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The Samsung Galaxy S has a great size display for reading eBooks. With the larger screen reading an eBook is not hard on the eyes. The two eBook reader apps I tied were Amazon’s Kindle and Kobo. These eBook apps were easy to use and had a large selection of books. If you want to read on the go then this is a cheap alternative to buying a dedicated eBook reader. With a smartphone running Android you can start reading in under a minute. The Amazon Kindle app was a bit better then the Kobo app, the pages turned with just a swipe on the Amazon app. With the Kobo app I found I had to swipe the screen a few times to get the page to turn.
The book stores for both services carried a large number of books. The Amazon Kindle store did have better pricing. The price was constant at $9.99 which I found to be a fair price for an eBook. The Kobo store also had many titles starting at $9.99, but it seemed they did price a little higher then Amazon. If you buy a Samsung Galaxy S then make sure to test out these apps. You can find many free books in both stores and they download very quickly to you phone via wifi or 3G.

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The Adobe PDF reader is also available for smartphones running Android. The next test will be to read eBook that I downloaded in PDF format. Overall I was very happy with my reading experiment on the Samsung Galaxy S and would buy more books. It took just a few days to read a full book on the Samsung Galaxy S about the same amount of time that it takes to read an eBook on my Sony Reader. One thing I liked about having an eBook reader app on my phone was that I could read when I had some spare time. It’s nice to pull out the smartphone and start reading while waiting for an oil change or in line for coffee.

Let’s face it making money online is not for everyone. At some point those who do make money online might have a dry spell that requires real world income as it’s know a real job. Now if you are like me it kind of suck to have to go out and get a job. What if you can hire someone to find you a job? Well it true you can out source job hunting. Wow imagine having someone looking for jobs and sending out resumes while you do something else. When you do get a job interview they will never know you did not actually apply for the job. With an assistant in India or other low cost country you can out source job hunting. If you can get someone to find 20 jobs a day and apply to those jobs for you imagine the time you would save. All they need to do is forward your resume and you will pay them $5.00 a day for say three days a week. At the low cost of $15.00 a week you can apply for 60 jobs without doing any work. When you set up the task with your assistant make sure to outline what type of job you are looking for and the area to search. Once they find a job and apply for you have your assistant email you the complete list of jobs applied for and company names and contacts. You can also have your assistant send out thank you letters after the interviews. This is a very cost effective way of doing a job search without any effort. You can also use this method if you have a full time job and are looking for a new position. It amazing what you can outsource. Even for this blog I have used outsource service from India and I can tell you it has worked out well for my business needs.

One of the easiest ways to get more sales is to build a relationship with your customers. This is a very cost effective method to increase the number of customers that convert into paying customers. If you are not collecting email addresses on your web site then you are missing out on a huge number of potential sales. There are many easy to use services to set up a pop form that asks visitors to your site for their email address. Once you have collected email address it’s time to build a relationship with the users subscribed to your newsletter. No hard sell you are building trust and providing the customer with useful information. This is why using an automated service works best for this type of marketing. You can set you first few messages to welcome the user and provide useful information. Once you have created trust then you can start to slip in a few related sales pitches. It would work best if you use soft sale skills to build interest in what you are promoting. Some of the top affiliates online use this method to make a huge amount of money each month. It takes a little practice to plan the perfect marketing campaign by email, but it can be well worth the effort. If you want to learn how it’s done then enter your email the next time you land on a page that offers a newsletter. Watch as messages arrive in your inbox with customer relationship building messages. Start to count how many messages are sent before you get a sales pitch. If you signed up to a good marketer then you will see how this system works and why so many are making money this way. The nice thing about building a list is that you will have an audience that trusts your opinion, and will take action to offers that are targeted to them. The set up for email capture is not that difficult if you understand a little HTML. You will need to place a small bit of code on your web site or blog to make the email capture form work. If you have trouble setting it up the company that you use for email marketing can install the code for you at an additional cost. It is well worth the trouble and effort to start building an email list and you will be wondering why you had not done this sooner when the money starts pouring in.

About two months ago I took on a part time job. It was a quick way to save some money to start a new business. With my online business still making money and it does not need much attention the extra income from the job can be saved. There are some big goals that I have set for myself. The true entrepreneurial dream was for a real world business. With the cost of starting a real world business in a brink and mortar shop this dream had been placed on hold. As I realized that I am not getting any younger I started to dream up some ideas and get a plan in motion. The first step is to write a business plan and have a road map of where I want this business to go. Once I have set the goal I need to do all the legal work to make this a real business. The math I crunched brought me to a grand total of $35,000 to get started. This is the amount of money I need to pay rent and stock the business. As a new start up I will try to do all the work myself or ask some friends for help. The addition of employees would cost way to much for the first few month of business. As I grow the business I will add employees, but first I need to just get this thing going. The idea is to keep the business a bare as possible till I can prove that it will make money and then grow from there. There are many more steps to setting up a real world business. It makes my online business look so simple. With my online business it was very easy to set up and maintain with little effort. If anything I want to learn from taking this dream and turning it into reality. If I fail then I now know what I will need to set up another real world business. Many people say that the economy is tough and that I will lose my shirt, but that can be said about any type of business. The fact is that even in the worst economic times new business have been started and succeed. Now its my time to make a go of it. The fun part is that I am going to document my effort and share it on this blog as I move forward. Since the first step is getting the funding it might take a little longer before I can make and real headway in my effort.

The most difficult task for many adults is to manage money. If only schools spent just a little more time on educating children on the value of money. We need to make an effort to teach children at a young age how to handle money. It starts at home with the family and with support from the education system we can prepare the next generation to avoid getting into credit problems. There is not a single class on handling credit in high school, but yet there are many classes on subjects we will never use. Is the system set up so people will fail? Why is credit not made an important part of our educational system?
There are many people of influence that might not want this type of education in our schools. It wrong to not prepare kids for the future. If you have children you need to teach them about credit and the good and bad about borrowing money.

A great book to buy your child is One Cent, Two Cents, Old Cent, New Cent: All About Money (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)

THE CAT IN the Hat puts to rest any notion that money grows on trees in this super simple look at numismatics, the study of money and its history. Beginning with the ancient practice of bartering, the Cat explains various forms of money used in different cultures, from shells, feathers, leather, and jade to metal ingots to coins (including the smallest—the BB-like Indian fanam—and the largest—the 8-foot-wide, ship-sinking limestone ones from the Islands of Yap!), to the current king of currency, paper. Also included is a look at banking, from the use of temples as the first banks to the concept of gaining or paying interest, and a step-by-step guide to minting coins. A fascinating introduction is bound to change young reader’s appreciation for change!

The news on CNN today is that Verizon is running low on Google Android based phones. The HTC Incredible and the Motorola Droid have been selling at a very fast rate. It could be the customers who want the iPhone are tired of waiting to get it through Verizon and are willing to go with the Droid phones. With so much bad press for the AT&T network and all the drop calls it looks like Verizon is picking up many new smartphone users who just want to make a  call and get online without any trouble from the network. If Apple is planning a Verizon phone it will still be many months away from hitting the Verizon network. Even with the modified phone for the Verizon network it looks like Verizon users are very happy with Droid. There is also talk of a new Motorola Droid 2 which will further enhance on the already feature rich original Droid. It’s a great time to pick a smartphone and there are many choices, but many will still prefer the Apple iPhone on AT&T. Let’s see how much Droid phone usage increases this year. The Android OS has now appeared on all major mobile networks and is growing as users share their experience with friends and family.

The clear choice for bloggers and online marketers is to use WordPress for content management. The easy set up and the amazing number of plugins make WordPress stand out for web site creation. Trust me I have used many platforms to create web sites and WordPress still remains the easiest with a rich user experience.

The only thing you do not get out of the box is the right template. The templates or themes are very basic, you need to search online for better looking themes. With so many themes to pick all I wanted was one theme that I could use for all my sites.

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What I love about Socrates is that they took the time to make tutorial videos that you can access for free. Once you buy your copy of Socrates you get instant access to the videos. It’s recommended that you start with the videos first and get an idea of what can be done with Socrates. There is even a section that lists out the top plugins you should install for your WordPress site. With back end SEO and fully search engine friendly features your web site will index higher.

The other key fact to using Socrates is that unlike free themes there is no advertising links on your site. If you have ever downloaded a free theme you might have seen at the bottom a link for offers from the theme designer. You want to avoid this as it can cost you page rank if Google thinks you are part of a link farm.

The clean design elements will bring out your content. If you are creating a business web site there is no easier method then WordPress with a clean theme.
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There is a huge potential for making money online selling information products. The nice thing about selling information products is that you’re helping to solve a problem. Everyday millions use Google to solve some sort of problem. Now wouldn’t you like to get some of these searches to your web site? If you can track down some information products or create your own then it’s time to cash in. There are many digital download products that sell very well. People will pay for information that solves their problems. This is why you want to find a niche that you have a chance to dominate. It’s not hard to look around and get an idea of what people are looking solve. One method I like to use is listening to call in radio shows. If you listen you will find people asking for specific information. With a little research you can be the only one who has a detailed site selling the solution. If you can find a problem with a large enough audience then you can turn visitors into paying customers.
The site you create will have to provide information on the topic you are marketing. You should have enough information to make your site seem like an authority. Once your visitor realizes that you seem to know what you are talking about then it’s time to pitch a sale. You want the visitor to be asking all sorts of questions down your sales funnel. As they seem to be getting closer to their answer the pitch comes in. If you have done your job properly the user will convert to a sale. They want this information and will pay for it. With information products I like to build sites that get organic traffic. It’s better to create a site that is getting search engine traffic and brining in highly targeted users. If you set up a quality site Google and other search engines will reward your hard work.
In the past I found that creating a PPC campaign for information product sites brought in to many tire kickers. These were people that wanted the answer and did not want to pay for the solution. In my information product marketing test I had much better results with just natural traffic and very small amount of PPC adverting. You can try a PPC campaign at the launch of your site. This will help you make sure that users are reading and clicking thorough to the sales pages. Once you have a site that can convert just leave it to natural traffic unless you have discovered that your PPC campaign is providing a good rate of return. As long as your campaign is profitable keep PPC traffic on and monitor the traffic, but at some point you want to be getting traffic from as much natural searches as possible.
There is a great amount of money to be made from selling information products. In my tests my results have been mixed, but I am sure if I worked at building the best quality site my income would go up.
You can find many products to sell by doing a search for digital products and then joining the affiliate programs.

If I had not sold some of my stock portfolio last year I would be a richer man today. With so many projects on the go I need a little funding and I decided to sell my stocks. This was a mistake because had I held the stocks for another year they all doubled in value. The actual value of the stocks sold would have been much more then the profit I made on the project I was working on.

As an entrepreneur I took a chance on an idea and it failed. That is the cost of doing business sometimes you lose money, but you also walk away with a valuable lesson. As I rebuild my stock portfolio I am going to diversify into a portfolio of five stocks. The risk will be spread and the chances for growth in my favour. As I watch the portfolio grow in value I will not be tempted to sell. If I need the money I will pretend that the stock portfolio does not exist. Only with total commitment to my stocks will I see them grow in value. There will be stocks in the portfolio that I will sell when I have a chance at profit, but I will use the profit to invest in more stock. If I follow this method I should grow my portfolio and over time build wealth. The other factor I use when I buy stocks is to make sure the company pays a dividend. While my stocks wait to grow in value I might as well have some passive income to reinvest and keep growing. An education on stocks is also a must as I build my portfolio I am also trying to learn as much as possible.

Every little tip helps and by reading and watching business shows I will find the right mix to invest my hard earned cash. There are not too many methods that can make you truly rich, but the stock market played the right way can build wealth with time. It worth having some money invested in stocks and to be balanced have an equal amount in cash for those emergencies that life throws once in awhile. The lesson learned from my mistake last year was not to use my investment income for other purposes. Had I just kept the stock it would have worked out much better for me.

At the start of the year I kind of let my affiliate marketing efforts slip. With my Google Adwords ban and just not having the right offers caused a drop in income. The top offers that I was promoting thorough my landing pages were no longer available on the networks. As I had a good history with those types of offers it was difficult to re-tune the same style for different efforts. As I slipped further and further away from the goal I had set for myself I focused on my other income sources. With the affiliate industry changing so much in the last few months it is now time to get back on track and create winning campaigns.  There are many offers out there that can be profitable and with a little fine-tuning can kick start my road to recovery in affiliate marketing. The first step is to sort out the campaigns offered through my affiliate networks. Once I have a campaign I would like to work with I need to create the landing page. This is the most crucial step as the landing page is going to drive customers to the offers. On average I can spend a week on creating a winning landing page. Once I am happy with the landing page I start to look for traffic sources that would complement my landing page and the audience I am trying to reach. There are many different traffic sources to pick from and experience will tell you which ones will have the best response rate for your offer. If this last step goes well then my campaign will start to have some response. If the response is low I can play around with the landing page or try a different traffic source. There are many ways to get your campaign profitable and each affiliate marketer will have different methods that they use. The steps I take I have proven to work for the type of affiliate marketing that I do, but others might want to try something different.  The effort you put into your landing pages is key to making money, and I stress that testing is the best way to get the landing page to work.  Now that I can focus on my affiliate marketing business again I will document my next profitable campaign for a future post.