A few years back, hurricane Katrina wiped out a large portion of the New Orleans landscape. Most people these days only know what they see on TV about New Orleans. They think that Katrina wiped out all of New Orleans and it’s just a wasteland now. That could not be farther from the truth.
The truth is that New Orleans is the hottest spot in the United States for real estate investors right now. Due to fear among residents who abandoned their property, prime real estate just a short walk from the French Quarter can be bought for pennies on the dollar.
Want to buy a couple acres in the 5th Ward district and start your own development mega empire? No problem. You can get an acre in the 5th Ward District just down the street from the French Quarter with room to build 4 hours on for around $10,000. This is about 1/10 of what you would pay for an acre anywhere else in the country. Prior to Katrina, this property would have cost you about $85,000 minimum and skyrocketing upwards from there.
Real Estate investment company Satros, Inc. out of Houston Texas has purchased eleven 1 acre blocks in the 5th Ward District. They would not disclose the amount they paid, probably because they want to keep out the competition. But I guarantee that they are going to make an absolute fortune on this one deal. I’m sure they have plans to buy more property, but they have not disclosed it.
Another good section to make you real estate fortune in New Orleans is in a section of town called Settler’s Corner. While property deals are not as easily found like in the 5th Ward District, some can be had there for about 25% off of comparable property found in other sections of New Orleans.
Small time real estate investors are having better luck buying property in Settler’s Corner. I’m not sure why. It’s might be because the families have lived there for decades and don’t want to sell out to large investment firms, and would rather sell to small time investors who they can put a name and face on.
Another section of New Orleans that has received a lot of real estate investor attention is an area of of Bourbon Street called “Mackies”. I don’t know why it’s called that, but it was devastated by the hurricane and has yet to be cleaned up. There’s lots of old houses that have been abandoned but the owners don’t want to tear them down due to the historical value. This area has received a lot of attention from some casino owners who pan to build a casino/resort and a golf course nearby.
So you if want to jump in the real easte game and make some serious money, New Orleans is where you should be looking. It’s hot investment property that can be picked up cheap. But it won’t be like it is forever.
Playing poker is all the rage now. It’s all over TV and it’s all everyone is talking about. Despite it’s new found fame, poker has been around for ages. It’s just now caught on with the younger crowd who are lazy and looking for a make to make easy money. Well, that’s the attraction of poker. Anyone can play it, and it does not take any real skill. It’s partially a game of luck. And you can make millions
Many kids these days have started out with as little as $50 and made small fortunes. There’s currently a ring of 20 something year old kids that live in Las Vegas that call themselves the “Vegas Mafia”. These kids don’t hang out in the flashy card rooms of the Bellagio. They hang out in their $1,000,000 condos over looking the new Trump Hotel while playing for thousands a day against people they have never met. They “rob” unsuspecting opponents in online card rooms and taking their money like they switched wallets.
One kid named Josh Pena moved to Las Vegas from Orlando, Florida to become a poker professional and make his millions. Being an online player and a new member to the “Vegas Mafia”, he did not really need to move to Vegas to make him millions. He did it to get submerse himself in the poker scene and make his fortune while sitting behind his computer screen.
Josh estimates that he earns and loses about $5,000 - $50,000 per day. But his overall earning are up about $750,000 for 2008 and he earned about $400,000 in 2007. That’s SERIOUS MONEY for a kid who was working at Home Depot only 4 years ago as a fork lift operator.
So if you want to make millions playing poker, you need to make some moves and follow in the footsteps of people like Josh. He could of stayed in Florida and made minimum wage working at Home Depot till he was 65 year old. But he’s a bold kid and knew that making money playing poker was a lot more easy that working a 9 - 5 job the rest of his life.
If you want to make millions playing poker, you can do it. You just need to be bold, take risks and make moves. You will get rich, and the money will stack up.
You have seen them on TV, and heard them on the radio. They are music superstars. Everyone at some point has dreamed of getting rich and being a music superstar.
But there’s several ways to get rich in the music business!
The first way to get rich in the music business to be be a songwriter. Most of the hit songs you hear on the radio today are not written buy the artists. They are written by songwriters. And they get get paid VERY well if the song becomes a hit. Kenny Rogers writes lots of songs for other well known artists. Why do you think he is so freaking rich? It’s because he gets paid royalties. Kenny Rogers makes millions a year writing songs for other musicians and also releasing songs of his own. He’s one of the most wealthy men in the music industry today. So if you want to follow in his footsteps, you don’t need to be a famous musician, you just need to get out a pencil and start writing some songs. Some will be flops, and some you can sell for some good profits.
Another person who is getting rich in the song writing business is Pat Green. Some of you may know him and some of you my not. He has released several CD and is making a fortune in the country music business. He also writes songs for other country artists and he’s getting very wealthy from doing it.
Song writing makes money from the proceeds of each song they write, almost like a producer (more about producing in a minute). But songwriters make more money than the producer.
The second way to get rich in the music business is to be a producer. No every song in the music business requires “writing music”. Some music from rap artists and other genre require “producing”. It’s not song writing in the traditional sense, but because it’s not music. It’s “beats” or just weird “sounds” like is often heard from rap artists, and other artist such as Beastie Boys, Beck and they like. Most pop music is “produced”, not “written”.
One of the most famous producers is the well known Scott Storch. He produced songs for many famous artist, and is most famous for turning his $70,000,000 fortune into a a negative fortune. Scott Storch is now flat broke and has a warrant out for his arrest.
Other famous rap/hip hop producers are Timbaland, Dr. Dre, Rick Rubin, Mannie Fresh, among others. So if you want to get rich in the music business, but don’t have any musical talent, get into producing. It can make you very rich, and you don’t need much knowledge of the industry.
Another way to get rich in the music business is to start your own record label. This not not a difficult thing to do and is probably the most exciting way to make money in the music industry. But the main problem with with making money in the music industry with this avenue with the speed at which things are changing. It’s not like the old days where if you wanted to heard a Michael Jackson song you had to go out and buy the record. Now we have computers and downloadable digital media. This can really cut into your profits as a record label owner. It’s also a blessing because it’s make promoting your bands easier. You simple release you bands music in digital format for .99 cents.
So if you want to get rich in the music business, pick which avenue excites you the most and go that route. It’s a great way to make a fortune doing something you love.
Everyone is talking about. It seems to be the lifeblood of the economy. It’s the Stock Market. If you want to make money in the stock market, you have to be in it to win. You can’s be risk adverse. If you’re risk adverse, you need to stick to playing nickel slots at the casinos with the blue haired ladies.
Back to the stock market. If you want to get rich in the stock market you need to read some books and learn how it operates. You can’t just open a newspaper and start picking. Well, you can, but then you are just on the road to losing all your money. I had a cousin that thought he was going to get rich in the stock market. He put $25,000 in a stock and lost almost all of it. IF you want to make money in the stock market you have to do your research like I said. Another way to learn about the stock market is to take some college classes at you local community college. They usually have some type of continuing education program where you can learn everything about the basics of making money in the stock market, to options trading and all sort of other angles.
Also if you want to make money in the stock market, don’t buy any of the prepackaged “red light/green light” software. Unless it can predict the future, it’s worthless. No to mention it’s also expensive.
May people who want to make money in the stock market also choose to go with an online broker house. These can be anything along the lines of Etrade and Ameritrade. When shopping around for a broker house to make money in the stock market, keep your eye on trade fees. The fees can quickly add up and eat into your profits of you trade too often. So if you tend to shuffle your stock around and you’re not a long term investor, you want to keep these fees to a minimum.
Don’t listen to friends who have “tips” on how to make money in the stock market. Most people like to brag and don’t know what they are talking about. If they are making so much money in the stock market, they would not be working a 9 - 5 job and standing around a water cooler talking about how they are making so much money in the stock market.
Opening an broker account is not difficult. You request and application or fill out an online form. Most houses have an online application or they will request that you visit a nearby brokerage office. Then you just simply open the account. They will probably have a minimum account amount that you need to start with. It’s usually around $2,000 - $5,000. So you see, if you want to start making money in the market, all you need is around $2,000. Who knows, you could possible multiply that into several thousand dollars and eventually become a stock market tycoon like Warren Buffet, who’s the richest man in the world.
But back to making money in the stock market. These are tough times to be trying to make money in the stock market. The Dow Jones is getting hammered and people who don’t know what they are doing are getting their accounts wiped out. Just today the Dow Jones Industrial is down almost 300 points, so anyone that has money in the stock market is pretty much losing at this stage. So those who are trying to make money in the market better know what they are doing. Especially with it being an election year. This tends to make the stock market more like banking in a bad neighborhood. You don’t want to go there, but you have to at some point. You just need to know what you’re doing.
Another way to learn how to make money in the stock market is to play with “fake” money. In effort to get your business, most online brokerages will have a “free” way to play fake money in the stock market. You pick your stocks and they give you an account with “fake” money. So when you pick bad stocks, you don’t lose anything. And when you pick good stocks, you don’t make anything. It’s all about the learning experience.
So if you want to make money in the stock market, you need to buy some books, take a college continuing education class or play with the fake accounts you can set up with the online brokerage houses.
There’s lots of ways to make money on the internet. Some people make money selling items on Ebay. Some people make money selling advertisements on their websites. Some people make money with affiliate marketing.
Here’s another way to make money for you photographers. Sell your photos on iStockphoto.com
There’s people making as much as $10,000 a month selling photos. iStockphoto.com only pays .25 cents for each photo sold, but those numbers can add up if one of your photos sells well.
Here’s an interesting article about selling your photos on iStockphoto.com
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I know I have not posted on her much lately. I just have not felt like blogging and I took some time off. I have been relaxing, playing golf and trying to stay off the internet as much as possible.
Well it looks like while I was on my little vacation that Google decided to update it’s PR.
Before I went on vacation: PR 3
After vacation: PR 0.
Google kicked me in the nuts just because I decided to not sit on my computer for hours on end and actually went outdoors and enjoyed the sunshine, birds and bees for a couple weeks.
The PR rank dropped has killed my traffic and Adsense earnings. I was making $15 a day before. Now. I think I have made .50 this week.
So much for all the hard work I put in for the last year making hundreds of posts. All that efford went down the crapper just because I took a couple weeks off.
So….no more worrying about PR. I have no more desire to keep it up. I will just blog whenever I feel like blogging.
If you can’t make conversions, you can’t make any money. Landing pages are the lifeblood of your marketing campaign.
Check out this video. It explains how these guys increased conversions without changing any ad copy at all. All they did was move images around.
Pretty interesting results!
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