Mar 14 2008
Creativity in Making Money
All too often you find someone searching out that one answer that should exist- how to make money. However, the answer is not always easy to find. This person will search and search until they finally understand a simple thing. This my friend is the first thing you must learn when beginning to make money on your own.
Working for someone else usually has a lasting affect on the way you know how to make money. Every week, two weeks, or month you receive a paycheck for a certain amount and that is reassuring. Whether you had worked yourself to death that month, or not really at all doesn’t matter too much. You have actually learned that instead of working to your full potential, you can set engines to half speed and you’ll still accomplish the same thing in the end.
To make money by yourself, you have to break this work pattern. You have to understand that you cannot use the same rules you had used all these years to make money, but instead have to flex your creative muscle in order to make this money.
Have you noticed why you only hear that money is easy to make if you are paying for the information. On the other hand, if you go to a blog on the internet with free information, you will read the opposite. This is because creating means of making money takes… creativity… As you know, anything that takes creativity is often thought of as difficult. I’m not saying that making money cannot be difficult, but you have to weigh your options accordingly. What is more difficult? Working for 20 years and realizing your work has not given you much in return. Or trying, failing, trying, failing, succeeding and finally establishing a means of making money that will give you much more- skills to repeat the process, unlimited potential, to say a few…
What Not to do
Searching out, “make quick money,” or, “get rich quick,” books will get you nowhere and quick. These books are usually (99.97% of the time) designed to lead you in circles. They are also most often based on out dated concepts that have already been used over and over again until they are no longer effective. Before you spend money on this information, ask yourself the following:
- If this information is worth a million dollars, why is the author selling it… and for $14.95?
- Was this information easy to find? If the information was very easy to find, imagine all the other people like you who have already read it…
- If the author really has made a large sum of money so that he doesn’t have to work, why is he writing an e-book and selling it for X amount of money? However, there are some legitimate e-books with authors who really have made a lot of money. But don’t expect them to tell you all of their secrets.
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The three examples here are so true. How can you purchase a $Million worth of information for $14.95? How can the information be so special if everyone has easy access to it? Why is the author selling this special information instead of just implementing the principals?
Could this be an example of “If you can’t do it, teach it”? What happened to “lead by example”?
Having been around the business block a few times, I would suggest these are great times for the small business person. For the first time in history a person with a few dollars and a lot of ingenuity can put up a website or blog and compete with the major corporations. The website, and especially the blogs, are in my opinion great equalizers and are now leveling the playing field. The internet revolution opens the door for large potential with minimal capital requirements.
If your site looks professional and successful it will attract customers, and the expense for marketing is relatively small. There are hundreds, or maybe thousands, of examples of people starting last year and they now have 50,000 people traffic per month coming to their website or blog. That number will probably be 100,000 next year. With that many people coming into your store each month you can surely sell them something. (I believe a website or a blog is a store)
So, anyone inclined can change their life with the tools readily available. Deliver quality products or information, be concerned about your customer satisfaction, and basically do a good job and the dollar will follow. Wow your customers or readers with exceptional service. And especially, develop a successful attitude and positive outlook in everything that you do. If you don’t currently feel that way about yourself, fake it until you make it.
It is all about attitude. Not to wear out Henry Ford’s quote, “If you think you can, or if you think your can’t, you are right”, but it is true.
I hope this comment was not off-topic? But they say, if you feel it, just say it.
Not off topic at all. I agree with you your thoughts on business entirely. If you have the will, you will undoubtedly find a way.
Also, your comments about, “leveling the playing field,” are very interesting. All it takes is an idea and the passion to pursue it.
Now that I think about it, hasn’t the world always been this way (pre-internet revolution days) in an entrepreneurial sense. The internet is making it easier, but only if you open your eyes and see the tools in front of you. If you read about successful men and women in history then you will notice that they all had an extreme passion for what they do. Many of them were thrown into life with little to no support and life looked dismal to the people around them. Instead of letting their environment classify or categorize them, they chose to define world around them with their dreams.