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Amazon FBA is The Perfect Online Business for Seniors

Posted Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Learn How To Sell on Amazon

According to Comscore Amazon is now the number one shopping destination on the web with over 20-million visitors a month.  eBay is a distant second with 15-million. If you are not selling on Amazon you are missing a huge market.  But Amazon works differently than eBay and some training is in order. The Proven Amazon Course is your ticket to that training –and the price has just been reduced by $100.

This is a very temporary price cut.

The Proven Amazon Course has easily been our most successful training course to date.  Its called the “proven” course because it really works.  And, it comes with a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied for any reason.

Why is Amazon FBA the Perfect Online Business Opportunity for Seniors?

The trouble with a normal online business whether it be selling on eBay, or from a website or from Amazon is all the hassle of packing and shipping.  Well Amazon FBA fixes that. FBA stands for Fulfillment By Amazon. With FBA you send your merchandise to Amazon.  Amazon sells it for you, collects the money and ships it for you.  Then they send you a check.

I recently attended the annual Amazon sellers conference in Seattle and I have to tell you that about 35% of the sellers who were there were fellow seniors.  One fellow was 72 and in a wheelchair.  He has a $10,000 a month Amazon business using FBA.

Here are some great reasons to learn how to sell on Amazon:

o  Mashable.com recently reported that one in five people were on Amazon.com in the month of June 2011. Amazon is the MOST shopped website ever.

o  You can send virtually ANY item with a barcode on it to Amazon and they’ll list, sell and ship it for you…and send you a check every two weeks. You can even put barcodes on your own stuff and send it to them.

o  You can visit the “discount” aisle (or closeout section of a website) of virtually any chain store (Wal-mart, Target, Big Lots, Meijer, Toys-R-Us etc.)  and find profitable (200-300% is easy) inventory. Box it all up in one box, and send it to Amazon. They do the rest.
For example:  Just last week I found Rachel Ray Cooler Totes at Costco for $11.95 each.  No one had them on Amazon.  I bought a dozen and sold all of them for $39 each.  I also found Cars2 Sticker sets for kids for $9.90 at Costco and am getting $24.95 for them on Amazon –and Amazon is doing all the work.

Why is our training so good?

o  We include videos, eBooks to read and tons of step by step screenshots to show you how it all works.  And there is a forum where you can get help from experts:  A handful of world class experts monitor the forum to assist students as they build an Amazon biz and make it as hands free as possible.

These incredible experts are people like Chris Green, Bob Willey, Suzanne Wells, Skip McGrath (me), Julie Anna Schultz, Nathan Holmquist, Steve Lindhorst, JB Malik, and Stephanie Inge.  These are THE Amazon selling POWER PLAYERS and they are hanging out with hundreds of excited Amazon sellers on the discussion forums of the  Proven Amazon Course.

o  The training we’ve put together is by far the best you’ll find on the subject and has been endorsed and promoted by nearly EVERY major expert in the Amazon selling arena.

Proven Amazon Course

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Budgeting Money for Seniors and Those on a Fixed Income

Posted Thursday, October 8th, 2009

Once you retire, living on a fixed income has its challenges. One of the best ways to manage your money and make sure you meet your needs and avoid unnecessary debt is to budget. Too many seniors plan only with long-term budgets, but one of the tricks for successful budgeting is to have interim short-term budgets. (See step #1)

Unless you budget your money, you’re begging to go deeper into debt, and making it impossible to save. Take these steps to figure out how much money is supposed to go where so you can control your spending accordingly.

Steps

  • Create a budget every time you get money. For most people, this is once every two weeks. Sometimes it’s weekly, sometimes it’s monthly. Either way, it’s a regular interval, and it’s the best time to decide how you’re going to spend your money. Make a personal rule that you won’t spend any of your paycheck money until you’ve worked out your budget.
  • Make a list of all the things you’ll need to pay for until the next paycheck, such as:
    • Rent/mortgage
    • Utilities
    • Medicare/Medigap Premiums, medications
    •  Food/groceries
    • Vehicle payments, insurance, maintenance (e.g. oil changes, tire rotations), Gas
    • Any debt payments
  • Anticipate how much you’ll need to pay for each and write that amount next to the corresponding item on the list. You can also opt to pay for a fraction of something that isn’t going to be due until after the next paycheck. For example, if your rent is $800 due on June 1, you just got paid $700 on May 12, and your next paycheck will be $700 on May 26, it may be wise to set aside $400 from this paycheck for rent so that you only need to take $400 out of your next paycheck to pay for rent.
  • Add up all of the amounts (we will call this your regular expenses) and subtract it from your paycheck amount. Do you get a negative number? Then you are living way beyond your means. Something has to go, or you will have to find a way to supplement your income. If you have money leftover, split that money up into a few groups:
  • Savings. Ideally, this should be about 30% of your paycheck, although even 10% (if you do it consistently) is pretty good. Build up enough savings for an emergency fund (6 times your regular monthly expenses), then start saving money to invest.
  • Emergency money. I like to keep about 25% of regular monthly expenses in an emergency fund. This would cover things like sudden unexpected car repairs, or extra medications if you get sick or that Grandson’s birthday you forgot.
  • Spending money. This is whatever is leftover after you subtract emergency money and savings money. It’s what you’d spend on things like clothes, eating out, movies, gifts, and anything fun, basically. If you start to cry when you realize how little fun money you have, then you need learn How to make some extra money.

Keep everything but your spending money out of reach. Leave everything (except your spending money) in the bank. Withdraw all of your fun money in cash, and leave your debit card (and credit card[s]) at home. Use the cash for anything you want, just make sure you make it last until your next paycheck. You might not want to carry it on you all at once, but having physical cash will help you keep better track of your fun money than using a card.

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