Money Secrets

It suddenly struck me the other day (yeah, ok, yet more proof that I’m not the quickest tool in the box), that for some folks, looking for the ‘money secret‘ isn’t about making more money, but just as much about making more use of the money they have.

I’ve never been so far down or so much in debt that my home was at risk, or I didn’t know how I was going to manage to pay my bills. You know, all those ‘rags to riches’ stories that are used in all the ‘best’ sales letters. (maybe that’s why my sales letters are so rubbish )

Frankly, if you’re looking for the millionaire lifestyle and you’re putting your family or your home at risk in order to find it, you need to quit worrying about the ‘money secret’ and start focusing on getting your priorities right! Earning extra money is great but given the choice between feeding my appetite for the ‘make money’ secret, or using the little money I’ve already got for putting food on the table for my kids? No contest.

Have you read, The Money Secret by Rob Parsons? (affiliate link btw,  ) It’s all about debt and how to get out of it. Brilliant book. And one which a lot of folks wanting to get into the world of Internet Marketing and this whole ‘make money online’ thing would do well to read.

You see, the so called experts and gurus would have you believe that it’s ok to just charge the cost of their latest software or training course onto your credit card. After all, you’ll be making so much money in such a short time that you’ll easily be able to pay it all off and then some, right?

Wrong!

If you can’t afford it, don’t buy it. If they try to tell you, ‘heck it’s only the cost of a night out at the movies’, ask yourself would you be going to the movies anyway? If not, then it doesn’t matter whether it’s the same price. It’s money you’re spending that you could have saved.

If you were planning a trip to the movies, don’t go. Save that money, put it in a separate account and then use it to buy whatever it is if you really think it will help you out.

Don’t spend it until you’ve saved it first.

Listen, there is no course or software that is worth going into debt for. There just isn’t. Most of it you can find for free. Ok, it might not be as fancy as the paid version, but if you’re just starting out, it’ll be enough to get you going and once you have some of that ‘extra’ money coming in, then you can pay for the advanced version with your profits.

So you pay with your time instead of your money. You might not like the idea of paying with your time. After all, that’s time that could be spent with your family right?

Sure it is. And for most folks the dream of making money online comes from wanting to have that freedom to spend more time with their families. Or at least it was for me.

But no matter what you buy, you still have to devote the time to reading it, learning it, setting it up, putting it into action, etc. So there’s still a time investment required, regardless of whether you use a paid or free version.

There really isn’t an easy answer. But here’s the thing. Whichever way you look at it, money is just bits of paper and metal. It’s how you think about it that’s important. And if you don’t understand the value of it in the first place, then it won’t matter how much of it you earn, you’ll never have any, because you’ll just keep spending more than you’re earning.

It’s a mindset thing. You need to become a money master (or mistress) and until you get that right, the rest of it doesn’t really count for much.

And by the way, I’m asking the question, not answering it? Truth is, I haven’t got a clue because I don’t believe there are any money secrets.

Money has been around since long before I was a kid,(nice to know there are some things even older than I am), and I grew up learning that if I wanted money I could either earn it or… well, I could do without if I didn’t want to work for it, because I sure as hell wasn’t prepared to go to jail for it!

But sometimes you have to wonder if some folks just aren’t more interested in trying to uncover the secrets of making money online, than they are in actually making the money in the first place. It’s like they’ll put all their effort, time and money into looking for the easy, magic bullet that will make them rich. If they put half the amount into just doing what they’ve already been told, they’d probably be rich by now. And if not rich, at least they’d be a helluva lot better off than they are at the minute.

Now don’t get me wrong. I know what it’s like to suffer from SMS syndrome, (secret money system). I suffered for months and to be honest, I almost thought it was incurable. In fact, I still have occasional relapses, so maybe it is!

But there aren’t any secret money systems out there. Not unless you count the secrets the gurus keep telling you about anyway. (is it a secret when it’s splattered all over everyone’s inbox?)

What there is are lots of systems that, (if applied) will help you earn money. It’s up to you which one you care to use. But the only way to get to the money is to actually ‘use’ the system. Heck, it might not even be a system as such. Maybe it’s just information and you have to come up with your own system of putting it all together?

Maybe you want to use blogs; or maybe you’d prefer building niche websites, or you might prefer network marketing… or any one of a zillion other ways there are for earning money online. Whichever route you decide to go, there’s more than information out there for you to use already. You don’t need to waste any more time looking for the latest ’secret system’.

Personally, I decided a long time ago that the ’secret system’ I was going to use was article marketing. Now yes, I’ve developed my method of article marketing to be somewhat different to what most article marketers do. But it’s still not anything like what could possibly be described as ’secret’.

Do I know everything there is to know about article marketing? Hell no.

Do I know anything that isn’t freely available to everyone else about article marketing? Hell no.

So how come I can use it to send traffic to my sites and increase my rankings while others can’t?

Because instead of looking for the ’secrets’ that will let me do article marketing without actually doing article marketing, I just actually get on and do it!

And there goes my secret. Now you all know what it is, .

It doesn’t matter which system you decide on. The choice is entirely yours. But if you just channel half your energy into doing it instead of  looking for ways to get out of doing it, you’ll be a whole lot better off a whole lot quicker.

And by the way, if you do decide you want to go the article marketing route, (or even if you don’t), head on over to the PhantomWriters.com I recently went through Bill’s book on using article marketing to impact your SEO efforts and I have to say it’s one of the most awesome books I’ve ever read. Not just on article marketing, but also on SEO in general.