It’s nice to hear from you.

If you remember, we talked recently about some financial trouble I was having. I’m very happy to say that it worked out well temporarily. However the bank has rescheduled the auction so I’m still working to raise the rest of the money.

That’s why I bought your ebook – I’m having a hard time coming up with products to sell and I thought that this might be just the thing. I read a little over half of it last night and was just getting ready to read the rest of it and then put it into action.

I’m thinking about setting up a firesale if I can get a good enough product lineup. The firesale format seems like the best format to raise the most money, the fastest.

It would be so much easier if I didn’t have to come up with so much all at once. I’ve known for quite awhile what to do to make money online – but I only just recently realized that. I was in learning mode for way too long because I didn’t think I knew what to do – I did but I didn’t know it.

I wish I would’ve realized that I knew enough to build a business much sooner and I could have avoided the problem with the bank completely.

Now I’m stuck trying to figure out how to condense everything into a very short time frame instead of being able to build a business like it should be built.

Well – I’m not completely dense – I’ve learned a lot from all of this and when I get through the problem with the bank I’ll be building my business like I should have been doing all along.

I would also dearly love to help other people in my situation – it’s not a fun place to be and truth be told is actually downright scary (if you let yourself think about it much).

After I get through this I’m going to come up with some way to help – partly because it feels like the right thing to do and partly because it would just feel good to do something against the banks that are foreclosing on everyone now – what they’re doing is not right – at all.

Gonna go finish reading your ebook now – thanks Laura!

Have a Wonderful Afternoon,
Lynn

I’m not sure you’re in a minority or that it’s due to your age group. While it is true that many younger people are very comfortable with the computer and surfing the web, there are just as many who don’t know what HTML, PHP, FTP, mySQL or POP3 are.

Furthermore it seems every one of us is overwhelmed and distracted by ‘the next big thing’ – it’s a lesson we all had to learn at some point, to turn off the noise and focus on just one order of online business at a time. (I purposely won’t check my email for 2 days at a time when I’m working on a new project – that way I can be sure to get the job done. We all have to find our own ‘magic’ for keeping the distractions out of our way.)

To be honest I think the largest obstacle for you would be the available time to allot to learning the ropes of online business when you’re faced with changing hats throughout the day. People who are learning about online business have time to surf and ask questions and seek assistance to the problems that stump them.

There is no doubt in my mind that you will be able to introduce a business online when you retire and have more time to become comfortable with your computer and web tools.

Truly, Laura

p.s. to any marketers creating products teaching how to start an online business please take note – David is a fine example of who your next customer may be.

I’ve been a wannabe for the past 5 years attempting to make a buck with internet marketing and seem to lack direction, and buy things I never get to test, even now.

I guess the first question that raises is: “Am I naive in the ways of business?”

Truly I don’t think so. I have been in business for over 30 years and have even been a director of a listed company. Today I run a successful finance business with offices in the three major cities of Australia. – I do not rely upon my internet activities but as I approach retirement I would like to use it as a hobby.

This means that my internet activities are limited to an hour a day before the sun comes up and a little extra time at the weekend. – With my experience I should be able to plan my time and allocate it. The truth is that I find too many distractions online that I don’t find with offline business. These distractions take my focus away from my goal and I find I’m forever chasing the next big thing and never mastering it.

My computer skills are not good and I know this isn’t helpful. However,what I do find is that everything that is sold assumes the buyer has a greater
understanding of computers than I. So I follow instructions carefully until I come to something I don’t understand and there the project stops.

I understand that I’m in a minority having grown up in the steam age rather the the internet age but I can also quote an old commanding officer from my
army days instructing his clerk as follows: “When you write battalion orders think of the battalion idiot and write so that he will understand. That way everybody understands.” I believe some of our gurus missed out on advice like that.

Hope this is some interest.

Very best wishes,
Dave

True enough. It is work, but if we pick the right topics or markets it becomes a labor of love. In retrospect I realize that such was the case for me – and why sometimes it seems so ‘easy’ or, at times, ‘fast’ (time flies when you’re having fun).

On the other hand I’ve chosen markets in the past that I had no interest in, but knew there was money to be made there – and dragged my feet daily to the computer.

Work and doing is much more rewarding and lucrative when your heart’s in it.

As I was thinking about ‘working’ or ‘trying’ this morning and why some florish while others flounder, James Ray sent me a quote:

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates

My wish is that life for all of us wasn’t so darn busy today and we had more time to examine our hearts and desires.

Laura

Great posts. I’m in full agreement. As Yoda in Star Wars says, “Do or do not… there is no try.”

And yet so many people are trying to make money from the Internet.

It’s work and doing that’s required then one day you get to work from home and take holidays when you please.

Jim

Both Marlon and Perry have let us know exactly why this is not the case.

Thanks, Laura, for posting two such essential wake-up calls.