How to Teach English in China

December 18, 2015 Peter China, Education, Getting Started

Teaching Jobs in China

If you are looking for information about English teaching in China then you are in the right place.

Today, China is emerging as a global financial force, and as English is the established global language of commerce, science, entertainment, and aviation. It stands to reason that a primary focus of the Chinese government is improving English competency amongst its citizens.

That’s me having FUN teaching in China

They say that as many as 400 million Chinese people are studying English, which is one-third of the country’s population, and the value of the English-training market is estimated to be US$4.5 billion annually.

Great Opportunities

This offers excellent opportunities for those interested in teaching English in China or indeed those wanting to know how to teach English in China.

The English language market is growing fast, and many new positions are becoming available for those wanting to teach English in China.

Cost of Living in China

Although prices are generally rising, the cost of living in China still compares favorably to most industrialized countries. Eating out or even local food shopping and buying produce from the Chinese markets is still very affordable. Although they price things by the 500 grams, rather than 1 kilogram.

In the major cites there is a wide range of regional cuisines and eating out is the often best way to discover this variety and this is something you can do a lot of in China because it’s not expensive.

The cost of transportation in China is also inexpensive and the public transport is excellent and taxi rides are very reasonably-priced, (less than a cup of Starbucks) even if the experience can be somewhat harrowing at times.

Clothing is also very affordable and you never see anyone wearing the same clothes. Long gone is the standardised clothing from a previous era. Everyone dresses relatively modern and for more on clothing you may like to see my post here.

It Can be an Interesting Experience.

Mostly the people in China are friendly, and they treat you like someone special and will go out of their way to smile and say hello to you.

I remember in my first year teaching, way up north in Changchun, Jilin province, where they were not used to seeing foreigners and many times the people would stop and stare at you, even come up and walk around you, almost touching you, especially young children. People would even give up seats on buses for you so they could get a better look at you.

So much Delicious Food

Others would take photos with their phones and groups of teenagers would want photos and selfies with you.

Restaurant owners would want you to come in and they would seat you by the window and insist upon giving you your meal for free to get you to come back again and be seen by their customers.

These are not the sort of things that go on in the major cities like Beijing or Shanghai, as foreigners are a dime a dozen there, but it certainly makes for an interesting experience in the not so popular cities and lesser known locations.

It could even be a little intimidating being treated like a rockstar and having people stare at you out of curiosity, although for me having experienced a little momentary fame in a past life, I was amused by the attention I received just for being a ‘foreign‘ person.

China at a Glance – Quick Facts

China is considered to be one of the longest continuous civilization in the world and one out of every five people in the world is Chinese. They invented paper, the compass, gunpowder, and printing.

“China consumes twice as much steel as the US, Europe and Japan combined and has recently undergone massive infrastructure development, and its economy has been among the strongest performing in the world over the past few decades. Everywhere you go you will see new buildings and infrastructure”.

Capital: Beijing

Population: 1,339,724,852 China is also the fourth largest country in the world.

Language: Mandarin Chinese

Currency: Renminbi (yuan) (¥)

Climate: Varied: wet/dry seasons

Government: Nominally Marxist–Leninist single-party state.

Religion: No really – perhaps; Buddhism, Taoism

Time Zone: Despite its size, China has only one, time zone.

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December 13, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started, Review

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Great visuals are important because the human brain is wired to read and understand images better and faster than words. But often finding the right images is time consuming and often expensive if you have buy them. Usually you can find free ones, but more often than not the really good ones, the ones that you actually want, you usually need to pay for them.

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Learn and Make Money Online

October 3, 2015 Peter China, Economics, Education, Getting Started

Learn and Make Money Online

How? Easily, by understanding the global economy and how it affects your ability to make decisions that will make you money online.

China’s recent stock market decline and subsequent devaluation of the yuan. Sent shock waves throughout the financial world, as it showed that China would allow its currency to devalue, when usually it is pegged to the US dollar at around 6 to 1.

The fact that the Government’s using financial levers to stabilize its economy, is a sure sign that things are about to get a whole lot worse.

By devaluing its currency (around 3% against the U.S. dollar) the country’s exports becomes cheaper for the rest of the world and as products become cheaper more interest is shown by purchasers and as China has an export based economy that would be a good thing. But it may be a case of too little, too late.

Other Currencies

However most other currencies have fallen much further against the U.S dollar. Since 2014, the New Zealand dollar is down over 25% and the Australian dollar has dropped more than 30% since 2013.

The Mexican peso has fallen 28% and the Canadian dollar is down 31%, since 2001.

Canada

In Canada’s case this was mostly due to the fact that the Canadian economy has gone into recession because of the low price of Oil.

As a major oil exporter and the world’s fifth-biggest producer, oil made up 27% of exports last year. Last month, the Canadian dollar hit an 11-year low against the dollar.

Other Countries

More recently the Brazilian real has lost 23% and the Russian ruble is down 16%. As a group, Asian currencies are at their worst exchange levels since the ‘financial crisis’ of 1998, the Malaysian ringgit is down 14% and the Indonesian rupiah 9%. In fact most emerging market currencies are at their lowest levels since 2002.

Government Created

This has come about as a result of virtually every government irresponsibly printing money and calling it fancy names like “Quantitative Easing“ (Q.E). What this means is that they are creating billions of new notes, euros, pesos, dollars and yen every day and injecting them into their economies.

This makes their currencies worth less as more go into circulation and it actually steals wealth from the very people they pretend to serve.

A Strong Dollar

Comparatively the U.S. dollar has gained about 20% vs. other major currencies during the last year. Even though the U.S. used ‘Q.E‘ to print Trillions of dollars from 2008-2014.

Now for the time being it has stopped and the current, U.S. monetary policy is “less printing” than other major players, like Europe and Japan, the dollar appears to be stronger.

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Learn and Earn Money Online

September 13, 2015 Peter Economics, Education, Getting Started

Learn and Earn Money Online

The Greatest Economic Meltdown in History may be about to reveal itself and this might well be your opportunity to learn and earn money online. If you thought the recent global economic recession was bad. Wait till you hear what I’m about to tell you. What you are about to learn may give you the motivation to want to earn money online.

“Almost every major financial crisis begins because of bad government policies because governments don’t create economic value. They only steal, hurt, and destroy it”.

Governments of the world are not looking out for us, as is becoming more and more evident with each unfolding, successive economic crisis. Soon the Greatest economic meltdown in history will reveal itself.

Why Do I Think this is Going to happen?

Anyone who has studied economic history or looked at the data on every past Asset Bubble will see the same distinct pattern that is found in every major economic crash in history.

For example, look at the Dutch “Tulip Mania” Bubble of the 1630′s… A rapid rise then a sudden fall.

The South Sea Bubble of 1718-1722… A massive rise then a sudden fall.

The Stock Market Crash of 1929… A four-year boom followed by a crash that continued for two years.

The 1990’s, Tech Bubble (also called the dot com bubble)… A rapid rise, then a sudden crash.

And the 2007 Real Estate Bubble…A massive five-year boom, then an equally large crash.

Notice

You will notice that every one of these has a very similar and distinct pattern. There’s a massive rise that makes people rich (or feel rich if they don’t cash out) and just when they think it will never end. It suddenly becomes unsustainable and quickly turns into a historic market crash.

But here’s the thing, asset bubbles don’t have soft landings, they burst, no matter what a government tries to do, as China and the rest of the world will discover soon enough!

Historically It’s All the Same

Here’s the typical Market cycles graph that ALL Markets follow. Again you see the same trend that has occurred in all the other markets we have shown here. This one gives you the four phases of the market that th markets cycle through.

The Real Reason we are having an Economic Crisis

It’s not only just the mismanagement of the various governments around the world that has lead to these situations. But the next (fast approaching) economic crisis will occur because of something that was far more understandable and ‘manageable‘.

Baby Boomers

In 2008, the world’s largest and richest generation in history, ‘the Baby Boomers‘, began withdrawing from the economy, reversing the major spending and borrowing trend that had been going on for the previous four decades.

The biggest spenders in the economy are now scaling down their lifestyles and curbing their spending habits, readying themselves for retirement.

Soon more and more of them will cash out of the stock market, sell their large homes and other non-essential assets and generally spend less money and that’s going to have a major impact on the global economy.

Evidence

Japan has already done just that, beginning as early as 1996, many people starting retiring from the workforce, which is why their economy, (that until 2010, was the world’s second largest), has slowed down and no matter what its governments does, it can’t restart its economy, due primarily to Japan’s aging demographics. It’s that simple.

Graph of Japan Stocks (1989 – 2010)

Graph of Japanese Real estate

How to Work Online from Home

July 13, 2015 Peter China, Economics, Education, Getting Started

How to work online from home comes down to choice and motivation. Many people want to know how to make money working online. I can give you the motivation and give you the ‘how‘ with this article. But the final decision to actually do it, is yours.

Many people overlook the most obvious benefit of working online from home which is the ability to control and manage your own financial destiny. Making money online is not difficult, once you know the how. But too often people fail online because they gave up way before they put all the pieces together. And there are a lot of pieces.

Making It Easy

Fortunately, I’m going to make it easy for you and give them ALL to you. I am even going to tell you how & where you can join a world class training community that you can start for free and where to access 300 ‘How to’ videos, that cover everything you will ever need to know about how to work online from home.

But first, let’s get you motivated to wanting to work online. Here are some powerful reasons, to make you think hard about getting started.

Some Background

Peter V Crisp

“I have written before about the Government being the biggest problem for the people of the world when it comes to wealth creation and that they are not the benefactors they pretend to be”.

They are actually detrimental to your economic well-being and its time for you to take personal responsibility and create your own online business to save yourself from their mismanagement.

Let Me Explain…

Why I say that Governments are not your friends and they are no looking out for you. Let me give you an example. Many people assume that China will one day become the next superpower and perhaps they might. But things are not always as them seem.

Not so long ago, the Chinese stock markets lost more than 3 trillion dollars in less than a month, following a strong bull market, that had risen 152% over a twelve month period, up until June 2015, before China’s two biggest stock markets suddenly plummeted.

Bubbles always burst much faster than they grow and after expanding for over a year, Chinese stocks crashed 35% in three weeks, meaning that Chinese companies lost around $3.2 trillion worth of value in less than a month.

A stunning loss of wealth and to put this in perspective that’s double the size of the entire stock market of Australia. Yet even though the drop is huge the Shanghai Index is still up 71% from a year ago, so perhaps it still has further to fall.

Why do these things happen? (More about that soon...)

Not the First Time

What you may not remember was that China led the global collapse in 2008, when the stock market ‘bubble‘ at that time saw a massive rise in just two short years before suddenly dropping 72%. So, recent events are not the first time the Chinese stock market has imploded and it won’t be the last.

In Response

In response to the meltdown in 2008 the government (in line with Keynesian economics) pumped Trillions into their economy, building hundreds of thousands of apartment blocks, commercial buildings and developing infrastructure, massively ‘overbuilding‘ basically everything.

Resulting in having real estate and industrial capacity 12 to 15 years ahead of demand. But they didn’t care, they did this to stimulate their economy and to provide jobs for half a billion people who had moved from rural areas to urban cities, looking for work.

Increased GDP

This government funded real estate construction program, artificially boosted the economy and drove up the country’s GDP – making the communist economy look successful, as they weathered the global economic meltdown, becoming the envy of the western world. Despite creating a huge hidden real estate bubble.

This unprecedented overhaul of their economy had actually been going on for decades, but really only got traction from 2009 and after five years of rapid growth, the Real Estate market began to slow, as the number of unsold properties mounted in the face of continued overbuilding and weakening demand.

Economic Out-Look

Economic growth has begun slowing, home prices are deflating (despite offical figures to the contrary) and most local governments are facing a potential debt crisis from all the massive building being undertaken with borrowed funds.

But that’s not all, this is also the same country, where families are only allowed ONE baby and some of those are now in their mid twenties and are also only having one child. But the majority of these babies are still children so, the future demand for ‘Real Estate’ is unlikely to be greater than it was, thirty years ago, when families had five or six children.

What this means is that for every child in China, over the next twenty years or so, there will be up to six older (non working) family members that will need looking after. In other words the ageing population will be massive as the population is shrinking. Making the excess of real estate a larger problem than it is currently.

Why Start an Internet Business

July 1, 2015 Peter Economics, Education, Getting Started

Why Have an Online Business?

Why have an Online Business?

…Because it’s the best way for you to create a better future for you and your family.

Why start an internet business and why have an online business are indeed important questions many people ask. Its tough to make money online they say. While it is true, it’s only because most lack the skills and knowledge needed to succeed.

Having an online business is something almost anyone can do, provided you get the right education and training.

Why Start an Internet Business? Well, for one thing, if you like the idea of earning money from home, not having to commute to work, not having to report to a boss and like being able to set your own work schedule, then this will interest you.

An Internet Business

An Internet Business is something almost everyone should consider, even though lots of people try and many fail. Others may think all a big scam and it’s too late, or too difficult to do. However its still worth pursuing and it’s becoming even more important than ever, to create an additional sources of revenue and an internet business can certainly provide that, and more.

Peter V Crisp

“I’m going to give you some powerful reasons why you should have an online business and they may not be for the reasons you think. Its time to put your future financial security back into your own hands and its easier than you think”

Previously

In a previous post I talked about superheroes and how governments don’t like them, or their innovations, because innovation upsets the status quo and the existing ‘business relationships‘ that governments have with ‘established‘ industries. Industries which are forced to employ lobbyists to maintain ‘good relationships‘ with those in power, and all the things that implies.

They Don’t Serve You

The government no longer serves the people, it instead serves its own interests. Whenever politicians talk about ‘national security‘. It means the security of the nation (themselves, the government), not you.

Whenever they do something for ‘the people’s best interests‘ or ‘the greater good of society‘. It means, in the best interests and greater good for them. Not, you the citizen.

Not Much Has Changed

You may not realize it, but not much has changed in how society is structured, only the names and roles have changed.

A sad state of affairs I admit, but unfortunately this has existed for a very long time and is not going to change anytime soon. So don’t believe the government when they say they are here to help you.

Need Proof?

So, how serious is your government about looking after your best interests. Let’s look at how serious they are at promoting innovation, lowering costs and improving the lives of its citizens?

The following is a ranking of the top ten most Innovative countries in 2015 – according to the Bloomberg Innovation Index.

“Notice the correlation between ‘spending‘ and ‘ranking’ of the various Governments funding of innovation, as a percentage of GDP”.

Rank Country		Spending as % of GDP
1	South Korea	4.36%
2	Japan	3.67%
3	Germany	3.3%
4	Finland	3.1%
5	Israel	3.0%
6	United States	2.7%
7	Sweden	2.3%
8	Singapore	2.2%
9	France	1.9%
10	United Kingdom	1.7%

If innovation brings such enormous benefits to society in both cost savings and improvements to standards of living. Then the question is …

“Why are governments reluctant to pursue innovation, more vigorously?

Whatever happened to them serving us?

If the answer is not yet obvious, then I will soon provide more information that should leave you in no doubt as to the answer. In the meantime and with your permission, I want to talk a little more about innovation and the benefits it brings to humanity.

Growing Innovation

Hydroponics (growing plants without soil) has been around for a little while, but a new startup called AeroFarms is taking it one step further with what they call “aeroponics.”

This innovation replaces sunlight with LED lighting and uses a minimal amount of water to spread a mist around the plants. Aerofarm recently acquired an old building in the middle of a city and filled it with 15-foot-high stacks of planters.

No sunlight, no pesticides, no soil and since it’s in the middle of a city, it’ll bring food directly to the consumer and as its locally produced, it means fresher food, and as we know, fresher food is always better.

Not only does growing food locally make it much more affordable, it’s far less environmentally damaging. It radically reduces transportation costs, cuts out the cost of quality soil and farmland and with this approach, the distribution of energy ensures that there’s virtually no waste and it uses 95% less water than regular farming.

The Benefits Are Enormous

Enormous Benefits for the World

Imagine the impact this type of urban vertical farming technology could have on growing cities around the world.

For example in a place like California where they use 80% of their water for agriculture and have been suffering from water shortages for years.

But what about outside the U.S, in third-world emerging countries, or in rapidly developing countries like China and India where, soil, air, and water pollution are becoming a major problem and other countries where food costs are a large percentage, of peoples living costs.

This type of innovation could be of enormous benefit to society as a whole.

Seriously – No Soil?

I know that growing plants without soil sounds crazy, but hey, so did flying back in the late 1800s. Time and motivation, like food, water, or land shortage, will allow this technology to prove itself. We already have proof that hydroponics works and ‘aeroponics’ sounds like an even more environmentally friendly concept and its just as viable.

Why is it not being heavily sponsored and promoted by the government? What’s stopping this innovation from further development? The answer; Rules, regulations and laws, as it is with all new technology and innovation.

Governments don’t want to upset the existing ‘business relationships‘ they have with the traditional industries, and you and I, are not a party to those relationships.

“I will say it again; Governments don’t want to upset the existing ‘business relationships’ they have with traditional industries”.

The Government Lies To You;

Despite what you are told by government funded institutions. Entrepreneurs are not the enemies of the people, they instead, actually enhance our lives, improve quality and drive costs and prices down. It’s the government and it’s rules and regulations and its protectionism of existing industries, that drives prices up.

Hard to believe? There are thousands of examples of this – if you researched this yourself, you would see this is all true, instead of believing the B.S that is fed to you from the Government that wants to keep these facts hidden from you.

Henry Ford

Take for example Henry Ford. Before the Government got involved in regulating the automotive industry;

in 1910, he produced 19,000 cars at a price of $900 each.
By 1915, he made 308,000 cars a year and selling them for $390 each.
Ten years later, in 1925 he was making almost 2 million cars a year selling them at $260 each.

Price were going down, value was going up, production technology was advancing. He also paid the highest wages in the industry – (before the Government and the unions got involved). You know this is also true, for the computer industry. The Memory power of computers has been going up, costs have been coming down and technology has been advancing at an incredible pace. All because there has been NO GOVERNMENT intervention in that industry.

Entrepreneurs are the true benefactors to society as is free market dynamics as they make things cheaper and better as time goes by. That’s what made America great. Individual entrepreneurs pursuing their dreams, free of government interference and their protectionist, rules and regulations.

Entrepreneurs are Benefactors

Entrepreneurs, without government interference, are incredibly valuable and beneficial for all in society. Why? – because they make money from creating values via innovation, solving problems, lowering costs, and improving the lives of their customers and employees.

Rockefeller, Carnegie, Ford, Gates, Jobs, Musk (and thousands of others, you have probably never heard of), are the real heroes and benefactors in society. They are the innovators who have made the world a better place.

But Governments don’t want you to know this!

They instead want to take the credit for the economic growth that comes from these innovations and the entrepreneurs that created them. So, they blatantly lie about the entrepreneurs true value to the world and the governments non value to the world. They flip the truth and distort the reality, misdirect and misinform the general public in pursuit of votes and power.

Want to See More?

What’s the future for innovation – take a look at the video below:

What is the Best Way to Make Money Online

June 29, 2015 Peter Economics, Education, Getting Started

What is the Best Way to Make Money Online

The best way to make money online is to become a superhero, such as the likes of What is the Best Way to Make Money Online the Tech Billionaire Entrepreneur character, Tony Stark played by actor, Robert Downey Jr, in the Iron Man movie franchise.

Ironman

Even though the Iron Man Superhero is a fictional character, there are in fact, real world people, just like the fictional Iron Man of the movie and comic book fame, who actually do incredible ‘superhero‘ type things.

By ‘superhero‘ type things I mean they are making the world a better place, reducing the nation’s dependence on oil, saving governments billions of dollars, lowering costs in many industries and coming up with innovative solutions to real-world problems. In short benefiting people all around the world by giving them what they want.

Peter V Crisp

“Ok so maybe you can’t become that type of Superhero. But you could become a superhero to your readers and potential customers, by providing engaging content that they want to read. Inform them, entertain them and give them a reason to want to come back”.

A Modern Day Superhero

One such modern day superhero is the person, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, co-founder of PayPal, and owner of Tesla Motors, and a few other innovative startup companies.

PayPal

PayPal revolutionized, the online financial transaction industry, by granting ordinary people the ability to transfer funds electronically, lowering transaction costs and the time required to do so from days to minutes, benefitted people all around the world. From its initial start in 1998, and its sale to eBay in 2002, today it operates in 190 countries and generates around $7.9 billion in revenue.

What is the Best Way to Make Money Online

Elon Musk 2010

Space X

Following the sale of PayPal, Elon Musk established Space X when he calculated that the raw material for building a rocket was only 3 percent of the price being ‘paid’ by the government. He realized he could build more affordable rockets and cut the launch price by a factor of ten.

As a result, his new upstart company won a US$1.6 Billion contract to transport cargo to the international space station after NASA retired the space shuttle program. Saving the U.S tax payer Billions of dollars.

Tesla

With Tesla Motors, he built the first all-electric, high-performance sports car, the Tesla Roadster, that was sold in 31 countries. This innovation not only reduced the nation’s dependence on oil, but put performance, luxury, reliability and mileage/range side by side with traditional petrol powered vehicles. Something the government ‘protected’ auto industry had been failed to do.

General Motors

The Vice Chairman of General Motors, Robert Lutz, was quoted in an August 2009 edition of The New Yorker, as saying (about Tesla Motors)…,

“How come some tiny little California startup, run by guys who know nothing about the car business, can do this and we can’t?

Musk also provided the concept and financial capital for SolarCity, now the second largest provider of solar power systems in the United States, leases solar panels to the customer, for zero down and long term rental agreements, substantially lowering the cost for people wanting cheaper electricity. Again, something the Government ‘protected‘ electrical power supply industry had previously been unable to do.

“Superheroes don’t only, NOT give up when they initially fail – BUT they continue to keep on going, even after they succeed and do even more than before!

How to Start an Internet Business from Home

June 22, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started

How to Start an Internet Business from Home

It’s important to start an internet business because salaries are plummeting around the world for the average middle-class worker.

The median real salary in America, today, adjusted for inflation, is almost 10% lower than it was in 2007. It’s lower than it was in the year 2000.

For those on wages, the average hourly wages are lower, after an adjustment for inflation, than they were 40 years ago, according to a recent U.S. News & World Report article.

It’s Not Good

The same report also stated that the U.S. economy lost nearly 9 million jobs from 2008 through to 2010 and the majority of the losses were in the high-paying sectors. Roughly 75% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, with essentially zero savings.

According to JP Morgan Chase, they predicted that economic growth in America over the next few years will be a lowly 1.25%.

What this means is that in the future a salary may not keep your family afloat. Even two salaries may not keep most families afloat. The idea of retirement particularly for tens of millions of Americans doesn’t seem to be a realistic option anymore.

A Solution

But I don’t want to focus on the death of the salaried employee in America. Instead, I want to tell you what you can do about it because there is a great solution.

The world is changing fast and for many it’s may even be a bit scary. But what I’ve learned over the past decade will be extremely useful to just about anyone, even people looking for a job, a career change, people who want to work for themselves, people who want to pursue their passion, even people who are retired or perhaps looking to retire soon.

If You Want More

If you want a better retirement or perhaps just help working out exactly what to do with your life in view of all the current economic uncertainty.

If you want to make more money, without a corporate job, please pay attention. If you want to start a business or a new career, this is going to be great news for you. If you want a job that pays you way more than the average employee, you are going to love this.

How to Work Online at Home

June 16, 2015 Peter Economics, Education, Getting Started

How to Work Online at Home

Warren Buffett didn’t actually say that – (I just made that up)

If you want to know how to work online at home, then you may need some motivation because working online from home is not easy, and it requires commitment to be truly successful. I going to share with you some ideas and resources that will make your journey a lot less burdensome. Plus the I will give you some motivation as to why working online from home could be a wise choice.

Last Time

In a previous post, I gave a short history lesson on economic wealth and talked about “The invisible hand” concept of the free market and how it works best when it is run from the bottom up.

I mentioned that in the past, economies and communities were controlled by the very visible hand of kings, queens, and emperors and how these tyrants used the economy for their own benefit and how the masses worked extremely hard for only a small portion of the production of their own efforts. I mentioned the power structure and you can see it in the image below;

Not Much Has Changed

Not much has changed. Just the names and titles of those involved.

But why is it important to mention this?

Because if you’re not one of the top 1% it didn’t work for YOU then, and it’s not working for YOU now!

“What has this got to do with, ‘How to work online from home? Stay with me – and you will soon see”.

The Economic Power

The economic power of any system run from the bottom up cannot be overemphasized. True free market capitalism is what creates real wealth, not political intervention.

Today, we see a breakdown of the entire global economy because of the top-down, political control mentality of the free market system. The effects of which is the cause of the worsening global financial situation we are witnessing each day.

“We are seeing this in places like the ‘stock market‘, that if you don’t re-organise your business model into one, that’s run from the bottom-up and focused on your customer. – You will go broke!

Real-life examples such as former rock-solid, giant companies like, Kodak, General Motors, Polaroid, Bethlehem Steel, are just some, whose stock price has crashed.

These are all perfect examples of top-down mentalities that reversed the free market rules, ‘got into bed with the politicians‘ while ignoring the ‘customers‘ at the bottom, all to their eventual peril.

More Evidence

Evidence of this upside down mentality impacting in the marketplace, is the recent statistics from the Music Recording Industry. It shows that worldwide revenues have fallen every year from $26.6 billion in 1999 – to less than $15 billion in 2014.

Revenue has fallen but the number of people listening to music has gone up.

Capitol Records Building a Music Industry Icon

In the old days, talented singers or performers had to struggle to find a good agent who was ‘connected’ to the ‘right‘ producers or record labels. Sometimes they performed for free just for an opportunity and hoped that they might be ‘discovered‘.

It was Hard

It was a tough business, sometimes they lived in tiny apartments and ate dry biscuits, trying to survive the best they could while they focused on their ‘dream‘.

The ‘system’ and the agents didn’t really care because there were thousands of wannabe artists desperate to get a break and unless you got ‘lucky’ or someone associated with someone high-and-mighty recommended you, it just wasn’t going to happen.

It was a top-down, dog-eat-dog environment. The consumers, the listeners and viewers were at the mercy of the music industry ‘system’. They decided what talent was, and you (the market) could only consume what was put in front of you. Your choice of music was decided by them. It had been that way for years; the ‘people‘ (the market) had no say.

How to Earn Money Working at Home

June 8, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started

HOW TO EARN MONEY WORKING AT HOME

There are thousands of websites promising to give you the secrets to making a fortune online. Every day millions of dollars change hands, thousands of people live the internet lifestyle and make a good living online.

It’s not an impossible dream, real people are making real money and it’s not some magical illusion. But there are also many others who are making nothing!

The Trick

The ‘trick’ however, is to know what to do and to replicate that success process. In other words, how to really “stay home & make money“.

Let’s get one thing clear, earning money from home is NOT a push button, mouse clicking, do nothing – EASY process.

You are going to need to work hard learning (or perhaps unlearning) internet marketing, website construction, content creation, traffic generation and many other things before you can expect to make money online.

Why?

Because the only place where money comes before work – is in the dictionary (unless it’s a scam). Do the work and the money will come. Get the education, learn the “how” and implement what you learn and success will follow.

Almost anyone can learn how to make a living online without needing to scam anyone, without having to join up friends & family, or selling products or services you don’t believe in.

Getting the Right Information

It’s all about getting the right information and implementing successful strategies that lead to financial success. What you need is real information, from real people, making real money. Not hype, no B.S and not promises of making millions overnight – because that’s never going to happen!

To succeed online, you only need to open your mind to learning, and by this we mean, be “teachable”

No Short Cuts

Sure, there are people who want to reinvent the wheel – before they have actually built their own. People who want instant short cuts, because they think there is a better way – before they have seen any success, from the process being taught.

If you are one of those people and if you want immediate-overnight-success. Or are not prepared to follow the proven steps. Then what I’m about to tell you next, will not be of interest to you. You need to go find some place else.

Earn Money Easy Online

June 1, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started

Earn Money Easy Online – Really?

Don’t let the title mislead you, this is not about making money fast online, rather it’s about helping you to avoid falling prey to the ‘easy money‘ type scams.

Peter V Crisp

“However; You can earn money online and you can do it easily – but it takes time and dedication – on your part. I can show you how to do that and exactly how you can work at home and make money. But first I need to warn you about the many get-quick-rich scams that are so prevalent on the internet. I know because I too, have been taken in by them”.

Get-Rich-Quick

A get-rich-quick scheme is a plan to acquire high rates of return, on a small investment. The term “get rich quick” has been used to describe shady investments since the early 1900s. Beginning with the ‘Ponzi Scheme‘ named after Charles Ponzi, who became notorious for using this technique in 1920.

A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation where the operator pays returns to its investors not from profits earned but from the new capital paid in by new investors.

New investors are enticed into the scheme, by offering higher returns than other investments. The returns are usually abnormally high and extremely profitable, in the short term.

People were attracted to the promise of fast, easy money. Hence the lure to things like gambling, theft, blackmail, politics and at its extreme, war.

The Promise of Fast, Easy, Money…

A David Rhodes Type Chain Letter; from Perth, Australia in 2006

The original “Make Money Fast” letter is said to have been written around 1988, by a person, who used the name, Dave Rhodes.

The letter encouraged readers to forward one dollar in cash, to a list of people provided in the text and to add their own name and address to the bottom of the list after deleting the name at the top.

By 1994 “Make Money Fast” became one of the most persistent ‘spams‘ around with many variations (such as claiming to be from, a retired lawyer or claiming to be selling “reports” in an attempt to make the scheme appear lawful) and rather than sending the money by post you could send it electronically via the likes of PayPal.

Pyramid Schemes

Using the theory behind pyramid schemes, the resulting flow of money would initially deliver a reward of thousands of dollars, to the people participating in the scheme as their chain spread and more and more people sent money to their address.

You may have seen or heard of other examples of these chain type letters /emails that became more and more sophisticated as time went by; (see examples below)

Bill Gates Email Beta Test; An email chain-letter that first appeared in 1997 and was still circulating in 2007. The message claims that Microsoft is conducting a beta test and each person you forward the email to, you will receive a payment from Bill Gates of around $200. (Used to gather email addresses)

The Lottery scam involves fake notices of lottery wins (without you even entering the lottery in question). The winner is usually asked to send information such as name, residential address, occupation etc. The scammer then notifies you that releasing the funds requires a small fee (insurance, registration, or shipping). Once the victim sends the fee, the scammer invents another fee, another delay and so it goes on. In the meantime ‘your details‘ have been sold or worse are used to get credit using your identity.

Nigerian Scam/419 scam – An email scam attempt popularized by the ability to send millions of emails. The scam claimed the sender was a high-ranking official from Nigeria with a large sum of money that they cannot claim but must divest and they need your help to do so. They require a smaller sum of money up front to access the money before it can be sent to the receiver.

(See a variant of this type of scam in the example below)

How to Earn Money Working Online

May 28, 2015 Peter Economics, Education, Getting Started

How to Earn Money Working Online…

is something many people want to do and it’s a great way to make a living. However it takes dedication and commitment before it can be fully realised and unfortunately many give up before they succeed or worst they get taken it by the numerous online scams that are so prevalent on the internet.

Three Things

There are three things you need to succeed online and that is an ATM

An Education – So that you know what to do in order to make money
Time – So you can implement what you learn and allow it to come to fruition
Motivation – A reason why, so you will stick with it long enough to succeed

With these three things you can and will find success. The Education I will show you where to get shortly. Time is something you need to create for yourself.

The Motivation I can provide you by telling you a short story about world economics…

NOT a Realistic Image of “how to earn money working online”. It takes dedication and commitment to earn money online.

What’s the Best Internet Marketing Course

May 10, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started

What is the best internet marketing course, is an important question and one that should be asked before undertaking any online marketing program.

All too often we are taken in by the promise of instant wealth and easy riches by online scammers.

Many times the information is out of date and over priced and sold as the easy solution to a difficult problem.

How to Make Money Online

While there are many people wanting to know how to make money online and thousands more going online each day seeking to make fortunes as internet marketers.

In truth around 93% of people engaged in internet marketing actually, make less than $103 a month. So making a full-time income will take some time without first having an understanding of search engine optimization and learning how to build a website that not only gets traffic but converts that traffic into customers.

Traffic

Getting traffic is important because maybe only 1 out of 100 – 200 visitors will want what you are promoting.

Today, getting traffic is not about attracting people to your site to sell them. Rather, it’s about people being attracting to your site because of the quality content you have on offer.

That is to say, the information you have is of interest to them, then building a relationship, establishing trust and then offering a value for money solution to a problem the reader may have.

How to Get First Page on Google

May 2, 2015 Peter Getting Started, Keyword Tool, SEO / Traffic

How to Rank on Page One

Matt Cutts, head of the webspam team from Google, the world’s number one search engine and rankings provider had this to say about how to rank on page one;

In case you didn’t watch the video (or you did – but didn’t get it) The point is that he doesn’t actually come right out and tell you. Instead the short 3 minute video gives you a humorous montage of misinformation.

Meaning that it’s an art, rather than an exact science to getting page one rankings. Although there are specific things we can do to give our page a boost in terms of rankings and some things that we need to avoid in order not to be penalized. Google won’t reveal their exact ‘secret’ to getting on page one Or ‘How to Get First Page on Google’.

How to get on first page of Google

Best Online Success Secret

April 23, 2015 Peter Education, Getting Started, SEO / Traffic

The best online secret to success is found in The not-so-secret, SECRET to making money online. No hype, No B.S or promises of making millions overnight. No! Just real information, from real people, making real money.

It’s all about getting the right information and implementing successful strategies that lead to success. It’s not magic or wishful thinking or a pipe dream. Thousands are making a living online, millions of dollars are being transacted daily and real people are really living the internet lifestyle.

Get Your Copy

So how do you find out about how you can do this too? It’s really not hard, just get a copy of this ebook and start reading the information.

But don’t make the mistake of thinking that all you need to do is just get the book.

No! you need to then take action and implement the ideas and follow the steps that are required to become successful.

Inside

Inside you will find where to get the education and the tools that you need in order to begin your journey to making money online.

Understand that it is NOT a push button, mouse click, do nothing – an EASY process. You are going to work hard on learning (or perhaps even unlearning) internet marketing, website construction, content creation, traffic generation and how to really make money online, without scamming anyone, joining up friends & family, or selling products and services you don’t believe in.

To succeed you need an open mind for learning and by this we mean, being “teachable” There are some people who want to reinvent the wheel – before they have actually built their own. People who want to find the short cuts because they think they know a better way – before they have seen any success in the way being taught.

In other words, if you want to find immediate overnight success or are not prepared to follow the proven steps – then this is not the book or indeed the place for you.

Need Proof?

How excited would you be if you could get just one page or post of your website on page one of Google? Would that make a different to your business?. After all SEO and Google rankings are important – Right?

Well, take a look at the screenshot below: » Read more

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