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I wrote my new book, Click Millionaires, to help guide you to making money online doing work you enjoy, too.
But the problem with books is that they can't personalize my advice for your personal situation.
But now I'm pleased to announce the BIG FREE OFFER that comes with every copy of Click Millionaires:
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I've been running the private forum at ClickMillionaires.com since 2009. We've worked with hundreds of aspiring Internet entrepreneurs from all over the world for just $39/month.
But now, with the publication of my new book, I'm happy to announce a new, FREE version of ClickMillionaires.com exclusively for my readers like you!
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I'd love to meet you and personally help you build the Internet lifestyle business you've been dreaming about. It won't happen overnight but with the help of me, my team, and other ClickMillionaires.com Forum members from all over the world, we'll help you make it happen.
This quick survey just asks a few questions about my books.
I'd like your help in answering it so I know what to write about
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Please take it and I'll be happy to announce more Private Coaching Call winners soon (hopefully including you!)
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p.s. And we already have our first winner! John B. of Mount Prospect, Illinois completed the short Reader Survey here last week after reading Click Millionaires. He was entered into our monthly drawing for Private Coaching Call prizes and he won! I’m looking forward to speaking with John soon to help him develop his own lifestyle business online.
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I'm very pleased to share with you that the new audio version of Click Millionaires is now available!
If you spend time in the car, at the gym, or traveling, the new audiobook version of Click Millionaires will be a great investment of your time.
The new Audio Book of Click Millionaires! Available now at Amazon.com, BN.com and Audible.com
This new audio version is kind of like a super-long private podcast with me – totaling over 6 hours of audio that offer you all 27 unabridged chapters of the hardback Click Millionaires book.
I
negotiated with the publisher to make sure I got to narrate the book
myself, instead of some actor or voiceover artist. That means you can
be sure that I gave the proper emphasis to the most important parts of
the book for you, too.
What do you think of the new cover art the audio book publisher created?
Best,
Scott
p.s. If you are a fan of audio books, you would also enjoy the audio version of my first book, Internet Riches. Check it out here on Amazon.com and here on Audible.com. Reviews are much appreciated, too!
Freelancing as an independent contractor is a lifestyle design strategy that can help you reinvent your career, and make money from fun, flexible project work online while doing it.
Most of my advice is focused on helping you start a new business where you are the CEO. But there are other ways to build your own Click Millionaire success online. One of the lowest risk, easiest to start, and most flexible to pursue is freelancing as an independent contractor.
My guest: Fabio Rosati CEO of eLance.com
To help you explore the potential that freelance work online offers, I found a great guest for this episode of the Click Millionaires Radio Show: Fabio Rosati, CEO of eLance.com, one of the top freelance project marketplaces online.
New Podcast: Lifestyle Design Strategies as a Fun Flexible Freelancer
In this exclusive interview, eLance.com CEO Fabio Rosati and I discuss how freelance project contractor work can help you:
Make extra money outside your current job on a part-time basis.
Work from home (or anywhere else).
Pick the projects that you like.
Set the price that makes each job exciting for you.
Dodge projects you don’t like to do.
Arrange your schedule around your own lifestyle priorities.
Explore new career paths.
Learn new skills.
How to Reinvent Yourself Through Freelancing
Working as a freelance independent contractor can be a great way to make some money online without quitting your current job. It's a low risk way to explore new interests and learn new skills and even get paid while you're doing it.
Freelancing is still trading your hours for dollars but much more on your own terms and schedule than if you work a “real job." While the pay is not always high, and freelance gigs don’t provide health benefits, you can pick and choose to focus on projects that best meet your needs.
The flexibility available to freelance contractors can help you reinvent yourself and your career to create a better lifestyle by setting up a new service-based business where you make money by serving the needs of other companies.
How to Find Work as a Freelancer
You might say “That all sounds great but how do I find projects from clients willing to pay me?”
Our good friend the Internet is back to help you once again!
The newspaper “Help Wanted” ads have been replaced by online “project marketplaces” like Fabio's eLance.com. Just like eBay matches buyers and sellers of old stuff from your garage, project marketplaces help employers find independent contractors for projects where they need help.
If you have skills you’d like to put to work in your after-hours or on weekends, or if you want to start building a practice of your own around a new skill set, offering your services through project marketplaces like eLance.com, oDesk.com, Guru.com, or others online is a great place to start.
These marketplaces host thousands of project requests for all sorts of freelance services that you can consider offering yourself.
You Don’t Have to Be a CEO
While enhancing your skills through project-based work online you can also avoid the pressure of coming up with a big idea to start a new company. Instead you can "upsource" the hassle, the responsibility, and many of the administrative requirements of starting a formal business by working for others.
Online freelancer services like Elance.com make this easy for you. They handle all the billing, timesheets, and collections for you and the services are free to use. You figure out which kinds of projects you like and you only bid on those that will continue to excite you even after you come home from a long day at work.
Freelancing Can Be Your Entry Point to a New Career and Lifestyle
Now I know freelancing like this is not the answer for everybody.
Most of the emphasis online (including in my blog, books, and the ClickMillionaires.com Forum) is that you need to come up with your own idea and then build that into a company.
I’m still a big fan of that approach and that’s where I’d like to see you end up. But starting as a part-time freelance contractor may be your entry point to profitable self-employment, with a lot less risk than starting your own company.
Freelancing is a little different from my normal Click Millionaires approach, but it’s an opportunity for you. It’s up to you how much you work, and what kind of projects you pick. But if you explore and learn and get paid along the way, you might be able change careers or even reinvent yourself around a Click Millionaire lifestyle business that you love.
And your Review on iTunes would be greatly appreciated, too!
p.s. Kristin's is one of the many success stories in my new book, Click Millionaires. Buy the book today and you'll not only get more details about Kristin's blogging success, but dozens of other success stories, practical lifestyle business tips, and FREE MEMBERSHIP in my Lifestyle Entrepreneur Coaching Forum!
Here's an Independence Day "birthday greeting" for the children of the USA that I'm going to share with my kids today.
Is it too much? Let me know in the comments or please share it if you like it:
“You live in the United States of America. As an American you get to celebrate our country’s birthday today. Hooray!
Our country is a collection of towns and states that came together over 200 years ago to start a new country dedicated to the idea of “Independence”.
Being “independent” means that everybody who lives in America has an equal right to be free and try to be who they want to be.
That doesn’t just mean hot dogs and fireworks today on July 4th.
It means that you are part of something important, a dream of independence shared by hundreds of millions of other Americans (and many people around the world, too) all year ‘round.
On July 4, 1776, the people who started our country did exactly that - they started a new country!
They did that because they believed that if you want to be rich, you should be free to try to do that. If you want to become a doctor, a construction worker, a teacher, a cowgirl, an inventor, or anything else – you can try to do that, too.
Every person gets to choose how they want to live. And when you grow up so do you.
America is not the biggest or toughest country in the world but it was the first ever to be started specifically to help its people live better lives.
Many other countries around the world make it hard for their people to pursue their dreams, so to help us all stay “independent” it’s important that you speak up when you see problems at school, here at home, in the neighborhood, and that you vote when you get older, too.
Mommy and I want you to know that you are independent to grow up to be anything you want, and that you should work hard and help other people, too.
All of that is possible because this country and you are both “independent” not just on July 4th but every day here in America.
Our country isn’t perfect but Americans try hard to do the right thing and Mommy and I hope you will, too.
Because that’s what Americans do and that’s what makes America a great place to live.
Any questions?”
What do you think of this?
In our ADD world, this kind of message can't be too complex or too long, especially for children.
But I’m going to read this to them to hopefully stir up a discussion in their little heads.
As I explain in this short Independence Day video from 2010, I think July 4 is the most important holiday of the year, especially for kids growing up in the new, more entrepreneurial economy.
I’d like to help my kids appreciate from an early age that we are blessed to live here and they shouldn’t take for granted the freedoms previous generations fought so hard for. That their liberties and the American Dream are important, unique, and worth defending.
Then, of course, there will be hot dogs, fireworks, and bomb pops!
What do you think? Is it too much?
Do you have edits or suggestions?
How do you celebrate July 4 at your house?
[Please share this if you think this message is important for kids today!]
Happy Fourth of July - I hope you and yours have a great time celebrating our independence!
I recommend downloading and reading Patrick's new book for useful strategies like these:
Understanding the different advertising revenue models commonly used in forums
Best practices on ad size, quantity, and placement for online forums
How to find advertisers and sponsors for your forum
The materials you need to sell ads well
How to price your ads and set your rates
In-text and affiliate link advertising
Product sales and premium membership strategies for online communities
Working with advertising networks
and much more...
Patrick is well qualified to write this book. He's been starting, moderating, and running online forums for 12 years and is the author of a previous book, Managing Online Forums (AMACOM, 2008), too.
If you are looking for help making money from a forum, social network, or online community, this free new ebook is a great resource.
Thanks to sponsorship by Skimlinks, the new ebook is free for your download!
[Skimlinks is a clever plug-in that can help you automatically install revenue-generating affiliate links throughout a forum. I've recently started using it myself.]
In part the post says: "A slightly higher paycheck, a slightly more famous college, an incrementally better car--it's easy to be seduced by this safe, stepwise progress, and if marketers and bosses can make you feel dissatisfied at every step along the way, even better for them."
I particularly like Seth's reference to incremental rewards being a lot like a "treadmill" - you're always running but never quite reaching the goal.
His call to "be happy wherever you are, with whatever you've got, but always hungry for the thrill of creating art, of being missed if you're gone and most of all, doing important work" sounds like a good plan to me.
If you would like help re-orienting your career and work/life balance, I have 2 great resources to offer you. Both are the direct result of my own personal success in redefining my life goals and redesigning my business around my life. Check out:
1.Click Millionaires: My new Internet lifestyle business book was written with YOU in mind. Learn the 7 Lifestyle Business Design Success Principles I've developed through years of profitability online, plus working with hundreds of successful lifestyle business entrepreneurs, too.
2. The ClickMillionaires.com Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Forum: Come join the new, free version of my private coaching forum. Both I and friendly members from all over the world would be happy to help you find more success online, too. Plus, it's free!
A recent ClickMillionaires.com member poll shows that 2/3 of our members are using external hard drives as their primary backup strategy.
Is that good enough?
I always thought it was until a recent incident destroyed my confidence in hard drives.
External Hard Drives are NOT Enough (including a new recommendation for you):
For years I have used a combination of three, four, or even five external hard drives to backup my important data and e-mails. I have never had a completely catastrophic computer failure but there have been many times when I needed to find an older version of a document or retrieve e-mails that had been otherwise deleted.
That all changed when I moved offices recently. Unfortunately when I unpacked my equipment in my new office, one of the hard drives gave off a scary, broken sound that I soon learned was called "the click of death".
Research on Google introduced me to this apparently common phenomenon. The internal mechanism of the hard drive had somehow been damaged even though we had been careful with its transport and the case looked fine.
I couldn't get the hard drive to start at all.
More research online revealed lots of technical support companies that were happy to help try to recover the data. Frustratingly, none of them disclose the price for the service online. After a few phone calls I finally cornered a guy and dragged a price estimate out of him.
Bad News: He said that it would cost $650 to get started by opening the hard drive in a clean room environment, then more for their technicians' time, and that it was typical for these sorts of recovery projects to cost $800-$1000 or more!
More Bad News: His price didn't include costs for shipping the drive back and forth, a replacement drive to transfer the data onto, nor did it include any guarantee that any of the data would be recoverable at all.
Essentially I was looking at probably $1000+ for uncertain results.
Even worse? I don't know what is on the drive! Although I've been pretty good about backing all my files up on multiple hard drives over the years, I never thought to make a list of the contents of each drive.
So I'm looking at this shiny silver paperweight right now as I write this and still (even months later) wondering if it contains simply old e-mails and documents that I have also backed up repeatedly in other places, or is it full of one-of-a-kind photos of my kids and family that can't be replaced at any price?
It's a $1000+ gamble and so far I'm losing no matter which way I turn.
My New PC Backup Service Recommendation
Not surprisingly, I turned to online "cloud storage" services to start backing up my data automatically after this incident. Now I'm still running four separate external hard drives but I also subscribed to an online backup service called Carbonite Online Backup.
Carbonite sweeps my hard drives each day to find the latest document changes and e-mails I've received. Then it automatically uploads them to its secure servers in the cloud to help make sure I have everything backed up.
So far I have not had to restore anything from these Carbonite backups but I have to say I do sleep better presuming that if/when I needed, Carbonite's service will perform as promised.
I've become an affiliate for their service and today I recommend Carbonite to you. It's affordable, easy to set up, and can make a big difference in your business if your current backup strategy fails.
How about you?
Do you have data recovery horror stories like mine?
How have you handled them?
Have you tried Carbonite or other online storage services yet?
Please share your best backup tips below.
Our poll results tell me that other Click Millionaires need to rethink their backup strategies, too!
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