Everyone on the road should have an auto emergency kit. Be prepared when something happens to you. These kits come with at least ten or more of the most important tools to have if a breakdown occurs.

Even if you don’t have trouble with your car’s battery, it is easy to run those batteries down accidentally. Now you can be ready to charge your own battery with a 12-volt car starter, which works without having to go under the hood.

Other great auto safety buys include the life hammer, which is life saving if you are ever trapped inside your vehicle. The ALLVIEW mirror is great to have anytime you are driving your car. This mirror is no ordinary mirror because it eliminates hazardous blind spots to give you a perfect view at all angles whenever you need it.

Auto Safety Preparation Tips for Travel

Take time before you go on a long trip in your vehicle to evaluate your auto safety. The last thing you want is to be miles away from home and have a problem occur. Here are some of the things you should check for auto safety before making that long distance journey:

Tire pressure - Having the right tire pressure is very critical for auto safety. Another great incentive for checking your tires is you get better gas mileage when you are running on properly inflated tires.

Weather -Weather conditions can compromise even the best driver or best maintained car’s safety. Check with the weather stations locally and through the area you will be traveling

Radiator - Vehicle radiators need the right amount of coolant to run properly just as your car also needs oil.

Warning lights - If any of your warning lights are on, fix the problem indicated before you drive.

Shocks, struts and brakes - These three components could be the main reasons you do not get into an accident, so for auto safety these should all be in the best operating condition.

Lights - Not only should you make sure all your lights are working but you should also have good wiper blades and clean windows.

Before you begin any long trip just do these simple quick checks to make sure you’ll have a safe trip without any vehicle problems.

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With all of the surfing and working on the computer we do today, no one has time to wait on a slow computer. I will tell you what cause a computer to be slow and 3 things you can do to fix it.

First, you might have a virus. While these are made public so much now, it is not as popular to hear how viruses have crashed systems. Although, they are still out there and must be prevented. You should have good antivirus software installed on your computer. If you do already, use it. Make sure you have the virus definitions updated, and this will prevent any of the viruses from getting in your computer. If a virus is on your computer, it could be running programs on your computer, in the background, without you even knowing it. This could be what cause a computer to be slow.

Another item is the spyware, or adware. Basically, with all of the using of the internet for information, directions, or whatever, it is ever increasingly likely you are getting spyware installed on your computer without you even knowing. Some may be in the form of programs, others in the forms of cookies. You need to get rid of all of this stuff. Run an anti-spyware software and get this stuff off of your computer. This will help with the security and privacy of your computer, and where you have been on the internet. A good software will find these, and remove them for you.

Lastly, keep your registry files optimized. These files tell the computer how to operate certain programs and hardware. If the files are messed up, the computer is not sure how to do something. Then it just sits there thinking. This will definitely slow down your computer. Get a free scan of your computer and see if you have any errors. If you do, the software will fix them right then, and you will be on your way.

Those 3 things are what cause a computer to be slow: viruses, spyware, and registry problems. If you take the above actions, you can get your computer running at its original speed, and keep your security intact and privacy private.

Michael Baker is a Computer Optimization Technician, and recommends getting a Free Computer Scan to fix any problems such as computers freezing, locking up, restarting for no reason, and getting the blue death screen.

You can create your own duplex investment by converting a home into a duplex. This can make a negative cash flow house into a positive cash flow duplex. Of course, zoning and permit problems are definite possibilities.

Houses may be a losing proposition as rentals in your area. They are in many areas now. However, if you find the right kind of home, you may be able to convert it into a duplex and turn that cash flow situation around. Let’s look at an example.

Make A Duplex Investment

First you go to the county or city to find out what residential areas are zoned for both single family homes and duplexes. Take a map and mark it well, so you won’t waste your time looking at houses that you’ll never be able to convert. You don’t want to try to get properties rezoned for small projects like this - it just isn’t worth the trouble and probably won’t succeed.

Suppose you find a 3-bedroom, 2-bath house in one of these areas. The seller is asking $102,000. This is less than the surrounding homes, but it is because the home is in rough shape. You don’t want to tie up more than $20,000 in any one project, so you quickly realize that positive cash flow would be difficult to obtain, since the usual rent for houses like this is around $775 per month. You look at the home anyhow, with the idea of making a duplex out of it.

The repairs necessary are mostly cosmetic. The bathrooms are on opposite sides of the house. There is an office that can be made into a bedroom. There is a natural place to divide the house that will leave a dining room on one side - which will become a living room - and a living room on the other side. One end of this living room will be used to make a small kitchen.

You will end up with two 2-bedroom units, which rent for about $630 in this area. The vacancy rate for the area is 5%, so you project an annual gross income of about $14,360. Taxes, insurance and repairs will be about $4,660, leaving a net income before debt service of $9,700.

You have already checked, and know that you can borrow 90% of the value of a duplex, at about 8% interest on a 30-year loan. You figure (roughly - all of these numbers will need to be firmed up before closing) that you want cash flow of at least $1,800 per year. Subtracting this from the $9,700 leaves $7,900 for debt service. Dividing this by 12, you see that you can have a payment of up to $658 per month.

Now you pull out your amortization book, and turn to the page that says 8% interest. Working your way down the monthly payments column under “30 years” you see that you can borrow up to $90,000 and still make your plan work. Since you don’t want to put more than $20,000 of your own money into the deal, this means the whole project has to be done for $110,000 or less.

Roughly estimating the construction costs, clean-up costs, holding costs, closing costs, loan costs, refinance costs (once the project is done) and other expenses, you figure your total costs will be around $23,000. When you make your offer, you will have an inspection contingency that allows you to cancel the contract if there are problems that put the likely cost beyond this.

Subtracting $23,000 from $110,000, you arrive at a figure of $87,000. You know this won’t thrill the seller, but this is the price you need to make the deal work for you. You offer $83,000, and he counter-offers at $93,000. You offer $85,000 and drop the clause that had him paying $2,000 of the closing costs - you had only put it in there as a negotiating tactic anyhow.

Eventually, when he realizes that you really will walk away from the deal, he agrees to $88,000. You decide that this is close enough. Your inspections and quotes come in and you are satisfied, so you close. You borrow only 80% of the value to avoid mortgage insurance and points. You intend to refinance when you have the place ready anyhow.

You find some cheaper ways to get the job done, and the total costs up to the day you rent the units is just $20,500. This means you have total of $108,500 into the duplex. You shop around and find a new loan at 7.5% interest. You also decide to finance 90% and have less cash flow. You like the idea of having only $11,000 or so of your cash invested.

You borrow $97,650, making your payment $682 per month, or about $8150 per year. This leaves $1,550 per year cash flow - close to what you wanted. Your cash-on-cash return is around 14%, and if rents are rising in the area, it will soon be higher. This is why you might want to create your own duplex investment.

Copyright Steve Gillman. This article was an excerpt from 69 Ways To Make Money In Real Estate. Want to know the other 68 ways? Visit http://www.99reports.com/make-money-in-real-estate.html

Anyone who is serious about crafting knows - all the supplies that accumulate take up a lot of space. We tend to throw it all together in boxes, containers, or closets to get it out of the way when we aren’t using it. Then when we’re at our craft table, in need of a certain something, it is no where to be found! Here are some helpful ways to keep the clutter down and find the craft table that is right for you.

Some are lucky enough to have a craft room with a permanent craft table in it. For those of us that aren’t so lucky, the kitchen table usually does the trick. It is not wise to use the kitchen table, however, because of the risk of damage.

When you are using glues, paints, or sharp objects like knives or scissors, your kitchen table can pay the price.

As an alternative, consider using a folding table. You can find sturdy, durable folding tables in a variety of sizes and for a variety of prices. I have even seen a very creative suggestion including sawhorses and a flat-surface door. Use adjustable sawhorses as the legs of your table. Use the door as the top. For added protection, you can seal the door. The advantage to folding tables, or the sawhorse table, is that they can be taken down and stored under beds or in closets when not in use.

When you are purchasing or setting up your craft table keep in mind that certain shapes are easier to work in, a T shape, a U shape, or an L shape. As an example, you could put one long folding table against the wall and put another shorter table or ironing board perpendicular to the end of the table (to make an L shape). Then, you have what you need within close range.

You can also purchase desks or craft tables that are already in an L shape. Another idea for ease of use while working, buy a plastic mat made to go under a desk, and an office chair with rollers. You can glide from one end of your craft table to the other!

You can use empty wall space and extra closet space to store you craft supplies. Take advantage of empty wall space by hanging shelves or peg board. If you hang hooks on the wall in front of your craft table, you can have the tools you need most often within your reach. In the closet, you can install shelves to hold containers, or you can use clothing rods to hang fabrics. When choosing containers, you should always go clear. It will help you find things easily if you can see what is in the container. Permanent or moveable cabinet units can be put under or next to your craft table for added storage.

These are just a few ideas to help you get organized. Whether you have a permanent craft table, or a do-it-yourself craft table, the right organization tactics make all the difference!

For more information on crafts, try visiting http://www.craftguidance.com - a website that specializes in providing craft related tips, advice and resources to include information on craft table.

How many people know about boat lifts? Just the ones who own a boat, probably. Boat lifts used to be called davits, and while most of us may have heard of those contraptions, we visualize them on large ocean liners.

Before the 1970’s, most boats were lifted with a davit system, or pair of davits that contained a fore and aft (front and rear) cable system that were in turn connected to holes, or eyes, on a boat. The arms of davits were connected to something solid, whether on the deck of a large ship, or on a pier or a mooring dock.

When a winch was turned, the cables, attached to the boat and the davits, lifted the boat from the water. Small majorities of people today still use davits to lift their boats out of the water, but by far, the majority of boaters and those in the boating construction industry use boat lifts for this purpose.

Boat lifts support the boat from underneath, contrary to the cables used on a davit system, which could put strain on the rib construction of smaller boats. With boat lifts, the keel of a boat is cradled with boards that are connected to a lifting platform or other type of cradling system.

Boat lifts experienced a major design change in the 1980’s and the switch from a davit system to boat lifts took the country, and the world, by storm. Galvanized steel davits were replaced by aluminum. While aluminum is a little more expensive, it’s also resistant to corrosion and keeps its appearance longer, without the rust stains common on most davit systems.

Since the 1980’s, boat lifts have gone through several additional design changes, and numerous techniques to improve the cradling system on boat lifts have been experimented with. Hydraulic cylinders, pneumatic flotation and cables have been tried and improved, though hydraulic methods are cost prohibitive and are difficult to maintain around salt water and its effects on parts. The preferred boat lifts along coastal waters are cable lines attached to sea walls or mounted supports.

This system allows boats to be lifted out of the water with a minimal amount of space and effort, and three methods are the most popular. With the cable boat lifts used today, shafted beam lifts, elevator lifts and beamless lifts are the most popular and cost effective. While these designs are based on systems that have been used for decades, the materials used to construct such boat lifts these days improve on both effectiveness and cost.

As with most industries, the boating industry has seen large advancements in technology in the past couple of decades, and boat lifts are no exception. New methods, materials and designs continue to improve the ease through which boats can be protected, painted and repaired out of water with minimal damage to structure or surfaces that were prevalent in the past. If you own a boat, or are considering purchasing one, make sure that you have access to boat lifts, as well as all the equipment you’ll need to keep your boat in tip-top shape.

For more information on boats, try visiting http://www.boatassistance.com a website that specializes in providing boat related tips, advice and resources to include information on boat lifts.

Unless you’ve just recently returned from a protracted space furlough cruising around the solar system, you are probably aware that the current Undisputed Heavy Weight Champ of Search is none other than Google a/k/a The Big Dawg of Search! What you may not know however, is how much of a Champ of Search they really are. Recent surveys and polls list Google as hogging more than a whopping 60% of global search market share.

In order to best understand how to keep your website in Google’s good graces you first need to know what their ultimate goal is, or that of any search engine for that matter.

SEARCH IS BIG BUSINESS

Search is a huge money-generating business and not merely a 20th century tool that enables you to conduct research while you slouch on your couch. So how big is the search industry really? Well let’s put it this way; in the year of 2006, online advertising racked up revenue in excess of $16.7 billion dollars and is expected to reach $45 billion in the next five years. Impressive huh?

Anyway these figures should give you some idea of the stakes involved in the search engine industry.

Further, more than 97% of Google’s not inconsiderable fortune is derived from online advertising. Remember as noted earlier, Google commands more than a 60% share of the global search market; which makes for one very good and big reason you should ensure that your website is googlicious (google extra-friendly).

GOOGLE’S OBJECTIVES AS A COMPANY DETERMINE ITS ONLINE BEHAVIOR

We’ve already established that search engines are dedicated to more than simply returning pertinent results to yours or any number of the various billion queries conducted each day; they are dedicated revenue generators.

Google is by far the largest search engine and derives more than 97% of its revenue from online advertising. And let’s not forget that Google is a publicly held company, meaning that it has an obligation to its investors to maximize yearly profits.

This then clues us in to what Google’s main objectives are:

1. Maximize Profits; by

2. Hosting the largest number of advertisers; by

3. Retaining the largest number of conducted online searches; by

4. Supplying the most accurate results per query; which

5. Ensures that more people will use Google as their search engine of choice.

GOOGLE 2007 SHAKEUP

The year 2007 launched with considerable anticipation as well as turbulence for the SEO community. A Google algorithm change or modification that SEO analysts cannot yet as one agree to term either an update or data refresh was the cause of such unrest.

However whether it was an update or data refresh, what is not in contention is that it certainly shook up the SEO horizon and left quite a number of webmasters upset and disgruntled because their websites suddenly lost significant position for targeted keywords. The flip side of this particular coin had a good number of webmasters ecstatic over the realization that that their websites were suddenly ranking very well for their most coveted and targeted keywords.

The ripples of this Google shakeup had authoritative sites (which for time immemorial had been ranking well for particular keywords) suddenly drop several positions on the SERPs and in the worst scenarios disappear completely off the grid! (Most have been reinstated to their former glory.)

This shakeup now also meant that wizened old websites could no longer rely on the age factor alone to guarantee their index listings or page rank. In order to maintain their long coveted positions such sites need to be refreshing data or adding new content regularly.

Disconcerting as these new rules may be there actually is a lot of sense to this approach. Perhaps you may recall that in 2006 Google experienced a server overload super-crisis. There simply were not enough servers to accommodate the burgeoning number of web pages of the ever-expanding internet.

So to alleviate the situation Google adopted a number of modifications of which perhaps the most notable was the one which restricted the Google spider to crawl only those web pages that were accessible via external links. The rationale behind this was that pending the acquisition of new servers only such web pages that were considered of the utmost relevance would make it into the Google index.

Thus it is not too far of a stretch to consider the 2007 Google shakeup as a reinforced strategy on their part to avoid the server debacle of 2006 and by proxy also sharpen the accuracy of their indexed data.

HOW TO KEEP YOUR SITE GOOGLICIOUS IN A WORLD OF UPDATES!

1. KEEP IT FRESH

To maintain or elevate your website’s page rank or listing on the SERPs, you need to add new content or at least refresh it on a regular basis. In the past it was possible for fairly old websites to remain static yet maintain their high page rank and SERP listing purely based on the age factor. Due to algorithm tweaks following the 2007 Google shakeup, that is no longer possible.

2. KEEP THOSE LINKS GROWING

Using inbound links as the premier tool of measure for evaluating the importance of a website is not going to change any time soon. If you consider that an inbound link is an approximate thumbs-up vote for the linked-to site then you easily understand why this measure of evaluation is not about to disappear quite yet.

Certainly not all links are created equal such that links from topically relevant and related web pages are more highly rated than those from topically unrelated web pages. However it isn’t always possible to get such topically related links but the bottom line: your website is not going to mature on the SERPs or graduate page rank-wise without external inbound links.

There’s also a new twist in the way links are evaluated. Beforehand a high page rank link was the most valuable kind of link, but now that search engines are more sophisticated there’s a new system in play. The strength of a link will be determined by the number of clicks that link garners. In other words a very active PR3 link characterized by a high click-through-rate will score much higher from an SEO point of view than a PR8 link that has next to no clicks! This is just one of the latest ways in which the search engine algorithms are combating artificial link acquirement.

When all is said and done however–keep those links growing!

3. MAINTAIN WEB INTERCONNECTIVITY

From the outset the ideal vision of the internet was one where a mass of data would connect together through a natural progression of topical relevance via links. Well as you’re probably aware, ideal and paradise tend to exist more in the hypothetical realm than the real world.

Anyway back on this theme of interconnectivity, for the longest time it was considered good SEO practice to hoard your page rank as much as possible by having as few outbound links as possible. That has changed and now having next to no outbound links could even result in a minor penalty. It would appear that as the algorithms have smartened up the search engines are now finally reaching for the sky–aiming for that elusive web paradise!

4. KEEP IT STICKY

In the same manner that you can tell how long people are spending on your website from your web stats so can the search engines. The longer visitors spend on your site the stickier your site is said to be. Suffice it to say that the more sticky your site the better as far as search engine optimization goes. A stickier site will improve your page rank and SERP listings. The best way to make your site sticky is to have interesting, valuable and stimulating content!

Ba Kiwanuka is the webmaster of http://www.internetbusinessmart.com

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Do you remember the old movie where the two boys hack into a government computer and it asks them if they would like to play a game? Back when I first saw it I was amazed at how much computers could do, now it seems so outdated that it makes the movie void in my mind. Games and computers sure have come a long way in the past couple of decades. The average computer that sits in a child’s room has thousands of times the memory of the computer that was used to send the astronauts to the moon, and they just keep on getting more sophisticated. Throw on top of that the fact that the Internet is now everywhere and that most of our computers are linked into this central network and it really boggles the mind.

One area in which computers have really expanded over the years is in the games department. Since the old days of pong and table tennis these games are now so sophisticated that they are almost real. I have played some games on my computer that were a lot of fun, but the graphics were so realistic and with all the spinning and turning that went on I almost got sick. If you’ve ever watched your child play a game on the computer or on their home video game system then you know what I’m talking about. If you’ve never seen what your child is playing then you should sit in one time, it will be a real eye opener.

As computers get faster and faster and the Internet grows even more, the online gaming industry will grow along with it. Still there will be those that love the old standby games like solitaire or word puzzles, but no matter what kind of game you enjoy there is no doubt that you will be able to enjoy it better and faster in the near future.

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Here are a few tips to help a truly great site become even better.

1. The Latest Grey-hat Wheeze.

Link farms, scraping, fake directories; whatever it is, get in there! If a newbie webmaster forum is buzzing about it, that’s the time to take it up. Put it on your main breadwinner, and wait for the hits to come in.

2. Over-optimisation.

Give the search engines what they want. Make damn sure they know what the page is about. Seven word image names, ten word ALT tags, hidden text, three H1 tags, that’ll tell the b**tards. Top of Google’s first page for you. Your clients swoon at your mAd skILLz. Respec’!

3. No Optimisation.

Google is run by Gods with brains the size of watermelons. Their algorithm is sentient. Whatever tricks you try won’t work. So don’t try any. And when your site gets booted in the next update anyway, defend their right to do so, piously.

4. Content Generators.

Life’s short. So much work, so many Stargate downloads to watch. Automate your content generation. Software is there to make life easier. Slap together RSS feeds, auto-generated text, free articles and Wikipedia pulls. Monetise with Adsense. Repeat for 300,000 pages. Is it time for that Pot Noodle? It’s _always_ time!

5. Reciprocal links.

Google loves links, and it’s too hard to get them unasked for. So ask! Send out 5000 emails cadging links to your .info domain. Don’t bother proof-reading it, they’ll only skim it. When they agree to a swop, you’ll be too busy to reciprocate. That’ll be a one-way link, then, ha ha!

Those sweeties at Google don’t mind reciprocal links. Lots of famous sites interlink, so yours should be OK too. WebDevDood on LeetWebForum said so.

6. Low original-to-duplicate content ratio.

People don’t read. Original content is too expensive to make. The Google algorithm ain’t all that. 200 words surrounded by the same header, footer and sidebars in a 20,000 page site will keep them coming back again and again. Have a pop tart.

7. CMS with same TITLE and no META description on each page.

There are so few pages on the internet these days that you can use any open-source CMS as-is. Just set up your forum, slap on the Adsense, let your visitors witter away, sit back and wait for the search engine lurrrve! You bad boy, have another Red Bull, you deserve it!

8. Because _they_ weren’t penalised, you won’t be.

So many webmasters say their site has X or Y, and Google didn’t mind, but funnily enough, _you_ got busted for it. Their content, backlinks, and site structure must be the same as yours, then, eh? Spooky!

9. Huge number of new links, in a short time, to a new domain.

DevWebDood says that if MySpace.com can get a million backlinks in a short space of time and not be penalised, then so can you. Just set up a travel or hotel site, join the Co-op and LinkVault, do a blog spam and watch your site race up the SERPs.

So what if it’s nowhere to be found next month? Better the fleeting taste of victory, than never having tried at all!

10. Got banned? Give ‘em Hell about it!

Write a long email to Google. State how great your site is, how they’re hurting your business, and how _you’re_ doing _them_ a favour by letting them list it. Admit no fault, it shows weakness.

Then get on as many forums as you can complaining about how the SERPs suck, how - insert famous site here - is doing just what you did, and _they’re_ still in.

Google will be so hurt and ashamed, they’ll let you back in, and dial back that nasty update. You told _them_, all right!

I write these articles for fun. Pay no attention to my byline, and do not visit my site.

About the author: T. O’ Donnell http://www.tigertom.com/blog/ is an SEO genius, living in London, UK.

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“The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.” - Leonard Nimoy, American actor, “Star Trek”

How lucky am I? Over the last couple of weeks, I have been spending time with various groups of people sharing in very positive experiences. This included a attending a conference to celebrate International Women’s Day, presenting a session for a women’s group on Motivation, co-ordinating a very interesting session for our local women’s group on Body Awareness, as well as getting together with some other coaches in Edinburgh to share tips and tools to use with our clients.

What has struck me is the willingness to share that so many of these people and groups have in common. It is like a light shining through the darkness shed by so many negative reports of how so few people consider anyone other than themselves, and how a sense of community is lacking etc. I happen to disagree with most of what I read, as I know from experience that that spirit is not lacking and if we give it a chance by sharing and collaborating, whether professionally or personally, it can bring us so many rewards.

As the song goes, “Who ya gonna call?” Who do you know who could help you? (Ghostbusters!) Or even who do you know who might know someone else who could help you? Just making that one call could make all the difference to your success. Could you make progress yourself by offering your knowledge and experience to someone else? By cooperating and collaborating, not only are the rewards increased, but the load is lightened. You can share almost everything - a smile, some knowledge, a task - and by doing so you will also be opening yourself up to receiving more of the same. Try giving out as many smiles as possible this week and see how good you feel when they are returned!

Have you been putting things off because you need some more information? Or do you need someone else’s input or skills to get things going? Most people would be flattered to be asked to help, so don’t put things off any longer. You may be denying them the pleasure of contributing!

Why not consider joining up with someone else to do something active? You could join a class, go running with a buddy or even sign up with a personal trainer. It will help you to keep your motivation going, and on those days where you don’t feel like it, they can encourage you and you can do the same for them.

So many things are more pleasant when they are shared. If we have committed to do something to someone else, we are more likely to carry it through. Just make sure that what you have said you will do is what you really want to do, as you could let others down, as well as yourself. If you are unsure, you can always ask for help. What new thing can you get involved in today? Who needs your help and contribution? Seek out new opportunities to join forces with others and play a part in the creation of something innovative.

Sharing creativity brings to mind those wonderful people who get together to create something as a group. The women who stitch quilts, the children who decorate their school playgrounds with fabulous murals, a creative writing group and of course any group who creates music together! The possibilities are endless. Of course, there is nothing wrong with expressing your creativity on your own, but together you can produce something with a different dimension.

As well as asking for help, how about offering it? You will have plenty to contribute if you only just think about it. So many groups are seeking volunteers, so you could make all the difference to them if you are willing to share your knowledge, skills and time. What you have gains so much in value when you are able to share it with others.

Kate Harper is a Motivation Coach based in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland. Check out her website http://www.harpercoaching.com

She works with people from all over the world who are seeking change in their lives. If that is you, please take a look at Kate’s website. Her special interests are the promotion of Wellbeing and Self Confidence through her coaching.

“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.” Madame Marie du Deffand

Take your first step today and contact Kate.

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Many people would like to make money online. They start a website or blog about a certain subject and then hope to make money from it. If they stick with it for any length of time they soon realize a few things. Things that might not have been thought of when the project began such as:

1) Without traffic, none of it matters

2) Just being a member of Google Ad sense means nothing (refer to #1).

3) Being an affiliate of certain products and companies, while cool, means nothing. (refer to #1)

4) Making money online is no easy task.

If you have the intention of making money online, you should have figured out by now that there is nothing simple or easy about such a proposition, and if you haven’t, you will by the end of this article. I simply want to tell the truth about making money online. I wish I had read an article telling the truth about making money online. It would have saved me a ton of time and money and my hope is that this article can do that for you.

The first thing for you to consider is what your trying to accomplish online. Are you trying to simply provide information? Are you trying to provide a product to the public? Are you trying to sell other companies products? Do you want to make money or do you just want a website that provides information? All of these questions need to be considered and the biggest thing for everyone to remember is that without traffic (that is people visiting your website) none of it matters.

About 99% of the things you read and that the so called “experts” tell you about the internet and online businesses BS designed to sell you something. It’s designed to sell you an e-book, book, or service of some sort that will supposedly solve all your problems. These weasels are lying to you.

The biggest thing for you to remember is that your online venture needs to revolve around subject matter that you feel passionate about. It may be hiking, hunting, dogs, children, rivers, flying, trees, hamsters, or whatever, the bottom line is that you must be passionate about the subject matter. If you aren’t passionate about it, you won’t put in the necessary time and effort to make it successful. It’s as simple as that. Making a website, blog, or anything else on this planet successful takes time and effort. There are lessons that you need to learn and you just wont learn them if you don’t feel passionate about the subject.

Figure out what it is that you feel passionate about and go from there. Then define what it is that you want to accomplish online. Then begin the process of making it happen, while remembering that there aren’t any simple and easy fixes to make it all work. Being successful online, just like in any aspect of you’re life, is a process so enjoy the ride. And remember that if you can’t generate traffic, none of it matters. In the inline world everything is about traffic.

Trevor Kugler is co-founder of JRWfishing.com and an avid angler. He has more than 20 years experience fishing for all types of fish, and 15 years of business and internet experience. He currently raises his three year old daughter in the heart of trout fishing country…..Montana!

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