Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Extremely Valuable Ebook! ~ FREE?

An ebook so valuable that all wise Internet Marketers are grabbing it just as fast as they can and there is no charge for it?

I must admit that this is not the way things are usually done but the author of this ebook is showing exactly step-by-step how to advertise your business and leave the search engine optimizers out of the picture!

That's right, kiss google good bye!

Well, there is no need for me to say any more, you'll see it all when you download this free ebook and he doesn't even need your email address!  Just click on the link, download the ebook and start reading!

Here's the link :
http://thenpn.com/at/?id=24497  

Hey, just one more thing, don't say anything to anyone else about this until you have read the book!

To our Internet Marketing success,
J.V.           

OBA Blog

Today, it is my pleasure to write about the OBA Blog!  It was produced by my friend Nat Hawthorne, and so many nice things can be said about her that I'm not even going to go there right now!

She doesn't need my affirmation anyway, you can find out for yourself when you visit her blog!

Just suffice it to say that she has connected her blog (which is the OBA Blog) to mine and it is with great pleasure that I am now connecting my blog to her's!

Look at her blog here!

To come back here from her blog, just scroll down a bit where you will find my picture below Blogs By Other OBA Business Owners!  Clicking on my photo will bring you back here to JVz As I See It!

Now its obvious that as an OBA business owner I'm qualified to have this blog connected, so let me just add that I'm a very happy OBA business owner for several reasons!

Recently OBA joined forces with Traffic Exchange Profits (TEP) so now we are TEP/OBA business owners.

Connected to TEP/OBA is the Online Business Community (OBC) forum where all us business owners can come together as one large family and discuss what is working and what isn't or how we can tweek certain things to make them work even better!

That's just one of the many things that makes being a part of the Online Business Alliance such a pleasure!

I joined TEP/OBA last January (2009) and just as my first customer joined I had an emergency and had to be hospitalized.  From my hospital bed I gave my wife instructions on how to log into the OBC forum and contact another business owner to let her know what had happened!

Would you believe that my business didn't suffer?  In fact the business owner my wife contacted, being more experienced than myself, was able to walk my new customer through his set up even better than I could have!  Helping each other to succeed is just what we do, even when there is "nothing in it for me"!

There is even a "Need Help" section in the forum where anyone having difficulty with just about anything can let it be known and get help right away!

Indeed we are just like one large family with more joining us all the time!

Anyone wanting to join our family of business owners can click here to bring up a place to sign up and go from there!

Now, back the the OBA Blog, in the future when this blog post is just another post among others, all you will need to do to access the OBA Blog from here is to click on the title of this post and the OBA Blog will come right up!

Have a great day!
J.V.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Residual Income!

In the Internet Marketing world, I see "Residual Income" mentioned quite frequently!  Exactly what does that word "residual" mean anyway?

Well, you don't have to take my word or that of anyone else now!  I looked up the word in my trusty old American Heritage Dictionary and found that the sentence used to describe the word was, "A payment made to a performer for each repeat showing of a recorded television show!"

There is no doubt about it, in today's economy we can all use a nice large dose of residual income!  But the big question is, where to find it?

There are more and more people looking for home based businesses to join and all too often they find themselves spending more than they receive, ...or I should say, "We find ourselves spending more than we receive" trying to generate an income at home by using our computers online!

Some have become very successful by doing just that! 

Here where I live, the summer is over and the weather is cooler now than it has been!  Children are back in school and a lot of people are turning to the Internet once again for either full time or part time income!

If you happen to be one of those, I have something I'd like to show you today for your serious consideration!

Just Click Here and watch this complete presentation!

I welcome your comments,
J.V.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Was The Apostle John Jesus' Nephew?

Recently I downloaded a newer edition of the SwordSearcher software into my computer.  As I was reading the Barnes Commentary, that's provided with the software, about the Apostle John, he quoted an "ancient father" by the name of  Theophylact as saying, Joseph had seven children by a former wife, four sons and three daughters, Martha, Esther, and Salome, whose son John was; therefore Salome was reckoned our Lord's sister, and John was his nephew."

I thought that was interesting, didn't you?

I didn't know that Joseph had another wife before he married the mother of Jesus, did you? 

Ok, so I've already admitted that I'm not well educated so I don't know a lot of history so I just assumed that Mary was the only one that Joseph had ever been married to.  But that brings up something else!  We know that Mary was a virgin so any children that Joseph had by a former wife would not have actually been a relative to Jesus, but, of course, we can see how that she may have been reckoned to have been a sister since she would have called Joseph her Daddy and he was married to Jesus' mother!  Today we would call her his step-sister. 

I found this to be interesting, whether it is true or not I haven't proved to my own satisfaction yet,  nor have I decided if it is something I want to spend my time trying to prove!

Mr. Barnes didn't use a lot of ink on the subject, it was just something in his commentary that he mentioned in passing!

The main reason I don't see the need to spend my time searching to find absolute proof is because of what Jesus said in Matthew!

Mt 12:46 ¶ "While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him.
 47 "Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee.
 48 "But he answered and said unto him that told him, 'Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?
 49 "And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, 'Behold my mother and my brethren!
 50 'For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.'" (The King James Version)

 Since Christ is no respecter of persons, God considers all of us as His children even as Christ has always loved all His disciples down through the ages!

The gospel of Jesus Christ is indeed good news!

Having said all that, I wouldn't condemn anyone who wanted to spend their time proving whether or not the Apostle John was Jesus' nephew!  I just feel that I have better use of my own time!

I welcome your comments!
J.V.





Friday, September 18, 2009

As I See It

Anyone visiting my blog for the first time may think, by just reading the title "As I See It", that my perception of myself is such that the way I see things is the way others should see them as well!

If that's what you think, let me lay that thought to rest right now!

The reason I titled my blog "As I See It" was to give myself a lot of room for a lot of different subjects!  Some I know more about than others and perhaps some that I know very little about!

The famous Ben Franklin once said, "Genius without education is like silver in the mine."

Even if I considered myself to be a genius (which I don't), I would have to admit to being an uneducated genius which would relegate me to silver that is yet to be mined!

When we think about silver that has not been mined, how much value does it have compared to silver coins that have already been to the mint?  Not much, right?

Now I hope you can understand more about how I feel about "As I See It!"

I'm hoping to use this blog to attract the minds of men and women who have much more education than I do!  In so doing, their comments should well exceed the value of what I have posted for them to comment on!

Since you can see, from things that I have posted on my blog already, that I am interested in Biblical truth I hope to attract people who are well educated in theology!

You can see also, from the things I have already posted, that I am interested in Internet Marketing!  So I also hope to attract those to my blog who are more successful in the business than I am!

I would also hope that my blog will benefit anyone who comes along wanting a better knowledge of any subject that is brought to attention here!  If what I post personally does not benefit you perhaps a comment made by someone else will, and who knows, a comment by someone could bring up a subject that I would never think to write about!

I welcome your comments,
J.V.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Internet Marketing ~ Is The Price Right For You?

I have learned that those who are really successful in the business of Internet Marketing have built themselves a list of prospects that are responsive to what they have to offer.

Their product doesn't really matter!  They have learned to market themselves because people will only do business online with those whom they have come to know and trust as someone who supplies them with a need they have.

Even if you are just beginning, you may have already found out that trying to market to your friends and family members is, for the most part, futile!  Even if some of them do business with you, your prospect list gets short in a hurry!

The prospects that successful marketers want to target are people who are already marketing on the Internet  because they are obviously already interested!

People who are not marketing on the Internet aren't interested and it would be a hard sell to make them interested!

Those who are already marketing on the Internet are a hard target to penetrate because they are usually more interested in getting you interested in what they are marketing than they are in what you have to offer!

I think that pretty well sums up the reason why most Internet Marketers who have been in the business for any length of time know that only about 5% of the people who attempt to market on the Internet actually achieve success!

However, that is not a reason to become discouraged!  If there are 100 thousand people who attempt to be Internet Marketers (and there are probably more than that) and 5% are successful, that means that 5 thousand Internet Marketers are successful in the business!

Of course each of us need to determine in our own minds what success is!

I would personally consider myself a success if the amount I'm earning is enough above what I am spending that I can see enough profit from my efforts to consider what I am doing to be worth continuing to do!

By that definition, I must admit that I'm still among the 95% but I am seeing light at the end of the tunnel!

That brings me to this question:

What am I doing to get out of this tunnel and out into the light where I can declare myself to be a highly successful Internet Marketer so that my income will far exceed my expenses?

The answer:

I am targeting other Internet Marketers and providing them with what they need more than anything else in order to be successful!

What they need is the same thing as what I need, a list of responsive people who are interested in what they have to offer!

An addition to my list of responsive people will be coming from right here, where my responsive people will be getting the leads that will build a nice addition to their list of responsive people!

I know, as well as many other successful marketers do, that the more people I can help to be successful the more successful I will be!


Your comments are welcome,
J.V.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The Major Problem With TEP/OBA!

As I see it, the major problem with TEP/OBA is with our personal way of thinking!

We humans have a problem with placing value on things we get for free or only have to pay a small price for!

Because the price for the Traffic Exchange Profits report is free, we tend to think of the word "free" as being the same as "worthless"!

Nothing could be farther from the truth!

Many people have the same problem with the proper understanding of the word "free" when it comes to the salvation that we now have in our Savior, Jesus Christ!

Even many Christians will tell you, "Yes, salvation is free!  But..."

After the insertion of the word "but" they go on to give you a long list of things you have to do in order to qualify yourself for the free salvation!

Now before I drop this subject that I brought up and get back to talking about TEP/OBA let me make sure you understand that I'm not down on Christians!  In fact, I profess to be a Christian myself!

Having said that, let me explain that one of the weaknesses of us Christians is not knowing the proper interpretation of what the Bible says about some things so that we are able to properly apply it to our daily way of living!

As I see it, that is what has happened to those of us who think the word "but" belongs after the phrase, "Salvation is free!"

In the book of Ephesians the apostle Paul tells us in chapter one and verse six that in Jesus we have already been accepted!

As I see it, Jesus has already qualified us for salvation without any help on our part!

The phrase "God helps those who help themselves!" is not found anywhere in the pages of the Bible!  Its a very popular phrase, but its origin is somewhere else!

God sent His Son Jesus Christ to help those of us who cannot help ourselves!  Only He could do what He did and only He is worthy of our worship and praise!

Now back to TEP/OBA just as it takes effort on our part to read and understand what the Bible teaches, it also takes effort to read the free report and learn the difference in the mind set of a business person and a consumer.

If we consider TEP/OBA to be worthless because of the free aspects, we will never find out that the income potential is absolutely unlimited!


If all we can see is the 100% commission on the sale of a $5. ebook we will never see the 100% commission of $20. + $30. + $50. over and over again for the work we have done only once!

The bottom line is that the problem with TEP/OBA lies in the way we think about it, not in the system itself.

I welcome your comments,
J.V.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Surf, Surf, Surf, For Fun and For Profit

As I see it surfing is a lot more fun when it is profitable!
Oh, wait a minute!  Let me explain!  I'm not talking about the kind of surfing you do when you grab your surf board, tuck it under your arm and head out for the highest ocean waves you can find!

The kind of surfing I'm talking about here is the kind that even stay at home moms, grandmothers, and anyone else does who is doing their advertising on line and using the traffic exchanges (TEs) to get their websites exposed to the public!

To these surfers, the kind of weather conditions they have outside doesn't really matter much!

They are busy sitting in front of there computers at home, surfing the traffic exchanges to earn enough credits to get their websites exposed to the public!

They are fully aware of the critics who say that TEs (sometimes called surf exchanges) don't work anymore!  The critics usually agree that the original concept was great---it was a trade off!  You look at so many other peoples website and in return you get so many others to look at yours!  But some critics say that they don't work any more because everyone who logs into the TE is only coming there to earn credits for themselves, and not to look at other people's websites!

But I'm here to tell you that there are new TEs springing up all the time and if they were not working, that would not be the case!

I'm also here to tell you that there is a way to use the TEs that is profitable (and that makes it a lot more fun) and there is a way to just waste your time with them---and that's not fun!  Its no fun to spend hours surfing for credits so you can just spend all of your credits for no results!

My friend, Scott Douglas, has put Traffic Exchange Profits together so that now everyone who follows his advice can learn to use the TEs profitably and their surfing becomes real fun again!

Come be my guest and lets start having fun as we surf together with Traffic Exchange Profits!

I welcome your comments!

J.V.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The New Rich Report!

As I see it, those of us who are involved with The New Rich Report have a plan already laid out for us plus excellent training to enable us to have a nice income even before anyone joins our primary online business!

We are all aware that not everyone does the same thing to earn income but those of us who are involved with The New Rich Report really appreciate those who have designed it for us, the free training that comes with it, and the success we are able to achieve as we follow their step-by-step directions!

I welcome your comments!

J.V.

Friday, September 11, 2009

The Book of Revelation

As I see it, the book of Revelation has been misunderstood by many due to the assumption that it was written for our day instead of those to whom it was originally addressed!

It seems that many people have ignored the very first verse which says,

"The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants---things which must shortly take place." (NKJV)

My question is, if these were things that were to take place shortly at the time this book was first recorded, why aren't we looking at historical facts to see that they did take place instead of looking for signs of their fulfillment in our day or even future generations?

I welcome your comments!

J.V.