Recently, I was sent a link to a video that dealt with the scary direction that college and university education has taken over the last few years in the USA. And this isn’t exclusive to that country; it occurs in most western countries.

One of the areas dealt with is how these institutions continue to exclude such vital student education such as life-skills, personal development and business skills.

In other words, the so-called higher-educatiuon syllabuses completely ignore those practical skills that are just as vital for young people about to enter the demanding areas of the workforce, and dealing with people.

Not to mention the extraordinary costs of higher-education! Nowadays, most young graduates, despite having an impressive degree, diploma or certificate, not only are unable to find employment that they’ve been educated for, but they have masive debts already!

Then, those who are fortunate enough to find the work they’ve been educated for, over a period of four or five years, often earn a paltry salary for the first few years.

One of my missions in life is to make young people aware that many of those with  a college/university education rarely develop wealth during their working lives. The system is structured so that people on salaries or wages, in the majority of cases, are asset-poor.

As Robert Kiyosaki teaches, in order to become wealthy we need to develop a business using duplication and leverage, and create a passive income stream. This sort of business creates a “walk-away income”. In other words, it becomes ‘self-managing’ in time.

There’s no better way to develop this ideal business scenario than with a Network Marketing business. There are hundreds of different legitimate Companies that offer this structure, and there are millions of people around the world earning significant part or full-time incomes with them.

In my case, I offer two such opportunities, both in the online field, which are ideal for young people to avoid relying on professional type employment, and be able to create the lifestyle that most people want to have.

Thanks again for reading my article.

John

Many people these days are apprehensive about using business email marketing, for a number of reasons. The most obvious one is being seen as spamming. They also are uncertain about how to write effective content in their email messages, and very importantly are careful not to come across as pitching their product or service too strongly. They are frightened of making email marketing mistakes, and because of this, deny themselves the benefits that this form of marketing can produce.

These reservations are understandable due to the ways that business email marketing has received negative connotations, having been used so blatantly by unscrupulous people for many years, until govermental regulations put a stop to most of these practices. Now that this type of so-called marketing has been labelled ‘spamming’, most of it has been eliminated, thank goodness.

What has effectively evolved now is an opportunity for marketers to create business emails that have the customers interests as the number one priority, by providing real value to the reader and by offering solutions to peoples problems. So you can definitely add value to the lives of your readers by writing business emails with these purposes in mind. And you need an efficient software program as your broadcast tool to get your message to your prospective customers and business associates. So how do you do this?

Firstly, you need to begin to create a list of people you’d like to market your product and services to. This list could initially comprise those with whom you currently communicate, possibly lists you purchase, although these generally are of questionable value, and the list you build as a result of your marketing and advertising activities. When you are putting these lists together you need an effective email marketing program that you can put on autopilot and be able to market your goods and services with time-efficiency.

There are a number of high-quality software programs which will enable you to set-up effective business emails for a very modest cost. One of the most popular programs is offered by iContact. It’s the one I use and I find it to not only be extremely easy to use, it also offers a very high standard of customer support.

You can create any number of different lists within the Aweber software program, have business emails automatically sent to your contacts, as well as mailing a broadcast to them whenever you feel you have something of additional value that isn’t already contained in your automatic messages. This extra effort by you is an excellent way of building rapport with your contacts, building a relationship with them, and gaining their trust.

It is very important to be aware that with most of these business email marketing software programs, and is certainly the case with iContact, that you receive permission from people to send emails to them. The iContact program includes the facility to initially give your contact the option to opt-out and not receive any correspondence from you. This way, you are able to grow a list containing highly-qualified prospects for your mutual success. I hope what I have written is helpful and that you can now effectively use emails to grow your home based business more efficiently, and make money doing so.

John

John and Heather Wass

Internet Marketing Success Coaching

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When you write an article to be placed into article directories, make sure you put much creative thought into it. This way your article becomes an individual piece of information, and not a replica of ones written by other people. Information based markeing is now hugely popular on the internet, and as it is generally free, competition for readers is fierce. This is one of the most effective way of informing your readers about your subject, so it needs to be uniquely yours.

There are so many tools that you can use to distribute your articles more easily and effectively, but this is only half of the story.

Let’s now take a look first at common errors you could make before sending your story to article directories. In article writing, there are three key benefits why you are promoting them; branding yourself as an expert, promotion, and lead generation which are all part of your efforts to optimise your success. There should only be one reason why you write an article, and that is to inform your readers and get their attention.

If the article isn’t focused on these essential purposes, it will fail to achieve those three benefits because no one will be interested in reading it, and the article directories may not publish it. Your objective should be to decide what people want to learn about so that they will find it interesting enough to compel them to find out more by clicking on the link in your resource box.

You may know already that when your article is interesting and informative, it will help you generate links back to your website.

Do you know that you can get more visitors and better search engine results from that same article? You need to include relevant keywords at strategic places, making sure you don’t overdo this, because when you do, many article directories just won’t publish your article. You need to have your article centred around one major keyword, and include that in each of the paragraphs. You should also disperse four or five other keywords within the body of your article.

It isn’t just about the direct links to your site. One vital component of doing well in your article marketing is having publishers of article directories, with large audiences, choosing your article above others. This then creates leverage for you via the backlinks that occur. Better search engine results also are great benefits. But these things do not put much money in your pocket. There are other factors that will turn your article marketing efforts into opportunities that can boost your income and increase the number of visitors to your site.

It is so important to be aware that most article directories have a set of rules and guidelines, and unless you fit within them, your chances of having your article published are slim. It is all really a matter of choice on your part. You can start getting some  exposure from increased links back to your website, or enjoy massive exposure from a little extra effort by providing information of interest and value to your readers.

Your article will always be more effective for you when you target a specific niche, rather than trying to spread  your message to a wide audience. And finally, it needs to be of such high quality that it inspires your readers to take action and click on your website link. That result must always be your ultimate objective!

John

John and Heather Wass

Internet Marketing Success Coaching

61 [0] 403 340 034 GMT + 8

We get up when we wake, having dispensed with the formidable buzz of the alarm. Just being able to do this little thing is a ʻgreatʼ blessing to my nervous system for starters! My husband and I get in a leisurely breakfast sitting out on our deck enjoying noise of the many birds in our garden and the warm sunny morning knowing later we can get out into the sun for a walk or go down to the beach for a swim. So begins our day of blessings.

Everyone in our street is off to work somewhere else, today. How could you not love this life? Like everyone else our day does begin with family commitments, like driving our lovely granddaughter to school. Chatting with her is an incredible privilege and blessing.

Generally, our everyday life is not too hectic at all. And this is another blessing. We belong to us all day, here at home. We donʼt have to go out to a small business requiring all of our time, blood, sweat, and tears. We have not spent huge sums of money as we would have either, had we bought a bricks and mortar style business.

Donʼt get me wrong we work very, hard and many, hours in our online marketing business. The difference is the peaceful environment that our home provides makes for an idyllic situation for building an online business. The big plus is we have a life together that is envied by many and that we never want to give up.

Its a blessing to be able to work from home, a privilege that more and more people are learning about. How to build an internet marketing business at home takes discipline and it takes education, lots of education.

Support from real entrepreneurs willing to teach everything they know on a daily basis is a major key to success these days online. It is a blessing to just Skype for help whenever needed.

The most high-profile communities of entrepreneurs online share everything they know with each other and with the likes of you and me. And because they do this we in turn do it making us all stronger and building real businesses producing profits and changing peoples lives along the way.

Our life is being changed and we couldnʼt be happier. Serving others and bringing teaching and value to others makes for such a wonderful life.

Heather

John and Heather Wass

Internet Marketing Success Coaching

61 [0] 403 340 034 GMT + 8