Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Chrysler 30 Day Shutdown: Prepare For The Future

By Stephen Jankowski

It has to be very disconcerting to have your work shut down for 30 days and to have it happen right during the holidays ads insult to injury. Most Americans are very concerned with the economic hardships we are all facing, but people involved in the automotive industry face especially daunting challenges.

Will our leaders in Washington come through with a bailout package for GM and Chrysler? If they do come up with one, are they going to burden the companies with so many requirements that the future will still remain in doubt? Will the Chrysler 30 day shutdown help or harm its ability to be a viable company in the future? What will the unions do? During the shutdown, are the executives planning on getting rid of a whole bunch of jobs? Is Chrysler preparing for a bankruptcy filing after the 30 days is up?

There are many more questions that people are asking themselves because of the economic trouble we all are facing. The question is, what can one person that may be a victim of decisions way beyond their control do about it? How can people prepare for an uncertain future?

One answer to that question is to become your own boss. Now is the perfect time to take the plunge and create your own home business and control your own future. There is great freedom in not counting on a paycheck to provide for your family and during times of economic difficulty, many people have, in the past, found financial freedom.

When people are worried about the future, and when employment is uncertain, many people look for income opportunities. A great place to look for such opportunities is the internet, but you have to be very careful as there are many ways to lose money online. The best way to finding a good business online is to find one that you know in your heart you can do. The business has to be one that excites you and that has the right tools and training to help teach you to succeed. It is also important that the product is one that excites you and that other people will buy. Marketing a business online is not hard, but there are skills that you need to gain in order to market profitably.

Many people start an online business and then promptly lose their shirt because they get sucked into all sorts of marketing schemes that just take their money and don't bring them the promised customers. If you take the plunge into online marketing, the best way to go about it is to go slowly. Do not immediately jump into areas like pay-per-click until you understand how to do it properly. Some newbies to internet marketing may pay $4 per click when an experienced marketer may pay $.25 for the same traffic. The difference in the marketing costs is what creates winners and losers to the home business game.

The very best ways to market online are to use methods that are low cost or free such as article marketing or video marketing. Sure, it does take time to learn how to write articles and have them found by people online, but if you are in the midst of Chrysler 30 day shutdown, you do have some time. You can also get involved in social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, myspace and others and build a huge following to market to in the future. A 30 day shutdown is a bummer, but why not profit from it?

Video marketing is also very simple to do as all you need is a PC and a video camera that is digital. Many camera's have video ability and there are internet video camera's available for around one hundred dollars online that do the job very well. The webcam from your PC also works well to make a video to put on youtube. If you learn how to do video marketing, you can get lots of traffic to your home business for free.

When I first started marketing online, I poured my heart into it for about one month. I had to because my own business went in the tank. After five weeks of marketing online, I was able to make over ten thousand dollars. Ten thousand in one week after only marketing for 30 days! Most people do not achieve that kind of income so quickly marketing online, but if you learn the skills necessary to market on the internet, you can achieve significant income levels eventually.

The Chrysler 30 day shutdown is an event to be excited about, but it may give many Chrysler workers the opportunity to start their own home business. For those people, it may turn out to be a key to a new future working from home.

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