June 11, 2008

Even though they’re completely unnecessary nowadays for anyone who owns a cell phone, there’s still nothing quite as good looking on a wrist as a watch, in my opinion.

And the good brands are still going strong, such as Seiko.

A Seiko watch looks great on the wrist, works well and importantly is available without the extreme gazillion dollar pricetag that you see from other manufacturers.

BlueDial.com is a great website for Seiko watches. They offer very strong discounts off the Recommended Retail Price and a decent range as well. It’s been many years now since one could really be nervous about ordering products from the internet, especially from established and reputable sites such as BlueDial.

It’s tempting to look at the world of the internet sometimes and think that all the good opportunities have been missed. That all the money has already been made. That all the smart cookies have seen the best opportunities and it’s left for us to fight for the crumbs.

Let me tell you, this sort of thinking is absolute crap. Since I got into internet marketing I have witnessed first hand the explosion of several niches and continued growth. Each time I saw a website explode in a certain niche I would think “oh well, that’s it, that’s the end for me, I could never do that, it’s been done” then someone could come along next month, explode a website and I would then think exactly the same thing!

Let me tell you, the internet is still at its GENESIS in terms of its potential in terms of usability and profitability. NOW is the time to start your education and start subscribing to blogs, doing some research and getting your head around the field of internet marketing as much as possible.

If you’re trying to make money online - and if you aren’t, why are you reading my blog? - there’s some really good news out of Microsoft.

You can get more done faster with Task Market, their new eLance style website for freelancers and web workers!! You can put jobs up to get done and even better for the readership base of this blog, you can register and go for jobs.

Be aware that there is currently very few jobs however this is an awesome opportunity for freelancers to establish an early membership and reputation and gain authority as a reputable dealer. You can dominate this market if you have the right skills and work hard enough!

Here’s the press release:

“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Welcome to the launch of the Task Economy. We’d like you to be among the first to experience it, kick the tires, and share your opinions with your readers.

Microsoft® Task Market is a new Technology Preview site that lets people with tasks find people with the know-how to do them – saving time, and improving the end product.

For every person who throws up both hands at the prospect of creating a complex formula in Microsoft Excel, somewhere in the world there’s another person who can make it look easy. For every poor proofreader, there’s an expert one out there who wouldn’t mind making a few extra dollars. For every small business owner who doesn’t have time to do background research on a new business prospect, there’s a talented researcher who could quickly put together a dossier.

The big idea with Task Market is this: create a viable market to get them together and things get done.

Task Market is in the Technology Preview stage. That means that developers at Microsoft Research are releasing the site “into the wild” to demonstrate the potential of the technology, investigate the breadth of user adoption, solicit ideas on how to improve the site and, ultimately, create a market of Task Posters and Task Solvers to help people get their office tasks done.

A Task Market Task is:

· Something that can be done for $20 to $500

· Something that the Task Poster could use help doing

· Something that can be delivered electronically, like a Microsoft Office document.

A Task Market Poster might need help with:

· a specialized Excel formula

· language translation

· letter writing

· an aspect of their accounting

· making a PowerPoint presentation “pretty”

· graphics, charts, formatting or logos

· research gathering

· proofreading

· building sell sheets, listing sheets or simple brochures

· fact checking

Task Market Solvers create profiles of their skills to help Posters assign tasks to Solvers with the right skill sets, and get email alerts when a job arrives that fits their skillsets. Posters can award and pay several solvers for tasks to compare results, and give more work to the ones they like. All without the commitment of a freelance engagement.

Check out the working tech preview at www.taskmarket.com . Who knows. We may be building a whole new economy. We’d like to start with you and your readers. Let me know if you have any questions.”