Sunday, January 28, 2007

Let's get ready for another week

Let's get ready for another great week working from home. It is amazing at how much I feel like I learn about myself through the home based business industry. I have learned so much from Dani Johnson and Call To Freedom Intl. it blows my mind how people in this industry refused to plug into that resource. I have never seen a better resource for skill development than that company. The most important thing I have learned is that my life and my business serves a much greater purpose than my own personal goals and income.

When I fail, I fail more than myself. I fail the individuals and families that I have been appointed to serve, by bringing them the "Call To Freedom". What is the "Call To Freedom"? This is the belief that we are all called to be free by our God. God wants us to be successful as evidenced by the fact that he has designed us with the tools necessary to reach success. True success IS freedom, freedom to live, to love, to worship, and to serve.

This week I make the declaration to answer my call to freedom and to assist others in answering their call as well!

All the best,
Jackie O'Quinn
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Sunday, January 14, 2007

Time to refocus

This past week was not very productive as far as work is concerned. Last Sunday I was relaxing at Timothy's Fine Tobaccos, a cigar shop I often frequent, when I got a phone call from my mom. Mom, told me that Nannie (my grandmother) was sick and the doctor said her organs were shutting down. Long story short, she was dying. Although my Nannie has been very sick and I knew how sick she was when I saw her at Christmas, it really hit me hard. My Nannie, was a second mom to me when I was growing up and has impacted my life immensely.

So last week when I got that phone call I sat there and processed what just happened and then I made an immediate decision to go home to North Carolina. I called Carmen and told her what was going on. By the time I got home, she had all of my clothes completely packed. (What would I do without her?) I drove through the night and mom called at about 2:30 am EST to let me know that Nannie had just passed away. So I spent the week with my mother and attending my grandmother's funeral.

This has definitely set me back on my goals for the month but I just thank God that I am in a position to be able to be there for my family at a moments notice. This week we will getting back on track and next weekend we will be headed to Dallas for First Steps to Success.

Sunday, January 07, 2007

1st week of the year

What a week and it was a good week. I have some improving to do to hit my daily goals consistently. I will work on improving that this upcoming week. I absolutely love working off of a calendar, that is something that I have never consistently done. But, I can see how I will be more effective keeping my goals and daily task in front of me. I spend less time procrastinating and more time focused on the objectives at hand.

This week I also had my first meeting with my friend Melissa. Melissa is a real estate agent who has been Dani trained a little bit. She hit over 1.7 million dollars last year in real estate sold however, her goals are much higher this year. Now she wants to hit 4 million dollars sold. Not a bad goal since this will only be her 2nd full year in real estate. Melissa is also very young at 23 years old. Her and I, decided to have weekly meeting on Friday where we discuss our goals and our progress the past week. I expect it to be so exciting week by week watching her hit her goals as I am also hitting my weekly goals. It's like having someone cheer you on, It's going to be a blast.

Also this week, last night actually, Carmen and I had our first date night. It went pretty good. It was my turn to plan it so I cooked grilled chicken, string beans, and baked potato. We ate and talked and then we sat up watching season 3 of "24". Her and I have become addicted to the show. We had never seen it until several weeks ago, now we have started from the beginning and are watching each season. It's a lot of fun watching it that way. 24 has a lot of cliff hangers every episode ends with one, but we are able to just go to the next episode instead of waiting till next week! I love it. We really just had a simple evening but it was fun and it was time spent together.

Till next time,
Jackie O'Quinn

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Are you are working your plan?

The New Year is well under way. I hope you have your goals and are working your plan. I know I am and I do have room for improvement but am very excited about the clear direction I currently have. I will elaborate more on my goals for this year and my plan to reach them.

Goal
Money = $500,000 by the end of the year

I will accomplish this by comparing my work from last year and making calculated adjustments to reach $500,000. I ended 2006 with some where between $110,000 to $150,000. My average work week was a pathetic 12 hours a week. I will do a little more than double my work schedule by working 28 hours a week consistently. I will perfect and incorporate two techniques taught by Dani Johnson "3 meeting plan" and "building a fire". Without accounting for an increase in prospecting skill and, Dani told me that building a fire and doing the 3 meeting plan will net me a 7 figure income when I get it right. Also not taking into account the increased expansion from our organization especially those who are plugging into First Steps to Success. I believe this will still give me a solid margin of error. Now the key is to stick to the plan.

Goal
Time Freedom = Stop Procrastinating and only work 28 hours a week.

I will reach this goal by setting up a daily planner just like Dani taught on this last Teleseminar she did. I have done this in the past and fail however, Dani taught a really simple technique in which you focus on your priorities such as time with God, time with spouse, time with children, and work. During my work hours I will keep myself on track by focusing on an hourly task of making 15 dials per hour. When I am not working I will focus on playing and having fun. When I am working I will focus on that strongly and not procrastinate so that I will remain efficient.

Goal
Relationship = Continue to grow closer to Carmen

This is a hugely important goal in my life. I will continue to focus on growing closer to "The World's Greatest Girlfriend" who happens to be my girlfriend, by setting aside time each week with her. We are setting aside that we call date night. On date night we go on a date. We are scheduling it each week. During our date we only talk about us. We do not talk about work or business, the focus is to simply spend time together and to have conversation pertaining to us and our relationship.

Goal
Faith = Increase my faith

I will do this by spending at least 30 minutes a day learning and praying. I also have this scheduled in for myself and I will do it each day before starting work.

Other things which I would like to accomplish but have not made them clear goals because I can't do it all at once. I want to focus on continuing to help individuals succeed with their own home businesses. I want to develop a course or newsletter or free service to teach people about personal finances. I want learn what I need to do to manage people's money in an investing account, I would prefer for people to learn on their own how to manage their money. But I realize some will simply choose not to. In that case I want to be able to do it for them. Last but not least, I want to buy two rental properties with Carmen.

What are your goals and what is your plan?

Jackie O'Quinn

Sunday, December 31, 2006

Happy New Year!!

In a few hours it will be out with the old and in with the new. Out with your old habits, success, lifestyle, debt, income and in with the new and improved work habits, growing success, lifestyle of freedom, decreasing debt, and increasing income. This is our chance to start fresh and have a blast doing it.

I am not sure what your New Year's plans are but I pray that you spend a few moments really and truly thinking about how you will improve your life in the New Year. It's great that we get a fresh start now let's go make the most of it. This is a year where we will be able to impact more lives than ever before. We will be able to see families brought together. Single mothers will be paying off debt. Parent and children relationships improve. Young ambitious adults will get started on the journey of a lifetime. Retired couples will discover a brand new life a brand new career which will bring them a sense of continued accomplishment.

The best part is that we can have front row seats to all of this if we so choose. I ask that in 2007 you decided to make a change in your life not just for you but, for the lives of others who will be impacted by you.

Let's have a magical 2007!

Jackie

Friday, December 29, 2006

Goals for the New Year

My goal for this past year was $250,000, if you have been following my blog then you are aware that I am not on target to hit that goal. Two demons that have constantly reared their ugly head have been procrastination and poor time management. Hence, this lead to my post yesterday! However, I will hit somewhere around $110,000 to $150,000 for the year once the dust clears and my accountant does his work. When looking back at the year two things strike me, the first is that I really just have not worked that hard. Several weeks I only put in about 5 to 10 hours of solid work and simply managed my time poorly, I have never worked more than 25 hours in a week. The upside to all of this is that I still ended the year well over $100,000.

Of course with the New Year comes new goals and new commitments. My income goal for 2007 is $500,000. I will take several steps that will put me on track to reach this goal. The first step is that I will work consistently 28 hours a week not 5 or 10 hours. That alone should double my income. I will also perfect two techniques that I have learned from Dani Johnson. One of these techniques is known as "Building a Fire" and the other is called "3 Meeting Plan".

There is also one other technique I will continue to use which I officially put in place the last quarter of this year. I will continue to leverage the efforts of a training company called "Called to Freedom International". This training company has been the best resource I have seen for someone to launch a business and get into profit the quickest. This leads to an organization that is far more successful as a whole and ultimately great profits for the entire team. It also leverages my time so that I can focus on other profit producing activity within my business. To be very blunt and honest I believe "Called to Freedom" can actually train far better than I can.

Much Success,
Jackie O'Quinn

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Get a JOB!

Dear readers,


I know a lot of you are business owners. A friend and business owner I love and respect sent this to me- and I have edited it to fit my own life. If I were to give you any advise for 2007- this would be it. Period, end of story, nothing more. If you do what this email says- nothing else will affect you as much. If you don’t follow what it says- nothing else will affect you as much!

You Need A JOB!

I don't mean you need to run out and get an actual J-O-B (unless you already have one) but what I mean by this is that you need to be working on...

A SET SCHEDULE.
When you work for yourself it's so easy to get LONELY as well as to get BURNED OUT from working too many hours.



After not being employed in over a year, the one thing that I find helps the most is to create a set schedule of time when I will work only on my business.

No distractions.
No TV breaks.
No running errands.
No playing video games.
No downloading music.
No email.
No phone calls to Mom.
No taking kids to soccer.
No surfing the Net.
JUST 100% PRODUCTIVE WORK.

You need to approach growing your business like a JOB.

With any job you have a DEFINED RESPONSIBILITY.

You need to have the same thing if you're running your own business. You need to hold yourself accountable.

You can do this, and make more money in your business, by committing to only WORK during at least a certain set of hours.

This could be from 10am until 2pm five days a week, or it could be only on Saturdays, or it could be 10 hours a day. But whatever it is,

you need to get serious and schedule a SET amount of time you will only work. You can always work additional hours if you choose to do so.

If you create a "Work Schedule" for yourself you will find that you are much more productive and get more done -- which ultimately leads to you making more money.

So create that work schedule and make a commitment to follow it. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised when you see the changes that start to happen and how FAST your business starts to grow as a result.

Make your schedule now, for 2007.

Get your family ready for this schedule and plan to stick to it, come hell, come high water, come fevers, come floods, come anything!

THIS WILL BE the best year of your home based business ever, with this one tip!

Have an awesome day and God bless!

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Looking toward the New Year

I am definitely looking forward to the New Year. I am working consistently to finish out December. I am encouraging others in our organization to do the same. The clients that we are talking to now will help to set the tone for the New Year. As new clients start building their business they will be building it directly into the first quarter. This will ultimately set the tone for our incomes in the New Year.

The great thing about this business is that in the New Year so many people have to New Year's resolution to "get out of debt". For many of these people the answer is a second income. If someone wants to earn an income from home then obviously Coastal Vacations offers the best chance for that. Not to mention the first quarter of the year is tax time. A lot of these people will not have more disposable income to invest in order to eventually get out of debt. You really have two choices with a tax return. Pay down a small portion of your current debt or invest in a business that will help you pay off all of your debt and eventually become completely debt free. Of course the second choice simply makes the most sense.

Till next time,
Jackie

Thursday, November 30, 2006

Article: Signs of Success

This is an article that was recently published on the internet. This article maybe be used freely and reproduced only if the resource box below is kept intact to preserve the copyright.

In this article, I will discuss signs of success in business as an entrepreneur. Every successful entrepreneur has habits and ethics that I refer to as their signs of success. It is said that success leaves clues, in this article we examine those clues.

Signs of success number 1, is an eager desire. All successful entrepreneurs carry with them an insatiable appetite for success. Their thoughts and minds are consumed with their goals and the end game as they see it. Studies have been done which have shown that successful people have a different thought pattern then everybody else. They are constantly thinking about their future life and how it will be as they reach their goals and increase their income. Entrepreneurs who are successful share an almost primal desire that burns in their soul to become successful long before they actually are.

Signs of success number 2, is a willingness to learn. A very successful business coach taught me "When you are green you are growing, when you are ripe you are rotting". With those who are successful, you will find that they went through a vast season of learning. The most successful entrepreneurs can measure their success almost proportionately to the length of their growing season. What I mean by that is many people will reach a certain level of success and then become confident or cocky. At that point their success will usually plateau or peak. While those who continue to be coachable and teachable will continue grow and continue to reach new heights of success.

Signs of success number 3, is the principle of application. Successful entrepreneurs not only learn but they apply at a far great rate than the general public. This is due to their desire for success. These entrepreneurs are not going to seminars, listening to audios, and reading books for entertainment. They are seriously looking to learn so they can apply what they learned immediately to get results.

Signs of success number 4, is time and money management. It is impossible to became successful in business until an entrepreneur can master his/her management of time and money. Both of these can been seen as tools for success that can be leverage to maximize success or they can be squandered simply as another consumable commodity. Success is never measured by the money YOU earn it is measured in the time that you have and the money that YOUR MONEY is earning you.

Signs of success number 5, is consistency in work ethic. All successful entrepreneurs work from a schedule and a routine. This goes hand and hand with time management. Successful entrepreneurs always have business hours and they work from a schedule. They treat their business as a growing enterprise regardless if it's size. They start work each day at the same time and end at the same time. During their business hours they are always working diligently and never procrastinate during that time.

These signs of success are simple to follow in theory. However, many people struggle to reach their goals and to be come successful. I would encourage you to print this article out and to read it daily until you are able to apply them to your business on a daily basis. By applying this signs of success to your business you will become much more productive. Your personal life will become much more stress free. You will begin to see yourself being modeled in to a much more successful entrepreneur.

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Jackie O'Quinn, is an entrepreneur who is passionate about success and helping others succeed. He also has a passion to help people earn more money, save more money, and to get out of debt. You can sign up to get his Easy Money Tips newsletter by visiting his blog http://www.jackieoquinn.blogspot.com.

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I am up late... too excited

OK, it's 1:40 am and I am still up. I have tried to sleep but, I am too restless. I am suppose to awake up at 4:00 am anyway ,to get ready to catch an early flight to Orlando for Dani Johnson's Creating a Dynasty. This will only be my second Creating a Dynasty event and I am very excited. Dani says she has completely changed this event so I am expecting to see something all together different than I have seen before. I know I have learned a lot from Dani Johnson but I know that I have so much more to learn.

We will be spending a lot of time with the Coastal Wealthbuilders, every time we get together it feels like one big family. I have a lot going on in my business, I set up another marketing system today that is the 3rd one this month. I am looking forward to Christmas and the holiday season. It is a great time of the year. We get to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Also, we get to start planning for the New Year. I am looking forward to another great year. I expect next year to be even better than this year and I am very excited about that.

Our team is growing and I am looking forward to some of our newest directors having blockbuster starts with the New Year. I look forward to seeing Lucia Callaway's business take off as well as Ed, Jamie, Stacy, Peggy, Jerry, Karen, Larry, Jessica, Roland, and Ted. I am looking forward to explosive growth from released Level III Directors such as Bob Becker, and Andrea Rooke. As a Level III Director earning a six figure and multiple six figure income in your very first year is more than possible. In fact some will likely earn a multiple six figure income and that will most likely be those who have invested in themselves and their training.

This business has been more than life changing for me and for so many more. I often feel like I have found the goose that laid the golden egg. I mean that literally, sometimes this business just seems like a cash machine. This really feels like a dream come true. The only thing that would make this business better would be if other people who I deeply care about, meaning some of my friends and family realized the oppurtunity that was here. I know a lot of people who struggle with money. Most of these people know that I own a business but, they give themselves excuses not to get started or to look deeper at this business. It upsets me sometimes because I realize what Coastal and the Coastal Wealthbuilders are. I know what it has done for me and I am the most ordinary person from some of the most humble beginnings. If I can succeed in this business then anyone can. But, I can't change people so I have to focus on what I can change, myself!

Till next time,

Jackie O'Quinn

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

It's a great time to be working!

Here are the many reasons that make this time of year a great time
to be working your Coastal Vacations business:

1) People are in the buying mood. It's the biggest shopping season
of the year. They want to buy and some will want to buy your travel package.

2) People want to have more money for Christmas so they are looking
for ways to make more money. Many will decide that working from
home will be better than trying to pick up a part time job.

3) People will start to get cabin fever over the winter and they
will start daydreaming about their next vacation. Giving them a way
to travel affordably will appeal to them.

4) Businesses are looking for gifts to give away to their clients and
employees for Christmas. Our travel packages offers some of the
best gifts (transferable vacations).

5) Many other home based business owners are working part time and
using the holidays as an excuse not to work their business. This
means when we make our calls we will have less competition even if
the client has requested information from multiple sources.

6) People who are looking for a business during the holidays often
have a certain level of seriousness about them. After all when most
people are distracted with the holidays they are still focused on
finding a way to work from home.

7)People will start looking for tax write offs this time of year.
Your travel package will be a tax write off for them when they
start their business.

8)This is a sewing season. People who do not join your business
right away are in your pipeline. The first quarter of next year is
tax season and a lot of those seeds that you sew now will sprout
as they get their tax returns back.

9) The people that you bring into business now will directly effect
the type of year that you have next year since they will all owe
you training sales.

God Bless,

Jackie O'Quinn

P.S. Two of the sharpest people I know of in this business, Renae Heikkila and Andrea Rooke were both prospected or got started right in the middle of the Christmas season.

When do we grow up??

Lately, I have been browsing around the infamous myspace, and yes I have a myspace page. I just wonder when do people decide to grow up? I was looking up some people I went to school with. I am confident they are good people but I just wonder at what point do you decide to grow up and start truly achieving your goals and dreams. Don't misunderstand me, nothing wrong with finding yourself and having fun. But at what age do you decide to get over it and get on with it. I am finding friends well in their 20s who have pics of themselves partying and getting drunk. I assume most will simply party their 20s away and some may continue into their 30s. I don't mean to be rude, or to question someone else's life.

We live in a free country it is our own right to live our life how we choose. I just can't help but feel almost a sadness for the time these people are wasting. Most are probably doing the bare minimum to get through life, already starting a life of paycheck to paycheck. I just wish more people would take advantage of the time that we have on this earth. By the time some of my old school mates realize this life is short and they must make the most of it, many will be in their 30s. I have every intention of earning my first million before then, and earning many more millions throughout my 30s.

I too am having fun! Just in a different sort of way. I have been on several cruises, been to Australia and travel all over the US regularly. I have friends all over the country. I have ate in some of the best restaurant around. Been to many professional athletic events.

Before long I will be jet setting in a private charter jet. Taking week long vacations every quarter. Traveling all over the world. I will have time to volunteer with private charities such as City Ministries, make donations the size of many people annual salaries. The world will be our oyster and we will be making the most of it. We are creating a legacy, impacting as many people as possible. Helping other people achieve similar life goals, creating friendships like no other.

For some reason it pains me, and maybe it shouldn't to think that there are people who spend there weekends in a drunken bliss, and call it fun. I assume that it could simply be a way to escape every day life. In all honesty I could be completely wrong and I may be way off base with these feelings.

However, I simply ask that you as a reader make the most of your life! Reach for your goals and your success. Don't put your dreams off, start achieving them today. One of these days at the end of your life you may wish that you would have done things differently. Or you may be content with the memories that you are making in this life and the friends and people you are helping.

We live once,
Jackie O'Quinn

Monday, November 20, 2006

Thanksgiving is coming up

What a great holiday Thanksgiving is. We get to reflect on everything that we are thankful for. I am very thankful for my Coastal Vacations business. I am able to determine my own schedule and decide when I want to work. I have decided to work Monday (today), Tuesday, and Wednesday this week as well as Saturday. I am sure some home based business owners are taking the week off. However, I learn a while a go if you want to be unusually successful just find out what 98% of people are doing and do the exact opposite.

Someone asked me why did I decide to work on Wednesday. Well for me that is a no brainer. I am most productive calling clients when I can reach them. Lots of people will be home on Wednesday because they will be off from their regular jobs. Many people will dread work on Monday and they will remember our conversation earlier. It is an absolute privledge to be able to work from home without a boss or some time line to get your work done. I hope and pray many more people will be able to experience this in the very near future.

All the best,
Jackie O'Quinn

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Up Early this Morning

I am up early this morning. Eight AM probably doesn't seem that early to most of you but to me it is very early. I have not been consistently waking up at eight in the morning but it's time to start. I am going into the new year and I need to start developing better business habits.

If you want to be a millionaire it's probably best to act like a millionaire. In my opinion this means developing habits of a millionaire. Habits like waking up at a decent time, consistently each morning. Putting in a honest days work and managing money in such a way to ultimately increase your networth. My goal for next year is $500,000. My success with that goal will be directly related to my habits as a businessman.

All the best,
Jackie O'Quinn

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Back from Chicago...

Today, was my first day back from First Steps to Success in Chicago. We had a blast. I can't wait to go back. The next First Steps seminar will be in Dallas Texas Jan. 21st and 22nd. This one will surely sell out fast. The last First Steps in Dallas sold out in 18 days!!

Prosper Always,
Jackie

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Off to Chicago once again..

OK, I had never been to Chicago before until last week and now I am about to go again this week. That's twice in about a week. I guess you can say I am just on a roll. Actually Carmen, had already planned last week prior to us finding out that the up coming First Steps to Success Seminar was going to be in Chicago as well.

I have been to a lot of these seminars of Dani's in the past year. It is said that if you want to be successful then find someone who has what you want and follow their lead. That is exactly what I am doing. Dani went from homeless to a millionaire in the homebased business industry within 2 years. Currently she earns a multimillion dollar annual income working only about 3 days a week. Who wouldn't want to have that lifestyle. However, there is a certain skill set that has to be learned and developed and that is what I am doing. Each time I attend one of Dani's seminars I intentionally go looking to learn something new and apply it to my business. Sometimes it is something simple but it always has a positive impact on my business.

There is actually a whole group of us from Coastal Vacations going to be at this event. As always I am very excited!

God Bless,
Jackie O'Quinn

P. S. Prosper always!

Monday, November 06, 2006

The details about Chicago

As I promised in my last blog post. I will tell you more of the details about our anniversary trip to Chicago. We left our home Saturday morning at 7:30 am, we got in to Chicago at 11:30 am and checked into our hotel. We stayed at a hotel called Sofitel. We stayed in a beautiful deluxe room.

When we first arrived at the hotel Carmen and I took a nap. She woke me up at 3:00 pm and at 3:15 there was a knock at the door. I went to the door and was surprised to see two massage therapists. They literally in a matter of minutes had rearranged our room into our on private massage room. Carmen was on one table and I on the other. This was my very first experience having a professional massage. Although, Carmen enjoys a good massage about once a month but I had not had one yet. However, for the next hour I enjoy a piece of heaven. Let me tell you if you have never had a professional massage I encourage you to put that at the top of your list, you will thank me for it. I can definitely see a time when that could become a monthly if not a weekly habit for me.

After the massage, we took showers and got ready for dinner. Carmen had yet another surprise for me, we went on a dinner cruise. This was spectacular! We spent 3 hours aboard a luxury cruise ship cruising along the sparkling skyline of Chicago. Viewing the Chicago skyline was amazing, it was as if I was looking through the pages of a magazine. We had our very own poster ready view over dinner. Dinner was elegant, we were served a 4 course meal and were waited on by one of the best wait staffs I have ever seen. A relaxed atmosphere, with amazing views, and a wait staff that catered to all of our needs throughout dinner. Between dinner and desert we took a walk on the observation deck to enjoy the view of the skyline it a refreshing way to relax and reflect with each other. When we returned to dinner we enjoyed our own private anniversary cake that Carmen had ordered for desert. It was great way to wrap up a greater evening.

We went to bed that night and slept in Sunday morning. Before leaving on Sunday we stopped by a Cigar shop that is semi-famous called "Up Down Cigar Shop". I do enjoy a good cigar so I was excited to see this place. This shop was magnificent. It had a ton of inventory packed into a small place. It was without a doubt a highend store. We spent about an hour there and I was talking to one of the sales associates named Sean. If you go to Up Down be sure to ask for Sean he is a great guy and is very helpful. While I was there I scored several cigars including two Diamond Crown Maduros and two Padron Anniversary 1926s.

Without question I have to have the best girlfriend ever. We had a great weekend. I look forward to many many more years with Carmen.

Hope you enjoyed it,
Jackie O'Quinn

Sunday, November 05, 2006

My Surprise!

Carmen, and I have been dating now for 4 years. November 1st was our anniversary. She surprised me with a weekend trip to the "Windy City" otherwise known as Chicago. We are in the hotel room now and will be leaving shortly. This is the first chance I have had to blog but this has been on great experience that I can't wait to share with you. In the next blog post I will tell you all about our Chicago trip.

All the best,
Jackie O'Quinn

Monday, October 23, 2006

Updates on Prosper

In the past on my blog I have written about Prosper.com. I am writing a manuscript to be released as a book or at least as an ebook. I am looking to teach others about the benefits of this website and it's service for borrowers as well as lenders. Borrowers have a simple and easy way to borrow money, it's just another option versus going to the local bank or finance company.

Other individuals can choose to be investors/lenders and realistically earn much better returns than can be obtained from CDs or Money Market accounts. As being a lender not only can we earn better returns than other conservative investments but these investments allow a unique liquid aspect to them. No you can't just sell your investment as you could with a stock but you will receive a percentage of your investment back each month in the form of a payment plus interest from your lenders. Of course once you receive that payment you can choose to compound it by reinvesting in another loan or you can simply withdraw it. I am considering starting a free suggestive loan service in which I would spend my time looking for loans that I would invest in on Prosper.com so that would save you time as an investor when doing your own research. Currently, I am earning just over 12% on my Prosper account. I have not had any late payments yet either.

Until next time,
Jackie

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Stories of Success

Stories of success always inspire me a great deal. I love watching movies about successful people, I love learning about people who have been successful. Ordinary people having extraordinary success. What is better than hearing someone change their life. Recently there was a live training call in which several home business owners shared their success. I was truly inspired by them, people literally coming from nothing to become something. That training call was recorded and you can hear it here. (Be sure to listen to the second story, it is very inspirational)

Are you creating your success?