Enchiladas are good but a little variety helps. Here is how to make chicken, steak, and cheese enchiladas all at the same time. Oh, did I forget pork?

Meat Selection

Beef: I like steak enchiladas but you need good beef that is tender and flavorful. Some of the restaurants around here use ground meat in their enchiladas. These are the restaurants I never visit twice.

When I first started working as an engineer in Colorado (about a zillion years ago), an old industrial engineer told me this: Never buy a breaded piece of meat!

He went on to say that any old piece of meat could be breaded and you just don’t know what you are getting. It could be as old as the hills, unrefrigerated, contaminated, dropped on the floor and stepped on, or fetched out of the grease trap as far as you know.

The same goes for ground meat. Who knows it’s real history? In enchiladas it gives the wrong texture and the wrong flavor.

So buy a good piece of beef. You don’t need much because there are other things in the enchilada. Most of the good Mexican restaurants around here put in too much meat. You don’t need it.

For that matter, they use too much cheese. My heart surgeon doesn’t like that, but my wife does.

Pork is a good substitute for beef or chicken for those who prefer the flavor of pork. In 1956 when, with a fellow engineering student, I drove to Massachusetts to work for the Norton Company for the summer, we passed through Iowa. The hogs there were just like the hogs on our church welfare farm. They looked more like elephants than hogs.

I moved to Iowa in 1966 to teach in the engineering department at Iowa State University. By then, the hogs were lean and mean, still long but not fat. That change made pork an acceptable lower fat meat. And pork has a great flavor for enchiladas.

Meat and Poultry Preparation

Fresh, frozen, or canned meats can be used to prepare enchiladas. If you use frozen meats or poultry, thaw it out at room temperature or in the refrigerator. If you are like me and at times in a big hurry, then place the meat or chicken in the microwave and thaw it out. I have a freezer full of Omaha Steaks® products sold me to the nice folks there by telephone. I can’t say no! So I usually get my meat from the freezer.

I like to use a whole dead chicken so I let it stew in pomegranate juice until the chicken is ready to fall of the bones. Pomegranate juice seems to penetrate the chicken better than other juices and give a fabulous flavor, especially the next day.

If you use chicken breast, they are easy to slice even when frozen. For me, I want some brown meat so I use the whole critter.

When I say use a “dead” chicken, I mean it. Years ago my dad decided to buy a live turkey for thanksgiving. He killed it in the basement where it ran wild for the longest time and spurted blood from hell to breakfast finally creating a bloody feathered mess. When I was a kid, we chopped the heads off chickens and let them flutter hither and yon in the yard. Who needs that?

I buy Kirkland® canned chicken at Cosco®. It has a nice tecture and flavor and is very good in soups and chicken salad when you are in a hurry. I’m not much for canned meatsm but they are different now days, and there are some good choices to make. Spam® is still available but I’m not sure I would want a Spam® enchilada. Canned or prepared in the frying pan, season the chicken with poultry spice, creole spice, teriyaki sauce or whatever you want.

For other meats, slice the meat in to short strips. Keep each meat separately from the other ingredients. (You can use left over meat from that Sunday roast too and other than slicing in to short strips or small cubes, no other preparation is needed.)

Put some canola oil in a frying pan with a clove of garlic. Make sure the oil is hot. (You probably do not need much oil, so you may be able to just spray the pan and not use the garlic.) For steak, I like to use Omaha Steaks® All Natural Steak Seasoning. Another seasoning I like for about everything is Spice Island® Beau Monde seasoning. Tampa Spices® have a full range of low-cost spices (packed by M.I.S., POB 2081, Gibsonton, FL 33534). I like their creole seasoning and their meat and poultry seasoning.

Prepare each meat separately and put each in a separate bowl. Have one bowl with just grated cheese. (More about cheese below.)

Preparing the Enchilada Mixture

In a frying pan with hot olive oil (or your favorite oil) fry slices of bell pepper, green chilies (You can add the green chilies from a can if you like. They are a nuisance to clean and slice.), onion, a small hot pepper variety (remove the innards and seeds if you don’t want the enchiladas to be too hot), cumin, and salt and pepper. Add a trace of cayenne pepper if so inclined. You also can add chopped black olives; which I do because my wife likes them and I can tolerate them. Drain the mixture and place it in a bowl.

Now, mix some of this stuff into each bowl of meat or poultry. Leave some for cheese enchiladas.

The Tortillas

I have a tortilla maker along with the floor. It was a Christmas gift from my daughter who is married to a great enchilada maker. I used it once. Now, I go down the street to the panderia (Mexican bakery) and buy corn or flour tortillas. (Note: I also buy those round loaves of bread. I cut a circle out of the top, remove the filler bread, and fill them with hot soup. I take the top circle and toast it, then put garlic butter and Parmesan cheese on top. That is called a home-made soup bowl.)

You can also buy tortillas at any grocery store. Before you use the tortillas you may need to soften them. Mine are fresh so I can just roll the ingredients into the tortilla. When they are not soft, or if I want to just roll up a tortilla with the ingredients and eat it, I drop them into a frying pan with hot oil, flip them, and take them out. It takes about two seconds on each side. Don’t burn yourself. Usually, I am going to cook my tortillas in the oven so I just drop three tortillas on the rotating glass platform in my microwave oven and cook them for less then a minute to soften them.

Preparing the Enchilada Sauce

The way I usually prepare enchilada sauce is go to the store and buy Hatch® brand enchilada sauce made in Deming, NM. There are two varieties to choose from. I like the green chili style, but the red or tomato style is equally good. All brands are not the same so you may have to test the brands to see which sauce you like. Here is what I suggest: ask a clerk or stock boy which brands are hot. No, not that “hot.” Which brand is the top seller.

When you read the label on the can, see if it is “mild,” “hot,” or “holy jamoly!” I always buy mild. I can always make it hot if I want to which is never because of my wife and Idaho guest.

Enchilada sauce is expensive. You can easily make your own if you are not lazy like me. Here is how you do it:

1. Put a tablespoon of oil in a hot frying pan.

2. Stir in 3 tablespoons of flour. Stir until brown. (Cajuns call this a “rue.”)

3. Add 6 tablespoons of chili powder to 2 cups of water or meat stock (beef or chicken broth would work). When the powder is dissolved in the water or stock, add it to the flour and oil rue. Add ½ tsp of garlic powder (why not just garlic?)

4. Bring the mixture to a bubbly boil, stirring frequently. Simmer for 5 minutes.

That will make you 1 2/3 cups of sauce.

Note: Chile powder is a mixture of cumin and cayenne pepper. To cut back on “hotness,” cut back on the chili powder and add more cumin. Cumin is what makes chili taste good but not “hot.”

Putting it All Together

Spray oil onto the surface of a baking pan or casserole dish. Soften a tortilla. Place
one of the meat mixtures into the tortilla and roll the tortilla. Place it into the pan or casserole dish. Do it again and again until the mixture is gone. Repeat for the next chicken or meat mixture.

For cheese tortillas, mix grated cheese with the basic enchilada mixture and roll it and place it into the pan or casserole dish.

Remember where you place each type of enchilada. They all look the same when cooked.

Now, pour enchilada sauce all over the place-over, under, and between the enchiladas. Top with shredded cheese. You can try a Mexican mix of cheeses, Colby, Monterey Jack, Parmesan, Mild, Cheddar, or whatever.

Cover your dishes with aluminum foil.

Preheat the oven to 325oF. Place your fantastic creations in the oven and cook for 35 minutes. When the cheese is melted and all looks great, take them from the oven and let them sit for a while before serving.

THAT’S IT! Good eating!

Just a note: yesterday we had guest, but some couldn’t show up because of sickness. I had enough enchiladas left over to feed an army. So that’s what I did. I took them over to my son’s house to feed his 13 kids.

The End

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com, a retired VP of R&D for Lenox China, is author of detective & western novels, nonfiction (business, scientific, engineering, humor), poetry, etc. Former editor of Ceramic Industry Magazine. He is Executive Representative of IWS sellers of Tyler Hicks wealth-success books and kits. He also sells TopFlight flagpoles. He calls himself “Taylor Jones, the hack writer.”

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What is ecommerce? Ecommerce of course is the art or process of doing business online. You can call it whatever you want, but a tiger by a different name is still a tiger. And that is the way I feel.

You can call ecommerce web business, you can call ecommerce online business, you can call ecommerce home internet business - you can call it anything you want - but it is basically the art of making money online.

So what are the basics to making money with ecommerce?

There are two basics to making money online, with ecommerce? One is that of traffic, and the other is conversions. You have to have conversions to make any money online, and you have to have traffic to get conversions, that is for sure.

So how do you get conversions? One of the big things is that you have to develop a relationship with your traffic. And I think the best way to create a relationship with your traffic is to build a list - that way you can communicate with them on a regular basis.

And the best way, in my opinion, to get traffic is by writing articles and submitting them to the various online article directories - commonly called article marketing.

So your pattern for making money with ecommerce, if you apply the basics, and you do the basics the very best way possible - then you will drive traffic using article marketing and you will build conversions with list building. That is the way I do it - article marketing and list building for making profits in ecommerce.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide’

Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion

Do you want to learn how to build a massive list fast? Click here: Email List Building

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that affects the entire body, causing progressive disability and early death. Cystic fibrosis affects the entire body and impacts growth, breathing, digestion, and reproduction. Difficulty breathing and insufficient enzyme production in the pancreas are the most common symptoms.

The Pancreas of patients with Cystic Fibrosis fails to produce enough enzymes that are necessary to break down food. As a result the food eaten retains its fats and most of its nutrients as it passes through the body.

The bronchial tubes in the lungs also malfunction and produce a thick, sticky mucus. Germs multiply in this mucus and cause respiratory infection such as pneumonia, accompanied by a cough and high fever that is more severe than normal.

A multitude of other symptoms, including sinus infections, poor growth, diarrhea, and potential infertility (mostly in males) result from the effects of cystic fibrosis on other parts of the body. Patients with Cystic Fibrosis also sweat profusely and their perspirations also contains an unusually high percentage of salt.

Cystic fibrosis is the most common life-limiting recessive disease among people of European heritage. Two copies of the recessive mutated gene, one from each parent is needed by the human body to develop Cystic Fibrosis.

Because cystic fibrosis testing is expensive, testing is often performed on just one parent initially. If that parent is found to be a carrier of a CFTR gene mutation, the other parent is then tested to calculate the risk that their children will have cystic fibrosis. Cystic fibrosis can result from more than a thousand different mutations and, as of 2006, it is not possible to test for each one. Most commercially available tests look for 32 or fewer different mutations.

Couples who are at high risk for having a child with cystic fibrosis; i.e. cystic fibrosis has developed in family members, will often opt to perform further testing before or during pregnancy. After birth cystic fibrosis may be diagnosed in newborn with sweat testing, or genetic testing.

Most states and countries do not screen for cystic fibrosis routinely at birth. Children with cystic fibrosis typically do not gain weight or height at the same rate as their peers and occasionally are not diagnosed until investigation is initiated for poor growth. Males tend to have a longer life expectancy than females but the reason is unknown.

Use a mask nebulizer and other inhalations treatments are the most common forms of treatments for cystic fibrosis. The goal is the treating and limiting the amount of lung damage caused by thick mucus and infection. Albuterol and ipratropium bromide are inhaled to increase the size of the small airways by relaxing the surrounding muscles. As lung disease worsens, breathing support from machines may become necessary.

Most individuals with cystic fibrosis take additional amounts of vitamins A, D, E, and K and eat high calorie meals.

Common Vitamins and over the counter products can help with treating Cystic Fibrosis such as Vitamin E, Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Lactase Enzyme, Papaya, Protein Tablets, Vitamin B, Amino Acid and L-Carnitine.

Dr. Harry Schwachman reported “most patients with cystic fibrosis have low levels of vitamin E”. Vitamin E protects lung tissue form inhaled pollutants and aids the functioning of the immune system.

Vitamin K helps the blood to clot after and injury.

A number of studies have suggested that taking antioxidants such a Vitamin A reduces the risk of bronchoconstriction. Vitamin A is stored in the liver and fat cells of the human body and can reach toxic levels. DO NOT take more than the recommended dosage of Vitamin A.

Lactase Enzyme makes milk products more readily digestible.

Papaya contains lipase, which assists in Fat and Cellulose digestion.

Protein tablets increase protein intake.

All of the different Vitamin Bs taken together as B-Complex work together as a team to perform vital biological processes, such as energy production and efficient metabolic function. Vitamin B boost energy levels and help fight fatigue.

Amino Acid help regulate growth, digestion and maintaining the body’s immune system.

L-Carnitine is essential for the body’s ability to turn food into energy. L-Carnation increases energy at the cell level by increased fat burning, increases the body’s ability to remove toxic disease-causing compounds and helps cells live longer.

Always consult your doctor before using this information.

This Article is nutritional in nature and not to be construed as medical advice.

For other Articles on Diseases and Vitamin Needs feel free to visit my Web Site at http://www.dfcinvestment-team.com

David Cowley has created over 50 articles about the relationship between diseases and vitamins. For other Articles on Diseases and Vitamin Needs feel free to visit my Web Site at http://www.dfcinvestment-team.com/

What’s in a domain name? Well think about it - once you choose a domain name, you are kind of stuck with it. I mean, you could get a new one - but you really want to focus on building up a domain name branding.

There are some other things to think about when you are thinking about a domain name to choose.

You see, I think that too many people get all hyped up about a domain name - and the domain name is important - but they lose sight of the big picture.

What is the big picture? What are you in business to do? Is it to make money, is it to raise awareness?

I submit to you that everything in your web business revolves around two things - traffic and conversions.

I mean, think about it - you have to have conversions to make money online. You have to have conversions to build a list.

And you have to have traffic to get conversions. No matter how good is your sales page or your squeeze page, if you do not have any traffic, then you don’t have conversions, that is for sure.

So when you are thinking about a domain name, think about how it will impact traffic and conversions. Is it easy to remember? Is it easy to convert? Will people remember your domain name? Will they be proud to buy from a site with your domain name?

So think about these things. Think about how your new domain name is going to read in the articles you write, when you do article marketing, how it is going to look when you do list building, when people read your emails.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide’

Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion

Do you want to learn how to build a massive list fast? Click here: Email List Building

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

Ibiza is right for you when you want to go to a great nightclub with the best Dj’s on the set.
When you want to party with a wide range of partygoers, freaks, clubbers, and celebrities this is your place.
Here are the top nightclubs with a wide choice of parties, music, rock, house techno, trance, underground, hip-hop and the of course chill out music. Here at the home of the sunset set.

The big Ibiza nightclubs like Pacha, Amnesia, Space, Es Paradise, Privilege, Eden and El Divino start the big party’s in June, July and August. They have a different promoter each night who will bring his own music and decoration. Carl Cox is at the club Space on Tuesday, Paul Van Dyk and Ferry Corsten are at the club Amnesia for Cream on Thursday. The party Manumission is the big party at the club Privilege on Friday. All the nightclubs are closing at the end of September. After the season they get back to their country ore partying around the world.

Even in the little bars and cafes there is always party time. Like the Bora Bora right at the beach Playa d’en Bossa. It is “the” party beach in Ibiza. A great place to hang out right at the beach after a hard party night. Relax to balearic house music played from a resident Dj. Or have a drink at the bar and watch the clubbers dance on the tables. You don’t pay for entrance and the drinks are cheaper than in the big clubs.

A great place to start of the evening is the La Marina district at Evissa-Town. There are many different cafes, restaurants and bars. You will see everybody ho comes to Ibiza to party.
The Calle de la Virgen is the most colorful street.

The cafe’s on the Calo des Moro in San Antonio have the greatest sunset in a romantic setting. Cafe del Mar is famous for its house music. It is the perfect combination of wonderfully chilled music, scenery and beautiful weather what makes the sunset a special one.

A must see!

diniana

Sustained and long periods of sitting still at our desks are not good for our backs - this is obvious: but how best to reduce the risks of backache and related stress? Getting up to stretch and walk around at regular interval makes very good sense, but many of us simply do not do it. And according to the British Chiropractic Association amongst others, this is one of many reasons why office-related musculoskeletal problems are still on the increase.

A feature of modern working life is how easy it is to become trapped into a sedentary existence. We spend long periods using keyboards, even during lunch hour checking emails, and then in the car or on the bus or train home. It should be no surprise that the result of so much time spent in a fixed position is an increase in the incidence of neck, shoulder and back injuries. And it really is no surprise that experts agree that it is vital to incorporate more movement and flexibility into what otherwise are quite static and sedentary working roles. But how to achieve this?

A recent study reported in the industry press suggested that - as opposed to the age-old advice to sit up straight - a slumped position actually appears to be the healthier option. The study at Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, Scotland asked 22 volunteers with no history of back trouble to adopt a slouch, a 90 degree and a 135 degree angled sitting position, whilst being scanned by an MRI scanner. The results showed the latter angled position to place least strain on the lower back.

In spite of these somewhat controversial findings, office furniture commentators have agreed that up to a point, a reclining position can be beneficial, as long as the spine is properly supported through good a quality office chair, suitably adjusted. In particular, setting up the office chair with a slight backward lean has always been thought of as an ideal posture - as long as the lower back is in complete contact with the back of the chair. However, such a position is hardly appropriate for those involved in a great deal of typing and keyboard-related work, where leaning forward becomes the natural tendency.

One solution here is posture-monitoring software such as the proprietary PostureMinder which offers a neat software-based solution to the problem of injuries due to poor posture at the desk. Such systems continually check your posture via a webcam, and deliver on-screen reminders to you when you have been consistently sitting badly for a minute or two, for example.

Coupled with good quality office furniture and advice from ergonomic experts in its proper use, such solutions point a way forward to the problem. Good office seating should follow the movement of the body and be flexible with it whilst supporting it. Chairs should always have a good, ergonomic, synchronised mechanism and come with solid practical advice.

However, in the end, with proper office furniture in place, plus footrests, flexible PC monitor adjusting arms, TCO approved VDUs and all other ergonomic hardware, it remains imperative to think less about the positioning of the equipment - important as it is - and think more about varying the position of the individuals using them, including constant reminders to take short breaks and varying the office routine as far as possible.

Jimi St. Pierre writes for several Office Equipment suppliers in the UK, including Principal Corporation. You can find out more about office furniture on Principal’s comprehensive office equipment website at: => http://www.principalcorp.co.uk/

How important is an autoresponder to your online business? Can you really run an online business and build a list without an autoresponder?

Let me ask you this, what is central to every profitable web business? The answer is traffic and conversions. You see, the conversions are the only thing that really makes you money online. That’s it - if you don’t believe it, think about it some more. If no one converts from a visitor to a buyer - there is no money at all.

You have to have conversions. And to have conversions, you have to have traffic. You cannot get conversions without traffic.

So how do you leverage your traffic? What if I told you that the average visitor is worth 5 visits if you get them onto your list? So to do this, you need a squeeze page. You have to sacrifice getting the sale right up front and instead get the lead - and then you have the opportunity to get them to your sales page up to 5 more times on average. That is 5 times the traffic than if you don’t build a list.

But to build a list - you have to have a squeeze page - a web page that has as its only purpose the opting in of visitors to your opt in email list - and you have to have an autoresponder to do that.

And by the way, do not use a server-hosted autoresponder - you really need to have a professional autoresponder company do it for you. Sure, 5 years ago you could have done it yourself - but now you really need to have a professional company do it for you.

Do you want to learn more about how I do it? I have just completed my brand new guide to article marketing success, ‘Your Article Writing and Promotion Guide’

Download it free here: Secrets of Article Promotion

Do you want to learn how to build a massive list fast? Click here: Email List Building

Sean Mize is a full time internet marketer who has written over 900 articles in print and 9 published ebooks.

To leverage and optimize your home business, the truth is that your small business should first be tied to what you are passionate about. Your target market should also be passionate about what you are promoting.

Tip: People use to tell me that ‘The money’s in the list’. Well, that was a half truth. The real truth is that ‘The money’s in the bonded responsive list’.

Your prospects/customers (your list) is your overall biggest home business asset. Your list has a value just like your house, car, or our bank account. You are going into a home business to make a profit and the truth is that you are ultimately going to spend some money to make the profit.

If you are inexperienced or not at building a small business, we strongly suggest that you surround yourself with trusted help. Get a COACH (at least one). Your home business will not flourish in a vacuum.

Like a new baby or small business, they are totally dependent on others for direction, guidance and most of all CONTROL. That by itself is one of the leading causes of most small business failures, namely, no coaching/training. Truth is that You have got to have a coach your home business pepends on it.

You should always aspire to bond with your list at every opportunity (follow-up with them). Follow-ups are KEY to success in ANY kind of marketing - but ESPECIALLY in ONLINE marketing. This is the way to make your list more responsive to your offers.

The law of reciprocity always leads us to success. It is your guarantee of your endeavors’ successes. The truth is that the laws of nature always work, just like gravity & magnetism.

To get the law of reciprocity in your small business, it is as simple as knowing of its power along with applying and acting on its principles. Yet, even though most of us know of it, we don’t always follow through to applying and acting on its principles.

The most effective use of leverage in a home business is Network marketing! Truth is that if you are using it, it can make you well off. Your riches will be tied to the exponential growth of YOUR database/list.

Not having TOTAL CONTROL of your lists is where most fail in building their home business lists. They think that sending their prospects to their affiliate links gives them total control of the list, all they need to do is to read their company’s terms of service to know the truth.

When you are not using marketing in your small business, you have effectively alienated and lost all touch with your target market. Marketing is a bonding process, it uses the law of attraction that makes them want to be associated with you (it’s the glue) in business. You will get more bees with honey than with vinegar.

Always sweeten the pot; the more the better. Indulge your list with good and frequent communication and goodies. It will make them feel that you are attentive to their wants & desires. It is the best way I know to service my lists. Look at it this way, in your home business you have unlimited
service to give & the cost is reasonable (free)—good
service always makes you look like the good guy.

Here is how to use the marketing principle effectively, increase buyer’s anxiety in your prospects; make yourself so attractive that by not buying from you would be painful to your prospects.

Lastly, people hate to be sold and people don’t buy because they need what you are promoting. People buy because they want what you have for sale. If you will keep that in mind when you are in sales-mode with a prospect,
you will sell more.

Chris & Ted Morgan Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.

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The shocking figures are not only the estimated number of computers suspected to be infested by Spyware but even more shocking is the estimated number of identity thefts that took place last year.

Get ready to hear it! It is believed that in 2006 alone over 12 million cases of identity theft took place. This is in a backdrop where over 26 million computer users in the United States have some form of Spyware fraudulently installed in their computers.

The word to describe such numbers is not scary. Actually the word panic comes a lot closer.

Identity theft is not only a very serious problem, but it is clearly affecting millions of people. And the bad news is that based on the conservative estimates of computers already infected in the country, clearly the numbers have a long way to go upwards.

Luckily there is plenty you can do to avoid being part of the statistics. An excellent way to start is by assuming that your computer has already been invaded by spyware. The odds clearly tells you that the chances are very that it is infected. You can then seek effective spyware removers even as you build up adequate defenses against future attacks.

This is very serious business because spyware is the favorite tool in the hands of those involved in identity thefts and the fraud that goes with it. Key loggers for instance quietly record your password to your sensitive accounts and transmit the information over the World Wide Web to those waiting to use it against you.

Find out exactly what you need to do online to get rid of all the spyware hidden in your computer.

This is something completely different. I’m going to show you how I have
made over $20,000 in the last few months doing roughly 2 hours of work a
day. Using the methods that I’m about to show you will not make you
“Rich” but will give you a very nice income that you could live an above
average income with. Now, if you were to put more time in than 2 hours a
day you could make an unbelievable income.

I’m going to give you an example of how it works (You probably already
know this, but bear with me. I’m telling you this for a reason). Let’s say
that I sell a scuba wetsuit out of my brick and mortar store. Because I am in
the scuba business I can buy scuba products at wholesale prices. I buy the
wetsuit for $110 and sell it for $199.

Seems like pretty good profit but let’s take some things into consideration. It costs me A LOT more to sell that wetsuit than what you think. Yeah, I only bought it for $110 but I have employee costs, insurance costs, electric bill, light bill, phone bill, and MANY other costs that I’m not going to list. Most of my profit is going right back into business.

On top of that I consume all of my time making
sure things are going right at the business, checking up on employees, etc. All together this is very time consuming for very low profit margin. Now, let me show you what I accidentally fell into that allowed me to make some serious cash with very little effort.

As you already know… I’m a scuba diver. One night I had a piece of scuba
equipment that was with some other miscellaneous stuff I bought for a
couple bucks that I wanted to get rid. I slapped it up on ebay to make $5 or
$10 bucks. By default Ebay’s auctions are 7 days.

So I really didn’t pay attention and actually forgot that I had put the auction up there. About 10
days later I remembered and got online to check it. To my amazement the piece of scuba equipment that I put up there sold for over $300. Now, considering that I only paid about $10 for that piece of equipment that calculates to over $290 profit. I was totally amazed. I had about 10 minutes tied up in putting that item online and then my wife spent about 10 minutes packing it up to ship. Just like that, $290 in my pocket for almost nothing.

One thing people don’t realize is that when an item is on Ebay MILLIONS of people can see your item. These millions of people are A LOT more traffic than I had coming into my actual scuba shop. To have this auction put on ebay costed me less than 60 cents compared to my monthly lease payment on my real store.

Instantly it hit me that I somehow should be able to replicate this. I thought I had the answer on how right away but I was wrong. I was already in a good position because I could buy scuba equipment wholesale from my manufacturers because I was a dealer. So I went bought a couple items at
wholesale cost and put on ebay THINKING I could make that kind of money again. Boy was I wrong. The auctions ended at the same price that I bought the stuff wholesale for and I actually lost money.

What I quickly realized is that on Ebay bidders don’t expect to pay full retail price for something. If they did, why wouldn’t they just go buy it at a local store and save shipping costs? I was stuck. I knew that I could find a way to replicate what I did the first time. Then I realized something.

That piece of scuba equipment that I got for a couple bucks and made so much money on wasn’t new. It was a used piece of equipment that someone else didn’t want. They were tired of it laying around so they basically got rid of it for nothing. Where else can you run across stuff that people don’t
want anymore? How about local classified newspapers?

In my area we have a paper called “The Trader’s Guide”. This is like a newspaper full of classified ads that people are looking to get rid of stuff they don’t’ want. Now…. Being that I have been a scuba diver for over 10 years I have gotten to know the sport and the equipment very well. So I could look at these classifieds ads.

Fortunately I know the scuba equipment so well that I can instantly look at
the classified ads and know what something is worth. I looked for the ones
that seemed to be a great deal then emailed or called the individual selling it.
There are two kinds of people that place ads.

The first kind are the ones that are trying to get back out of it what they bought it for. Those are the ones that I don’t want. The second kind are the ones that just want to “get rid” of stuff. These are the ones that I want to look for. I was able to tell right away. There are a lot of ads out there that people have something that is worth over a $1,000 but they want to get rid of it so they sell if for $300.

These are the ones that I wanted because I knew that I could put them on Ebay and make hundreds of dollars on it. I would simply send them a money order or Paypal them for the items in the ad and then they would send it to me. I usually paid a couple extra dollars when I paid to cover shipping costs. Most people will ship to you as long as you pay for it.

Paying for shipping doesn’t really ad up to much when you plan on making more than
enough profit on the item when you sell it.

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