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Over the last few days we’ve learned that you can’t just go out and work hard to get rich. You need to work smart too. You do this by putting effort into projects that will earn you passive-leveraged income.

The downside is that this kind of money is tricky to make because you’ll put in a lot of work up front before you ever make a dime. Hopefully, you’ve been thinking “What can I do today to start building passive income so I can get rich?”

As I alluded to, there are a lot of good opportunities out there. I’m going to list a few to hopefully get your mind thinking:

Internet Businesses - This is single best place where you can start building a passive income stream. You can start looking online right now for business ideas. Many of them don’t require hardly any money to start, but they do take a lot of work. My only tip for you is to stay away from anything that sounds too good to be true.

Real-Estate - Buy a house and rent it out. Yes, those late night infomercials are on to something. Again, expect to do a lot of work. It’s not easy money like the late-night snake oil salesmen like to tell you.

Stocks - This one will take money. But if you start small you can build a fortune. Here you’re leveraging money.

Franchises - Again, this one will take some money, but franchises already have a proven system in place. You’ll most likely work like a dog for a few years before your business gets off the ground. Then you’ll begin to enjoy the passive income it can bring.

I’m sure there are more, but these come to mind pretty quickly.

The most important thing is that start looking. Keep your eyes open for opportunities; they are everywhere.

There is one final principle that you’ll need to become rich. Without it, you’ll just make a lot of money and I’ll talk about that in my next article. Please read the next article. It will make the single biggest difference in your life if everything else fails.

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Do you currently own rental property but find it hard to find good tenants? You’re not alone. Many investors choose to purchase real estate for investment purposes hoping to find a good occupant for their property. Unfortunately many times you will receive residents who do not keep up with landscaping or deed restrictions, ruin carpet or flooring or other random acts that diminish the value of your home. Everyone hopes to find someone who will appreciate your property and maintain the standard of living that was offered to them when they became your tenant.

A good tenant should have a decent credit history as well and be able to pay their rent on time. This is something to consider when interviewing potential candidates. Although everyone deserves a second chance, if your tenant can not hold down a steady job and has collectors breathing down their necks, this may not be the ideal resident for you. Always check credit history and verify employment.

To find a good tenant, you should look at how you are advertising. Sometimes word of mouth can be a great place to start. A friend, co-worker or friend of a friend can be a great person to rent your property. Generally they will want to maintain the relationship with you and not destroy your home. Secondly, you can go through a rental agency. These agencies charge a fee, but do background checks, and interview possible renters for you. They can narrow down the choice of occupants for you and you can make a final decision.

A good tenant also needs a good landlord. Make sure to keep your reputation clean to potential tenants, by handling complaints properly. If the air conditioning breaks, try to have it fixed promptly. Handling complaints, giving notice or upfront restrictions will help to avoid unwanted confrontations. If your neighborhood has restrictions that must be followed, these items should be discussed before your tenant moves in. If your current occupant leaves, they may know other people who will want to occupy your space. If you are a good landlord, they will want to recommend their friends and family to you.

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Online parties are hot right now. People who are comfortable with online chats and at ease with online payment options like PayPal make great online party guests.

With fantastic online party resources like the free chat rooms provided at Internet Based Moms and the support of groups like The Party Network and Mommy’s Helper Online -Online Party Resources it is easier than ever to throw an online party and invite all of your online friends to participate and buy.

I wonder though if many online hostesses and demonstrators are forgetting a wonderful offline option to boost their total party sales. Remember the good old ‘Catalog Show’? Why not pair the Online Party with the offline Catalog Show and help your hostess connect with offline friends and family for orders?

I know that demonstrators are cautious about the additional expenses of catalogs and postage. The beauty of online parties is that they do not have to send out paper supplies and can simply use their ecommerce websites.

The thing to consider is that we still have a large population of people out there who do not use the web regularly and may never attend an online party. So why not ask your online hostess if they would like to receive a catalog and order forms for the purpose of gathering offline orders in advance of their online party? If she is not interested in offering it locally, that’s ok, but if she is, you’re on!!

Depending on the payment plan that your direct sales company uses, it may involve an extra step for you and your hostess to get all of the payments together in one place. If payment needs to come to the demonstrator for submission, be sure to make arrangements for an online payment format or include a postage paid pre-addressed envelope with your catalog and advise the hostess to collect the money and send a money order ASAP so that you can close out the show. (Never accept a check from an out of town hostess, even if you think know them well! It’s a headache that will stress out a friendship!)

Imagine just $100 in extra offline sales added to each of your online shows. Would the profit on that be worth the catolog and postage costs? I think so! You may also find that this is a great way to increase hostess involvement and boost the number of show bookings!

Kelly McCausey is the host of Work at Home Moms Internet Talk Radio, the original Internet Radio show for Internet Based Moms. http://www.wahmtalkradio.com

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I think these firefighters should be honored next fire season, these pilots give it all and they lose at least one pilot per year, since it is a very dangerous job flying low level in little or no visibility during the drop, with dead trees with no vegetation on them that stick up 40 feet plus high. During 9-11 ceremonies in 2005 we ought to think of all the fire fighters who give it all including these pilots, because each year they risk life and limb to battle the big ones. Fires, which threaten to destroy vast amounts of wilderness and whole cities and towns as we have seen on our TV sets and reports from FEMA. The costs are very serious also. Protecting the people at home are these people who are part of our first responder teams.

Fire Fighter Aircraft were in the news in 2002, 2003 and 2004. We have had issues also with tanker planes:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20…26-tanker_x.htm

http://www.air-and-space.com/20020815%20Camino%20Fire.htm

Timberwolf Aviation is also working hard fighting forest fires with upgraded equipment now and they are gearing up for the challenges facing the 2005 season. Neptune Aviation in Missoula MT also on the scene as private enterprise steps up to the plate for Government Contracts to fight fires. Senator John McCain is concerned too for his state as we can recall the devastation of the three fires last year in the high country of AZ. It seems if it is not fires in Arizona it is something, they just got done with flooding too.

After reviewing the NTSB data on Fire Aircraft, I am concerned as many with the older aircraft fighting these fires and the brave men who love to fly them for actually very little money. Here is some interesting information on this matter, which tells about plane crashes. If you will remember the Forestry plane crashes. Here is the C-130 NTSB report:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=2…621X00954&key=1

and also the next week they lost a PBY, here is that report:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=2…726X01227&key=1 .

Aerial fire fighting is risky business and we need to honor these pilots who protect our forests and natural resources; our personal property and our lives. Think about it.

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What’s your job profitability? I meet with business owners every day that are unsure of their profitability at a company or job level. They “think” they are making money because they have a few dollars in their checking account. Having money in your checking account doesn’t mean you are profitable. It might mean you haven’t paid all the bills yet, so you have a little cash. Cash and profit are two different concepts. If you aren’t profitable, you won’t have longevity in your business.

It doesn’t matter the size of your business or the industry. Profitability is something you should be monitoring on a regular monthly basis. No business is too small or too large to do job costing. Such an excuse is your way of not holding yourself accountable to managing your business wisely. Failing to plan is a plan for failure.

So what do I mean by job costing? You should know how much you make and spend on each job. Expenditures should be tracked for those direct labor and material costs to each job. In addition, you should also be tracking overhead costs and allocating them to your various jobs as applicable. There is always going to be some overhead that is considered general overhead. Though often times too many dollars are thrown into general overhead, when they could easily be tracked to specific jobs. If you don’t know your exact income and expenses for each job and your overall business, then how can you know you are making a profit?

QuickBooks® has easy-to-use features that allow you to do job costing for time and materials. So don’t worry about having to track it all manually. Rely on tools to help you run your business more efficiently and effectively.

Are you curious how you are doing with job costing measurements? Here are some quick and easy questions to gauge your job costing performance:

1. Do I track each customer’s revenue information through a detailed invoice?

2. Do I have a way of breaking down my direct job materials cost by customer?

3. Do I associate all time spent to each job accurately with actual dollar amounts?

4. Do I have access to reports to monitor profitability on each job in a timely manner?

5. Do I have a way to trend the fluctuations in job profitability from job to job, month to month, etc?

If you answered “NO” to any of these, then it’s time for you to take an objective look at your financial goals. It’s time for you to implement a job costing mechanism to help you answer “YES” to these questions. How can you track your profitability and long-term growth plans if you don’t have detail at a job level?

Here are some quick and easy ways to utilize QuickBooks® effectively to help you with your job costing process:

1. Set up the QuickBooks® Item list so that you’ll have both an expense and an income aspect to each of the items. This will allow you to track your costs and your income; therefore, providing you profit by item.

2. Record your sales through the invoicing or sales receipt process. This will record the income aspects of the items.

3. As you purchase the product or service items, make sure that you utilize the Items tab so that it will record to the cost to the appropriate item. In addition, make sure to assign your customer/job information to each line item so that you’ll have the costs associated to the appropriate customer/job for job costing.

4. Utilize the time tracking mechanism in QuickBooks® so that you and your employees can track their time by item and customer/job. No dollar value is associated with this time until you actually pay the employees within QuickBooks®.

5. QuickBooks® has preformatted reports that you can access to have job costing information right at your fingertips. These are found under the Reporting menu and the Jobs/Time/Mileage option.

6. QuickBooks® has the ability to provide reports for any time period you select. This will allow you to have a variety of detail over the growth of your business and to produce trending reports. You can modify the report as needed to meet your needs.

One additional important aspect is that you have a good accounting professional on your team of resources. They will be able to help you understand what these reports are telling you in terms that you can use. Reports alone don’t provide value if you don’t understand them. So it is key that you understand the reporting information and how you can utilize that information to assist you in decision-making as you grow your business profitably.

It’s all about how you set-up your accounting/bookkeeping software package and how you use it! What justification can you give for not knowing job costs within your business? None! Challenge yourself today to become more adept at running a financially savvy business through job costing.

Contact: Pam is the author of Out of the Red, a Certified Management Accountant, and a Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisor. QuickBooks® is a registered trademark of Intuit. 816.304.4398. http://www.rppc.net

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Today everyone is overwhelmed with information and having a good memory is very important. There are thousands of little things that you need to remember each day. You need to remember names, numbers, prices, study material, daily tasks, foreign languages, passwords and so much more. The list could continue forever here.

But can you really improve your memory, is it hard and how much time does it take?

You can improve your memory and it’s easier than you think. With the right knowledge you can have a better memory in a matter of days. Read the 5 steps carefully, try to follow the advice and watch your memory improve.

Step #1: Use your imagination

Use your imagination when you face something that you want to memorize. When reading a book, imagine the things you are reading about. Imagine objects, people, situations, sounds, motion and more.

Imagination keeps you interested in a topic, makes it more fun, and gets you involved. This way your mind concentrates on what you are reading or listening and you’re much more likely to remember it later

Step #2: Motivate yourself to learn

It’s much easier to memorize something that you’re learning with interest and motivation. It’s also important to have a purpose why you want to learn something.

Understand why are you learning something and what benefits does the new information give you. Be involved in what you are learning as much as possible because then you have a purpose and more motivation to learn it.

Step #3: Have some spacing between learning sessions

You don’t have to learn all information at once when you can learn everything much better by taking breaks between learning sessions. You should take breaks as rewards because this gives your mind a chance to review what you have just learned.

When you face lots of information that you have to learn, plan your learning and divide it into parts and learn each part separately. It is better to study in two or three small sessions than to study in a long six hour session.

Step #4: Learn with a clear mind

Try to be relaxed when learning. It is harder to learn something when you are stressed, tired, anxious or angry. You learn more, better and faster when your mind is not occupied by thoughts that distract you.

Also eliminate distractions like clutter, and other things that can distract you. Learn in stimulating, light and positive environment. Distractions can keep you unfocused and waste your time. Before you learn, make sure that the learning environment is free from distractions.

Step #5: Always educate yourself about memory

Your memory is one of the most important assets that you have and learning how to improve your memory is very important. By having a better memory you can make more money, be more effective, save time, always remember important details, look smarter, have more friends and so much more.

Considering all the advantages that good memory gives you and how easily you can improve your memory, it wouldn’t be wise to not do anything about it.

An excellent website where you can learn how to improve your memory is http://www.memory-improvement-guide.com/

From this website you’ll learn very effective ways how to improve your memory and how to develop a memory that you can rely on in a short time. What you will learn here can improve your memory to what you want it to be.

The email course that this website offers is absolutely fantastic. From this course you will learn real memory ’secrets’ like how to easily, quickly and perfectly memorize long digit numbers, long speeches, names of people, foreign languages, long lists of items and more things that was previously hard to memorize.

You’ll learn the ’secrets’ that memory experts use to perform impressive memory stunts on stage and how you can easily apply their memory ’secrets’ in everyday life to improve your memory to what it really can be.

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A PCB is the acronym for Printed Circuit Boards, which are cards or circuit boards that are composed of a very thin flat metal or hard plastic-type board called an insulator. It is upon this that computer silicon chips and other similar electronic components are mounted. These PCBs are then used in electronic appliances like televisions, computers, washing machines, digital cameras, and so forth.

A prototype can be considered the first working model of an invention. So in this case, a PCB prototype is the first circuit board that is invented for a new electronic device. By using this PCB prototype in the electronic device, the inventor can see if the prototype serves its purpose in the invention. Once the electronic device is made to function with the PCB prototype, any mistakes that take place can be rectified in the prototype. In this way, the PCB prototype saves the inventor of the electronic appliance lots of money, as any mistakes that may be present in the PCB will be pinpointed before the actual commercial manufacture of the PCB.

Without having a PCB prototype, the model of a new invention will be of no use if its PCB is not in good condition and up to requirements. Electronic appliances are getting more and more technologically advanced by the day. This advancement is done through changes on a PCB prototype, which is then tried on the appliance to see if the advancement is in right order. Using different materials of the PCB also account for changes in the PCB prototype. You can use fiberglass, Teflon or cross-linked polystyrene for the PCB, and it is through the PCB prototype that you find out which PCB material best fits your PCB. Nowadays, new PCBs are in use in electronic appliances, thanks to the PCB prototypes.

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If you are going to become a small business entrepreneur, you are on your way to rapid wealth. Congratulations on your decision. There is a ton of excess intrinsic value to be found in small businesses and people can be negotiated with very effectively.

Not unlike the main character in “Pretty Woman” Richard Gere (And Julia Roberts) He is portrayed as a heartless take over pirate, stripping a businesses assets for fast millions. Yes, John was a small business entrepreneur. On the scale you may be currently operating, the similarity pales a little. But earning over $1 million within a year is nothing to be turned down.

An associate of mine is an opportunity investor as I am and his specialization is small businesses and in his first year he stripped and sold over $10 million in assets. The reason why Adrian does so well for himself is because an armed entrepreneur (with information) easily dominates the players in the transaction-the business broker and the small business vendor.

This is hard core. Its of course legal and ethical but it is certainly not a path for everyone. There certainly needs to be a little bit of indifference to feelings and a strong bias against emotional plea’s present. People who are drawn to being a small business entrepreneur are generally “alpha type personalities” They love a challenge and love the thrust and parry of the typical small business transaction.

Adrian typically begins his proposed take over and strip by becoming a customer or client of the target business. Incognito so to speak. He assesses and makes the decision of whether the business has any immediate problems that can be easily and rapidly fixed so cash flow instantly rises (Believe me, this is a very common occurrence) In this case he would spend more time on it and build up the cash flow for a very fat ripe final re-sale price.

On the other hand if the business has too many complicated problems that cannot be resolved with simple measures, then he targets the businesses assets and sells of for an average 100% profit on his initial purchase. He is a tough negotiator and knows how to make the seller motivated to off load.

Becoming a small business entrepreneur is a smart move if you are the right person and know you can enjoy the thrill of making fast money buying and selling small businesses. But as noted, its not for everyone. Its hard core.

Martin Thomas (c)2005

Martin is a professional investor and Entrepreneur. If you would like to discover more about being an entrepreneur, you can read “The Million Dollar Mentor” by Hayden Muller. Martin recommends this work highly and has used the very concepts contained in the work for his own successful entrepreneurial activities.
http://www.opportunity-investor.com

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Exactly what is a super affiliate? A super affiliate is the person that knows how to find the right material, whether it be ebooks, software or products, to sell on the internet for a profit without ever having to invest a dime. A super affiliate finds the right products, promotes those products through advertising or articles or through email or a web site and then rakes in the commissions at an astounding rate. What does this super affiliate know that you don’t?

So here are the basics for becoming a super affiliate:

1. Learn where to find the super products to sell You can do this several ways. You can do keyword searches. You can search Clickbank for the super sellers. You can join Commission Junction and check out who has the best sales. You can purchase a few ebooks that give you insights into who is selling the best and who to avoid.

2. Learn how to promote the products Having a web page decicated to a product you are promoting is the best way. Selling in emails is okay if you don’t use spamming techniques. It’s best to set up your own email list with opt-in subscribers. Buying pay-per-click campaigns is another avenue that works really well IF you know what you are doing and don’t cost yourself an arm and a leg. Promoting the products through your own blog is another great avenue and you can get several free blogs out there to help you become a super affiliate.

3. Learn how to write creatively Make your visitor wants to buy the product. A good book for learning how to write for the web is called “Web Copy That Sells”. Can’t think of the author offhand but this is one good book for writing good sales copy. Another great ebook on copywriting is “The Copywriters Bible”. If you are not a good writer, then for heaven’s sake get a book that shows you how. Your sales copy can make or break you.

4. Pick a niche and corner that market Don’t try to just sell books as an example. Pick a certain subject like: Chicken Cook Books, or High School Math Books, or Internet Marketing Books. If you create a niche then people doing a search for that particular subject are going to find you easier. There are literally thousands of niches that can help you become a super affiliate.

5. KNOW your subject If you are trying to sell something just for the money, then go ahead and give up now. You are doomed to fail. If you believe in your product then you are going to be more convincing to the person you are selling to. If you are ignorant of the subject material, it IS going to show and you are going to lose sales. Take the time to invest some research into the product you are going to sell to others. They are depending on you to give them an honest review of the product or service you are selling.

6. Stay on top of trends You must keep up with trends. Don’t try to sell a dead horse. There is always something new going, something new being developed, something new in the works. Stay tuned!

7. Super affiliates are dedicated They are dedicated to making that money. They see how easy it is to sell once you have a good product and once you find a formula for what works. You must have goals in mind. You must stick to a plan you have developed. Be dedicated to become a SUPER affiliate and you will become one.

8. Find a super affiliate to emulate See who is the most successful and then see what they are doing right. Maybe it is something so simple that you have left out of your own marketing plan. Check out super affiliates and make a list of their selling process, then refine it to meet your own needs.

It’s not unheard of to make anywhere from 1000 to 10,000 dollars a month just selling other people’s stuff. Super affiliates make that and more.

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