So we find ourselves in a recession! This is bad for most people, but, it is also very good for business minded people, that have a business well placed to help others. Many more people are now turning to the Internet to make a living. That is great for people like me who are already placed to help new business people avoid the pitfalls, (I fell into most of them myself), and hopefully I can help people avoid them and make the right decisions.

You can make a start in your own business, by writing your own blog, about your main interest or anything you are passionate about or knowledgeable about! Eventually you will be able to trade in your 9 to 5 job for your beating the 9 to 5 blog, and be making more money than you ever thought possible. Certainly, you can make incomes that are impossible with a standard day-job!

I’m going to assume that you need money!

Why else would you be reading or listening to me! So, I’m making a logical assumption. I know I’m entertaining, funny and witty, intelligent and handsome, wise and of course very modest. (ha ha). but, if you are here looking for a cake recipe, you are in the wrong place!

I’ll assume, that you know what you want. Money, income, lifestyle. You are in the right place!

How are you going to make money online? First, you are going to concentrate on setting everything up online, it is basically the same process for whatever area or niche you finally decide upon specializing in.

You will then concentrate on making your first dollar online. If you can do it once, you can do it again and again, thousands of times! When you have a bit of a hobby income, you can decide to go into business properly and start part-time or full time depending on how successful you are!

Common sense may make you think that, in this time of recession, you’d have to be crazy to start up a business. After all, it seems logical. Who will buy from you if no-one has any money because of the recession?

I would like to believe there is such a thing as common sense, but what I actually see and believe is people making common assumptions! There is no-such thing as common-sense! Most people do exercise good logical thinking, but common sense, certainly is not, “common”. If you drive a car on the public road, you will know that!

It’s like a giant game of space-invaders, where everyone is out to cut-you-up, or p-you-off in some way. Almost everyone else seems to be arrogant and stupid, with a death-wish to match. Rushing about everywhere, not- giving-way, taking your turn at the cross-roads when you was there first, and you are in the larger vehicle! Look, just don’t get me started, ok, pass me that brown paper-bag, so that I can stop hyperventilating.

That’s better. OK. People aren’t stupid, they just go on ASSUMPTIONS. We all do it. Things need to be pointed out and backed up with a bit of history, before people can use logic and make an informed decision either way.

So, you will need some background information from history, to help your self-belief, to show you that it is possible to start a business in a recession. What’s more, you need to know why this is the very best time to start an online business. So, here it is.

The information age.

Skip this history lesson if you like – but I warn you, that would be a newbie mistake!

• William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in 1939, when the Great Depression had been underway for a full decade. The Great Depression was a worldwide economic recession. Starting in 1929 and ending at different times in the late 1930s to early 1940s, it was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history.

It is used today as an example of how the whole world economy can fall. – But HEY! They didn’t have the Internet!• 1945, Hiroshima. JAPAN was struck by the Makurazaki Typhoon. (Typhoon Ida), one of the largest typhoons of the time. August, 1945, the nuclear weapon was dropped on Hiroshima, then again in August, 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the world’s second atomic bomb attack.

In 1946 Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka, co-founded Sony Corporation, originally named Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Corporation. All this was done whilst the country had been devastated by war and nature, and was still occupied by a foreign power.

If Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka, had failed to start their business back then, no-one could have questioned their excuses, that the state of the war torn country and financial environment was against them!

So, what is your excuse? I could list several more scenarios like this, but I’ll leave those for future posts if I may. All I’m saying, is take a long, hard look at whatever your excuses are, and they will be nothing by comparison to Akio Morita, and Masaru Ibuka’s, when they were building their business!

• In times of recession, people are looking to find more income. That’s where YOU come in! Provide honest answers to peoples money problems, solve their income problem. Teach them to fish!A business start up can not only survive, but thrive in times of economic crisis. YOU can do the same as me. By leveraging the power of the Internet, your bright financial future will be a lot easier and faster to achieve. You can be making $100, $1,000 or $100,000 a month in an amazingly short period of time, compared to working at a day job. Think About It!

Newbies especially let themselves get taken for a ride, perhaps not deliberately, but may I suggest that its more out of their lack of knowledge, that they take themselves for that ride. Trying every little method half-heartedly, not ever doing it right, making simple (and stupid mistakes), not putting the time required into their program. Just simple things that will cause newbies to fail.

The Answer!

For you, it doesn’t have to be this way! You can cut out the pit-falls and do it the right way! For a start, don’t go giving up your day job just yet! You will need time to learn and absorb this new way of working. Many hundreds of thousands of people are already making fantastic incomes, (by comparison to an average day job wage), already.

The Freeway!

You can start making money online, without spending any money, but it will take you a lot longer to get started, and you will be mostly alone in getting the tuition you need. Except for where you can pick up bits of information, that will be all disjointed and not come to you in any specific order! You may know, or think you know, what you need to learn next. But how can you be sure? You will eventually learn enough to start making money online, but you could be years away from making your first dollar, or it could happen once tomorrow, then never happen again.

I enjoy helping others, but I don’t have the time to labour over any one single persons online accounts and activities, to make sure that they are doing everything correctly. If you are going for the no-cost route, (except time input and ISP costs of course), you will have to take your chances with everyone else! Following blogs like mine, will give you the edge, so please hang in there and I will try to post as much useful information and free help as I can for you!

The Highway!

If you have the money, (this is why you need your current day-job), you can buy into training programs and pay for services and advertising. Learning as you go. If you start the free way, you need to make sure you put any income straight back into these paid for services as soon as possible!

If you stick with the free way and start making money, you will eventually get around to investing in the tools and programs I use. They really are essential for your success. You can learn how to make money from your blog from people like me, who offer plenty of free advice to get you on the road to success. Once started, the hope is that you will develop rapport and a business relationship that will benefit both sides.

By way of an explanation of how you make money with your blog. I want you to realise that I will make a small commission, when someone makes a purchase of any product or service through any links on my blogs and websites. That’s standard with any link you click on, on any site where it leads to a sale or purchase. Someone makes money, somewhere along the line. And soon that some-one can be YOU!

Why tell you this? Well, I’m hopefully teaching by example, in the same way, you will learn to follow my example and build your own online presence with information and links that help people, where-by if they purchase, you will get paid a commission for the sale!

Where do you go from here?

You need to get yourself educated to make money online, one of the ways I personally do this is by studying with online companies like PPC Classroom – That’s The SECRET! – So, If you want to learn about The Secret, look for the banners for The Secret in the side bar on my websites and blogs.

By: Andrew Gold

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