Poverty

Hey there I'm Robert MacEwan the author of Ideal Absolutes. If you're new to macewan.org, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed.

My self-imposed hiatus from online business officially ends on Wednesday, October 15, 2008. After three weeks of mental cotton candy, it’s time jump back into the ring. First topic is MacEwan Media, the umbrella company for all our sites which uses our macewan.tv domain to specifically target online business in the dot universe. I want to target the basics of working the dot business knowledge base. Help you to understand how fortunate you are with the choices available through the Internet.

I’d like to with by saying flat-out that money will not magically appear in your PayPal account. This is work. Real work. Even though I earn residual income which may make it appear as though I’m not working for this money, the truth is — this to is work. Folks advertise on our sites or request reviews in hope of attracting  eyeballs through either that day’s readers, rss feed readers or to be indexed for future browsers.

Lesson 1: Read, listen and learn. Give yourself a good year at least in which to learn and earn that basic knowledge of exactly what is occurring with online businesses.

Unfortunately, folks buy into the stay-at-home hype that preys on the dream of owning a Porsche, a laptop and too much free time to fill. Make no mistake that this can happen - it is accomplished through knowledge and work, so… sorry, but inserting a CD into your computer and clicking the “make me money” button is a myth. Honor the effort you expend by fulling understanding you must be in this for the long haul.

You may be wondering if it’s too late to make money online — asking if you missed the boat. Absolutely not! Bloggers earn ridiculous income. John Chow always comes to mind with last months income at $38,030.57 through a mixture of his: affiliate commissions $12,807.69, private ad sales $11,730.00, appearance fees $4,000.00, ReviewMe $4,000.00, Text Link Ads $2,028.59, Shoemoney Tools $2,019.60, Kontera $1,000.00 and RSS ads coming in at $444.69 for a grand total just under forty thousand dollars. I’m not going to spoonfeed you the links to everything I just mentioned. Get motivated! Look ‘em up yourself. Hyperlinks are the lazy way.

Now that I have your attention, I want to remind everyone that today is Blog Action Day. Join us in our attempt to address global poverty with simple-to-use internet tools at our disposal. Credit goes to my wife for bringing this to my attention. She’s a Kiva micro-enterprise lender.