Don't Work Until You're Seventy!

I believe that we all have dreams. I know I do. I am still working a JOB, but am closer to becoming full time in Internet marketing. How about you? Are you pursuing your dreams?

We baby boomers are really taken advantage of. We have been brainwashed into believing that there is no other way but to work work work until we are seventy or more!! Well it doesn’t have to be that way, I promise.

Yes, we must learn to think outside the box. And that is more difficult than you may think at times. Why? Because of fear. Oh my, what if I fail? or What if I am not good enough? or What if I look silly? or What will my friends think?

Well don’t tell them, and Of course you are good enough, and you will fail, at least in the beginning. There is a learning curve, which is only reasonable.

I have been a nurse for nearly 40 years. You bet I was afraid. I didn’t want to feel stupid. I was way outside my comfort zone. But you know what I am pretty tired of the same old thing. I am getting older now and really need to slow down physically, and
my brain is thriving on Internet marketing. I love it!!

I want you to love it too. There is no reason not to.  Don’t give up. Keep working at it.

Find someone that is already doing it right. Is already successful, and genuinely seems interested in your success and is willing to help. Then copy what they do. It really is a simple formula. I used to use it in nursing. You’ve heard of mentoring. I have mentored so many people I can’t count. But I also had the most terrific mentors along the way.

I want you to be successful in Internet marketing and quit your JOB, maybe in a few months or maybe a couple years. But when you are ready, and you have found your success you will do it. Me too

Today I a for your list, as a giveaway from your site or to attract subscribers. You can even sell it if you like. However you must not change it in anyway.

It is: How To Break Into The ‘How To Make Money Online’ Niche By Sara Brown (who is, BTW, one of my mentors)

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

It is amazing what you will learn in this book. The main thing is not to be intimidated and to not listen to all those people, gurus, that try to convince you can not do something. Well you can and this great e book will tell you how.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Also take a look at the other e book offered inside this

e book. It is one of the books that have most heavily influenced my decision to replace my income with Internet marketing and even more!

It is called ‘License to Quit’ by Sara Brown, You must check it out. It is worth your time. You won’t regret it. I didn’t.

http://www.jskmarketing.com/howtomakemoneyonline.pdf

Well until next time.

Get to marketing!!

Susan

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It’s really rather remarkable what kind of distractions can get in the way of your focus. You sit down to your computer and you have planned several hours of specific tasks you want to complete toward your internet business. You even have a list!

Then you open your email. Wow, you say, I have 79 new e-mails. Yikes. Of course, you did just join that latest giveaway and they had some great free downloads and all you had to do was give them your email address. That’s pretty simple.

So now you are on their lists. And they want you to buy something… anything!  The next greatest and latest, the best must have thing for your new internet business. Well, what are you to do? What if they are right? What if some of the stuff they are selling really would help you in some endeavor you are aspiring to? What if it might save you some time or effort? What if it really would let you become successful? Afterall, you do have a limited budget for growing your business.

So…you start opening and reading and clicking…

what do you mean 4 hours have passed!! I must get dinner, the kids will be home from school, the dog needs to be let out.

How could this have happened. I had a list!

Sound familiar. Well it certainly does to me. This has happened to me over and over. I love those giveaways and I have been around long enough to have gotten on a few lists that keep me informed of the next one coming. It’s free! You have to check it out.

Or do you?

Here is my take on this. There are just a few things you must do to make money on line.

• You need a product, be it yours, an affiliate’s or google’s (adsense)
• You need a way of contacting people, be it a blog, a website, email campaigns
• you need people to sell it to

These are the essentials, albeit extremely oversimplified.

So you know you have an idea of what you need to to do to accomplish this, remember you had a list, but distractions are killing your efforts. Day after Day, and week after week and soon month after month of your precious time away from diner, the kids and the dog keep slipping away and you are no closer to your dream of working from home.

What can you do?

Well there is something you can do. It took awhile, but I finally learned this and it has made a huge difference in my online life.

You must be aware you are being distracted!

That’s it! That’s the big secret! All the internet gurus know this secret, but they will not necessarily share it with you. They figure you’ll probably figure it out but until then they will continue to be part of the distraction.

So are you going to ignore your email. Tape it shut with duct tape so it can’t get you again. No, of course not. But…

Have a plan…a little better than a list. Here’s what I do.

1. I plan my time to do my online work every week just like a real work schedule.
2. I share this plan with my family. I, of course, made the plan with home life in mind so that no one is neglecte, not even the dog,  and everyone in the family can help me be successful by respecting the plan.
3. When I sit down to my block of time to work online, I have a designated 30-45 min of time to look at email. Now this means peruse. If you have 79 new emails. YOU MUST NOT LOOK AT ALL 79! You are going to have to good at glancing through them, prioritizing them and looking at the ones you feel are really important or interesting. You can always come back to this later and continue to clean it up while you are watching TV with the family with your laptop in use.
4. Here is where you list comes in. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. Let me repeat that. Nothing feels as good as being able to check things off your list. You feel like you are really internet marketing. You feel like this really is important and you are doing something toward your freedom from the JOB. You are really working from home. IT IS GREAT! Try it!
5. Work your allotted time for the day. Check off a thing or two from your list. Stand up feel proud and go cook dinner and oh, let the dog out.

Feel really good about yourself. You did it! You worked at your internet marketing business. You know you can’t help but be successful if you can behave as a professional and take your work seriously.

Give this a real concerted effort. You may not be perfect at it for awhile. It is really hard to get away from the email and distractions and it takes a minute for the family to fall inline. But it will happen. I promise. It did for me. It will for you.

Next time we’ll talk a bit about that next great thing, that must have something or other. Until then, please be good to yourself and keep working to quit your JOB.

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You need to understand that I am still employed. I really hate that, I’d rather be a full time Internet marketer. But in this day and age I am really grateful to have a job. So many people are finding themselves out of work after devoting so much of their lives to something and then, poof, they are on the line.

Well the point of telling you that is that I have only a certain amount of time that I can devote to my online business and that is one of the factors that can really sink you in the water.

You must be able to prioritize your life. You have to clean your house, do the laundry and do the shopping and if you have kids, well is there any end to it? See what I mean? Throw an actually JOB on top of all that and you can become undone.

The problem of working from home is that everything else becomes more important and demands your attention more than you “work”, and if something is going to be cut it is going to be your online work.

It’s a fact! I am living proof of this phenomenon. It doesn’t matter if you are male or female. The fact is you can only do so much with your 24 hours.

People won’t take your work seriously until you do.

Think about this. If we didn’t have our JOB’s and we were dependent on our online work for our income, how would you react then?  Do you see what I mean?

We MUST treat our online work as a business that can and does make us money. Otherwise we will always figure out a way to do something else and maybe fit this in someway or other. But without having a set pattern and an aggreement with ourselves and also our families,  that we will work this many hours on these days, no matter what!, we will find success extremely difficult.

Now of course, later when we are established and doing well, we can afford the luxury of being more relaxed and lenient with ourselves.  But not in the beginning.

I only just learned this in the last few weeks.  I was having serious information overload and reading so much that I felt like I could only chase my own tail.  I was never getting anything accomplished.

Well no more! I have  exercised some discipline in my efforts. I have organized my inbox so that I can look at things of interest when it is the appropriate time. Not when I need to get some things accomplished today. Do you see what I mean?

So make a contract with your self. Set up a schedule. Decide what you want to do and DO IT!

To our success,

Susan

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Hi all,

I have done a huge amount of research on Google AdSense.  It has been suggested that this is the first and best way to get started making money online. I did so much research into how to do it, what was needed and where to get it, that I compiled it all into an e book. You can get a FREE download of Google Adsense for Baby Boomers by clicking on the link.

Anyway, you can see that I have put into practice what I learned. I am currently building a website that will be my home base for my new business.  Oh! that is another thing I learned.  Having a website although not essential, is very helpful. We are striving to make a living on the internet so it would be very helpful to have an internet presence.  The next thing you need is a Blog. Because it is essential for driving traffic to your site.

It all sounds so complicated and overwhelming. Well I’m not going to lie to you. It can be. but again, one thing at a time. I have discovered if I will  just devote my block of time, to accomplishing one thing at a time. I can keep moving forward.  I have put some excellent resources in my e book about  traffic and building web sites, check it out. Remember it is FREE.

till next time,

Susan

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That is what this blog is all about. Hello, my name is Susan. I am a baby boomer. Born in 1952. A great year! I’ll bet we all have those “remember when” stories, I do. What did you used to watch on TV, that doesn’t even get on late night anymore? Who was the president you remember the best from times ago? Where did you go to high school? Did you go to the prom?

You see these are the things that make us baby boomers. Memories of a time gone by. We should all be proud to be of that post war generation. A difficult time our parents suffered through to give us life. I am grateful, aren’t you?

But now it is today 2008. I am 55 years old. I am still working. Really hard work.   I have been working for nearly 40 years. I am a bit tired. I want something else for myself. But…

I have two mortgages, credit card debt and a life style that I enjoy and am not willing to give up. So I continue to work. Cost of living keeps rising. I can’t afford to take a driving vacation anymore because of the expense of gasoline. Food cost keeps rising. Gas and electric are higher than they have ever been. In the city I live in it costs $9.oo just to go to the movies. It used to be $2, remember??

I can’t afford to quit working. I’m too young to collect retirement or social security. But I am a bit tired, (did I mention that already )

So, recently I have begun exploring new ways of thinking. New ways of making money. Attitude changes. Paradigm shifting. I have been doing internet marketing. I should say most of this time (about 6 months) I have been doing internet marketing education.

Unfortunately, you don’t just start doing something with no knowledge base at all. So I started learning. OMG! I have never had more information overload in my life. School for nursing was a bit challenging. Learning how the human body works and why, and then how to fix it. You would think that would be intense, which it was. But this is amazing.

Here is the problem. There are some shysters out there. They are no more interested in your advancing on their turf, than the man in the moon. But they say they are. They say they want to help you and all you need to do is buy this and that and the other thing and in the next week you will be a millionaire too. Well, before you know it you are more broke than you ever were. It is shameful. It is even embarrassing as to how gullible I was.

But finally I got connected to some really awesome people who although they admit they are making a living online, they are also really interested in helping you do the same. It is also amazing how much FREE stuff there is out there to advance your effort.

And you know what I learned from these people. You must care about someone other that just yourself.

So that is what this blog is for. I plan to journal my journey into the world of successful internet marketing. I may make some mistakes but I will become successful. I also plan to share some things with any readers I may have. I have learned a lot. I have some good recommendations and can maybe even help you avoid some of the pitfalls.

You see we have two choices. Keep working until we are seventy. Or get out of the rat race now and start learning something new.

I am getting out!

If you want to comment on anything about baby boomers. Internet marketing, or share your own experiences or things you have found please do. Together we will move forward!

To our success!

Susan

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