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products/services

One of the main things that is most obvious is to have a plan of action, but after you've done the business plan or whatever...where to go from there. Do I sell other peoples products and earn a commission? a.k.a. affiliate marketing or do I take the bolder step and create my own product or service? Let's do a simple comparison of the the two above: 1: with your own product you make all the money and keep everything. 2: Selling affiliate marketing the product is complete and you don't spend all the time building it. 3: Affiliate marketers have lots of people selling their stuff. 4: Your own product is fresh new and innovative and needs to be introduced to the market. there are a million other reasons that could swing both ways, but for now lets focus on your own product. Here are the simple steps. 1: write and article 2: convert it to pdf 3: package some links in it and some pictures and that's it. 4: Sell it! For now that's all i'm going to say,

What Motivates us to do something or anything?

Go out on the street and ask anyone what motivates them and you will wind up with so many different answers that it might take awhile to sort it all out. However, the reality of it all is that no matter what you are doing...i.e.competing on an insane island for money, or trotting around the globe, or working a 9 to 5 job, you are all there for a reason. The main thing, without getting too deep is self preservation. A homeless person will seek out food, shelter, sustenance. We are no different, we seek out employment to earn money to trade for our basic needs. But that is NOT enough for us to be complete...to make ourselves into better people and to go beyond everyday survival, we need a few basic things for our mental survival as well... 1. We need to be doing something all the time: A couch potato will fade quickly into nothing because they have nothing to do, but staying active gives us a sense of accomplishment and a reason to seek out the second point! 2. We need to love! Wh