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What is “Pay-Per Click”? “Pay-Per Click”, is an easy to understand advertising strategy. There are around 300 million searches at major search engines everyday. This causes 80% of internet traffic. Placing your websites on these search engines is very important in reaching as many potential customers as possible. But in order to be seen and clicked most frequently, your website should be viewed at the top most of the search list. Most people only reach up to the third page of a search engine so the lower your rank, the lesser the chance you will be clicked. In “Pay-Per Click” advertising, you pay to be always visible on the internet. You select keywords or key phrases about your website, and the highest bidder ranks the best. There is no upfront cost. You only pay after a visitor clicks your link. This is why it is called “Pay-Per Click”. 

Everyday millions of people around the world click on Pay-Per Click Advertising Campaign. With the booming internet industry and the ever growing online business, an ad of virtually anybody on the planet can be seen on the internet anywhere in the world.

The “Pay-Per Click” advertising campaign is the premier growth area in online marketing. Last year, an estimated $741.2 million was spent on “Pay-Per Click” advertising. The usual search engine optimization can take weeks or even months to produce results. “Pay-Per Click” advertising can attract customers at an instant. Why? Because, this cutting edge ad campaign can be placed on any website and can be viewed by potential online customers, anywhere, anytime and all the time. The only challenge is placing the ads on proper websites that will attract possible customers for a specific product or services. 

“Pay-Per Click” advertising campaign attracts the right consumers at the shortest possible time. This is the most cost effective way of marketing products or services. You can also monitor the customers who visit your site, what they are looking for and what they are buying. With the right creativity on using the right search-phrases, we can direct the right people who are willing to do business with us. “Pay-Per Click” advertising can easily be managed 24 hours per day and 7 days a week through the internet. This allows you improve the campaign strategy by effectively responding to the activities of both customers and competitors.

So what are you waiting for? “Pay-Per Click” now and let your business take the fast route to success.

Online money making opportunities are now available with the tremendous growth of internet. The basic knowledge of computer and internet and your interest in the field can earn you more money. If you have the ability to use the internet wisely, you can sit in your pajamas and watch cash flowing to your bank accounts. The idea of personal websites is now decreasing. More and more people are now using their websites to make money. The blogs which were primarily used as online dairy are now used as a means to make money for those who don’t own a website.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a very popular online business nowadays. You don’t need to manufacture a product to sell. The merchant will give you his products and your only job is to promote the products. The merchant will then pay you based on your agreement. If you have agreed to promote your product with a merchant, you are called an affiliate. You don’t actually need to be a business magnet to succeed in this type of online business.

Affiliate marketing is a win-win for both merchants and affiliates. The merchants need not find companies and pay them to promote their products. They just need affiliates who can do the promotion. Based on the agreement they can pay their affiliates. A company can have as many affiliates as it can manage. There is no limit on the promotion power of affiliates and as the company has more affiliates then it is sure to reach many people.

The affiliates just need to own a website or even a blog is sufficient. The affiliates must place the ads of the merchant’s products in their website. When the affiliate sends a visitor to the merchant’s website, the affiliate id is tracked using the special affiliate URL. The affiliate is then paid by the merchant either on pay per click or par per lead or pay per sale basis. Affiliates like pay per click basis while most merchants provide payments on the rest two bases.

To generate more from affiliate marketing, the affiliate must know tricks to attract traffic to his site. Since people visiting your site will have a similar interest, they will mostly visit the merchant’s site if the product will really be of use for them.

Google AdSense

Google AdSense is a modified way of affiliate marketing. Here Google acts as an intermediate between the merchants and the affiliates. The merchants will pay Google and Google will inturn pay the affiliates. There will be no direct contacts between the merchants and the affiliates in Google AdSense program.

In fact the merchants will never know where their ads are displayed. The affiliate will also not know whose advertisements will be placed on their site. Though the ads in the affiliate website will match the content, the affiliate cannot decide which ads to display. Google crawler will gather information about the contents in the affiliate website and decide what ads are to be placed. You may also get different ads each time when the page is loaded.

Google pays the affiliates on a pay per click bases. When somebody who visits your site clicks on ads placed by Google in your site, you will be paid. The amount of money depends purely on how much money the advertiser is ready to pay. Google will take its own share and pays the rest of money to its affiliates like you. When your website centers on a highly wanted keyword your share may become less as you will have many affiliates with same interest. But it all depends on the theme of your website.

The merchants also like AdSense program as they need to pay Google when some valid visitor visits their site. Google AdSense program is a massive hit as the merchants use it for reaching customers across different geographic locations and as affiliates are getting money just for sending visitors.

The combined power

If you have a website that you use for affiliate marketing, you can use the same for Google AdSense. Will you deny that extra money you will be getting with no effort? When your application is approved by Google for placing its ads, you will be provided with a JavaScript code to place in your website. You are not allowed to alter this code but you can choose from various templates that Google provides for its AdSense affiliates. When you have AdSense ads in your affiliate marketing site, apart from generating cash from the products you sell through your site, you can also convert the cheap clicks to real cash. Today more people are into affiliate business and all of them are using AdSense in their website. After all we all are searching for profits online and the combination of affiliate marketing and AdSense can bring you good money and you only need to attract traffic to your website to generate the most wanted money.

Regard to my extensively experiences, I am going to give you 14 things why you can’t sell more affiliate products and earn big affiliate commission in your home based affiliate marketing business.

READ THIS: If you are wondering that why you can’t sell more affiliate products and earn big affiliate commission. You’ll discover 14 things for people why they can’t succeed in home based affiliate business in this article.

1) Lack of the business plan, marketing plan and business model. I have communicated with many affiliate entrepreneurs and I found that most of them don’t have their own business plan, marketing plan; even their business model. Personally, I strongly believe that planning is one of the most significant elements in your business. You must have your own goals and plans. Without planning, you are wasting your time and money for undo/redo tasks.

2) Lack of well marketing research. The poor marketing research shows that you have no idea about your people in your markets or you have no knowledge enough to solve their problems. Also, you don’t know what exactly in your market need/want. All you have to do during the marketing research is to discover the exactly problem and solution what people are looking for in the market.

3) Promote only one affiliate product at a time. As you are the affiliate entrepreneurs, your major task is to pre-sell the affiliate products for people who need those products. It is not a good idea to promote only one affiliate product at a time for your market. However, promoting too much affiliate products is not a great idea either. There are no success rules for this. You have to test and track the results by yourself. My experiences show that the rule of thumb for a number of affiliate products you should promote is between 3 and 10 at a time.

4) Advertising the wrong/non-profitable affiliate products. How to choose the lucrative/high profitable affiliate products is the first critical step. You can choose those profitable affiliate products when you have a well-research in your markets and products. There are many approaches revealing you how to select the high profitable affiliate programs/products. All you have to do is to avoid the scam program on the internet.

5) Lack of the quality content. As we know that quality content is the king. All you have to do is to provide high quality content for each affiliate products for your people in the market. The high quality content could be: your personal comments with unbiased, great articles related to the product and up-to-date/news information for the product.

6) Lack of great relationship with merchants. Working with the merchants is an absolutely great idea for you to start promoting the affiliate products. You can request, build relationship with merchants or even negotiate the affiliate commission structure with your merchants.

7) Lack of quality opt-in list. The opt-in list is the most important asset for affiliate marketing entrepreneurs. Without the list, you are wasting your time and money for selling affiliate products. Think about this way! You drive visitors to merchants’ website. If those visitors make a purchase, you will get an affiliate commission. If there are no any purchases, you will not get your commission. With this situation, it is a great idea for affiliate entrepreneurs to capture visitors’ information in order to sell other affiliate products later. With capturing the visitors’ information, your opportunities to earn more affiliate commission are increased. You can sell other affiliate products later!

Lack of strong back-end selling. The strong back-end selling is one of the most effective approaches for affiliate marketing entrepreneurs to sell more affiliate products to the existing buyers or subscribers. The key to success for back-end selling is to focus on both of existing buyers/subscribers and new potential customers.

9) Lack of well-known reputation in the market. The reputation is very important for your creditability and reliability. All you have to do are: advertising yourself all the time in the market and be aware of what affiliate products you are going to promote. With the scam affiliate products, it will hurt your reputation directly.

10) Can’t stay consistency in the business and markets. I would love to say that the consistency in your business and markets is one of the most significant elements for your highly successful in long-term. You have to get to know your market, catch-up new technology and stay in your business in the long run. With this sense, you can become an outstanding among your competitors with new technology. Also, you can improve continuously your home based affiliate business all the time and stay on top in your business.

11) Rely on one affiliate internet marketing strategy. Obviously, you can’t rely on one affiliate internet marketing strategy. My highest recommendation is to build multiple streams of incomes through multiple affiliate internet marketing strategies. Those strategies can be: article marketing, email promotion internet marketing, blog online marketing, search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising and join venture partnership.

12) Don’t know how to get things done. This is one of the most critical issues for affiliate marketing entrepreneurs. There are a ton of tasks for those affiliate entrepreneurs to build highly profitable & successful in the affiliate marketing business. Prioritizing and scheduling tasks are two basic approaches to help you to get things done!

13) Lack of self-improvement. There is no doubt that you are the best asset in your business. All you have to do is to improve yourself continuously all the time. I am sure that you are the only person who can determine your success and where you want to be in the future. Without self-improvement, it is very difficult to build your own highly profitable home based affiliate business.

14) Give up too quickly. Most affiliate entrepreneurs expect to get rich with selling affiliate products overnight or short term. My experiences show that the affiliate business is not the get-rich-quick scheme. You have to be determination, motivate and patient for your success in the future. All I can tell you is that the affiliate business is an extremely powerful business and it is a win-win situation between affiliate marketing entrepreneurs and merchants.

Final thoughts, I am sure that those 14 things will be helpful and useful for you to build highly profitable and success in your home based affiliate marketing business. All you have to do is to take action seriously.

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Well, this is not enough to have an attractive website to show company products/services on internet to get business nationally or internationally. If company products or services are not advertised then definitely there will be no awareness of its existence in the market. Same is the case with online websites. There are many ways to advertise a website for its awareness in the market. One of the most common ways, which is increasing rapidly, is the Search Engine Optimization as a part of Search Engine Marketing. When we need to get information of foreign universities, national or international job opportunities, worldwide news, latest technology products, customers from all over the world and many more; we turn towards Search Engines like Google.com or Yahoo.com etc. Search Engine is a tool for searching information on the internet by giving topic as keyword(s) which returns the relevant websites.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the amount and quality of traffic to a website by making its contents Search Engine friendly. In Search Engine Optimization a website is prepared and altered to make it as compatible as possible with Search Engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN and it also focuses the contents to the keywords and key phrases desired by the customers. It is preferred to get optimization of a website during its construction because structure of the website is to be designed according to the rules and regulations of search engines but it can also be optimized after publishing a website on internet. Many website designing and development companies in Pakistan are offering Search Engine Optimization service during construction of website and even after designing and publishing of a website. These companies can be easily found through Search Engines by putting any keyword like “Search Engine Optimization in Pakistan” or “SEO experts in Pakistan”.

Many small and large entrepreneurs are focusing on online services like online shopping, fashion boutiques, hotels & accommodation, event management, real estate, travel agencies, outsourcing and different unique services. Entrepreneurs get developed their company website but forget to invest on its Search Engine Optimization. They either don’t know about it or they are unaware of its importance. From now on, job of SEO experts starts to follow rules and regulations of famous Search Engines to make available optimized website against keywords by the visitors in a search engine. Although there may be thousands of competitors of a particular website with its products or services but only those websites will be seen in Search Engines’ top results which will be properly optimized. Many Search Engines maintain database of new & old websites automatically and many store information manually but it depends on the algorithm of the Search Engine that how do they operate.

Search Engines work by following this specific order i.e. Web crawling, Indexing and Searching. Web crawling is the process in which a crawler (also known as Spider- a program that browses websites automatically) visits all available links of a website to store information of its webpages. Search Engines’ crawlers continuously crawl websites after specific time to get its up-to-date information to make it available on the keywords by the search engine users. Normally Google takes 20 days and Yahoo takes 30 days to revisit a website for its latest information. Indexing collects and stores data of websites for its fast and accurate information retrieval. Search Engines usually extract information of the website from its title, description, heading, special fields (meta-data) and file names. When a keyword or keyphrase is entered in a search engine to search information then the keyword is checked against the search engine’s index of all the web pages it has analyzed. The best URLs (Uniform Resource Locator) are then returned as hits and ranked in order with the best results at the top as process of Searching.

While optimizing a website, two important aspects of Search Engines should never be forgotten: Robots.txt and Sitemap. Robot.txt is being used to prevent access of web spiders to different parts of the website for its publicity. So spiders will leave those webpages which will be mentioned in the Robots.txt at the root directory of uploaded website on the internet. Sitemap is used to inform Search Engines about available webpages on a website for its crawling. Sitemap also facilitates to mention webpage’s importance and date of last modification so that Search Engines can crawl it easily to get latest information available on the website.

Many of SEO Experts play tricks with Search Engine to come into top ranking which is known as Black-hat or Spamdexing but famous Search Engines do not follow one algorithm to rank websites. People should avoid such tricks because if a website is found doing such activities then it is very difficult to get good ranking in famous Search Engines and more importantly a website can loose the trust of visitors if they are not able to find their required information on the website.

Search Engine Optimization plays a vital role to increase traffic of relevant visits to the company website that in turn, increases the visits of potential customers as well. This helps to attain major objective of the website i.e., online business. If you are planning to build a new website, you must optimize your website according to SEO rules and regulations during its construction. If your company already has a website then it must be optimized to get good ranking in Search Engines and more customers from all over the world.

[Article by M. Munir Bhatti]

Getting enough background when it comes to the complexes of foreign exchange will help you earn more from your investment. While you have the desire to learn forex trading online, you are faced with several challenges as well. In fact, there may be myths associated with the subject matter which makes the learning process even harder. In the light that you want to separate truths from fallacies, you need to be provided with how you may do away with it. Scalping forex has its own share of myths which you want to know about as well.

Forex scalpers do not rest. This is one of the misconceptions when it comes to scalping forex. You should not expect that forex scalpers sit down all day just to give you your every penny’s worth. In fact, they are just regular human beings who are allowed to go through some other tasks or routines. If you want to learn forex trading online at its best, you should eliminate this thought in your mind. Forex scalpers are not your typical long-term traders since they only do their jobs when the market opportunity is at its very best.

Scalping forex is an inclusive system. A lot of people think that the concept is distinct or separate from the usual things to learn forex trading online. Well, to make you understand the reality behind forex scalping, it is just one of your options when it comes to forex trading. It is actually a form to manage risks pertaining to the forex market. While a lot of techniques may mean you win at times but lose in other instances, this technique will help you eliminate the chances of losing money in the end.

Trading through this technique will put you at a greater risk. Scalping forex will only put you at risk if you do not know completely what the system is about. The truth is that it is less risky than other forex techniques out there. With your desire to learn forex trading online, you will find out that this may even be the best way to manage risks in the forex market. Since your forex scalpers will only do the work when the trading system is on its best, then it simply means that there is no possible room for any loss.

Scalping forex leaves you to do the work on your own. It is true that you may learn several techniques on how to manage your money through forex scalping. However, despite this fact, you are allowed to seek help from forex scalpers instead of forex brokers. The latter are considered long-term traders sitting all day on the computer to provide you your needs while the former focus more on the safer days in the market. You may always favor forex scalpers more than you do want forex brokers to help you learn forex trading online.

Scalping forex has a lot of strategies which will best suit you. Since you want to make sure that you really earn from your investment, you may choose from a list of techniques that will work for your benefit. As you learn forex trading online, you will be presented with available strategies on this area. From there on, you may select your very own software. If you have any doubts in mind, feel free to consult your chosen service provider.

YOU need traffic in a highly Competitive market. You are going to pay one way or the other. You need to secure the best ROI possible, You can do that with PPC marketing. You just need to be careful. Some Marketers run their entire campaign using
Pay Per Click Advertising. The secret to exclusively using PPC and not losing your shirt, is don’t waste money on worthless clicks. To avoid pouring buckets of cash down the drain, you need to know which clicks are losing you money.

There is software that will analyze your campaign automatically and eliminate losses. You can find tools like that on the Internet.

Reduce Losses Even More By Boosting Your Quality Score When advertising with search engines. Your “quality score” determines how much you pay for clicks. In simple terms, if your quality score is lower than another, you’ll pay more than them for the same keyword.

There are several factors in determining quality score – but the biggest factor is the number of times your ads get shown without getting clicked on. This is not surprising really, since every time this happens, the search engine loses money.

Even those visitors who hit their Back button within seconds of seeing your site, still cost you the full price of that click.
And for most PPC marketers, that means TONS of wasted cash. To me, it is imperative to own the tools to avoid losses.

Top software that will save you money and give you peace of mind is very inexpensive.

FOREX TRADING has been made easy by the fast growing technology. In the past, forex trading was limited only to big organizations. But as the technology is growing day by day, forex trading was made available to all the individuals in the world along with many big organizations.

Previously the forex trading needs experience and needs a lot of research to make profits. But now, because of the technology that has come up, even a newbie can also trade without any experience and without any analysis on the trends.

But how come technology made it so?

Forex trading is nothing but the buying of forex and selling it at a higher price. This can be done by anyone. For newbie’s also forex trading has become easy but they should learn the basics of forex trading. Once if they have learnt the basics of forex trading, then everything is in their finger tips.

I think now you would be having the following questions in your mind.

1. How could that forex trading be on finger tips just by learning basics of forex trading?

2. How newbie’s can make profits without brain storming the trend analysis?

Yes, there is an answer to your above questions.

Here it is: “Automated Forex Trading System Software”!

Forex trading signals tells you when to buy and when to sell in order to make good profits. To get these trading signals you must either brain storm on trend analysis or you must have to depend on others to do that work for you.

There are many forex expert organizations that send signals on monthly subscriptions basis for which they would charge you more than $100 a month.

If you have the forex trading signals, you will win the forex market. As of now, the people who involved in forex trading depend on the forex trading signals that are provided by other expert organizations or by their respective forex brokers.

95% of the signals work for you until unless something happens unexpectedly to the economy of the country with which the currency you are trading.

But here for the trading signals you need to depend on other organization resources which sometimes fail to give you the trading signals at the right time. When you are not getting the signals at the right time, then what’s the need for paying to those organizations?

As I said earlier, technology is growing. There is no need for you to depend on some other trading signal providers. If you still depend on the other resources for forex trading signals leaving the available technology then it’s simply waste of time waiting for signals which will not reach you in the right time. At the same time it’s waste of money too.

Now because of the technology, automated forex trading system software has come. With automated forex trading system software, you can generate the forex trading signals for yourself without depending on any of the forex signal services. After generating the forex trading signals the automated forex trading system software will automatically place the buy and sell orders to your forex broker platforms. The greatest advantage with automated forex trading system software is that there is no need for you to sit for long hours before your computer to put the buy and place orders. This simply means that there is no need of human intervention.

The operation of automated forex trading system software is very simple. Just you need to give the required input to it to let it generate the forex trading signals and thus it automatically place the buy and sell orders. I simply say that even a newbie can start making profits in forex trading by just having the basics of trading.

For newbie’s the automated forex trading system software can be really handful and helpful. If you are an experienced and have had automated forex trading system software, you could be even more efficient in grabbing more profits into your bag.

Copyright (c) 2009 Khadijah Ibrahim

During this economy crisis people are always talking about saving money. There are all kinds of money saving methods such as saving electricity, recycling and a lot more.

Saving money is a good practice as it teaches us to be more disciplined and organised as we learn to plan before we shop and in a way this will save the environment. It also makes us think more of the future rather than spending recklessly today.

While people talk about saving money, people also start to discuss how to find extra money or extra cash. You are probably thinking about how to find extra money too. In a way maybe you are thinking that if you can make more money, you can spend less time thinking of how to save money. Am I right?

Well, here are 6 ways of how to make extra money or even more money that you are earning now.

Sell homemade food

Are you good at cooking? Do you like to cook? Do your friends always compliment your cooking? If they do, may be you should consider selling homemade food.

Homemade food such as cookies, cakes, delicacies or you can even start a catering business. A lot of people I know started their food business out of their love for cooking.

You can start small if you just have a small capital. Start by placing your homemade food at other people’s restaurant, shops or something similar.

Turn your hobby into business

Do you know that your hobby could be a niche for your business whether it is online or offline? I saw this woman who likes to make flowers out of clay now selling all sorts of clay products, ranging from women’s accessories to decorated dishes.

So start thinking about the hobbies that you have. They probably could be your next business venture. All you need is some creativity.

Start an online business

You could pick one of the suggestions above to start your own online business. Starting an online business would need less capital compared to a conventional or offline business. You just need to purchase a domain and hosting. If you want a more professional look website then you probably need to hire a professional web designer unless you already have some skills designing websites. If you just need a simple website then you could just do it yourself, all you need is creativity.

If you have the skill in designing websites then that could be your niche for your online business.

Become affiliates

One other way to make money online is to become an affiliate to other people’s product. You don’t even need to have your own product, just promote other people’s product.

There are a lot of affiliate programs out there offering sometimes up to 75% commission. All you need to do is find good quality products, sign-up to the affiliate program and start promoting it to other people. You should see money flowing into your account when you start making the sales.

Good at different languages

If you are good at other languages other than your mother tongue, you could be a translator. There are a lot of jobs looking for translators if you start to research in the internet.

If you are also good at grammar for example English grammar, you could offer your service as a proofreader or copywriter or even freelance writer.

Telephone answering service

Believe it or not you could also make extra money through telephone answering service. Many companies do not want to hire a permanent receptionist however they realise that their customers do not like talking to a machine. So what these companies did was to outsource the telephone-answering job.

For smaller operations or one man show operations, this person may not want their work to be interrupted with a lot of incoming calls that may not be important. Therefore they let other people to receive and filter the calls for them.

There are a lot of other ways of how to make extra money or probably these may in the future become your main source of income. With all the ideas given all you need to do now is take action. That is when the extra money could be flowing in.

IF you were presented with three choices –– time, money [seed or working capital] and good health –– which one will you absolutely go for? Which of the three will you hang on to while ignoring the other two?

Tricky question, you say? Maybe. But I don’t think so. Not when you give it a deep thought. Depending on the level you’re in your entrepreneurship career, the answer is as simple and straight forward as ABC.

Without a shadow of doubt, these three items are so essential for anyone to have enduring success in business. They are as important to a business as blood is to a living soul. None of the three is dispensable. But right now, you’re being forced to take one only. So which of the three will get your nod?

This is my own ranking of the three “must haves” in order of their importance to me.

1. Good health.

2. Money.

3. Time.

And this is the reason behind my choice:

Good health

This is the number one choice for me. It’s so far ahead of the other two that I didn’t even have to think before giving it my vote.

Practically everything in life is achievable if there is good health. No matter how desperate your situation may be, if you have good health and sound mind, you can literally overcome it and turn it around.

But without good health, your chances of making it is next to zero.

When your health fails, you’re like a boxer lying flat on his back from a left hook to the jaw, with the referee counting from one to ten. Your crown, if you’re the champion, or your ambition to wear the crown, if you’re the challenger, depends on your ability to get back on your feet and resume the fight.

If the referee counts you out, it is good night. The fight is over. You’re down and out. From that point you could end up six feet below the ground level. Or you could become a vegetable living the rest of your life on a wheel chair, totally useless and dependent on others for everything you may wish to do.

And running your business is certainly not going to be one of those things!

So you see, good health is number one. No questions about it.

Money

If money could speak as men do, I’m sure it would have pulled me aside and demanded to know why I’m making it my number two choice instead of number one. I know that money speaks in other ways. Its voice is even more audible than a man’s voice that is magnified by the most sophisticated loud speakers.

For instance, if you turn up at an annual old students association gathering wearing the same dress you wore last year, which now stands out not because it was the same dress but because it’s now worn out and bearing some outstanding patches here and there, everyone in the gathering would know immediately that your finances have headed south.

That is one of the ways that money speaks. And it could be very loud indeed. In fact money is powerful. It is a must have. But in spite of that fact, it’s still number two, behind good health.

If I’m healthy, I could make all the money in the world that I want to. With my health in good shape, I could do anything legitimate to earn money, including getting a part in a home video doing a Baba Suwe if it would guarantee the next meal for my family.

But you say, suppose you don’t have money, how will you be able to start your business and run it profitably?

Every diligent and attentive SuccessDigest Extra! reader knows [or should know] by now that capital [seed or working capital] is not a barrier to starting and running a successful business. What counts, is a sound idea.

If you’re in doubt, order a copy of my book, Ideas: The Starting Point of All True Riches! and your eyes will be opened to that truth. [The book is available in every good bookstore or you can order it direct from SADC Bookstores.

Time

You’ve heard it said over and over again: Time is money. And it is true. I believe it is. But, despite that fact, I’m choosing good health and money ahead of it.

Why? Because until you learn how to invest your time and not spend it, time could be a wasted asset. And that is what it’s in the hands of a majority of people. Sad!

Time is a great resource. An indispensable one for that matter. But as an entrepreneur, which is the consideration here, good health is running far ahead of time and not so far ahead of money but still having a slight edge. Consider the following:

You have a hot idea. This idea is capable of making you tons of money. It’s an idea which can be exploited by anyone. I mean, it is not patented. There’s no government law that restricts others from doing it. And even if there’s such a law, no responsible government will give you the go ahead for an indefinite take off date.

If you have this hot idea and you don’t have the money to start to it, you’ll lose the market. No doubt about it. So, money beats time hands down here.

And, of course, if you have a hot idea and you have billions to invest in it, the moment you’re identified by Ward C and bed number five by the window in a popular or not-so-popular hospital, you’re out of the race.

But make no mistake about it, in another setting –– a setting that guarantees good health and eliminate the conditions attached to the hot business idea that I described above –– I will go for time ahead of money.

If you have lots of money but you’re a procrastinator, all that money will be wasted away. Inflation will eat it up. For example, if you wanted to place order for a raw material in November last year but dragged your feet till February after naira moved from its secure exchange rate of N118 to the one US dollar, you’re already a loser by several thousand naira. See?

For you to create wealth and live to enjoy it, sound health is the sine qua non. So, dear entrepreneur, don’t under-estimate good health. You can disagree with me on my placement of money above time. And, why not, state your comment here –– and shoot down my argument by posting your own opinion.

But, never never take your health for granted. Never!