A Silver Lining in the Great Recession
By Jason Holland

In the current economic crisis, there is a business that is booming. In fact, there has never been a better time to get in on this opportunity.

Due to demand, there are plenty of customers to go around – and there will be for years to come. And the Internet makes it easy to run this business on your schedule and from anywhere in the world.

Think of all the people looking for jobs. What if you could help them land their dream job… and get paid to do it? I’m talking $1,000 to $3,000 per week for just part-time work.

The unemployed are looking for an edge. They’re increasingly turning to consultants to help them craft resumes that will help them stand out from the crowd.

You could offer this resume consulting service to this huge, hungry market. It’s a great way to make a side income while you’re working on your online Carefree Business. Or if you like it, you could make it your primary business – the income potential is there.

No previous experience in human resources is necessary. And you don’t have to already know how to write a great resume. It’s a science. You just need proven outlines and strategies for what details you should include on a resume to make them irresistible to employers. And you can run this business completely online (and maybe a few phone calls), from marketing your services to consulting with clients.

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The market is huge for resumes. There are 14 million unemployed Americans right now.

Everyone from college kids looking for their first job to executives laid off due to budget cuts needs help. And there are also the underemployed and those who just plain want a new job. Says Julien Sharp, who got her start as a freelance resume consultant after years in the corporate world:

“Many realize their current careers are not going to grow, so they decide to start a completely new career. They need a resume that reflects how their past experience can support the new type of job they are seeking.”

Even in the best of economic times, there are 50 million Americans out there looking for another job with higher pay. So there is always a high demand for this service.

What makes it work is that most job hunters would prefer not to write their own resumes – 79 percent, according to a recent survey. They feel more confident when a pro does it for them.

“Ninety-nine percent of people out of work for the first time in years do not have a current resume,” says Julien.

Many of Julien’s clients realize a bad resume has been holding them back. And they don’t know how to fix it.

“Tom” is a recent client of Julien’s. As a financial analyst who had been steadily climbing up to the executive level in his company, he was laid off shortly after the economy started crumbling. Like so many people today, he had trouble finding work. And with four kids (from 5 years old to 16) to support, he was getting majorly stressed.

Turns out, Tom had everything he needed to get a great new job, except for one vital component.

Sure, he had plenty of experience and expertise. But prospective employers couldn’t see that because his resume was done so poorly.

Julien sees this type of thing all the time. And it’s a major part of her business. She calls helping clients whose resumes aren’t getting them interviews her “sweet spot.”

It boils down to one thing, says Julien: unsuccessful resumes just show what the candidate did in past positions …but they don’t show how well they did them. Julien made that simple change for Tom after she took him on as a client. And within hours of posting the revised version to Monster.com, he had received eight calls and three emails from employers. Eleven days later, the client had received a job offer.

To rewrite this resume, Julien was able to charge $225 an hour.

You can charge upwards of $150 an hour for quick resume tweaks – something you can do right after you start offering this service. Tackle total resume overhauls, writing resumes from scratch, putting together cover letters… and you could multiply that amount by three or four times. With extra services, like interview coaching and helping people get their resume in front of the right eyes with promotional pieces, you can charge even more.

The more experienced your client, says a long-time corporate manager, the more you can charge. Their resumes will be more in-depth and filled with their experience.

Charles Bryant is one of Julien’s fellow freelance resume writers. Before he got into the business, he had no experience at all in resume writing. But he quickly picked up the simple techniques and strategies that anybody can use to craft quality resumes – the same techniques Julien knows.

These days, he makes between $500 – $3,000 writing resumes. And he maintains that anybody can learn what he does and have similar success.

As I said, no previous experience is necessary. You just have to learn how to ask your client the right questions to make sure the right details make it into the resume. Armed with a proven client questionnaire – this is Julien’s “secret weapon” – for getting the most important information, and you can craft a great resume that will get your clients interviews and jobs.

You can make great money in the resume business – up to $150,000 per year – and help people find jobs and get back on their feet at the same time.

In Julien Sharp’s Pro Resume Writer Program, you learn how to write a resume that gets results. She’ll tell you everything that goes into the perfect resume. Armed with her templates and outlines and a proven questionnaire for getting the most important information from your clients, you’ll have the makings of a lucrative Carefree Business.

She’ll also show you how to market your new business so that you can pick and choose your clients and still make a great living.

Get more information on Julien’s program here.

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Wes Waddell

Today we’re going to finish up our discussion on understanding yourself.

So far we’ve talked about motivating strategies. Today we’re going to cover two more areas of self-awareness that are equally important.

Combined with your motivating strategies, these two areas will give you…

A 1-2-3 power combination to get

just about anything done in record time!

And what’s really amazing about what I’m showing you, is that you don’t have to learn anything new. You’re simply understanding and leveraging who you are already!

So we’ve got a lot more to cover. But before we dive in, I wanted to make sure you check out the “resources” section at the bottom. I’m looking to add some serious talent here at Strategic Profits and if you think you’ve got what it takes, be sure to check out the ad.

OK. Enough warm up. Let’s dive in.

To higher profits and beyond,

Rich

Two More Strategies To Explode Your Performance

By Rich Schefren

OK, So far we’ve talked about different motivation strategies. You’ve evaluated yourself and determined whether you primarily use moving “toward” or “away” as a motivating factor. We also examined whether you use internal or external cues for motivation. You’ve stopped to consider whether you’re driven out of “necessity” or “what’s possible.” And you’ve also had some time to sit and think about “what turns you on.”

So right now, you’ve got some pretty important insight into yourself that you can use when making any plans. Understandings that will help you get what you want faster and more easily than you may have been able to in the past.

But let’s not stop there, because there are other strategic things you should know to help you achieve your goals more efficiently.

Learning at the Speed of Light

What about your learning strategy? First off, are you a reader or listener? Which do you tend to do more as far as when you’re learning something new? Do you tend to read a lot or do you tend to listen a lot or watch a lot?

Here’s an important point. When I ask people individually how do you learn best; most people have an easy answer for me. However, when I ask them if they act on that information, do they actually consider that and leverage it when they go about learning something – very few people actually answered yes.

And yet acting on your knowledge of how you best learn is the key to growing your performance, to getting better and learning faster. Not acting on this knowledge condemns to inefficient learning and therefore, condemns you to suboptimal performance or non-performance.

So what is the best way that you learn and are you leveraging that way? It could be by reading. It could be by thinking about and writing about what you’ve just discovered. It could be about watching videos. It could be about talking about what you’ve learned with friends. It could be a lot of things, but the point is that you need to know how you best learn.

If you know how you get motivated and you start actually using that to increase your motivation. And you know how you learn and you start leveraging that so you can learn faster, I think you can kind of see where this is going. Ultimately your performance will be so much better than it is right now because you’ve brought some consciousness to who you are; how you do the things you do; and how you could perform at your best.

Work Preferences

Another area is your work preferences. There are too many topics to discuss here, so I won’t go too in depth. But, let’s take one easy example.

Do you work best alone or with others? If you do work better with others, what kind of relationship does it usually take? Is it with friends? Is it with people who are subordinates? Is it with a boss telling you what to do? (I hope not if you’re going to be a successful entrepreneur.)

How do you work best? Do you work best in the morning or the evening? Do you work best working on one project for the entire day or working on several different projects at the same time or throughout the day? Do you work best at your desk or in different environments? Do you perform better under stress? Or, do you do better with a highly structured, predictable environment?

Personally, I tend to work best in different environments so I’m always moving around. A while back, someone was asking me how I dealt with ADD as far as multitasking. I told them when I start feeling bored and get the need to start working on something else; rather than dropping what I’m working on and starting something else, I take what I was working on and I go to a different environment. So if I’m working on something and I’m at the beach and I’m starting to get antsy, then I’ll go to the cigar bar or I’ll go to my office. Once I get antsy there, I’ll go to Starbucks. I’ll just move around.

But it’s not important what I do. It’s important what you do that works best. Maybe you’ve never thought about these things. So you don’t know the answers to these questions right now. That’s completely okay. But now that you’re aware these are things you should know, you can start actually thinking through your motivation strategy; your learning strategy; how you do work strategy.

Do you see how knowing these things can make such a huge difference in your level of performance? When you do, you can adjust your work in a way that really leverages the best out of you!

The Way I Stay on Top of These Kinds of Things

That’s one of the reasons I love writing in my journal. Because a lot of questions like these get answered. Not always in a premeditated way, but just by sharing experiences in my journal. I see the patterns over time like “oh, the last six times I really learned something quicker than I thought. It was because I did X, Y and Z in all of those cases.” Obviously X, Y and Z would be something very useful for me to consistently do whenever I’m learning something new.

So, that’ll wrap up this brief topic. I’ll leave you with this…

How well do you know yourself? And based on that, are you leveraging who you are to get all that you want? If not, are you willing to be introspective to reflect, to think through, and ultimately bring more consciousness to who you are, how you best work and what gets you going and how you learn best?

I believe that the rewards for knowing this far, far outweigh the time it takes or the energy that you expand to learn these things about yourself.

If you really want to perform at a high level, then it’s not a “nice” thing to do; it’s an absolutely essential thing to do.

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The Best Way to Buy Low and Sell High
By Jason Holland

Valerie Johnson, a college dropout with few prospects, was at a party when a child walked out in some “footie” pajamas. Another guest joked that they wished those pajamas came in adult sizes. And that gave Valerie an idea for a business.

But she didn’t want to hand sew all the orders that came in. So she looked online for possible suppliers online and found a website – an online clearinghouse really – that links manufacturers in China and other countries with entrepreneurs all over the world. There, she found someone to make the pajamas.

And a couple of emails later, she was selling her pajamas online at bigfeetpjs.com. Her first year, she made $360,000. That doubled the next year and the next … and today, after four years in business, she’s making nearly $2 million annually.

Not bad for a little business that Valerie ran from the home office in her basement.

“I think it’s awesome that someone can easily find international manufacturers from the basement of her home,” said Valerie. “I will always give credit to the website I found for enabling me to start my business quickly, easily, and on my terms.”

You can follow in Valerie’s footsteps with your own Carefree Business. The economics are simple: buy low (very low) from manufacturers in China and other sources of manufactured goods, sell at below-market prices, and keep the difference.

Yes, you’ve heard of this business model before. But I can bet you didn’t know how easy it was for small-scale, first-time entrepreneurs to make money with it.

Being Online Is Key

The key is to find your suppliers using the same online resource that Valerie and thousands of other entrepreneurs are using. It’s a trusted source for high-quality products – manufactured in many cases by the same people who make products for big-name retailers. And this website is set up to make it easier than ever for manufacturers and sellers (that’s you) to do business.

Part two is to sell your products online. You never even have to touch the products themselves – if you don’t want to. They’re shipped directly to your customers from the factory. That means no shipping or storing a warehouse full of stuff.

And you don’t have to have your own idea for a product like Valerie did. There are thousands of factories already making thousands of “hot” products already. And you can sell just about anything: parkas, dog collars, MP3 players, nutritional supplements, board games … Think about everything you own that’s “Made in China” … that’s what’s possible.

Whatever niche your Carefree Business is in … you’re covered.

The website that Valerie used to kick off her business? It’s the leading online clearinghouse for importers (especially for new entrepreneurs like you) and suppliers: Alibaba.com.

Alibaba.com is where you find your suppliers. The site has 25 million members in 200 countries who trade $6 billion worth of goods every year. It’s kind of like eBay. But instead of dealing with one sale at a time, you can import products for pennies on the dollar and sell them at a huge markup online.

When you combine Alibaba.com with an easy system for running your own import/export business, you’ll have the makings of a very profitable business.

The Time Is Now to Get In On This Business

“Today, entrepreneurs can start an import/export business from the comfort of their home with a computer with Internet access and a phone line,” says Marc Charles, an entrepreneur who’s been involved in this niche. “The import/export market is a multi-trillion dollar market – and it’s growing by leaps and bounds every day, even in a horrible economy. On top of that, there has never been a better time to get into this business. The Internet has made it easier than ever.”

One couple, Kevin and Lisa Hickey, followed this business model and built a $25 million business in just eight years. They started by selling American flags from their basement “office.” Sales really took off after Sept. 11. And when the bird flu epidemic hit, they were ready with surgical masks. Today, they sell 10,000 products on several sites. (You can check out one of them at onlinestores.com.)

Caroline Lau noticed that several of her friends were avid scrapbookers. She did a little research and found that a full-fledged scrapbooking trend was sweeping the country. But nobody was selling high-quality supplies for a good price. So Caroline tapped into the same website that put Kevin and Lisa Hickey and Valerie Johnson in business. Her first year, she brought in more than $100,000 … and her profits are now over $1 million annually.

Yes, it’s possible for small-time, new entrepreneurs to succeed. You can get started with about $500 – much less in many cases. And, as you can see from the entrepreneurs profiled above, you don’t need any experience in business or import/export. You just need to identify a need or hot trend in the marketplace and start a business to take advantage.

In this business model, Carefree Entrepreneurs can find partners, suppliers, and manufacturers all over the world with Alibaba.com. (All verified to be on the level – or they wouldn’t be allowed on the site.)

You make contact and then set up deals. For most products, no licenses, permits, or government paperwork is involved. The agreements you draw up with your suppliers is all you need. And language is not a barrier. Everybody speaks English.

Not only that, you can also do everything online – from researching “hot” products using many of the same tools you’ve used so far to pick the niche for your online business to getting those products for pennies on the dollar and selling those products at enormous markups on your own websites or sites like eBay and Amazon Marketplace.

The import/export business is a potentially very lucrative second stream of income for anyone who’s looking for extra money now. It’s also perfect for those who want to sock away some cash for a comfortable retirement.

Editor’s Note:

There’s No Reason Why You Shouldn’t Be the Next Success Story …

It’s no secret China exports billions and billions of dollars’ worth of in-demand products to the USA (and other countries) every year.

Who’s doing all the importing? Well … you might think only “big corporations” are in on it.

But one of the most experienced business experts we work with (he’s launched more than 40 successful businesses over the past 28 years) has discovered a way for ANYONE … regardless of experience, education, or amount of start-up capital … to profit from Chinese imports.

He wants to show you how to get into the same type of easy-to-operate business. All you have to do is follow a simple and easy plan that walks you – step by step – through this online business that takes full advantage of our global economy and the Internet.

Take your first step here.

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Tip of The Day:
“A Kick In The Teeth May Be The Best Thing In The World For You…”

“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” – Walt Disney

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Here’s to your success,

Wes Waddell

Tip of The Day:
What Every Successful Man or Woman Knows…
 

“Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.” – W. Clement Stone

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The Parable of The Puppy And The Elephant… 
 
YESTERDAY MORNING, I watched my six month old Springer Spaniel pup sit in front of an open door for five minutes pouting because he couldn’t get inside.

Thinking this was unusual, to say the least, I walked around the open door and led him into the house to get his morning treat.

Then I got to thinking about my own limiting beliefs.

They say that by the time an elephant has grown up in a circus you can tie them to a post with nothing but a leash and they won’t even try to break it.

They can walk away any time they want but they won’t. Because they are being held back by their memories of the heavy chains they were raised with. They were trained much like we are trained to have limiting beliefs…

But when you think about it: What’s really holding you back in life?

You know, I would be willing to bet that you are your own worst enemy. You are holding yourself back from greatness and you know it!

But it’s time to be your own best friend.

The door to the cage you think you’re in probably isn’t even locked.

But you’ll never know if you don’t try it…

Speaking of trying things out:

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Tip of The Day:
You Will Soon Become What You Project.

“Position yourself as a center of influence – the one who knows the movers and shakers. People will respond to that, and you’ll soon become what you project.” –Bob Burg

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Here’s to your success,

Wes Waddell