Feb 18
Mark SingleyExtra Money for Students, Scholarships and financial aid, Student Loans Q&A low interest student loans
Going off to college can be a major turning point in the lives of many teenagers and adults. One of the key factors that everyone must consider is the funding. After all, how are you going to afford your college education? Just to give you an idea, things you might need money for are tuition, textbooks, housing, food, and transportation. While can a part-time job, this may not cover all of the fees you encounter at a university. Yes indeed; college can be expensive. This is why so many people check into low interest student loans for higher learning. This is what is wonderful about college life, no one expects you to have any money, so interest rates on student loans are typically low. Much lower than you will encounter with the majority of credit card companies these days.
Where do you get started seeking out low interest student loans? Well, a wonderful place to begin is with a financial advisor. If you haven’t already, speak with a financial advisor at the university or community college you’re going to attend. Online you can also check out helpful websites like WellsFargo.com, cuStudentLoans.org, and EmigrantDirect.com. Any of these can get you started on the right track to low interest student loan options. The key is exhausting your resources. After all, you need to fully understand what is out there is you plan on getting the right loans with the lowest interest rates possible. Again, a financial advisor can assist you with this and it will not even cost you a dime. These professionals work through the universities and are there to help the students.
Know the difference between subsidized and unsubsidized student loans. This will absolutely make a difference to you in the long run. If the low interest student loans are subsidized by the government, this means that they do not accrue interest while you are in school. Once you have finished college, the lenders allow six months before you start getting billed to pay the loans back. At this point interest accrues on the loan or loans. With unsubsidized loans, the interest begins immediately after you get the sum of money for college. This means you will be paying interest from the get-go, which is not desirable. Therefore you should always strive to acquire subsidized loans first. While you may or may not be approved, it is worth a try regardless.
It does not matter if you are a teenager just out of high school or an individual in his or her forties, you can still acquire low interest student loans for a college education. A lot depends on the amount of money you currently make. If you make a lot, then you will be less likely to get a large sum in loan money.
Jul 21
Mark SingleyCareer, Extra Money for Students commission ritual, commission ritual review
I’ve met other colleagues in other training systems which I belong to like Niche Profit Classroom (an excellent course for writing and marketing ebooks) and from other superstars of the internet. But you taught me how to think like a marketer, not how to build websites and do keyword research. If you don’t sell what people are buying, you will fail no matter how good your ebook is.
When I was having trouble and you offered to call me, I was rather nervous. You were a web GURU calling me~! I mean you were you tube and everything! That had never happened before. I took notes feverishly, and you tweaked my thinking. But oddly enough, you kept with me, not abandoning me. And you still keep me in line.
I think I learned from you not to give up, that out of all the folks who try there are those who do not give up and stick to it and after a while somebody throws you a life preserver.
Feb 22
Mark SingleyCareer, Creative Professions, Extra Money for Students extra money, make money
Do you want to make money and live comfortably??? One key to making more money is to begin to really welcome the idea that money can come from anywhere, and anytime. Whether you have millions now, or whether you are down to your last penny, the basic principle is the same: Be open to multiple sources of income.
For the wealthy investors, the typical word for this philosophy to make money is: Diversification.
But the same principle holds true for those with little or no money. For instance, if you are looking for work, consider the possibility of getting two or three part-time jobs, instead of just one main job. This is entirely possible nowadays, thanks to online resources such as craigslist, or the ease of being able to create your own website.
Get more than one money making gig going!
Here is one possible scenario: You could get a 15-20 hour/week job as an office assitancnt, for example, (a temp agency is one way to get such a job, word of mouth is another, or you might also try college campuses, or try posting an ad on health food store bulletin boards). This part/half-time job can be your base.
Then, you might put the word out that you are available for house sitting. If you have never done house sitting before, you might be surprised how rewarding it is. It can be like going on vacation! You could be surrounded in luxury for a few days, and you will be getting paid for it!
You could also walk dogs, be a caregiver for the elderly, or tutor a few kids in math to make money.
Then, amidst all these jobs, you would still have time to build your own website/business, and make money doing what you really want to be doing. Why not start that hat making business you always wanted to start? Or sell things on Ebay? Or start teaching piano lessons, or become a workout coach?
Put yourself and all your energy into more than one area, and you can make money from more than one source. This is the basic principle that many people are using to create more meony, and have more fun in the process.
If you don’t know where to start, just keep your eyes open. Ask people if they need part-time help. Tell all the people you know what you are wanting to do. Let your voice and your email list go to good use.
Before you know it, you will have a diversified way of making money, variety in your days, and a little more free time. It sure beats working for peanuts at one job you do not even like.
Feb 21
Mark SingleyCreative Professions, Extra Money for Students, Journalism and Writing article, blog, column, how to write a
Most budding journalists or authors thing that paper and publication is the only way to be a legitimate author, but I always counter with “why not a blog?” To that I often get furrowed brows and hazy looks. A Blog! That’s not writing!
I recall criticism of Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs and their practice of typing out stream of consciouness. One critic said “that’s not writing, its Typing!” I wonder what the beat authors would have done with blogs!
But blog or not, there are ways to write for any publication and topics that will always garner readers. Like Jennifer Garner? Bad pun.
There are as many methods or advice columns as there are disagreements, it seems, but suffice it to say that with the internet as the up-and-coming publication of the millennium, how to write a piece for an online publication is a safe place to start.
HOW to WRITE a SIMPLE ARTICLE
There are rules and competitive strategies for learning how to write a keyword-rich article, so I will save you the advanced details and possible advancement of a headache…and launch into how to write a simple article for an online database, one that accepts and offers its readership free articles, for example. In addition, I will focus solely on the genre or type of article that is typically most accessible, or useable/readable.
Every website (or almost every website) has a general theme—a connectedness of topic or concern. So imagine you are going to write for a kitchen cabinet design firm. The company needs ten articles to start. (Again, this is just a hypothetical scenario; most sites are looking at building a database of 300+ articles….) Just as many of us experienced in college classes where the numbers of students were auditorium-sized and the instructor therefore gave loose assignments to write, say, a ten-paged paper on anything to do with California history, the web master or mistress will ask for ten articles related to kitchen cabinets. This is where you get to be imaginative, or at least inventive.
Stand in your kitchen and stare at your kitchen cupboards. What are all the ways to say cabinet? What parts, tools, and techniques are involved in designing and crafting and installing this handy closed-in structure or component? What are all the kinds of materials used in building one? What is the oldest cabinet you have ever seen? (I saw one on Craigslist the other day that was an apothecary cabinet, circa the 1920’s, made of steel and glass.) So, for starters, you can see how to write a piece on cabinets, one would consider origin, materials, and designs/types/styles. That is, you can see how to write a few paragraphs in variation you might approach as follows:
*Use a/a number of Definition/s- define the terms used in cabinetry. A glossary is most informative and helpful to the potential buyer, user, or even beginning/apprentice carpenter.
*Try a Bulleted List- post specifics/details as a readable and easily scanned list of facts or trivia.
*Do a Survey of X – write an article that covers the history of the thing, concept, event, experience, person, or place….
*Cover Style/Type Variations – with many products or items comes a string of time periods (history), and with these come new movements, new styles.
Further, how to write a piece includes what this very article purports to do: show readers how to X—in the case of cabinets, how to choose, how to decorate, even how to build, install, clean, upgrade, etc. would work nicely.
In addition, here are a few more popular formats:
The Q and A – use existing questions and make up your own, then answer them.
The Narrative – people love stories.
Try Quotes and Trivia – if applicable, quotes are as interesting as tales and discussions of trials and tribulations and success—with, in this last case, cabinets.
This ought to give you a start with how to write a publishable/saleable article. You could start with your own web site and see what responses you get. Or you could create pages for a friend. Just get practicing…and have fun doing so.
Feb 10
Mark SingleyExtra Money for Students
So for the average student, with less savvy, a paper route, delivering pizza, baby sitting, shoveling snow, cutting grass and walking dogs are all job options. You don’t need experience for these jobs and these are good ways to make extra money that shouldn’t interfere with school and homework.
One often ignored secret way to make money for the student is with Paid Focus Groups, not the ones that are advertised online which can or might not be a scam, but the real thing. There is a technique to finding them, which is well taught is Mark Springer’s excellent book “Focus Group Insider Secrets” which details his years of experience doing focus groups and how he learned to play the system a bit. Its all perfectly legal. Advertising agencies just want to pay you to look at their ads, taste and try their products, and give them feedback. As Mark points out, he once got $500.00 for 4 hours on a Sunday from a major airline to review their luxury offerings.
You can also join survey sites. You should really be sure to do some research into the legitimate survey sites so that your personal information is not sold or used in some way that you are not okay with. You can make extra money filling out surveys, however, the going is slow, and you aren’t about to make a fortune in this way. Often the payout is so small per survey it doesn’t make sense for your time.
If you have never tried the focus group route before, give it a try but be sure to read Mark’s book, which for 9.95 is a deal. It also lists group recruiters so you can easily sign up.
You can also make extra money using your computer. Although there are lots of scams out there, there are legitimate ways to make money if you are willing to take the time to find these opportunities. One of the most popular ways to make extra money these days is by writing a blog. Before trying this, it’s recommended that you do some research into how this works and to keep in mind some of the suggestions and tactics if you really want this to work and you want to make money. You are better off choosing a particular topic that is ranked high in the search engines. You can make extra money with your blog, however, you need to realize that the way you make the money is by running small advertisements on your page. You only get paid if someone clicks on those links. So the first step to make
extra money with your blog is to write on a popular topic.
The second step is to write often and to fill your writing with keywords that will drive traffic to you blog. Then, once people are visiting your blog site on a regular basis, you have a good chance that they will click on the advertisements appearing on your site, and only then will you make extra money.
There are other websites that allow you to write reviews of books, movies and products. You will get make extra money, the more you write, and the more popular your subject matter is. Again, you can make extra money doing this, however, this is a slow process and you have to have lots of time and patience in order to make this work.
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