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Answer You - Who Will Become Wealthy in the Information Age?
Want to increase your sales BEFORE you launch your product or service? The following are some of the most effective ways to do just that:1. Use Social Proof What is "social proof"? Simply put, we are all conditioned to watch what others are doing and follow along (think teenagers). Using social proof in your marketing helps you to influence your customers to purchase your products/services, get new prospects to sign-up for your list, and get people talking about you and your offering - and that's just the start.So, how do you use this psychological trigger in your marketing? One way is to use results-based testimonials. Ask your current customers or clients to give you results-based testimonials. T
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from f
Autoresponders are, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most powerful and important tools available to anyone marketing on the internet today. They allow you to automatically send out a sequential series of email messages to prospects who have signed up to receive your information and who you therefore know are interested in what you’re offering.They make it easy to build a relationship and establish interest and trust with your prospective customer or recruit and they minimise the amount time you need to devote to busy work. By the time your prospect has got through your series of messages, if they feel the need to make further contact with you prior to making a decision, you are at least assured that they
To understand who will become wealthy in the Information Age, first we need to understand how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age (born about 1860, died about 1989).
In fact, let's get a complete overview and go back to the Agrarian Age.
In the Agrarian Age, society was basically divided into two classes: the landowners and the people who worked on the land (the serfs). If you were a serf, there wasn't much you could do about it: land-ownership passed down through families and you were stuck with the status you were born into.
When the Industrial Age arrived, everything changed: it was no longer agriculture that generated most of the wealth, but manufacturing. Suddenly, land was no longer the key to wealth. A factory occupied far less land than a sheep farm or a wheat farm.
With the Industrial Age came a new kind of wealthy person: the self-made businessman. Wealth no longer depended on land-ownership and the family you were born into. Business acumen and factories were creating a new class of wealthy person. But it still required enormous capital to build a factory and start a business.
Then came the World Wide Web (in about 1989) and globalization. Suddenly, everything changed again.
Factories (or real estate) were no longer necessary to run a business. Anyone with a website could start a business. The barriers to wealth that existed in the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age were completely gone. People who could never have dreamed of owning their own business were making millions from their kitchen table.
Of course, the Information Revolution didn't begin in 1989.
It began in 1444 when Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz, Germany.
But the printing press (newspapers, magazines, paperbacks) belonged to the Industrial Age, not the Information Age.
The printing press is a 'one-to-many' technology. The Internet is a 'many-to-many' technology. And that was what changed in 1989.
The Industrial Age was about centralization and control. The Information Age is about de-centralization and no control. No government and no media magnate controls the Internet. This is the crucial thing to understand about the Information Age.
As we moved from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age to the Information Age, there's been a steady collapse of the barriers that kept one section of society wealthy and the other section poor.
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from f
Many salesmanship business cassette tapes and sales marketing books from Zig Zigglar to Tom Hopkins tell salesmen and women that when the prospect says NO, that is only the starting point. But any good businessman will tell you that you must know when No means NO WAY! And to that point aggravating the potential customer some day in the far off future is indeed a bad move. Sale people should recognize when no means no.They should also remain friends and not allow NO to stick in their minds as a demeaning comment to the product or service they sell or even to themselves; unfortunately many sales people are competitive and often too competitive for their own britches or the health of their companies future. If eve
When the Industrial Age arrived, everything changed: it was no longer agriculture that generated most of the wealth, but manufacturing. Suddenly, land was no longer the key to wealth. A factory occupied far less land than a sheep farm or a wheat farm.
With the Industrial Age came a new kind of wealthy person: the self-made businessman. Wealth no longer depended on land-ownership and the family you were born into. Business acumen and factories were creating a new class of wealthy person. But it still required enormous capital to build a factory and start a business.
Then came the World Wide Web (in about 1989) and globalization. Suddenly, everything changed again.
Factories (or real estate) were no longer necessary to run a business. Anyone with a website could start a business. The barriers to wealth that existed in the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age were completely gone. People who could never have dreamed of owning their own business were making millions from their kitchen table.
Of course, the Information Revolution didn't begin in 1989.
It began in 1444 when Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz, Germany.
But the printing press (newspapers, magazines, paperbacks) belonged to the Industrial Age, not the Information Age.
The printing press is a 'one-to-many' technology. The Internet is a 'many-to-many' technology. And that was what changed in 1989.
The Industrial Age was about centralization and control. The Information Age is about de-centralization and no control. No government and no media magnate controls the Internet. This is the crucial thing to understand about the Information Age.
As we moved from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age to the Information Age, there's been a steady collapse of the barriers that kept one section of society wealthy and the other section poor.
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from f
If you study securities analysis at an academic institution or on Wall Street, you will study Benjamin Graham. Ben Graham was an economist, a business professor, and an investor. He has been called the father of value investing.His book, "Securities Analysis," was published in 1934 and is required text for securities analysis students. And his 1949 book, "The Intelligent Investor," has been described by Warren Buffett as the best investment book ever written.In fact, most people today know Graham as Warren Buffett's mentor. Buffett is the only student to ever earn an A+ from Graham at Columbia University. (As an interesting bit of trivia, Harvard Business School rejected Buffett's admission application i
Then came the World Wide Web (in about 1989) and globalization. Suddenly, everything changed again.
Factories (or real estate) were no longer necessary to run a business. Anyone with a website could start a business. The barriers to wealth that existed in the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age were completely gone. People who could never have dreamed of owning their own business were making millions from their kitchen table.
Of course, the Information Revolution didn't begin in 1989.
It began in 1444 when Gutenberg invented the printing press in Mainz, Germany.
But the printing press (newspapers, magazines, paperbacks) belonged to the Industrial Age, not the Information Age.
The printing press is a 'one-to-many' technology. The Internet is a 'many-to-many' technology. And that was what changed in 1989.
The Industrial Age was about centralization and control. The Information Age is about de-centralization and no control. No government and no media magnate controls the Internet. This is the crucial thing to understand about the Information Age.
As we moved from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age to the Information Age, there's been a steady collapse of the barriers that kept one section of society wealthy and the other section poor.
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from f
Site promotion gimmicks and traffic techniques come and go, but the ones that really work are those that stand the test of time. This article highlights what I consider to be the most effective methods to promote your web site of all time.1. Get Your Site High In The Search EnginesGetting your site linked high in the search engines for your keywords and keyphrases.One of the best ways to do this is to ensure your site has a good number of incoming links from quality sites - I discuss how to achieve this with relative ease below.Also make sure that your site reflects the keywords/keyphrases that you are looking for - they should be in your title tag, your headline tags, and in your initial p
But the printing press (newspapers, magazines, paperbacks) belonged to the Industrial Age, not the Information Age.
The printing press is a 'one-to-many' technology. The Internet is a 'many-to-many' technology. And that was what changed in 1989.
The Industrial Age was about centralization and control. The Information Age is about de-centralization and no control. No government and no media magnate controls the Internet. This is the crucial thing to understand about the Information Age.
As we moved from the Agrarian Age through the Industrial Age to the Information Age, there's been a steady collapse of the barriers that kept one section of society wealthy and the other section poor.
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from f
Have you ever watched television to find creative ideas, business marketing concepts or even leadership lessons for your business? It’s easy to get into the habit of using your television time to increase your business ideas. For instance, many people walk out when the commercials come on. But if you’re looking for marketing ideas, commercials are free idea generators for your business. Watching commercials is a way to get ideas on how to promote your business. See if the advertisement makes sense, appeals to a targeted audience and effectively sells a product.The ideas in some television shows can give you new ideas too. When Donald Trump decided to become a television star, my curiosity was peaked. Even thou
In the Information Age, literally anyone can become wealthy.
So now that we have a clearer picture of how the Information Age differs from the Industrial Age, let's ask that question again: 'Who will become wealthy in the Information Age?':
(1) People Who are Self-Taught
To explain this better, let's go back to the Agrarian Age and the Industrial Age, and the Transmission of Skills.
In the Agrarian Age, skills were passed on from father to son. If you wanted to learn how to be a blacksmith you had to be a blacksmith's son. If you wanted to learn to be a stone-mason, you had to be the son of a stone-mason.
With the coming of the Industrial Age, all this changed. You could go to University and learn whatever skills you wanted. Knowledge was freely available.
But in the Information Age, the Transmission of Skills is changing once again.
The skills necessary to succeed in the Information Age are not being learnt from our parents (as in the Agrarian Age), nor are they being learnt in schools and colleges (as in the Industrial Age). Children are teaching their parents computer skills. And many of the entrepreneurs who start hi-tech Internet companies have never been to college.
The millionaires (and billionaires) of tomorrow probably won't have a college education. They will be high-school drop-outs, self-taught people.
(2) People with New Ideas.
Again, it's the people who are able to think outside of the existing structures who will become wealthy in the Information Age. Often, it's just a Simple Idea that launches people to success in the Information Age.
Take Sabhir Bhatia, for example - the man who invented Hotmail. Bhatia was a computer engineer working in Silicon Valley. He had no previous business experience, whatsoever.
But one day, while he was driving back from work, a friend called him on his cell phone and said that he had an idea: What about starting a free, web-based email service? Bhatia knew this was the idea he'd been waiting for. He told his friend to hang up immediately and ring him at home on a secure line.
Three years later he sold Hotmail to Microsoft for $400 million.
(3) Writers
The third group who will become wealthy in the Information Age are Writers.
In the Industrial Age, Writers depended on large publishing Houses to get published (remember that the printing press is an Industrial Age technology - it is centralized and controlled). And the Publishing Houses took the lion's share of the profits.
In the Information Age, Writers are doing their own publishing - and keeping most of the profits themselves. Indeed, Writers are flourishing on the Web - mainly through eBooks and Ezine Articles. But even if you don't write eBooks or Ezine Articles, if you own a website, you are a Writer.
Why?
Because the Internet is basically a written medium. It favors writers, people who are able to co
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