to forward a message (that others may have forwarded to you) the message may get forwarded and others will now have your link.

Advertise With Other Websites - You can always ask the website webmaster how much they would charge you for the ad. Some are inexpensive and can easily drive you valuable traffic to your website.

Advertise The Old-Fashioned Way - believe it or not, you can always use print media and radio.  It costs more, but if you have an exciting product to offer, you can always try to use this route.

Don’t give up and Never Surrender! Look at what other successful people are doing on their websites and simply employ some of the same techniques.

Tags: action, advertising, money, niche marketing, web traffic

It’s Not Called The Information “Super”Highway For No Reason

That’s because there is a lot of traffic to be had out there.  Some estimates put the estimate that there are 250 million people out there every day.  That’s MILLION.  Many people use it to find information about different topics.  Twenty-five years ago, you would have to go to the library, use the card catalog, search up and down shelve, and, if you were lucky, find the answer to a pressing question.  Thank God times have changed.  Usually the answer (with the help of an Internet-connected computer) can be found in a matter of seconds. People will often be willing to pay for the information, especially if looking for a song, a book, an image.

That’s where you would come in.  Often people use Google to find what they need, but sometimes will just use the phrase with a www. in front and a .com at the end.  For example, if you were looking for sneakers, you could go to Google and put it into the search box, or you might open a browser and type in www.sneakers.com. You will find results both ways.  The key to having high traffic (and high $) is to have a good name.  You can find availability of names at GoDaddy and it might even produce a few tips for names.  Premium names may cost more, but there are plenty of names available for around $10 a year. 

Here are some ideas for creating traffic to your website (once a great name has been chosen and a hosting company selected)

• Create a blog – there are some great free tools available at WordPress. Blogging and posting on a regular basis helps also to have you ranked higher in the Google search engine.  Because so many use Google, it is important to be ranked high.
• PPC, or pay-per-click -  many of the search engines have the service available to advertise (you have seen them, the “ads by Google” or sponsored ads).  It works like this: You have an advertisement and you only pay when that ad is clicked.  The key is to create traffic.
• Let others know about it – This could be as easy as mentioning to your friends that you have a website.  Viral marketing is an exciting way to advertise and create traffic for very little investment.
• Read – there is a plethora of examples to be found on the Web, it just takes some investment of time.  The great thing is that you can do it on your time, you don’t have to go when the library is open. 

The library now is always open!  More traffic ideas to come in a few days!   

Tags: financial freedom, goals, internet marketing, internet opportunity, money

Do The Research, Baby!

When starting an online presence, you need to do a little bit of research.  That is, of course, if you want to be successful an have traffic come to your site.  There are many things to research when searching for a subject to cater to (and with so many specialized interests out there, you can find a niche that would cater to just about anybody).  These include (but are certainly not limited to):

* Number of people that are looking for a particular subject.  For example, if you were wondering how many searches there were for searching for pomeranians, simply go to Google, type in the search word “pomeranians” and google will quickly return 599,000 results. That’s a lot of different searches for a little dog.  And some people do not like or are afraid of dogs. 

* Read the blogs.  This is another no-brainer in that you would go to Google, type in your subject followed by a space and the word “blog”.  Chances are you will get several results.  If there are very few results pulled from your search, that either tells you that there is no market for your subject or that you may have more exclusivity in that market. 

* If you are looking to sell a physical product, try going to Yahoo!Shopping, there you will find your product, what the average price will be and, depending on the number of results, how saturated your market is going to be.  Chances are that if there is a big market for something, there will be room for you to be in there and start making your own online money.

Be diligent, be thorough, be excited!  This is a great time to be able to start your own online business, but you have to work smart in order to succeed.  Next time, Creating Traffic.

Tags: action, internet marketing, internet opportunity, money, success, wealth

Welcome!!

Welcome to the new front page of money-for-my-life.com.  My blog is full of money saving ideas that you can save money to help pay down your credit card debt and eliminate that by incorporating several savings ideas that most people will find useful.  Of course, half of the equation is to make more money.

This can be done in several ways: you can find a better job, you can learn new skills, you can begin doing Internet Marketing.  Finding a new job may be a challenge at this point in the game, especially given the somewhat bleak forecast by “experts” in the economy.  You are never too old to learn new skills or a new degree.  I am not one to belittle our education system, especially since I spent eight of my years as a teacher and 18 years in the classroom.  I have a degree, but some of the things that will make you the most money the fastest will be things that don’t require an advanced degree.  One of the best ways that I have found to make money quickly can be found here.  You can also do the research that I have done to find sources (they are out there, believe me) that can help you with everything that you will need to be successful.

The key, as always, is to do  something.  Action is always better than inaction!

Tags: action, financial freedom, internet marketing, internet opportunity, money, success

The Time Approached (T-6 days)

Sunday, April 19, 2009 will be the debut of the improved website. 

I know that those of you who have been inundated with the emails promising instant riches from the internet in just two hours a day will not see that here.  In my quest for credit card debt eliminaton I am using a two-pronged appoach: One, I am saving money whereever I can and you can follow in my blog and 2) make more money, particularly online.  That will be found here on www.money-for-my-life.com and at blog and a site being set up soon (obviously, I have quite a bit of a time constraint).  Thanks for visit and there will be more content to be found in the very near future.

A Bit of a Preview

To get ahead financially you essentially have to make more than you spend.  One of the ways is by saving money.  You can get ahead by making what salary you happen to be on (unless it is just minimum wage cleaning bathrooms in a call center, and yes I have done that).  You can get ahead by bettering yourself through conscious effort, going back to school, working toward a promotion, etc. 

One thing that has exploded in popularity is internet marketing, finding a niche and coming up with a solution to meet that niche’s particular desires.  I know you have seen the emails saying that you can make $1,000 a day using Internet Marketing and Sales.  Can you?  Of course.  Will you?  Not without a lot of hard work.  And there is nothing wrong with hard work.  I have been there and I have explored some of the hype andd found that some of it is true, but there is also a lot of untruth out there.  A lot of it boils down to desire. 

There is a difference in stating that you’d like to have more money and stating that you will have more money.  Feel the difference?  One has a whimsical feeling to it while the second has a air of definitiveness of purpose.  I will be sharing with you in the soon-to-be-here future what has worked for me and what may work for you.  I will keep it real.  Those who knew me a generation ago will recall that I was a teacher, but there was more to life than the subject which I taught.  I knew that, and they knew that I knew that as well.  I am still a teacher, just allow me to open your eyes and teach you as well.

Tags: financial independence, goals, money, success, wealth

It’s Getting Closer…

Hey, thanks for stopping by, it is not finished just yet, but the ideas are coming together and this site will be up and running in just a short amount of time.  You can always visit my blog for money-saving ideas.

Tags: credit card debt, credit card debt elimination, finances, money