Monday, January 24, 2011

Top Misc Content on Internet

Top Misc Content on Internet

Orthodontist Schooling

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Orthodontist schooling lasts for 4 years and you are eligible to enroll for the program after successfully completing a bachelors degree.

What is the Average Credit Score in America?

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

The following article, gives a brief answer to query, 'what is the average credit score in America?' A comprehensive elaboration on the average credit scores in the American society has been made in the following paragraphs. To know more, read on

High Yield Stocks 2011

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

The following article, discusses some of the high yield stocks. 2011 has begun quite differently owing to high food inflation and also high oil prices. To know more about some of the predicted high yield stocks, 2011, read on

Personal Injury Claims: What to Expect

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

What to do when you experience personal injuries? Get to know more about personal injury lawyer in Edmonds, WA and get help over your legal problems. Read more below

New Year's Resolution: Think and Grow Rich Revisited

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

How is that New Year's resolution working out for you? If your resolution was to fix your finances. Here is a little something that might help you stay committed to your goals.

Where to Buy a House in Toronto?

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

A new report predicts areas in Toronto that will change to high income neighborhoods over the next few years. Know where they are so that the next house in Toronto will be in a great neighborhood.

Google Work at Home Scam - Best Honest Review for You

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

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6 Methods to Test Your Business Idea

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Everyone wants to make money on the internet. But how exactly do you pull it off? This article tells you six ways to make your online business ideas fool-proof.

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

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How Much Do I Need to Retire?

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Have you ever asked: How much do I need to retire? To figure it out, you need to develop a real detailed retirement planning in addition to the fundamental planning. Also, you have to factor in the inflation to make it more accurate.

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Build and Pest located in Brisbane are a dedicated team of individuals. Their success rate has qualified them to be full accredited members of Queensland Master Builders Association and the Australian Environmental Pest Managers Association to perform Pest Control work, Building Work and Completed Building Inspection.

Ways to Get Higher Price of Your Home

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Everyone wants to get more value of his real estate property, if going to sell it out.

Restaurants Benefit From VoIP Systems

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Credit card processing has allowed businesses to increase their revenue by extraordinary amounts for years. By allowing adding a POS system to your business it will allow you to accept credit cards from your customers while easing the process of inventory and tracking sales.

Tips on Filing a 2010 Tax Return

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Every January 1st marks the end of the previous tax year. The earlier a person begins his or her tax preparation, the easier it will be in the long run to complete the task. The IRS provides some advice for taxpayers with regard to how they can accomplish the preparation of their taxes quickly and easily.

The Importance of a Good Texas Commercial Insurance Plan

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

This article details the importance of the potential consumer selecting the ideal Texas business insurance policy to protect its company against liability issues.

4 Easy Steps to Get Office Products with Affordable Price

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Buying office furniture requires much consideration. You should consider the needs of your staff, money, space and condition of old furniture.

Retirement Volunteering

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Ideas about personally satisfying volunteering opportunities available to you when you retire.

New Starbucks Logo

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 09:00 PM PST

Starbucks has very interesting news. Starbucks logo has been changed. This year company celebrates its 40's anniversary.

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:59 PM PST

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 02:58 PM PST

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Expert Tips on Onpage Optimization and Search Engine Optimization

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 07:48 AM PST

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Posted: 24 Jan 2011 05:19 AM PST

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Has the Internet Made Teaching Lucrative?

Posted: 24 Jan 2011 06:30 AM PST

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When I turned 18, my father took me aside to talk about my future.

“I don’t care what you do for a living“, he said, “as long as you don’t go into education.”

I obeyed to a point. I never did go into academia; I didn’t become a schoolteacher or a professor.

But I currently run a business that teaches craftsmen and professionals how to master the fundamentals of business on their own terms, without spending years in school and without racking up six-figure debts.

I’m in education, along with thousands of other people who teach valuable skills online. Brian is in education. So is Sonia. And most likely, so are you.

My dad was a schoolteacher

And he was a damn good one.

His specialties were math and science. Instead of following the textbook or drilling for tests, his students learned by doing real experiments. Every outlet in his classroom was used to power some sort of gadget. Piranhas prowled his fishtanks. Model rockets in various stages of construction were a fixture — they were the tools he used to teach sixth graders physics, chemistry, and trigonometry.

When I was eight years old, my dad decided to stop teaching. Not because he wanted to, but because working as a teacher in a tiny Ohio township didn’t pay enough to support our family. Dad’s salary was so low that our family qualified for the free/reduced lunch program at the school where he taught.

So, instead of doing what he loved to do, Dad decided to switch from teaching to administration, and began a career as an elementary school principal.

The change dramatically improved the family budget, but it was a very real sacrifice. Instead of directly interacting with his students in the classroom, Dad spent most of his time filling out paperwork, handling school politics, disciplining the 5% of the student population that couldn’t behave, and managing the parents of those students, who (more often than not) were angry their children were being disciplined.

That job made my dad miserable for over twenty years. It’s little wonder he warned me away from education.

I honestly tried to take my dad’s advice

I enrolled in college as a computer engineering major, since I was good at working with computers. Engineering was a respected, high-paying profession, which sounded great to me as a young man with no experience in the world of work.

It didn’t take me long to learn the dangers of mystique — after a year’s worth of classes, it was clear that I’d be miserable as an engineer. I didn’t care very much about how to make a faster microprocessor — I cared far more about how people use technology.

Since engineering wasn’t right for me, I decided to try business. My computer skills led me into a job at a Fortune 50 corporation (Procter & Gamble), which was experimenting with using the internet to market household products. A few years later, I found myself in brand management, working for the company that invented the field.

I was in a high paying, management-track job, working for a prestigious, well-known company.

But I was miserable.

As much as I learned in my time at P&G, I couldn’t get over the nagging feeling that something was wrong — that if I continued on the path I was walking, I’d squander my life selling bottles of soap.

So I decided to disobey my father. I went into education.

A different kind of education

By education, I don’t mean credentialing — the process of handing someone a fancy certificate for completing an arbitrary set of criteria, which is what passes for “education” in most high schools and colleges today.

I mean education in the learning sense — helping people master useful skills that will improve their lives.

I started my website, PersonalMBA.com, as a side project when I graduated from college. Instead of spending an enormous sum of money on graduate school, I decided to educate myself, and share what I learned with other people interested in doing the same thing.

Two years ago, I quit my job at P&G to teach business full time. I’m essentially a business professor — but I don’t have an MBA, I don’t have a PhD, and I don’t work at a business school.

I teach craftsmen and professionals how to master the fundamentals of business on their own terms, without spending years in school and without racking up six-figure debts.

My teaching business is exploding. I make my living in a way that my dad would have found hard to foresee: teaching business skills to adult learners around the world (most of whom I’ve never met in person) using a few inexpensive tools, my hard-won knowledge, and my personal experience. My clients hail from over forty countries across six continents.

My initial investment in some basic digital publishing training and equipment has produced the highest ROI imaginable: a debt-free, global, six-figure teaching business. I’m making more than most college professors with a fraction of their schooling.

I can work from anywhere that has a stable internet connection and a phone line. I operated my business on a dialup connection in the mountains of Colorado for six months. And I could easily move anywhere in the world at any time.

I’m not saying this to brag. I’m saying this to emphasize an important point: the world has changed dramatically in favor of skilled teachers.

This is a golden age of teaching

My decision to disobey my father may prove to be the best I’ve ever made. Teaching for a living has brought me financial stability, an enormous amount of freedom and flexibility, and the satisfaction of improving my students’ lives for a living. Many of the methods and tools I use to teach my students didn’t exist when I graduated from college just five years ago.

That said, it’s important to realize that the new world of teaching has placed new demands on teachers.

Your authority and credibility no longer depend on credentials — it depends on mastering skills by practicing them in the real world. You must be sensitive to what your prospective students want to learn, instead of forcing them to learn whatever you decide to teach them. And there’s no such thing as tenure. You stay relevant and useful or you lose all your students.

Attracting students requires learning the arts of content marketing and sales — and using them every day.

Delivering quality training requires developing technical skills you may not yet possess. Above all, you must overcome your discomfort in charging what your services are worth, and learn to ask for the sale.

Four years ago, I dreamed of teaching for a living, but I didn’t know where to start. If you’re in the same position, you’re in the right place. Copyblogger helped me get started, and they’ll help you on your journey as well.

A few weeks ago, my wife Kelsey and I welcomed our first child into the world — Lela Christine. Eighteen short years from now, I expect Lela and I will have the same conversation I had with my father — only it’s very likely I’ll recommend becoming a teacher.

About the Author: Josh Kaufman is an independent business teacher, founder of PersonalMBA.com, and the author of The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business. To receive free business book summaries and practical business training, subscribe to the Personal MBA newsletter.

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