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Hello Everyone,

It has been quite a while since I posted last.  I have been enjoying my retirement; playing golf, fishing, and just lying around the pool soaking up the sunny Florida sunshine!  Every now and then I get into my old habits of posting online and letting folks know how to make extra money during retirement.  Some call it residual or passive income.  That is, try to find an interesting subject for online blogging, get a Google Adsense Account and post ads to your blog(s).  It really is that simple.  You have to really work at it the first 6 months or so.  Don't give up, sooner or later it will begin to pay off.  You can become an affiliate by going to Clickbank.com and signing up there and post ads for some of their clients on your blog.  This will give you a percentage of the sales.  Small change for a couple of items/ads, but the more you post the more you make.  It too will add up over the long haul.  Patience is the main thing along with a little computer knowledge and the desire to make a few extra bucks.  With the country in dire straits right now with the budget hanging in the slop jar, we need all the help we can get.  Retirement is not the golden years we expected so if we can make a few extra bucks why not give it a go.  I make absolutely nothing from sharing this information with you.  Only do it with the understanding you might find a way to improve or maintain your standard living during these "Golden Years".  Best of luck and happy blogging.

Work at Home - Start Earning Now!

Working from home is something a lot of us would like to do. It isn't always possible, but the advantages are great. You can set your own hours, do what you want to do for a living, be your own boss, and decide for yourself what your paycheck is going to be week to week. Of course, there are a lot of things you can do, but don't limit yourself to the traditional ideas. There are plenty of things you can do!

Professional fundraising is perhaps one of the most overlooked jobs one can do from home. There are many companies looking for money for a movie production, gas and oil well investment, business startups, even political causes. The pay is very good as fundraising can be a tough business, especially when the economy turns downwards. Still, if you have the tenacity to spend time on the phone establishing rapport with your contacts, you can earn some very good money fundraising.

Debt collection isn't like it was in the old days, and can be a viable option for someone who wants to work from home. There are many companies who do third-party debt collection and are actively seeking people who want to work from home. It doesn't matter if you are in their office or in your spare bedroom, someone needs to contact these debtors and work out some type of repayment. There is very good money in the collections business for those of you who have the ability to gain trust and help people who really want to get out of debt.

Selling advertising is another option. Many people have set up their own low-cost websites where they sell advertising. Of course, you'll have to make some phone calls and send out some emails to get it started, but it can be very lucrative. There are folks selling ads for cars, vacation homes, cleaning services, bullion and numismatics, almost everything. You typically charge a small amount to place an advertisement online with a photo and contact information. The next step is to drive as much Internet traffic to these ads as possible. This type of business can take a bit longer to get going, but can be a full-time income.

In short, you have many options, many of which involve just offering a service and making phone calls. As long as you have a quiet office to work from, a professional speaking voice, and the will to make sales and build relationships, you can have a good income working from home. Your next step should be to make a list of companies that offer work from home, see if they need a phone salesperson and discuss the offers to see which one is the best bet for you!

Michael Taylor is a professional freelance writer with experience in high-tech and the travel industry. See his blog at: http://highpaidwriters.webs.com/

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Using File Sharing in Viral Marketing

There are probably ten million people online, looking for downloads at any given time. Of course, a lot of them could be looking for pornography or free software but still, reaching a minimum on a million people on any given day does offer some rather intriguing possibilities.

People like using file services to download music for two simple reasons, they’re free, and there is an incredible selection. The fact is Pandora’s Box has been opened. In Napster’s wake, other quasi-legal services quickly emerged… a lot of them. Even if they are closed, others will succeed them.

Major record companies would like to think otherwise but they are never going to stop file sharing. Net users are file sharers…plain and simple. Long before the Internet came into being, people made cassette tapes of their favorite music for their friends…cd burners are so much easier and faster.

So how can you use this to help your viral marketing campaign along? Think about this. Once someone downloads your MP3 files and those files are available on that listener’s hard drive, viral marketing begins. After two users start sharing your files, suddenly, your music is on the hard drive of a second computer…then a third… and on and on. When users are searching and they find your music on a lot of different computers, they are more likely to download the files. It’s just a matter of time before you’ll find your files showing up in more and more places.

No matter what genre music you play…Rock and Roll, Country, Tejano, Mozart sonatas, Heavy Metal, of Brazilian Jazz, there is an audience for it somewhere.

In this new paradigm, you aren’t hawking a product, you are offering free music via a medium that lets you be directly connected with your audience.

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Work at Home - How to Choose a Home Based Business and Make Money Without Getting Scammed Part 2

Increasingly more people work out of their home to supplement their income every single day. Home based businesses offer a level freedom and flexibility unmatched by traditional means. This is a $430 Billion a year industry, that's more than the consumer industry, food industry and the pharmaceutical industry combined. By the time you finish reading this sentence someone new would have entered into a Home Based Business venture.

Don't buy into the hype, you will fail unless you go into this with a concise plan of action, the right mindset and start making the smart decisions from beginning. You've all heard of doing it right the first time. This begins with picking a work at home job or home based business opportunity that fits you, not the one claiming to make the most money in the shortest period of time. I would know, I've been down that road.

To start you out in the right direction here are a few work at home offers to avoid. Beware of paid survey and data entry scams. These seem to be all the rage these days. They promise an easy buck of course, but the facts are that very few people make any money filling out surveys and those that do make money make very little.

Here's how paid surveys work in a nut shell. You are paying for a list of companies who supposedly would pay you $1-$15 for filling out surveys which are sent to you by email. The companies on these lists are just as easily found by doing a search engine query yourself. You now have to sign up with each individual company on the list which does take a lot of time. Each company wants in-depth demographic data about you and your household under the guise of only sending you surveys you qualify for. You start receiving surveys almost instantly, though not all have an offer of cash most are points for various sweepstakes. The surveys that do offer cash initially would more than often enough claim that you did not quality for the cash after you filled out the survey and may then offer you points towards prizes and such.

Just about now you would be wondering why you had to fill out the demographic data if they were not going to send you qualified surveys. That question would soon be answered when your telephone starts ringing off the hook with sales calls conveniently geared towards you and your lifestyle, along with your junk mail intake going through the roof.

Another heavily promoted scam is data entry jobs. The technique itself is not the scam but more the language used to promote it. These are promoted as get rich by doing simple data entry; this is far from the truth. These Data Entry Jobs are simply affiliate programs, you are told to write ads promoting various products and services in hopes of getting a commission from any possible sales. This has gotten so bad that Google among other payment providers have been actively canceling owners and promoters of so called "data entry jobs" from their system.

Juan Mendez is a web entrepreneur and aspiring writer.

6 Ideas for Viral Marketing

Here are six ideas to help you start your viral marketing campaign:

1. Purchase the branding rights to a viral E-book. Allow people to give away your free E-book to their visitors. Then, their visitors will also give it away. This will just continue to spread your ad all over the Internet.

2. If you have the ability to set up a forum or other bulletin board, you really have a great tool. Allow people to use your online discussion board for their own website. Some people don't have one. Just include your banner ad at the top of the board.

3. Do you have a knack for web design? Create some templates, graphics, etc. and upload them to your site. Then, allow people to give away your free web design graphics, fonts, templates, etc. Just include your ad on them or require people to link directly to your web site. Make sure that you include a link back to your site in the copyright notice and require them to keep your copyright notice in tact.

4. Write an E-book. Allow people to place an advertisement in your free E-book if, in exchange, they give away the E-book to their web visitors or E-zine subscribers.

5. Write articles that pertain to your product or service. Allow people to reprint your articles on their website, in their E-zine, newsletter, magazine or E-books. Include your resource box and the option for article reprints at the bottom of each article.

6. You can easily find products on the Internet that will sell you a license allowing you to distribute the product free of charge to other people. Look for those products that provide "branding rights". That is where you can include your own name, website, and contact information.

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"Folksonomies" - a New Viral Marketing Tool

A new consumer phenomenon is called "tagging" or "folksonomies" (short for folks and taxonomy). Tagging is powerful because consumers are creating an organizational structure for online content. Folksonomies not only enable people to file away content under tags, but, even better, share it with others by filing it under a global taxonomy that they created.

Here's how tagging works. Using sites such as del.icio.us - a bookmark sharing site – and Flickr - a photo sharing site - consumers are collaborating on categorizing online content under certain keywords, or tags.

For instance, an individual can post photographs of their iPod on Flickr and file it under the tag "iPod." These images are now not only visible under the individual user's iPod tag but also under the community iPod tag that displays all images consumers are generating and filing under the keyword. Right now Flickr has more than 3,500 photos that are labeled "iPod."

Tagging is catching on because it is a natural complement to search. Type the word "blogs" into Google and it can't tell if you are searching for information about how to launch a blog, how to read blogs, or just what. Large and small sites alike are already getting on to the folksonomy train. They are rolling out tag-like structures to help users more easily locate content that's relevant to them.

Although tags are far from perfect, marketers should, nevertheless, be using them to keep a finger on the pulse of the American public. Start subscribing to RSS feeds to monitor how consumers are tagging information related to your product, service, company or space. These are living focus groups that are available for free, 24/7. Folksonomy sites can be also be carefully used to unleash viral marketing campaigns - with a caveat. Marketers should be transparent in who they are, why they are posting the link/photos and avoid spamming the services.

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E-books and Affiliate Programs

Some E-books combine very well with an affiliate program. When the affiliate receives some extra benefit from promoting the viral message, like being able to brand your E-book with his affiliate links, the affiliate makes a sale when a reader buys through a branded link. You benefit from increased traffic on your website because the affiliate is willing to promote the E-books for you.

Be absolutely certain that your message includes a clear call to action. There shouldn’t be any doubt whatsoever about what you intend recipients to do. Make sure that the instructions are perfectly clear so that recipients know HOW to act. The action that you require should be simple and obvious as well. Don’t make things complicated or it will confuse the reader, such as by adding numerous links.

Remember the K.I.S.S. principle Keep It Simple Stupid! The incentive should be clear to those you want to take an action. Readers will look at your offering for about seven seconds before they move on. If it takes longer than that for them to figure out what it is you want them to do, they will move on. Don’t make your message vague or difficult to comprehend. If you do, chances are you will lose them. You must respect your readers enough to express your message clearly.

Once you are sure you have an E-book that will be of value to an affiliate program, approach them with your idea and be able to show that it will be mutually beneficial.

Viral Marketing using E-books is one of many techniques that all together have a cumulative effect in attracting customers and subscribers to your business and in attracting targeted visitors to your website. You will very soon find out that this is an excellent way of increasing sales, subscribers and referrals.

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