No, I’m not advocating you auction off your internal organs on eBay. I’m not suggesting you make a million dollar deal with Bernie Madoff to serve his upcoming life sentence in prison. I am suggesting you look in the mirror, look deep into your own eyes, and ask yourself what you’ve learned in your lifetime.

No matter how young or old you are, there are interests you have pursued. There are problems you have overcome. And there are challenges you have met The knowledge, skills and experience you have acquired in your life are of great value to people both younger and older than you who are meeting these challenges for the first time.

They want to know what happened. They want to know what you did then and what you do now. They want to know how they can do it, too.

This is true on the internet. This is true in the world of book publishing.This is true in the world of newspapers, magazines, television production and radio. This is true  now. This was true back when Ogg was daubing mud on the cave wall to tell how he killed the big mammoth.

It is the one eternal and everlasting truth of business–people will gladly pay for information that helps them pursue their interests, solve their problems and overcome their challenges.

Despite this, I hear every day from people who look everyplace but into the mirror when they look for ways to make money online.

Yesterday I exchanged emails with a subscriber who told me he’s planning to flip domain names. In the course of the conversation he wrote, "For the past quarter century or more I’ve lived without conventional electricity (solar added within the last 6 months); without indoor plumbing; without what most folks call "necessities." Cook and heat with wood. Bathe and drink out of creek, both summer and winter."

The midnight-blue bruise I acquired pounding my head on the desk after reading this is a beauty. So Michael, this is directed at you: 

There has never been a greater interest in living off the grid then there is today. At this very minute, people young and old are all over the internet looking for ways to cut down, to get back to basics, to get back to nature.

People who are trapped in cities want to fantasize about living as you do. People who are fleeing cities want tips and ideas for living as you do.

People who are afraid of being bankrupt by the ever-rising cost of electricity want to know how to use solar power.

In short, Michael, there are not thousands but millions of people who are interested in YOUR LIFE! Stop dicking around  trying to flip domain names. Set up a Wordpress blog. Start reporting all the homey things you do each day– what you make for breakfast, what you use for fuel, how you get into town, how you stay healthy.

Take photos. Put them on your blog.

Put advertising in your blog. There are services and even plug-ins that will do this for you on autopilot. Find camping gear, survival gear, solar power gear that you can advertise with an affiliate link.

As people find your blog–and they’ll find it because of plug-ins that tell the search engines about every post you make–you will make money off the blog advertising.

How much can you make? There is a woman in Iowa who blogs about the challenges of her life as a Christian woman living a very rural life. She earns $5000 a month selling advertising space to businesses that want to get their message in front of her Christian readers.

She didn’t set out to make money on the internt. She was simply a thoughtful and rather lonely rural woman looking for a way to connect with people. All she had to write about was what she does each day, what she thinks about, what challenges her and how she faces those challenges. And it turned out that enough people found her life interesting to make her blog worth $5000 a month to advertisers.

Although I’ve addressed Michael here, and his off-the-grid lifestyle, my advice is the same for everyone. If you want to make money on the internet, look in the mirror. Your LIFE is the most valuable product you have. I’m Bonnie Boots…and that’s what I think!

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If you want information on how people, especially self-employed people, can expand their business and their profit potential by creating products and marketing on the internet, subscribe to my free newsletter using the form in the upper right corner.

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Getting started is easy. But getting to the point where you have a profitable business that can support you takes hard work… and time.

I’m saddened by the number of people that come to me in trouble because they have bills to pay, commitments to meet, but the money isn’t coming in. Some have left jobs to start their internet business. Some were let go from their jobs and turned to the internet for opportunities. All of them need money fast.

These people are mostly intelligent, creative and multi-talented. They have everything they need to succeed. They just haven’t been at their internet business long enough to generate sufficient money to live on. I have one answer for them all…find freelance work!

I’ve worked as a freelancer and independent contractor all my life. Even when I worked for some of the largest corporations in America, I worked on a freelance basis.

Freelance work suits my personality and my lifestyle. It lets me work when I want, work at what I want and work as much as I want.

Doing freelance work is also a good way to make contacts and get your foot in the door with companies you might want to work with later–as an independent contractor.

Working freelance is also a great way to learn how other companies go about their business. Many of the skills I use today in  my own business are things I picked up doing freelance work for successful companies. I earned while I learned!

If you’re involved in building your own online business, creating products and marketing on the internet, you absolutely have skills you can sell–today–for the fast money you need to keep your own business going and growing.

If you can write books, articles, autoresponder series, sales pages or edit or transcribe  or anything else, you can get freelance work writing. If your have the  skills to create graphics, illustrations, photos or anything else artistic, you can get freelance design work.

Right this minute, there are thousands of businesses large and small that need to hire freelance workers for short term projects. They need people who have skills–all sorts of skills–related to working and marketing on the internet. Who has these skills? YOU!

If your internet business isn’t yet earning enough income to support you, start accepting freelance work. You can get started right now. Go Freelance is  a freelance work exchange that has thousands of jobs–worldwide–in their database.  Register for a free trial  and  they’ll provide you with a free report titled "How To Find Freelance Work," a free 10-day ecourse on "The Secrets Of Freelance Success," and limited access to the jobs bank.

Visit them now and find out how easy it is to generate fast cash doing freelance work while you’re building your own online business! Would you like to earn $60 an hour for writing articles? Answer emails for $190 a day? Or  administer a business’s blog from your home for $4000 a month? Go to Go Freelance and discover how easy it is to get started. I’m Bonnie Boots…and that’s my advice!

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Bonnie Boots publishes The Internet Wizards Magazine to provide information to people–especially self-employed people–that want to build their business by creating their own products and marketing on the internet. You cna get a free subscription to the magazine by using the form in the upper right corner.

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