It's time to make those promises to yourself about how you're going to change your life this year! Number one on most of our lists is how we're going to make more money?fast! Some of us even dream about the possibility of getting rich through the internet! It can happen, but if you've struggled as I have this year trying to find something that works for me, maybe my efforts will help you!
While there seems to be no end to the numbers of money making opportunities on the internet to make you loads of money, I have found it difficult to put many of these ideas to use. Most of the sites that offer help appear to be written by geeks who believe that everyone possesses the knowledge of the internet that they have. It doesn't work that way with me! I still have a hard time turning on the computer; much less know how to optimize search engines!
My first efforts were with Ebay and I was thrilled when I made my first three dollars profit after selling something I had bought at a yard sale. After a few such sales I had made almost ten dollars. It doesn't take a genius to know that this is not the way to riches so I decided to set up an Ebay Store.
While Ebay is free to run internet auctions, they do charge minimal amounts for items if they are sold at auction. An Ebay Store is not free. It doesn't cost a lot each month to run the store, but you have to have items to sell. There are a lot of companies that will sell you items to resell to Ebay buyers. Unfortunately most of them charge you a fee for that privilege in addition to the cost of the item.
There are also drop ship companies that will allow you to advertise an item, then buy it from them and they will ship it to your customer. It sounds good, but I was never able to upload the correct items to my Ebay Store page. Once again, most of the instructions from both the drop ship company and Ebay were Greek to me. They had to have been written by the Geek!
As the weeks and months passed I was still unable to manage my Ebay Store, I was being charged a monthly fee from both the shipper and Ebay. The only one who wasn't making money was me! Even after I got help from the wholesaler in the form of a standard letter of instruction on how to sell, my efforts were wasted.
Obviously there are hundreds, if not thousands, of folks making money from their Ebay Stores. I realize I'm not technically inclined, so I'm not angry that I wasn't able to accomplish much more than spend money. This was while I was trying to make money! I'm good at other things like fishing and barbecuing. I only wish there was a simplified program on how to conquer the technical aspects of internet marketing; one that a dunce could master.
One of the things I tried while I was trying to set up my Ebay store was reselling E-books advertised on Ebay. There were many that intrigued me when I read their sales pages, but after I bought them, I couldn't figure out how to upload the index file, the JPEG, as well as images, images2, images3, logo, source-code, index, reprint-rights, slc, sales letters, thanks-slc, sales letter, z-instructions and other downloaded items. I still don't know what slc means!
After buying enough e-books to get a gold star by name on Ebay, I was never able to upload them to my E-bay page to sell them in my store. By seeing the hundreds of e-books listed on Ebay, it appears that I'm really an idiot. Well, each village needs one and I'm happy to serve.
I like E-bay! Even though I haven't been able to succeed in some aspects of this huge auction site, I do sell a little something every once in awhile to keep my account active. It is fun and you can make money. I only hope that you're smarter than me and can earn money faster than I have! Dumb or not, I know if you stick with something and learn from your mistakes, you'll win in the end!
You know the winter will change over to spring without doing nothing of our part it's just the law of nature. In case you don't like the winter its just a matter of time maybe a few weeks or so and it will start the spring with nicer and warmer days where you can sit outside in your garden or in front of your house and just enjoy the beautiful afternoon sun in your chair and warm you up. Or you can be in your garden and grill at night your delicious rips or barbecue isn't that inspiring?
But what happened with your New Year's Resolutions have you forgotten all about it? You don't think that they will happen the same way as the seasons that they will come automatically'do you? No, no way you have to do something, you have to make your proposition and actually start working on it, you have to get in to the mindset and you have to change your lifestyle the way you dreamed of it or the way you told to yourself at the end of the passed year that you will change for the better.
Didn't you make a proposition to become wealthier this year?
With wealthier it doesn't have to mean that you will get immediately a raise of a few thousand dollars?and paying off your debts with your credit card and so on you know what I mean.
Sure having more money gives you a certain freedom to enjoy more in your life like vacations, a new house, or remodeling your house or dining out when you want it makes you feel good having more money.
But I also think wealthier in health and in spirit don't you think that it is also important for many areas of your life?
If you haven't thought about it when starting your new home business then its time to think it over. Or maybe you are one of the thousands of people who started a home business but don't get anywhere? They jump from one program that promise to get money within a few hours or days, to another program but after a few months they found out that they stay still on the same spot where they have started their journey and they didn't move forward at all.
If you are one of those people then its time to do something about it and stop thinking of running a marathon before you haven't actually learned to crawl. Don't be so naive to think that you'll be rich over night, nobody, maybe only a few lucky ones have achieved it with winning the lottery but to win the lottery you have to buy a ticket and you need money to do so. So why don't you focus first on getting money but not with the lottery no with focusing on your business, don't spend your hard earned money in something that doesn't work?spend your money wisely. Go ones in your life the correct way to do so and don't think that you can be rich without any help?you have to learn how to do the steps from scratch and learn to crawl, to walk and then you can run at the speed you like. But I tell you to do so, you need a mentor a teacher a person who is doing it for many years and is experienced. I tell you I have thought the same way time back and I believed in all that hype and promises and lies until I told to myself stop it?you are not walking you are not moving you are just spending without any result.
This moment I never forget was the turning point in my life and from that moment on I started to crawl and after a time I walked and you know what'it really felt good and the more I walked the better I felt and the more self security I got and the more I enjoyed it. You know what this is not a secret it happens in nature all the time everything needs a sort of time to get growing, the same happens with the flowers they don't come to fruition within a moment or over night this happens only in child-books and in Alice's Wonderland but not in the real world.
You are a grown up person I suppose and you do not believe in things like that okay you have a dream and a vision you like to go after but this dream or vision will not come true until you do something for it. It takes work, it takes action, it takes consistency, it takes resistance, it takes perseverance and it takes focus on one goal'a better lifestyle or environment for you and your beloved ones.
The moment you understand that you'll achieve your goals and you will get your resolutions you promised to yourself.
Don't try to do everything by yourself ask for help get a mentor who will guide you towards to your goals.
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