Not sure about you, but I have a couple of good friends here in Rockford, Illinois, zip code 61103 who have been laid off recently. (April 2009)
They are fathers, and husbands, and eminently qualified in their fields. And now they join the ranks of the anxious. Who is to say when they will find another job, and if it will pay as well as the old job?
My business is experiencing a big slow down, in part because I am dependent on referral sources which are impacted by our year and one-half old recession.
My wife and I are hunkering down, and working as many hours as possible, and I have been building an online presence which has generated income.
This is not retirement income yet, but it is growing, and has the potential to continue to grow.
Now that is how you spell relief.
I have been teaching others how to do this at Rock Valley College, in a course called Building a Successsful Business Online Using the Internet.
We have had classes three out of the last four semesters, and this semesters class is filled with folks who are go-getters, and five of them have websites up and running at the eight week mark.
The platform for this class is the Site Build It model, which I have been using for my websites for the last three years.
The Course
If you are a business owner my age, 61, and you grew up using the Yellow Pages to find your local business connections, then you might have been as mystified as me by their demise, and now you are reading about newspapers going out of business, so who will read your want ads?
Well, fellow business owner, people will find you online and that is all there is to that. No more yellow pages, no more want ads, no more help-wanted.
In fact, folks are finding jobs online now at a social networking site called Twitter, almost in real time.
The world of business is changing. The good news is you can get in it, the bad news is, you better start now.
Just like any other skill, you can do this, if I can do it, you can. I was proud in 1996 of not being able to use or caring to learn about computers. Now I will be putting my kids through college with the money I earn online, right from my home office. Here is a link to the course at Rock Valley College.
Perhaps you would like to check out some other resources online about self-employment?
Here is a great one!
If you are a business owner my age, 61, and you grew up using the Yellow Pages to find your local business connections, then you might have been as mystified as me by their demise, and now you are reading about newspapers going out of business, so who will read your want ads?
Well, fellow business owner, people will find you online and that is all there is to that. No more yellow pages, no more want ads, no more help-wanted.
In fact, folks are finding jobs online now at a social networking site called Twitter, almost in real time.
The world of business is changing. The good news is you can get in it, the bad news is, you better start now.
Just like any other skill, you can do this, if I can do it, you can. I was proud in 1996 of not being able to use or caring to learn about computers. Now I will be putting my kids through college with the money I earn online, right from my home office. Here is a link to the course at Rock Valley College.
Perhaps you would like to check out some other resources online about self-employment?
Next post, I will talk about the SBI services which will build your site for you, or an opportunity to attend an e-learner program from the comfort of your Rockford home office.
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