So let me give everyone a heads up to my current occupations. I'm a computer programmer, stock trader, and entrepreneur. As I'm sure you can tell, I like to diversify my revenue streams. I'm not tied to just one form of income. If something goes wrong with my programming career I can fall back on trading or my entrepreneurial ventures. If trading starts to go sour I have multiple other ways to make money. The great thing is that being an entrepreneur means that I will always have streams of revenue. As long as I am always looking for ways to innovate then I will always have new ways to make money. I'd like to share a few possible business opportunities you as the reader could try out to make some side income (or possibly even a full time income if you really put your heart into it).
So first I want to make it clear that these systems are not hard. I'm not going to throw you into something where you need high end technical skills like Programming or a breadth of prior experience is necessary to achieve success such as in trading stocks. Nope, these systems can be created and sustained by anyone.
There are many websites and ebooks out there trying to tell you how to work from home in an instant. The truth is that the magic bullet doesn't exist. There is no system that can make anyone an overnight millionaire. Now don't get me wrong. There are people that have created businesses and literally become richer than god in a matter of days but that is not the norm. There is hope though. Only one real issue stands in your way when it comes to becoming financially stable and working for yourself; you. The only reason you will ever fail in creating a functional business is because you tell yourself you will fail. Now I'm not saying that your first try will be a success or even your tenth try. What I am saying is that if you keep trying you WILL eventually make it. Now if you have the perseverance to keep coming back for more punishment when your first, second, third, etc attempt fails then won't it be worth it to know that you answer to no one? You will truly be your own boss.
Ok enough of the motivational pep talk crap. I'm sure you didn't need that anyway. If you're reading this then you are probably motivated to start working for yourself. Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Now I'm going to list off the top 3 online ways that I've been making money.
3) Adsense - Takes a fairly long time to build up legitimate revenue but it's fairly stable.
Ok so as you may or may not know, you can host advertisements on your webpages, youtube pages, other social media and get paid money by google whenever someone clicks through them. If you want to better understand how this is worth it for google feel free to look up Google Adsense. The idea here is to create either a large number of small niche websites that get 1000-2000 unique views a month and make money off the adsense clicks. The great thing about these sites is they take very little maintenance once you have a good traffic flow. You can generally make anywhere from $1-10 a day off each site. So let's say you average $2 a day off each site (reasonable for someone who is new to internet marketing) and you have 50 of these sites. You are now making $100 a day or approximately $36,500 a year on almost complete auto pilot. There are people out there making a lot more than that too! The only major issue is that it takes quite a while to get these sites building constant revenue (generally 1-3 months but sometimes as quick as a week if you get lucky)
2) CPA offers - Generally won't create long term revenue but it can create huge burts of income (I'm told of people making $30,000+ in less than a month with this avenue of marketing.)
CPA or cost per action can be very lucrative. The idea behind these is that the marketer (you) gets paid each time a certain action is performed. I myself like the email/zip submit cpa offers. Basically what this means is I funnel traffic into an email submit cpa offer and I get paid for each email that gets submitted. So let's say I buy the domain freecellphones.com and redirect the domain to my cpa offer (where I get paid $1.50 for each email). I then go to a sporting event and hand out flyers saying "FREE CELL PHONES AT freecellphones.com". People check the site out and put their email in wanting a free cell phone. Now you don't have to go the cell phone route. There are many options and many are FAR more lucrative. Some drug CPA offers such as Paxil pay upwards of $600 per each completion.
1) Affiliate Marketing - Definitely the easiest way for someone new to internet marketing to make money.
Ah yes my favorite. Ok so here is how affiliate marketing works. Someone produces a product. They don't have the resources to market it well so they pay others to raise awareness of the product for them. For each visitor these advertisers send to their product and the product is bought a commission is paid. These commissions can be anywhere from a few cents to upwards of $1000 (for jets and things like that). What I like to do is create micro niche websites that relate directly to whatever search a person performs and then I do the research for them. I find the product that I think best meets their needs and I give them a link to it with a review of what I've found. It works really well because the consumer gets what they need in a product that will help them solve their problem and I get paid a small amount of money for helping them find the product.
So if you want to work from home in relative comfort it only takes two things. A plan of attack and perseverance. Good luck to you!
Friday, July 15, 2011
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Work From Home In - Chicago, New York, Los Angeles
I want you to take a look at some of the common search terms typed in to google these days.
Work From Home Chicago; Work From Home NYC; Work From Home New York City; Work From Home Los Angeles; Work From Home Los Angeles CA; Work From Home Detroit; Work From Home Houston; Work From Home Philadelphia; Work From Home Phoenix; Work From Home San Antonio; Work From Home San Diego; Work From Home Dallas; Work From Home San Jose; employment los angeles; employment chicago; employment new york city; employment nyc; employment detroit mi; employment houston tx; employment philadelphia pa; employment phoenix az; employment san antonio ca; employment san diego ca; employment san dallas tx; employment san jose ca
That's a small list of different search terms that people are currently entering. I don't care if you actually read through that list (it is rather large to actually sit there and read it plus many of the entries are pretty much the same thing. The reduncancy proves my point.) or even glance at the actual terms. All I want to make clear is that times are hard for everyone everywhere right now, but that doesn't mean you should give up. I think the most important thing people need to do now is persevere.
There are a lot of gloom and doomers out there that want to tell you the world is going to end and this next financial crisis will be the destruction of us all. Well I have news for them; civilization can't be squashed that easily. I can't promise you that the US will prosper for the next 100 years. Hell I can't promise you that the US will be around in 10 years. What I can promise you though is that there will always be a system where people can provide for themselves. We may go through even harder times than we currently are but in the end if you invest in yourself you can come out on top.
I know this post is a little bit out of left field compared to my other posts but I do truly feel it's something that needs to be said in times like these. Everyone just needs to keep telling themselves that the sun WILL rise tomorrow and they can rise with it if they don't give up.
Work From Home Chicago; Work From Home NYC; Work From Home New York City; Work From Home Los Angeles; Work From Home Los Angeles CA; Work From Home Detroit; Work From Home Houston; Work From Home Philadelphia; Work From Home Phoenix; Work From Home San Antonio; Work From Home San Diego; Work From Home Dallas; Work From Home San Jose; employment los angeles; employment chicago; employment new york city; employment nyc; employment detroit mi; employment houston tx; employment philadelphia pa; employment phoenix az; employment san antonio ca; employment san diego ca; employment san dallas tx; employment san jose ca
That's a small list of different search terms that people are currently entering. I don't care if you actually read through that list (it is rather large to actually sit there and read it plus many of the entries are pretty much the same thing. The reduncancy proves my point.) or even glance at the actual terms. All I want to make clear is that times are hard for everyone everywhere right now, but that doesn't mean you should give up. I think the most important thing people need to do now is persevere.
There are a lot of gloom and doomers out there that want to tell you the world is going to end and this next financial crisis will be the destruction of us all. Well I have news for them; civilization can't be squashed that easily. I can't promise you that the US will prosper for the next 100 years. Hell I can't promise you that the US will be around in 10 years. What I can promise you though is that there will always be a system where people can provide for themselves. We may go through even harder times than we currently are but in the end if you invest in yourself you can come out on top.
I know this post is a little bit out of left field compared to my other posts but I do truly feel it's something that needs to be said in times like these. Everyone just needs to keep telling themselves that the sun WILL rise tomorrow and they can rise with it if they don't give up.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Work from home in - sidenotes and other nic nacs
I thought I'd take a break from my summary for a post and deal with some small caveats. Whether you work from home in new york or you work from home in los angeles there are certain principles that will always hold true. I think the first one is as follows: "Beware of the magic bullet." There is no I WIN button that you hit and become a millionaire while working for yourself. Anyone in the world that has ever made a fortune has worked for it and worked extremely hard. Those that think people just get lucky sometimes are lying to themselves. Life is going to knock you down and it's the people that continue to get back up that will prosper.
So that leads me to my next point. Many people are very intelligent, empathetic, business minded people but they will never be rich. Do you know why? They don't do the one most important step in working for yourself. They don't take action. No matter how many great ideas or potential business ventures they discover they never act on them. As many a basketball coach has said 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take'. The great thing about running your own business is that you can take as many shots as you want and you only have to make one to be successful. Keep in mind though it'll probably take quite a few shots before you drain one. Sadly most people give up after their first shot or sometimes just don't take one at all.
People are not bound by their skillsets but their mindsets. I remember reading a book on creating a home based empire a year or so ago and it attempted to illustrate an idea through an explanation of elephants and ropes. I can't find the book anymore and I don't remember who wrote it so I'll try to do it some justice but I'll probably fail miserably. Please keep in mind though I did not come up with this explanation although I do condone it because I believe it to be an excellent one. So here goes nothing.
In India they keep elephants for a multitude of reasons (entertainment being a large one). So from a very young age they will chain an elephant up with an extremely heavy rope or metal chain. One that they know the baby elephant cannot break. Try and try as the elephant might it cannot break its bonds. Eventually its spirit will be broken and it will stop trying to break the ties that bind it and it will simply take it for fact that it cannot break the rope or chain. When this happens the keepers of this elephant no longer need to use a heavy rope or chain. In fact they will start to use a very tiny rope. One that any decently sized animal could break and one that an elephant could snap without a second thought. Sadly, at this point the elephant no longer believes it is capable of escaping. It believes that even though that rope is small it is unbreakable. It is no longer trapped by the physical rope but by its own mental barriers.
People are exactly like the elephant. They are raised in a society where they are told to go to college and get a job. They are so conditioned that by the time they reach maturity they truly believe that a mediocre salary is all they can achieve or deserve. Well I'm here to tell you that is not true. People are capable of reaching for the stars and attaining them. There is no reason a person can't work for themselves and create financial stability other than the fact that they are mentally imprisoned by the beliefs bestowed upon them by society. So I wanted to make this post to challenge you. I want you to break your bonds and reach for your true goals.
So that leads me to my next point. Many people are very intelligent, empathetic, business minded people but they will never be rich. Do you know why? They don't do the one most important step in working for yourself. They don't take action. No matter how many great ideas or potential business ventures they discover they never act on them. As many a basketball coach has said 'You miss 100% of the shots you don't take'. The great thing about running your own business is that you can take as many shots as you want and you only have to make one to be successful. Keep in mind though it'll probably take quite a few shots before you drain one. Sadly most people give up after their first shot or sometimes just don't take one at all.
People are not bound by their skillsets but their mindsets. I remember reading a book on creating a home based empire a year or so ago and it attempted to illustrate an idea through an explanation of elephants and ropes. I can't find the book anymore and I don't remember who wrote it so I'll try to do it some justice but I'll probably fail miserably. Please keep in mind though I did not come up with this explanation although I do condone it because I believe it to be an excellent one. So here goes nothing.
In India they keep elephants for a multitude of reasons (entertainment being a large one). So from a very young age they will chain an elephant up with an extremely heavy rope or metal chain. One that they know the baby elephant cannot break. Try and try as the elephant might it cannot break its bonds. Eventually its spirit will be broken and it will stop trying to break the ties that bind it and it will simply take it for fact that it cannot break the rope or chain. When this happens the keepers of this elephant no longer need to use a heavy rope or chain. In fact they will start to use a very tiny rope. One that any decently sized animal could break and one that an elephant could snap without a second thought. Sadly, at this point the elephant no longer believes it is capable of escaping. It believes that even though that rope is small it is unbreakable. It is no longer trapped by the physical rope but by its own mental barriers.
People are exactly like the elephant. They are raised in a society where they are told to go to college and get a job. They are so conditioned that by the time they reach maturity they truly believe that a mediocre salary is all they can achieve or deserve. Well I'm here to tell you that is not true. People are capable of reaching for the stars and attaining them. There is no reason a person can't work for themselves and create financial stability other than the fact that they are mentally imprisoned by the beliefs bestowed upon them by society. So I wanted to make this post to challenge you. I want you to break your bonds and reach for your true goals.
Monday, July 11, 2011
Work from home in - College (The first years)
When I first started college I wasn't really thinking about making money from home at the present time. I had started looking at the big picture and believed that my college education would lead me to Work from home in Chicago il (where my college was) after I had graduated and gotten a job with some programming company. I was ok with having a boss as long as I had the ability to work at home. As time went on though I slowly realized that this scenario wouldn't be as fantastic as I had originally hoped. Sure I could make some decent money. Most programmers start out making about fifty thousand dollars a year and that's nothing to scoff at. The issue for me was that even though fifty thousand dollars seems like a lot, a huge portion of that was going to get eaten up by the debt from my college loans.
I wasn't thinking too much about these issues most of the time though as my main focuses were definitely my social life and simply finishing my actual courses. I will say that I started to burn out after my first year. My college went year round and I wasn't used to not getting an actual break after a long period of studying. I believe I started with a 3.92 GPA at the end of my first year and by the time my second year had ended I let it slip down to a 3.4. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying a 3.4 is terrible by any stretch of the imagination but I was easily capable of more.
Anyway back to the main idea here. I was starting to fall into a bit of a lull and I didn't really know what my next step was. I did get a job working at my college's IT helpdesk. I enjoyed it because as long as you were a techie (I am a super techie) it was fairly easy work. Most of the time all you needed to do was ask the person to restart their computer. Every now and then I'd have to reformat a computer (That means delete everything and start from scratch for those who don't know computer jargon) and I did have to deal with a few networking issues but overall it was very laid back. This job did lead me to my next opportunity. This was definitely a work from home in my pajamas type of idea. One of my coworkers had showed me a site where she filled out surveys online. The great thing about this is that each survey rewarded her with $1-$5 after she completed it. This meant that if a person was driven enough and signed up for enough legitimate survey sites they could make a decent side income. I thought about creating some programs to run automation scripts and fill out surveys all day. Then I could setup some proxy programs and make it seem like different people were filling out surveys when actually it would be a network of computers that I own filling out thousand of surveys a day. Sadly this never came to be because it was obviously against the terms of service to try and cheat the system like this not to mention immoral. If I wanted to work from home in a financially stable setting I'd have to find a different path.
I wasn't thinking too much about these issues most of the time though as my main focuses were definitely my social life and simply finishing my actual courses. I will say that I started to burn out after my first year. My college went year round and I wasn't used to not getting an actual break after a long period of studying. I believe I started with a 3.92 GPA at the end of my first year and by the time my second year had ended I let it slip down to a 3.4. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying a 3.4 is terrible by any stretch of the imagination but I was easily capable of more.
Anyway back to the main idea here. I was starting to fall into a bit of a lull and I didn't really know what my next step was. I did get a job working at my college's IT helpdesk. I enjoyed it because as long as you were a techie (I am a super techie) it was fairly easy work. Most of the time all you needed to do was ask the person to restart their computer. Every now and then I'd have to reformat a computer (That means delete everything and start from scratch for those who don't know computer jargon) and I did have to deal with a few networking issues but overall it was very laid back. This job did lead me to my next opportunity. This was definitely a work from home in my pajamas type of idea. One of my coworkers had showed me a site where she filled out surveys online. The great thing about this is that each survey rewarded her with $1-$5 after she completed it. This meant that if a person was driven enough and signed up for enough legitimate survey sites they could make a decent side income. I thought about creating some programs to run automation scripts and fill out surveys all day. Then I could setup some proxy programs and make it seem like different people were filling out surveys when actually it would be a network of computers that I own filling out thousand of surveys a day. Sadly this never came to be because it was obviously against the terms of service to try and cheat the system like this not to mention immoral. If I wanted to work from home in a financially stable setting I'd have to find a different path.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Work From Home In - Highschool
So highschool was really my first foray into attempting to create a business from home. I won't say it was completely legal, but I also can't make the claim that it was illegal at the time. So let's get down to the basic underlying idea of what I wanted to do, and still want to do to this day.
THE PLAN:
Create a system that can make money and then be automated to continue making money without my interference. Then grow this system so that I have multiple machines all automating this system together.
Seems like a simple enough plan as a person that can script and program right? Well it wasn't. My original idea was to create a working stock trading bot. I really knew nothing of the market but I figured that if I learn the basics I can create a bot (An automated computer program) to skim off the top of price movements. The idea was to work at home in my pajamas on the weekends setting up these bots and then during the week they would rake in cash while I was in class I'd be making money. Sadly this never came to fruition because I; one, didn't take action; and two, didn't have the programming skills anywhere near capable of creating a bot that complex.
So my next step was to look for something a little simpler. I've always loved video games and I have some experience with scripting a bot for a game called diablo 2. This bot would play the game for me and get items while I was away from my computer. The beauty of this is that, at the time, selling of these items was rampant on ebay. People were making loads of money off running 50+ of these bots all at once and selling the items in huge ebay stores. Now ebay didn't like this so they had to add little clauses like "You are not paying for the item you are paying for the time used to gain the item." In the end it didn't work though. By the time I had a system ready to make me money with these items ebay had completely banned d2 item sales and the game had died so much there wasn't a large amount of money left in it.
What I knew now though is that I obviously had an affinity for programming and I loved video games. Why not just marry the two, create some video games, and become rich. So my next step was to define a plan that could allow me to succeed in becoming an extremely wealthy high end video game developer. As I did some more research though, I learned that game development wasn't really done by a single person anymore. If you wanted to get paid good money you had to get a college degree and work for the much larger development companies and work your way up the ladder. This didn't deter me. I knew if I worked at it I could create a very strong game development career and eventually start my own game studio. This way I could work from home and have an entire company automated for me. All I had to do was steer the ship.
The final step in my highschool career was finding a college that could help me best attain my goal of getting into the game industry. The search for colleges was on!
THE PLAN:
Create a system that can make money and then be automated to continue making money without my interference. Then grow this system so that I have multiple machines all automating this system together.
Seems like a simple enough plan as a person that can script and program right? Well it wasn't. My original idea was to create a working stock trading bot. I really knew nothing of the market but I figured that if I learn the basics I can create a bot (An automated computer program) to skim off the top of price movements. The idea was to work at home in my pajamas on the weekends setting up these bots and then during the week they would rake in cash while I was in class I'd be making money. Sadly this never came to fruition because I; one, didn't take action; and two, didn't have the programming skills anywhere near capable of creating a bot that complex.
So my next step was to look for something a little simpler. I've always loved video games and I have some experience with scripting a bot for a game called diablo 2. This bot would play the game for me and get items while I was away from my computer. The beauty of this is that, at the time, selling of these items was rampant on ebay. People were making loads of money off running 50+ of these bots all at once and selling the items in huge ebay stores. Now ebay didn't like this so they had to add little clauses like "You are not paying for the item you are paying for the time used to gain the item." In the end it didn't work though. By the time I had a system ready to make me money with these items ebay had completely banned d2 item sales and the game had died so much there wasn't a large amount of money left in it.
What I knew now though is that I obviously had an affinity for programming and I loved video games. Why not just marry the two, create some video games, and become rich. So my next step was to define a plan that could allow me to succeed in becoming an extremely wealthy high end video game developer. As I did some more research though, I learned that game development wasn't really done by a single person anymore. If you wanted to get paid good money you had to get a college degree and work for the much larger development companies and work your way up the ladder. This didn't deter me. I knew if I worked at it I could create a very strong game development career and eventually start my own game studio. This way I could work from home and have an entire company automated for me. All I had to do was steer the ship.
The final step in my highschool career was finding a college that could help me best attain my goal of getting into the game industry. The search for colleges was on!
Friday, July 1, 2011
Work from home in - What's up with that title?
Hi there everyone. My name is Kaleb. I'm sure most of you are asking what's with the title "Work from home in" ? Well it's fairly simple really. Many people are looking to make a living from their home. People want to make cash online. There are many options when creating a home business online and I'm going to try and relay my story of one of these work from home careers. The title simply relates to all of the people that have used google to try and follow the same path from different locations. Examples - Work from home in Chicago, Work from home in New York, Work from home in Los Angeles.
So let me give you a little background about myself before we delve into my journey towards online business dominance. I'm 21 years old and originally from Michigan but decided to try Chicago when I went to college. I'm a computer programmer working out of a suburb of chicago. Programming can be fun but it can also be very tedious. That is why I've been looking into creating some type of method to make cash online so I'm not forced to work for a boss anymore. I'm also looking for something that will allow me to have total financial freedom. I can't stress to you enough how much I want the ability to live my life free of the worries of bills and other issues related with not having enough money.
Now that I've given you a basic idea of what this blog is about and who I am I think it's time we start getting you up to speed so you can actually follow along with me on my ride to becoming an online powerhouse with no boss and no more financial burdens. I'm hoping that in reading these entries that with my success will come some reader's success who was impressed by my story and wanted to become financial free themselves.
Ok, now down to the nitty gritty. I suppose I'll lay out the basic timeline of what I've tried so far up until now.
The timeline of Kaleb's effort to achieve financial freedom:
High school (The belief that video games could make me rich)
College (The continued belief but to a different end)
Post College (My efforts to become a master stock trader)
Continued post college (The want to become an affiliate marketer)
A little more post college madness (My new goal is to become not an affiliate marketer but an online business owner)
I'm going to do my best to further flesh out this timeline before I start posting updates on how I'm currently doing. I believe each of the events in the timeline I've just created should get their own blog entry because they are all very pivotal in allowing me to get to where I am today.
I just want to say one last thing before I finish this introductory post. I'm not guaranteeing that my path will be short and legendary, but I do promise that I won't stop until I've reached my goal. I'm a driven person and that's what you have to be in this world if you want to achieve anything worth having in life.
Ok without any further delay let's get on with it. Here's to both of our continued success. Good luck in whatever you pursue in life.
So let me give you a little background about myself before we delve into my journey towards online business dominance. I'm 21 years old and originally from Michigan but decided to try Chicago when I went to college. I'm a computer programmer working out of a suburb of chicago. Programming can be fun but it can also be very tedious. That is why I've been looking into creating some type of method to make cash online so I'm not forced to work for a boss anymore. I'm also looking for something that will allow me to have total financial freedom. I can't stress to you enough how much I want the ability to live my life free of the worries of bills and other issues related with not having enough money.
Now that I've given you a basic idea of what this blog is about and who I am I think it's time we start getting you up to speed so you can actually follow along with me on my ride to becoming an online powerhouse with no boss and no more financial burdens. I'm hoping that in reading these entries that with my success will come some reader's success who was impressed by my story and wanted to become financial free themselves.
Ok, now down to the nitty gritty. I suppose I'll lay out the basic timeline of what I've tried so far up until now.
The timeline of Kaleb's effort to achieve financial freedom:
High school (The belief that video games could make me rich)
College (The continued belief but to a different end)
Post College (My efforts to become a master stock trader)
Continued post college (The want to become an affiliate marketer)
A little more post college madness (My new goal is to become not an affiliate marketer but an online business owner)
I'm going to do my best to further flesh out this timeline before I start posting updates on how I'm currently doing. I believe each of the events in the timeline I've just created should get their own blog entry because they are all very pivotal in allowing me to get to where I am today.
I just want to say one last thing before I finish this introductory post. I'm not guaranteeing that my path will be short and legendary, but I do promise that I won't stop until I've reached my goal. I'm a driven person and that's what you have to be in this world if you want to achieve anything worth having in life.
Ok without any further delay let's get on with it. Here's to both of our continued success. Good luck in whatever you pursue in life.
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