Panda Picks-Seniors Work on the Net!

Seniors out of work look to the internet for an income source.  Or we seniors may be merely   looking for ways to make a few extra coins to supplement our retirement funds.  Right now we may be looking at investments that plunged, groceries becoming more expensive, heating costs rising for winter here in the colder climates. All are pushing on our budget.  So a few extra  coins might make a difference in our style of life. If we choose to use the internet we look for ways to advertise our products. 

Assuming you have a business idea we now look at some potential advertising sites that are senior friendly. By senior friendly, we mean; easy to understand directions, visually easy to manage for those with eye problems and easy to use for those disabled or inconvenienced with arthritis.

Pandy Lady picks orange leads advertising site as my favorite for the amount of exposure and ease of using the site.  After signing in, one merely scrolls down and puts in a 200 word or less ad, insert your http url site, and send off to 13 thousand (current membership)  as your ad appears on the front of the site.  Because it is growing by 1.4% this figure is not accurtate. You can contact your downline in the same way.  As often as you like,  you have access to free leads with phone numbers, adddresses, and names of potential customers or potential business partners. TAKE AS MANY LEADS A DAY AS YOU LIKE. The best part of all is that your mail box does not fill up with ads from everyone else.  Everyone merely looks at the ads on the front of the site and chooses what will help them build their business.

Search Engine Optimization/ SEO Tools— Search Engines will do the advertising for you. All you do is insert your url and your e-mail address. Here is what you get as reported to me when I completed the process. Click on the above banner  fill in your information and here is what I received at the completion.

 Quote: Google … submission successful.
Yahoo Web Pages … submission successful. Listing will appear after Yahoo’s Web Site category listings.
AOL Search … submission successful.
iWon.com … submission successful.
Exactseek … submission successful.
Jayde … submission successful.
scrubtheweb … submission successful.
In addition your site will be listed in the below Meta Search Engines:

Search.com                   mamma
C4
Canada.com                  metacrawler
Dogpile                         WebInfoSearch
Infogrid                         WebFile
myGO                            800go
megacrawler                 query Server
ixquick                         Debriefing                                
     
WebInfoSearch              Highway 61
37.com
OneSeek                       metaSpider
Vivisimo                       PlanetSearch
SurfWax                        qbSearch
ProFusion                     Proteus
Go 2 Net                       megaGo.com
WebFile                         myGO

Your listing will appear on the above search engines anywhere from one day to usually 6 weeks. If you cannot find your listing try searching for your URL. There are several factors that may block you from being listed on the above search engines or penalize your rankings. Order our 75,000 search engine submission and one of our analysts will evaluate your site for any such problems and we’ll also send you a list of things you can do to improve your rankings. “  All that exposure made me a happy senior working on the net as now  my ad has maximum exposure.

Panda  Lady picked two of the most powerful ways I find to advertise without bugging friends and  business friends.  Saving time in advertising means we have time to go do those fun things we Seniors enjoy. We seniors with on line business after all we retired for a reason ie, not being held down to a schedule.

Panda Lady Picks Top Advertsing

When we retired we left behind structure, accountability to a boss, feeling useful, being around people, having extra money for travel and adventure. On a fixed income we might begin to feel like we have days without purpose, no one cares about us, we can’t afford to do things. So step out of the comfort zone and reach out to help others while you help yourself.

Volunteers are necessary to make most programs function on a budget. You can be involved locally, nationally, or globally

CONSIDERATIONS FOR VOLUNTEERS

Know Your Passion

What have you always wanted to do? Where would you like to be? If you love a quiet place and like memories you might choose your local museum. A passion for reading might mean you would want to read to those who can’t or who are learning. Always wanted to learn about trees, or wildflowers, contact your local park system and ask what you can do so that you can be outside, learn from the naturalist, so you can share with others. If you like action you might want to be a coach, or join the CB club who assists during times of disaster.You love children or older persons, the disabled, autions, walking etc. Go whereyou wanta go and be where you wanta to be.

Limitations

Where can you go, how long can you be away , travel restrictions, health problems, mobility and other issues will determine your volunteer options.You will need to consider financial obligations and your personal situation including spouse and family.

Skills and Abilities

Your volunteer options do not need to be limited to what you already know or have done for a life occupation. Consider what gifts you have, caring/sharing, compassion, willingness to learn new skills,teaching, giving of time or money. In this area you may be surprized that as you work in a volunteer situation you will be doing what you had no prior experience with, nor the knowledge to do it. Your willilngness to expand your skills and abililties will be the key to your success. All the attributes you had as a worker can be applied to your volunteer time: ie puncuality, following directions, trusted, community minded, cheerful etc.

Time Restraints

Consider your obligations and restrictions before you sign up. Perhaps you are a grump.

before 10:00 or like to go to bed early. Snowbirds will not be volunteering in the winter months. They need volunteers for 4 hours but you need to rest every two hours.

Benefits of Voluneering

-Meet new people

-schedule and structure

-Feel appreciated for your skills and time

-travel

-new experiences

-dreams fullfilled ( I always wanted to)

-contribution to your community

-live in position saves home expenses

What considerations did you have to work through before doing volunteer work?

Panda picked Volunteerism as a way of staying active and productive

When conducting a business on line, one has to decide where to find their market.  On the internet many can be  found in  social communities. Through the process of chat you learn about each other and share business ideas.  Each  community is unique in scope, tools to use, different interest groups, management and difficulty of use.

There is the potential for great danger alongside of a good place to build your business. Here are some statements to assist you in realizing that on the internet much can be deceiving. These statements are made from  on line experience and gleaned from some members of communities.

1. Communities are international, do not expect people with English as second language to always fully understand. Mis-understandings happen easily as words and sentence structure cause friction.

2. Not everyone is who they present themselves to be. It is easy to create a profile with false information. Watch for contradictions in profile information and actions in the community.

3. Give out your telephone number, and e-mail cautiously.  Skype or message centers are easier to handle   as one deletes so no further communication can take place.

4. Hype and exaggeration are as real in communities as on sites.  Posts may be made of copied and pasted statements of making big money when the truth is, they just joined the program. Do your homework on programmes and promoters. Again watch for inconsistencies.

5. Spammers are real, and you are not asked to accommodate them. The delete button with an explanation will suffice or use the situation to YOUR advantage.

6. Disagreements can be handled by removing ones self from the friends list and or forums. Banning and Blocking are options but may cause retaliation.

7. Feedback options on some communities is for rating a person and their business, not a place to retaliate from some grievance.

8. Forums are for discussion, advertising and gathering information. They are not a place for grievances.

9. Discussion forums are for interaction, you post, I post and we discuss. Be prepared for someone to disagree. Remember much of the world values freedom of speech. Right or wrong respect for another’s opinion will make for good discussion.

10. Forums designated for advertising deserve your kind use. Respect for the invitation is appreciated. Hogging the forum with repeated posting of the same ad is selfishness.

11. Personal mail is open to any legitimate information, either conversation, ads, and invitations (TOS). However, altho not a Term of Service, some people will be furious. You send ads, be prepared for the consequences.

12. Changing the topic in someone forum is not respectful of the forum owner. Start your own forum.

13. Using affiliations to imply trust may cloud your thinking, i.e. religion, organizations, memberships, association with others.  Someone with a big friends list means just that, they gathered many friends.  It does not mean they are wiser.

14. Begging for money. Do your homework. Give generously to those you wish to help. This is not a common worry as most can see if business is so great then they would not be asking. Give to registered charities who can be trusted to deliver the donation not to individuals.

15. Expect respect/disrespect disputes. What is acceptable to one is not acceptable to another. The written word can be mis-interpreted. How many ways do you understand the word “please”.

16. Monitor all forums you post on. The original post can be changed in many communities.  click on the appropriate box to be notified when someone answers your post or a forum you posted in.

17. Monitor your friends list. All the profile information can be changed to something with which you wish not have association.

18.  The word friend means different things to different people.  Some sites use the word contacts.  Protect your business by knowing who you are hanging out with whom you are hanging out. Relationships take time so watch for inconsistencies.

19.  The social community itself may be presenting itself less than accuratly.  For example they may boast of 35,000 members when actually they have had 35,000 people visit and fill out a registration.  Perhaps there are 85 current active people.  Hype from the social community site i also prevalent. They may claim that the will help you sell more, they will do all the work, etc.  Remember the word, WORK? Their promises may be just that, a hyped up promise.  TOS (Terms of Service) may be stated but not enforced.

Join some communities, make your presence but keep your eyes and ears open.  Be a wise participant knowing that somewhere in the community  scoundrels are lurking.

Panda Pics this subject based on personal experience of 3 years using Social Communities. Senior Citizens are easy targets for the garus, on line preditors building huge on line businesses. First we are computer and internet illiterate.  We tend to treat people on the net as we would our friends and family. Hype may not be familar to us as we came from occupations which sheltered us from that very idea. Retirees enter the internet business venture world in large numbers to suplement their retirement income.  Sometimes our desperation shows, so we would believe anything we see and hear.  After all we have no experience and these people must know what they are talking about.  Look how they live, yachts, fancy cars, and mansions.

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