I got a very good news for my readers especially those who like writing and would like to make more money with their writing skill.  I got this news from Kindle Direct Publishing of Amazon couple day ago.  It is not sales and marketing nor networking.  It is a pure opportunity for people who would like writing and publishing their own book jointly with Amazon via Kindle Direct Publishing.  It can be in any language and it is available almost in every country.  Check out the following email and attached links.  Guys,  to your success. 


Hello from KDP!

We're excited to introduce KDP Select - a new option dedicated to KDP authors and publishers worldwide, featuring a fund of $500,000 in December 2011 and at least $6 million in total for 2012!  KDP Select gives you a new way to earn royalties, reach a broader audience, and use a new set of promotional tools. 

Here's how KDP Select works:

When you make any of your titles exclusive to the Kindle Store for at least 90 days, those with US rights will automatically be included in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library and can earn a share of a monthly fund.  The monthly fund for December 2011 is $500,000 and will total at least $6 million in 2012.  If you haven't checked it out already, the Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a collection of books that eligible US Amazon Prime members can borrow for free once a month with no due dates.

You'll also now have access to a new set of promotional tools, starting with the option to promote your KDP Select-enrolled titles for FREE for up to 5 days every 90 days.
 
How your share of the monthly fund is calculated:

Your share of the monthly fund is based on your enrolled titles' share of the total number of borrows across all participating KDP titles in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.  For example, if total borrows of all participating KDP titles are 100,000 in December and your book was borrowed 1,500 times, you will earn $7,500 in additional royalties from KDP Select in December.  Enrolled titles will remain available for sale to any customer in the Kindle Store and you will continue to earn your regular royalties on those sales.

What this means to you:

KDP Select gives you access to a whole new source of royalties and readers- you not only benefit from a new way of making money, but you also get the chance to reach even more readers by getting your book in front of a growing number of US Amazon Prime customers: readers and future fans of your books that you may have not had a chance to reach before! Additionally, the ability to offer your book for free will help expand your worldwide reader base.

How to enroll:

KDP Select is available for titles participating in both the 70% and 35% royalty options.  You can immediately start by enrolling a single title, your whole catalog, or anything in between. 

If you're interested in enrolling a title that's already uploaded, simply click "Enroll" next to the book in your Bookshelf. To enroll multiple titles that are already uploaded, select the boxes next to any number of titles, then click "Actions" and choose "Enroll these books in KDP Select." The titles you choose will be enrolled immediately.

If you're interested in enrolling a new title, simply check the "Enroll this book in KDP Select" box while submitting details about your book and proceed to publish the book as you normally would. For new titles, enrollment takes effect once the book is available for sale on our website.

To learn more about KDP Select, visit: http://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/KDPSelect

To learn more about the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, visit:
http://www.amazon.com/kindleownerslendinglibrary

Thanks again for choosing KDP to publish your work.


Regards,

Kindle Direct Publishing
http://kdp.amazon.com
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Internet has changed the world and every aspect of today's lifestyle.  Information products and IT are the talk of the business arena.   For infoproducts Clickbank is the marketplace.  Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 500,000 digital products and 100,000 active affiliate marketers.  ClickBank makes a sale somewhere in the world every three seconds, safely processing more than 35,000 digital transactions a day over more than 200 countries, and are consistently ranked as one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web world. Clickbank is the best place to go for both publishers and affiliates for infoproducts.  It is pretty safe to say that the majority of e-books in today's world are sold through in Clickbank and Amazon. 

 

Clickbank  service is to let publishers the benefit to sell their infoproducts in a very simple way ........ publishers can save the  e-commerce set up cost !!

On the other hand, Clickbank has  its affiliate marketing network.   Anyone can join the Clickbank Affiliate Network. As a Clickbank affiliate one can sell any of the products in Clickbank's portfolio just by signing up online as an Affiliate.

ClickBank's 100,000+ affiliates earn a percentage of every purchase made by every customer they refer to any ClickBank product. These affiliates generate well over half of the sales of Clickbank 's top selling products. The ClickBank Marketplace is where affiliates go to select the products to which they will refer traffic.

 

Every product listed in the ClickBank Marketplace is associated with a sales commission rate. Commission percentages range from 1% to 75%. On any one sale the minimum commission is $0.25 and the maximum is $100.00.

As you signed up as a Clickbank Affiliate you are given a username or nickname. You just include this username in clickbank links for your site to your selected Clickbank products. 

 

Some Clickbank  commission levels are much greater than others.  To make most money with Clickbank you need to identify products that are both profitable and easy to sell.  If you visit Clickbank's website, you can find out which products are selling well because Clickbank displays products in order of popularity. e.g. the Clickbank Top 10 Hot Products. They  are high conversion ratio products.  The sure way to sell these products is by pay per click Google Adwords .  It is the most cost effective way to start the campaign at the targeted group of potential prospects.  Moreover. Google adwords works within minutes starting promoting the products the moment you finish preparing the wordings  for your Ads.  Click here to see the Adwords demo.  

It is a 1 year project for myself .  Let me tell you upfront  I am not out of my mind and It is not a crazy project.  I firmly believe it will work. .  No doubt about this.  To start with, the starting cost is $25 and the monthly operating cost is $25.  Project objective is to create upfront cash flow.  The second objective which is more important is to create a residual monthly income.   Sounds absurd but very challenging to a retiree who want some excitement and achievement by beating his own path.  May be it is equally challenging to you, my boomer friends!?.
 

My vision of building a business online is emerging.  It is brought about by the recent launch of Empower Network.  with a tiny budget of $25 I started this project.  To attain this goal I would only use organic traffic through blogging,  article writing, messages distribution through social media such as Facebook, Twitter,  and emails.  No telephone calls to friends nor telling buddies to buy from me.,.. just pure internet tools and organic traffic.  I would keep you guys updated on the project progress. 


The rationale behind this interesting project is to finding out if people can make  a living with Empower Network just selling three to four product value from  $25 to $500..  I won 't keep any inventory as I don't have to.  I don't have overhead expenses as I am using all the tools and equipments within my existing home office,  no other operating expenses as well.   So,  it is a very simple home base business operation.


The first product to start with I call it product #1.   I call it product #1 to make it easy for me and the readers to remember.  What is  it? .  It is a $25 basic Empower Network membership and upon its purchase the member would have a Wordpress blog enhanced with the following features and functions:

• Provides a blogging platform optimized for banner clicks on Wordpress multi-site format.
• Provides online training from industry leaders  on how to gather more organic and viral traffic
• Provides a sales funnel that jumps on the back of David Wood who is a seven figure online earner and possibly the best sales person in internet marketing industry..

in a nutshell,  with the above blogging system and my $25 start up capital  as well as the subsequent monthly $25 being the membership and reseller fee.  I will weave my dreamed business online.  To satisfy your curiosity,  let me explain a bit here.  

With the basic membership I get viral blog unlike the average blog which you and me can build.  It is a highly sophisticated and it 24/7 supported and backup by groups of experts from different field of specialties,  e.g.  copy-writing, blogging design, Wordpress, search engines optimization, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media, internet marketing, attraction marketing, niche marketing.  Average people may years to grab a command of all these knowledge and experience.   Now, this sophisticated blogging system is designed in such a way that makes it most user friendly.  People are required to do three things.,  yes only three simple tasks daily:

• Blog daily
• Tell friends
• Collect money
  

This EN blog offers value way way above its price.  Anyone familiar with blogging, web hosting, web design, web development would agree on this point. Its value is more than its price.  It provides me is not just a blog.  It is a lot more than that.   The training video series within the blog itself, the weekly webinars  as well as the on going trainings,  the community for information communication and socializing for technical and motivational support.  I like this product and the culture around it.  .  It is a star for now and for the years to come. 

Now, I have a very good product.   What I need to do is to promote it.  I would not chase my friends and relatives asking them to buy from me.  I would rather promote it to the mass of people out there in the internet world through my blog which is optimized by the guru.   I would adhere to what I learn from EN 25 training and apply them when promoting the product itself.  You would like my blog and its promos on Facebook, Twitter, emails, articles, and any media I can conceive.   Spread the words and he messages about Empower Network is the key here at this  point of time.   Why?   The reason is simple,  the EN 25 built in design already taken good care of capture page, sales page, conversion and closing.  So, I just focus one blogging daily with original and good content.   Next is to spread the messages out to the net.  the last task, I just don't need to be reminded,  because all payment will be deposit into my bank account direct.  And it 100% commission.   What are you waiting for?  You can start the project like me.  Start invest you initial capital investment onto a business for yourself online.  By the way this much for today,  I would cover more products in my next post. 

Join Empower Network

with David Au,

and make 100% commission      .    

Guys stay tuned in to follow the project progress.   By the way, peel into Empower Network Compensation Plan here

In Guangzhou, one of China's first Special Economic Zones, the best deals are to be found at Canaan Market, the market of the Africans, in the neighbourhood known as "Chocolate City."

 
 Visiting Canaan is like popping over to Africa, from the smells of the food sold by street vendors to the hairstyles of the women shopping. Here one can find the least expensive "Made in China" goods, sold by Chinese as well as by Africans. Both groups, however, wear African-style clothes, so every stall offers a palette of colours that can't help but strike anyone accustomed to the grayness of this city, polluted by the thousands of factories hidden in its belly. All the buyers are Africans, naturally, and many of them still have the dust of that land on their shoes. Since November 2009, Kenya Airways has flown nonstop from Nairobi to Guangzhou. The flight is always full, and many travellers come straight to the market from the airport. The emotion is such that they can't resist.

 
For an African, Canaan is Toyland, brimming with everything: From the plastic sandals that revolutionized an entire continent, erasing for good the image of African children and adults with bare feet, to the counterfeit Prada bags so appreciated in Soweto, to iPods and pirated videos and CDs. The prices are exceptionally low, accessible to anyone with a little money set aside who makes it this far, the industrial heart of southern China. It doesn't take much to get into the "Made in China" business.

 
As in all true markets, in Canaan you can always find what you're looking for: From old Singer sewing machines to African SIM cards, even prostitutes for those wishing to distract themselves after a tough day of bargaining. Such days are exhausting, because this isn't a shopping mall, it's an arena, a scene of combat, where the final price is the fruit of hours of discussion, offers and counteroffers, threats and promises. Even simply crossing the rows of stalls is a trial, the vendors tug at you from all sides, piling on offer after dizzying offer.

 
English is the lingua franca, but in the background one hears the melody of hundreds of African dialects. And the music, blending in with the voices of the merchants and customers from one corner of the market to the other, is African rap. Joseph Nwaosu, a Nigerian exporter, sums up for us what's behind a market like this: When you go to the United States or Europe, there isn't much opportunity. You are going to get a menial job, with barely enough to send home. But here we don't have jobs. We set ourselves up.

 
Canaan is one of the true marketplaces of globalization, initiated only recently in the global south, far away from the elegant boardrooms of the international banks and the electronic crawl boards of the exchange floors. Canaan is where the future Rockefellers of developing countries come to make deals, not Paris. Born in 2002, this is indeed a market reserved for products from the Third World and directed at the Third World, to which, as we've seen, China still feels itself to belong. What's for sale here, however, is not traditional goods but the same merchandise we find in our own stores, the accessories of globalized life. At one stall there's a pile of hair extensions all ready to be woven in. They look like those found in any Parisian hair salon, even the colours correspond to those in the photo of three models under the large L'Oréal logo. But the only thing French here is the logo. The hair is from India, the treatment occurs in China, and the final touch comes from the African hairdressers who will weave in the hair according to local fashions.

 
The West forgot markets like this a long time ago. Adam Smith would go crazy here and David Ricardo wouldn't need to write his theory of comparative advantage; a digital camera would be enough to show him the advantages that commerce reserves for nations. Westerners don't come here, however, not even to peek in. And this is a mistake because the market offers us a precious window - anyone who doesn't understand that on these stalls the future of the planet is being built, is either blind or dumb. Canaan has a revolutionary message for us inhabitants of the First and Second Worlds: if you don't wake up, the only nations to make it to the finals of the globalization World Cup will be the Third Worlders.

 
Excerpted from Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists Than We Do by Loretta Napoleoni, published by Seven Stories Press, 2011.

Most likely you guys found I have made some modifications to my blog here.   I have added the following:

• a self made video presentation at the top right hand corner just the very top of the sidebar
• an opt-in form immediately beneath the new video

The main purpose of the above additions is for the better communication with my readers.  Interaction and communication among us is what I would like to improve further.   With the help of Google Analytics I notice that on average a visitor spent about slightly over two minutes per visit on my blog.  Each time they visit my blog they read about 17 pages. And, the bouncing rate is less than 2%. I am very pleased with these findings.   In this respect, I would think, I have done pretty well.  However, I need to improve the breath of readership reaching out for more people in more countries.  I would still cling to the organic search engines way.  I don't like the short cut via the 'black hat' methods which would eventually lead to being blocked or banned by the major search engines like Google, Yahoo. etc..   


By the way,  the new video I made is possibly the most economic production in the net. If you like to know the details just read on.  


It is very easy to make a video for your blog. For this purpose there are several things you need:

• A desktop computer
• Webcam with built in speakers and microphone
• A Facebook account
• Word processor e.g. MS Words
  
• You as the artist

Yes, that is what you need for the audio video production. 

Now let us by position yourself in front of the webcam camera, your face at eye level with the webcam as you are facing the  computer monitor.  Do follow these steps:

• Login to your Facebook account.  Click 'Add/Video'
• Click 'Use Webcam'
• Now the webcam is ready as you see yourself in the computer monitor.
• Shrink the Facebook page to half page and position it on the right hand side.
• Go to Microsoft Words and type in your transcript and saved it. 
  
• Bald the words for easy reading 
• Shrink it to half page

• Position it to left hand side.
• You have now two half pages on your screen,
• on the right is your Facebook page with the webcam camera ready to roll
• On the left is your transcript for the video ready.

• Now click the webcam red button to start rolling the webcam recording.
• You should play your roll as the artist.   Read the transcript loud and clear.

• When you finish reading the transcript,  click the Facebook webcam red button to stop recording.

• Click the 'Play' button on Facebook page.

• You have made your own audio/video
• Play it to check it out if you like it or not
• If you like it, post it to Facebook by clicking 'Post' button.
• If you don't like it, you simply redo it until you like it.
• You can share it with your friends via Facebook.
• You can also share it by copy and paste the embed code of that audio/video  to your blog and website.

In my next post I would talk on the opt in web form for my newsletter in my blog re  DIY eBusiness Solutions for baby boomers.   Have a very good day.


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In today's internet market  the highlight of attention is  affiliate networks which network together a whole lot of affiliates with merchants.  They are the sources for thousands and thousands of  merchandizes and they are free to join.  The two most popular affiliate networks are:


Commission Junction
Mainstream products. many of the big companies have programs in here, but there aren't very many lifetime commission products, or high commission products.  Commission Junction (CJ) is preferred for its strong network and  high-end merchants. However, the reporting system is not user friendly and loading time a bit long.  Words are out there that CJ  is cracking down on people who get traffic to affiliate pages using PPC ads and banning accounts with little or no warning. 



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Internet has changed the world and every aspect of today's lifestyle.  Information products and IT are the talk of the business arena.   For infoproducts Clickbank is the marketplace.  Founded in 1998, ClickBank is a secure online retail outlet for more than 50,000 digital products and 100,000 active affiliate marketers.  ClickBank makes a sale somewhere in the world every three seconds, safely processing more than 35,000 digital transactions a day over more than 200 countries, and are consistently ranked as one of the most highly-trafficked sites on the web. Clickbank is the best place to go for both publishers and affiliates for infoproducts.  It is pretty safe to say that the majority of e-books in today's world are sold through here in Clickbank. 

Buddies, boomers and retirees, have you ever imagined turning your knowledge, know-how and experience into an information product.  What I meant here is to create your own the e-book or infoproduct, 


I would like to tell you a true story.   A story of a young woman selling health and nutrition products in a mlm organization back in the early eighty.  

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Long before I ever knew what pay-per-click advertising was... before I knew anything about a computer or had even considered doing business on the internet... I "accidentally" discovered how to get 2-3 new retail customers coming to me every week.

I was a wet-behind-the-ears distributor who was lucky to sell a couple bottles of my health and nutrition stuff every month.

Then One Saturday Afternoon Everything Changed -- DRASTICALLY!

I went to a sales workshop where a special guest speaker from out-of-town introduced me to a brand new way of selling things.

She called it a "Health Awareness Seminar."

And it was simply an educational class that showed people how to start improving their health and diet right away...

WITHOUT having to buy anything!

At the end of the presentation, almost as an afterthought, she mentioned a few of her products that could help with the health issues that were just talked about. But that was it.


The Rest Was High-Quality,  Pitch-Free Information!

It was totally different than the usual product shows I was used to doing where all I did was talk about how great my stuff was.

I knew this "health awareness seminar" thing was something I could do too.

Plus it'd be something that I actually enjoyed doing because I didn't have to be aggressive or pushy and I liked the whole idea of helping people out with their health problems.

So I went back home and immediately began working on my own presentation.

I practiced the whole thing until it felt natural and then I setup my first "seminar."

Three people showed up. I was a little disappointed but I knew it was just a bad night of the week.

The second one was a lot better. This time there was about ten people there and I sold a couple hundred dollars worth of product - as much as I usually sold in a month!

But the best part was, I didn't even ask anyone to buy anything!

Then, almost magically, word started spreading around faster than wildfire.

People loved the information so much that they started to tell their friends about my seminars, who in turn talked to their friends.

Audiences kept getting bigger and BIGGER each time I'd do a presentation and  afterwards I was taking more and MORE orders!

But here's the part that shocked me the most...


People Were Literally Lining Up To Get My Advice - As If I Was Their Doctor!


Many times I'd have 8-10 people standing in line waiting to ask me questions about different health issues they had - even ones I hadn't talked about!

And when they asked me for a recommendation about something...


It Was As If I Was Filling Out A Prescription For Them!


As you can imagine, other people in my company started to notice how well I was doing. They began asking me to do these "health awareness seminar" things for them and their teams.

So I did. Upline... crossline... no-line... whoever.

It got to the point where I didn't even have to go through my names list anymore because every week I had 2-3 new people who I had NEVER met before in my life calling me to order some products.


From A Couple Hundred Dollars A Month In Sales... To Over $3,000 A Month!

I was now personally selling over $3,000 worth of products every month. During my best month I sold over $3,500.  I also won the award for top retailer in my state twice in a row.

But here's the weird thing about my rapid rise to sales stardom...


I Still Had No Idea What I Was Doing!


By hosting these health awareness seminars I had unknowingly stumbled upon attraction marketing and the secret to becoming highly sought-after by my customers.

However I became extremely frustrated because I still didn't quite "GET IT."

I knew that WHAT I was doing was working, but I didn't know WHY it was working.

I had dozens of people calling me every month about my products but I still couldn't sponsor someone if my life depended on it!

I thought that what I was doing only worked for selling my health and nutritional products.

It wouldn't be until years later that I figured out how to take that same process and apply it to the rest of my business to recruit people.


Here's Where YOU and YOUR BUSINESS Come Into The Picture


Ever since I came out with The Renegade Network Marketer many of my students have been running into the same obstacle I was faced with several years ago -- only it's the other way around!

They're successfully using the marketing principles taught in my course to generate their own leads and attract business builders.

However many people have had a hard time taking these same strategies and using them to sell their stuff and attract more customers.

As a result, I've gotten a slew of emails from people wondering how they can retail their company's products using the attraction marketing model.

And I've literally been begged to come out with some detailed training that focuses specifically on how to do this!

Well there's no need for the sweet talking to continue because something's looming on the horizon.

Ann Sieg

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Do you guys have similar experience?  You should not give yourself excuses not to venture into the internet world with your world of experience and knowledge.                       
 
There are people who think:.

•      I can't write a book or create an e-book
•      My knowledge and experience are not good enough
•      Would any one pay for my info-product

 
You' UNDER-ESTIMATE your own knowledge, experience, know-how, and
above all your abilities and potential.

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Do you have a passion for an ebusiness of your own?

If you are really enthusiastic about it, you are much more likely to be successful at it.  However, if you are just doing it for the money, then success is still possible but can be difficult.


I operate my affiliate business from home with a fully loaded Pentiukm 4 desktop computer and a flat Samsung monitor, printer, telephone, etc. They run all of my home office, photo and video-editing programs.


... THE ELEVATED BLUEPRINT - everything you will ever need to know STARTING YOUR BUSINESS ONLINE!

If you have your own website, you can sell ad space to  Google in your  web pages making AdSense money from Google.

With regard to Google AdSense I would recommend  Joel Comm.   Then , who is Joel Comm and why should you listen to him?  

Quote:

" If you are reading this page and want to make more money with Google Adsense, you are in good company! My name is Joel Comm, and I've been an Internet entrepreneur since 1995. I run a series of family-friendly web sites and continue to earn a generous income online.

In 1997, a company called Yahoo! purchased my game site, ClassicGames.com, and today it's known as Yahoo! Games. My face is seen hundreds of thousands of times daily in the form of a cartoon avatar at the Yahoo! Games game tables.

Through the years, I've built dozens of web sites that welcome thousands of visitors each day. I've found many ways to generate revenue online, but I wasn't prepared for the revolution that would take place in the form of Google AdSense.

In June 2003, I signed up with Google AdSense, and did what many others do. I simply took the code from the AdSense site and pasted it onto my web site. And then I did what many others undoubtedly do as well. I wondered why I wasn't making any money.

But then I got smart. I suspected that I was leaving money on the table, so I began testing my AdSense code using completely legitimate means. What I found changed my life.

From just $30 per day, I had shot up to $500 PER DAY with just a few easy changes in my spare time. I looked at my incredible 5-digit check and thought I must be dreaming. 'There has got to be a mistake", I thought. "Google is going to call me up and ask for their check back." But the call never came.

Deep down, I knew it wouldn't. Each time I logged into my AdSense account, the proof was right before my eyes: My AdSense stats! "

Unquote

Access here to Adsense Secret by Joel Comm (Highly Recommended) to see the real, recent screenshot of Joel Comm 's AdSense stats page. With Google's permission, Joel reveals how much  he is making with AdSense. But they've asked Joel to keep details of CPM and CTR private, so he has blacked them out in order to comply with Google's terms of service.

Access to Google Adsense Success Stories
 

Her name is Rosalind Gardner.  She earned 100% of her income from the  internet. She started in 1998.  Between January 1998 and June 2003, SheI did business online by promoting affiliate programs.


She  quit her day job in 2000 and  her sites were raking in $30,000 to 50,000 US dollars EACH and EVERY month. In 2002, she earned a whopping $436,797, ($657,801 CDN) affiliating with Internet merchants and selling their products. Now she earned much more than that!.   Here your access to find out more about her extraordinary success.

Rosalind's very popular publications :

• The Superaffiliate Handbook

• Make A Big Splash Selling On Amazon.

Life as an affiliate marketer is pretty easy. There are no products to develop,  carry or ship; and no orders to process or refund. All that and more is handled directly by the merchant. But it still takes a little know-how to build a site that turns visitors into customers, and Rosalind shares her extensive  knowledge in "The Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797

Read the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earns 400,000+ per year ... selling other people's stuff online!
In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the 'Net. In 270+ pages, and more than 73,000 words, you'll learn how to pick the best programs, negotiate a commission raise and save time, money and effort on everything from affiliate software

to web hosting. To learn exactly how she does it, Click Here.

I am pleased to post this article here written by Donald Mahoney. Donald is the editor with Franchise Direct, one of the top franchise portals out there today. I hope you guys would like this article  about franchise opportunities for baby boomers.

 

No generation in American history is quite as celebrated as the Baby Boomers. They shaped the country with their vision, their commitment to change and their desire to change the world for the better. In a funny way, it seemed like they would never get old. But yet, as we stand on the verge of a new decade, many baby boomers are beginning their golden years. Such is life.

 

And despite all of the economic problems of the last few years, baby boomers have never lost that interest to succeed in business and exercise some entrepreneurial spirit. Along with today's young college graduates, our research at Franchise Direct (www.franchisedirect.com), one of the top franchise portals, shows that baby boomers are some of the most active entrepreneurs on the scene today.

 

Interestingly, the shifting generational tides for baby boomers have opened up a range of new business opportunities. We are noticing this primarily in the health and senior care sector. Never before in American history will there have been so many senior citizens. This will create a number of challenges for America's health care system. The contentious debate over health care in America this year shows a crucial of an issue it is to people. Luckily, health and senior care franchises have stepped in to fill some of the void that traditional health and senior care franchises cannot provide.

 

We've witnessed huge growth of health and senior care franchises in the last 12-18 months. These are diverse businesses that cater to a range of needs, be they stay-at-home care or senior care centers. They take an established business model and simply adapt it in a new setting. Best of all, you don't need a background in medicine or health care to work in these industries. General business acumen will guide you on your way.

 

This is just one sector that baby boomers are turning to. For those baby boomers considering new franchise opportunities, Franchise Direct is a top resource, with access to the best franchises, plus essential information on the industry. If you're interested in a franchise, stick with Franchise Direct (www.franchisedirect.com).

 

 

 

 

 They might not have changed the world like they promised in 1969, but by being the first generation to grow up with pop culture, it seemed like they would never get old. But, lo and behold, this year, Baby Boomers find themselves on the verge of the golden years. The question many considering business opportunities is this: how can I best service this huge demographic?

 

Anyone launching a business will want to be targeting a very defined market. But why not pitch that tent as big as possible? That is the argument of Susan Ward, who outlined ten possible areas to succeed with business via the baby boomer sector.

 

Some proposals are not surprising and have proposed before on this blog. For instance, health and senior care franchises are only going to get more popular, given America's

rapidly-aging population and the recent rumpus over health care. Equally, senior franchises stand to do well, as elderly people will need to stay younger.

 

One of the most interesting suggestions comes in targeting the pet sector. According to Ward, baby boomers have elevated pets to near-human levels.

 

Not in boomer households. Baby boomer pets eat, sleep and do things with their people. They watch TV, they get dressed up, they have their own friends and their own doctors. They are a multi-million dollar industry!

 

All in all, it's a demographic that every entrepreneur needs to consider. There are many opportunities to take advantage of with this sector.

If you have your own website, you can sell ad space to  Google in your  web pages making AdSense money from Google.
 
In the past there we had the Googel referal program.  Then, people can earn more by spreading the word about AdSense and Firefox through referrals...  The Google Referral Program had retired for some time  Now people can only earn money with Adsense from Google.
 

With regard to Google AdSense I would recommend  Joel Comm.   Then , who is Joel Comm and why should you listen to him?  

Quote:

" If you are reading this page and want to make more money with Google Adsense, you are in good company! My name is Joel Comm, and I've been an Internet entrepreneur since 1995. I run a series of family-friendly web sites and continue to earn a generous income online.

In 1997, a company called Yahoo! purchased my game site, ClassicGames.com, and today it's known as Yahoo! Games. My face is seen hundreds of thousands of times daily in the form of a cartoon avatar at the Yahoo! Games game tables.

Through the years, I've built dozens of web sites that welcome thousands of visitors each day. I've found many ways to generate revenue online, but I wasn't prepared for the revolution that would take place in the form of Google AdSense.

In June 2003, I signed up with Google AdSense, and did what many others do. I simply took the code from the AdSense site and pasted it onto my web site. And then I did what many others undoubtedly do as well. I wondered why I wasn't making any money.

But then I got smart. I suspected that I was leaving money on the table, so I began testing my AdSense code using completely legitimate means. What I found changed my life.

From just $30 per day, I had shot up to $500 PER DAY with just a few easy changes in my spare time. I looked at my incredible 5-digit check and thought I must be dreaming. 'There has got to be a mistake", I thought. "Google is going to call me up and ask for their check back." But the call never came.

Deep down, I knew it wouldn't. Each time I logged into my AdSense account, the proof was right before my eyes: My AdSense stats! "

Click here Adsense Secret by Joel Comm (Highly Recommended) to see the real, recent screenshot of Joel Comm 's AdSense stats page. With Google's permission, Joel reveals how much  he ismaking with AdSense. But they've asked Joel to keep details of CPM and CTR private, so he has blacked them out in order to comply with Google's terms of service.

Recommend Highly reference books:
Google Secrets
Guide to Google Adwards 
 

Make Money with Affiliate Programs

The highlight of attention is  affiliate networks which put together a whole lot of affiliates with merchants.  These are the sources for thousands and thousands of  merchandizes and they are free to join.  The main affiliate networks are:

                 

If you have a low traffic site, you need to be more selective and focus for each web page and related to the main theme of your website.  This is the basic rule to win in the affiliate game.   The second is traffic volume.  It is the blood for any ebusiness
programs or products.  The other area which we would touch on is their respective  basic characteristics.

Affiliate Marketing is the focal point of attention in today's  business world. It is  the latest business model and is  used by big brand name companies worldwide.   Here is a  Tiny Sample of  Digital Products  which YOU can promote their products as affiliates.  Most of the Big Name companies  want you to join and sell their products. e.g. CommissionJunction.com ; Linkshare.com, Clickbank.com This opens the business opportunities for people  to  start an online business at the comfort of  their own home.  It will be my cup of tea as an early baby boomer to have my own  online business working at home that oversees the CN Tower and the beautiful skyline of Toronto waterfront.    Now I am selling online the infoproducts and other stuff  such as electronics, computer hardware and software  DELL, Sony, HP,  Amazon,   as well as ebooks, games, home products  ........and finally the ad space in my own websites and blogs. I  share this information and knowledge with all visitors  the baby boomers and the retirees as well as the young at heart.    I trust it will help you to run your own home based business and escape the office routine of 9 to 5 every day if you wish..  Or this could be your part time job for the golden years of retirement. They are free and are easy to start.  You don't need your own product. The processing of logistics , orders, shipping and  customers services are taken care of by the affiliate merchants.  You make money online just by referring peope to the affilate merchants .  You will get paid when your referrals purchase  the products.

Introducing Rosalind Gardner, author of Super Affiliate Handbook! SuperAffiliateHandbook Read the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earns 400,000+ per year ... selling other people's stuff online! In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the 'Net. In 270+ pages, and more than 73,000 words, you'll learn how to pick the best programs, negotiate a commission raise and save time, money and effort on everything from affiliate software to web hosting. To learn exactly how she does it, Click Here for more details.

Buddies, boomers and readers,  I came across this article.  It is a nice article about boomers, the contemporary economy and the urgent need to make extra money for every body not just the boomers.  It is written by Mary Mason-Shields

Research being done today shows more and more baby boomers are becoming entrepreneurs. The answer for this group today is possibly owning a home base businesses. There is no need to run amok looking for one of the brick and mortar businesses to become an entrepreneur. Just put your expertise to work for you from the comfort of your own home.

A home base business chosen from the hobbies and/or interests of baby boomers would probably be more prosperous and much more lucrative for the retiring baby boomer. Baby boomers would be more susceptible to success doing what they know and what they feel comfortable doing.

Those reaching retirement age or already retired are faced with the dilemma of what to do to secure their future and the future of their family. They are wondering what will they do to maintain a modicum of decent living. They have waited so long for the day to arrive they could retire only to find the economy in such turmoil, they don't know what to do.

The future for baby boomers retiring really looks gloomy right now in the face of the 2008 economy. Is it possible for those baby boomers who own home based businesses to turn the economy around? Anything is possible.

There are some really detrimental situations facing baby boomers today and one of the issues is the retirement savings they have/had. If baby boomers had their retirement savings tied up in the stock market, they quite possibly could be without any retirement savings at all. What should they do now?

Just to think that you have worked all those years to have your savings wiped out and you had nothing to do with it. This would not be such a "hard pill to swallow" if other streams of income were in place. There is no doubt, the 2008 economy stresses are weighing heavy on those people who are contemplating retirement.

Not only baby boomers, everyone should be looking at additional streams of income to secure their future. This is not the time to rest on your laurels and be satisfied or reliant with one stream of income. Employment is not secure. Savings accounts are not secure. It is time NOW to start a home based business in preparation for the loss of that one stream of income.

There is much more information found at http://www.squidoo.com/futureforbabyboomers and http://www.squidoo.com/babyboomersandretirement2008

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Mary_Mason-Shields
http://EzineArticles.com/?Baby-Boomers-Become-Entrepreneurs&id=1641608

Buddies, Boomers and Readers,
 

If you have your own website or , you should consider Google Adsense in your site homepage and content pages.  Click here for more insider secrets.

Google AdSense is a simple and easy way for website publishers to display relevant Google ads on their website homepage and content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your own website -- or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts -- you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages.


For Google Adsense resources click here to access the webmaster support center by Google
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/

With regard to the know-how and insider secret for cracking Google AdSense code check it out here  http://www.clicksbucks.com/adsense_secret.html

Buddies, Boomers & Readers,

Are we out of recession?   Most people won't agree with what the government headed by Stephen Harper who said.  ' Canada is the first country in the G20 getting out of recession'.  People are currently undergoing the pain of recession in their daily life aggravated deeply by the unemployment or insufficient employment.   We  see Canadian citizens are suffering from the symptoms of recession.  Workplaces are empty or partially emply.  Restaurants are dead quiet.  We will go through this economic downturn until we have three consecutive quarterly national surplus in a row.  When will this happen?  No body knows.  The economic outlook is not a good one as painted by some business gurus like Bill Gate, Alan Greenspan and other corporate heads..  Some economists anticipate the double dip recession is around the global marketplace already,  

Boomer friends, the sure way to protect yourself and secure your future is to find a business that will provide you with financial security no matter what happens to the economy. There are some needs that would continue no matter what.   there are always markets available for these products such as household products.

A home-based business will give you the security to care for your family and guarantee that you have the financial future you need to retire when the time comes. 

Check out this Business Plan for your future security.

Buddies, Boomer, and Readers,
In my previous post, I talked about Myspace and how to use it to promote your business to your target market.  Today, let us spend some time on the Facebook and how you can build business with it.   This is a tool any serious internet network marketer must use to expand their spider web of influence.

 

Buddies, Boomers & Readers,

Watch out Site Build It  SBI 2.0 is just released.

SBI! makes online business success do-able. Anyone can succeed with an all-in-one process, tools, and guidance.

Yes, there are easier ways to build a Web site. However, online profits require more than just having a collection of Web pages. SBI! includes all the tools and a proven process required to build a long-term, profitable e-business.

You get more than just a "site builder." You don't need to worry about looking for separate hosting, paying for a separate keyword research tool, handling site submissions, integrating autoresponders, etc., etc. See the full list of features here -- pick the most relevant ones for you and your reader.

SBI! removes the technical barriers allowing you to keep your attention on building your business. Many functions are completely automated. You don't need to know anything upfront about building a Web site in order to succeed. The tedious, "under-the-hood" stuff is handled automatically so you can focus on other important business-building activities.

Choosing your best site concept is not always as obvious as you might think. Brainstorm It! and Niche Choose It! show you the best path for your particular business, reveal some surprises, and help you make the right choice.

Monetize It! helps you choose the best monetization options for your site concept. Creating a diverse monetization mix will help you maximize your site's profitability and ensure long-term growth.

Fast, reliable, state-of-the-Net Web site hosting is all included with SBI!. You don't have to worry about choosing the right "hosting" features (size, capacity, etc.). Web hosting is included, no nonsense, no hidden clauses.

To announce your site to Search Engines, you need to submit a specialized file called a "Sitemap XML" file. SBI! does it all automatically, a huge time saver, that enables you to quickly achieve wider distribution and attract more targeted free traffic.

Search Engine spider/listing/ranking reports let you see how your pages are being handled by the Search Engines. You can see what pages rank best and drive traffic. Each report's insights help you to determine how to increase traffic and monetization. Most pros don't have easy and reliable access to this type of information.

SBI! includes an easy-to-use form builder with autoresponders. You can build contact forms, surveys, and polls to easily communicate with your visitors. You don't need to use your e-mail address, which attracts spam. Experienced users will appreciate no longer needing separate form-building tools. Having these tools all in one place saves time and expense, too.

Content 2.0 allows your site's visitors to create content for you. Turn any page on your site into an invitation for your visitors to add content. C2 then allows other visitors to comment and rate the page much like on a blog. This means your site will have more Search Engine attractive pages. Having more site pages means the Search Engines will rank your pages higher and that leads to more traffic. A chain of events that simply started through the contributions of your visitors!

Infin It! enables you to plug third party resources into your SBI! site. You can add forums, shopping carts, datafeeds, blogs and other server-side functionality. Infin It! brings you an SBI! site with no limits.

The SBI! private forums provide friendly, helpful support from other Site Build It! users. Help is available from folks who are in the same place as you. This peer-to-peer support gets you over the humps along the way in a stress-free environment. Help is available even for advanced questions. The forums are a business-building support community ready to help you succeed.

Order SBI  2.0 here

Buddies, Boomers and Readers,

It is best that you  build your own website to start your online business.  Site building software is user friendly and you don't need to be a techie. When your website  is ready then join the affiliate programs or affiliate network whick matach with your experience and personalit.  For expample, if you like digital cameras or personal computers you can choose affiliate programs connected with these products.


Affiliate Programs  can generate a stream of income when  your referred customers puchased products or services from the online merchants.  Your commission will be  instantly deposited into your  bank account..or Clickbank,  PayPal, Stormpay. If you prefer they can send you the checks.   

Most of the affiliate programs are paid on sales made.  i.e., you earn commission each time someone buys from your link.   There are a few excellent Affiliate Programs which pay lifetime residual income, such as Sitesell.com.   

Some practical suggestions:                        
1. Jump start  with Google AdSense to exploit the revenue potential of you website.
If you have your own website, you can also sell ad space to Google in your web pages.  Earn more by spreading the word         about AdSense and Firefox through referrals.  By adding a referral button to your site,  you can help connect users to useful products related information with Google Ads  while generating additional  earnings in the process.   

2. Earn Quick Cash with Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner. It is the overall  #1 Clickbank product for 2003, 2004.  It is still within ClibkBank top 10 in 2005 and 2006.

3. Get Paid for taking Surveys Online.

4.  Online pharmacy selling popular prescription drugs, and nutrition supplements e.g. Viagra, HerTurn.org,  Celebrex,  Natural  Supplements, etc.

A very good place to start your affiliate marketing is  Clickbank where you can have over thousands of infoproducts.  MY next recommendation is eBay and finally the Google Adsense.


Your Benefits of Working with Affiliate Programs selling online merchants' products are:

* you will own a personalized link to the online merchant website  lhat will collect  money  payment online for the products you sold.   Your earned commission will be directly  deposited into your own bank account or sent to you by checks when someone buys through this personalized link.   This link is set up automatically by the affiliate merchant.

* No inventory to keep  and no staff

* No account-receivables,  no bad debt

* Streams of incomes will be instantly deposited to Your ClickBank or PayPal Account  zero waiting time

 

* Streams of incomes from Residual Income Programs would secure your future i.e. do it once and earn income forever., e.g. SiteSell.com

* Affiliate progrmas  are fully automatic setup-up.  Sign up   today with the ones that best suit you and you  are in  business right away.

*When you get up in the morning and open your  emails you could see Notification of Web payment. i,e. money already credited to your  bank account.

An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids.   He applies for a janitor's job at a large firm   and easily passes an aptitude test. The human resources manager tells him, "You will be hired at minimum wage of $5.35 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address so that we can get you in the loop. Our system will automatically e-mail you all the forms and advise you when to start and where to report on your first day."

Taken back, the man protests that he is poor and has neither a computer nor an e-mail address.To this the manager replies, "You must understand that to a company like ours that means that you virtually do not exist. Without an e-mail address you can hardly expect to be employed by a high-tech firm. Good day."

Stunned, the man leaves Not knowing where to turn and having $10 in his wallet, he walks past a farmers' market and sees a stand selling 25 lb. crates of beautiful red tomatoes. He buys a crate, carries it to a busy corner and displays the tomatoes. In less than 2 hours he sells all the tomatoes and makes 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 and arrives home that night with several bags of groceries for his family.

During the night he decides to repeat the tomato business the next day. By the end of the week he is getting up early every day and working into the night. He multiplies his profits quickly. Early in the second week he acquires a cart to transport several boxes of tomatoes at a time, but before a month is up he sells the cart to buy a broken-down pickup truck.

At the end of a year he owns three old trucks. His two sons have left their neighborhood gangs to help him with the tomato business, his wife is buying the tomatoes, and his daughter is taking night courses at the community college so she can keep books for him.
By the end of the second year he has a dozen very nice used trucks and employs fif
teen previously unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. He continues to work hard.



Time passes and at the end of the fifth year he owns a fleet of nice trucks and a warehouse that his wife supervises, plus two tomato farms that the boys manage. The tomato company's payroll has put hundreds of homeless and jobless people to work. His daughter reports that the business grossed over one million dollars.

Planning for the future, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. Then the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.

When the man replies that he doesn't have time to mess with a computer and has no e-mail address, the insurance man is stunned, "What, you don't have e-mail? No computer? No Internet? Just think where you would be today if you'd had all of that five years ago!" "Ha!" snorts the man. "If I'd had e-mail five years ago I would be sweeping floors at Microsoft and making $5.35 an hour."

Which brings us to the moral of the story:

Since you got this story by e-mail, you're probably closer to being a janitor than a millionaire.
Sadly, I received it also.

Buddies and Boomers, You guys may think that
 myspace is only for teenagers with nothing better to do.

Well, if you actually believe
that then you're missing out on one of the MOST
highly-trafficked and powerful websites on the
planet that reaches more than 6 million people A DAY!

The key is to learn how to turn myspace into a
cash-cow that cranks out money for you 24 hours
a day 7 days a week on autopilot.

Come learn how its done:


http://www.howtogeneratemlmleads.org/training/marketing/01

 

Boomers and buddies, are you working on make money online? 
If yes, there is a simple tool.  It works 24/7 making money for you online.

Today  I am going to talk about how to create a
marketing sales funnel that ALL of your prospects
get moved through so you're making cash while
you're eating dinner, watching a movie, hanging
out with your kids, or kicking back on the beach.

Yet 95% of network marketers DO NOT USE IT!?
It is insane!!!

This simple tool will EDUCATE your prospects
automatically (kind of like I'm doing here) so you
don't have to manually keep sending people information.

It will stay in touch with your prospects 24x7 and will
help brand YOU as the leader you need to become
if you ever want to make serious money in this
industry.

And you can literally promote absolutely anything
you want, as long as it is of value to your prospects.

And it is CRITICAL to your success.

It's called an email auto-responder, ie. an Internet
Network Marketer's best friend.

This is how all the top producers do business and
THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE of ANY internet business!!

Using an autoresponder allows you to have MULTIPLE
streams of income (A HUGE KEY TO MAKING MONEY ONLINE).

I personally have over 15 sources of income that ALL of
my prospects get exposed to at some point through my
on-going communication with them and this pays me
THOUSANDS of dollars per month regardless of whether or
not they join my primary business.

There is no question here...if you want to be a top
producer you must be building YOU and your own list,
period. We're going to teach you how to monetize that
list in the upcoming days.

Get your very own automated email auto-responder here:


http://www.aweber.com/?330553


******************************

"I'm relatively new to internet marketing and all I
did was follow the MLSP training that they provide.

On Nov. 6th, 2008, I sent out my 1st video for the
mass internet utilizing some of the advanced techniques
I learned inside of MLSP...I ended up on the 1st page
of Google in the #6 position ON MY FIRST TRY!

If I can generate my own leads, ANYONE can!"

- Bill P., OH

******************************

It's time to start generating your own leads, funneling
them through your own professionally created squeeze
page, and guiding them through your carefully crafted
marketing funnel if you want to join the ranks of the elite.

This is the ONLY way top earners market online...
Come join the 3% who have figured it out:


http://www.howtogeneratemlmlead.org/training Marketing Mentor - mlm, private franchise
David Au
E-Mail: aushukan@rogers.com
Direct: (905)5974-8388

Baby Boomer's HomeBusiness Your Plan B. A Business Opportunity which made Most Millionnaires only next to Microsoft http://millionbabyboomers.com

Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=817594347

I got an email from Mike Dillard.  The topic of the email caught my eyes.  Oh that is profound.  I would like to watch and see the content of the video.  I think of the people I know in the mlm networking markekt and people who are developing their own businesses at home. 

For your complete info, I have here below the link to the video I am talking about::

How to Recruit 10 to 20 Reps Per Month Guaranteed
http://blackbeltrecruiting.com/bbr/bbr-cap-vids.html

Mike Dillard's Training Videos

I have here video clip by my friend  Jim Chao. He is a top perfromer and one of the leaders in our team. You are going to learn from him his technique using Facebook as marketing tool. By the way, here is the advice when using Facebook for marketing:

Quote

Remember, YOU DO NOT SELL YOUR BUSINESS or ADVERTISE on Facebook...that's considered SPAM and Facebook is like any other social media networking tool...they don't care about your business anyways! You want to promote YOU as a leader, an expert, a person who can bring value into their world and solve their problems. It comes back to ATTRACTION MARKETING...this is the ONLY way to use Facebook effectively and really the ONLY way to MARKET EFFECTIVELY in our industry, period.

 Unquote

 



Click here to learn more and test drive our Attraction Marketing System for $1 for 2 weeks.

Hey, buddies and boomers, most likely you are a Facebook user.   People use it for making friends in the internet and over time this social media tool has connected hundreds of million people.   It is now the most powerful tool for marketers. 

Here below is the video clip on Facebook Marketing

Couple of days ago,  we touched on the fact that top
earners don't chase their family around and
beg them to join their business.

They do this and ONLY this: ATTRACTION MARKETING.
(Hopefully you went and picked up Mike
Dillard's infamous course...this course includes
concepts that ALL top earners embrace! Here's the
link again just in case...

http://www.sevenfiguremastermindteam.com/clicksbucks/goto/free-video-training-series

...if you don't get this part of the equation right
then NOTHING else matters!)

Lets continue

NEWSFLASH: you have 2 target markets.

1)  Current Network Marketers

2)  People Actively Looking To Get Involved In
Network Marketing

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The McDonald's concept was introduced in Southern California by

Dick and Mac McDonald of Manchester, New Hampshire. It was modified and expanded by their business partner, Ray Kroc, of Oak Park, Illinois, who later bought out the business interests of the McDonald's brothers in the concept and went on to found McDonald's Corporation. The agreement was for the McDonald brothers to receive $2.7 million for the chain and to continue to receive an overriding royalty of 1.9% .(

Timeline

• 1937: Brothers Dick and Mac McDonald open a hot dog stand called The Airdrome at the airport in Monrovia, California.
• 1940: The brothers move The Airdrome building to San Bernardino, California, where they open the first McDonald's restaurant, on U.S. Route 66, at 14th and E St., on May 15. Its menu consists of 25 items, mostly barbecue. As was common at the time, they employed around 20 carhops. It became a popular and highly profitable teen hangout.

1948: After noting that almost all of their profits came from hamburgers, the brothers closed the restaurant for several months to implement their innovative "Speedee Service System", a streamlined assembly line for hamburgers. The carhops are fired, and when the restaurant reopens it sells only hamburgers, milkshakes, and french fries. At 15 cents, the burgers are about half as expensive as at standard diners, and they are served immediately. The restaurant is extremely successful, and its fame is spread by word of mouth.

• 1953: The McDonald brothers begin to franchise their restaurant, with Neil Fox the first franchisee. The second McDonald's opens in Phoenix, Arizona at N.Central Ave and Indian School Road. It is the first to feature the Golden Arches design; later this year the original restaurant is rebuilt in the same style.
• 1953: Third McDonald's restaurant opens in Saginaw, Michigan at the corner of State Street and N. Center Road, it is rebuilt in 2006 but stays at that location since opening.
• 1953: Fourth McDonald's restaurant opens, in Downey, California at the corner of Lakewood Blvd and Florence Avenue, and is the oldest McDonald's restaurant still in operation.[citation needed]
• 1954: Entrepreneur and milkshake-mixer salesman Ray Kroc becomes fascinated by the McDonald's restaurant during a sales visit, when he learns of its extraordinary capacity and popularity. Others who had visited the restaurant and come away inspired were James McLamore, founder of Burger King, and Glen Bell, founder of Taco Bell. After seeing the restaurant in operation, Kroc approaches the McDonald brothers, who have already begun franchising, with a proposition to let him franchise McDonald's restaurants outside the company's homebase of California and Arizona, with himself as the first franchisee. Kroc works hard to sell McDonald's. He even attempts to prevail on his wartime acquaintance with Walt Disney, in the failed hope of opening a McDonald's at the soon-to-be-opened Disneyland.
• 1955: Ray Kroc founds "McDonald's Systems, Inc." on March 2, as a legal structure for his planned franchises. Kroc opens the ninth McDonald's restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois, in suburban Chicago on April 15. The first day's revenues are $366.12. The company's literature usually refers to this date as the "beginning" of the company, then already 15 years old, writing the McDonald brothers out of its history in favor of "Founder" Kroc. The company still refers to this restaurant as "McDonald's #1". In July, Ray Kroc opens his second McDonald's restaurant in Fresno, California, operated by Art Bender, Kroc's first subfranchisee. The Fresno site is referred to as "first McDonald's restaurant franchised by Ray Kroc" on a plaque on the site, which is later rebuilt to resemble the 1950s-style restaurants.
• 1955: Ray Kroc hires Harry J. Sonneborn as his Chief Financial Officer. Sonneborn remained a key influence in the McDonald's corporation till his resignation in 1967.
• 1955: Ray Kroc hires Fred Turner (later CEO and Chairman) as a grillman in his store in Des Plaines.
• 1958: McDonald's worldwide sells its 100 millionth hamburger.
• 1959: The 100th McDonald's restaurant opens in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
• 1959: McDonald's begins billboard advertising.
• 1960: Kroc's company is renamed "McDonald's Corporation".
• 1961: The McDonald brothers agree to sell Kroc business rights to their operation for $2.7 million, a sum that Kroc borrows from a number of investors, including Princeton University; Kroc considers the sum extreme, and it strains his relationship with the brothers. In a handshake agreement, the brothers would also receive an overriding royalty of 1% on the gross sales. At the closing table the brothers told Ray that they were giving the real estate and rights to the original unit to the founding employees. Ray closed the transaction, then refused to acknowledge the royalty portion of the agreement because it wasn't in writing. The brothers keep their original restaurant, but in an oversight they fail to retain the right to remain a McDonald's franchise. Renamed "The Big M", Kroc drives it out of business by opening a McDonald's just one block north; he attends the opening. Had the brothers maintained their original agreement, which granted them 0.5% of the chain's annual revenues, they or their heirs would have been collecting in excess of $100 million per year today. Had the brothers closed their handshake agreement with Ray, these royalties would have doubled.
• 1961: Hamburger University opens in the basement of the Elk Grove Village, Illinois, McDonald's restaurant Bachelor of Hamburgology degrees went to graduating class of 15.
• 1962: McDonald's first national magazine ad appears in Life magazine.
• 1962: The first McDonald's restaurant with seating opens in Denver, Colorado.
• 1963: One of Kroc's marketing insights is his decision to advertise McDonald's hamburgers to families and children. Washington, D.C. franchisees John Gibson and Oscar Goldstein (Gee Gee Distributing Corporation) sponsor a children's show on WRC-TV called Bozo the Clown, a franchised character played by Willard Scott from 1959 until 1962. After the show was cancelled, Goldstein hires Scott to portray McDonald's new mascot, named Ronald McDonald. According to Scott, they wanted to pay him in stock, but Scott decided to take the money. Scott, looking nothing like the familiar appearance of any McDonaldland character as is known today, appeared in the first three television advertisements featuring the character. After changing the character's first name to "Ronald" and replacing Scott with a new actor, and giving him the more familiar red, white, and yellow clown features, the character eventually spreads to the rest of the country via an advertising campaign. Years later, an entire cast of "McDonaldland" characters is developed.
• 1963: The Filet-O-Fish is introduced in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a restaurant located in a neighborhood dominated by Roman Catholics who practiced abstinence (the avoidance of meat) on Fridays. It is the first new addition to the original menu, and goes national the following year, with fish supplied by Gorton's of Gloucester. See also Lou Groen
• 1963: McDonald's sells its one billionth hamburger.
• 1963: The 500th McDonald's restaurant opens in Toledo, Ohio.
• 1964: McDonald's issues its first annual report.
• 1967: The first McDonald's restaurant outside the United States opens in Richmond, British Columbia.
• 1967: The chain's stand-alone restaurant design which is still most common today, with mansard roof and indoor seating, is introduced.
• 1968: The Big Mac (similar to the Big Boy hamburger), the brainchild of Jim Delligatti, one of Ray Kroc's earliest franchisees, who by the late 1960s operated a dozen stores in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is first introduced in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania market in 1967, before going system/nationwide a year later, following its great local success. The Hot Apple Pie is also introduced this year.
• 1968: The 1000th McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• 1970: McDonald's opens in Costa Rica, its third country after the United States and Canada, and its first restaurant in Latin America.
• 1970: Having changed hands in 1968, the original "Big M" restaurant closes. It is demolished two years later, with only part of the sign remaining; this has since been restored.
• 1971: The first Asian McDonald's opens in July in Japan, in Tokyo's Ginza district.
• 1971: On August 21, the first European McDonald's outlet opens, in Zaandam (near Amsterdam) in the Netherlands. The franchisee is Ahold.
• 1971: The first McDonald's in Germany (Munich) opens in December. It is the first McDonald's to sell alcohol, as it offers beer. Other European countries follow in the early 1970s.
• 1971: The first Australian McDonald's opens in the Sydney suburb of Yagoona in December.
• 1971: The first McDonald's Playland opens in Chula Vista, California.
• 1972: The McDonald's system generates $1 billion in sales through 2200 restaurants. [3]
• 1972: The 2000th McDonald's restaurant opens in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• 1973: The first Swedish McDonald's restaurant opens in Stockholm, Sweden, 23rd October.
• 1973: The Quarter Pounder is introduced.
• 1973: The Egg McMuffin, invented by Herb Peterson, owner and operator of a Santa Barbara franchise is introduced to the menu.
• 1974: On October 12, the first McDonald's in the United Kingdom opens in Woolwich, southeast London. It is the company's 3000th restaurant.
• 1974: The first Ronald McDonald House opens in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1975: Drive-Thru is introduced in January in Sierra Vista, Arizona in order to serve meals to soldiers from nearby Fort Huachuca who were not allowed to wear BDUs while off post except while in a vehicle. The Drive-Thru is later known as "McDrive" in some countries.
• 1976: McDonald's pays its first cash dividend.
• 1977: McDonald's adds a breakfast line to the U.S. menu.
• 1978: The 5000th McDonald's restaurant opens in Kanagawa, Japan.
• 1978: Hamburger University celebrates the graduation of its 15,000th student.
• 1979: The Happy Meal is introduced in the U.S.
• 1979: The first McDonald's in France opens, in Strasbourg.
• 1979: The first McDonald's in Southeast Asia opens, in Singapore.
• 1980: McDonald's introduces the McChicken sandwich, its first poultry item. It flops, and is removed from the menu, but is later reintroduced after Chicken McNuggets prove successful.
• 1980: The 6000th McDonald's restaurant opens in Munich, Germany.
• 1981: The first Ronald McDonald House outside the U.S. opens in Toronto, Canada.
• 1981: The first McDonald's in the Philippines opens, in Morayta, Manila.
• 1982: The first McDonald's in Malaysia opens, at Jalan Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur.
• 1983: The Chicken McNuggets are introduced to the menu and instantly become a success.
• 1984: Ray Kroc dies on January 14.
• 1984: The company is a main sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympics. Its U.S. restaurants lose money on the game "When The US Wins, You Win" after the Soviet bloc nations boycott the Games, leading to a high number of medals won by the U.S (this is later parodied in an episode of The Simpsons, with Krusty the Klown's Krusty Burger chain suffering a similar fate).
• 1984: On 18 July, James Huberty committed the worst mass murder (at the time) in the US, when he opened fire at the San Ysidro branch, killing 21 people before he was gunned down by a SWAT team sniper.
• 1985: McDonald's opens its first restaurant in Italy, Bolzano.
• 1988: McDonald's opens its first restaurant in a communist country, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). Budapest, Hungary follows in the same year.
• 1990: On January 31, the first Soviet McDonald's opens, in Moscow. At the time it is the largest McDonald's in the world . For political reasons, McDonald's Canada is responsible for this opening, with little input from the U.S. parent company; a wall display within the restaurant shows the Canadian and Soviet flags. To overcome Soviet supply problems, the company creates its own supply chain, including farms, within the USSR. Unlike other foreign investments, the restaurant accepts rubles, not dollars, and is extremely popular, with waiting lines of several hours common in its early days.
• In this year many other McDonald's restaurants opened in Eastern Europe.

1990: In October, the first McDonald's opens in mainland China, in the city and Special Economic Zone (SEZ) of Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

• 1992: The first McDonald's opens in Africa, in Casablanca, Morocco.
• 1992: Stella Liebeck receives third-degree burns from coffee purchased at a McDonald's drive-through. She sued in what became known as the McDonald's coffee case.
• 1992: Derek Wood, an employee, and two friends rob a McDonald's in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, killing three and severely injuring another. Wood is serving a life sentence for his role in the Sydney River McDonald's Murders.
• 1992: On April 23, the world's largest McDonald's opens in Beijing, China (over 700 seats). Along with adjacent buildings, it is later demolished.
• 1992: The fried apple pie is replaced with a baked apple pie (fried pies can still be found today in some locations, see the Fried Apple Pie Locator).
• 1993: The company launches its first sea-going restaurant aboard the Finnish cruiseferry Silja Europa, sailing between Helsinki and Stockholm.
• 1994: The Catalyst Award is given to McDonald's in honour of their program to foster leadership development in women.
• 1995: McDonald's receives complaints from franchisees that too many franchises are being granted, leading to competition among franchisees. McDonald's starts conducting market impact studies before granting further franchises.
• 1995: In an effort to cultivate a more "adult" image, McDonald's launches the Arch Deluxe sandwich with a massive ad campaign. Both the campaign and sandwich fail miserably and are quickly discontinued.
• 1995: Following the end of apartheid, the first McDonald's in South Africa opens.
• 1996: First McDonald's opens in Belarus, marking the chain's 100th country (by its own calculation; however, this total included many non-sovereign territories). At the opening ceremony, the Belarusian militia are accused of brutality toward members of the public hoping to enter the restaurant in Minsk.
• 1996: The first Indian McDonald's opens.
• 1997: McDonald's wins the "McLibel" case, in what many consider to be a Pyrrhic victory in terms of the company's image. Only about half of the counts are in McDonald's favour despite enormous legal resources deployed against self-representing defendants.
• 1997: The McFlurry is invented by a Canadian franchisee.
• 1998: Jack M. Greenberg succeeds Michael R. Quinlan as CEO.
• 1999: First McDonald's Restaurant opens in Tbilisi, Georgia. Jack Greenberg is elevated to Chairman and CEO.
• 1999: French leftist activist José Bové and others gain worldwide attention when they destroy a half-built McDonald's franchise in Millau (Aveyron). The incident follows a European Union ban on American meat imports, on the grounds that they use hormone treatments; in response the U.S. had increased import duties on French Roquefort cheese and other European Union products. Bové was sentenced to three months in prison for his role in the incident.
• 2000: Eric Schlosser publishes Fast Food Nation, a book critical of fast food in general and McDonald's in particular.
• 2000: The company opens its 1000th British store, inside the Millennium Dome.
• 2001: The FBI reports that employees of Simon Worldwide, a company hired by McDonald's to provide promotion marketing services for Happy Meals and the 'Millionaire'/'Monopoly' contest, stole winning game pieces worth more than $20 million.
• 2002: A survey in Restaurants and Institutions magazine ranks McDonald's 15th in food quality among hamburger chains, highlighting the company's failure to enforce standards across its franchise network.
• 2002: McDonald's posts its first quarterly loss ($344m), for the last quarter. It responds to the stiff competition from other fast-food restaurants, offering higher quality burgers and more variety, by attempting to move more upmarket by expanding its menu and refitting restaurants. It announces it is withdrawing from three countries (including Bolivia) and closing 175 underperforming restaurants.
• 2002: In October of this year, McDonald's opens the first of 2 corporate stores in Lincoln, Nebraska to test concept restaurant called "3N1". the concept incorporated a "Sandwich & Platter" casual dining area, a "bakery and ice cream" area featuring gourmet coffees, and a traditional McDonald's into one building[1]. The second store is launched approximately six months later [2]. The concept is spearheaded by Tom Ryan, who was Executive Vice President and Chief Concept Officer at the time. The concept is abandoned in less than a year, and Ryan leaves McDonald's to join Quiznos Sub[3].
• 2003: James Richard Cantalupo is elected Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, succeeding Jack M. Greenberg. Just prior to assuming his post Cantalupo shuts down Project Innovate, a global consulting project that had already spent $170 million of a projected 5-year budget of $1.2 billion.[4]
• 2003: McDonald's starts a global marketing campaign which promotes a new healthier and higher-quality image. The campaign was labeled "i'm lovin' it" and begins simultaneously in more than 100 countries around the world.
• 2003: According to Technomic, a market research firm, McDonald's share of the U.S. market had fallen three percentage points in five years and was at 15.2%. [4]
• 2003: The firm reports a $126M USD loss for the fourth quarter [5].
• 2003: McDonald's introduces their premium salads, the McGriddles and the chicken selects.
• 2004: Morgan Spurlock directs and stars in Super Size Me documentary film in which he eats nothing but McDonald's food for 30 days to the great detriment of his health.
• 2004: After the release of Super Size Me, McDonald's does away with their Supersize options.
• 2004: Chairman and CEO Jim Cantalupo dies suddenly at the age of 60 in his hotel room of an apparent heart attack while attending the annual franchisee convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on April 19. A 30-year veteran of the organization, Cantalupo had previously served as President and CEO of McDonald's International. He is credited with introducing the premium salad line and reformulating Chicken McNuggets to include leaner, all-white meat.[6][5] Andrew J. McKenna, Sr., a prominent Chicago businessman and a McDonald's director, is elected Nonexecutive Chairman and Charlie Bell of Sydney, Australia is elected President and CEO of McDonald's Corporation. A month later Bell is diagnosed with colorectal cancer during a physical exam required for his new post and passes away in January of the next year. Like retired chairman and former CEO Fred L. Turner, Bell began his McDonald's career as a crew member. He was promoted frequently, serving as the corporation's Chief Operating Officer and as President of both McDonald's Europe and of the Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa Group.[6]
• 2005: Jim Skinner is elected President and CEO. Skinner began his McDonald's career as a trainee restaurant manager at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois in 1971 after serving nearly ten years with the US Navy.[7]
[8]
• 2005: McDonald's experiments with
call centers for drive-through orders. The center, located in Fargo, North Dakota takes orders from more than a dozen stores in Oregon and Washington. The experiment is in part motivated by labor costs, since the minimum wage in North Dakota is over 40% lower than that in Oregon or Washington.
• 2005: Owing in part to competitive pressure, McDonald's Australia adopts "Made for you" cooking platform in which the food is prepared from pre-cooked meat after the customer orders (as opposed to the firm's normal procedure since 1948, in which the food is cooked then sold as needed). It should become standard practice in all Australian restaurants by 2007. Some restaurants in New Zealand also follow suit. The practice had earlier been tested, and abandoned, in the U.S.
• 2005: McDonald's in
Singapore began their McDelivery service: customers place their food orders over the phone, and it is delivered to wherever they are. The service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• 2005: McDonald's opens a
Wi-Fi service in selected restaurants with Nintendo for Nintendo DS.
• 2005: A fired employee, who was terminated for hitting a female customer, murdered his former manager at a McDonald's outlet in
West Sussex, England. Shane Freer stabbed Jackie Marshall (57) to death during a children's party at the fast food restaurant she was supervising. Freer was convicted and sentenced to life in prison by Lewes Crown Court.[7]
• 2005:
Ronald McDonald gets a leaner, sportier look.
• 2006: McDonald's announces that it will include nutritional information on the packaging for all products beginning in March
[8] and that its upcoming menu changes will emphasize chicken, salads, and other "fresh foods" rather than hamburgers[9].
• 2006: McDonald's and
Disney end their 10 year promotional partnership. Split allegedly mutual although the generally accepted reasons were that McDonald's no longer sees benefit from sticking with one studio; due to the increased competition from other studios, as well as having to promote flop films, and Disney no longer wants to be associated with a company so strongly tied to childhood obesity.
• 2006: McDonald's begins their "forever young" branding by redesigning their restaurants.
• 2006: Anna Svidersky was murdered by David Sullivan while working in an Anderson Road McDonald's in Vancouver, Washington.
• 2007: McDonald's reintroduces its 42-ounce super-size soda under the name Hugo.
• 2008: Mcdonald's introduces the McSkillet burrito. This larger breakfast constants of scramble eggs, red & green bell peppers, onions, potatoes, salsa and sausage wrapped in a flour tortilla. Later in the year, Chicken was added.
• 2008: McDonald's introduces the Chicken Biscuit and the Southern Style Chicken Sandwich.
• 2008: In November, McDonald's starts phasing in new designs for their containers. They also introduced a new menu board design that featured warmer, darker colors, more realistic photos with the food on plates and drinks in glasses. The design should hit nation wide come 2009.

Source:

Wikipedia.com

By Carl Weiss

 

If you believe the headlines, you'd think that the current economic downturn spells certain death for business startups: "Gas hits record high - Stocks plunge as oil spikes to a new record." "No Signs of housing recovery. Single-family starts touch 17-year low. " "Job losses: Worst in five years."

However, to those in the know, a poor economy can actually provide some incredible opportunities to savvy businesspeople, particularly those looking at business ownership. The key is to know how to take advantage of the situation and turn the lemons into lemonade. Here are 5 reasons to buy a franchise NOW:

 

1. Interest rates are low. A weak dollar usually means lower interest rates. Although money can be tighter than Aunt Hilda's undies for shaky borrowers, those people with good credit are getting some excellent interest rates as the government reduces the prime in an effort to beef up the economy. If you are ready to become a business owner, don't wait for rates to rise. A low interest rate will mean more money in your pocket.

 

 2. Banks consider a franchise purchase a "safe" investment. While start-up businesses are deemed risky, some financial institutions are well aware that franchising has a good record of success. Therefore, even in a weak economy banks are willing to provide loans for franchise purchases. Some of the reasons that buying a franchise is considered a safer investment than a start-up include:

A well-tested business model

Thorough initial training

Mandatory marketing program, ensuring adequate advertising

Continuing franchisee support

Brand recognition

3. Property values are down. This is a positive boon if you are looking for space to house your business? Prices for leasing or purchasing a business location can fluctuate along with the economy. Right now it's a buyers market but as the demand for space increases so will the cost. If you find a good price in a good location, act quickly. Just remember to have someone well versed in property legalese check out the terms of your purchase or rental agreement to be sure you are getting the best deal possible.

4. Looking for a employees? Layoffs happen so often that it hardly registers when GM, Ford or Chrysler announces it will be slicing off a chunk of its workforce. Microsoft, Yahoo and Apple get the big headlines but companies of all sizes and types turn to reducing their workers when the economy slows. However, what's bad for one group of people can be a benefit for another. Almost every business needs employees and chances are you'll find more highly qualified workers to choose from during an ailing economy than a healthy one.

5. Of course, if you are currently caught in the trap of being overworked and underpaid, starting or buying a business can help you land on your feet. If you are one of those laid off employees, what better way to recover from that personal hit than to start your own business? Just how many times can you be let go or passed over for promotion? There are more top performers in corporate America than there are positions to reward them. When you've had enough of that roller coaster called corporate America, consider franchising as a work-around that will really work for you. If you truly want to be your own boss, if you long to take control of your career, this is one of the best times to buy a business, particularly if you invest in a solid franchise with great training and support. "Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." William Lloyd George Tips for Buying a Franchise:

• Pick a recession resistant business. • Look for one with a low start-up cost.

• If your credit isn't great, clean it up now. You'll need good credit to qualify for a franchise.

• Don't discount service businesses because they aren't "sexy." They are among the best values among franchises because of their lower entry cost, high demand and good margins.

• Stay within your budget. One of the main reasons for failure of a franchise is being under-capitalized.

• Search for an established franchise with numerous franchisees, which will give the bank plenty of data to ascertain the overall potential of the business.

• Read the Franchise Disclosure Document and other documents carefully.

• Your best source of information about a franchise opportunity is the existing franchisees. Use this resource wisely and you'll get a good sense of the overall business.

• Choose carefully. Unlike a job, which you can change at will, you'll need to stick with your franchise purchase to fully appreciate the return on your investment. Interested in finding out the scoop on franchise and business opportunities? Want help in financing, managing and growing any business? Go to Carl Weiss' web radio show at http://businessopportunitynetwork.podango.com/ Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Carl_Weiss http://EzineArticles.com/?5-Reasons-Why-an-Economic-Downturn-is-the-Best-Time-to-Start-a-Business&id=1501827