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Like a lot of online marketers, you might be doing this part-time while working a full time job. You might only have a few hours a day to work your business. So what can you do to have success in online marketing while working a full-time job?

I understand that it is not easy to work your full-time job and your online marketing business part time and still find time to spend with your family. Family time is very important and should never be neglected. You should also be able to find time to relax and do the things you like to do. I always find time to play golf during the weekend.

So How Can I Have Success Marketing Online Part Time?

If you only have a few hours a day to work your online marketing business, then you need to utilize paid marketing strategies such as PPC, Ezines, and Solo Ads along with free marketing strategies such as blogging and Video Marketing. Since you have a full time job you don’t really have a lot of time to only use free marketing strategies, but you might have some money to invest in paid strategies to help get your business off the ground faster.

I recommend that you budget a certain amount of money each month for paid strategies. But before you start spending your money on paid strategies, you might want to take a courses to learn how to effectively use those paid strategies.

If you wanted to do solo ads for example, you might want to take a course or two in copy writing to learn how to grab the reader’s attention. Here are two courses that I recommend:

1. Copy Writers Guild

2. Email Promos Exposed

Learning those important skills can make the difference between someone opening your email or just deleting it from their inbox.

What Can I do While Learning Copy Writing Skills?

If you feel that your copy writing skills needs work, but want to start marketing your business today, you can have your solo ads written for you for a fee. There are sites such as scriptlance.com where you can have a solo written for you for a reasonable price.

There is also a site I have recently started to use, which is MyWizardAds.com . MyWizardAds.com offers a variety of services for reasonable prices. You can have Articles and solo Ads Written for you and they also submit your ads to different Ezine and Solo Ad Services.

There are many other solo Ad Services out there, but you want to be careful when selecting them. Solo Ad services that tell you that you will get guaranteed traffic are probably the ones you should avoid since most of the time the traffic is artificial. You can also use the online marketing forms to get ideas on what solo ad services are right for you.

If this blog post helped you out or if you have any additional tips on how to work part time from home while working a full-time job, feel free to comment below.

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Can I Make Money Trading Stocks?

Making money in the stock market is possible if you know what you are doing. You have to pick the right company and be willing to risk a lot of money to make a decent profit. People who have invested in stocks like Apple and Google early have reaped the benefits of 100% + in Gains.

However, investing in a stock that will grow 100%+ in a short period of time is not easy to do. You never know if a particular stock will appreciate 10 fold or go to zero.  You will have to risk a lot of money to make an income to support yourself.  The money that you risk should be money that you can afford to lose.

Let’s say you pick a stock that could grow 25% in a month if you are lucky. In order to make a $10,000 gain you would have to risk $40,000 in a stock hoping that it will grow 25% in a month. That is a lot of money to risk and if the stock goes belly up that 40K will become 0 in a heart beat.

Trading Methods

Day trading is a method that involves buying stocks and holding them for less than a day. Day traders can hold onto a particular stock for a few minutes to a few hours. They buy and sell multiple stocks every day. Day trading is considered to be very risky since most of the time stocks are being traded on borrowed money. Day Traders also have to keep a minimum of $25,000 in the account by law. It requires a lot of skill and nerves of steel.

People can also trade stocks Swing trading, which is buying a stock at its low and selling a stock at its high. Swing Traders usually hold onto a stock for multiple days waiting for a stock to reach its peak. This is not as risky and nerve wracking as day trading since you would give a stock more time to recover.

Long Term investing involves holding a stock for long period of time, usually for more than a year. Most of the time people will put their money into company stocks that are stable and pay out dividends. They will usually invest more money into the stock over time especially if it goes lower in value for a short period of time knowing that it will recover over the long run. People can make good money by investing long term if the stock continues to go up in value over time.

Investing and Trading Stocks requires a lot of research and knowledge about the market and a substantial amount of capital to make any significant money. I have tried making money in the stock market but I discovered that unless I invested in a stock that appreciated 100% or more, I would have to risk a lot of money.

Alternatives to Trading Stocks

I do trade stocks, but it is not my recommended method for making money in the short term. I prefer making money in a business that involves a low cost of $200 a month or less and where you can make five to six figures a month. Making $10,000 a month in a business that costs $200 a month is a $5,000% return on investment. I would prefer to invest only $200 and make $10,000 than to risk $40,000 to make $10,000. It just makes more sense to me.

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Should I go to College or Start a Home Business?

This blog post is for anyone who is thinking about going to college whether you are a senior in high school or just recently graduated or are years out of high school and want to further your education. I am not trying to discourage anyone from going to college. I attended college after graduating from high school and earned my four year bachelors degree in accounting.

Luckily I was able to do it without getting into debt since I went to a Cal State University. I remember tuition being around $1,500 a semester ($3,000 a year) and books about another $600 a semester. I was curious to find out how much tuition had gone up since I graduated from college in 2005 and saw that it was around $6,100 a year, which had more than doubled since I left. That is still cheap compared to other universities in the country.

However since it is so cheap compared to other universities people are having a difficult time getting into the university and once they are in the university struggle to find all the classes they need for the semester. It takes most students 5 to 6 years to graduate because of the shortage of classes. And California State Budget cuts are not helping out either. Most people have decided to just take on a large amount of debt and go to private universities to avoid all that hassle.

The cost of college tuition keeps going up every year. The Average annual college tuition at a private university is well over $25,000. This does not include room and board and overpriced textbooks. Most students that go to college during those four years accumulate so much debt that it takes them years to pay it back. Its like having a mortgage with no house to show for it.

For the past three years, people have been graduating from college just to find that there are no jobs available for what they majored in. Many of them are left with hundreds of thousands of dollars of student loans working for minimum wage at places like McDonalds and Walmart. Many of them have moved back with their parents since they are not able to afford living on their own.

If you are lucky, you might be able to find a job that pays $40,000 or more. However, people are barely able to get by on that kind of income due to taxes, student loan payments and the rising cost of living. Food and Gas Prices have been going through the roof and putting a tighter squeeze on peoples income. More and more people are having less money to put away for retirement. Social security will probably not be around when you reach 65 if you are a 20, 30 or even 40 something so most people will have to work until the day they die.

In my opinion, going to college just to get deeply into debt and to get a job that pays you barely enough to get by is insane. If I were starting over, I would consider starting a home based business in the network marketing industry and learning what I needed to learn to have success in the industry.

I would not need to get myself into a tremendous amount of debt to get started in a business and to educate myself about prospecting and marketing online. I am currently involved in a business that costs me less than $300 to get started and less than $100/ a Month.

There are many people who are making over $50,000 a year in the business that I am in. Some of them are making 6 and 7 figures a year. It just depends on how much you want to get out of it. This is a lot better than working for someone else since this income is residual meaning that you will get paid for the work you put in years down the road. You just couldn’t do this working for someone else.

I have Posted This Video that I saw recently about the College Conspiracy.

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In This Video Robert Kiyosaki Discusses why Network Marketing is the best business model for people who want to build wealth and have financial freedom:

Why You Should Avoid Pre-Launch MLM Companies

Everyday there is a new MLM company going into pre-launch. Most People who get started in pre launch companies are miss lead. They are told that the best companies to get into are ground floor opportunities and that they need to get in before everyone else does.

The statistics of start up MLM companies is not very promising. About 95 percent of them will not make it to their 5th anniversary. Only a hand full of them have made it past the 10 year mark. There are only a few that I know that have made it past 10 years.

Most startup companies will fail because they have poor management and lousy overpriced products that no one wants to buy. For example in one juice MLM, it costs over $100 for a month supply of juice. No one wants to buy something that they could buy for the fraction of the price at the supermarket. The only reason they would buy it is for the requirements of running that business.

That juice company was doing well in their first five years, but now they are falling apart and most of those reps are seeing their commissions checks getting smaller and smaller each month. This is because many people have been cutting back on their expenses due to the recent economic melt down and are finding more affordable companies to be involved in.

If the company has poor management, then they will have a hard time keeping the company in tact and paying commissions to their reps. Most of those companies are started by people who were involved in other MLM companies instead of people who have had real world business experience.

Instead of getting started with a pre lauch company, you should consider companies that have solid track records, affordable products that people would use even if they did not grow the business and solid management. It is recommended that you look into companies that are at least 5 years old and that have products that are reasonably priced especially if the products are those that people use on a daily basis. In addition, the management should have experience in large fortune 500 companies like Proctor and Gamble. Not a management team with just MLM experience.


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