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ETF Exchange Traded Funds–Investing Opportunity for Serious Investers

ETF exchange traded funds–This just came across my desk and concerns exchange traded index funds.  This looks like a solid business opportunity for serious investors who already have some hands-on, personal investing experience.  Prior  ETF investing is not prerequisite, but if you have never heard of ETFs, this may not be for you.  This is an intense, advanced course and will require an ability to follow through on a detailed course of study.
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Help Me Get Rid of My Job!

Is having a job really such a good idea?  I am of such a perverse turn of mind, that I have never liked the idea of having a job.  I have had many jobs and truth be told, I have a job now in addition to my online income.  But I am never easy with the idea of employment and the bigger the employer, the less easy I am with the whole idea.

One of the jobs I did, in fact, truly love was when, many years ago, I worked as deckhand on a commercial fishing vessel.  This was a 54 foot single ended bottom fisher working out of Newport, Oregon.  Those of you from Oregon familiar with this part of the coast line may have an idea of just how long a go this was.  Anyway, it was just the skipper and me and maybe another deckhand or two, and we were the kings of the ocean when we were on the water.  Loved the job.  We owed no one.  We were free and independant.

The other day, I ran across a 2006 blog post from Steve Pavlina titled, "Ten Reasons You Should Never Get a Job."  I'm writing about this because I think it is very relevant for anyone seeking greater business/financial/job independance.  Basically, Steve breaks it  As the title makes clear, Steve has 10 main reasons for not getting a job, and here are some of the highlights:

• Income for Dummies  Why is getting a job so dumb?  Because you only get paid when you’re working.  Don’t you see a problem with that, or have you been so thoroughly brainwashed into thinking it’s reasonable and intelligent to only earn income when you’re working?  Have you never considered that it might be better to be paid even when you’re not working?

• Limited experience  The problem with getting experience from a job is that you usually just repeat the same limited experience over and over.  You learn a lot in the beginning and then stagnate.  This forces you to miss other experiences that would be much more valuable.

• Too many mouths to feed  Employee income is the most heavily taxed there is.  In the USA you can expect that about half your salary will go to taxes.  The tax system is designed to disguise how much you’re really giving up because some of those taxes are paid by your employer, and some are deducted from your paycheck.  But you can bet that from your employer’s perspective, all of those taxes are considered part of your pay, as well as any other compensation you receive such as benefits. 

• Way too risky  Many employees believe getting a job is the safest and most secure way to support themselves.

I think you get the idea.  Steve's ninth reason is truest for me:  "Loss of freedom."  To some degree, we spend much of our lives and education beging trained to accept the loss of freedom that comes with most employment.  Steve's article may very well be a classic of blogging, and I enourage you to check out, "Ten Reasons You Should Never Get a Job."

If any of this resonates as true, if you feel a little bit of tug at your guts, don't give up.  If you have any dream at all of working for yourself, don't give up.  Keep at it, step by step.  Just keep going.

 

Online Business Opportunity v.s. Online Jobs

The number of Internet searches related to "online jobs," "work at home jobs," and "work at home Internet jobs" is staggering.  I mean, this is a very popular search request, and I suspect there is a certain amount of desparation driving what might be considered a frenzy of interest.  The phrase, "online job" gets 450,000 local searches on the Google external keyword tool.

When you examine what people are searching for in the way of jobs, you see a phenomenal number searches for data entry, typing, customer service, survey, envelope stuffing, transcription, and the like.  Survey and envelope stuffing "job" are generally scams, and these days "data entry" has been co-opted and corrupted to mean buying into a course that teaches pay per click advertising, such as Google Adwords.  Probably the most common legitimate online job areas are customer service, transcription, medical billing, and virtual clerical/assistant work. 

My impression of the interest frenzy in online jobs is that the job searchers see themselves as relatively unskilled and are looking to the Internet for low to medium wage employment.  Stay at home mothers and senior citizens make up much of the group searching for such jobs.

I did a quick search on Yahoo Answers and found a really good answer to a question asking about the top ten work at home Internet jobs.  Here is an excerpt from one respondant:

Ok, when you say you are looking for a work at home job, what are you really meaning? Are you looking to telecommute for a company that will pay you for data entry, etc?

Or do you mean that you are looking for an online business opportunity? Meaning that you promote products online and make a commission on sales?

Just to make something clear, the paid to read email or paid to take surveys programs are not anything that you will be able to make any money with. You will be lucky to be able to cover the cost of your internet access with those. Trust me, I did those back in 1997 and it is not the same today.

If you are looking for a legitimate home based business opportunity, there are many companies that you can join. Many are the typical home party type companies like Tupperware, Mary Kay, Candles, etc. With these types of opportunities you are required to purchase a kit. You are also responsible for advertising your business and getting leads and customers. Many of these types of companies allow you to run your business online exclusively.

The reason I like this reply is because the writer spells out the difference between online telecommuting, business opportunity, and quasi scams such as surveys, email reading, and data entry.   Actually, data entry–if you are talking about a salaried telecommuting job  may be legitimate.  However, more and more often I see PPC scams being advertised as "data entry" in order to fool people into thinking they are "buying" into a legitimate job. 

This site is really about business opportunity.  Because many of the people coming to Simpleocity are coming from an Internet marketing context, I will be discussing much of what by now may be considered a sort of standard repetoire of Internet marketing.  In other words, affiliate marketing, ecommerce, EBay, selling information products, blogging, site flipping, free lancing, article marketing, and so forth.

However, when you and I talk about online jobs from the perspective of creating our own business, then really there is no limit to the end of possibilities.  Generally speaking, online business–just as any business anywhere–breaks down into two categories, goods and services.  So one question is what are you offering–goods, services, or both?  Wherever you can identify a niche demand, you have a potential business, whether it be web design, a lawn vacuuming service, dog walking, pinball machine repair, or anything else.  I mean, the field is wide open.

I’ll say it again, the field is wide open.  I repeat this because I know a lot of people who see this are skipping around Internet marketing sites, and the discussion in Internet marketing it tightly manipulated by very successful, very clever marketers.  And in IM, the talk is all about Google Adwords, article marketing, and niche affiliate sites, and blog flipping.  Before you know it, you might find yourself thinking that there is nothing else.  Well, those are all fine money makers if you take the time to really learn the skills, but they are just a tiny part of the potential for online home business.

The Internet is a great tool and does change the landscape a bit.  Because affiliate marketing, article marketing, eommerce, and blogging are areas I know something about, I’ll spend time with them and provide resources to learn about them in greater depth.  These are area where virtually anyone can get a toe hold.  However, as I mentioned above, the spectrum of possibility when it comes to home Internet business is mind boggling, and I caution you to not let yourself be manipulated into thinking that affiliate marketing, for example, is all there is to business opportunity. 

All for now.  Thank you for reading.  There is more on the way . . .