By Austin Akalanze

Have you noticed how the workplace seems to be a little more stressful if not downright hostile, how each day you feel a little more reluctant to get out of bed to go to a job you don't really like. Have you noticed how the workday seems a little longer and the job a little less fulfilling. Have you noticed how those you worked their business seem a little less appreciative of you, how they ask more of you, for less of their substance.

Have you noticed how what they pay you seem to do a little less and how your bills seem to grow a little bigger than your pay packet. Have you noticed that little tug at your heart that keeps pulling you away on a path to self-actualization. Have you heard that little voice deep within you that says "strike out on your own".

It is not as if there are no fulfilling jobs out there or as though there are not those who make do with their check. There are. But the simple truth is that the majority of us are not. We get by each day, weighed down by the demands of our time and our personal circumstances.

Not too long ago, I was just one such poeple. I was burdened, edgy, unfulfilled, hungry but looking. I was not just looking, but I was looking for something specific. I was looking for something I can do from home, on my own and at my own pace. But what could I do?

I thought about going into business but I had been there and it was disastrous. There was only one medium that could offer me the things I was looking for and that is the internet. But the internet was too big for me. I was a small thinker, even though I had done things that I thought were larger than I think.

But internet or not, to really make a lot of money, you have to work long and hard hours. Right? Yes, right and no, wrong. Right if you don't know what you are doing and wrong if you do. There are only 24 hours in a day and you need sleep and rest. The key is in using technology to leverage yourself and your time, even as you rest and sleep.

You know, someone once said, "if your are not making money while you sleep, you will never get rich. That makes good sense, since there is so much you can do in a day. However, with the right knowledge, the right mind, some determination, and the right technology, you may not become a Bill Gates, but you may become comfortable or even very comfortable. But wait a minute you may say, how is it possible to make money while you sleep? The answer is in the "I" word.

But this is not just about making money while you snooz away. It is about making a living doing what you most enjoy doing. Malcolm S. Forbes (1919-1990), once said, "The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy."

Truth is, you can make a living doing what you love doing. And not just your professional things but any thing that is of value and imparts knowledge to others, especially special knowledge. And aren't we all walking encyclopedia and living museums of sorts.

Wealth, I have learned is not something you pursue, but something you "attract by the person you become". My challenge to you is to become that person that attracts wealth, not just financial wealth, but wealth in relationships, family, faith and all, and people will beat a path to your door to give you their money even while you sleep.

This is not about how to make money alone. It is about going to work on yourself by adding value to yourself. This is about how to make money with whatever knowledge that you have. It is about becoming knowledgeable about how to package the knowledge in your head and selling it to people.

People will pay you good money to loan your brain, and if you are able to loan your brain to millions of people at the same time, even while you sleep, that translates to even bigger opportunities. The test is in having the staying power to explore, to learn and to implement.

Jim Rohn once said, "We go the direction we face, and face the direction we go." For those who don't know Jim Rohn, he is one of the greatest business and inspiring minds of our time. My question to you is, where are you facing?

When you wake up tomorrow morning, are you going to be facing a future filled with hope and excitment, or a dead end job that you hate and despise? Are you one of those millions of the world,s masses traped in a dead end job, who wake up every monday morning with a heart attack, still living under the illusion of building wealth with a corporate job and retirement plan?

You can change all that starting today.
If you are here and have read this far, I beleive you have already won half the battle. You have shown that you have the staying power to succeed. You have shown a determination to win. You can attract wealth by the person you become and all that you need now are the nuts and bolts to stitch all this together.

Are you afraid of greatness? You should not. William Shakespear, once said, "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness trust upon them."

Remember, if you never go out on a limb, you will never get the fruit.

Pay Per Play-  The New Paradigm Shift On Website Monetization and Online Advertising

Many a webmaster and script author have made some fortune peddling information and scripts on how to position yourself in your chosen niche (your unique selling point), structure your call to action (CTA), calculate your Conversion Rate (CR) and track your Return On Investment (ROI). Pay Per Play also called PPP is poised to alter the way Internet marketers tend to view these variables with its disruptive website monetization model.

Prior to Pay Per Play, we had Pay Per Click, Pay Per Lead, Pay Per Action, all of which required webmasters, to drive traffic to their sites, position themselves in a unique way that separates them from the fold (USP), persuade/call their visitors to take a desired action (CTA), and then monitor and track the ratio of the desired action to the cost associated with bringing about this desired action (ROI). This sounds like a lot and indeed it is. The average Joe, just starting out on the net does not have a chance. He feels overwhelmed and sooner or later quits in despair.

Pay Per Play brings a new hope to this class of Internet marketers and a new shift in the way advertising is done on the web.

But what is Pay Per Play?

It is an advertising breakthrough that uses cutting edge technology to bring a short 5 second audio advertising message, purchased by some major brands or ad agencies and streamed to related content webpages owned and operated by thousands of affiliate networks.

Though similar to Google Adsense is some ways, it is different in one very important way, and that is that visitors are not required to do anything for the content publisher to get paid. Simply put, it monetizes 100% of all traffic, targeted or not. All they have to do is show up! For the newbie, this is good news. There will be no call to action to worry about, no conversion rates to monitor and certainly no return on investment as in Google Adwords and Adsense to track. In addition, Pay Per Play does not eat up any webpage real estate. The codes are invisible to web users.

Here is how it works.

1. You sign up for free at the site. Don't worry, sign up is a breeze.
2. copy the code that will be given to you after you register and confirm your registration.
3. Paste the code on every web page on your sites or blogs. Not to worry, there is full instruction on how to do that.
4. Continue to send traffic to your sites like you have always done and get paid for every visitor that comes to your site.

Also, to explode your income potential Voice2page (V2P) have launched an affiliate program that allows affiliates to be paid on the effort of those that they bring into the network, two levels deep. How is that for power! And there is no limit how wide your network of affiliates can grow.

Here is what The Wall Street Journal has to say about it: "Starting Feb. 1, San Diego-based V2P Communications is offering five-to-eight-second audio ads, called NetAudioAds, that will automatically play when a visitor lands on a blog or Web site. Publishers sign up for the free service and V2P then lines up advertisers, who bid on rates they will pay to have their ads played on a given blog. Bids generally start around $14 per 1,000 plays. Blog publishers get a 25% cut of the ad revenue." The Wall Street Journal, January 15, 2008.

While many affiliates have already signed on to the program, the official launch of PPP is not until February 1, 2008. Like Google Adsense, I would imagine that those who join early and take action will most probably reap a good reward in the near future. 

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