Saturday, September 25, 2010

The Power of Networking

There is a popular saying that “no man is an island”. This statement simply means as humans we are interdependent on each other for so many reasons and so many things. There is indeed a limit to the amount of knowledge one can acquire on his or her own because there is a lot to learn concerning this world.

It is for this reason that most people form groups to share information and learn from one another in a bid to better their lot in life. The same should therefore apply to the individual who seeks success in any field.

This is also part of the reason formal education was started – to impart knowledge on different subjects to the growing child who later in life would take fancy to what he or she is interested in doing.

Networking provides many advantages to people. One advantage is the enormity of resources available to the seeker of information. From constant interaction with members of his or her group, he or she is able to acquire a wealth of knowledge on issues that would have taken months or even years to learn.

A second advantage for such an individual will be to realize that everyone including even the most successful person in the group has stories of difficulties to tell on the road to achievement.

Some people think some are born to achieve and that is why success comes easily to them and is elusive to others. Not at all! Success is a series of planned activities that has resulted in what everyone now observes as an achiever.

As I have come to realize from my experience, there is no shortcut to success. It must be deliberately and constantly sought after by anyone who hopes to find it.

A third benefit for the person who networks with others is to see that different people have diverse opinions on the same issues and you get to appreciate that diversity especially if you hope to start a business to win customers.

People do not think the same way and when you realize that, you are better able to tailor your products and services to suit different customer categories.

It can therefore be seen that networking provides a powerful platform upon which one can build to great achievement. Regardless of what your goal in life is, take time to build networks and relationships that would pay off multiple folds as you progress.

At a time in one’s life also, you would be required to share your experiences to help build other newbies who are in need of valuable information to start their businesses or whatever endeavor.

A former American President Theodore Roosevelt is quoted as saying that “the single most important ingredient for success is knowing how to get along with others”. Ex-President Woodrow Wilson is also quoted as saying, “ I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow”.

Of course you cannot be friends with everyone just because you are seeking achievement. You can show respect to everyone who comes your way but what you should do deliberately is to seek out those whose interests match yours and that would be a good point from which to start.

A good place to start would be online where you have different forums on different issues where you can gain a wealth of information. All you have to do is go a search engine and type your area of interest in the search box with maybe something like “forum on XXXXXX” where XXXXX is your particular area of interest. A list of websites would open where you can study and choose one, join and then interact with others.

Do you seek achievement in any endeavor? Start now to look for those whose interests match yours, learn from them and climb the ladder of success with less stress.

There you have another wealth secret!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Make A Habit of Learning New Things

I know a woman who has been in search of a child for 7 years now after marriage and she still has the hope and believe that God will one day answer her prayers. What I admire in this lady is that her search for a child has led her to make several discoveries of the health benefits of natural foods and how they boost progesterone, a hormone that boosts a woman’s ability to conceive a child.

For instance, she has studied the beneficial effects of honey, garlic, garden egg, walnut, ginger, etc. She now applies the knowledge and she enthusiastically shares that knowledge with her friends. In one of my discussions with her, I mentioned to her that she could put to use such knowledge to earn income for herself as a consultant or an author.

One of the discoveries anyone would make if he or she studies wealthy and poor struggling individuals is that the wealthy ones have knowledge of a number of issues while the financially struggling individuals have limited knowledge.

Notice I have used the word wealthy and not rich because there is a difference but that is not the subject of this piece. The basic difference between the wealthy and the financially struggling individual is the information at their disposal.

The man who is wealthy has come into information on what to do and has been able to put it to good use. In fact, I read a book written by Robert G. Allen, “Multiple Streams of Income” where the author wrote about many lucrative business opportunities in the United States of America.

What was very interesting to read was what he said that some of these opportunities he himself was engaged in legally and earning income from them; but whenever he told some people about such opportunities, they would resist and say it was not possible and that it was illegal. And the man continues to make money while the doubters continue to say it is not possible.

The import of my stories above is to encourage the individual who seeks genuine and legitimate wealth to become a student of knowledge acquisition and by this, I mean begin today to study the subject matter in which you are interested in and before long, you would have acquired enough knowledge to make a living out of it.

From experience, I have seen that one does not have to be in a hurry in this life because opportunities abound for the individual who searches for it. There is no short cut to legitimate and genuine wealth. I say it again emphatically that there is no short cut to legitimate and genuine wealth.

But there is unimaginable opportunity for wealth creation if only you can apply yourself to learn new things in the area of your interest. People all over the world are in search of one solution or the other for their many problems. All you have to do is engage in research of such areas that you will be enthusiastic to speak about and use that wealth of information to provide the solution people crave for at a fee.

It is important at this point to state that your learning should be in a subject that you are passionate about. It could be in health, finance, spirituality, internet and online businesses, real estate, arts and entertainment, self improvement, motivation, computers and information technology, insurance, investments, relationships, fishing, gaming, sports, etc. It has to be something you always love to talk about or else you would burn out and lose interest with time.

As you would notice from studying my blog, I am a person who loves to help people by giving useful information and I am never tired of doing it. I love giving advice on important subjects that can positively transform a person’s spiritual and financial wellbeing. Too many people are suffering especially in my part of the world in Africa and this is basically attributable to ignorance.

Those who are able to break away from financial challenges are those who have found useful information at their finger tips and apply the knowledge to earn income. Unfortunately, majority are engaged in a pity party blaming everyone but themselves. If only they understood that the solution lies with them, if only they knew.

I urge you as you read this piece to begin today to study new things in areas you have passion and within a few short years, usually about 5 years, you would have become a subject matter expert in that area and you can build a profitable business from it.

There you have another wealth secret!!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Earning Income from the Internet

I had intended writing about something else; but then I felt a strong urge to give more information on earning income online as a way of encouraging more people to look in this direction as a way of getting out of financial challenges.

The income earning potential on the internet is enormous – the market is huge as there is no one place on this earth where the whole world can gather to do business. This can only happen on the internet and so it gives even the beginner the opportunity to tap into this gigantic market place.

There are ways you can earn money on the internet. You can have your own personal website having information on your products where clients can click to make a purchase and get the product delivered to them at an address they have filled on a form if it is a physical product; or get the product delivered instantly if it is a digital product.

A second way of earning income online involves marketing products for other companies using advertorial materials (sales pages, banner ads, text links, etc) these companies have provided for your use. These are called affiliate programs where the companies pay you an agreed sale percentage or fixed amount for your efforts in getting clients to buy their products.

There are also instances where the companies pay for your efforts in getting leads and by this I mean getting potential clients to take a specific action that would most likely end in a sale or not. Such are called Cost Per Action or CPA programs and the potential clients usually fill a form or click a link or take some other action as agreed that qualifies for payment.

However, from my experience online, I have come to realise that the challenge for most people whether you have your personal website or work as an affiliate is getting clients to see your adverts and even when they see it, getting them to take action or what is called conversion to end in a sale.

This twin challenge has left many online business upstarts frustrated and confused. Another major challenge they also face is the high cost of advertising that the big companies are able to use to get clients to make purchases. Not everyone has this financial muscle and so the big companies enjoy much of it.

Another major challenge online upstarts face is knowing how to build websites or which affiliate programs to join. To have a website, you need to register a domain name and get a company to host your page on the internet. 

A domain name is something like www.google.com or www.yahoo.com where the name between www and .com is the domain you have chosen and can be anything you choose if it still available for you to use, meaning no one else has used it. Domain names are usually paid for once a year.

You then need to pay for hosting your web page on the internet and this is usually a monthly or annual fee you pay to a web hosting company to get this service or else there will be no space to host on the internet for clients to see even when you have a domain.

Then you would have to pay someone to build the site to suit your purpose for it. This will cost money and the rate charged would depend on what and what you want placed on the website from text to graphics, tables, etc. Once you have all these in place, you would as I mentioned earlier need to look for ways to get people to visit your web page and do business with you.

Affiliate programs on the other hand already have the web page or sales pages already designed for you with your affiliate information tied to your particular sales page and your concern is in getting people to see those pages with the hope that it would result in a sale.

Unfortunately, most affiliate programs makes promises they are unable to deliver on because of the enormous amount of money one has to spend in promoting them. Even where one lacks the income, there are programs that you can use FREE of charge to also promote the affiliate programs but it requires a lot of time and effort on one’s part to do this.

Unfortunately again, some affiliate programs require you to pay money to join and even when you spend money promoting them, you never get any payments because they are SCAMS set up to take your money. So there is also the problem of finding legitimate affiliate programs to join and promote for one to earn a living online.

It is important to note at this point that if one is able get steady traffic of visitors to see your personal web page or genuine affiliate sales page, the chances of making steady sale is guaranteed. Fortunately, I have found a program in which the owner has struggled for 3 years online before he was able to crack the code and started making money online.

He has further developed a program where he builds you within 24 hours a completely FREE website on the condition that you join 5 money making programs where you can earn decent income and break out of the rat race. 

Even the company that handles the hosting for the FREE website has a program that will pay you every month for new referrals. Again, the challenge like I mentioned earlier has to do with getting people to see your website, right? Very correct.

Fortunately, this program also shows you cost effective ways of doing this where you do not need to spend thousands of dollars before you break even. One of their advertising means is one where you pay just once and you get advertising for life! 

If you are an experience internet marketer reading this piece, you would agree with me that very few programs if any are able to deliver such powerful package to anyone who wants to earn a decent and legitimate online living starting on a low budget.

Without wasting your time, I bring you the program here http://www.PlugInProfitSite.com/main-5262 and advise that you take this very seriously if your goal is to earn online income to replace your daytime job.

Please take this advice, as the purpose of this blog is to reveal true wealth secrets to you and so I would never give you misleading information as it impacts on my integrity, which I would not compromise for any wealth.

There you have another wealth secret!

© copyright Gabriel Ama.
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Develop Multiple Income Streams (2)

Believe me when I tell you that you will find the additional savings if you look critically at your expense lines. I have done it before and so I speak from experience. There are things you don’t need but you engage in those expenses maybe because others are doing it or maybe because you believe you will die if you don’t buy that item.

Far from it as there is nothing indispensable as far as expenditure is concerned. If you don’t believe me, then go and ask someone who has not eaten for 2 straight days if he feels like going shopping to buy clothing and then you realise from his response his priority at that moment is to kill the hunger he feels.

Or go ask a homeless individual in the chill of the night if he wants to buy a television and then his response would be that he wants a home and warm bed to lay his head.


People have different expense priorities at different times and so anything additional that is not a priority could be done away with and the extra money saved towards investment in an additional income stream.

It is that additional income stream one could now use to engage in the expenses that are not priorities. But I tell you some other folks would rather look for a 3rd additional income stream. It all has to do with one’s level of discipline and focus in life.


So please do not make excuses anymore about not having enough money whether you are a new business owner or an employee. With time, you would see how much you can save for investment if you follow the advice I have given here.

Now having gotten the additional money for investment, what area could one invest it? One good area to invest additional income is Real Estate since the world’s population is always growing faster than available housing, which means there will always be a need for accommodation for families, business people and even organisers of different sporting and social events.

Another area of investment could be in the money and capital markets. Yes, I know someone else would shout “no way” because people lost money in the recent stock markets crash. Now take note that there is never any such thing as a safe investment.


Someone I would refer to as a sage made a remarkable statement, “The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavour on the business known as gambling”. What this person was saying in essence is that gambling is a business just as business is like gambling.

In business you cannot have it all because you will lose sometimes and gain sometimes just as we were taught about profit and loss in elementary math. So, as you cannot rule out other areas of investments as being risky, so the money and capital markets are equally risky. What one therefore needs to do is to become an informed investor.

This, I can tell you, has been the number one secret American billionaire Warren Buffet has used to help him take financial investment decisions in the stock market. He is always reading companies’ financial reports on a daily basis and so he has a long term perspective of their businesses and is therefore able to make informed business investment decisions regarding them.

Anyone who wants to go into the investment world cannot therefore afford not to do otherwise but that would amount to gambling at the highest level. The forex market is another very risky but extremely profitable area of investment one can put additional income.


Once again, I advise that you take time to get important information about the market before committing any funds there. Don’t be carried away by the potential returns available without doing the necessary homework of finding out what it entails and how the winners there take their investment decisions.

Finally, the third one I want to introduce is online business and by this I mean earning legitimate income on the internet to pay one’s bills and add extra for taking of other luxuries. Unfortunately, there are many scams out there and it would take one with experience to be able to sieve the genuine sites from the fake ones.

There are a number of people who have been able to find and earn wealth online and are having a great time doing that. At this point and with my experience online, it would be unfair of me not to direct you to a legitimate and profitable program I have discovered.

I need not say much since the site says it all. I would just advise that you take advantage of this opportunity. For those who have been online and know what obtains there, you would after seeing this agree that this is a bomb of an opportunity for anyone to miss especially for one operating on a low financial budget. Here it is: http://www.pluginprofitsite.com/main-5262.

So begin now to develop additional income streams as the initial ones give extra savings and watch your fortunes skyrocket over time.

There you have another wealth secret!


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