In my article, ‘The Job Trap’, I spoke of “Recurring Income Streams”, as a powerful tool for creating financial independence. What is clear merely having a job, as the singular income stream, will not lead to financial independence. What is also clear, the pursuit of financial independence, by creating wealth is not a hobby. Instead it is a committed fulltime endeavor that is rewarded with passive income that continues to flow, long after the work has been done. What is also clear that individuals who successfully are financially independent develop recurring income streams primarily through investments, real estate, and business ownership. For many people, lacking enough funds to begin investing, or purchasing real estate are difficult initial choices to develop recurring income. Therefore entrepreneurship, developing a business becomes a feasible initial income creating stream..Home Based Business: Passive Income StreamLiving in a highly charged technology age, has given rise to more people developing a home based business. With the power of the internet, literally developing an international business very possible. Additionally, the potential to generate thousands, and in some cases, millions of dollars in revenue is quite possible with a successful home based business. Without a doubt, you can make money online. And setting up a potential successful online business is possible with very little initial money. While the potential is great for a successful home business there are some factors that should be considered. If your entrepreneur money stream involves something online, are you looking simply to make money online? Or are you truly looking to develop a home based business? First impression it may appear that there really isn’t any difference between the two options. Opportunities to earn money online, are plentiful. They might include surveys, visiting websites, to name a few. These along with other similar opportunities result in earning money only when engaged in the money producing activity. On the other hand, creating a successful online home based business, requires work, similar to any business. Particularly in the initial stage of developing the business, putting in the work is vital to creating ongoing success. Here’s just some of the tasks: researching products, services that your business potentially will offer. Setting up your website, acquiring your own domain name, hosting for your website, etc… The great thing though is you potentially will be rewarded many times over for the work you performed. Just as there are many opportunities to make money online, there are also many opportunities that are excellent tools for creating a home based online business.Affiliate Marketing: An Online Home Based BusinessFor a newbie lacking experience in creating a business, and in particular an online home based business, affiliate marketing is an excellent choice to begin. Why? For several reasons. For starters, a product or services that is already in high demand now becomes available to your business to profit from. Additionally, when you place a link on your web site, and customers click to purchase, you won’t have to worry about shipping, collecting payments, or finding a payment processor to do that. In return for generating the sale through your site, you will receive a commission payment. Another bonus that a solid affiliate program will provide for your business, is the tools, training, and support to effectively market their product or services through your business. A real simple process, right? Wrong!!! Yes you simply find a company, join as an affiliate. But remember you’re creating a business, therefore work is required on your part. Choosing the right affiliate program for your business requires research on your part to find a company, product that you feel comfortable, with that you would use yourself, that you want to learn everything about it, and how to effectively market it. It takes work to increase your knowledge requiring having and developing a successful online business. While it is true, that many people who start a home based, especially, an online business initially in the infancy of development, generally start while yet still employed, and committed to family. Certainly the issue of committing to your business often get clouded. The truth is that in beginning, you must constantly be working on your business in some capacity if having a successful business and recurring income stream is important to you.
How to Invest Informed
To learn to invest informed and learn how to invest with confidence most people should break the subject down into two parts: investment basics and investing. By tackling topics or articles in the following order you can learn how to invest money as an informed investor without wasting too much time and effort.
First get a handle on basic financial concepts, terms and investment basics. Every investment in the world can be evaluated based on just a few simple characteristics. Don’t invest money in anything until you know if it fits YOUR needs for such things as safety, liquidity, growth, and income. Only if you invest informed can you avoid the costly mistakes that are caused by picking an investment that’s not right for you.
Then, as a basic investment guide, focus on stocks and bonds because this is where you are most likely to invest money in the future. Once you have a handle on these securities, its time to get familiar with investment markets and how to invest in them. If you don’t understand the stock market, for example, your knowledge of stocks (equities) is of little value in the real world of investing.
Learning all about mutual funds should be your next step and shouldn’t be difficult now that you know stocks and bonds. After all, these securities are where most mutual funds invest money for their investors. And mutual funds are where most investors invest money in stocks and bonds in 401k plans, IRAs and other accounts. There are thousands of funds to choose from but 99% of them fall into 1 of 4 general categories.
You should also get familiar with other investments like money market securities and annuities before you move from the INVESTMENT GUIDE phase of your education to the INVESTING GUIDE segment. In other words, before you can learn to invest informed you’ll need a clear understanding of all of your major investment options and how they compare in terms of their basic investment characteristics. This is not as difficult as it sounds since the universe of investments can be condensed into only 4 different categories or asset classes: cash equivalents (safe, liquid investments), bonds, stocks, and alternative investments.
Investing is the art of putting an investment strategy together and managing your money at a level of risk that’s within your comfort level. Once you understand the investment end of things you need a game plan in the form of a complete investment strategy. Asset allocation is the single most important part of any strategy; and your portfolio asset allocation over time will be the main thing that determines your success or failure as an investor. Concentrate on learning asset allocation: how to invest money (in what proportion) across the 4 asset classes mentioned above.
Now you’ll also want to learn to apply various investing strategies or tools to help offset risk while earning higher than average investment returns. The two important things to understand when you get started in the learning process are the following. Learning how to invest is easier than you think if you take the subject one step at a time in a logical sequence. Second, learning to invest informed is actually a two step process: learn investment basics, and then learn investing.
Don’t get discouraged if you don’t understand something in an investing article you are reading. Back up and search for another article that covers the topic or area that confused you. For example, if you are confused by an article on bond funds it’s probably because you don’t understand bonds in general. Most people don’t. Most people don’t get much out of an adventure novel, either, if they start reading on page 47.
Take fear and anxiety out of investing. Learn to invest informed.
A retired financial planner, James Leitz has an MBA (finance) and 35 years of investing experience. For 20 years he advised individual investors, working directly with them helping them to reach their financial goals.
Considerable Factors Involved in Product Creation & Marketing
The niche you have chosen should allow creation of more than one product or service. With the technological advancements in the hosting industry, from automated control panels and scripts that simplify creation of accounts, to complete turnkey solutions; there is no need to worry about spending time on the real products sold to the customer. The main ones are keyword selection, sales copy principles, graphics, affiliate programs, product creation, online payment processing, auto responders, and search engine optimization.
Once you’ve earned money from this type of information product business, you can invest in the creation of your own products if you want, or start offering more informational products that allow you to sell your knowledge. But the creation and production costs of a similar big ticket in sequence product, although higher, are still pretty low. A key by-product of this process will be the creation of 3-D, Computer Assisted Design art.
The Association for Financial Professionals permits the following activities for repatriating funds: Research and Development activities, advertising and marketing programs, hiring and training new recruits, acquiring patent and other rights to intangible property, improving transportation, funding capital investments with the purpose of job creation and job retention & funding product responsibility or environmental claims.
It prohibits certain activities like: Tax payments, Payment of executive recompense, Payment of dividends, Redemption of stocks, Debt investments and Portfolio investments. Therefore, before repatriating the money, you must consider whether it is worth or not.
Checklist on what artist and product development necessitate includes: Exceptional vocals, musicianship and/or songwriting skills, Continued education and enhancement of musical skills, Quality equipment, Performance ability, Image creation and maintenance, Plan of action, goal setting, excellent promotion materials including photographs, press releases and artwork, Business management skills, Marketing, Publicity and Promotion knowledge, Online and Offline Professional management, Basic knowledge of recording, producing, engineering, and mastering, Basic knowledge of manufacturing, distribution, and sales online, brick and mortar and air-play, Good choices in members, staff and advisors, Physical and mental preparedness, Basic knowledge of finances, accounting Law and legal issues etc.
The goals for doing so are for the product owner to: Communicate the whole, Determine and communicate when releases are needed, Determine what functionality is sufficient for each release & focus on business value derived from the releases. The delivery team on the other hand will see the whole, learn about the steps to realize the vision, learn the business priorities, provide technical input to the roadmap and provide estimates for the projected features. The salesperson must lead the prospect through the various decision criteria needed in order to secure a sale. Whether your idea is the development of a product, launch of a service business, or even the creation of an event or program for a non-profit, creativity is the root of all entrepreneurial efforts starting with the vision itself.
People quickly learn to spend their time on marketing and product creation, rather than repetitive tasks. Apart from empowering companies and individuals, there should be a particular focus on identifying labor intensive businesses that have the potential to make a significant and positive impact on employment creation as well as those businesses that have a product or service offering for export markets with the final objective of booming local economies.