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Welcome to Pat's Planet. This is my webpage where I show people how to make
money, save money, make good investments, and build wealth. I hope you enjoy this site. 30 Minutes To Your Next Million Dollar Idea By Patrick Huey Have you ever read the newspaper or watched the news on television and come across a story of some person who came up with an outrageous idea such a hula hoop, pet rock or glow-in-the-dark toy that made millions of dollars for its creator? Or have you ever heard about how someone put an ad in the newspaper and asked people to send him all of the spare change they had lying around the house so he could start a college fund, only to find out that he collected over a million dollars in spare change? You probably look at these ideas and wonder to yourself, "Why didn't I think of that?" Read More Building a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog) By Patrick Huey Most people who create websites or blogs do so because they love what they do or have a need to express themselves. However, many have discovered that creating useful websites or blogging can be a lucrative business. Nevertheless, when it comes to creating a website or blog, most webmasters are saddled with the same problem: how do I get traffic to my website or blog? I can't really say which expert has the best advice, but I can say that when it comes to building website traffic, you should pay attention to someone who has experience doing this. Read More How to Get 50 One-Way Incoming High Page Ranking Links Each Month By John Gergye It's easy. So easy it's almost criminal. But I can get one-way high page rank (PR) links whenever I want. How? Come closer. Let me whisper in your ear. It involves articles, the Google toolbar and a tracking sheet. That's it's. Because there's really nothing to getting high PR one way links. Read More Free Websites Showcase Your Videos Online by Jim Edwards http://www.thenetreporter.com If you didn't realize that video will take over online this year, you haven't been paying attention. Everything from video blogs to full-blown website infomercials keep cropping up all across the Internet. The driving force behind this video explosion is a combination of cheap bandwidth, easy-to-use authoring tools, and Flash video (a video format that works on both PC and MAC). Read More Business Financing: Finding Money for Business Ventures by Agora Business Center If you've been wanting to get into something that doesn't require all of your time, yet could give you an income of $100,000 per year or more, a Business Financing Service is definitely something you should consider. This is the kind of business that requires no special education or even a storefront office; won't take much of your time, yet offers more prestige, power and fast earning potential than just about any business opportunity available to the ordinary working person. Read More Timeless Rules Of Investing By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud President, Investment U I sat down this morning to write the "Timeless Rules of Investing" for you. In no time, I had 50 rules that I consider to be "investing gospel" - many of which were culled from the pages of my favorite investment books. If you stray from these rules, chances are you'll get into trouble. Consider each rule carefully. There is a lot hiding behind these simple sentences. In many cases, entire books have been written on just one rule below. Consider if you believe that rule, and why or why not. And honestly assess if you've broken that rule recently. Read More More useful articles about investing. Read More InvestmentU.com – A complete educational resource for the individual investor, offering unbiased investment advice, research and guidance to last a lifetime. InvestmentU.com features a free, twice-weekly investment email newsletter, full archive of back issues, white papers, special reports, and message board. Home-sale tax break is a boon for most owners Kay Bell Bankrate.com What's the best tax break available to Jane and John Q. Public? If they're homeowners, it's selling their house. Homeowners already know the many tax breaks that Uncle Sam offers, most notably mortgage interest and property tax deductions. Well, he also has good tax news for home sellers: Most of them won't owe the Internal Revenue Service a single dime. Read More Million Dollar Sales Letters For Your Own Use and Profit By Robert Collier INTRODUCTION Selling by mail can be the easiest and least expensive method of selling your services or commodities. It can also be the most difficult and the most expensive method of doing the job. It all depends on the method you use in presenting your offering to your prospects; it depends on the kind of a letter you send to them. To write such a letter, a message that explains concisely yet completely and in an action-compelling manner what you have to offer, is a job that demands the services of an expert versed in every one of the thousand phases of selling and one with many years of successful mail order experience at his command. If you would choose the one man in the United States who could write for you a sales letter that would produce the results you desire, you would probably ask Robert Collier to do the job. Backed by many years of success in the field of selling by mail, selling every commodity from trench machinery to fertilizers, books and raincoats, stocks and bonds and services, he has placed hundreds of millions of dollars into the pockets of the clients for whom he has written his master sales letter. As a consequence, he is today, America's premier writer of successful selling letters. We asked Mr. Collier to select from the many thousands of sales letters considered the best of them all. It was a difficult job to pick fifteen of the best from a list of ten thousand of the best. but the job is finished and here are the letters. These are the fifteen letters considered the best ever written by the man acknowledged to be the best writer of sales letters in America today. They have been actually tested, they have been actually used, they actually sold over one million dollars of services and merchandise. These letters will sell for you. Choose those which are applicable to your own business. Alter them only to such an extent as to accord with the products and services you have to sell. But it will pay you, too, to study them all, for they all contain the essential elements that enter into every successful sales letter. They contain ideas that you may apply successfully in sales letters of your own dictation. Read More. Invest Like Warren Buffett: A Simple Yet Powerful Philosophy for Investing By Dr. Steve Sjuggerud Chairman, Investment U Legendary investor Warren Buffett said yesterday in London that things aren't that bad right now, and that the stock market is "way out of sync with the economy." When the greatest investor on the planet is optimistic, that's as bullish a sign as you'll find anywhere. Warren Buffett became the second wealthiest man in the world (with $36 billion) by investing with one simple principle: He only invests in businesses he understands, and at prices so cheap that there's plenty of margin for safety if things go wrong. Read More Why You Should Love Craigslist Contributed by jim | August 11, 2005 08:15 AM PST "risk", a frequent commenter here at blueprint, left a comment in my previous post on Home Reserve furniture about how he/she (I'm pretty sure risk is a he, so I'll use he from now on, unless she objects :)) scored a nice three piece Ikea PAX Wardrobe for a mere $150 (saving, he estimated, $600) on Craigslist. This motivated me to want to write about the benefits of craigslist to the personal finance conscious. Craigslist is a free service akin to an online community bulletin board where anyone can post anything for free (some listings require payment, but none related to what the average John or Jane would use). The beauty of it is that you can sell and buy lots of things for fractions of their original cost (such as risk's PAX wardrobe). Read More Help! I'm in Debt and I can't get out! By S. Renee Greene Consolidate your debt! Debt-free in 18-36 months! Get a home equity loan! All over the Internet and just about anywhere you look, the good, the bad, the ugly, and the downright lowdown in the consumer debt counseling business are popping up everywhere. The Federal Trade Commission has seen a flood of companies that claim they can lay your debt to rest eternally. How do they work and how can you avoid being bitten by a company that can smell blood in the water? Read More More articles about debt consolidation. Read More Are You Really A Twenty First Century Investor? By Steven Battle Amoneybroker.com Real Estate Investors that educate themselves about CURRENT MARKET TRENDS will reap huge returns NOW!!! Information concerning NEW TRENDS in financial resources will open new and more profitable real estate opportunities for your business. Today's residential real estate market for investors has become very competitive in most major markets. The vast majority of real estate investing seminars and clubs are encouraging you to search out desperate home owners or distressed properties to be rehabbed. Not to mention the fact that today's disillusioned stock investors have now realized that residential real estate investing offers better returns, with less capital risks. As you seek to identify your lucrative real estate opportunities, have you noticed that the good deals are getting harder to find? I am not here to discourage you from investing in real estate, but would like to share real estate investment opportunities and information with you..opportunities that only a few people are aware of and regularly participate in. That's right; I am referring to a niche investment market that has VERY LITTLE competition. This unique information is currently setting new trends within the commercial real estate investment community! Read More Other commercial real estate articles: Get Your Business On The Road To Success With A Commercial Mortgage Why Invest In Commercial Properties Instead Of Residential? Finding a Commerical Mortgage. M-Commerce Twice the Cash Value of E-Commerce By Darren Yates Making Money Online Do you even know what M-Commerce is? Well you better learn fast. Predictions in Europe for M-Commerce, the second largest market behind Asia, are for a spend of €7.4 Billion in 2006 that's over $8 Billion. That's twice the predicted spend of traditional web services! So what is M-Commerce? It's very simple, mobile / cell phone based sales. Usually relating to content such as games, wallpaper, ringtones etc. But there's much more to it than that. Keep reading. Online Shoppers Loophole - Get paid whenever you purchase anything online. By Michael Lever Affiliate2Affiliate.com Imagine if you had earned sales commission for every online purchase you've ever made? How many commission payments have you put in someone else's pocket? Two years in the making, the niche service known as "SpinningTornado" was created to alleviate the frustration many affiliate marketers and online merchants feel in generating revenue from their efforts. Inadvertently, a loophole has been discovered in the process. Read More FOREX 101: Make Money with Currency Trading By Rich McIver The Forex Blog: Currency Trading News For those unfamiliar with the term, FOREX (FOReign EXchange market), refers to an international exchange market where currencies are bought and sold. The Foreign Exchange Market that we see today began in the 1970's, when free exchange rates and floating currencies were introduced. In such an environment only participants in the market determine the price of one currency against another, based upon supply and demand for that currency. FOREX is a somewhat unique market for a number of reasons. Firstly, it is one of the few markets in which it can be said with very few qualifications that it is free of external controls and that it cannot be manipulated. It is also the largest liquid financial market, with trade reaching between 1 and 1.5 trillion US dollars a day. With this much money moving this fast, it is clear why a single investor would find it near impossible to significantly affect the price of a major currency. Furthermore, the liquidity of the market means that unlike some rarely traded stock, traders are able to open and close positions within a few seconds as there are always willing buyers and sellers. Another somewhat unique characteristic of the FOREX money market is the variance of its participants. Investors find a number of reasons for entering the market, some as longer term hedge investors, while others utilize massive credit lines to seek large short term gains. Interestingly, unlike blue-chip stocks, which are usually most attractive only to the long term investor, the combination of rather constant but small daily fluctuations in currency prices, create an environment which attracts investors with a broad range of strategies. Read More. The Key to Real Estate Investing Success... Revealed! By Ben Innes-Ker Motivated Seller Magnet How did you get into real estate investing? Did you read a book on it? Was it a seminar? A meeting of some sort with speakers dispensing real estate investing information, but really selling courses? Did you get really, really jazzed and pumped up by these simple ("not easy") concepts that were delivered to you in parable form from the stage by a charismatic speaker? Read More. WEDDING TIP: Why "Nice" Girls Throw Away Wedding Dollars... By Stephi Stewart Author of "Fire Your Wedding Planner!" Brides often ask me to explain to them specifically how I saved over $10,000 off my own wedding costs and what I always communicate is this... UNLESS you adopt "unrealistic expectations" and an "unstoppable" attitude, no one special technique is going to help you achieve a "Dream Wedding on a Budget"... Read More. Katrina - Internet Marketing Saved My Life By Marc Quarles The NetProfit Report I live in Slidell, Louisiana. Check that - I *used* to live in Slidell, Louisiana. Slidell is now really nothing more than a collection of abandoned and flooded buildings that over 35,000 people used to call home. With all the media attention on New Orleans, it's easy to forget about the smaller, more rural areas that have also been destroyed, and will most likely never fully recover... areas like my town of Slidell. Read More. Living Room May Be Final PC Battlefield Cnet News December 2, 2005 Now that Thanksgiving leftovers are just about gone, and Christmas songs are blasting over the grocery store sound system, it can only mean one thing: It's time for the pre-Macworld rumor mill to kick into high gear. ThinkSecret reported earlier this week that a new Mac Mini will likely be introduced at the January Macworld Expo. The new version of the diminutive PC is said to be poised to play a pivotal role in home entertainment systems, coming loaded with Apple's Front Row software, DVR capabilities and an iPod dock. Read More. Xbox 360: The Newest Gaming System By Dylan Miles Courtesy of Electronic Gifts The Xbox 360 is Microsoft's newest gaming console, which will hit the stores by Christmas, making it the most coveted gift on the market this year. The Xbox 360 is the sleekest console in its category and signals the arrival of the next generation of video game machines. Read More. RFID: Radio Frequency Identification Radio frequency identification technology, known as RFID, has been described as "tech’s official Next Big Thing." RFID is not actually a new technology, but it is being applied in new ways, spurred by technological advances and decreased costs. Once used during World War II to identify friendly aircraft, RFID is now being used in a variety of public and private sector settings, from hospitals to the highway. Read More. The ABC's of RFID. RFID Today and Tomorrow. Consumer Perceptions and Privacy Concerns. Addressing Consumer Privacy Challenges: Best Practices and Principles. Conclusion. RFID News Alerts. Entry level to executive. How to get moving up the ladder... Courtesy of JobsInSports.com Sometimes the corporate ladder seems endless. Ascending it can be arduous and time consuming if you take one step at a time. It takes more than working long hours on the weekend, being innovative, and solving problems. You must act strategically to get up this ladder by becoming noticed and valued. Read More. How To Get Rich Fast In The 21st Century By Jack Reynolds Are you noticing more rich people getting around? The tell tale sign is the imported luxury vehicles and the upgrading of whole neighbourhoods. People are leaving their jobs and retiring by the hoard. They are taking world cruises and flying to exotic destinations on a whim. They get around in dark gold sun tans and gold thick chains adorning their shoulders. They seem more relaxed and fresh. Read More. How To Make Money On The Internet By Riley McBride Being the owner of an online business is one of the best feelings I know. The startup costs are very small in comparison to starting a "dirt world" business. Before the Internet, setting up in business was a high risk activity. You could invest thousands in an idea that you really believe in only to find and nobody else believes in it. I'm sure you've heard the statistics: 95 percent of new startups fail. Not a great figure, it has to be said. I'm not saying that starting an Internet business is likely to succeed any more than a regular business but the risks involved are much smaller. You could start up fifty online businesses for the amount of money you may have invested in a real world business. That is quite a powerful fact. On the Internet you have room to fail. You just have to pick yourself up and try something else. Read More. Three Free Websites that all Internet Marketers Should Use By Micahel Ellis I can't stress strongly enough how important it is for an Internet Marketer to know what marketing keywords they should use for their products, and how much their competition is willing to pay for those same keywords. This may seem like a complicated process, but it really isn't. In this article we'll discuss three free websites that all internet Marketers can use to find this information. Read More. Can a Home Internet Business Really Make Upwards of $50,000 a Month? By Mark Bellinger I can tell you that my online business isn’t even making $10,000 a month (yet) but I’ve only been going a year and going well! Judging from the way my internet entrepreneurial sense and knowledge has developed since I started out as a raw online marketer, my online endeavors should be bringing in no less than $25,000 by the end of the year. Read More. The largest collection of money-making, money-saving and self-help ebooks on the web. 11,000 Ebooks Are you looking for a government loan? Do you want to know if you qualify for any federal benefits? Then check out these sites:   (Note: Open only to residents and legal aliens of the United States.) Get the Super Affiliate Handbook  Useful reading guides: Think And Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Steven R. Covey The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles |