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Home | Internet & Businesses Online | Internet Marketing Make More Money Online – Best Online Business Opportunities – Starting a Home Based Business By Glen Jacobs True wisdom is easy to spot…its timeless. If you are trying to make more money online, search out nuggets of time tested wisdom to help propel you from where you are to where you want to be. My Grandmother was born in 1905. Many people born at that time living outside of big cities had never ridden in a car. But before she died, NASA was sending space shuttles into outer space. It is hard to comprehend the impact of the changes in technology she witnessed over her lifetime. We lived in Florida, but my Grandmother was born and raised in Connecticut. I’m not sure if that was the connection, but somewhere in her mind, she was convinced that you got sick from just simply being exposed to cold. She’d pick me up for church Sunday mornings. I’d get in the car, my hair usually wet from just jumping out of the shower. So while we were on our way, I’d lean my head out of the window to dry my hair in the 90 degree, 55 mhp wind going down U.S. Hwy 17-92. It never failed. Every week it was the same thing, “You’re going to catch pneumonia sticking your head out of the window like that!” Usually I’d just sort of roll my eyes back, or maybe shake my head in disbelief that she still really though like that. Finally, one morning, when I just couldn’t take it any more, I replied back, “Well if I do, it will be your fault, because that means you just steered us through some strange virus or bacteria filled patch of air and made me breath it in! So, you’d better quit watching me and my hair, and pay attention to where you’re driving so you can avoid any strange looking clouds in the road ahead!” We used to laugh with each other about that a lot. Different times, different perspectives. It can be interesting to look back in time and see how life and popular views have changed over the span of a generation or two, including the progression of thought in areas of business and commerce. Sometimes seeing what hasn’t changed is just as interesting as what has stayed the same. If we look back, are there any business principles or practices that still apply to commerce on the Internet and using the best online business opportunities to make more money online today. Here are some thoughts from the early 1900’s… …The modern business man is the true heir of the old magicians. Every thing he touches seems to increase ten or a hundred fold in value and usefulness. All the old methods, old tools, old instruments have yielded to his transforming spell or else been discarded for new and more effective substitutes. In a thousand industries the profits of to-day are wrung from the wastes or unconsidered trifles of yesterday. The only factor which has withstood this wizard touch is man himself. Development of the instruments of production and distribution has been so great it can hardly be measured: the things themselves have been so changed that few features of their primitive models have been retained. Our railroad trains, steamships, and printing presses preserve a likeness more apparent than actual. Our telephones, electric lights, gas engines, and steam turbines, our lofty office buildings and huge factories crowded with wonderful automatic machinery are creations of the generation of business men and scientists still in control of them. By comparison the increase in human efficiency during this same period (except where the worker is the slave of the machine, compelled to keep pace with it or lose his place) has been insignificant. Reasons for this disproportion are not lacking. The study of the physical antedates the study of the mental always… …It was inevitable, therefore, that attention should have been concentrated upon the material and mechanical side of production and distribution. Results there were so tangible, so easily figured. For example, if the speed of a drill or the strokes of a punch press were multiplied, the increase would be easily recognized. The whole country, too, was absorbed in invention, in the development of tools to accomplish what had always required hand labor. The effort was not so much to increase the efficiency of the individual worker …… as to displace the human factor altogether. As the functions and limitations of machinery have become clearer in recent years, business men have generally recognized the importance of the human factor in making and marketing products. Selecting and handling men is of much more significance to-day than ever before in the history of the world the more so as organizations have increased in size and scope and the individual employee is farther removed from the head and assigned greater responsibilities… …Of the elements involved in production or distribution, the human factor is to-day the most serious problem confronting the business man. The individual remains to be studied, trained, and developed--to be brought up to the standard of maximum results already reached by materials and processes. Few employers can gather a force of efficient workers and keep them at their best. Not only is it difficult to select the right men but it is even harder to secure top efficiency after they are hired. Touching this, there will be no dispute. Experts in shop management go even farther. F. W. Taylor, who has made the closest and most scientific study, perhaps, of actual and potential efficiency among workers, declares that: ``A first-class man can, in most cases, do from two to four times as much as is done on the average.'' ``This enormous difference,'' Mr. Taylor goes on to say, ``exists in all the trades and branches of labor investigated, from pick and-shovel men all the way up the scale to machinists and other skilled workmen. The multiplied output was not the product of a spurt or a period of overexertion; it was simply what a good man could keep up for a long term of years without injury to his health, become happier, and thrive under.'' Ask the head of any important business what is the first qualification of a foreman or manager, and he will tell you ``ability to handle men.'' Men who know how to get maximum results out of machines are common; the power to get the maximum of work out of subordinates or out of yourself is a much rarer possession. Yet this power is not necessarily a sixth sense or a fixed attribute of personality. It is based on knowledge of the workings of the other man's mind, either intuitive or acquired… …In a thousand instances, in factory and market place, unrecognized use has been made of the principles of psychology by business men to influence other men and to attain their ends… …The time has come when a man's knowledge of his business, if the larger success is to be won, must embrace an understanding of the laws which govern the thinking and acting of the men who make and sell his products as well as those others who buy and consume them. The achievements of the human mind and the human body seem to many to be out of the range of possible improvement through application of any science which deals with these human activities. Muscular strength and mental efficiency seem to be fixed quantities not subject to increase or improvement. The contention here supported, however, is that human efficiency is a variable quantity which increases and decreases according to law. By the application of known physical laws the telephone and the telegraph have supplanted the messenger boy. By the laws of psychology applied to business equally astounding improvements are being and will be secured. …Actual instances prove that great increase of work and results can be secured by outside stimulus and by conscious effort… So, at least one thing is still true here in the 21st century. “Men who know how to get maximum results out of machines (your laptop) are common; the power to get the maximum of work out of subordinates or out of yourself (as an entrepreneur working from home) is a much rarer possession. Approximately 97% of those starting a home based business today, fail. Give yourself every advantage. Make sure you have a good mentor/coach. If you have not necessarily mastered your machine, but you know that you have the entrepreneurial drive and power to build your own business, take advantage of opportunities that use automated marketing systems to help you make more money online and get yourself on the direct path to success! Make More Money Online – Best Online Business Opportunities – Starting a Home Based Business You Can Do this, Without Question. The Best Really Is Yet To Come! Glen Jacobs Business Development Partner and Coach Managing Member / Live Life Well, LLC Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
Glen Jacobs, Life Style Mentor and Successful Entrepreneur, is helping many become the next success story. Whether you're looking to create an extra few thousand dollars per month, be an ex-corporate executive, or the next millionaire Mom, Glen can assist you to create a second stream of income and greater peace of mind. visit : More Money
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