A New State Of Affairs
This is a break from my usual business blog.
This blog purports to return to a new grass roots campaign in America. We live in the most powerful, wealthy plot of land in the world. So what are we doing? Collectively?
The United States purports to be the best place to live in the world. For starters, I agree, I suppose.
But let’s take a deep enthroned look at our individual lives, as they maybe. Let’s just go straight to the core. The News. We read and see daily, horrific news stories, good and bad. Perhaps the most recent horrific news is the Costa Concordia. Or the persons paralyzed in an ice hockey accident, or the humane society saving 140 dogs in one location, or the person(s) donating a kidney to a total stranger who will die without it.
What are we to make of it in the end?
This is a very short truth cut to the issue blog page. I am not going to listen to the controversial, the issues are what they are.
First and foremost, we do live in the best place in the world. Second we, as the people, have to take a stance, a grand stance, to go further.
This is the way I see it today, in 2012. We have a lot of regulation, by the government. Is this acceptable?
For instance, no lie here, I live in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a house. I had a city inspector stop by one day, knock on my door, and state, “Your vehicle is parked on your grass.” I replied, “yes, the last time I checked, I was paying for the grass to park it on.”. He replied, and I quote, “It is a violation of city ordinance to park your vehicle on your grass”.
I said: “The hell you say.” Ok, so it is a violation to park on my grass. What are we doing? I am still parking on my grass, and I have not received a citation yet.
So what am I saying here? What I am saying is we are paying this city inspector to drive around, at the rate of $25/hour to say do not park on your own grass. All paid for by us, the taxpayer. I do take objection.
So let’s move a little bigger. We expect the government to protect us. And they should. We pay taxes for basic encumbrances for the welfare of the general population - government – City, County, State, and Federal.
We are doing a great job here. Except parking on my grass. “…In January 2000, this author's estimate that 14% of convictions are of an innocent person was published in Justice:Denied magazine.
Furthermore it was reported in 1997 that the FBI found that 25% of the suspects in 12,000 rape cases were excluded by DNA testing. That finding is particularly significant because exclusionary DNA evidence is only available in a small percentage of all criminal cases.” Source: http://forejustice.org/wc/mi_report_april04.html
Old 2004 news, I suppose the percentage today is 30%. But, I do not suppose, it really matters unless you are one of the innocent ones sitting in the pokey today, January 28th, 2012. But, to me, I am paying to lock up those innocent persons at an average cost of $60k per year. I am quite sure, they wished they were quite free. I am quite sure, I wished I had my taxpayer’s money back, and they were free. Not the guilty, just the innocent.
But, we do also need to be realistic, we were all slumbering in our fortunes, on 9/11, and we got caught unawares. But no more, my heart every day, thinks about each and every loss, and the endless family and friend connections. Strangely enough, I do not blame the “government”. I think it was a total collective failure. The only blame, that I see, that could lay on the federal government, was the lack of readiness to respond.
You know, it is really all Biblical, and goes back to forever, (Genesis16:8-12) Now listen to what God says next about the personality and character of the boy whose name is Ishmael, from whom the Arab nations would come from. " He will be a wild donkey of a man. He will be hostile to everyone, and everyone will be hostile to him.” Herein, purports to start our troubles, but I am not going to get into Biblical, historical, or otherwise, extreme controversy. So we are done here.
So if you want to look at it from a global and/or historical perspective, it is basically the concept, I want the world, today, at everybody else’s cost. It would be akin to a Hitler (or Ishmmael) perspective, I suppose.
The two most prosperous countries in the world? USA and Israel. Read history. You decide why.
So let’s delve back into the USA. Unfortunately, we have evolved into a “fix me” society. What happened to be responsible for your own actions, take responsibility for your own actions, do not let the government do this for you.
Do we need the government legislate morality? Yes, because we and you are irresponsible for your own actions. Take it to heart, and take action.
Be responsible; be responsible for your own action, and inactions. I do not need anybody to tell me what to do or not to do today. I still have a brain.
The formula for success is action inaction. 2 plus 2 equals 4.
Take action today. I have watched, since the economic downfall in 2008, everything, news wise, very closely. I used to think President Barack O’Bama was the worst President since Richard Nixon. But, you know, the more I have watched him and his actions, I think he should get another 4 years. He has done more for the average Joe, than you think. President Barack O’Bama consistently stands up against opposition. The opposition being the top echelon in American Society.
O’Bama is not business literate or experienced. But he still has the right ideas. For the average American. All in my opinion.
The American dream cannot fail, or we are done. I/we don’t need the government to legislate morality, or anything else. Let’s just go back to 1776 and redirect the concept with protection from the outside influences.
So, In the end, I am going to park on my $365 per month tax payments, on my grass, in my yard, but I will not be persuaded the middle income is diverging, and we need to do something different. By all mean’s comment.
Grass roots. Don’t tell me to not park on my grass, and be responsible. By the way, I am still parking on my grass.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
There is A New Platform Out Today for Internet Entrepreneurs.
We are sick to death of internet schemes and scams. We are just as tired of affiliate marketing where we only make a few dollars per sale. Well, I have run across a fairly new concept that is currently sweeping every continent.
Before we continue, let’s go ahead and settle the scheme or scam issue.
First of all, according to compete.com, this platform has gone from 1,083 visitors per day last September 2011, to over 800,000 visits per day in November 2011.
Second, according to website informer.com, this platform has over 3.9 million page views per day, as of today.
Finally, according to Alexa.com, this new platform has a Global rank of 1,032 and a US rank of 347. That is out of approximately 185 million websites around the Globe. 347 out of 185 million. These are impressive trends, especially since September 2011.
Next we have to do our research. If you spend hours reading the reviews, there are good and bad, as with anything you research. So after reading mixed reviews - mostly good, I went to the website and watched the webinar.
I needed to decide myself. After watching the webinar, I studied on the whole concept very carefully.
Then my thoughts went back to the negative reviews. Some people, I will never figure out why they post such comments as they do. They obviously do not know how to comprehend a legitimate concept. I really think they just want everybody to hand them a ton of money. For example, two reviews stated it “was just another pyramid scheme” (which caught my eye quickly) and another was “another MLM scheme”.
It is not either. First of all, the pyramid concept is cut off because the entering person makes as much as the person who signed him on. It is not another MLM operation because; you get paid 100% commissions on your new entry, on every tier. Granted you do receive down line monthly residuals as in a MLM plan, but you still get the 100% commissions, on the front end.
You do have the option to upgrade to make one of several higher amounts of commissions, but it does not matter which level or tier you enter, you are still paid the 100% commission. I would describe the platform as a funnel concept.
The platform is a predefined model in which the potential can potentially reach income in the tens of thousands of dollars per month.
The concept is simple. You need to join, then go through the webinars, have a merchant account such as Pay Pal (step by step instructions included), start blogging. Then every day you want to spend about 1 hour per day blogging and marketing. That is it. A pretty simple system.
In my opinion, this platform is still very ground level, but it is also growing at a very exponential rate.
Click on any banner on the page to review the webinar and join. Of course, like any other offer, you can opt out at any time.
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Before we continue, let’s go ahead and settle the scheme or scam issue.
First of all, according to compete.com, this platform has gone from 1,083 visitors per day last September 2011, to over 800,000 visits per day in November 2011.
Second, according to website informer.com, this platform has over 3.9 million page views per day, as of today.
Finally, according to Alexa.com, this new platform has a Global rank of 1,032 and a US rank of 347. That is out of approximately 185 million websites around the Globe. 347 out of 185 million. These are impressive trends, especially since September 2011.
Next we have to do our research. If you spend hours reading the reviews, there are good and bad, as with anything you research. So after reading mixed reviews - mostly good, I went to the website and watched the webinar.
I needed to decide myself. After watching the webinar, I studied on the whole concept very carefully.
Then my thoughts went back to the negative reviews. Some people, I will never figure out why they post such comments as they do. They obviously do not know how to comprehend a legitimate concept. I really think they just want everybody to hand them a ton of money. For example, two reviews stated it “was just another pyramid scheme” (which caught my eye quickly) and another was “another MLM scheme”.
It is not either. First of all, the pyramid concept is cut off because the entering person makes as much as the person who signed him on. It is not another MLM operation because; you get paid 100% commissions on your new entry, on every tier. Granted you do receive down line monthly residuals as in a MLM plan, but you still get the 100% commissions, on the front end.
You do have the option to upgrade to make one of several higher amounts of commissions, but it does not matter which level or tier you enter, you are still paid the 100% commission. I would describe the platform as a funnel concept.
The platform is a predefined model in which the potential can potentially reach income in the tens of thousands of dollars per month.
The concept is simple. You need to join, then go through the webinars, have a merchant account such as Pay Pal (step by step instructions included), start blogging. Then every day you want to spend about 1 hour per day blogging and marketing. That is it. A pretty simple system.
In my opinion, this platform is still very ground level, but it is also growing at a very exponential rate.
Click on any banner on the page to review the webinar and join. Of course, like any other offer, you can opt out at any time.
http://www.empowernetwork.com/jdcookeiii/blog/2263/
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Multiple Streams Of Income Read This Closely, YOUR Income Is At Stake
So far we have discussed affiliate marketing, scams, advertising a little, and affiliate drop shipping.
Let’s delve a little into multiple streams of income. During December 2011, I decided to jump into multiple streams of income. All with one goal only - try programs that do not cost one cent to start or no more than $10.00 anyway. After all, if you are making all that money, as you claim you are, why should I pay much to replicate your system? Right? It either works or it doesn’t.
By far, the quickest success was what is known as ZNZ (Zip Nada Zilch). There are two programs here, both intertwined as ZNZ One and ZNZ Big Cash. According to website informer, ZNZ has hit in the top 5,000 websites with a current Alexa rank of 13,111 and 59,433 daily visitors with over 429,000 page views daily.
The concept is great, free, and easy. ZNZ has vendors (some fortune 500) that subscribe to their website. To become a ZNZ affiliate, all you do is go to the website, sign up for free trial offers (cancel with no cost if needed), and when you get 1.00 credit, you can register to become an affiliate.
If you want to try this go to my url, and if you sign up, you will receive a free marketing dashboard, which automatically notifies you of a new sign up, as well as has a free auto responder, which automatically sends emails to your new sign ups. ZNZ will automatically pay you $20 to $80 per sign up directly to your Pay Pal account or to you by check. I really like the program, because it is simple, easy, and not time consuming. My first two days after signing up to both ZNZ One and ZNZ Big Cash, and becoming an affiliate, I made $300.
Go to my url and it will fully explain the concept:
http://onlinepaydaysystem.net/jdcookeiii
The next avenue I decided on was ClickBank affiliate. To become an affiliate, as in ZNZ, it is free. With ClickBank, this opportunity is great if you already have your own website as I do. ClickBank Vendor payouts can be very high, even up over $75, and/or reoccurring monthly commissions. As with ZNZ, Click Bank has its own affiliate dashboard which automatically tracks income due to you. Clickbank’s Alexa ranking is number 244 with over 2 million visitors per day. Over 10.6 million page loads per day. Wow!
If you are interested in Clickbank, here is the url:
http://jdcookeiii.reseller.hop.clickbank.net
The final stream of income I am working on is a newer concept. I took three days to read and keeping re-reading the intro pages to the concept. The only reason I tried it, was due to the 7 day trial period of $4.95. The more I have thought on the concept, the potential is unrestricted. The concept is a traffic broker. Well, what is a traffic broker? The overall concept is similar to Clickbank, but one huge difference, you do not need a website to promote the product.
The final concept is basically the same as pay per click advertising (PPC), except you are the Vendor of the ad. Not some huge company. So the dashboard comes pre-loaded with many websites that want you to promote their product (as well as pre made text and banner ads – all routed through your vendor ID). Payouts can be over $102.00 conversion and/or reoccurring commissions.
So you ask, if I do not have a website, how I post an ad. Well this is the traffic broker concept. The website has a “lead generator” based on the product you want to promote. The lead generator produces 100 relevant to your ad website leads at a time. You can generate as many as you want. So, you as the broker, visit each website, and contact the owner or administrator.
If the administrator agrees to accept your ad, the owner of the website places your text or banner you chose to promote (pre-made for you) on his/her website, and the owner now gets paid a huge commission for advertising usually about 2/3 of the advertisers agreed rate, and you, as the broker get 1/3. The biggest advantage to the website owner you approach is that instead of getting a few cents pay per click, the administrator can get as much as 2/3 of $102.00 (you get 1/3), or more.
Now, if you study on this concept, and let’s say you land a contract with a website that gets 150,000 visitors per day, then it doesn’t take very many of those type websites to generate a huge income monthly. Every time, someone clicks on the ad, and converts, you get paid.
Granted, this is the most time consuming concept, but due to automation at the broker website, you are mostly spending time emailing website owners to solicit their website to post your ad. The payout potential here is huge. The passive income again, can be huge.
I encourage you to go this url and read the intro, study the intro, and then reread it again. I do not believe this concept has fully caught on yet, but in the end, it would akin to some huge companies getting a little smaller, and us small guys getting huge!
You can go this url: http://jdcookeiii.tbrokers.hop.clickbank.net
Yes, the traffic brokers concept is affiliated with ClickBank!
So, in end, as the saying goes don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Multiple streams of income are the success to the internet entrepreneur. I have just presented three concepts I have tried that works, all for less than $10.00.
You can go to my website home page and see examples of both clickbank banner ads, traffic brokers ads, and the other huge companies ads. Can you tell which one is which?
http://www.johnsgeneralstoreonline.com
Let’s delve a little into multiple streams of income. During December 2011, I decided to jump into multiple streams of income. All with one goal only - try programs that do not cost one cent to start or no more than $10.00 anyway. After all, if you are making all that money, as you claim you are, why should I pay much to replicate your system? Right? It either works or it doesn’t.
By far, the quickest success was what is known as ZNZ (Zip Nada Zilch). There are two programs here, both intertwined as ZNZ One and ZNZ Big Cash. According to website informer, ZNZ has hit in the top 5,000 websites with a current Alexa rank of 13,111 and 59,433 daily visitors with over 429,000 page views daily.
The concept is great, free, and easy. ZNZ has vendors (some fortune 500) that subscribe to their website. To become a ZNZ affiliate, all you do is go to the website, sign up for free trial offers (cancel with no cost if needed), and when you get 1.00 credit, you can register to become an affiliate.
If you want to try this go to my url, and if you sign up, you will receive a free marketing dashboard, which automatically notifies you of a new sign up, as well as has a free auto responder, which automatically sends emails to your new sign ups. ZNZ will automatically pay you $20 to $80 per sign up directly to your Pay Pal account or to you by check. I really like the program, because it is simple, easy, and not time consuming. My first two days after signing up to both ZNZ One and ZNZ Big Cash, and becoming an affiliate, I made $300.
Go to my url and it will fully explain the concept:
http://onlinepaydaysystem.net/jdcookeiii
The next avenue I decided on was ClickBank affiliate. To become an affiliate, as in ZNZ, it is free. With ClickBank, this opportunity is great if you already have your own website as I do. ClickBank Vendor payouts can be very high, even up over $75, and/or reoccurring monthly commissions. As with ZNZ, Click Bank has its own affiliate dashboard which automatically tracks income due to you. Clickbank’s Alexa ranking is number 244 with over 2 million visitors per day. Over 10.6 million page loads per day. Wow!
If you are interested in Clickbank, here is the url:
http://jdcookeiii.reseller.hop.clickbank.net
The final stream of income I am working on is a newer concept. I took three days to read and keeping re-reading the intro pages to the concept. The only reason I tried it, was due to the 7 day trial period of $4.95. The more I have thought on the concept, the potential is unrestricted. The concept is a traffic broker. Well, what is a traffic broker? The overall concept is similar to Clickbank, but one huge difference, you do not need a website to promote the product.
The final concept is basically the same as pay per click advertising (PPC), except you are the Vendor of the ad. Not some huge company. So the dashboard comes pre-loaded with many websites that want you to promote their product (as well as pre made text and banner ads – all routed through your vendor ID). Payouts can be over $102.00 conversion and/or reoccurring commissions.
So you ask, if I do not have a website, how I post an ad. Well this is the traffic broker concept. The website has a “lead generator” based on the product you want to promote. The lead generator produces 100 relevant to your ad website leads at a time. You can generate as many as you want. So, you as the broker, visit each website, and contact the owner or administrator.
If the administrator agrees to accept your ad, the owner of the website places your text or banner you chose to promote (pre-made for you) on his/her website, and the owner now gets paid a huge commission for advertising usually about 2/3 of the advertisers agreed rate, and you, as the broker get 1/3. The biggest advantage to the website owner you approach is that instead of getting a few cents pay per click, the administrator can get as much as 2/3 of $102.00 (you get 1/3), or more.
Now, if you study on this concept, and let’s say you land a contract with a website that gets 150,000 visitors per day, then it doesn’t take very many of those type websites to generate a huge income monthly. Every time, someone clicks on the ad, and converts, you get paid.
Granted, this is the most time consuming concept, but due to automation at the broker website, you are mostly spending time emailing website owners to solicit their website to post your ad. The payout potential here is huge. The passive income again, can be huge.
I encourage you to go this url and read the intro, study the intro, and then reread it again. I do not believe this concept has fully caught on yet, but in the end, it would akin to some huge companies getting a little smaller, and us small guys getting huge!
You can go this url: http://jdcookeiii.tbrokers.hop.clickbank.net
Yes, the traffic brokers concept is affiliated with ClickBank!
So, in end, as the saying goes don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Multiple streams of income are the success to the internet entrepreneur. I have just presented three concepts I have tried that works, all for less than $10.00.
You can go to my website home page and see examples of both clickbank banner ads, traffic brokers ads, and the other huge companies ads. Can you tell which one is which?
http://www.johnsgeneralstoreonline.com
Saturday, October 29, 2011
Is Drop Shipping Products a Legitimate potential to Make Money Online?
Is Drop Shipping Products a Legitimate potential to Make Money Online?
Internet retail sales are forecasted to increase to over $245 Billion annually by 2014.
If you choose to select this venue to earn income, internet retail sales could be your answer. Let’s suppose you choose this venue for income and decide this is the way to go and you want to sell Widgets. So you go out and buy 1,000 widgets and stock them in your garage. You expect to sell 1,000 Widgets your first month. Let’s say each widget costs you .50 cents, shipping to you is .25 cents. So far you owe .75 cents X 1,000 or $750.00 you had to prepay.
So you already have your website which is hosted by Google or Yahoo, and the domain is paid for, and you list your widget on your website. Let’s say the annual cost of the prepaid website and template is $120 annually or $12 per month.
So your first month of selling widgets, you decide to list them on your website for $2.00 each shipping included and you have the first month expense of $762.00 (overhead).
Then you get your first order for 10 Widgets. So you earned $20.00 gross income and shipping the 10 Widgets costs $2.00 (.20 cents each bulk lot instead of .25 cents each). So your second order, 3 days later comes in for 990 Widgets at $2.00 each. So your gross income is $1,980.00 and the shipping is $198.00 for the lot (.20 cents each bulk lot instead of .25 cents each).
So, we started out at a monthly gross income on the Widgets at $2,000.00 less your shipping costs to your buyers of $200.00 less your cost of the 1,000 Widgets of $750.00 less your overhead of $12 per month.
So your net profit is $1,038.00 for the month. Not too bad right? Well, let’s say you had to spend 160 hours during the month finding your supplier, ordering Widgets, stocking them in your garage, posting them to your website, answering orders, processing and then packaging them for mailing, and going to and from the post office. (We will assume you already had the other costs prepaid – computer, internet, packing supplies, auto, gas, insurance, etc.). So a net profit of $1.038.00 divided by 160 hours equals you got paid $6.49 per hour of your time.
DROP SHIPPING. Using the above example, let’s suppose you are browsing the internet and you find a drop shipper that will sell you each Widget for .25 cents each and will ship for you for .25 cents each(cost passed on to consumer), so your total costs are .25 cents per Widget before overhead.
Now let’s say the drop shipper offers you a prepaid domain, website template, and up to 1 million products listed on your website. They handle all the inventory, shipping, updating the website, etc. Let’s say the costs are a one-time fee of $149.00 and a monthly hosting fee of $29.99 or for the first 12 months $42.41 per month (overhead) in the first year, then $29.99 per month.
So on the drop ship plan you sold 1,000 Widgets at $2.00 each or $2,000 Gross Income less your cost to the drop shipper of $250 for the 1,000 Widgets and less your monthly overhead of $42.41 equals a net income of $1707.59.
Now, let’s suppose you it took you 60 of your time for the month to monitor the website, change the template, track orders, etc. So $1707.59 divided by 60 equals $28.46 per hour income to you for your time.
So had you rather work for $6.49 per hour or $28.46 per hour?
In the next article, I will address the tips to pick the exact drop shipper, and what to watch out for that can go wrong.
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