Well, statistically, the odds are stacked against you Friend. Take any group of 100 people, and by age 65 only ONE of that group will retire wealthy, and only FOUR of that same group will be able to meet their daily needs without some help from the government or someone else. Not very encouraging is it? Particularly if you are already in your forties, or older.
Many such professionals counsel people to focus on personal AND financial independence - both are imperative.
A neighbor of Pat, one of my associates, is a senior executive of a large Industrial firm. He gets a big salary and expense account, has a nice house, great car and terrific family. Only problem is, he's never around to enjoy it. He leaves at 6:00 am every morning for his daily commute, and he rarely is home before 9:00 or 10:00 in the evening. He always brings work home with him, and most of the time he looks like he's ready to blow a gasket. Yet because of his salary, car, house, etc., he looks like he's one of the guys who have "made it." Well, he hasn't, at least, not in my book.
Contrast that to Pat's lifestyle: Pat is financially stable. He drives a new BMW SUV, his house is modern and He has a great family. Here's the difference. He works for no one. He spends about 15 - 20 hours a week to feed his lifestyle, and they are the hours that He chooses. His home office is his only base of operations, so He never commutes. He takes his wife and children to the beach, football games and a variety of other activities that they love whenever He wants. He attends all their school functions and He has tons of time for just his wife and himself."
Here's the key. I can teach ANYONE to get the same results. But most people are so "boxed in" to the vision that the only way to be a success is to be like Pat's neighbor, that they just simply aren't OPEN to a more effective way to freedom. Let me suggest this to you. If you are truly open to learning about an activity that can get you this kind of lifestyle, regardless of your background, past history, education or work experience, then we need to talk. And you can do this without pushing overpriced products on people, without beating up your friends and family, and you definitely won't have to do any selling.
"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."-- Vance Havner
Sound like it's worth investigating? You bet it is. Here's all you do. Simply contact me with your phone number (including your area code) and the best time to reach you (I promise your personal information will NOT be shared with anyone - your privacy is absolutely assured.) I'd be happy to give you a call at my expense to see if there is a fit for you here. This is a private activity that is available by INVITATION ONLY, so please respond at your earliest convenience. If you are really serious about "Making It," you'll never get a better opportunity Friend, and you can start from where you are now.
I look forward to speaking with you personally in the next few days.
Best regards...
When the search engines determine in what order to rank websites, they do this based on the content of the site as well as links pointing back to the site and also the internal structure of the links within the site. All of these factors come into play when determining what order the search engines assign to websites for keywords.
Of course this algorithm is much more complicated than I've described here, but getting your website submitted to directories is a great way to acquire some of those ever important links.
I've seen costs associated with a service like this for as much as $1 per directory, so for a list of 300 directories, you may pay as much as $300. If you look into some places online that offer this service, you may see this for as little as $100 or so for 1000 directories.
I usually analyze this as a cost benefit situation and also take into consideration the time value of money when I choose what makes sense as far as expenses.
I've timed about how long it takes me to submit to 5 directories and it is right around 4-5 minutes per directory, so in about 20 minutes, I'll have about 4-5 directories done.
If I'm going for 300 directories, even at a speed of 10 directories every 20 minutes or about 30 per hour, I'm still looking at about 10 hours of my time for 300 directories.
Take this into consideration, but if you want to get started seeing about how long this would take, consider a directory of directories that lists directories by page rank. The website I'm talking about is addurl.nu and can be accessed online.
There are several instances where you'll be able to simply do search on Google or Yahoo and come up with a lot of directories to list to and if or when possible, get your website listed in directories that are specific to your niche.
If you are attempting to get a website for "mountain biking" ranked in the search engines, ideally you'll search for and find "biking" directories or even mountain biking directories that will link back to your site. This is important as the search engines, especially Google reward relevancy. The more relevant or related the pages are that link to your content, the more value those links are assigned and the easier it will be to get your website high rankings for the search terms you're going for. As much as it might have some value, I wouldn't be nearly as focused on getting my mountain biking website listed in a wood-working directory for example.
Directories are an excellent way to get links back to your site and wherever it makes sense from a time-value-of-money perspective, you should be outsourcing this work. Many reputable sources will do this work for you for less than $100. Good luck and go get those rankings!
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