Bruce’s Careers

Easy Living  This is a ‘Lens’ on ‘Squidoo’ called “Making a living easily” and is all about finding the right ways to do a job that you enjoy.The information on this lens is going to show you in very precise detail exactly what you need to do then you will find out how to make a living easily!  The most important aspect of any career is being able to say “I enjoy what I do…”

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Affiliate Marketing is a way of providing both a service and a way of creating a new career to capitalize on the worldwide growth in internet usage.
 
Total internet users in Europe and in the World, January 2007

Europe: 308,712,903

World: 1,076,203,987 and growing.

With the growth in internet usage and all sources reporting a growth in on-line activity, especially ‘shopping’ the opportunities to make a career choice involving the internet has grown tremendously. Because so many people are surfing for purchases or information relating to future purchases, the provider of products or simply information about those products can make a good income on-line. The simplest way to do this which I explain here is by Affiliate Marketing.

First let me tell you what Affiliate Marketing is:

Affiliate marketing is when you advertise and promote someone else’s products in return for an agreed amount of commission as compensation.

The point is this: if you have an interest in a certain activity such as ‘bird-watching’ you could easily build an on-line business around the subject but without the business start-up costs or even the need for a website.

How could you do that? The answer is through an affiliate programme. Many of the providers of products or services to ‘bird-watchers’ do have websites and want more traffic and more custom. Frequently they will have an affiliate programme and will let you drive traffic to it.

They will let you sign up as an affiliate at no cost to you, AND will pay you a commission whenever you send somebody that buys from them.

Think about the possibilities and you have an INSTANT on-line business!

• Bird Watching magazines

• RSPB membership subscriptions

• Wild bird supplies, feed and bird tables

• Outdoor clothing for field trips

• Binoculars and telescopes

• Bird watching holidays or trips

• And so on…
You see the possibilities of Affiliate Marketing? Once you sign up and learn how to market these products you are in business without having to buy and store and products. You have no shipping and postage to worry about; you don’t even have to handle and payment transactions or returns or customer complaints. In fact you don’t even have to deal with customers at all!

All you have to do is refer people through promotional activity to the sellers website using a special link they provide to track the traffic coming from your activity.

If you would like to know how to be a top-notch affiliate marketer, prepare to find out what you need to know. WITH THE RIGHT GUIDANCE this is one of the quickest and easiest ways to create income and a new career you will ever find.

I have found several packages of information that you can get free of charge that show you exactly what to do to get started but will also take you to the next stage if and when you wish to build things up even further.

What you want is more information and I have what you want in a package of information about affiliate marketing which includes step-by-step instructions and hundreds of hours of video tutorials. 

Download your pdf report: http://www.ebookdownloads.biz/AffiliateMarketingReport_download.html

Let me know what you think.

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Two of the many interview questions that crop up regularly have been going around in my head just recently.  These are the ones that could be just like walking into a man-trap if you are not really careful.  They sound almost innocuous and really quite so straightforward that you might just jump straight in with your answer.  However if you do, you might not spot the concealed trap until its too late.

It is true that most interviewers are too busy to play games with you, but every now and then up pops one of these questions and delivers the knock-out blow.

What are these questions and why do I call them my favourite interview questions?

Well most of the regular interview questions - most interviewers ask about twenty questions - demand some thought and a straight answer based on your skill or experience whereas these two seem to come in from left field and are more devious.  Instead of a straight answer what they want is an opinion which is always more difficult to judge and therefore easier to get it wrong.

So lets take a look at how you can deal with these two favourite interview questions:

1. “If I asked your boss to describe you, what would he say?”

2. “If we don’t offer you the job after this interview, why do you think that would be?”

You would think that the answer to Question #1 would be a glowing report based on your key strengths and wonderful personality.  Not necessarily so; the boss’s style may be at odds with the style of this new organization so you need to be more careful.

Your response should be based around your ability to understand and support your boss and previous bosses.  By showing an understanding you indicate your capability to adapt to different styles and will therefore be seen as one who will fit in better.

The employee who adapts to and predicts the needs of his or her boss is a greater asset than one who is immensely knowledgeable but less forthcoming.  As always compatibility is more important than simple competence.

Question #2 is an invitation to take yourself out of the running by telling the interviewer why you are not up to being offered the job!  The trap is that you do just that by telling them why you are not good enough to be hired.  However, you should respond to this question like this:

“I am confident that my skills and experience make me a strong candidate for this job. If you didn’t offer it to me I think that would be because I haven’t explained some area of my experience to you fully enough.”

That in itself is the basis of how to answer this question but you must not leave it there. You must go on by adding:

“Which area of my experience has left you with any concern?”  This way you tease out any lingering doubts or objections to hiring you.

Get a free copy of my Smart Interview Guide at  http://www.your-cv-coach.com/free-ebooks.html

Writing as a Career Can Be Rewarding « Bruce’s Careers

When you choose creative writing as a Career you may be letting yourself in for a very difficult way of making a living.

Dreaming of writing a best selling book or novel is delicious, but the reality is often far removed from that dream.

Apart from the need to produce creative output regularly and even when you have all the subject knowledge, characterisation, plotting, flair and wordcraft skill, you will still find that writing as a career is only successful for a small number of authors.

Most authors will struggle to get their work produced and published and if you have already chosen writing as a career then you will recognize the difficulties associated with this career choice.

The familiar feeling when the rejection slip arrives is almost enough to bring this exercise to an end, but as every author will agree writing can be very rewarding and satisfying to produce either a well constructed novel or an authorative work on a subject close to your heart.

So you really only have two choices:

• You can give up altogether
• Or you can find another way

Which as most authors who have chosen writing as a career will say actually amounts to no choice at all!

You aren’t going to give up so you must find another way. Now let’s look at what you can do about it.

If you haven’t already written your book don’t let the potential difficulties put you off - go ahead and write it; the problem is not with you but with the response from the publisher or editor.

Even if they reject your book, it doesn’t mean its no good, (but you knew that anyway) it just means they didn’t like it or it didn’t fit in with their idea of what sells.

Self-publishing is the answer and it can be easier than you think.

If you have already written your book and you have hit the rejection stonewall, don’t give up, you have produced something from your heart and many people will like it enough to buy it.

Self-publishing is again the answer and it can be easier than you think.

Let me tell you what I do and show you the tools I use.

I didn’t choose writing as a career, it chose me! But writing is what I do, whether it’s in the writing of the content on my web-pages or because I am a Career Coach as well, in the production and publishing of ebooks on mainly career-based subjects.

I can show you how easily you can use colour, different font sizes and styles as well as chapter headings, lists and bullet points. Although I have chosen not to use page numbering it is very easy to insert page numbers.

What You Need to Make a Success of Writing as a Career

1. Your writing ability (which we will take as read);
2. Pride in the value of your work;
3. A willingness to learn and try another approach;
4. The right tools to produce your work;
5. Persistence and determination;
6. Readiness to follow marketing guidance

With all of that you will soon be able to say that writng as a career was a sound decision - you will not only have written and produced your own e-book, but you will have published it and what’s more actually sold some copies!!

If you still want to go down the traditional route of producing a physical book or novel, it’s much easier when you know the market is ready for you.

So Let’s Get Started

It is very simple - all that stands between you and your success as a published writer is the lack of the required tools. If you take a look at either of the examples of my ebooks above you will note they are in Portable Document Format (.pdf). This is the most popular format for ebooks because it can be viewed on any PC or Apple Mac and the ebook will always look the same. other forms of presentation used by ebook compilers are often executable files (.exe) which can only be viewed on Windows based systems i.e. PCs and cannot be viewed on Macs so you limit the audience.

The software to produce .exe based ebooks is also usually fairly expensive for example Ebook Gold which is one of the best professional ebook compilers on the market costs $97.00 which is quite an expense when you are setting out.

Equally the top rated PDF creator Adobe Acrobat will cost at least $129.00 but you can get the reader free if you don’t already have it.

However what you need when starting out is to keep the costs down so I recommend you download the free version of PDF Suite 995 which is the one I use all the time. It won’t cost you anything and if you don’t mind viewing some of their ’sponsor ads’ for 30 seconds you don’t need to pay for the upgrade.

You simply download and install it to your PC as a ‘printer’ and when you have prepared your document in MS Word you just select ‘Print’ and your PDF is produced. As simple as that!

You’ve Written Your Book - Now What?

To make a success of writing as a career you need to inform your audience about your book and get them to buy it.

First of all how do they find out about it?

I have found that the best way to publicise your new ebook is to write a short summary article (about 500 - 600 words) and submit this to an article directory.

Webmasters and publishers are always on the lookout for interesting new material this is the easiest way to get your book noticed with no cost attached.

You can see what I mean by looking at my articles at EzineArticles.com where my articles have been published on average 450 times each. You can also ‘blog’ about your ebook with a free account at Blogger.com

You have now conquered the two basics of production and promotion, although there are other ways to promote your ebook this will get you off to a great start.

Your audience must now be able to buy your book and the simplest way for you is to give them a digital download from a website.

If you don’t have your own website or don’t want one then I can help you out by featuring your book on my ebookdownloads.biz site.

You may just find then that you want to sell others’ e-books as well as your own then far from just writing as a career you become a successful e-book merchant.

Of course you will also need to be able to accept payments on-line. Don’t worry about expensive merchant accounts just get your free PayPal account and start taking debit and credit card payments immediately.

A lot of people are talking about the potential of the new generation of social networking sites (which they refer to as Web 2.0 sites) such as MySpace and YouTube where musicians have had great success in publicising their music - this could also be a valuable idea to build your writing career successfully.

Find out more about how you could benefit from this new idea and get a free report on how Web 2.0 Sites work and get access to more e-books you could sell. For more information click Writing As A Career

John is an ebay Powerseller who maintains in his e-book “The 90 Day Powerseller Challenge” that he can make you an ebay Powerseller in 90 days.
When I read the ebook, I found it a good read with lots of little tips and ideas that seem so simple when you’ve read them that you wonder why you didn’t think of them before.

The strength of his book lies in the fact that he can prove his own success as a powerseller and you can read all of his customer feedback on the ebay site. So you know that what he tells you does work. In fact he is classed as a “Titanium Powerseller” and this is the highest level.

John concentrates on selling e-books and in his challege he explains why this is a good business proposition and describes everything you need to do and the reasons behind why you need to do what he recommends. Obviously you need an Ebay account and a payPal account, but he also explains how you can make your email work like an autoresponder to deliver your digital goods once they are paid for. This one tip alone is worth hours of work saved.

More listing tips, such as aiming to end your auctions on a Sunday evening really do pay off and the way he gets repeat visitors coming back to buy again is a real eye-opener.

Overall I rate this e-book as excellent and you will learn a lot about how to make a good income in the same way that thousands already do just by following this guide.

Peter Fisher is an accomplished webmaster and publisher of  http://www.ebookdownloads.biz and “trainee” ebay Powerseller. You can get a copy of The 90 Day Powerseller Challenge at eBay Auctions

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With my Top Interview Answers ebook. Find out how to answer any interview question that any interviewer may possibly throw at you.

This is your first step to a great interview and winning the job you really want!

Do you recognize yourself?

You are confidently sitting through your interview. Being absolutely sure that you can answer any question any interviewer might throw at you. No nerves, no butterflies and no worry about unforeseen questions coming up. You perform so much better because you have all the answers worked out to all the possible questions!! …

Top Interview Answers

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