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The Quickest Way To Make Money On Earth

The Quickest Way
To Make Money On Earth©

                      By Martin Thomas

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Over 5 years ago, my wife Cassie and I were living a fairly routine life. As a manager for a reasonably large insurance company which was a Global corporate citizen, we were doing OK. My wife didn’t have to work, but money was tight most, if not all of the time. My hours were long and I didn’t have much time or money to enjoy what life had to offer.

One sunny afternoon, my buddies and I were having a few cold beers on Geoff’s newly built sun deck and the 5 of us were talking about all sorts of things, but in particular the topic of conversation centered around an inter-office email I had received among the managers pc’s. The email was a link to a download of a book that one of the managers, Paul, had received over the internet. He was freely sharing it with the rest of us and I was interested enough todownload it myself. I had read it the previous night and was telling my buddies about it this sunny day over 5 years ago.I could tell I was switching on lights when I talked about the ideas in this book written by a guy named Hayden Muller. Beasley and Geoff in particular lead the charge and wanted me to elaborate on what I had previously said. I relayed the ideas as best as I could remember them and they all seemed to take a lot of interest, so I offered to email them all a copy.The next day, I got 5 phone calls from 5 different friends, all with the same opinion. They wanted to try this.The book was about compounding capital. Simply put, the idea was to find opportunities that were priced below intrinsic value and profetize the excess on a systematic basis.

More on this later, but we were all, at that time very interested in the merit of this book. I visited my accountant in the middle of that week on an unrelated matter and ran passed him some of the idea’s. The first thing he said when I mentioned it was “oh, off the internet” Implying it couldn’t be worth the time to consider. I was challenged by this attitude and persisted. I talked about leverage and compounding rates of 200% by accessing excess intrinsic value that was everywhere. I talked about “economies of scale” and common mis-pricings of intrinsic value. I was slowly starting to convince him on especially a few points and he seemed to suddenly get interested. 

He wanted to read the book too. Kevin my accountant told me that he felt if I really wanted his opinion that he should take a look at it first before making any statements about the usefulness of the book in his professional capacity.

The biggest claim the book made, that excited as well as made me cautious was that if you followed the principles, you will get the same results. The author claimed that 1 million dollars was only the first step and not particularly difficult. To me, at the time $1 million dollars may as well have been a billion, the idea that I could be a millionaire in as little as 12 months was beyond my capacity to imagine with any serious contemplation. This attitude delayed my excellent current lifestyle today by well over 4 months, but as they say, better late then never.

Later that week, I got an unexpected call from Kevin, my accountant. (I really didn’t expect he would download and read the book) His demeanor had changed regarding the principles in the book and he spoke with guarded professionalism. Kevin told me that the principles were sound as far as his professional opinion was concerned. He agreed with the books premise that all real wealth is created this way and that it was, he conceded possible for anyone to do this. 

He finished with a caveat that basically pointed to what I
already knew. Namely, it’s one thing to know how to do something and a totally different story to actually put it into practice. Not because the principles don’t work, but because people are emotional creatures and don’t act like robots, so his professional opinion was that the book spelled out how to do it, but it didn’t mean that I would succeed if I tried it. I wasn’t slighted by this seeming reflection on my capacities, because I understood what he was trying to say. - Just because you know how, it doesn’t guarantee that you will.
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Month’s passed and the heavy mortgage Cass and I took on a year previously had been smothering our lifestyle. 

Kevin’s professional opinion seemed to have a numbing effect on my initial excitement. He placed himself squarely in the middle, there-by neutralizing my initial challenging attitude.

He said yes, it’s possible based on what he read! I lost my will to fight him on any areas of the book and my understanding was very tentative. He said yes, its possible but it doesn’t mean YOU will succeed. He told me exactly what I needed to hear to forget the
whole thing and never think about it again. 

If he shot holes in the arguments “Muller” had made, then I would have had ammunition to debate with him. I could have re-read the book and found evidence to back up my understanding of the principles. But instead, he simply committed his professional opinion as an accountant that this book had merit but not to hold my breath, that I would actually make it work. I couldn’t really fight that. 

It was a neutral argument. It was an argument based on “probability” not facts.

The book was nevertheless a new idea for me. A simple and direct path to exactly what I really want....results! I have been side tracked in my life more times then I care to think about. Always some angle, some particularly attractive advantage that makes you act, even though if you assessed the opportunity on its own merits, you would have never taken a first step much less gone any further.

It’s that which I needed, a new idea and this is what is available to you today. 

A new idea changes everything and this will more then likely change everything for you.

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Make Money From Home On The Computer - The Easy Way

In this short article, I will prepare you on how you will make money fast and efficiently for the rest of your life from the comfort of your home. If you are a teenager and are reading this then you have given yourself a head start, but you are never too old to grow your capital exponentially. You have been blind to the simple and capable methods that will make you independently wealthy. Though I was not always blessed with this information, it did not come to me in a dream. It took years of research and several trial and error experiments for this to work for me. My job is to take the years of risk out of the equation. Read this and learn from me. I will give you the tools you need to give yourself financial freedom.

The first thing I'd like to mention is personal experience and persistence. Each of us came from a different background of values, literally and figuratively. Some are given their fortune, others have to earn their fortune. From my own personal experience I have had to persevere through several hardships. I'd take one step forward and then tie my hands to my feet and throw myself backwards. Heck, you probably did this once or twice to yourself.

I'd like you to take a second and evaluate your life. In doing this you will find many attributes which makes yourself unique. Now go through and only assess your behavioral traits. I personally have had numerous types of bad habits before I learned how to make money fast and efficiently. My first bad habit was that I would always sell myself short.

This became a steady system of failure for both me and my money making strategies. I would try something and if it didn't immediately amount to my expectations then I would throw it away like yesterdays paper. No matter what the cost was, $3,000 even, if I wasn't satisfied with my results I would kick it to the curb. The same for any machine, your mind works in a similar way. If you don't guide it and teach it to do automatic functions it will cease to work for you and potentially become a hazard.

The first thing you will need to do is map out your goals and ideas on paper so that you can see them day to day. Then become aware of your sub-conscious actions that will cause you to give up these goals, whether it is money, marriage, school or job. You have to get rid of all setbacks that will get in the way of your money making plans.

You are reading this article to obviously make more money. Money is what makes the world go round. Sometimes this is how the world may seem. I use to be broke too remember, but when money is readily available you can finally open your eyes to a new profound way of living. OR you are here to open your mind to personal change and with that comes new ways on how to make money online.

You will need to make a 180 degree turn if you are to get back on track to financial independence. Once you are able to accept and make these changes you need to make in your life, beginning with any restricted beliefs you have had and literally throwing them away, you're on your way to greater things.

This first place to start looking for new income strategies would be to visit several forums/blogs that are set up for your convenience on how to make money online. I really suggest you look into these for they will help you on your way, but make sure you do your research. If you get into something that doesn't interest you then don't bother making it apart of your money making venture. Also, many of these programs and websites will require you to put forward a lot of time and effort. Don't get suckered in unless you absolutely know that you will get something out of it.

Like most things in life what you believe is not always what is. Programs and websites that ask you to pay are trying to get you to buy their methods of how they came up with their millions. Most of the time you can find similar methods for cheap or even free, but that is more leg work on your part to try and find these hidden ways and craft them so you will be able to make your fortune as well.

Nothing should stand in your way. Heck if I can do it, so can you. Making "on the side income" with today's economy is more universal than it was fifteen years ago. People were not searching for free money online, free loans, or government grants. They were out looking for jobs that would put money in their pockets and food on the table. Is it too late to make millions on the internet? No! Will it be hard and exhausting? Yes!

If you are not willing to do the work, you can still find resources and individuals that will lend you money online and potentially teach you money making strategies. The easiest way to make a large sum of money online is to collect yourself a government grant or write an extensive ebook and from there you will be able to begin your business. If you are not looking for that then do what I did and join several blogs/forums and write about your experiences. From there you will gain surmountable amounts of information from people's mistakes and follies that you will begin to see for yourself what works and what doesn't.

Do not limit yourself to the confines of your beliefs in yourself. Take a step back and evaluate your goals. From there you will be giving yourself the key to your own success. Start fresh, research and see what you want to do. If you honestly want to make money with very little hassle and create exponential income then follow my advice to the "T" and you will surprise yourself.

I wish you all the best.

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How to NOT Get Paid to Write Online (And Make Money Doing It)

Fresh out of college, I landed a job writing one-page sell sheets for a marketing company for $50 each. On a rare excellent day, I might do as many as two of these.

Soon after, I found a freelance gig that would pay me $300 per article I wrote for an inter-organizational newsletter. I got to interview people for that one. It was more work, but better money.

Eventually, I hooked up with a pretty big industry magazine and was being paid $1300 for 2000-word feature articles. That was the big money.

Magazine pay doesn’t go much higher until you get into the really big-name publications. I could often get two of those assignments at a time, but I needed to coordinate and interview around ten people for each article, so doing two in a month was a hell of a task.

Today, I’m doing much better in my writing career. Since I started blogging, I’ve written hundreds of posts, both for myself and for other blogs. I don’t have to interview people anymore, so it goes much faster and I can write much more. The combined total I’ve been paid for all of those posts (including what I’ve been paid for writing sales copy, promotional emails, and so on) is zero dollars. And really, it pays the bills better than my magazine writing ever did.

How to make “not getting paid” pay off

I just recorded a call with Copyblogger Associate Editor Jon Morrow entitled “How We Make $2000 per Guest Post,” and the funny thing about that call was that I’d had the idea to write the post you’re currently reading before Jon came up with the hook for the call. I guess great minds think alike.

See, newbie online entrepreneurs often want to “make money blogging,” and seasoned writers often come to the internet to expand their freelance businesses by doing online what they do offline: selling words for dollars. Both of those approaches assume a straight line between composing paragraphs and getting a check, but that straight line hasn’t reflected my experience in the blogosphere (and I’m in good company).

To put it succinctly, I don’t make money writing. I make money through a business, and that business does its marketing almost exclusively through writing.

Writing for me is a means to an end. It’s a way to gain exposure, gain popularity and authority, and build trust. Once you have enough exposure, trust, and authority with your audience, they’ll consider buying products and services from you if what you offer them is good. The cool part? It almost doesn’t matter which category or niche those products or services fall into.

It works like this:

Writing -> Readers -> Exposure, popularity, authority, and trust -> The ability to sell stuff.

Need a fancy term to make it legit? Call it content marketing.

Notice that I’ve used the very specific noun “stuff” to describe what you’re able to sell to a well-matched, receptive audience with enough of those preceding magic ingredients.

• Information products? Yep.
• Software and services of all kinds? Yep.
• Hats? Maybe.

Want to sell hats? Then write enough, in places where people who like hats congregate, to become a popular and trustworthy personality who happens to sell hats. Or makes hats. Or wears interesting hats. Or at least likes hats, and talks about hats a lot.

Your audience has to be willing to pay for hats, but if they are, they’re going to buy from someone. If your writing has put you in front of them, and made you popular and trustworthy, they’ll buy from you. It works for just about anything.

This is all about thinking outside of the nine dots. I came to the blogosphere as a humorist, but what I found was that people wouldn’t pay for humor. So what could I do with my funny writing? Why, sell consulting and website services, of course.

I remember asking my readers at the time, “Can I be the funny guy who writes about business, and also build websites somehow?”

Give what attracts, sell what people want to buy

And the answer was apparently that yes, I could write humorously about business — and tattoos, and unschooling, and The Matrix — and build a large readership who seemed to like and trust me. And at that point, I could offer websites. And consulting. And info products. And likely waffles. If those folks needed a site and/or were hungry, they’d work with me rather than finding their website guy or waffle house on Google.

When Jon and I did that call about making $2000 per guest post, what we meant was that guest posting is our primary (almost our exclusive) marketing strategy, and that on average, each post — each performance in front of a blog audience to build trust and exposure — resulted in around $2000 of income. That’s income that was created through writing, but wasn’t income we received for completing a writing assignment.

You want to be a writer? Well, don’t confine your thinking to the obvious example of putting words together for pay. There’s a whole world of ways out there to make money as a writer… and the interesting part is that most of them mean you’ll be writing for free.

About the Author: Johnny B. Truant is apparently a writer or something and is one of the two guys behind The Charlie and Johnny Jam Sessions. If you’d like personal help on getting paid to write for free, he’s got you covered.

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SEO Copywriting: The Five Essential Elements to Focus On

When I first started Copyblogger in 2006, I was almost militantly against on-page search optimization. Seems strange, since I’d been a successful student of SEO since 2000.

It was because I saw all these people fretting over keywords like it’s 1999, and yet they had no links. Their content was weak. Their sites weren’t trusted.

You can’t optimize something that’s dead in the water. So my initial goal was to get people to focus on content that attracted attention and links first. Only then do you have something you can make better (that’s what optimize means, naturally).

Fours years later, it seems things have swung in the opposite direction for some. Social media “experts” maintain that SEO doesn’t matter because search traffic just “happens.”

Yes, search traffic “happens” if you produce unique content and don’t make it impossible to find. But the “right” search traffic doesn’t just happen, not unless you’re lucky (which simply means you don’t know what you’re doing).

This article is designed to help you know how to tell search engines what you’re talking about is the same as what people are looking for. That’s all SEO really is.

And yet . . .

I feel compelled to quickly discuss the things you need to focus on first. Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz gives us a quick list of the stuff that must come prior to on-page optimization, so I’ll repeat those here with my own commentary:

Accessibility – If search engines can’t see your content within the code, your page can’t be indexed and ranked. This is why our StudioPress division created the Genesis Design Framework for WordPress, and why we obsesses over making it better. Code matters.

Content – Now that the code structure is right, we come to what people actually want. Create great content and the people, sharing, and links will follow. And then you hit the bonus round: Google gives you even more goodness.

User Experience – The easier your site makes it to consume and share your content, the better you’ll end up doing SEO-wise. People don’t consume or share content that creates barriers, sometimes even if only a little.

Marketing – To paraphrase Rand on this one, spreading the word is often more important than being right, being honest, or being valuable. I like to say promoting your content is a virtuous necessity. Whatever works for you, but do get the word out.

Okay, now let’s move on to the five areas to focus on with your web page, blog post, online press release, whatever . . . they’re all the same in the eyes of Google.

Five SEO copywriting elements that matter

Before we get into this, let me share a few strategic considerations.

When I’m building an authority site, I don’t care about optimizing everything I write. I use a lot of metaphors and pop culture references instead of keywords to get people reading and linking to build the overall trust of the domain. Then when I want to rank well for something, like copywriting, or seo copywriting, or landing pages, my job is much easier.

If you’re a news blogger (or newspaper), things are different. You want to optimize everything as best as possible up front, then move on. Different strokes for different folks.

That said, here we go.

1. Title

Whether you optimize up-front or later, you at minimum need to know what keywords you’re targeting and include them in the title of your content. It’s generally accepted that the closer to the front of the title your keywords are, the better. But the key is that they appear in the title somewhere.

The original title of this post contained the keyword phrase “SEO copywriting,” but it was positioned at the end of the title. That’s because I went with the more compelling headline first and foremost. But I can serve an alternate title in the title tag (which is the snippet of code Google actually pulls the title from) thanks to a post feature in Genesis (also available with the All in One SEO plugin for WordPress).

So, I can always enter a more search-optimized alternate title later, such as:

SEO Copywriting: The 5 Essential Elements

The emphasis on keywords in the title makes practical sense from a search engine standpoint. When people search for something, they’re going to want to see the language they used reflected back at them in the results. Nothing mysterious about that.

Having keywords in your title is also important when people link to you. When your keywords are there, people are more likely to link to you with the keywords in the anchor text. This is an important factor for Google to determine that a particular page is in fact about a particular subject.

You should try to keep the length of your title under 72 characters for search purposes. This will ensure the full title is visible in a search result, increasing the likelihood of a click-through.

2. Meta Description

SEO copywriting is not just about ranking. It’s also about the presentation of your content in a search engine. The meta description of your content will generally be the “snippet” copy for the search result below the title, which influences whether or not you get the click.

It’s debatable whether keywords in your meta description influence rank, but it doesn’t matter if they do or don’t. You want to lead off your meta description with the keyword phrase and succinctly summarize the page as a reassurance to the searcher that your content will satisfy what they’re looking for.

Try to keep the meta description under 165 characters so the full description is visible in the search result. Again, you can create a meta description in WordPress right in the posting area with Thesis or All in One SEO.

3. Content

Unique and frequently updated content makes search engines happy. But you know that part. For search optimization purposes (and just general reader-friendliness) your content should be tightly on-topic and centered on the subject matter of the desired keyword phrases.

It’s generally accepted that very brief content may have a harder time ranking over a page with more substantial content. So you’ll want to have a content body length of at least 300 words.

It might also help to bold the first occurrence of a keyword phrase, or include it in a bulleted list, but I usually don’t get hung up on that. It’s also debatable whether including keywords in subheads helps with ranking, but again, it doesn’t matter – subheads are simply a smart and natural place to include your keyword phrase, since that’s what the page is about.

Which brings us to . . .

4. Keyword Frequency

Keyword frequency is the number of times your targeted keywords appear on the page. Keyworddensity is the ratio of those keywords to the rest of the words on the page.

It’s generally accepted that keyword frequency impacts ranking (and that makes logical sense). Keyword density, as some sort of “golden” ratio, likely does not. But the only way to make sense of an appropriate frequency is via the ratio of those keywords to the rest of the content, so density is still a metric you need.

In other words, the only way to tell if your repetition of keywords is super or spammy is to measure that frequency against the overall length of the content. A keyword density greater than 5.5% could find you guilty of keyword stuffing, and your page could be penalized by Google.

You don’t need to mindlessly repeat keywords to optimize. In fact, if you do, you’re likely to achieve the opposite result.

5. Page Links

Linking is the fundamental basis of the web. Search engines want to know you’re sufficiently “connected” with other pages and content, so linking out to other pages matters when it comes to search engine optimization.

Here are some “rules of thumb” for linking based on generally accepted best practices:

• Link to relevant content fairly early in the body copy
• Link to relevant pages approximately every 120 words of content
• Link to relevant interior pages of your site or other sites
• Link with naturally relevant anchor text

Again, these are guidelines related to current best practices. Don’t get hung up on rules; focus on the intent behind what search engines are looking for – quality search results for people.

Yes, there’s other stuff . . .

There are other elements as well, such as URL structure and keywords, keywords in image alt files, tags and categories, and various other minutia (here’s a list of on-page elements and their varied importance). If you focus on the five areas above, however, you’re covering the vital elements of effective on-page optimization.

This is an excerpt from a free 28-page report called How to Create Content that Ranks Well in Search Engines. To get the whole story, head over to the SEO Copywriting Made Simple page to instantly download the full updated PDF.

About the Author: Brian Clark is founder of Copyblogger and CEO of Copyblogger Media. Get more from Brian on Twitter.

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5 Easy Ways to Get More Twitter Followers for Your Organization

Twitter is a social media site that permits you to post short, concise status updates, or "tweets," regarding important information about your business. As a business proprietor, tweets are an excellent method to spread your message about promotions, coupons, company policy updates, industry news and business changes, and even to ask for feedback and input through your customers. Just as with any type of marketing plan, marketing through social networking outlets such as Twitter is really a numbers game. The more followers you've got, the more popular you then become, and the more your business's online reputation grows. For that reason, it is very important increase your Twitter following as much as possible. Here are 5 easy ways to increase your Twitter followers for your business:

1. Request retweets. Retweets are when your followers like something you tweeted so much that they repeat it as being one of their own tweets (giving you credit, of course). Make sure to tell your followers how important their thoughts are, and ask they share your news with their followers in the form of retweets, so that their followers can start to follow your Twitter page.

2. Put plenty of thought into your page bio. When you consider that a lot of your followers won't know you or your business personally, it is clear how important your profile bio is to making an impression. Get your business's message across and pique peoples' curiosity with an accurate and appealing bio.

3. Supply the url to your Twitter profile on everything and whatever you can. You ought to include your Twitter link in emails, on your business cards, on your company website, on your blog site, and in every other social media site you use in promoting your business. Moreover, integrate your Twitter account together with your other social media accounts so that your tweets are viewed across a multitude of Internet outlets.

4. Post photos. Pictures that are tweeted are highly apt to be shared by your followers, and are a great way to personalize your followers' Twitter experience with your company.

5. Involve yourself in discussions about the latest trending issues. Issues that are trending are topics that are having the most conversation on Twitter. You can look-up trending topics through search.twitter.com and, when you find one that relates to your industry or business interests, you can jump into the discussion in order to get recognized by a totally new set of Twitter consumers.

Twitter is an invaluable business marketing tool that, when used the right way, can exponentially grow your business's online presence and increase your customer following. Make the most of your Twitter account by putting it in the hands of professionals and contacting us.

Daniel Ramos has worked with companies ranging from Fortune 500 firms to small 1-person ventures, in creating Pitch Videos and "Success Makeovers" for his clients online presence. To learn more, visit http://www.BigDanMedia.com

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Finding The Best Opportunity For Earning Cash Online

Money might be tight for you right now and you might be looking to the world wide web to see if there is a way to make money. To be honest you can make money on the net, the secret is to stay away from all the scams. You have to remember that there are a considerable amount of dishonest individuals and they figured out that they are able to make money by scamming other individuals. You know the people I am referring to, they offer you pie in the sky and supply nothing. Here you will learn how you can find the real programs and steer clear of the scams.

You've got to watch out for those programs which guarantee you thousands of dollars in a single day. You know things like, "Make $10,000 In Your Very First Month." If you think about it, if something like this was around every person would be using this program. No person would share a program that makes that kind of income, they would keep it to themselves. Though the sales page can be quite nice and the sales copy can be very convincing, you need to keep clear from this ridiculous claim.

The programs that seem practical are programs you ought to begin looking into. Like programs which inform you right off the bat you simply will not get rich but you can create a decent income. A program that makes those claims is actually a reasonable sort of program. Now if this same program says that they designed a software to do all your work for you ignore that program. Even though you can find software to help you none of the software packages can do everything for you. If you wish to make money online you will have to put in hard work. When you see any of these programs there is a pretty good possibility that it's a scam.

Do not believe the testimonials that you discover on their websites. People make up testimonials as a way to scam you, believing that if this program worked for an unemployed man that lived in his car, than it could work for me. Make sure that if you find a good program you do some research in the search engines to find some genuine reviews of the program. If you are able to locate older customers try to look for their email address and ask them about the program. This is usually a great way to avoid a scam, even if it does not seem like a scam.

Looking for a forum that talks about online business programs may also be a great way to investigate a program. Before you buy any program simply continue on to the forums and ask if anybody has bought and used the program. You may also be specific on these forums asking people why they think it did or even didn't work for them.

You can end up saving a lot of cash if you remember to follow the suggestions above. I really do not want you to misunderstand what I am expressing, all the programs on the internet are not scams but probably a good 60% or maybe more are, so be careful.

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