The Great Retirement “Mirage”…

Most people have a mental image of their ideal retirement.

It usually involves travel, beaches, golf and relaxation. And some people end up living that dream.

But for most people, the image is more like a mirage… the closer they get, the more it seems to fade.

I’d like to talk about that great retirement mirage in this issue of BizWeb eGazette.

When I was in high school (going back quite a few years now) I was taught that the ideal path to financial security looked like this…

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1. Go to school and graduate

2. Get a good job and work your way up in the company

3. Invest part of your salary and save for retirement

4. Retire comfortably, travel and enjoy your golden years

After all, it was a plan that worked for generations…

In the 1900’s many people attained financial independence this way. They worked a job for 35 years or so, scrimped and saved along the way and retired around age 65 with a nice nest egg.

Although this was pretty much a universally accepted plan during the 20th century, there was one glaringly obvious problem that most people never discussed.

A little matter called life expectancy.

Even near the end of the 20th century, in the 1980’s, when the world’s average life expectancy soared… people were expected to live only to the ripe old age of 67 years.

I did the math and could clearly see that it left a whopping two years to reap the rewards of all that work and saving.

Yet I entered the workforce anyway.

But when I looked around me, I didn’t see too many people looking forward to retirement. In fact, the parents of two of my friends actually got pink-slips just a few years short of qualifying for a pension.

Others bounced from job to job, barely scraping by.

Even my own folks managed to save little to nothing for retirement.

Fast forward another generation, and things have only gotten worse in my opinion.

I read today that as of the end of 2014, a full 45 percent of working-age households in America have no retirement savings at all. And among people 55 to 64, the average household retirement savings is a mere $12,000.

The real truth is, only 5% of people following that “career” path outlined above, ever achieve a comfortable retirement.

Isn’t that a shocking number?

That leaves a whopping 95% of well-intentioned, hard working people, who work their fingers to the bone, relying on social security, an inadequate pension or help from a family member just to get by.

And the few that do make it to retirement with a nice nest-egg, still have very few years to enjoy the fruits of their labor! Even now, early in the 21st century, with life expectancies finally close to 80, that leaves an average of 15 years to “live it up” in Boca Raton.

OK, now that I have you totally depressed, you need to know that there is a better way…

Unless you are one of the 1 in 180 million people who hits the lottery or inherits a fortune when Uncle Joe checks out, there’s just one way you will ever become financially independent…

You have to do it on your own.

While that may sound like a monumental task, thanks to the Internet, it is possible for the average person.

Like me.

I never went to college. I didn’t have any connections when I got started.

Yet I carved out a following and a living online writing articles like this. And anybody can do it, in any niche they want. Sure, it takes time, but you can do it in your spare time, even when you have a full time job. That’s what I did!

But the real beauty of the do-it-yourself plan to retirement, is that it’s like retiring young!

You get to set your own schedule. You get to travel when you want. You don’t have a commute. You don’t have a boss. And there is no cap on how much you can earn.

In fact, you never have to retire at all! Why bother…

Personally, I never plan to retire!

Retire from what?

A business that I work a few hours a week, when I want?

Look, I’ve gone down both paths.

I tried the career thing. I went into the Air Force at 18. I got out at 21 and started a career. I worked in the telephone industry for 10 years.

Then I decided I wanted something more than the career path to “maybe” retirement. I decided I wanted to enjoy my entire life, not just weekends and a decade or so before I check out.

So I went to work building something better for myself. And you can too!

Start building a business of your own. If you can build a small following and share your world with them, you may just be able to break free from a life of jobs.

If you need help getting started, email me. Tell me where you’re stuck. I’ve been through every stage and can help you get where you want to go. It’s what I do and I love it!

Source: Jim Daniels http://bizweb2000.com/retire/

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But before you quit your job, or sign up for a home-based business opportunity, think about the kind of person you are. If you love the everyday social interaction you get at work, or enjoy working in a team, then solitude and working from home is probably not for you.

Working from home also requires self-discipline, motivation and a level of organisation that not everyone has.

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Should You Pay for Leads to Expand Your Customer List?

The common thinking among many Internet marketers is that you shouldn’t really buy email lists because the people on that list don’t know you. After all, you don’t know for sure they are open to what you are selling. They may mark you as spam and get you banned from email services. All those things are true, in general, but there are certain lists that absolutely are worthwhile to buy. So don’t dismiss buying leads altogether, because there is a right way and wrong way to go about it. You just have to be very careful about how you proceed because there are risks.

Most Lists Contain High-Target Customers 

You should only buy leads if there is a high probability that they are going to convert. What you don’t want is a list of people that you essentially are going to be cold-calling — via email — because that’s going to be low-converting. Obviously, the best leads — and the optimal way to reach people — focus primarily on customers who have interacted with you at some point or another, either through your squeeze page or your sales page or your YouTube videos or on social media or what have you. Those people have already opted-in, so they have in effect given you an implicit permission to contact them. As a result, they are going to be far more likely to open you email and, more importantly, to act on your call to action. This is a very important point because if people haven’t opted-in to receive your emails, it can be very dangerous for you.

How Much Should You Pay? 

Now, you see a lot of companies out there that will sell you thousands of email addresses for $99 and the like. You may be wondering if these are a good option. It’s a good idea to proceed with caution. If you have done business with the company in the past or the company has been recommended to you by somebody that you trust, then it may be a good idea to consider buying a list from them and trying them out. Beware of making large scale purchases from companies that you aren’t familiar with because there are a lot of scammers out there on the Web who would be happy to take your money and sell you a list that is filled with either dead addresses or emails they have scraped from other places that aren’t going to do you a lot of good.

Risk vs Reward 

Buying lists can be a big expense, so what you need to consider is the value that you are getting for your money. It can be a financial burden and there also are other risks involved. For example, you can seriously harm your reputation if you buy the wrong list, because when you buy a list and contact people who never heard of you before, they can send it to their spam folder. Whenever they do this, it sends a notification to the email service. If it happens often enough, it can lower your sender score, which can affect your domain’s ability to send emails through that email service in the future — even if they are legitimate emails to people who have asked you to contact them. Also, if you are marked as spam often enough, every time you send out an email from your website, it may be automatically diverted to the recipient’s spam folder, so they are never going to see it. And that’s a total waste of time and money.

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Home Based Business Plan Guide

Every home based business needs a plan to be successful.  It isn’t enough to have a great idea for a home based business and just hang out your shingle.  Which is a something that many home based business owners learn too late.  So even if you aren’t going to be borrowing money for your start up home based business, you still want to take some time to create a thoughtful, realistic business plan.

The first step in creating a home based business plan is to clearly define your goals.  It isn’t just a matter of saying you want to make a certain amount of money in, say, five years or to leave your competition in the dust.  These are certainly lofty goals, but they are vague.  You want to define what your home based business really is at the beginning and where you want it to be.  It’s a good to break this into segments.  Where do you want your home based business to be in six months?  A year?  Eighteen months?  Two years?   A home based business plan that outlines your objectives this way gives you a road map to refer to and will ensure you’re on the right track and that you stay there.

Second, you have to know the market potential for your home based business.  After all, there has to be a demand for the product and/or service you are offering or you have no business.  If your home based business is going to provide business cleaning services, for example, you’ll want to be sure that there are companies and offices in your immediate area that need your service.  You will also want to look at surrounding areas for opportunities to grow your home based business in the future.  The amount and type of competition for your service needs to be taken into consideration too.  If your area is already saturated with business cleaning services, you may need to consider a different service altogether.  Without some planning and research, however, you won’t know this in advance, and your home based business won’t be as likely to succeed as it could be.

Next, you want to consider all the costs your home based business will incur.  A lot of times when people work at home at their own home business, they fail to consider the small expenses.  Printer ink, paper, postage, long distance phone calls and cell phone bills are easily missed when considering the cost of operating a home based business.  And these seemingly small amounts add up in a short amount of time for most business owners.  So realistically look at all the costs involved with owning and operating your home business.  This way you’ll know how much you have to bring in to meet expenses and hopefully, to make a profit.

Now you want to think about how you will market your home based business.  Again, you can have the best product and/or service going, but it won’t do you any good if you don’t market it.   You need a marketing strategy for your home based business, and you need to plan for the costs involved in making it a reality.  You may only be thinking about flyers, circulars and posters to begin with, but they do cost money to produce.  And you need to think about other ways as well.  Radio, billboards, direct mail, email, Web advertising are all great ways to promote and market your product and/or service.  It’s wise to do some research into what type of marketing tools work best for your type of home based business and use a combination of offline and online advertising.  You may want to start with more inexpensive marketing methods and work up as you go.  To do this, you’ll need to, yes, plan for that.  Plan for how much you can spend at the beginning and how much you want to add to your home based business marketing as it grows—which, with the proper planning, it will certainly do.

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Advice For Selecting A MLM Home Business Opportunity

Looking for a MLM home business opportunity to start your own business? Working at home can give the freedom you want and the income that you deserve. By working from home you can be there for your children, cook dinner, and still get in a few hours of work before bed. A work at home business can be very attractive but you must be careful to select one that works for you.

 When selecting a MLM home business opportunity for your own, look for one that has being in business for a number of years. Many scams are often fly-by-night operations. That doesn’t mean avoid younger companies, but look carefully before you take a leap of faith. Make sure that they have a good training program in place, a fair compensation plan worked out, and their products have been time tested.

When comparing MLM home business opportunities, think of yourself first. Choose a business that fits your interests and talents; don’t think you can be molded to fit theirs. Examine what you want, to fit your knowledge and background. Many times your life experiences can add greatly to a company’s offerings to create a perfect blend. Take time to select the opportunity that is right for you.
Many who become involved in a MLM home business opportunity start out on a part time basis. This is wise advice for everyone considering the jump into self-employment. Keeping your day job will insure adequate income to meet your household and buy you enough time to get the business established. Also, by keeping your current ties in the business world, you can attract them as customers to your new endeavor.

MLM home business opportunities are waiting for your first chance to grab them. Just remember if something is too good to be true, it probably is. Many companies offer pie-in-the-sky dreams with little else. Keep your wits when looking at MLM home business opportunities and you will land with your feet on the ground.

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Wanting A Successful Home Based Business?

A couple of ideas for those of you thinking about a new beginning for your career with your very own work a home base business. Starting a home based business from home is not something you should take on with out care because a work from home based business is something that appeals to almost everyone at one time or another.


What do you think are some of the more common things that people look for when they consider starting their own home based business opportunities? Due to the terrible condition of the economy and all the people that are being layed off more people than ever are looking to the internet to start a work from home business. So what do you think are some of the more popular work from home ideas that people look to when trying to start a business from within the walls of their own home?

One home based business idea that is usually at the top of people's list is to get in on a franchise. Home business franchises are actually pretty popular and there are a lot of them that have been around for a while and have a pretty good reputation as home based franchises. For example you have Jani-Pro and Jani-King which if you can't tell by their names are janitorial services that are run by individuals in their homes. These services have become quite successful cleaning office buildings, fitness gyms, community schools, stores and malls. Just think of all the places just in your area that probably use one of these work from home business franchises to clean their location or another service that is similar.

Another popular thing that has really taken off for home based business franchise is pet care or pet grooming. We adore our pets so much so that they are usually treated as part of the family. Unfortunately for a lot of us though we find that we have little time to give our pets the proper care that we know they deserve. So in those difficult times when your day is running short on time and your pet needs some TLC who do people call? Pet sitters, dog walkers, poop scooper's and mobile pet groomers these are all examples of home business franchises that have jetted to the top in just the last few years.

For those of you that are a Mr. fix it either through your knowledge of plumbing, construction or painting skills two popular services that are good start up home business franchises are Mr. Handyman or Rooter-Man. Again these are services that are attractive to people that have neither the desire or the energy to do these little things around the home.

Now I just mentioned a few ideas all of which were easy to find information about on the internet. A good site that most people who want to start their own work from home business is the site entrepreneur dot com. It is a fantastic resource for work from home business ideas as well as a wonderful place to find out what home based franchises are doing well and more importantly are legit. There are plenty more work from home business ideas listed at that site that I did not even touch on but think about all the people that really want to stay at home and work from home?

That is where online business comes in and all that it has to offer to people looking to succeed in business from home. A few popular choices that we look into doing in the online world of work at home business is selling stuff on eBay Article Search, affiliate marketing or even blogging. These examples are hugely popular in terms of people trying to succeed and make a living off an online work at home business. Now the question  is how many people are truly "successful" at working an online home business? This point is very debatable and depending on what you believe to you will get varying perspectives on how successful a certain online work at home business can be. As an example when you look at people that blog and say that they earn a living doing it all from the comfort of their own home office. Odds are that those people want to sell you something to help you learn how to be just as successful as they are blogging away from the comfort of their own houses. The majority of times those people are successful in their blogging efforts because they are really good at selling products to you and people like you that promise to show you all you need to know about how they succeeded and how you can do it to.

Why do you think blogging for income from the comfort of your own home seem like such an appealing online work at home business to so many people? I think because it comes down to cost and even though the majority of those home base business franchises that you just read about can be done from your place they still all cost a good amount of cash in start up cost. Versus writing a blog which can be created by anyone for free and it's not to hard to try something for free.

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