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    When Henley wrote the prophetic lines, “I am the Master of my Fate, I am the Captain of my Soul,” he should have informed us that 

we  are  the  Masters  of our Fate, the  Captains  of our Souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

     He should have told us that the ether in which this little earth floats, in which we move and have our being, is a form of energy moving at an inconceivably high rate of vibration, and that the ether is filled with a form of universal power which ADAPTS itself to the nature of the thoughts we hold in our minds; and INFLUENCES us, in  natural  ways,  to  transmute  our  thoughts  into  their  physical equivalent. 
        If the poet had told us of this great truth, we would know WHY IT IS that we are the Masters of our Fate, the Captains of our Souls. He should have told us, with great emphasis, that this power makes no  attempt  to  discriminate  between  destructive  thoughts  and constructive thoughts, that it will urge us to translate into physical reality thoughts of poverty, just as quickly as it will influence us to act upon thoughts of riches. 

        He  should  have  told  us,  too,  that  our  brains  become magnetized  with  the  dominating  thoughts  which  we  hold  in  our minds,  and,  by  means  with  which  no  man  is  familiar,  these “magnets” attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.         He should have told us, that before we can accumulate riches 
in  great  abundance,  we  must  magnetize  our  minds  with  intense DESIRE for riches, that we must become  “money conscious until the  DESIRE  for  money  drives  us  to  create  definite  plans  for acquiring it. 

        But, being a poet, and not a philosopher,

Henley contented himself by stating a great truth in poetic form, leaving those who followed him to interpret the philosophical meaning of his lines.         Little  by  little,  the  truth  has  unfolded  itself,  until  it  now appears certain that the principles described in this book, hold the secret of mastery over our economic fate. We  are  now  ready  to  examine  the  first  of  these  principles. Maintain a spirit of open-mindedness, and remember as you read, they are the invention of no one man. The principles were gathered from  the  life  experiences  of  more  than 500  men  who  actually accumulated riches in huge amounts; men who began in poverty, with but little education, without influence. The principles worked for these men. You can put them to work for your own enduring benefit.   
You will find it easy, not hard, to do.  Before you read the next chapter, I want you to know that it conveys factual information which might easily change your entire financial  destiny,  as  it  has  so  definitely  brought  changes  of stupendous proportions to two people described. 
        I want you to know, also, that the relationship between these two men and myself, is such that I could have taken no liberties with the facts, even if I had wished to do so. One of them has been my closest personal friend for almost twenty-five years, the other is my own son. The unusual success of these two men, success which they  generously  accredit  to  the  principle  described  in  the  next chapter, more than justifies this personal reference as a means of emphasizing the far-flung power of this principle. 

Almost  fifteen  years  ago,  I  delivered  the  Commencement Address at

Salem College,Salem, West Virginia. I emphasized the principle described in the next chapter, with so much intensity that one of the members of the graduating class definitely appropriated it, and made it a part of his own philosophy. The young man is now a  Member  of  Congress,  and  an  important  factor  in  the  present administration.  Just  before  this  book  went  to  the  publisher,  he wrote me a letter in which he so clearly stated his opinion of the principle outlined in the next chapter, that I have chosen to publish  
his letter as an introduction to that chapter.         It gives you an idea of the rewards to come.  
“My dear Napoleon: 

        “My service as a Member of Congress having given me an insight into  the  problems  of  men  and  women,  I  am  writing  to  offer  a suggestion  which  may  become  helpful  to  thousands  of  worthy people. 
        “With apologies, I must state that the suggestion, if acted upon, will mean several years of labor and responsibility for you, but I am en-heartened to make the suggestion, because I know your great love for rendering useful service. 

        “In  1922, you delivered the Commencement address at Salem College,  when  I  was  a  member’  of  the  graduating  class.  In  that address,  you  planted  in  my  mind  an  idea  which  has  been responsible for the opportunity I now have to serve the people of my State, and will be responsible, in a very large measure, for whatever success I may have in the future.  
        “The suggestion I have in mind is, that you put into a book the sum and substance of the address you delivered at Salem College, and in that way give the people of America an opportunity to profit by  your many  years  of  experience  and  association  with the  men who, by their greatness, have made America the richest nation on earth. 

        “I   recall,   as   though   it   were   yesterday,   the   marvelous description you gave of the method by which Henry Ford, with but little schooling, without a dollar, with no influential friends, rose to great  heights.  I  made  up  my  mind  then,  even  before  you  had finished  your  speech,  that  I  would  make  a  place  for  myself,  no matter how many difficulties I had to surmount. 
        “Thousands  of  young  people  will  finish  their  schooling  this year,  and  within  the  next  few  years.  Every  one  of  them  will  be seeking just such a message of practical encouragement as the one I received from you. They will want to know where to turn, what to do, to get started in life. You can tell them, because you have helped to solve the problems of so many, many people. 

“If there is any possible way that you can afford to render so great a service, may I  offer the suggestion that you include with every book, one of your Personal Analysis Charts, in order that the purchaser  of  the  book  may  have  the  benefit  of  a  complete  self

           Second.  Determine  exactly  what  you  intend  to  give  in return for the money you desire.  (There is no such reality as “something for nothing.)

             Third. Establish a definite date when you intend to possess the money you desire.

              Fourth. Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire, and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

                   Fifth. Write out a clear, concise statement of the amount of money  you  intend  to  acquire,  name  the  time  limit  for  its acquisition,  state  what  you  intend  to  give  in  return  for  the money, and describe clearly the plan through which you intend to accumulate it.

                       Sixth. Read your written statement aloud, twice daily, once just  before  retiring  at  night,  and  once  after  arising  in  the morning.  AS  YOU  READ—SEE  AND  FEEL  AND  BELIEVE YOURSELF ALREADY IN POSSESSION OF THE MONEY.

                        It is important that you follow the instructions described in these  six  steps.  It  is  especially  important  that  you  observe,  and follow the instructions in the sixth paragraph. You may complain that it is impossible for you to “see yourself in possession of money” before you actually have it. Here is where a BURNING DESIRE will come to your aid. If you truly DESIRE money so keenly that your desire  is  an  obsession,  you  will  have  no  difficulty  in  convincing yourself that you will acquire it. The object is to want money, and to become so determined to have it that you CONVINCE yourself you will have it.

                     Only those who become  “money conscious” ever accumulate great  riches. “Money  consciousness”  means  that  the  mind  has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one’s self already in possession of it.

                   To the uninitiated, who has not been schooled in the working principles  of  the  human  mind,  these  instructions  may  appear impractical.  It  may  be  helpful,  to  all  who  fail  to  recognize  the soundness  of  the  six  steps,  to  know  that  the  information  they convey,  was  received  from  Andrew  Carnegie,  who  began  as  an ordinary laborer in the steel mills, but managed, despite his humble beginning,  to  make  these  principles  yield  him  a  fortune  of considerably more than one hundred million dollars.
 

              It  may  be  of  further  help  to  know  that  the  six  steps  here recommended  were  carefully  scrutinized  by  the  late  Thomas  A. Edison, who placed his stamp of approval upon them as being, not only the steps essential for the accumulation of money, but necessary for the attainment of any definite goal.

                    The steps call for no  “hard labor.” They call for no sacrifice. They  do  not  require  one  to  become  ridiculous,  or  credulous.  To apply  them  calls  for  no  great  amount  of  education.  But  the successful  application  of  these  six  steps  does  call  for  sufficient imagination  to  enable  one  to  see,  and  to  understand,  that accumulation of money cannot be left to chance, good fortune, and luck.  One  must  realize  that  all  who  have  accumulated  great fortunes, first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, DESIRING, and PLANNING before they acquired money.
              You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, UNLESS you can work yourself into a white heat of DESIRE for money, and actually BELIEVE you will possess it.

                You may as well know, also that every great leader, from the dawn   of   civilization   down   to   the   present,   was   a   dreamer. Christianity  is  the  greatest  potential  power  in  the  world  today, because its founder was an intense dreamer who had the vision and the imagination to see realities in their mental and spiritual form before they had been transmuted into physical form.
 If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

                    Never, in the history of America has there been so great an opportunity  for  practical  dreamers  as  now  exists.  The  six  year economic collapse has reduced all men, substantially, to the same level. A new race is about to be run. The stakes represent huge fortunes which will be accumulated within the next ten years. The rules of the race have changed, because we now live in a CHANGED WORLD that definitely favors the masses, those who had but little or no opportunity to win under the conditions existing during the depression, when fear paralyzed growth and development.

         We who are in this race for riches, should be encouraged to know that this changed world in which we live is demanding new ideas, new ways of doing things, new leaders, new inventions, new methods of teaching, new methods of marketing, new books, new literature, new features for the radio, new ideas for moving pictures. Back  of  all  this  demand  for new and  better things, there  is  one quality which one must possess to win, and that is DEFINITENESS OF  PURPOSE, the  knowledge  of what one  wants, and a burning DESIRE to possess it.

              The business depression marked the death of one age, and the birth of another. This changed world requires practical dreamers who  can,  and  will  put  their  dreams  into  action.  The  practical dreamers have always been, and always will be the pattern-makers of civilization.

             We  who  desire  to  accumulate  riches,  should  remember  the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put  into  practical  use,  the  intangible,  unseen  forces  of  unborn opportunity,  and  have  converted  those  forces, [or  impulses  of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.
 Tolerance, and an open mind are practical necessities of the dreamer of today. Those who are afraid of new ideas are doomed before they start. Never has there been a time more favorable to pioneers than the present. True, there is no wild and woolly west to be conquered, as in the days of the Covered Wagon; but there is a vast business, financial, and industrial world to be remoulded and redirected along new and better lines.

 In  planning  to  acquire  your  share  of  the  riches,  let  no  one influence you to scorn the dreamer. To win the big stakes in this changed world, you must catch the spirit of the great pioneers of the past, whose dreams have given to civilization all that it has of value, the spirit which serves as the life-blood of our own country— your opportunity and mine, to develop and market our talents.
 Let us not forget, Columbus dreamed of an Unknown world, staked his life on the existence of such a world, and discovered it!
 Copernicus, the great astronomer, dreamed of a multiplicity of worlds, and revealed them! No one denounced him as “impractical” after  he  had  triumphed.  Instead,  the  world  worshipped  at  his shrine,  thus  proving  once  more  that  “SUCCESS  REQUIRES  NO APOLOGIES, FAILURE PERMITS NO ALIBIS.”

If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead to do it.

               Shortly   after   Mr.   Darby   received   his   degree   from   the “University  of  Hard  Knocks,”  and  had  decided  to  profit  by  his experience in the gold mining business, he had the good fortune to be present on an occasion that proved to him that  “No” does not necessarily mean no.

                  One afternoon he was helping his uncle grind wheat in an old fashioned mill. The uncle operated a large farm on which a number of colored sharecrop farmers lived. Quietly, the door was opened, and a small colored child, the daughter of a tenant, walked in and took her place near the door.

            The uncle looked up, saw the child, and barked at her roughly, “what do you want?” .Meekly,  the  child  replied, “My  mammy  say  send  her  fifty
cents.” 
           “I’ll not do it,” the uncle retorted, “Now you run on home.” “Yas sah,” the child replied. But she did not move. The uncle went ahead with his work, so busily engaged that he did not pay enough attention to the child to observe that she did not leave. When he looked up and saw her still standing there, he yelled at her, “I told you to go on home! Now go, or I’ll take a switch to you.”

          The little girl said “yas sah,” but she did not budge an inch. The uncle dropped a sack of grain he was about to pour into the mill hopper, picked up a barrel stave, and started toward the child with an expression on his face that indicated trouble.
             Darby held his breath. He was certain he was about to witness a murder. He knew his uncle had a fierce temper. He knew that colored children were not supposed to defy white people in that part of the country.

                  When  the  uncle  reached  the  spot  where  the  child  was standing, she quickly stepped forward one step, looked up into his eyes, and screamed at the top of her shrill voice,  “MY MAMMY’S GOTTA HAVE THAT FIFTY CENTS!”

           The uncle stopped, looked at her for a minute, then slowly laid the barrel stave on the floor, put his hand in his pocket, took out half a dollar, and gave it to her.

              The child took the money and slowly backed toward the door, never taking her eyes off the man whom she had just conquered. After she had gone, the uncle sat down on a box and looked out the window into space for more than ten minutes. He was pondering, with awe, over the whipping he had just taken.

              Mr. Darby, too, was doing some thinking. That was the first time  in  all  his  experience  that  he  had  seen  a  colored  child deliberately master an adult white person. How did she do it? What happened to his uncle that caused him to lose his fierceness and become as docile as a lamb? What strange power did this child use that made her master over her superior? These and other similar questions flashed into Darby’s mind, but he did not find the answer until years later, when he told me the story.

              Strangely, the story of this unusual experience was told to the author in the old mill, on the very spot where the uncle took his whipping.  Strangely,  too,  I  had  devoted  nearly  a  quarter  of  a century  to  the  study  of  the  power  which  enabled  an  ignorant, illiterate colored child to conquer an intelligent man.

              As we stood there in that musty old mill, Mr. Darby repeated the story of the unusual conquest, and finished by asking,  “What can you make of it? What strange power did that child use, that so completely whipped my uncle?”

             The  answer  to  his  question  will  be  found  in  the  principles described in this book. The answer is full and complete. It contains details and instructions sufficient to enable anyone to understand, and  apply  the  same  force  which  the  little  child  accidentally stumbled upon.

              Keep  your  mind  alert,  and  you  will  observe  exactly  what strange  power  came  to  the  rescue  of  the  child,  you  will  catch  a glimpse of this power in the next chapter. Somewhere in the book you will find an idea that will quicken your receptive powers, and place at your command, for your own benefit, this same irresistible power. The awareness of this power may come to you in the first chapter, or it may flash into your mind in some subsequent chapter. It may come in the form of a single idea. Or, it may come in the nature of a plan, or a purpose. Again, it may cause you to go back into  your  past  experiences  of  failure  or  defeat,  and  bring  to  the surface  some  lesson  by  which  you  can  regain  all  that  you  lost through defeat.

            After I had described to Mr. Darby the power unwittingly used by the  little colored child, he quickly retraced his thirty years of experience as a life insurance salesman, and frankly acknowledged that his success in that field was due, in no small degree, to the lesson he had learned from the child.

                   Mr. Darby pointed out: “every time a prospect tried to bow me out, without buying, I saw that child standing there in the old mill, her  big  eyes  glaring  in  defiance, and  I  said  to  myself,  ‘I’ve  gotta make this sale.’ The better portion of all sales I have made, were made after people had said ‘NO’.”

              He recalled, too, his mistake in having stopped only three feet from  gold, “but,”  he  said, “that  experience  was  a  blessing  in  disguise. It taught me to keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be, a lesson I needed to learn before I could succeed

the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire. But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by “blind baggage,” rather than be defeated. (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train).

He presented himself at Mr. Edison’s laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. In speaking of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said, “He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after. I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him the opportunity he asked for, because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved that no mistake was made.”

Just what young Barnes said to Mr. Edison on that occasion was far less important than that which he thought. Edison, himself, said so! It could not have been the young man’s appearance which got him his start in the Edison office, for that was definitely against him. It was what he THOUGHT that counted.

If the significance of this statement could be conveyed to every person who reads it, there would be no need for the remainder of this book.

Barnes did not get his partnership with Edison on his first interview. He did get a chance to work in the Edison offices, at a very nominal wage, doing work that was unimportant to Edison, but most important to Barnes, because it gave him an opportunity to display his “merchandise” where his intended “partner” could see it.

Months went by. Apparently nothing happened to bring the coveted goal which Barnes had set up in his mind as his DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE. But something important was happening in Barnes’ mind. He was constantly intensifying his  DESIRE to become the business associate of Edison.

Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.” Barnes was ready for a business association with Edison, moreover, he was DETERMINED TO REMAIN READY UNTIL HE GOT THAT WHICH HE WAS SEEKING.

He did not say to himself, “Ah well, what’s the use? I guess I’ll change my mind and try for a salesman’s job.” But, he did say, “I came here to go into business with Edison, and I’ll accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life.” He meant it! What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Maybe young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single DESIRE, was destined to mow down all opposition, and bring him the opportunity he was seeking.

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When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Mr. Edison had just perfected a new office device, known at that time, as the Edison Dictating Machine (now the Ediphone). His salesmen were not enthusiastic over the machine. They did not believe it could be sold without great effort. Barnes saw his opportunity. It had crawled in quietly, hidden in a queer looking machine which interested no one but Barnes and the inventor.

Barnes knew he could sell the Edison Dictating Machine. He suggested this to Edison, and promptly got his chance. He did sell the machine. In fact, he sold it so successfully that Edison gave him a contract to distribute and market it all over the nation. Out of that business association grew the slogan, ”Made by Edison and installed by Barnes.”

The business alliance has been in operation for more than thirty years. Out of it Barnes has made himself rich in money, but he has done something infinitely greater, he has proved that one really may “Think and Grow Rich.”

How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes’ has been worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it has brought him two or three million dollars, but the amount, whatever it is, becomes insignificant when compared with the greater

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         TRULY, “thoughts are things,” and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.
          A little more than thirty years ago, Edwin C. Barnes discovered how true it is that men really do  THINK AND GROW RICH . His discovery did not come about at one sitting. It came little by little, beginning with a BURNING DESIRE to become a business associate of the great Edison.
                    One of the chief characteristics of Barnes’ Desire was that it was definite. He wanted to work with Edison, not for him. Observe, carefully, the description of how he went about translating his DESIRE into reality , and you will have a better understanding of the thirteen principles which lead to riches.
                  When this DESIRE, or  impulse of thought , first flashed into his mind he was in no position to act upon it. Two difficulties stood in his way. He did not know Mr. Edison, and he did not have enough money to pay his railroad fare to Orange, New Jersey.
                 These difficulties were sufficient to have discouraged the majority of men from making any attempt to carry out the desire. But his was no ordinary desire! He was so determined to find a way to carry out his desire that he finally decided to travel by “blind baggage,” rather than be defeated. (To the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train).
                        He presented himself at Mr. Edison’s laboratory, and announced he had come to go into business with the inventor. In speaking of the first meeting between Barnes and Edison, years later, Mr. Edison said, “He stood there before me, looking like an ordinary tramp, but there was something in the expression of his face which conveyed the impression that he was determined to get what he had come after. I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really DESIRES a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win. I gave him the opportunity he asked for, because I saw he had made up his mind to stand by until he succeeded. Subsequent events proved that no mistake was made.”
                         Just what young Barnes said to Mr. Edison on that occasion was far less important than that which he thought. Edison, himself, said so! It could not have been the young man’s appearance which got him his start in the Edison office, for that was definitely against him. It was what he THOUGHT that counted.
If the significance of this statement could be conveyed to every person who reads it, there would be no need for the remainder of this book.
                   Barnes did not get his partnership with Edison on his first interview. He did get a chance to work in the Edison offices, at a very nominal wage, doing work that was unimportant to Edison, but most important to Barnes, because it gave him an opportunity to display his “merchandise” where his intended “partner” could see it.
                               Months went by. Apparently nothing happened to bring the coveted goal which Barnes had set up in his mind as his DEFINITE MAJOR PURPOSE. But something important was happening in Barnes’ mind. He was constantly intensifying his DESIRE to become the business associate of Edison.
                                    Psychologists have correctly said that “when one is truly ready for a thing, it puts in its appearance.”
Barnes was ready for a business association with Edison, moreover, he was DETERMINED TO REMAIN READY UNTIL HE GOT THAT WHICH HE WAS SEEKING.
                       He did not say to himself, “Ah well, what’s the use? I guess I’ll change my mind and try for a salesman’s job.” But, he did say, “I came here to go into business with Edison, and I’ll accomplish this end if it takes the remainder of my life.” He meant it! What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
                                    Maybe young Barnes did not know it at the time, but his bulldog determination, his persistence in standing back of a single DESIRE, was destined to mow down all opposition, and bring him the opportunity he was seeking.
When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form, and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
                             Mr. Edison had just perfected a new office device, known at that time, as the Edison Dictating Machine (now the Ediphone). His salesmen were not enthusiastic over the machine. They did not believe it could be sold without great effort. Barnes saw his opportunity. It had crawled in quietly, hidden in a queer looking machine which interested no one but Barnes and the inventor.
                                 Barnes knew he could sell the Edison Dictating Machine. He suggested this to Edison, and promptly got his chance. He did sell the machine. In fact, he sold it so successfully that Edison gave him a contract to distribute and market it all over the nation. Out of that business association grew the slogan, “Made by Edison and installed by Barnes.”
The business alliance has been in operation for more than thirty years. Out of it Barnes has made himself rich in money, but he has done something infinitely greater, he has proved that one really may “Think and Grow Rich.”
                             How much actual cash that original DESIRE of Barnes’ has been worth to him, I have no way of knowing. Perhaps it has brought him two or three million dollars, but the amount, whatever it is, becomes insignificant when compared with the greater asset he acquired in the form of definite knowledge that an intangible impulse of thought can be transmuted into its physical counterpart by the application of known principles .
                         Barnes literally thought himself into a partnership with the great Edison! He thought himself into a fortune. He had nothing to start with, except the capacity to KNOW WHAT HE WANTED, AND THE DETERMINATION TO STAND BY THAT DESIRE UNTIL HE REALIZED IT.
                                    He had no money to begin with. He had but little education. He had no influence. But he did have initiative, faith, and the will to win. With these intangible forces he made himself number one man with the greatest inventor who ever lived.
                          Now, let us look at a different situation, and study a man who had plenty of tangible evidence of riches, but lost it, because he stopped three feet short of the goal he was seeking.

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I set out to discover what was wrong with this industry, and what I found was so shockingly simple to fix that I was stunned that someone else hadn’t already done it.

do affiliate marketing is for you?Do you think you have the determination to succeed? Are you tired of punching someone else’s clock? Good, that’s a beginning. Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or services to take on part of your business workload. You may want to outsource part of your work because you don’t have the room, you need an expert, you have periodic busy periods, or you need more production to get orders out on time, etc. The following are ten ways outsourcing can save your business time and money.

1. You won’t have to take the time to train employees. This will allow you to spend more time working on your marketing and advertising campaign.

2. I’ve been a Search Engine Marketing professional for over 5 years, working at some of the top interactive marketing agencies in the country. I’ve had Fortune 500 clients, a well as the little guys. I’ve worked with budgets of thousands of dollars per month, up to tens of thousands of dollars per day. 3. You won’t have to interview employee candidates. This will allow you to spend more time improving your customer service, in return you will get more repeat purchases.

4. You Will Learn The Following:

A proven system to pick profitable niches and products

A way to build a keyword list that converts like crazy

How to write ads that steal clicks from the competition

How to use simple math to make maximum sales

And much, much more…

The Top 10 List of the Best Affiliate Networks You won’t have spend money on employee costs like taxes, medical, vacation time, holidays, workers comp, unemployment costs, etc. (These may vary depending on which country you do business in.)

You can speed up you order and delivery system with the extra help. Your customers will appreciate the fast service and you’ll have a higher chance that they will buy from you again. What is an Affiliate Network?

An affiliate network is a third party facilitator which brings affiliates and companies together. It connects Advertisers (companies with products or services to sell) together with Publishers (those who display and promote these products or services) so they can do business. The affiliate network does all the tracking, accounting and payment of commissions.

The following Top 10 list of the best Affiliate Networks is compiled by an actual full-time affiliate marketer who has worked these programs for over five years. This list is subjective and based on first-hand experience. It should be seen in this light and every marketer probably will have a different list or have these in a different picking order depending on the type and nature of their marketing.

But this list of the 10 Best Affiliate Networks will give you a general rundown on these affiliate networks and how they operate.

You can take on extra or large orders your business couldn’t handle before. This will expand your market share and you could also offer to take the work your competition can’t handle.

You could get end up receiving orders from your subcontractors. Your subcontractors may also tell other people about your business.

One of the most important traits you will need in this business is desire - a desire so strong that nothing will deter you from your goal of being an affiliate marketer and succeeding.

I do have to tell you that it won’t be easy. Some of you may have already begun or been doing it for awhile and understand what I mean. You will make mistakes, and there will be some false starts. Not every campaign will be successful. But don’t sweat it because you will come out on top with your desire and determination. You will learn from your mistakes and keep improving with every setback. You know you will achieve success because you won’t give up and quit. YOU ARE A WINNER.

Want to learn the secret of ALL self made millionaires? They made mistakes and a lot of them. But, they didn’t give up. They were focused on their desire with determination and did not let anything get in their way nor let anything stop them from reaching their goals.

If you really want to be a successful marketer, you should have your own website. In fact, if you want to be successful in any business, you need to have an online presence. Do you already have a website? No? Then I suggest you try SBI for building your first site. To learn how you can get your own website built, check out SBI by going here: (click the link below

Until now, the formula affiliates have been using has been to pour tons of money into paid advertising techniques and grab a one-time sale for the product they’re promoting.

Here’s my formula:

Free and Paid Traffic + Laser-Targeted List = Lifetime Affiliate Sales

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happy new year 2008

it was a wonderful 2007 hope to see my readers next year too

Alex
 

An often overlooked strategy that could maximize your affiliate earnings

 However, if you JUST focus on this you are missing out on a great residual income stream.
  Many affiliate programs are based on a 2-tier commission structure.  This means you will earn a percentage for each sale that you bring in and a percentage for each sale that an affiliate that you referred brings in.
   For example, you could earn a residual (ie you are not doing the work to earn this) 5%+ from the sales that your sub-affiliates bring in.  This can really add up when you have a large base of sub-affiliates.
   So where do you find these people that will help build your nest egg?
     Let them find you

Most people join an affiliate program so that they will make some money by referring people to the products and services of the affiliate company.
    This is, in fact, a great way to earn a really nice income.

While it can be quite easy to start an online business, not all people make a success. How then successful business man/woman could make it? Every successful business has its own story, however, there are some common factors that make a business hard to fell down. 

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