Get Rich Slowly!

Wealth- it's a learning thing! I have now finished reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and I'm busy re-reading it, making notes on key points. If you've not read it, and you want to get a true insight as to how the wealthy make and keep their wealth, or even if you want to work smarter and not harder- I'd say this book is essential reading!

I also picked up a copy of Richard Branson's book "Screw It, Let's do it!" - it's a slim book in large print designed of people with a reading age between 9-12 years old, though not aimed at kids- aimed at adults with reading difficulties. Understandably, it's written in simple language, but it does show how, even as a child, Richard Branson loved a challenge. His drive to succeed and sheer guts is what makes him so successful. I can see some sort of thread running through the life stories of wealthy and successful people.

What is important to remember, is that getting things wrong and failing is part of becoming successful. It's how you handle the failure that makes the difference. Many entrepreneurs have gone broke and failed many times before they finally work out the formula to their success. It's their ability to see failures as valuable lessons and keep going that makes them different from most other people.

Very few people get rich quickly- their early attempts where they fail are bot newsworthy, it's a mistake to think that great wealth comes very quickly- unless by inheriting it. Just as a baby tries to walk and falls thousands of times before learning to walk- we need to be able to learn that "falling" is part of the process.

Leveridge and surfing control!

I will keep this a entry brief and to the point, not least because I have decided to limit myself to three hours of internet a day whilst at home! Either you know why or you may wonder why.. well, to find that it's now 10pm and you haven't eaten is pretty scary- many of you may be painfully aware that the internet can swallow up many hours of your day.

By restricting my internet time I hope that my surfing will be more productive and that i can re gain a social life! Already this has started to work as yesterday I put quite a few items on Ebay and Amazon for sale. I now eat at a reasonable time and I have actually started to read some of the ebooks I've downloaded rather simply accumulate them without looking at them.

Todays surfing was part pleasure and part focussed learning. I have managed to avoid youtube and I took advantage of a bonus offered by a bookie to do some more matched betting - I give the outline of this on my magic money mini site http://www.squidoo.com/magicmoney

Part of this change is from reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad and starting to look at what assets and liabilities I have. Time is most definitely an asset and wasting too much of it generates poor habits which will undo any attempts by me to build an online income.

The discipline also forces me to lever my time to be more productive- and allows me time to read some of the ebooks which may well help me do this!

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Make money with your ASSETS

I have just been reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, as well as being a fascinating story, it makes it clear how the rich deal get rich and the poor remain poor. The author had two fathers- one was an academic who worked hard for a living but was always having to work harder to keep up payments on his house, his son's education etc. The other father was a self made wealthy man who made his money work for him.

Personally I feel that providing reasonable pay and conditions for employees and taking care of the environment are important, too. However, the principal of not relying solely on your job for income and security I think is very wise. For true security you need to recognise and build up your assets so that you make your money work hard for you, so you can have a safety net if your income as an employee were to stop. In these times, employment can suddenly change or even stop.

It is increasingly important to build a multi-stream income and the internet makes this much easier than it used to be. For example, this blog has links to my mini-sites where I can make a small income from referrals to cashback sites and from sales of books on Amazon. At the moment this is a tiny passive income as it takes a while for people who I've referred to build up enough points on the cashback sites to trigger my affiliate income.

I am still learning ways to build traffic to my sites, in other words- this is my on-line income education and I can experiment without it costing any money and I stand to make money in the long run.

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What do you do to promote?

In this blog I will share with you some of the tactics I use to promote myself and my mini websites etc to people.

You can pay lots of money to get someone to do SEO (site engine optimization) and for pay to click advertising- this may work for you and, if you're short on time, may be what you need. There is, however an alternative. There are an ever growing number of vehicles to drive traffic to your web site or blog. Most of them are free, and, if used correctly will drive traffic to you in a viral way once set up.

If you have been to any of my mini sites- you will see that I used a great micro site called squidoo- it's FREE, fun and easy to set up. You can do it in stages and add content as you go- linking to your Ebay sales or Amazon affiliate links, also, squidoo share the Google advertising revenue they make with you- it's a no-brainer- you can only do well with squidoo. Here's my link, and remember, it's FREE!
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Facebook is a great social networking site and has great potential to drive traffic to your website, especially if you create a group targeted at what your website is selling, here's one of my facebook groups
It's growing slowly, but it is better to have a targeted list of people than a big list of disinterested ones.

With facebook- you can join similar groups and post comments- adding a link to your own facebook group. Do, however, provide good content rather than just spamming, this is frowned upon and ends up just annoying people.

There is also the mighty You Tube where you can post videos of yourself or share videos with other people. This is a real goldmine for free marketing- think of something that will "go viral" (in other words will get forwarded to lots of people who will keep expanding your advert for you).

Here's my
You Tube channel
As I currently don't have a camera I simply use windows movie maker to produce simple videos or I upload videos i find on the internet. When I get a camera set up, I will upload videos with me speaking- you need to form a relationship with your potential audience is the current thinking in marketing.

Well, I hope this has been helpful for you, I will continue to share some tips with you next time..