Opinion

180 Websites To Avoid with Work At Home Truth

Paul Schlegel at Work At Home Truth has a new warning blog post up, “180 Websites To Avoid”.

Warnings about Online Profit Masters tops Paul’s list. I’ve not seen this site, but based on the previous review blog post on it, it has many red flags in the advertising. The Utah Better Business Bureau gives them an F rating, not because of complaints, but because they are not responding to requests for information from the BBB. Here’s their explanation for the low rating.

Factors that lowered Online Profit Masters’ rating include:

• BBB concerns with the industry in which this business operates.
• BBB does not have sufficient information to determine how long this business has been operating. BBB made one or more requests for background information from the business. BBB has not received a response from this business and/or has not been able to verify information received from this business.
• BBB does not have sufficient background information on this business. BBB made one or more requests for background information from the business. BBB has not received a response from this business and/or has not been able to verify information received from this business.

Paul’s research shows that Online Profit Masters may have links to The Online Hosting Network. Paul includes 129 sites that may be connected to that. I found another posting from 2009 about this group that has a rather disturbing discussion about it. You can check that one out at Electron Plumber.

If you are serious about creating an internet marketing business, I suggest you check out Paul’s article.

Rushing Thoughts and Voice Recognition Software

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I was sitting in a restaurant as I first started writing this. I found it interesting to sit there and write. In general the noises around me formed a constant background noise, but occasionally some voice stood out from the rest and caught my attention. It was as if the cacophony of sound was periodically interrupted by a spot of clarity.

My purpose in sitting there writing was to sort my thoughts. But as I listened to this cacophony of sound, a question occurred to me. Is that how it is with my internal state? A constant cacophony of ideas enjoying their own processes and designs? Each competing with the other for attention? As I think about it, I realize that is exactly what happens. That is why I need to have times such as this to attempt to order those various thoughts.

This cacophony of ideas circulates randomly in my head, or so it seems to me. And yet when someone asks me a question, the needed information immediately surfaces and so that I can meet their need. So there must be some order in there that I’m not aware of. Read more…

Steps To Success

Success is a day-by-day, moment-by-moment issue. It is like the flecks of paint laid down carefully and repeatedly on canvas to gradually create a work of art. Without the application of the flecks, no art results. For those in business lack of daily application means no product, no service, no means of income. Without them the idea remains inside the mind of the creator instead of being made available for all who desire to use or enjoy it.

All success hinges on obedience to a chosen path. But how do we choose what to create, what ideals to be obedient to? That is a decision you must make for yourself. You must decide what will be the guiding force in your life.

If the guiding force you choose is yourself, you automatically limit your opportunities. Why? Read more…

Mind Map Your Way to Internet Marketing Success

When starting into a new enterprise it is unlikely that we’ll have a concrete picture of everything involved to get things up and running. This is nowhere more true than entering into the world of Internet Marketing. We are quite used to thinking in terms of brick and mortar stores that we walk into for shopping, the printed ads and the weekly specials. All things that we can touch with our hands and read with our eyes.

But when we move into the virtual world, hard things disappear. Instead we are working in concepts and fluid designs. We can’t direct our customers to our store with maps and direct them within our stores with aisles. They don’t get to actually pick up an item we are selling and literally feel it for value. Instead, we must guide with virtual sign posts (menus and hyperlinks) and assure value by testimonials.

Where location, location, location is the retail mantra in the physical world, the concept of location evaporates in the virtual world. Drive-by traffic, one of the keystones of a physical business becomes traffic generation – trying to find ways to put your website in front of the eyes of the virtual browsers to entice them to come in.

How do we grasp all of these differences in how business is done in the virtual world? Can we just make a gigantic plan and start filling in the blanks hoping it all works out in the end? Read more…

Blind Writing – Part 2 – Tapping Into Your Creative Mind

Glad you could make it back. Now where was I?

Oh yes! I was going to tell you why I call it Blind Writing.

But that has to wait just a bit longer.

First, back to Klauser in Writing on Both Sides of the Brain: Breakthrough Techniques for People Who Write. She explains that to reach into the creative side of your mind you must first shut down the editor. To do this, she advises setting aside everything else and simply writing for 10 minutes. To keep your editor from kicking in and trying to change things, you need to force yourself to just keep writing. If you are using pen and paper, keep the pen on the paper and keep writing. If you are using the computer, keep typing no matter what.

Here’s where my term “Blind Writing” comes in. Read more…

Blind Writing – Part 1

“How can a blind person write!?” you ask.

Well, it’s not quite like that….. Hang on and I’ll explain.

Your subconscious mind holds massive amounts of information that you do not have ready access to. In fact, sometimes it seems that it is as if it purposely hiding from you. However, such is not really the case. It is simply that your brain is like a giant database continuously absorbing and retaining information for future use.

The sorting of these massive amounts of information takes place in your sleep. It is as if a little clerk goes to work in the middle of the night and grabs these bits and pieces of information you have absorbed during the day, sorts and then files them in the appropriate locations to be called upon at a later time. But this mini-clerk in your brain can only go to work when you hit a deep sleep. Read more…

Welcome!

Welcome to Enabled4Success.com.

I realized recently that with 20+ years of experience working virtually that I have information that I can share with those interested in doing the same. So, I started this blog.

Why Enabled4Success? I work virtually because of various disabilities I have which prevent me for being able to work in a public office. But, as my mother taught me, if life serves you lemons, make lemonade!

The result? What I initially perceived as “disabilities” have become the impetus behind leading me into work that I love. I feel that I have been “enabled” by these issues to look at life differently. Now while I may carry the label of being “a person with disabilities” for medical purposes, I see myself as “differently”-abled. Read more…