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If you are interested in living a life without holding a job, read on ...
Happy Jobless Guy is a guide to help people towards a financially self-sustaining life without depending on a job. This is achieved through a two-prong approach of earning and investing. Whether you are presently jobless, or you are gainfully employed but looking to supplement your income, the lessons in Happy Jobless Guy are designed to help you improve your life and your financial well being.Select either of these two sections, or continue reading:
Part One: Guide to Earning
The first part of Happy Jobless Guy is all about Earning. If you don't have a job, if you don't have a big fat bank account, or rental property, or assets in any form, and you're not productive in any way, you're not earning. Happy Jobless Guy wants to help you towards not only earning a regular income (without having to hold a job), but also to build for yourself an earning mechanism that will continue to generate an income that grows every month, every year. It's not easy, mind you, but it's worth it. What I am asking is that you invest in this earning future - some money, your time, your energy. Because once you've gotten it in place, you simply can't match the satisfaction.The type of earning I am talking about is by building and owning an income-generating website. Why a website? I have looked at many methods of earning an income - without holding a job, that is - and while all of them can bear fruit, I love the idea of using websites to earn an income for the following reasons:
a) It earns you a continuous income 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
b) You do not have to work on it the whole time. Once the website is mature, you can let it run on auto-pilot, only regularly adding content or updates. Think of it as a farmer that grows fruit trees. The trees take 5 years to bear fruits. During that 5 years, the farmer tends to it, care for it. One day, the tree starts to bear fruits, and due to the take it received, the harvest is good, bountiful and sustainable. Only every now and then does the farmer have to come and trim it here and there. That's the same with websites. If you build it properly (and I will help you), you can look forward to a sustainable, continuous harvest. And it won't take 5 years to bear fruits.
c) The amount of time and energy spent to maintain a good quality website is minimal.
d) You are no longer earning from hand to mouth.
e) You are truly your own boss. Your success and failures are in your own hands. You have no boss over you, no subordinate under you, no upline, no downline. You cannot blame others and do not need to be responsible for anybody.
Do you want to earn an income from a website of your own? If yes, continue reading. If no, stop. I don't want to waste your time, and I don't want to waste my own if it means preaching to deaf ears.
One thing I have to say about websites: not everybody will be successful. To be successful, you have to:
a) If you to be able to decide on the topic you want to write about. If you are knowledgeable about the subject, good. If not, you need to be willing to spend some time to learn it. And I can tell you this: if you're not passionate about it, you can't go far. Building websites is about maintaining a continuous flame of passion and keeping it burning the whole time. If you write simply with the hope of making fast money, I assure you, your ideas will quickly run dry, and the amount you can input to your website will be minimal.
b) You need to be patient. Money don't fall from the sky. With websites, it takes time for search engines to find you, and for traffic to increase. However, by using methods that I present on this website, you can shorten that time span.
c) Grab opportunities as they present themselves. In other words, you need to know what to write about that makes money. I can help here, because I can show you tools that can help you analyse what keyword makes money, and what don't.
There is more than one way to skin a cat, and even more to get a website up and running. But there's a difference between owning a website, and owning a profit-making one. Which are you looking for? Many folks are satisfied just to have their own presence on the web. If they can put up their website and share it with friends, they're happy. For years I was exactly like that.
If you want more than just a website, but a website that makes money for you, take this advise: use "Site Built It!" People have asked me what hosting company I use. In the last 8-9 years that I have been building websites, I have used plenty before I learn about SBI.
Well, SBI is not exactly a web hosting company. It's more than that. For want of a better word, I'll call it "the company that helps people create successful websites".
I first got to know Site Built It! last year (2007). At that time, I already have several websites that earned me money, so I didn't pay much attention to SBI. To be honest, the first time I visited the website for Site Built It!, as you can see it here, I was a bit suspicious. What, spend so much money when I can get a website up for a small fraction of that! It took me many months before I revisited SBI and realised it was more than that. During that time, I started the Happy Jobless Guy website, where I started telling people how they can earn from building websites. Although I provided all the tips that I have, I realised one thing that kept defeating many people was that, they weren't looking for a web hosting company. What they need is an e-business solutions company. And that's exactly what SBI is. SBI is a company whose mission is to help people become profitable on the web. I read the testimonials of people who have used SBI. I realised the only way for me to really know it is to try it myself. So I signed up for an account. Opening up an account with SBI opened my eyes to the great benefit of using it versus all the other hosting companies I have used before. Things which I have to learn the hard way through trials and errors are now clearly explained. If only I had SBI when I started building websites 8-9 years ago, I would be earning so much more today, and at a shorter time too. Nevermind, better late than never.
But for you, if you ever wished to earn an income from websites, I strongly urge you to consider SBI. In subsequent chapters on Earning, I will show you in detail what you can expect SBI to do for you. But for now, I want you to visit the SBI website, read it carefully, watch the video, and then decide if you wish to own a profit-making website. Interested?
Yeah, I'm interested, show me more!
Part Two: Guide to Investing
If you took my advise in Part One, and really put in the effort to build your own website, and now you have a profit-making website that generates monthly income for you, congratulations! I am proud of your achievement, and I am sure you are proud of yourself too. And now, you can tell all your friends what I have told you in Part One is really true.But earning an income is just 50% of the journey towards full financial self-sufficiency.
Who do you call a wealthy person - a man who has a million things in his house, or a man who has a million dollars in the bank? I suppose you don't have to be Einstein to correctly identify that the wealthy person is the one with a big fat bank account. The truth is, a lot of people out there earns lots of money, but they still are not wealthy. Every month, they are drowning in debts. They are even less wealthy than some people who are earning just half or even a quarter of what they earn.
If you want to be a truly Happy Jobless Guy, you have to take care of two things: earning and investing. Part Two of Happy Jobless Guy is about investing. It is something everybody can, and should, do. It doesn't matter whether you are earning from the web or though any other means, you can and should put aside a portion of your earnings every month for investment.
I will write more about the investing part soon. Stay with me. If you wish to be kept updated of my latest articles, be sure to subscribe to the HappyJoblessGuy Newsletter.
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