On the internet, nobody knows your a dog. To see a great example of this, go to internet chat rooms. Look at all the guys chatting with “women”. Anyone with common sense knows that females do not sit around on the internet talking dirty and chatting. Ever seen a female showing up to one of those houses on Dateline: To Catch A Predator? NO! Why? Because women are just not wired like that. All those “women” in internet chat rooms are just perverted men posing as women and chatting with guys who believe it.
What I’m getting at is, on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. You can be whatever and whoever you want to be. When trying to make money, you need to take advantage of this. You need to make yourself apppear to be a larger entity than you really are. Start with your website. It’s needs to look professional. If it looks professional, you can claim you’re a large .com making millions of dollars per year, you have the world to offer to your customers and can do anything for them. You need to become a chameleon. If you make them think it, they will believe it. Just like the “women” in chat rooms.
Take advantage if this opportunity with your web biz. Make it look as professional as you can. This can increase your income dramatically.
- Wealth Store
February 25th, 2010
Wealthstore.com,
I would like to open a kiosk at my local mall selling candy and other similar items. It seems like a nice and simple business to run. How do I start?
Geoff from Houston
First before you do anything, I would go look at the people operating the kiosks at the mall. Don’t go on a Friday or Saturday night. Go look at them on Monday – Thursday before 5 PM. They look miserable. That’s because they are. Im not saying don’t give this a try, I’m all for the entrepreneurial spirit. I’m just saying that sitting there stationary in a chair for hours on end every day with nothing to do, is VERY difficult. You have no employees to manage, no floors to clean, no inventory to count. Nothing. You just sit there. All day every day. Most people can’t mentally handle this, and they under estimate how difficult operating a kiosk really is.
If you think you’re just going to hire someone to to sit there for you, think again. If you do that, what you’re doing is putting your entire business in this persons hands. THEY are then running your business, not you. Do you want a high school kid who does not care about your business to be running the entire operation?
Mall kiosks are expensive too. Most people seem to think because kiosks are are small, they have low start-up cost and cheap monthly rents. Not true. They can cost as much as retail space in a strip center. Meaning rent can cost thousands per month. And the malls increase your rent during the holiday season.
So think about these things before you go dreaming of making easy dollars with a mall kiosk. There’s nothing easy about them.
February 25th, 2010
While she’s not getting rich, 16 year old Chloe Spencer does not have to work at a crummy part-time job like most of her peers. Chloe Spencer is the founder of Neopetsfanatic.com which earns her $1,000 a month in Adsense revenue. Chloe’s father is Stephan Spencer, who is president of Netconcepts which is an SEO consulting firm. Her dad gave her some tips on how to turn her website Neopetsfanatic.com into a money maker.
Congrats to Chloe Spencer and her new found success.
Just like a regular website, when your blog is still in it’s infancy it’s hard to get traffic to it. One easy and free way to generate traffic to your blog is submit it to blog directories. Here’s a nice list of blog directories to get your little unknown blog some good traffic.
We have all had those great ideas. Everyone has invented something in their head or at least thought they had a great idea. Good news is there’s easy ways to take your idea from just an idea, to an actual product. Bad news for would-be inveentors is there’s plenty of people who are trying to part you from your money along the way.
My main gripe is about those companies you see on TV such as Invent Help and Invent Tech.
What happens you you mail them some info about your idea, they all reply back and tell you how great your idea is and how they want to get started right away on your product. The fact is they will tell you your product is great no matter what your idea is. You idea could be a machine that converts dog shit and recycles it a candy bar. They will tell you “it’s a great idea”.
They they tell you you need to pay them $800 to get started. They just make some cheap drawing and such, and don’t do anything that offer your a real patent or patent protection.
If you have an idea for an invention, skip these gimmicks and just go talk to a patent attorney who will get you the patent that you reall need. They won’t be selling you patent kits that offer no real help.
-Wealth Store
February 25th, 2010
There’s a new documentary out called The Call of the Entrepreneur. It focuses to dispel the negative image of entrepreneurs. It uses Dan and Frank Carney who founded Pizza Hut, and Tom Devlin who founded Rent-A-Center as positive examples.
The trailer is pretty cool, and the whole thing looks promising.
http://www.calloftheentrepreneur.com/
February 25th, 2010
When you think of South Florida, you can’t help but to think of neon lights, pastel colors, drug lords and mega yatchs. Well, some of this fantasy world is real life for a select few living in South Florida. And it’s brought to you in a new reality series called South Florida Toys. Just like the name implies, the new series gives you a little insight into the lives of the ultra rich living in South Florida. Hot women, exotic cars, mega yatchs and private jets.
These people live lives that would make Scarface look homeless.
You always hear about how you should submit your website to free directories in order to get backlinks and help build traffic. This is true, but most people have no idea where to find free directories in order to help do this.
Well here’s 6 free directories you can submit you website or blog to, and they don’t require you to link back to them. These directories are good as of this writing, but that can change and I can’t guarantee they will always be good.
www.dareXXXXXXXXX.info (edited cause the owners are ass and I don’t want to give them free publicity. You know who you are.)
www.findsome.info
www.submit2dir.info
www.givelink.info
www.allthelist.com
www.linkedout.info
So get submitting!!!
February 25th, 2010
I see this guy on late night TV selling a kit on how to “play the corporate game without bringing the pain home”. His kit is called “A Blueprint for Success”. This guy is setting you up to get in deep trouble. I read between the lines of his pitch. What he’s claiming is that you can set up a corporation and start a business. If the business fails, you just file bankruptcy for your corporation then you persoanlly walk away free and clear. This is what he means by “not bringing the pain home”. He claiming in not so many words that your personal assets are not at risk. This is totally not true. The creditors can just as easy come after you as a shareholder of the Corp. There’s nothing that prevents people from suing you if your company goes toes up. The best thing about having a Corp is the tax benefit, not the protection.
Then some fool on there who’s braging how he’s a student of Ray claims his company has a half million dollars in credit. Big deal. That means nothing. Then he goes on to claim he needs that credit to print a calender, because a calender cost $100K to print. LMAO!!!!. If you’re paying $100K to get a calender printed, I have swamp land to sell you.
Then another claim is you need to set up a corporation because it give you the power to buy a wholesale prices. Ummm Ray….you dumbass. You can do the same with a $15 D.B.A. and it’s not a major pain in the butt to maintain.
Ray, you’re an idiot. And anyone who buys your $99 garbage is an idiot too. People are bringing the pain home by buying your trash.
February 25th, 2010
It seems I keep bumping into people who tell me they are professional poker players. I almost have to laugh when I hear this. I’m not an idiot. I don’t care what you think, what you see on TV or what your friends say. Playing poker is not a way to earn a living. Ever since the World Poker Tour and that hot bitch Shana Hiatt hit the airwaves, everyone and their grandma are now claiming they are a professional poker player. The fact is, 99.999% of those making that claim are broke as a joke. Even lots of the true professionals you see on TV go broke from time to time. Mike “The Mouth” Matusow has been flat broke busted at least twice. The odds of you earning a living from playing poker are less than the odds of you becoming a Hollywood celebrity. The odds of you making a fortune with a website and Adsense are about 100X greater than making one red cent playing poker.
How many professional poker players on TV do you see living in a big houses and have nice cars? Almost NONE. Why is that? Because poker is not a job. Those that do make serious money playing poker make their money from selling books, endorcements or some partnership with a poker site. Unless you are doing one of the three, you’re not making money from poker.
Your time, money, and effort are better spent trying to build an empire. So guys, please stop with the “I’m a professional poker player” lines. It’s starting to get on my nerves. My 14 year old nephew is probably making more with his website than you are by playing poker.
