There's an IDEA within everybody
American Changes
The Census Bureau's annual compilation of facts and figures is out!
Here are some highlights:
* Soccer is more popular than softball.
* Bowling beats out golf! (Understandably..I can throw that ball more
accurately than hit it!)
* Woman worry more about LOOKING fat; Men are more likely to BE fat!
* The average American consumes 16 POUNDS of ice cream...Thanks Ben and Jerry!
* 9 percent of students grades 9 through 12 reported being threatened
or injured by a weapon at school in 2001...sad.
More at a later time...
It takes an IDEA!
You might say that the past year has been like going back to school for me.
I have been watching and learning so much about ways the internet is developing.
My interest focus is with tapping the available market with the affiliate products or
offerings of my own. I am convinced of the potential. There is no greater opportunity
for the everydayguy!
A poster in a forum hit a chord with me awhile back. He stated a disgust with the
ridicules hype you see online, especially with information and opportunities promoting
work at home type of things. It is so. I think part of the process one must learn is
learning to cut through the hype to find the real deals, so to speak.
Another poster advised that the best choice for a venture oriented individual is to
come up with one's own product/idea and build your own business. The learning process
in doing just this is priceless.
In looking through the many ways others are working online, I know the market
is open for so many ideas. As a matter of fact, there is no shortage for you if
you open your mind to these possibilities.
The story that inspired my idea
I read that in each of us there is an idea, a skill, or the ability to bring
to this market something of value. It is this realization that has me working on my
endeavors to build a website on the city I live and write an eBook which helps others
in an important decision they make....most often incorrectly! (I know I am being vague
here, but I have to at this point for confidentiality issues...I will be writing in more detail at a later date.)
The idea within us did not come easy for me. I thought like most of us that I really did not have anything of value to offer to someone else. I really am just this average guy. What
brought me to my own realization was reading about the story on Jim Edwards. He had worked in the mortgage/real estate business for 10 years.
Jim was a guy that in 1996 went to publish a book (traditional method) about
how to sell your own house. He got the idea in 1993. Three years later he had finished it and had 30 copies printed. He mailed the 30 copies out to the publishers at a cost of $450.
Within two months he started to get the replies. Half of the manuscripts were returned
unopened and the other half returned with rejection letters or with no replies at all!
In the year that followed, he pick himself up and one step at a time, reworked the book, took a seminar about sales online, and built an online site to market his work.
What developed was the online publication FSBOHELP!
In the first 3 months of putting up that online site, he made more than he had in the
previous year.
Jim's story inspired me. Here was an EverydayGuy with an idea, a desire to better himself and his family, followed his goal, failed but kept learning. He made adjustments. And ultimately succeeded with his book after being rejected by the "experts."
He found his market online. He found his success by not giving up. Best of all, he today is
even more successful because what he learned through this process has produced
a number of other very successful ventures. That one idea lead for him to allowing him
to leave the mortgage business and devote his time to endeavors he enjoyed! It
gave him personal control of his time.
It was reading his story that lead me to my own idea for my eBook. I purchased
a copy of his guide he developed on how to write an eBook. It was actually while reading How to Publish Your Own eBookthat my idea crystallized. It is not only tells the actual how to but even more helpful was the real examples of what exactly others have done successfully.
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The Census Bureau's annual compilation of facts and figures is out!
Here are some highlights:
* Soccer is more popular than softball.
* Bowling beats out golf! (Understandably..I can throw that ball more
accurately than hit it!)
* Woman worry more about LOOKING fat; Men are more likely to BE fat!
* The average American consumes 16 POUNDS of ice cream...Thanks Ben and Jerry!
* 9 percent of students grades 9 through 12 reported being threatened
or injured by a weapon at school in 2001...sad.
More at a later time...
It takes an IDEA!
You might say that the past year has been like going back to school for me.
I have been watching and learning so much about ways the internet is developing.
My interest focus is with tapping the available market with the affiliate products or
offerings of my own. I am convinced of the potential. There is no greater opportunity
for the everydayguy!
A poster in a forum hit a chord with me awhile back. He stated a disgust with the
ridicules hype you see online, especially with information and opportunities promoting
work at home type of things. It is so. I think part of the process one must learn is
learning to cut through the hype to find the real deals, so to speak.
Another poster advised that the best choice for a venture oriented individual is to
come up with one's own product/idea and build your own business. The learning process
in doing just this is priceless.
In looking through the many ways others are working online, I know the market
is open for so many ideas. As a matter of fact, there is no shortage for you if
you open your mind to these possibilities.
The story that inspired my idea
I read that in each of us there is an idea, a skill, or the ability to bring
to this market something of value. It is this realization that has me working on my
endeavors to build a website on the city I live and write an eBook which helps others
in an important decision they make....most often incorrectly! (I know I am being vague
here, but I have to at this point for confidentiality issues...I will be writing in more detail at a later date.)
The idea within us did not come easy for me. I thought like most of us that I really did not have anything of value to offer to someone else. I really am just this average guy. What
brought me to my own realization was reading about the story on Jim Edwards. He had worked in the mortgage/real estate business for 10 years.
Jim was a guy that in 1996 went to publish a book (traditional method) about
how to sell your own house. He got the idea in 1993. Three years later he had finished it and had 30 copies printed. He mailed the 30 copies out to the publishers at a cost of $450.
Within two months he started to get the replies. Half of the manuscripts were returned
unopened and the other half returned with rejection letters or with no replies at all!
In the year that followed, he pick himself up and one step at a time, reworked the book, took a seminar about sales online, and built an online site to market his work.
What developed was the online publication FSBOHELP!
In the first 3 months of putting up that online site, he made more than he had in the
previous year.
Jim's story inspired me. Here was an EverydayGuy with an idea, a desire to better himself and his family, followed his goal, failed but kept learning. He made adjustments. And ultimately succeeded with his book after being rejected by the "experts."
He found his market online. He found his success by not giving up. Best of all, he today is
even more successful because what he learned through this process has produced
a number of other very successful ventures. That one idea lead for him to allowing him
to leave the mortgage business and devote his time to endeavors he enjoyed! It
gave him personal control of his time.
It was reading his story that lead me to my own idea for my eBook. I purchased
a copy of his guide he developed on how to write an eBook. It was actually while reading How to Publish Your Own eBookthat my idea crystallized. It is not only tells the actual how to but even more helpful was the real examples of what exactly others have done successfully.
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