I’m pretty sure that I could get used to this. The summer has brought renewed freedom and opened opportunities for my business, because I can spend my time as I please. I am running and working out in the mornings, I am making videos for my new site, and I’ve been able to provide excellent customer service to my readers. Yeah, I could get used to this.
I am also thankful that my business has not been hit by downtime in the economy. The internet is about the most recession-proof vehicle at this time, so those of us who have been in the game for awhile are breathing a sigh of relief right now. I know that not everybody is feeling this, though, so I offer the following advice:
1) If you’ve been considering an online business, it’s time to take action. Whether it is in affiliate marketing or e-commerce, the internet ain’t going anywhere, and you are not benefiting by waiting around for the right time to come.
2) Get plugged into an internet marketing forum.
3) Ride your bike!!
I know that not everyone has the confidence to walk into an internet business, so I’m doing my best to hurry up on my affiliate marketing training site as well as provide a lot of free stuff to my lists. Look for the conclusion of my new site to be ready around the end of the month.
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I feel it necessary to inform those who are still reading that I have never been more angry about the actions of a government than I am right now. As we creep quickly into a recession and see soaring gas and food prices, please allow me to inform you that these hardships are caused by (not relieved by) government intervention. It is not the free market that has caused gas prices to hit $4 a gallon; it is exactly the opposite. In a society in which we inflate the economy in order to perpetuate “growth,” and in a society in which we subsidize marginal producers in order to “facilitate competition,” we hurt the very people that we attempt to help. When the economy goes bad, we do not need more government – doing so only plunges us further into debt, further into recession, and further into dependence on a government that should be serving us.
For example, when consumer spending declined, the government assumed that poor people had less money and needed help. In order to do this, the Federal Reserve (grr… the Fed…) cut interests rate to put more money into the economy. This provides temporarily relief for those who receive the dollars first. The problem with this: it is not poor people who receive the money first, but RICH people. Also, when you have more dollars but the same demand, the price of the dollar falls. What happens when the dollar falls? Prices of imports – including gas – SHARPLY increase. Until the new money trickles down to the middle and lower class, they pay higher prices for food, gas, and other goods, and they see no benefit. It puts them in a crunch until the money finally trickles down – and when it does, the economy has already experienced inflation, meaning that they see none of the benefit. In this way, the government attempts to “help” the free market along, but it really puts people in more of a struggle.
Makes no sense.
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As a result of these things, I have decided that the only way to ride out the economic storm is to help myself by helping other people. I truly believe that by serving others, you will experience more growth in business than those who are out for themselves. So, I will continue to grow my business without any intention to stop – no matter how big it grows – that is, until I can run for office and change the failed policies that have hurt the very people that the government has intended to help.
