Where would you live if you could live anywhere you wanted?
The Internet revolution has quickly changed people's way of life. Less quickly, ever so subtly, but happening still, the Internet revolution is changing where people choose to live.
When the U.S. was settled, during the period called the Agricultural revolution, people set down roots where land was available and fertile for farming. After the Industrial revolution, major cities sprung up where transportation allowed raw materials to easily reach factories, and finished goods to easily reach embarkation points en route to distribution facilities. Masses of people moved to where employment was easily obtainable, and factories were built where a labor pool of able bodied people was available.
Times have again changed. When I was much younger, it was predicted that the American economy would become more service oriented rather than agriculture or manufacturing oriented. The prediction has been fulfilled to a large extent with many manufacturing jobs being outsourced or moved to markets where labor is not just available, but cheap.
I think often about how I came to move from a small town in western Pennsylvania to a large metropolitan area in northeastern New Jersey. The taxes are high, the air quality isn't good, traffic is horrendous, the price of living is high. But at the time of the move, I came like many before me because of employment opportunities.
Now that I make my living by using the Internet and computer skills, I think sometimes about what keeps me in this part of the country. There are roots here that would be tough to pull up after 25+ years, but other than that task, the answer is that there is no overwhelming reason that I couldn't do what I do anywhere in the country. Isn't that a very empowering thought?
The numbers of people that take advantage of this mobility is certainly small right now. However I can see a trend as more and more people realize that they can make their living anywhere there's a plug for their computer, and a (preferably high speed) connection for their modem. With those two facilities you can log onto eBay, Google AdWords, or your web site, from anywhere you please.
Whether you choose to just vacation more often than you used to, checking in from time to time from a local Internet cafe, whether you choose to own multiple homes for different times of the year, or whether you choose to just get back to your dream location, the possibilities exist because of affiliate marketing.
You see, what I'm trying to convey is that affiliate marketing and/or Internet marketing is not just about the money available. Sure, some people will spend a few hours a week so that they can make the lease payments on their BMW that they couldn't afford otherwise. Some people will replace their 40-hour a week plus daily commute "j.o.b." with a work at home business. But more and more now, people are replacing their entire way of life.
Just something to get you thinking, the subject of this entry is "where would you live if you could live anywhere you wanted?", if it makes you think a bit about the serious possibilities and benefits of spending a couple extra hours at the computer per night instead of watching the latest episode of Survivor, the basketball game, or Judge Judy, then I've accomplished what I intended to accomplish with this article.
Hopefully we'll be one of the Internet resources that you check out frequently, I'll do my best to provide timely and helpful information, including the affiliate marketing course that we've been giving you for the last several days (and a few more to come). If you haven't read it yet, there are links in the archives section to the right on this page.
Thanks for listening to yet another random thought in the mind of a still-striving Internet marketer.
When the U.S. was settled, during the period called the Agricultural revolution, people set down roots where land was available and fertile for farming. After the Industrial revolution, major cities sprung up where transportation allowed raw materials to easily reach factories, and finished goods to easily reach embarkation points en route to distribution facilities. Masses of people moved to where employment was easily obtainable, and factories were built where a labor pool of able bodied people was available.
Times have again changed. When I was much younger, it was predicted that the American economy would become more service oriented rather than agriculture or manufacturing oriented. The prediction has been fulfilled to a large extent with many manufacturing jobs being outsourced or moved to markets where labor is not just available, but cheap.
I think often about how I came to move from a small town in western Pennsylvania to a large metropolitan area in northeastern New Jersey. The taxes are high, the air quality isn't good, traffic is horrendous, the price of living is high. But at the time of the move, I came like many before me because of employment opportunities.
Now that I make my living by using the Internet and computer skills, I think sometimes about what keeps me in this part of the country. There are roots here that would be tough to pull up after 25+ years, but other than that task, the answer is that there is no overwhelming reason that I couldn't do what I do anywhere in the country. Isn't that a very empowering thought?
The numbers of people that take advantage of this mobility is certainly small right now. However I can see a trend as more and more people realize that they can make their living anywhere there's a plug for their computer, and a (preferably high speed) connection for their modem. With those two facilities you can log onto eBay, Google AdWords, or your web site, from anywhere you please.
Whether you choose to just vacation more often than you used to, checking in from time to time from a local Internet cafe, whether you choose to own multiple homes for different times of the year, or whether you choose to just get back to your dream location, the possibilities exist because of affiliate marketing.
You see, what I'm trying to convey is that affiliate marketing and/or Internet marketing is not just about the money available. Sure, some people will spend a few hours a week so that they can make the lease payments on their BMW that they couldn't afford otherwise. Some people will replace their 40-hour a week plus daily commute "j.o.b." with a work at home business. But more and more now, people are replacing their entire way of life.
Just something to get you thinking, the subject of this entry is "where would you live if you could live anywhere you wanted?", if it makes you think a bit about the serious possibilities and benefits of spending a couple extra hours at the computer per night instead of watching the latest episode of Survivor, the basketball game, or Judge Judy, then I've accomplished what I intended to accomplish with this article.
Hopefully we'll be one of the Internet resources that you check out frequently, I'll do my best to provide timely and helpful information, including the affiliate marketing course that we've been giving you for the last several days (and a few more to come). If you haven't read it yet, there are links in the archives section to the right on this page.
Thanks for listening to yet another random thought in the mind of a still-striving Internet marketer.
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