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Turn your old junk into a $10k a month online business… Part 4.

(A pauper’s guide to getting started…)

Hi, Folks!

A very grand title for today’s discussion. Previously, we looked at how to raise the funds necessary to start a business online by selling off all your old junk, either in the brick and mortar environment of the “Car Boot” or “Garage” Sale, or more likely, technophiles that we all are these day, online via eBay.

The premise seems straight forward enough. Gather up all the crap you have lying around the home that you no longer need, and give it renewed “value” by selling it off to create a small “pot of gold” that you can use to fund your affiliate marketing career, your forex investments, or whatever you have in mind.

The title of today’s article refers not so much to any skillset you will have to learn, nor to a particular action or sequence of actions that you have to take.

The real key to success in starting up an online business is quite simply this… drum roll please… What you really have to master… is your own mind! Belief that you can succeed is the fundamental prerequisite for doing so.

Consider: There are numerous opportunities for starting up your own business, either land-based or in the virtual world of the internet. Many require huge sums of money to start-up, and then again many don’t. What is most interesting, is that in all likelihood, we consider the most expensive options to be the safest.

Hmm! A retail, or restaurant franchise, in the real world requires a significant initial investment; bank loans, possible re-mortgaging of property and so forth. Yet somehow, because of the huge sums of money needed, the “perceived value” of the investment is so very, very high. It’s understandable. Yet, despite the high risk and commitment required both time-wise, and in terms of cold hard cash, we favour such an investment over far less costly options.

The “rub” of course is that we therefore price ourselves out of the market! The safe option is so prohibitively expensive as to seem non-viable and we doom ourselves to the role of wage slave.

OK… Psychology 101, here goes: THE HUMAN MIND TENDS TO AVOID PAIN AND SEEK PLEASURE! In the above example, even though the “expensive” start-up option is considered to be the sure thing (by virtue of being so expensive), all but the most adventurous will avoid the risk altogether, in favour of the “pleasure” of complaining about our doomed existence as wage-slave. Yes, I did say “pleasure”. Ever heard the expression, “to have a GOOD moan?”

On the other hand, a low cost online business model such as the Maverick Moneymakers investment club, running for a decade already and successfully producing a new breed of affiliate marketeers under the expert guidance of Mack Michaels, seems so cheap by comparison as to be non-viable to many simply because the popular “belief” is that a business has to be expensive to have any chance of success, i.e. the $200 dollars you made selling off your stuff on eBay, which would amply cover the cost of signing up to such a risk-free proposal, could never IN YOUR OWN MIND produce the required result of a successful business.

AND…… If such a risk free investment paid off, and you actually started making money (is the sweat rolling down the back of your neck yet), you would lose the comfort of being able to moan and complain about having no opportunity to succeed, no hope of betterment, being stuck where you are. This concept will physically upset many people as their sub-conscious minds reject it out of hand. Are you such a person?

This really is fundamental. A low cost option can succeed. We have mentioned Maverick Moneymakers already. There are numerous other options. You can build a tremendous income online. You can do so starting with as little as $100. You can easily raise such a some of money selling your unwanted items on eBay or wherever. It all starts with the belief that you can do it, and WANTING to do it.

As soon as you want it, and believe it, that is when you will take action. Give it a try. The great secret of success in any endeavour be it great or small, is to be determined to succeed. Take action. Listen to good advice. Learn. Take more action. Repeat as necessary.

Tomorrow we will summarise all that we have discussed so far.

Till then,

Happy hunting!

Gavin.

If you would like more information on starting an online business, or to view Mack Michaels’ free video tutorials visit http://www.MaverickMoneymakersRegister.com Gavin Barnes is an online systems tester and author, and a part-time affiliate marketeer.

When it comes to advertising personal training, a difficult task lies ahead. If you do not get your message clearly across or you reach the incorrect market, the whole goal behind advertising, which is to gain a huge client base, is lost. Personal training requires a determined personality. Getting your customers interested means that advertising once is not sufficient and you might need to keep bringing them the message.

Motivation is needed for those who are just not that keen on exercising as it is not tops on their ‘to do’ list. You can spend your time trying to reach this group but advertising to those who enjoy exercising or even those who don’t, is just as important.

Marketing yourself is vital when advertising your personal training service. Your looks play an important role but the way you build relations with people helps the advertising process as well. When advertising as a personal trainer remember to suite the title. People will only take you serious if you follow what you teach. This is achieved through eating right and keeping fit. You are the first thing your customer will see regardless of what you say and so your message will not have any meaning if your body does not look great.

Become known when advertising your personal training service. It is important your customers trust and know the product, you. You can ensure that your clients feel relaxed and trusting about your service by being social and bonding with people. By being social, people you talk to will potentially spread your message about your service to others. The amount of clients you will gather will grow immensely as an advantage. Talking to one person has the effect of your message reaching about three others. An increase in customers means an increase in money.

Sometimes word of mouth is not enough for marketing and so it might be a good idea to invest money into advertising. Magazines and TV will charge you for spaces to advertise.

The advertising in the long run will pay off as you reach more customers. Paid advertising however means that you need to strategically not only convey the message about your service but let your clients know how your personal training will benefit them.You will have to encourage people whilst trying to make a sale.

Excitement about your personal training service is also helpful when advertising. Your customers will pick up on this enthusiasm. When Your customers pick up on your personal training service you need to make sure that you are also following up on all of your services, offering them to your full potential because in the end, your clients want to see results.

Because building a client base can be slow you may need to offer promotions such as free training just to get started and so that people trust you more. Do not worry however; you won’t lose out on money. The result of these freebies means that others will also hear about your service and marketing and money increases.

When advertising personal training you need to offer all of your personal training services to your clients can be the best thing that you can do for your personal training business. Kickbacklife.com is a great resource for how to get personal training clients.

Ever since the train was invented as a beneficial mode of transport, people have been using freight trains for shipping goods such as food, fuel, large cargo, bulk, containers, specialized cars, and more. Freight trains are used specifically to transport cargo. There are a number of benefits to using a freight train to transport products, especially with their ability to transport large and heavy items. A single powerful train can pull a very long train of freight cars over great distances and terrain. They usually contain at least one engine and a string of train cars which are joined together. People use trains to transport freight all over the world. Freight transport by rail is more economical and energy efficient than by road, especially over long distances. Freight trains are less flexible than road transport because they run on a specific track, and much freight transported has been transferred from rail to road or sea. Costs for shipping by train are usually lower than air freight or truck freight. Two types of freight trains that used to ship cargo are the Through Freight Train and the Local Freight Train.

If a train travels through one or more terminals before it arrives at its final stop, it is referred to as a Through Freight Train because it has run through the terminals without loading or unloading cargo. Sometimes the train crew is replaced at one of these terminals, but the train itself still continues to its final destination. A “through” freight train will only stop at the scheduled final destination and nowhere else along the route. A through freight travels across a subdivision without stopping. Long distance bulk freight such as coal, steel, and vehicle parts are usually transported using through freight trains.

Local Freight Trains consists of a collection and distribution system where freight cars are left with the shippers. For instance, if a freight car is scheduled to pick up a large quantify of bulk material from a processing plant, empty cars will be dropped off and the workers at the plant will load the cars with the material. Once loaded, the train will return, reattach the cars, and continue to transport the material to its scheduled destination. It can also work the other way where the train drops off loaded bulk cargo and returns to pick up the empty cars after the material has been removed. This type of operation can usually be found in such areas as the pulp and paper mills and the coal industry. The process usually takes place at all hours of the day and night. A local freight train can stop at almost most every small town along its route. Also, local freights might travel within a single urban area or between two manufacturing plants. A local freight train will transport just about anything and will stop to pick up or set out cars along the route. Local freight will travel for short distances such as between dock yards and factories, warehouses, goods depots, etc.

With the increase in trucking, shipping, and flying transportation industry, many rail freight companies have changed their methods of operation in order to compete. Many companies now use a combination of transport methods to ship their goods that includes the use of freight trains. This ensures that products are shipped and received more quickly and efficiently.

With the growing concern about climate change, businesses are realizing that transport by train is a very energy efficient method of shipping goods. The train is an old method of travel with innovative ideas for the future of transportation.

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In launching a new business, branding can often be an aspect given far less attention than it really deserves, and this can cause a number of problems and issues in the future. The brand of a product or service, or the company as a whole, can make a huge difference as far as its success is concerned. Think of the many brands which are clearly in the general public’s consciousness, and then ask yourself, how they managed to get there.

In some cases, it is simply as a result of longevity. Naturally, major brands or companies which have been around for many years have become well known, and household names. But there are many new companies, organizations and services available which have not been around for very long at all, and yet they have already achieved a high level of status and recognition.

The most successful companies, including offline and online home businesses, put a great deal of time, effort and attention into their branding, and will include marketing and advertising into the discussion to try to ensure that the product is as successful as possible.

Branding can be everything from the name of the product or company, the logo, and any attributes such as color themes, styles, physical appearances and slogans. These need to work together, without being too complicated.

When it comes to a successful brand, simplicity is often the key. Sometimes the very complicated graphics, or difficult names, can be forgotten or ignored too easily. The simplest graphics, slogans and names can often become very popular, simply because they are so easy to remember and to recognize.

If you think of logos first of all, which brands jump to mind? Often it is the simple, clear, distinct logos which are most easily remembered, such as Nike, for example. Although there are successful logos which are at the same time quite complex, they tend to be in the minority, and have another aspect to them which is simple, in order to compensate for it. The Coca Cola logo is rather more complex than Nike’s tick, yet the colours are limited to red and white, with a distinctive font.

Branding involves a wide range of aspects, the name being one which is of most importance. Remembering a logo, or a slogan, or even a color theme, without being able to remember the actual product or business name, is of no use whatsoever. Any logo or slogan needs to be able to bring the product or business name to mind, otherwise the branding has failed.

But thinking of a clever brand name is fraught with challenges. How do you come up with a name which is memorable, easy to pronounce, even if your customers don’t speak the same language as you, and at the same time, encourages associations which are positive and relevant?

When deciding on a good brand name for a product, there are a few golden rules. Firstly, avoid trying to cash in on a rival’s success by emulating their brand name, or copying or adapting it in a way which is clearly recognizable. Although this has been done before, and occasionally with a measure of success, it is best to avoid it for a number of reasons.

Associating yourself too closely with a rival could result in people thinking you are the other company, and remembering your advertising, but their product. You might also find yourself beset with legal challenges and infringement of copyright issues. Not only that, but what would you do if there was a scandal, or problem with the company you were trying to piggy back a ride on?

The general public has tired of words such as ‘mega’, and other related superlatives. The trouble with superlatives is that they can be too frequently abused and, like a medicine or drug, they become accepted, and eventually ignored and unnoticed. If your first product is a ‘mega’, and then you bring out an improved model, what superlative will you use next? And after that? Eventually it can become absurd, with products branded as new, and improved, mega super products that begin to sound slightly desperate.

Be aware also that when people are searching the web for products or services such as yours, the name needs to be clearly associated with the type of product or service. Think about the keywords you’ll be using. If you’re selling web hosting, then try to include the words web, hosting, or other technology related words in the brand name, since most searches will be based on these.

Branding is a tricky area, and needs to be treated with caution and care, and given enough attention, without overworking it to the point of unnecessary complexity.

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The markets were down in the first hour with over 100 points on the Dow30 but after some favorable “economic reports suggesting that the economy may be approaching a bottom,” the Dow reversed by 250 points in the following 2 hours. We are also in a new quarter for the calendar year and mutual fund managers typically buy more aggressively the first few days of the quarter to make their performance figures look better. We are getting more and more positive economic news not that the economy is recovering but that the expected numbers are not as the worst case scenario.

We also have the emergency G-20 summit that is likely to announce some sort of stimulus agreement between countries and this positive spin is likely to help the market move up the next few days.

What the trading action does tell us the last two days is the market has some enthusiasm and buying power on the sidelines ready to react to any favorable news. This is a change in sentiment compared to earlier periods these past 5 months where the market was looking for any bad news or any excuse to push the sell button.

This is what I’ve been explaining recently that we should be looking to see how stocks act in comparison with the positions we’ve taken or with the assumptions we have made about what the stock market should be doing.

The market is getting enthusiastic or “bouncy” and could keep moving up. The purpose of the short positions with the banks and 2 life insurance companies was for a short period of time, maybe 1-2 weeks but if the market keeps moving up, your hard and mental stop losses might be kicking in.

Depending upon your own risk tolerance and style of investing or trading, that is what determines how much loss (or give back profit made) you are willing to take. A good general rule for swing trades can be 4-7% stop loss and your potential profit would usually be about 3 times that. So a 3 to 1 profit vs. loss if stopped out, would be the minimum ratio you should be using. The ideal scenario is you have a defined limit of losing $1 but have the potential to make $4.

So it is looking like these short positions are going to have to be reduced or covered if they continue to climb, especially the stronger ones like JPM, JP Morgan and USB, US Bancorp. The Asian markets are up sharply tonight with Hong Kong up over 5% and Japan over 4% as of this writing.

More evidence that we could be starting the rally sooner than expected is the “wish list” of stocks below have really moved up the last two days, many of them moving up to higher highs with hardly a recognizable pullback.

My impression is that tomorrow’s rise in the US markets could put us uncomfortably over our threshold of limited losses. It could be that Monday gave us the lows in these financials after the two down days of last Friday and Monday. The challenge is always going to be with swing or intermediate trades that lasts from days to weeks is to allow a stock to move one way or another which to give it time and space to confirm it is or is not doing what is expected. And you will have to decide for yourself what comfort level or risk tolerance you have to absorb a stock going against you.

I’ve suggested 4-7% stop losses but depends upon what your style, personality, financial situation and strategy for that stock. I personally have higher risk tolerance and like to give a stock a chance to do what I forecast so it usually involves a larger loss if I am wrong than what many people can take for themselves. Yet at the same time, I am right about a lot of stocks that give a lot of profits, as you can see from the trades on these banks going long, short, long and now short.

What we have had for months is an underlying potential for stocks to really move up sharply and the talking heads on the financial websites and TV networks have come out of the woodwork saying how many trillions are under peoples’ mattresses available to invest.

So the sentiment and the talk that is increasing in frequency actually can help build a momentum of buying. That hasn’t happened yet but for months I have had on the bottom of this newsletter that I am expecting some sort of substantial rally that could be caused by the stimulus spending and the initial spark could just be an oversold condition and in the current environment, good news is starting to be rewarded.

The actual news may not have any substance to it and the overall economic outlook may be bad for another year but the stock market could go into rally mode even with that overhanging dark cloud. My hunch (only an educated guess) is that we could start getting into rally mode but it is really hard to tell right now.

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