John Chow proves it can be done
For those of you who don’t believe that there is money to be made by blogging I am sorry for you because there is and there is a lot of it.
For proof a blogger in my home town runs a blog called John Chow dot Com – The Miscelaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul. In this blog here posts exactly how much money his blog makes and shares how to he does it.
In May 2008 he was in China for 1/2 the month and his blog earned over $1000 a day proving you can earn from anywhere. Check it out yourself www.johnchow.com/blog-income-report-may-2008/
After reading John’s blog and seeing for yourself that there is money to be made by blogging learn how to start your own income stream by blogging with Rob Benwell’s Blogging to the Bank
to your success
Chris Stirling
P.S. Once you set up your blog come back here and post a comment with a link to your new blog
Forex Quotes – Understanding them
Unlike traditional stock quotes, forex quotes can be rather tricky to decipher when you are just learning the business of foreign exchange trading. If you have decided that you want to try developing a forex trading strategy, then the first step is learning how to read these quotes. Do not overlook any part of a quote, as each portion carries a unique significance and valuable information.
The most elementary piece of information found in forex quotes simply serves to identify what is on the trading block. Forex traders buy and sell money. With this in mind, take a look at some forex quotes and you will see that every quote begins with what’s called a cross. This is the amalgam of the two currencies that are involved in the trade. For example, a quote that reads USD/JPY means that the forex quote is valid for someone who wants to use United States Dollars to buy Japanese Yen.
The second part of forex quotes that you need to look at is the pricing portion of the quote. To continue the example from above, if the quote read USD/JPY=117.57, then the trader knows that for every 1 US dollar he trades, he will get 117.57 Japanese Yen in return. While that may seem really simple, there are a few more details of these quotes that the forex trader needs to take note of before making the foreign exchange trade.
Following the initial line of the quote, which contains the two currencies that form the cross and the exchange rate, is another line of information. This is probably more familiar to common stock traders. Bid prices and ask prices, which make up an integral part of forex quotes, function in trading forex much the same way. The bid price is the price at which you can sell the currency. In other words, that is the price that people are willing to pay for it. The buy price is what you will have to pay if you want to buy the currency. There is usually a difference between these two numbers, but it is seldom substantial.
While it is possible to trade forex in any number of currencies, the largest numbers of forex quotes t
hat are traded every day involve what are known as the majors. The US Dollar, Japanese Yen, Euro, British Pound, Swiss Franc, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar make up more than 85% of all forex trades. These currencies make up the most stable markets in the world and carry the most volume. These facts make them the safest foreign exchange currencies to trade. It is not likely that you will end up holding huge amounts of worthless money.
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Achieving Success
I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.”
~ Alan Greenspan
Facebook Payday Review
The purpose of this post is to give a honest review of the new launch of “Facebook Payday” by Peter Koning.
I purchased the course on May 30 and have had time to take a look at the material in the course, and because of that, I want to give you my impressions.
As you can see on this blog there are there are countless ways and angles to make money online today….everything from gambling online to selling items on eBay or Amazon.
One of the newest areas to make money online is to harness the power of the social networking communities. There has been a lot written on Myspace and other social communities, and how to connect with people and promote your business, however, there has been little mention of Facebook…the monster of all social network communities…until now.
The Facebook numbers are awesome:
- More than 63 active users
- An average of 250,000 new registrations per day since Jan. 2007
- An average of 3% weekly growth since Jan. 2007
- Active users doubling every 6 months
These numbers are phenomenal, and for opportunists there is gold in those numbers. Think about this for a moment, if you reach only 0.1% of Facebook’s active members, you’ll be reaching 100,000 people. That’s almost an entire city of new people for you to meet. Not only that, these people are interconnected because of the relationships they’ve established on Facebook.
Peter Koning in Facebook Payday provides you with all the techniques that he has used to build up an enormous online business. For those who are open to social networking online, making money on Facebook can be very profitable to you. The Facebook Payday gives you all the monetizing application tools, relationship building strategies, as well as a full template and flowchart on different methods to promote your online or off-line business.
What You Get With “Facebook Payday”
1. Three Bonuses:
- Facebook Primer eBook with all the applications needed to monetize your Facebook profiles
- Facebook Social Ads eBook. Peter Koning bought the resale rights to this product and adds this as a bonus.
- 8 Interviews with Facebook pro’s – Fahad Maniar, Mari Smith, Mike Geary, Paul Renner, Ron Reed, Rhoberta Shaler, Steve Iser, and Beverly Trca-Kitchen.
- In addition, included is a Reed Floren lost interview.
** Interviews are available in adido or transcript format for you to download.
2. The main Facebook Payday eBook itself, which is 101 pages in length, and comes with an additional Facebook Payday Action Worksheet pdf.
This is not one of those shallow info. products that is a waste of time and money. Peter Koning leaves no stone unturned as he reveals all of his secrets and gems in making money on Facebook. Facebook Payday goes over:
A. Selling Products on Facebook
B. Affiliate Marketing on Facebook
C. Online Advertising on Facebook
D. Selling Services on Facebook
E. Build Your Own or Monetize Existing Applications
F. Investing
One of the best features in the Facebook Payday course are the extensive discussion on driving traffic to your profile and then ultimately to your product sites. Peter also goes into detail on how you can use the private messaging, walls, virtual gifts, discussion threads, and Facebook networks to drive people to your links, website or sales pages. When you read this stuff you will see Facebook as much more than just a way to connect with your old high school friends!
This program is not just for those tht already have an existing online business (or offline), and are looking for ways to promote your business. It is also for those with no experience making money online. With Peter’s “call to action” steps you can harness the power of Facebook to drive an endless stream of customers with credit card ready in hand to your affiliate links. With over 63 million active members, do you think you can find a few customers?
If you want to get a “piece of the Facebook pie,” and want the best Facebook strategies, then I highly recommend Facebook Payday.
