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How Would You Like A Free Website?

There are a lot of different ways of setting up an independent income stream. And in these strange times, many people are turning to the internet to find ways to bring in some more income and give themselves more certainty and stability.

What if you’ve never done this before? What if you’re one of the people who grew up before the world went device mad and screen obsessed?

Well there are ways to get started taking simple steps that don’t cost the earth and need you to cut off your right hand to get going.

And three are honest, sincere people out there who started from nowhere and nothing, who have been where you are and who know the needs of not knowing where to go to get out of the trap.

John Thornhill is such a man. I’ve known him for 10 years and watched him build his business. He believes in helping people and giving.

John and his partner, Dave Nicholson, offer a unique place to start.

Each month they give away a free webiste. You can download it for free. They have given you an opportunity to make a start. I quote from their webiste.

“Free Monthly Websites has been one of the leading providers of FREE websites for over TEN YEARS, with over 50,000 people taking advantage of the free website we have offered each and every month. These websites are content rich, cash generating websites that earn you affiliate commissions from multiple affiliate sources.

“So we like to think of this as win, win for everyone, we give you awesome websites that can earn you money, and we earn a little for some of the products you sell via these websites. We feel this is the perfect business setup. So now you know!…

“So now all that’s left for you to do is check out what we can do for YOU. Remember, we will supply you with a FREE, content rich website each and every month, and all you have to do is sign up for FREE below to get yours.
“So we’re giving you the site, instructions how to get the site up and running and we’re also showing you how to drive all the traffic you could possibly need. All 100% FREE!”

If you want to know more, i will post the links so you can find out and take a look for yourself.

There have been a number of different Amazon courses over the last few years, one of them both high profile and high ticket,

There is another one though, that i purchased. It’s called the Proven Amazon Course put together by Jim Cockrum, internet entrepreneur and business man, best-selling author and a sincere and honest man.

I signed up for the course Jim offered and I haven’t regretted it. His is value for money. It’s not some quick brief handful of pages, full of out-of-date information. Jim exchanged in abundance. You get his Amazon selling course. And then some.

Jim adds all his new courses for free to this master course so as he develops new strategies with partners or sees new opportunities as conditions change, he makes this information available to you as well. People have paid for these individual courses by themselves when they first come out, or you can wait till they are added into the Proven Amazon Course in due course.

There is also a wonderful Facebook group where members can ask questions and there are many people with experience who will help out with their know-how as well as friendly and supportive advice. For those who want it there is the possibility of paid coaching from a team of coaches who have proven success.

And the brilliant thing is that it is scalable. So if you just need some extra income to pay for some treats for you or your family, or if you want to build it up to be your main source of income and be your own boss, or even build up a larger sized business, you will find all the ingredients here that you need.

Jim Cockrum and his Proven Amazon Course

Jim Cockrum’s Proven Amazon Course is one of the best value courses you can invest in if you really want success on Amazon. He has built a successful business himself as a seller as well as encouraging and leading others to the success in harnessing the wealth of opportunity available on Amazon to build multiple income streams.

There are may ways to start to build your new future whether you have nothing available to invest except your time, determination and activity and Jim will give you inspiration and guidance from whatever your starting point is. .

He has built a team of like minded hard working and sincere people around him who can be relied on and trusted to help you make progress.

One thing I particularly like about Jim’s Proven Amazon Course (PAC) is that Jim is continuously develloping new strategies and then creating new courses to teach them. You can buy these new courses as standalone courses but he also will later add these courses free of charge to people who have purchased his umbrella course, PAC. I don’t know anyone else who does that.

It is a long time coming but the way forward can be worked out taking one step at a time.

There are several different platforms you can use to build an on-line business. They have different strengths and offer different potentials.

What seems to be one of the best and simplest approaches is to start where you are with what you’ve got and go to eBay. Start selling what you have and get a feel for taking a good photograph, writing a good description, finding out how to get your goods to your buyer and how to collect payment.

Ebay is much more forgiving than Amazon so it’s friendlier place to get your feet wet. Just dip your feet in and go for it.

You don’t need to look far for things to sell.

Amazon is massive and driven. So there are plenty of things to learn on your way to success. The do’s and don’t are something you need to find out and pay attention to.

There are a number of successful sellers and a number of different programs out there which you can buy into to get inside tips and guidance on how to start and grow a successful Amazon business.

Some low budget ones pack a great deal of info into a great community with fabulous support and lifetime updates so don’t disregard them because they don’t start out high-priced and think they are low value.

One of the best is the Proven Amazon Course by Jim Cockrum.

Jim is a veteran of sales, both on-line and off-line.

Education in the Western World

We think that the education of our children is something that takes place in good faith by well-intentioned people who have no other agenda than the betterment of our next generation.

Perhaps it was once so, and perhaps with individuals, it is still the so. There are teachers who believe in the unique value of each child under their care, they believe in the future of the race, they believe in the nurturing and furtherance of the young mind, hoping to develop the best qualities of each individual, in the service of his own life, his future and the family and community he is part of.

But what of the outside forces that shape our education system, introducing labels with stigma attached.

There is the child who is not taught to read with phonics on a step by step basis, building up familiarity and recognition with the sounds and shapes of the letters he is seeing, how to combine, how different combinations are used to show different sounds, shape the way a word is pronounced, shifting its meaning slightly to tell us details such as when the action took place, now or in the far distant past, or still dreamed of in a future time, whether one or more people were involved and so on.

When the child didn’t spend enough time for that child to learn the letters all of the alphabet and know them cold, then is it any surprise that the same child sometimes can’t read a word that begins with a letter he or she can’t recognise.

What would you say? You would probably say the first thing that came into your head when the teacher asked you to read aloud in class. It doesn’t mean the child has dyslexia or has a mental disorder needing a drug to handle it or glasses so he can read.

It just means the child needs to practice recognising the letters of the alphabet a bit more and learn how to put the sounds together with other letters to make the sounds that words are made up of.

It’s a skill learned at school, at the mother’s knee or grandmother’s kitchen table, wherever it takes place. But it needs to take place, in every language with every student if that child is to learn to read and write.

It used to be called “The Three R’s”; Reading, Writing and ‘Rithmetic.

That’s a bit old fashioned nowadays, and sounds a bit boring.

But it’s still the backbone and foundation of a skillset that sets the child up for life.

And no amount of psychobabble or medication will substitute for doing the work and learning the basics.

Where to Start?

There are a lot of opportunities out there to increase your income or to start making an income on line. Sometimes, it seems the problem is not to find a way, a thing to do.

In fact, It’s the opposite. There are so many ways, so many opportunities, it’s hard to know where to start. How to choose? It takes understanding and data in order to decide. Until you do it, you don’t get enough data to make the decision.

Can I make a success of this? Or would that be a better fit ? Well, this is something I am interested in, but now I found out some more about it, I can see it won’t really work with everything else I got going on, but I need to keep going with them so ….. well, what about this? Oh no, that’s just a load of hype. Ok well this looks much better. I’ll look into this.

And before you know it a year or two or even more has gone by. No progress, nothing changed. A lot of ideas, no action. A lot of thinking, a lot of effort, a lot of expense checking things out, a lot of time spent checking things out… a lot of checking out.

One good thing that came of all the checking out is seeing who has stayed the course. Who has made a success, who continues to deliver, who gives value for money, whose methods work, who has won respect, earned a good reputation, who will be here tomorrow.
Names that come up again and again are Jim Cockrum, Skip McGrath, John Thornhill, Stuart Turnbull, Mark Ling.

Jim Cockrum is an experienced Ebay seller who went on to sell on Amazon. He has several training porgrams including the Silent Sales Machine and Proven Amazon Course.

Skip McGrath is another one of the original Ebay sellers. He has been selling on this platform for many years, and also now sells on Amazon, writes a regular newsletter, sells his training program and contributes to others success with advice, tips and wholesale sources for physical products.

John Thornhill joined the ranks of the Ebay legends. He sells and promotes internet marketing programs. His big ticket program is Partnership to Success. He is hard working, sincere, and helpful. The information he includes sets you up to build your own website, products and sales for information products.

Stuart Turnbull has a successful prints and public domain products business, which he shares with others. His is a fun method for a person looking for an additional bit of extra money in a creative way.

You need to work out what you want to do, name it and want it and take action to get it

Education – Some Thoughts About It

Been looking at education recently and seeing what some people of influence had to say about it.

Some amazing and fruitful quotes came to view when googling education and I felt I had to pass some of them on.

One of the best was the words of Martin Luther King, actually Dr Martin Luther King, a Doctor of Diviinity, a civil rights leader, an American man of colour as we would now say, who obviously thought long and hard about a great many things in his struggle to overcome segregation and racial prejudice in America. In his consideration

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.”

He became a spokesman for more than the black civil rights movement. He became a leader of men on the world stage as these words show from his Nobel Peace prize acceptance speech in Oslo, 1964.

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.”
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964

So when talking about books and reading, and why we should teach little children to read and let them keep them at it, I came across this little priceless nugget of insight from another great voice of America. This time Oprah Winfrey, the talk host show, Number 2 on the Forbes list of the 10 Top Richest Self Made Women at an estimated 3.1 billion fortune.

“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”

Well that is certainly a shift of viewpoint. She grew up on a small farm, with her grandmother, where they grew everything. There were no shopping trips to town.

Oprah has this to say about herself.

“I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who, from an early age, knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.”

And so this brings me to another completely different story from the opposite end of the spectrum.

This is the incredibly inspiring story of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest Nobel Peace prize winner at the age of 17, in 2014. Malala was born in Pakistan where her father was an educator and had a school. Malala wanted to learn, and become educated which was not something the Taliban were in favour of.

Malala also had been blogging for the BBC since 2009 about life and conditions under the Taliban regime. This was not popular with them either.

One day on her way to school, some Taliban soldiers got on the bus taking her and her friends to school and asked which of the girls on the bus was Malala. When she was identified, she was shot at close range in the head. Miraculously, she did not die. She was flown to Birmingham in the United Kingdom, where doctors operated on her more than once to save her life. She is now living in the United Kingdom with her family and pursuing her education. Her story went viral and she rose to become a person of influence and speaker about matters of concern for her.

Malala was awarded the Nobel Peace prize for her actions her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. She shared the prize with Kailash Satyarthi.

She has this to say about her experiences.

“I don’t want to be remembered as the girl who was shot. I want to be remembered as the girl who stood up.

The one thing she said that I love best of all is this statement.

“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.

And so to close, these profound words.

“Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book.”

“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”

Who wants to increase their income?

For many people who want to earn some extra income, one of the most confusing things is where to start. How to find out what will work for them with their budget and time constraints, their lifestyle and commitments. And how to do this quickly so that they can get on with earning that much needed extra income now, not next year.

The internet is one of the best opportunities and one of the best opportunities on the internet is selling on line. Whatever your age, your education, your location or circumstances, this presents a possibility to get started small, and build up a little or a lot depending on how far you want take it, how much you need to earn.

For some people, selling physical products represents an ideal and simple way to move forward, while still maintaining their existing activities and all without adding a lot of overheads, or outlay. There are stories of pensioners and grandmas making good on line as well as teenagers and college students and a healthy number of stay-at-home mums and single parents who turn their hands to online business built out of hours when the kids are asleep or at school.

There are several places on line where someone can start selling. Here are some of them: Ebay, Etsy, Amazon, Salehoo, Ebid, Ruby Lane to mention some of them.

I’ll be taking a look at some of these opportunities over the next few weeks and writing about what I find.

More About Amazon

Starting out by selling on Amazon or Ebay is one of the simplest ways to get started making extra income on line. If you get familiar with it and find it suits you, there are a lot of opportunities and ways to scale it up depending on how much income you want to make. What makes it so attractive is that it can be done from almost anywhere in the country anywhere in the world. You can fit it around your other time committments. And you can get yourself up and running with little start up costs and scale up as time and resources and needs change.

That being said it, it is also worth getting helpful and useful advice from those who have been there, done it and are willing to pass on their valuable experience and know-how.

Amazing Selling Machine is a high end training programme which will kickstart you on Amazon into stratospheric levels. Unfortunately, it has just closed its doors on its current training class.  However, it’s not for every one as the training course itself is expensive and there are other costs you need to cover to get the programme rolling as you go through the training steps.

At the other end of the spectrum, there are four people who come to mind who offer excellent training on Amazon at a fraction of the price. All are personally successfull. All have excellent reputations as honest, trustworthy individuals as well as their excellent reputations for producing effective quality training programmes that will teach you the skills and know how to become successful. Some have additional back up support with forum, facebook groups, one-on-one mentoring sessions available.

Over the next few days, I will be writing about some other low cost, effective Amazon training programs which will get you up and running as a seller online on Amazon.

The eBook University

Came across something different today. It’s called eBook University and is the inspiration of Phil Gosling.

Phil has a wealth of experience in making success in the home publishing world. It started 20 years ago, in his own words when “I found myself with no job, no usable qualifications, a serious health condition, two small mouths and a very large mortgage to feed”.

When he started out, in the days before the internet came into existence, this meant writing his book, then then getting his book printed on paper in order to publish and distribute them. A costly process.

Today, anyone can sit at home, or at the beach, or in the garden, or on trip and write an ebook, and distribute it to a worldwide audience for a fraction of the effort of handling a physical product and little or no costs.

And this is what Phil will show you how to do successfully, so you can leverage this to make some extra income or build it up to a full life-support system for you financially, doing something you enjoy.vTaht has to be the perfect home business.

Want to know more?

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