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How to Make Money at Home Online with Niche Blogging

Posted by JE Jones on Nov-13-2009

Would you like to make money at home using your computer? In the current economy, everybody could use some extra income, or maybe even a new career. Working at home means you can get out of bed, grab a cup of coffee and head for your computer to put in a couple hours work. This sort of extra income sounds great and it IS possible for anybody wanting to make money online.

Jumping out of bed, throwing down a cup of coffee and scampering to your car to face bumper to bumper traffic, while trying desperately trying to motivate yourself do do work you don’t like may be something you would love to eliminate from your life. Some of you may be sitting at home with no job to go to and no money coming in.

The good news is that you can make money at home online to supplement or even replace your income. It’s all made possible through blogging!

You probably read blogs on all sorts of subjects all the time. There are literally millions of blogs out there on every conceivable topic which are called niche blogs. They find a niche and fill it, while making money online.

You might think it’s difficult to become a blogger but, with the right help, it’s possible to make a great income online by blogging and change your life for the better.

Instead of sneaking a peek at your favorite blogs during your 9-to-5 job, you can be the one sitting at home and writing these blogs that other people read! You’ll not only be providing great content for people, you’ll also be pulling in some great money that can literally change your life and having fun too.

Getting rid of the doubt that you can do this is going to be an important first step. As long as you are able to compose and send an e-mail, you can be a professional blogger!

What you need to help you learn the art of blogging is a tutorial that will show you step-by-step how to do this. It’s also important to have motivation and encouragement. The absolute best place to get this online is The Niche Blogger.

This membership site is great for the beginning at blogging and also for the intermediate marketer who wants to learn more about how to build a successful, money-making blog. In fact, many of the people who join the membership site are brand-new at blogging and have little computer knowledge.

The good thing is that there is a whole mix of experience levels so you are sure to be able to find help among the community whenever you need it.

The startup cost is incredibly low as well — making sure that those who want to join learn about blogging and making money online to escape their jobs are able to do so. Even if you’re happy with your job, it never hurts to have extra money coming in. Blogging is fun!

You already know that companies spend millions and millions of dollars in order to attract customers. Part of their advertising costs online go to a affiliates. These affiliates place ads on their websites and blogs and their readers often make purchases. When readers make purchases, the blog owner makes money! It’s as simple as that.

All you need to do is have your blog in place, with affiliate ads relating to your content and you can be the one whose links customers buy through.

The main difference between making money at home online and going to a 9-to-5 job is that you are now in business for yourself - a professional blogger.

There is no reason to limit yourself into thinking that you have to stay at a job you don’t like forever. Become your own boss and work at home in your PJs so you can do what you want to do, when you want to do it.

Try The Niche Blogger for FREE! Click Here for a FREE 3 Day Trial and see for yourself what a great blogging program it is.

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Money Making Ideas for a Bad Economy - Work at Home Business on the Rise

Posted by JE Jones on Apr-26-2009

In the current bad economy, one of the money making ideas that is on the rise is work at home or direct selling. I saw a news report this morning that women especially, who have lost their jobs, are turning to direct selling and work at home businesses like Avon and other companies. Here are some tips on choosing the right work at home opportunity money making idea for you and a couple of ideas:

1. What are you interested in?

Do you like cooking and baking? Companies like Watkins offer quality cooking and baking products, as well as eco-friendly cleaning products. Are you interested in health? There are many great health products, like The Whole Wellness Club, which sells Holy Tea, out there that truly help people live healthier lives, and the sale of health products is on the rise, even in this bad economy.

2. Once you choose 4-5 companies you’d like to promote, check out the sign up fees involved.

If you’re building a new business, even if it’s working at home, you’ll have a few start up costs. However, don’t invest hundreds of dollars in any business until you find out if it’s for you and if you can be successful at it. Certainly don’t spend money on business building programs or advertising right away either. There are many ways to promote your business for free so try these before you spend any money.

Some work at home business opportunities are free to join, others have a fee, whether it’s a one time cost or an annual fee to belong to the business. Decide what you can spend, if anything, and stick to that. You may want to invest in a few catalogs or perhaps a website, if you plan to sell on the Internet but again, many of these money making ideas can be done on a shoestring budget. For instance, you can create a blog to promote your business for free.

Using health as an example, you could create a health tips blog like mine chat with others who also love health or are looking for ideas for healthy weightloss for instance, or healthy recipes. Blogspot blogs are free to create and you can put ads on them with no problem.

Some business opportunities offer free websites, just for joining, and the moment you sign up, you have your own business website. One such work at home health business is The Whole Wellness Club, which offers Holy Tea, Cinnamon 6 and a Coral Calcium product.

3.  Check out the company’s reputation. How long has it been in business? Check with forums to see if there have been complaints about the company. I was recently researching Acai berry products and found several people talking about the downside of belonging to MonAvie - namely the products are expensive and the ingredients are undisclosed. Look for an honest and straightforward company to deal with.

4. How do you want to market your business? Do you like giving home parties or would you prefer to sell your products online? Watkins has an entire set up for home parties, called “Good Tastings” and even awards for representatives who have the most in a month or sell the most products. Mary Kaye and Tupperware also offer home party systems for selling.

You can also sign up for a company website and then link it to your blog. Most companies, however, charge a set-up fee of anywhere from $40-$60 and then about $20 per month to maintain it. Also be aware that these “replicator” sites do not do well in the search engines so you need a blog or website with original content to hook your business site to.

Also be aware that most companies have policies about what you can say about them on your blogs or websites so read these thoroughly before deciding on either the company or an internet promotion as a way of doing business.

5. What is your personality? Do you like people and selling? If you’re passionate about your products and you like talking to people, you’re well on your way to a great money making idea. or you like the idea of running your own business and working for yourself, making your own hours? If you aren’t a self-starter, then working at home isn’t for you.

Despite the economy and perhaps because of fears about what is happening with health care reform, more and more people are interested in health products. More people are also cooking at home so businesses like Watkins and Tupperware are doing well.

6.  What sort of products to you use and enjoy? With the right money making idea for you, you can also get your own products at a discount. I save on Watkins products for my cooking and baking, I use Watkins natural dish soap, hand soap, laundry soap and Watkins shampoo, all at a savings. It’s the same with belonging to the Whole Wellness Club. I like drinking a gentle detox tea daily and with the commissions I get from selling Holy Tea, I can purchase my own products and also make money.

7.  Consider affiliate programs for products you use and would enjoy promoting. Are there products you like? The company probably has an affiliate program which will offer you links and banners to post on your website or blog. Companies like Linkshare and Commission Junction have hundreds of companies to choose from and your earnings go into one lump sum to be paid to you, rather than many small checks.

If you’re looking for money making ideas, (and who isn’t?), it’s even possible to create mulitple streams on income from several different sources, like I have. Just remember, though, to be successful at working at home, you must be ready to commit time and energy to making it work. No money making idea works by itself but it is possible to earn several hundred dollars a month to supplement income with about 25 hours a week.

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Boomer Blog - Get Healthy With Whole Food Nutrition

Posted by JE Jones on Apr-18-2009

I’m a whole food nutritional supplement convert. I used to take a pile of vitamins every morning, mostly isolated vitamins, like B complex, Vitamin C and Vitamin E. These were isolated nutrients and possibly even  artificially created. There is a new trend in nutrition and healthy living, however, that advocated whole food nutrition and whole food supplements to give you all the hundreds of micronutrients, phytonutrients, omega 3 fatty acids and probiotics, all as they occur naturally in whole foods.

Some whole food nutritional supplements even contain superfoods like acai berry, noni fruit and chia seeds.

Where can you buy powerful whole food nutritional products and still save money too?

I use Dr. Mercols’s Whole Food MultiVitamin Plus Minerals as my favorite whole food nutritional supplement. As a reader of my Tips for Boomer Years Blog, you’ll know I advocate adding superfoods to your diet like green veggies, broccoli, kale and spinach, nuts and berries like blueberries and probiotics. Dr. Mercola’s Whole Food Supplement contains 25 whole, live foods like fruits, herbs and veggies

Whole food nutritional supplements offer great health benefits such as:

  • Helps slow the effects of aging
  • Helps protect the body from illness and diseases
  • Works at the cellular level to build optimum health
  • Gives increased energy
  • Helps build strong tissues, bones and muscles
  • Keeps the brain healthy
  • and More!

I trust Dr. Mercola’s products because they offer the best quality for the money. Whether it’s whole food nutritional supplements, digestive enzymes, safe cookware, natural health books or anything else related to health, Dr. Mercola backs up his products with research and information. Dr. Mercola also offers a terrific email newsletter with the latest in natural health information. Sign up for the newsletter is free.

More about whole food supplements

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How to Succeed with Your MLM Company

Posted by JE Jones on Mar-10-2009

Every once in a while a friend tells me about something they are doing and I’m so impressed, I want to let others know about it. My friend Jerry Collins is part of a great mentoring program to help others succeed with their MLM businesses, no matter which business it is.

Here’s a great little blurb from Jerry about his Mentoring business, Success in Any Business

One Of THE Biggest Reasons People Succeed In MLM…

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They have a Mentor.

  • What
  • How
  • Why

WHAT

Ever since we came out of the caves, people have followed successful people. First, for survival….Second, for survival….Third, for survival….It’s the same, today. Pioneers blaze the path, most people follow that established path to success. Success In Any Business is such a path! A group of mentors willing to give freely of their time and effort. It doesn’t matter what online or offline business you are in.

HOW

Down load the fr.e.e eBook, read it immediately, absorb it, and write down any questions. Success In Any Business

WHY

Your burning desire is all the why needed. Most people will do what’s necessary to succeed. But some don’t. They let their doubts and fears prevent their success. Just Do It!

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Want to know more about me. Find it at my blog url below.

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Try This 30 Day Financial Freedom Plan to Thrive in Any Economy

Posted by JE Jones on Oct-26-2008

If you watch the news, you see endless talk of the bad economy and financial crisis. Now, I see stories too about how the bad economy is causing health problems as stress takes its toll. Worry, depression and stress can wear you down, no matter what the cause and finances are a part of our lives, let’s face it. What you need is a 30 day plan to financial freedom. Many people thrive in this and any economy and here’s how many of them do it.

Instead of worrying about economic crisis, try this 30 day plan to financial freedom:

1.  Start by evaluating your financial situation to see if there is something you can do to put yourself on a sounder footing. I would recommend reading Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker. This book will give you a new, no-nonsense way of planning your finances so you, too, can be a millionaire, no matter what the current economy is.

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth

2. Keep a gratitude journal – To keep your spirits up and focus on more positive things, there’s nothing more uplifting than realizing you have much to be grateful for. Instead of dwelling on economic crisis, think of all the good in your life. “What you focus on expands” so what do you want more of in your life?

3. When your mind turns to negative thoughts, and it will just out of habit, return to your gratitude journal. Reach for a better feeling thought. Remember, it takes 30 days to break a habit and for many people, negative thinking is just a habit they can break. Focus on positives to create more of that in your life.

4. Resist the urge to TALK about how bad things are. Take any action you may need to take to better your personal situation but nothing is gained and much is lost by dwelling on negativity with friends and relatives.

5. Picture yourself in a great economy! Your customers are spending money on your products, they are visiting your website and liking what they see, money is flowing in and YOUR economy is in an upturn. If you need to make extra money to fill in your budget, during these tense economic times, many people are looking for extra income and work at home opportunities. Maybe you’re a person who wants their own business. If so, start working at it on the side. Marketing your business opportunity in a bad economy is actually easier than it is in a perceived good economy when things are going well for people.

6. Rent uplifting or funny movies. Watch The Secret, if you haven’t already. Other good movies, The Peaceful Warrior, What the Bleep Do We Know? and Louise Hay’s You Can Heal Your Life. What sort of comedies to do you like? Go rent some today and watch them frequently.

7. Read books on the law of attraction: Any book by Ester and Jerry Hicks, who also have a new book on the law of attraction and money), or read books by Dr. Wayne Dyer. If you go to Amazon and look for “law of attraction” dozens of titles will pop up. If you don’t want to purchase them, try the library or discount book stores. Read a chapter a day.

8. Avoid stress – Take care of your health - get plenty of sleep and exercise to relieve stress and make sure you’re eating right. Stress lowers the immune system and you don’t want to get sick.

Remember, you can CHOOSE to think better thoughts, to see the positives in your life instead of worrying about financial crisis. “Nothing is good or bad. But thinking makes it so,” said William Shakespeare. I read that in a positive thinking book years ago and I think of it often. It isn’t what happens to us in life that is either good or bad, it’s how we interpret it with our thoughts and how we choose to act on it.

Follow this 30 day financial plan and see what inspirations come to you. You will begin to see ways to improve your financial situation. It’s your thoughts, moment by moment, which create your future. Control your thoughts and feelings NOW, in this present moment and these, in turn, create a better financial future for you and your family.

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Retirement Jobs - Choosing the Right Home Based Business

Posted by JE Jones on Oct-8-2008


Do you want to start your home business to build retirement income but have no clue how to find the right business for you? When I wanted to start my own home based business, I was lucky. I was already using products that provided a home business opportunity and they were in a area of health, where I had some knowledge and a passion for knowing more.

I liked helping people to have better health, so expanding to selling these health products seemed a natural to me.

Are you currently using any product that you might be able to build a business around? Or perhaps there are products you would like to use which offer a home business opportunity. This is a great place to start.

However, if you have no clue about which business you want to get into, here are some tips on choosing the right home business.

1.  Make a list of your interests. I know this was mentioned in goal setting but it’s also a good strategy when you’re starting your own home based business. You want to choose a business that you will enjoy. Is there a hobby or craft you’ve always had a passion for? Are you interested in health or sports?

2.  Once you have a list of your interests, research the market in this area. Are there hundreds of blogs, websites and products relating to this? Do you think there is a demand for products or information in the area of your interest? Do you think there is potential for profit in this area? It’s important, besides loving your home business, to actually make money at it.

3.  Don’t settle on the first business that comes to mind, research lots of options. Read books and articles and check out all sorts of business ideas. Researching how to start your own business has never been easier with the internet at your fingertips.

4.  Once you’ve done your research on your areas of interest, make a list of the types of businesses that interest you. Check out forums and social networks. It’s important, if you sign up for an MLM type home business, that you have a good group of people to work with who will support you and provide you with information.

5.  Make a list of the sorts of equipment you’ll need to start your own home business. You will probably find you have most of what you need if you own a computer and printer. You may also need a fax machine. Remember to keep records of any money you spend as these will be tax deductions for you.

6.  If you’re going to sign up with an MLM business and sell a product, check into the company thoroughly. Does it cost to sign up? Is there a required auto ship policy? Do they provide a free website and training for you? I wouldn’t advise jumping into any product as a home business that wants to charge you an exorbitant fee up front.

7.  If you are starting your own home business as retirement income and your spouse wants to be part if it, discuss all aspects of the business with him or her so you both know what to expect. You want to find a home business you’ll both enjoy and which meets both your criteria for what you want to do in retirement.

Starting your own home business requires good research upfront so that you choose the right now for you. Once you lay your groundwork, then you can change your focus from finding a business to creating success in your business.

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Starting Your Own Home Based Business - Free Resources

Posted by JE Jones on Oct-8-2008

Free? I love free when it comes to resources and when I was starting my own home business, I learned a lot from Ann Sieg’s 35 page free ebook entitled, “The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing”. I would recommend this ebook to anyone who wants to start their own home based business as it can save you lots of heartache and help you on your way to success.

It’s a sad fact that 95% of those who start a home business fail. Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? Imagine all those who sign up for a home based business opportunity with great hopes and enthusiasm and belief in their product. Why don’t these people succeed in promoting their home businesses?

If you are planning on starting your own home based business to build retirement income and want to promote it online via network marketing, 7 Great Lies of Internet Marketing, is a must read. When you do choose a business opportunity for your home based business, this free ebook will change the way you look at the “training” you’re given by your upline or your business training back office.

The home based businesses I promote pretty much listed all the elements listed in The 7 Great Lies ebook in their training material. However, besides giving you the 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing, Ann Sieg also tells you what to do to combat these lies and be successful.

Ann Sieg’s ebook is definately ruffling some network marketing feathers as she challenges the old school style of marketing. See if these Great Lies of Network Marketing sound familiar to you:

Lie #1 – Everyone is your prospect!
Lie #2 – What you’re doing isn’t sales. You just share products with people.
Lie #3 – Anybody can do this!
Lie #4 – We’ll build your business for you.
Lie #5 – We have the best product out there so people can’t help but buy it.
Lie #6 – If you’re not succeeding it’s because you just don’t have enough belief!
Lie #7 – Try our “proven system” and you can’t help but succeed.

If you’re starting your own home business, you will run into all these reasons why you can’t fail. It isn’t the fault of your particular company. It’s just the way “it’s always been done.”

Unless you want to be one of the 95% who fail at your home business, it’s time to change the way it’s always been done.

The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing tells you want you need to do as well if you want a successful network marketing home business. Here’s something I learned and use every day in my home business.

1. Make your business about offering solutions. Become an expert and a problem solver.

There are hundreds of business opportunities out there. People aren’t interested in another “biz op” presentation so forget that! If you are the expert and the problem solver, people seek YOU out and ask about your product or opportunity.

Your product or business offers the solution to someone’s problem, otherwise nobody would want it in the first place. Whatever that problem is, become an expert on it. I’m most familiar with health products so I’ll use that as an example. What health problem does your product help to solve? What uses do people find for your product? Each of these uses offers a solution to a problem.

My two products are Holy Tea and Uri Life. Holy Tea is a safe, natural detox tea that helps people lose weight and keep all the disease and illness-causing toxins flushed from their bodies. So Holy Tea solves many problems for people. Uri Life is a whole nutrition, whole food product that helps build healthy bodies at the cellular level through nutrition. Just about everybody wants to be healthier or has a health issue they are dealing with.

To become an expert at your problem, write articles for Ezinearticles.com, start a blog or website, or write a monthly newsletter. You want people to believe in your authority on the subject and value your opinion and advice.

You can see that it doesn’t really matter what product you sell. The product itself becomes almost irrelevant.

The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing explains that chasing after friends and family to present your business opportunity is only an invitation to frustration and failure in your home business. If you’re a professional and an expert, customers and business partners will seek you out and there is no need to chase after anyone.

The 7 Great Lies of Network Marketing is packed with great information, whether you’re just starting your own home based business or whether you’ve been building your business for some time. No matter the level of success you’ve achieve, you can become even more successful.

Becoming successful at a home business and at internet marketing is not easy. Your product or your business won’t magically grow - you do have to learn some marketing skills but once you master a few basic marketing strategies, building your business to success will be a whole lot easier!

Click here for more information on The 7 Great Lies of Internet Marketing

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Retirement Jobs - Is it Time to Start Your Own Home Business?

Posted by JE Jones on Oct-8-2008

Are you asking yourself, “Is it time to start my own home based business?” Is retirement looming while news of economic crisis gives you the jitters? Maybe retirement is approaching and you’re just looking for a new and different challenge in your life, a challenge that will give you a good supplemental income.

There are pros and cons to starting your own home business but now is a great time to explore the possibilities.

Starting Your Own Home Business for Retirement Income – The Pros

1. You can start your business while you’re still working your regular job.

Starting a home based business to supplement your retirement income is easy to do part time at first. In fact, while you still have your regular income, you can do your research, set up an organized home office and draw up your plan for success.

2. It’s easy to find a solid work at home opportunity.

This is where your research comes in. There are hundreds of work at home businesses out there and finding the right one for you is not difficult.

3. You can be your own boss.

Starting your own home based business allows you to be fully in control. If you want to get up and work at 3 am in your pjs you can. If you want to take a break to go to exercise class or walk your dogs, like I do, you can do that too.

4. You can save money by starting your own home business.

Add up what you spend on gas, wear and tear on your car, clothes for work, eating out for lunch or even dinner and you’ll see that working at home can actually save you money. When you’re retired, it would be nice to go to work in your own home office.

5. Starting your own home based business can be done for free or for very little cost.

Many home business opportunities are free to get into and there are lots of ways to market for free as well.

6. In times of perceived economic crisis, more people are interested in starting their own home business for extra or retirement income.

Others are like you, looking for ways to supplement their income and perhaps make even more money than they did at their regular jobs. If your home business involves offering your opportunity to others, then this is an excellent time.

7. There is serious money to be made by starting your own home business.

It may take time to put together the home business which will make you the money you want or need for retirement, but it can be done. I advocate the multiple streams of income way of building business. You build one source of income until it’s producing, then you apply your successful method to building another stream of income, and so on.

8. You can put your home business on autopilot.

After you’ve built your home business, may aspects can be put on autopilot so you are making money even in your sleep!

Starting Your Own Home Business – The Cons

1. Many home businesses fail.

Let’s face it, everyone starts their home business with great expectations but an extremely high percentage of these fail. Would you be one of these?

2. There are lots of get rich quick schemes out there.

Doing your research is very important! Don’t sign up for anything that requires a big outlay of cash from you. Don’t sign up for advertising or programs that are costly until you’ve explored all the free options.

3. It takes time to build your own home business.

Making money from a home business doesn’t happen overnight, no matter what sales pages might tell you. It requires patience and commitment to start and build your own home business.

As you can see, the pros far out-weight the cons for starting your own home business. If you’re approaching retirement, or even if you’re retired now, start doing your research into products and businesses to find the right one for you.

Stay tuned for more information on how to find the right home business for you.

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Retirement Jobs - Turn Your Passion Into Profit

Posted by JE Jones on Oct-1-2008


Would you like to wake up with enthusiasm every day and leap out of bed knowing your dream retirement job awaits you? Think of the hours you currently snatch for enjoying the things you love? In retirement, you can turn this passion in to profit.

What’s your dream? Do you have a passion or hobby only pursue a few hours a week? If you’re a baby boomer getting ready for retirement, chances are you’re still going to be working at something, whether it’s out of pleasure or financial necessity, so why not make a midlife career change by combining your dreams and passions into a fulfilling retirement job?

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You’ve earned an enjoyable retirement but can you afford it? If you can’t enjoy life when you retire, when will you? Studies show that those who work in a job that they enjoy are healthier and experience fewer stress related illnesses. When you’re a baby boomer, it’s very important to stay healthy and avoid stress!

Think of the people you do business with. Don’t you value those who are passionate and excited about their business? Wouldn’t you rather do business with someone who truly enjoys what they are doing? Your retirement job can be something YOU are passionate about – making money is just the extra icing on the cake.

How to Create a “Retirement Job” from Your Dreams and Passions

Get a notebook to take a personal assessment of your interests, abilities and passions. Start by making some lists of:

1. Your interests – do you love travel or photography? How about writing or model trains? Do you love hiking and the outdoors? Write it down.

2. Your abilities and strong points – Are you an organizer? Can you write? Can you teach others? Are you patient or do you like things to move quickly?

3. Your experience – write down everything you can think of. Did you help build a Habitat for Humanity house when you were 18? Have you ever volunteered? Maybe you love Golden Retrievers and you’ve read dozens of books about them.

4. How do you currently spend your time when you aren’t working? Which of these things makes you feel happy, inspired, joyful? Think about times in your life when you truly felt passionate. Is there a common thread in your memories? Were you learning, teaching, risk taking, helping others, having fun, problem solving?

5. When we are children we are the closest to our true nature. What things did you love as a child? (I know it was long ago, but bear with me?)

6. Do you have a secret dream job? A job you never really thought you could pursue? How would it make you feel if you could make your living doing that job?

What Kind of Retirement Job Do You Want? What are Your Goals?

What is your ideal job? Dream big here. If you’d like to make $2,000 a month working 20 hours a week, write that down. If you’d like to earn and travel so you need a mobile career, write that down too. Really define what you see as the perfect retirement income. It’s a known fact that those who write down their goals are more likely to achieve them.

By now you should begin to get a sense of what type of retirement job you can feel passionate about. Next spend some time researching your interests on the Internet. What are others doing in this area? Are there blogs and websites out there about it?

The way passionate people make money from their passion is to share what they know with others. If you have expertise, others will pay to know what you know. What have you learned about your hobby that other people would like to know? You can help others avoid the learning curve you had and become an expert like you!

Let’s say you love model trains. Not only do you love model trains, you’re crazy about them. You’ve built some models, you attend model train shows when you can, maybe you’re a member of a model train group (or you’d like to have time for that.)

Here are some possible ways to make money in a retirement job using our model train example.

Build a Website or Blog to Create Retirement Income

1. Build a website with model train information on it. Include how-to articles like where to find hard to find model parts. Include an events calendar. Interview some other enthusiasts about their tips for model train building. You’re the expert, what did you read about to learn about model trains?

Once your website or blog is up and running, you can monetize it by putting up Google adsense or model train affiliate ads.

2. If you’d like to include travel and photography in your business, take trips to model train events, interview people and take photos. Lots of tax write offs here for your travel expenses, your camera, your computer, even model train books and magazines.

3. If you decide to build a blog to make money with your passion, look into The Niche Blogger give you step by step instructions to achieve your goal.

Teach Others about Your Passion - Give Classes on Model Trains and Model Train Building

1. Contact your local senior or community center or community college. Ask them about teaching some model train classes on the subjects of your choosing.

Write a Book or Ebook

Share your expertise with others by writing an ebook and marketing it on your blog or website or through your model train community.

If you’re not quite ready for that midlife career change or retirement job, this is the perfect time to begin finding a way to pursue what you’re passionate about right now. By doing your personal assessment and looking for ways to profit form your passion, you’re inviting ideas into your consciousness to help direct you.

There is a saying “Do what you love and the rest will follow?” Live your passion and be joyful in your retirement pursuits and creative ideas will begin flowing. You’ll suddenly find your life filled with others who share your passion, others with ideas and helpful information.

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Using Social Networks in Network Marketing

Posted by JE Jones on Sep-23-2008

Social Networking For the Baby Boomer Generation

If you are new to network marketing, chances are you may still be chasing down friends and relatives, trying to interest them in your “business opportunity.” There is a better way for Baby Boomers to build their business and have fun too. Welcome to the new world of attraction marketing where prospects actually seek you out wanting to join your network marketing opportunity.

First - What is Attraction Marketing?

Attraction marketing is based on the idea that to form a network marketing team, you will be more successful if you have many common bonds and friendships with your team. You seek out people who are like you, who have the same values and ideas. One terrific place to connect is through social networking.

For Baby Boomers, who remember when values like honesty and integrity were important, attraction marketing might mean connecting with others over 50 to form network marketing relationships. Attraction marketing could also mean connecting with others who have an interest in health, business building or any number of other topics. Groups who have an interest in a topic can form a social network and get to know each other.

How to Find the Right Social Networks for You

The first social network I joined was CafeMom. I was told by a friend that it was a great place to find women interested in network marketing and work at home opportunities. This was true but I found that most on the forums at CafeMom were young, stay at home mothers, not 50-something women and overall, I had little in common with them. As far as social networking, I felt like everybody’s mother on CafeMom.

One wonderful thing that did come from my social networking experience at CafeMom was that I met other like-minded women who all decided to branch off into our own group. My friend and mentor, Andrea Goodsaid started Natural Networkers which is based on attraction marketing and helping each other with our businesses. Many of us there have joined each others’ network marketing businesses.

Another social networking group I found with interests similar to my own was Eons.com. The way I found Eons was by searching for “social network over 50″. This social network caters to Baby Boomers and has forums on retirement, careers for those over 50, health, fitness, travel, just about any subject a Baby Boomer would be interested in.

I have a few other social networks I’m involved in, including The Freedom Formula which I joined after reading the book of the same name.

One new social networking tool is Twitter. Twitter is easy and fun. Here is my profile on Twitter. You create a small profile and then “twitter” about what you are doing at the moment, whether it’s creating a new blog posting or article, telling about a book you’re reading or a helpful program you’re involved in, or simply what you’re eating for dinner. Others check out your profile by subject - for instance, network marketing - and they decide to “follow” what you are doing and you can “follow” them or not, as you prefer.

What to Expect When You Sign up for a Social Networking Site

Each social network allows you to set up your own profile or home page where you usually tell something “about me”, add photos, blog postings, videos, links to your website and more to personalize it. It’s important to build a profile because it allows others to get to know you.

Each social network also offers forums where, if you participate, others can get to know you and perhaps check out your networking opportunity. The more of “you” that you put into your homepage, the more likely that people will see you as an individual and want to get go know you via the social network setting.

Social networks are also a great place to “brand” yourself as someone who knows about health, travel or whatever the subject area of your network marketing business happens to be. You can answer questions for people or give out information.

Offer and Expect Friend Requests

As you sift through the membership on the social networking site, you’ll spot others who share similar interests, whether it’s location, career, their networking business or whatever. Take time to really read pprofiles to see what you have in common or what sparks your interest. You can invite them to be your “friend” and usually this friendship includes letting you know when they’ve created a blog posting or posted on a forum. In turn, your friends are kept aware of your social networking activities.

One word of caution on using social networking for the purposes of network marketing - go easy on talking about your “opportunity.” Others don’t like the sledgehammer approach. Don’t send mass emails to all your social networking “friends” announcing your business opportunity. The best approach is to offer helpful advice, not even mentioning your business directly. Get to know people for the sake of knowing them and the rest will follow as you get to be friends.

To get the most from your social networks, be genuine. Offer help and advice with no expectation that others will join your “business opportunity.” Ask questions. Others are always glad to help and you can learn a lot through your friendships.

If you are new to social networking, you might want to start slowly. Keeping up with several networks does take time and effort and it’s best to focus on one until you have the social networking system down. After being part of one, however, the next networks are easier as you already have an idea of what you’d like on your profile, etc.

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