I need money

Easy money

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Martin) — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:21:00 +0000

Everyone looks for possibilities of making easy money. Easy money means real money that you earned without too much headache conceiving the strategy, or working a considerable amount of time for this.

One of these days, a friend of mine asked me how could he make an extra $ 1000 for completing the $ 15,000 amount for his new car. He needed the money fast, and he didn't wanted to borrow them.

In this type of cases you need to think clear about your possibilities, because the solution to your problem is probably simpler than you thought.
So I asked him:

What do you do for living ?
- I am a freelance web developer
So, you have a lot of contacts that provide you with new projects.
- Yes.
Then ask one of your contacts the same question you asked me: How can I make $ 1000 in 2 days ?

So he did, and the next day one of his partners offered him the possibility of making $ 1000 in advance with the condition to work for him at a $ 2400 project with a $ 400 discount. So, his income on this project would be just $ 2000.

This technique is often known as forcing the market. Although you have your time programmed for some jobs you take care of, you can get more work, finishing all of the projects a little late, but without having your free time spent. This technique is stretching a little the conditions of your work, in most of the cases not altering your relations.

This is one of the strategies you could apply, you just need to evaluate the things that you do, and take a course of action forward to your goal.

The capitalist market model

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Martin) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:23:00 +0000

As discussed earlier, there are two main market models in the world, one of which was treated in my previous article, the communist market model.
The other very important model, in fact, more important than the communist one, is the capitalist market model, which opens a new perspective for the individual and we will dig into this model with today's discussion.

Capitalism refers to the free market, in fact the capitalism is an economic system with the following attributes:

Private means of production
The goods are operated for profit
All the factors are intermediated by a free market

With these three points marked you can already see the differences between a communist market and a capitalist one. We want to discuss only the market, so we will not enter into polemics about political regimes and so on. The point 3 (Free market) are of our interest in this article.

The free market opens a lot of different possibilities for the individual, mainly because it stands up on the private property model. The private property is a great thing that happened to the society in the past centuries. Some years ago (200 to be more precisely) in almost every country, me as a normal part of the society (not part of the aristocracy) couldn't buy a piece of land and start a business on it because I was forbidden by the form of government or by the others' (aristocrats) relations.

Nowadays anyone who can buy, rules. The private property means the possibility for any man, indifferent of his origin to aquire property and use it for his/hers own good.

As you can see I am trying to get to the standard ways of making money, promised in the last articles, because mainly, this is the most encountered way a person could raise its living standards: starting a personal business.

I could say that this is the best way to make money, having absolute control over your business, so having absolute control over your incomes, you might say. NO, that's wrong ! In a capitalist market model you do not have absolute control over your incomes, neither in a communist one you have, in a communist one you don't have any control. So again, the capitalist market is the best for the individual, despite not giving all control over the profit.

Why doesn't a capital market offer absolute control ?

You see... as you run your own business, there are others that are doing the same. So, for their own goods, they may compete for your desired piece of market.
This is the competition, and if you're living in a capitalist country you get hit by it every day.

The solution is brought to you by a well known phrase: may the best win

When you get on the market you need to be the best to make an income out of that particular piece, or your efforts will be in vain. There are few untapped niches that lucky entrepreneurs find. These will be discussed as well in one of the future articles.

The other way you could make money in a capitalist market model is the surface way, the way that assures you that you won't die, so you will have a decent revenue to feed your family, but that's about all. Of course, I'm talking about working as an employee.
This means having a day job, with daily obligations that provide you a "small" amount of money, amount paid by the employer which probably has a business and he makes real money out of it.

But we're not here to discuss how to stay on the floating line. We need to find ways to make real money, so in a capitalist market model you can see a single way: starting your own business.
Of course there are other ways, but these are known as "hacks" or the exploitation of system's breaches and they will be discussed in a future article as well. At this moment I can only say that they involve playing with the bank and the people's mids a lot :)

I hope I got you focused on my points of view now, so stay tuned for the next article.

Standard ways of making money

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Martin) — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:26:00 +0000

As promised earlier, the series of articles on how to make money begins.
Today I will discuss the societies standards of living, as well as how the political system influences the individual's possibilities of extending it's financial life.

In our modern days, there are two main political systems that are determining the ways a national market is functioning.

1) The communist model
2) The capitalist model

In this article I will talk about the communist market model.

It's known to be very hard for an individual to separate from the crowd in a communist country, because the state has the control of every resource and the communist political model encourages a person to work for the state without having to care about personal business.
This is pretty annoying for an open minded person, not having the control over your financial life. On the other side, countries like China, with a strong communist regime is growing in a scary way on the global market, they being the most important suppliers in a lot of market segments such as computer components, shoes and a lot of other domains.
Despite the national level of trading, the individual possibilities are very limited, so I think a communist country is not very attractive for the average small business man.

I wrote this article to explain why in my future articles I will ignore a communist market model, where the state produces all and the state buys all.

I'll get back to you with my next article, "The capitalist market model".

I need money begins

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Martin) — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:31:00 +0000

Do I need money ? is a question that is inevitably posted for a few hundred times in a person's life, in different stages of his maturity, between difficult periods of time, or even after he has a stable income to serve his needs until the end of his life.

So, again: DO I NEED MONEY ?
Yes you DO !

Maybe you haven't realized how many times you pose this question to yourself, because it always occurs in a meditative moment of your life and it has more to do with your metaphysic side than with your pragmatic thinking. Studies revealed that a normal city man thinks about this question most in the 17-21 years period, when the way of seeing things in life changes to a more mature way and feelings come into place.

The need for money appears in that period too, depending on the customs you form (getting out with your friends, movies, mall shopping and so on). Maybe you think these are small things, but they are more important in your future money expectations than you will ever think. These are the money spending factors.

This blog aims to help you develop new ways of thinking in the money making industry, besides working hard for this, although working hard is the most secure way, so we could call it the best, there are alternates (legally and morally clean) you should know about.

Hoping I got you excited, I can't wait to write my following post.