The Easiest Way to Make a Million Dollars
The Easiest Way to Make a Million Dollars
Businesses benefit from marketing but not all marketing is made equal. You can buy $50 Google Adwords vouchers on eBay for $1, which is a great way to start marketing cheaply on the internet. Blogs, vlogs and the like are also great ways to get the word out and are more effective than print and click-through advertisements when targeted to the right demographic. Give your business a good, viral name: like Twitter, Google, Digg, AddThis -- these are easy names to remember and can sometimes become media buzzwords which only compounds interest in your product or service.
Make your business automatic: reduce the number of required emails to 1 or 2 per week and reduce your workload to as little time as possible. There is no law that requires you to spend 40 hours per week earning your money. Instead, apply automation anywhere and everywhere. For more information on automated businesses that require no inventory, grab a copy of the New York Times Bestseller "The 4-Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferris. It's one of the greatest contemporary resources on web-based, nearly automatic businesses.
Your goal is to create a cash resource which will give you the financial freedom to explore more lucrative or expensive projects, travel the world or whatever it is that you have been putting off. Save 6 months of salary to break away from your job at the next opportunity. You should keep in mind that there is a signficant difference between the job you are hired for and the job you create yourself. That's a core value of an entrepreneur: to do what you love or want to do, not what was in the newspaper or on Craigslist that fit your "skill set".
Speaking of skill sets, forget about this term altogether. In the modern workplace there are literally hundreds of computer-related skill sets each tailored to a specific industry or industry group. How to learn them all? Pick only the skills that can complement each other: like web design and database automation -- and forget about not knowing something. How many times have you taken a course at your university or high school and thought: I already know this! That's because 100% of technical and business skills were created by other people. You're no monkey or tree sloth: indeed you are a human being, too. As long as you speak English or have a good translator, you'll be able to figure it out assuming you passed Algebra (Calculus also helps).
Most importantly, keep your wits about you. Everyone and their mother will try to get at you if you start climbing the path to success. There's a reason why celebrities have tax preparers, accountants, lawyers and security guards: to seal the breach that can occur. You're just one person: you can't be expected to simultaneously prepare your award acceptance speech, manage your finances, correctly decode 16,000 pages of IRS code, file important affidavits and strong-arm the group of rabid audience members trying to snatch up your wardrobe and locks of your hair to sell on eBay.
Good luck!
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Want to start a business with little or no government regulation, minimal starting capital and a billion dollar potential? Start a software company. Software is fairly unregulated (unless it interacts with regulated industries) and requires minimal starting capital if you are prepared to do the work. Not a software engineer? Outsource your needs to dozens of potential engineers on sites like RentACoder or Guru.com, or hire an Indian virtual assistant who can help you build websites at a fraction of the cost of a US supplier. In fact, leading next to India is Brazil, where the flat US dollar (it has been down in recent months) is still many times that of a Brazilian real. Take into account JFelipe Web Design based in Brazil: $800 USD is the going rate for an advanced Flash site with content sharing features. They deploy PHP, MySQL, HTML, and CSS with compliancy in under 2 weeks.
Businesses benefit from marketing but not all marketing is made equal. You can buy $50 Google Adwords vouchers on eBay for $1, which is a great way to start marketing cheaply on the internet. Blogs, vlogs and the like are also great ways to get the word out and are more effective than print and click-through advertisements when targeted to the right demographic. Give your business a good, viral name: like Twitter, Google, Digg, AddThis -- these are easy names to remember and can sometimes become media buzzwords which only compounds interest in your product or service.
Make your business automatic: reduce the number of required emails to 1 or 2 per week and reduce your workload to as little time as possible. There is no law that requires you to spend 40 hours per week earning your money. Instead, apply automation anywhere and everywhere. For more information on automated businesses that require no inventory, grab a copy of the New York Times Bestseller "The 4-Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferris. It's one of the greatest contemporary resources on web-based, nearly automatic businesses.
Your goal is to create a cash resource which will give you the financial freedom to explore more lucrative or expensive projects, travel the world or whatever it is that you have been putting off. Save 6 months of salary to break away from your job at the next opportunity. You should keep in mind that there is a signficant difference between the job you are hired for and the job you create yourself. That's a core value of an entrepreneur: to do what you love or want to do, not what was in the newspaper or on Craigslist that fit your "skill set".
Speaking of skill sets, forget about this term altogether. In the modern workplace there are literally hundreds of computer-related skill sets each tailored to a specific industry or industry group. How to learn them all? Pick only the skills that can complement each other: like web design and database automation -- and forget about not knowing something. How many times have you taken a course at your university or high school and thought: I already know this! That's because 100% of technical and business skills were created by other people. You're no monkey or tree sloth: indeed you are a human being, too. As long as you speak English or have a good translator, you'll be able to figure it out assuming you passed Algebra (Calculus also helps).
Most importantly, keep your wits about you. Everyone and their mother will try to get at you if you start climbing the path to success. There's a reason why celebrities have tax preparers, accountants, lawyers and security guards: to seal the breach that can occur. You're just one person: you can't be expected to simultaneously prepare your award acceptance speech, manage your finances, correctly decode 16,000 pages of IRS code, file important affidavits and strong-arm the group of rabid audience members trying to snatch up your wardrobe and locks of your hair to sell on eBay.
Good luck!
The Easiest Way to Make a Million Dollars - To learn more about this author, visit Herb Gilliland's Website.
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