Nine Million People in the United States are Millionaires

According to www.cnbc.com, some of the nine million people feel poor.  They are the "middle class" millionaires.  Laurel Touby, a successful internet entrepreneur, who recently sold her website www.mediabistro.com for $23 million could be one of them. She tells CNBC that she is not that rich.

Money Making Idea

She wanted to build a website to include a community for the media where there were job listings, bulletin boards, classes,  and a freelance marketplace.  She raised money for her website by hosting parties where she invited editors, writers, and other content creators.  Her parties went on and on and her contacts grew to thousands. Now, her website is worth $23 million, with an Alexa page ranking  of  5,275 , which means that the number of visitors she gets is within the top 100,000 most popular sites in the world. There are  2,745 websites linking to mediabistro.com.

She sold her website in July of 2007 to Jupiter Media. She called her rich friends to see what they recommended she buy with her newly acquired wealth.  When she was told to invest in a jet, she laughed and thought that if she did that, her money could be gone in an instant.

See how the really rich live

According to CNBC.com, a financial news site,  "In 1985, there were 13 billionaires in the United States and today there are over 1,000 billionaires." CNBC has a special page devoted to videos and information about the investment bankers, hedge fund managers and private equity partners who make up the .001% of our population.  What toys do they play with? Perhaps a Rolls-Royce, Ferrari, or Dusenberg would pacify them? Find out how many cars Tim Durham, a 45 year old financier from Indiana has in his garage.

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Job Search Remedies

Do you hate to perform a job search?  Does it make you sick just thinking about searching for a job? Well, you are not alone. People who have worked their entire lives at a business and then get laid off or fired are at a loss when it comes to searching for another job. It may have been over 20 years since the person has written a resume.

Here are some job search remedies for you.

Rent a Movie

You may be depressed about your job loss, but watching this movie will make you think about your situation in a new light.  Even if you aren't a Jim Carrey fan, this movie will move you from the couch to the floor because you are laughing so hard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Find someone else to write your resume

Avoid the pain of writing your resume by asking someone else to write it.  Of course you can pay someone to write it at Monster.com.  For $249 you can get a cover letter and resume written for you. Tackle the job of writing your resume as soon as possible.  If you put it off, you are losing months of time in getting that job.  Don't sweat it too much though because there are websites that can actually give you ideas about writing your resume.

Job Search Websites

• LinkedIN provides you with search features for the zip code you live in and is a networking website of professional business people.
• Monster.com will allow you to build your resume online or upload your own.  They also offer professional resume writing for you.
• Indeed.com is actually a job search engine.  As of July 25, they had posted 141,178 new jobs in the past 7 days. It searches job sites, newspapers, associations and company career pages.

When you are looking for a job, it is easy to get overwhelmed with advice. Try just a few of these ideas to see if they will remedy your job searching headaches.  Leave us some of your suggestions to add to this article. 

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10 Quick Tips for Job Hunting after being Laid Off!

When people lose their jobs, it’s a devastating experience no matter how tactfully they were told they were no longer needed. The life they once knew as financially and emotional secure has been ripped away.  According to many sources this loss is similar in intensity to a divorce or death.

Here are 10 quick tips for surviving a job loss. (Click on the dog to buy the cute doggie tee.)

1. Be grateful for at least one thing in your life on a daily basis. It’s so easy to get angry about situations beyond your control.  Gratitude helps immensely.

“Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It ismore important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.  We cannot change our past.  We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way.  We cannot change the inevitable.  The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.”  - Charles Swindoll, Minister/Author

2. Get dressed for the day as if you were going to an interview. You will feel more competent and better prepared for anything that may come up during the day.  Get out of those pajamas (unless you are looking for a job as a pajama model) and act as if you were going to be working soon!

3.  Focus on getting face-to-face interviews.  The chances of getting a job are increased with every face-to-face interview with a person who has the power to hire. It seems too obvious to point out, but the end goal of obtaining a job cannot be reached without face-to-face interviews.

4.  Talk to everyone you know and let them know you are looking for work. If there was ever a time in your life that you felt more like crawling in a hole and covering yourself up with sand, this is it.  Let go of this feeling as quickly as possible. The more people that are aware you are job hunting, the higher your chances of getting interviews that lead to employment.

5.  Become a sales person about the most important thing you will ever sell anybody - YOU! It is extremely difficult for some people to think of themselves as a product, but in a way that is what we are.  If you could describe yourself as a product a buyer needs what would you say?

6.  Control the job hunting process. Being laid off is a situation that is out of your control. In fact the only thing you have control of is the actual job hunting process. Plan out daily time periods where you will be on the phone inquiring about job openings and actually talking to possible employers.  Avoid doing anything else during this time.

7.  Don’t overrate the value of a resume.  What is going to get you hired with a new company is your interaction with the interviewer. Write a good resume, but don’t get stuck on spending hours doing it. Many employers are extremely busy and just want the answers to where your worked, how long you were working and what you did.  

8.  Avoid writing an objective on your resume.  Employers care about what they want, not what you want. They want to know if you will fit the position they have in mind for you.   As Tony Beshara states in his book, “The Job Search Solution,”

“The clear message of an effective resume needs to be – You need to interview ME because this is what I have done in the past FOR OTHERS and therefore THIS IS WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU!” 

9.  Jobs are given to the people who sell themselves best. Don’t be afraid that the qualifications you have aren’t the absolute perfect fit for the jobs you apply for. Maybe someone else looks better than you on paper, but people get hired who are best at selling themselves. 

10.  Research, research, and more research.  Find out about the company you are asking to work for.  Find out everything you can about them. Ask yourself if you would be happy working for that company. Talk to people who are already working there.

Many more tips and ideas can be found in Tony Beshara's book, The Job Search Solution: The Ultimate System for Finding a Great Job Now! (Job Search Solution)

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Falling into debt is like falling into quicksand

Debt is quickly becoming America's ball and chain. The personal credit card debt held by consumers as of July 10, 2008 is $5,312,998,074,837.08. That is $5.3 trillion dollars of personal debt.

So you are not alone in your struggles to control your debt. The whole nation is right along with you.

Reasons to avoid debt

The weight it causes on your day-to-day functioning can be extremely burdensome.

Problems arise because sometimes it takes years to actually feel the pinch and pain you have gotten yourself into.

The credit card companies delight in your failure. They make things so easy for you to get into debt and they love it. One day, you make be sinking so fast, you can't get out.

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Mortgage loans in the news

Mortgage loans are in the news today as two of the largest mortgage companies in the United States, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lost nearly half of their stock value during the week of July 11, 2008.  They own over one half of all the mortgages in the United States, with a total value of $5.2 trillion dollars.  They have posted $11 billion in losses.  Read more

Ecommerce Business Advice

Ecommerce is a hot topic today because so many people want to be successful at it and so many seek ecommerce business advice.

Chris Malta, owner of WorldWide Brands provides the newcomer to ecommerce some suggestions about product sourcing.  WorldWide Brands offers customers a research tool that reports the feasibility of product sales for thousands of products. He also provides contact information for suppliers that will sell products to individuals who only want to purchase small quantities of products. An excellent way for a small business owner to get their ecommerce site started.

 

 

Mr. Malta also runs a blog on his website that is full of good business advice.  He personally responds to each customer comment in a thorough manner. His posts are long and well thought out and that is what helps him establish credibility with his current customers and helps him sell new training materials. People become repeat customers because of his honesty and business advice. Finding quality ecommerce business advice is easy to do when you read through his blog.

One of the most crucial bits of ecommerce business advice he gives people is that when you are opening a new ecommerce website, choose one line of products.  One line of products allows you to become an dependable authority about that product line.  You will also get the benefit of being able to get natural traffic from the search engines when you focus on the niche marketing keywords for your product line.

Building credibility with your customers is invaluable for customer satisfaction and for repeat business.

Chris tells us in one of his blog posts:

Trying to market multiple stores at once takes way too much time and energy, and they all suffer for that. When you deal with only one store at a time, you can put all of your efforts into getting that store off the ground. Once you have one making a profit, go to the second one. Check your Market Research within our Supplier Database to be sure that the one store you start with carries products that are selling well right now.

Selling different kinds of product lines in one store confuses your customers, and absolutely kills your Search Engine rankings, which are very important. Stick to one type of product line per store!

Chris Malta is using the internet and blogging software to dramatically impact his ecommerce business. He is definitely an influencial leader in the field of ecommerce business.

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How to get paid for blogging

The current demand for good content on the web is creating a new job market. People are being paid to write content for blogs. Some of those blogging jobs are being posted online at places like Jobs.problogger.net.

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