| By 2006 it has become self evident to the vast | | | | loss to do so. Secondly there is a growing trend |
| majority of us that the internet is not a fad, nor is it a | | | | toward working from home! Why go into an office to |
| new tool entering an existing paradigm of technology's | | | | sit in front of a computer when you can save the |
| interaction with society. What has become obvious is | | | | commute, sit at home, download all the information you |
| that the internet is a revolutionary and paradigm | | | | need, and submit your work via the internet. |
| changing technology. Even more dramatically the | | | | Communication is easy with email and phones, and |
| internet has been the catalyst of the leap to an entirely | | | | when you need a face to face meeting, video |
| new age in human history. Just as the invention of the | | | | conference. From the home based business's |
| printing press created the medium for information | | | | perspective, the power of this trend is phenomenal, |
| exchange needed to spark the Industrial Revolution, | | | | making it continuously more and more viable to start a |
| (which changed the basic underlying paradigm that | | | | low cost, high return home based business, with a risk |
| society operated upon from the Agrarian model to the | | | | level that is laughable when compared to the risk level |
| Industrial model), so too has the internet created the | | | | endured by Industrial Age business. Thirdly, there is no |
| medium for information exchange needed to spark the | | | | more job security. Like it or not, the simple fact is that |
| Information Revolution, and our societies basic | | | | the job for life is an anachronism. Equally so are |
| paradigm of production is in the process of | | | | defined benefit retirement plans (company pensions) |
| transforming to the Information Age model. What does | | | | and viable government funded social security |
| this mean for us as private citizens and the providers | | | | (government pensions). The only way to achieve |
| for our families? Firstly, the way that our parents lived, | | | | financial security in today's world is to develop the |
| the nature of their work life, the core underlying | | | | mindset and skills needed to acquire secure cash flow |
| assumptions of their investment, retirement planning, | | | | producing assets. Basically, for the 95%+ of the |
| and wider aspirations are now obsolete. A new age | | | | population born without a silver spoon in their mouth, |
| demands new answers, and to cling to the old ways | | | | the only way they will be able to do this reliably is to |
| for no other reason than that we know and are | | | | work for themselves in a business of their own, and |
| comfortable with them is a sure way to perish in the | | | | invest the proceeds. This needs to be done |
| new world. Today we need new answers….. | | | | pre-emptively! (We need to dig our well BEFORE we |
| One of the new answers that is emerging is a shift | | | | get thirsty.) Where do we go from here? Start learning |
| away from getting a job at the bottom of a big | | | | (and earning) today! There is no need to quit your job |
| company, and spending 30 years, going into the office | | | | or invest thousands of dollars. Some of the best online |
| everyday, working our way to the top of that | | | | business strategies cost less than $100.00 to start, and |
| company. This change can be best understood by | | | | only require a computer and an internet connection. |
| examining three emerging trends: Firstly there is a | | | | Many strategies don't need any programming or high |
| growing trend away from big companies to small | | | | level computer skills and some don't even require a |
| companies. The impact of economies of scale, which | | | | website! If you are unsure how to start, there are a lot |
| once made the big company a necessity, have in | | | | of educational products around ranging in price from |
| many industries been significantly reduced by the tools | | | | free to thousands of dollars. Start with the more |
| of the Information Revolution. Today a single person | | | | affordable ones… don't splash out a few |
| working from home with a computer and an internet | | | | thousand for some product about internet business, (at |
| connection can build an empire the likes of which was | | | | least not until you are reasonably well established and |
| once unimaginable without a massive corporate | | | | have made the money from your business to pay for |
| headquarters and hundreds of staff. Adding to this | | | | the product.) There is more than enough information |
| trend is the fact that many of today's home based | | | | around in the $50 and less range to get you going well. |
| business's have the massive advantage that they can | | | | Take the plunge and join us in the brave new world of |
| be started part time providing a further reduction in the | | | | the Information Age! You really have very little to loose, |
| risk associated with starting a business as there is no | | | | and a lot to gain. |
| need to leave current employment and suffer income | | | | |