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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Financial Security : What is it and can anyone have it?

Hello there! I was looking around for a subject to share with you today and came across the concept of financial security as being the topic of very high concern among the majority of us.

I have a soft-spot for struggling artists and musicians because I feel these creative people deserve a better deal than the rough time they get, not being able to concentrate on their art form ‘because they have to work to eat’, to me that is SO backwards in this society, we are throttling our culture not making it sufficiently easy to be an artist and survive by your art alone.

If I could, I’d produce more of this stuff….

WIth financial security you can buy what you want

My muse

But a culture is SLOW to change, but I am a part of that change and perhaps you will be too.

We all want financial security, but what is it really and can anyone really have it?

There is a old proverb that goes something along the lines of have a penny, spend a half-penny, you have happiness. Have a penny, spend two pennies, you have misery.

Simply translated into debt = misery, and the whole consumer driven society in which we live has got you believing that you have to have debts to have the great things that you need to be happy now, and you can pay for it all later…..

Except later, you’re even more in debt and even less happy ‘cos you have colossal debts hanging round your neck and so it goes on…

But what is Financial security?

I would like to consider that financial security would be having enough income to cover your current expenses and enough left over to put into projects that you want to. This being linked to having several sources of income, any one of which would cover your basic needs by itself, then you could happily have one income source (like your current job) suddenly disappear because the company shut down or was bought up or whatever reason, and you still have enough income from other sources to happily continue to survive comfortably.

That, for me would be financial security.

I searched around a little to find out how much interest alone you could earn on a million dollars, and found this handy response :

… but, here’s the answer to the “million dollar” question courtesty of Accumulating Money anyway:

So, to answer the question, how much interest do you earn on One Million Dollars (assuming a 4% interest rate, compounded monthly)?

One Day – $109.59

One Month – $3,333.33

One Year – $40,741.54

Five Years – $220,996.59

Ten Years – $490,832.68

Twenty Years – $1,222,582.09

reposted extract from http://7million7years.com/2008/04/19/why-just-leaving-your-money-in-the-bank-is-a-high-risk-strategy/

So, you’d get $40,000 a year. Not too shabby for a start! There are certain members of the empower network who have successfully built up their monthly income to over $40,000. Per Month! That is some seriously well applied knowledge! So, it can be done.

Evidently not everyone is making such great sums, but there are a majority of people who are making some money.

In any business, you get out of it what you’re willing to put into it, and based on the way any business is built, instant millions are not a reality, but a decent viable, sustainable secondary income that could be built into a primary income through hard work, training, and dedication to your goals, is certainly a high probability.

That, in reality is the only true source of financial security.

Your own hard work and willingness to do what it takes to make it work.

This is the concept of financial security using the power of marketing on the internet to provide you with a sustainable income that does not take all the hours there are in the day to make and does not involve any of the following :

cold calling of phone prospects
door to door sales
any face to face selling or prospective customer handling
faking anything, trying to impress anyone into buying what you’re selling by wearing an expensive suit (that you haven’t paid for yet)
having to keep stocks of vitamins, face cream, lingerie or sex-toys under the bed
Pleading with your friends or family to buy some stuff so you can get the (measly) commission
working 18 hours a day continuously pounding your down-line team to make sales
selling your prospects a “two-year plan” and having to keep selling it even though you’ve been in the game for the last 10 years and still can’t hope to retire

None of the above are required using the effective training provided in the Empower Network.

The Empower Network is a high-ranking blogging platform that you can use to promote your own personal products and business, or just promote and sell the product itself, while you get the total training on how to effectively expand your reach and income.

Here’s a screen shot of a Google search for my musician ‘scene name’ : Jeremusic

Financial security through Google ranking

Search engine Google screenshot – page 1

It isn’t for everyone, and it’s not a ‘two weeks to riches’ deal either. The founders are very clear about that. No wussies are allowed. Some wussies do even buy in at the $25 level, blog for three days and wonder why they don’t have any sales yet and quit, but if you’re not a wussy then you could make this become your financial security, and like David Wood and Dave Sharp, Lawrence Tam, Tracey Walker, Chris Record, Justin Verrengia, Tony Rush and a whole bunch of others HELP a great many other people to achieve financial security with you.

That is probably the greatest thing about this network is that your financial security is based on the success of the people in your team. They win, you win. And it doesn’t take forever to build a team.

So, are you all-in?

Join me,

And if you’re ready for a change and a challenge you can join my team here!

(Remember, NO wussies allowed!)

Jeremusic

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Monday, 17 December 2012

Can creative, artistic people make money too? Promote your art with the Empower Network

Are you an artist? Is your ‘dislike’ of money keeping you broke? Hello. I’ve seen a lot of this. Artistic people who have a super creative talent, and are completely numbskulls when it comes to marketing! You, like me, can probably cite a number of examples in your life, or even yourself. For a long time, many years in fact, I was being artfully creative and making sculptures, composing music, making CD’s and digital art too, but hardly selling anything. Oh, I’d sell the odd piece here and there and a few sales off the internet, but not the tons that I’d (foolishly?) hoped for. That is , until I decided to do my own marketing. I’d thought it would be simple. I’d just compose a CD, put up on CDbaby, and I’d become a millionaire! NOT! OK, well, the music is good, really good, but to sell you have to know how to MARKET. That’s how come I joined the Empower Network, because I’d discovered that these guys (a couple of ex-homeless down-beats that made it rich doing exactly what they sell) really knew the rock-bottom basics and all the way up of marketing on the internet. Well, I got my 25$ package and began blogging about all the things I love and the subjects close to my heart, mostly about helping other people make use of what I have learned to get them to improve their lives. You can promote what you like on the platform so if you have an art or music site of your own for example you could easily drive a lot of traffic to your site. I did, and my site is getting some deserved popularity! Check out a Goole search for ‘Jeremusic’ and you’ll see what I mean! Here’s a simple render I did for the concept of “I love life!” It’s basically a 3d sketch, so I don’t forget the Creative Ideas that I have as a flash concept, and when I have some more time (i’m working on that one!) I’ll look back through my daz studio renders of my 3d ideas and get to finnish of ready for canvas production in high resolution work of art! I wanted to share this thought with all you budding, talented, broke, undiscovered artists and put the tools and marketing know-how into your hands to multiply your chances to make it big too! Get promoting your art and learn exactly how to do it by registering now to learn the secrets! : Learn the secrets of promoting your art Flourish and Prosper! Jeremusic Another post covering Personal Development here: http://jeremusic.com http://youtube.com/jeremusic http://facebook.com/jeremusic1 http://jezartography.fr

Thursday, 13 December 2012

image compositing with DAZ studio renders: The basics.

Hi there! I’m just working on a new work of art and I thought I’d share this unique opportunity to walk you through one simple way of using DAZ studio to do image compositing using DAZ studio renders. (A render is an image in 2d of a 3d virtual scene, as though taking a photo)

What’s a composite render?

Well, what I mean is use daz studio for the 3d character and then use the image in a .png format ( .png is Portable Network Graphics, which is a format that allows transparency.) to allow you to use the image and “see through” the black parts to your scene background on the layer below.

In order to make this work, you’ll need Daz Studio, and a basic image manipulation program like the GIMP, or a version of Adobe Photoshop for example.

First set up your character and lights and use a black background. do your render and you’ll get something like this :

I’ve made the image clickable so you can download it.

Allright, so now you need a background image. I took this shot of a sunrise a few weeks back and wanted to use this dramatic sunlit cloudscape for my background.

Now for the image compositing magic!

OK,so far so good. Now we have to load both images into our photo manipulation program and set the sunrise as the background layer and the girl as the layer above.

As the girl is in .png format the white areas are invisible and she sits right in our sunrise bathing in the warmth and glory!

As it turns out I had to scale her up as my photo is 2500 pixels wide and I only rendered at 1500 pixels, but your editing program can easily take care of all that.

ok, so now you need to adjust her position and see how well your lighting colors are matching. That’s a key part to making the image compositing ”believable.” I think it looks pretty good here so I’ll upload and let you see the result. I’ll say that I did this set up in about the last 20 minutes or so , so what you see here is raw direct and un-cut!

“Bathing in the glory”

Alright! So you see how we did this? I’m pretty convinced with the result, but obviously more fine retouching would be required for the final image, but that might need to be the subject of another post if you like.

Oh, the dress? I thought you might ask! Well it’s a dynamic dress from the Ultimate pattern design kit, with several tweaks and changes to the original. I’ve reshaped, bump and diffuse mapped it and added translucency to have it cling and hang the way I wanted.

Well, there you have it in a nutshell, simple basic image compositiong using DAZ studio.

Let me know what you think, and feel free to leave your comments and questions below.

Flourish and Prosper!

Jeremusic

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Saturday, 8 December 2012

The hidden key to internet prosperity : YOU (“who? me? you’re kidding right?…” No. I mean you.

Hi, just a wonderfully valuable gem of internet savvy here:

The hidden key to internet prosperity has been discovered.

For a long while internet marketing professionals and other have been looking for the vital key to internet prosperity. David Wood and David Sharpe found it. Mark Zuckerberg found it, and Google found it.

What is it? Yes, you’ve guessed it because I already told you in the title , Doh!

It’s you!

What you like, what you hate, what you eat and what you wear. The internet has become the playground for being who you are. And that is SO true of the Empower Network group of budding and sucessful internet marketers. Just a bunch (70, 000 or so I think) of ordinary people like you and me, who reckoned that they’d give it a shot and put their 25$ on the line and said I’m IN!

hidden key to internet prosperity through correct marketing

Are you using the right strategy?

Then the fun started. They discovered that it wasn’t a hoax. They discovered that it’s still here, bigger and better and more BadAss than ever before after a year of commissions paying to their faithful blogging internet marketing savvy students. And they discovered that they couldn’t fake it. Each and every EN blogger has had to come to the conclusion at some point or another, that they just have to become who they really are.

And that you can’t make it in this game with just a flashy front. People can see through that. You have to be able to tell people the truth and you have to be comfortable with being who you are. ( and if you are an EN blogger who’s not yet got it all worked out htat might just be a missing step.)

So, there you go. You are the star of the show!

Blog and get money!

I’ve been blogging for a while now and on FB too, and I’m so tired of the ‘like’ clicks that people have made in their thousands for total rubbish or even disgusting photos? You know the ones I mean? It’s just unbelieveable isn’t it? OK, Well, I think that this point is really going to sort the clickers from the writers.

Writing a real responses to other peoples blogs means that you have to be able to think, understand and write. Those three things alone have set you above everyone else. There are millions of clickers and VERY FEW writers! How many people actually understand where they are at and where they can get to? A tiny minority.

I’ve actually discovered the platform I was looking for in Empower to be able to help all the people on the planet that I can contact. I have had enough life experiences to prove over and over that I’m not your average guy, and neither is Ken, and together we with everyone else who is a thinker and a writer can bring real benefit to this planet by teaching people in the thousands or even millions, what we know. If you appreciate what I’m saying here, you can find all about me by Googling Jeremusic.

I challenge you and promise you’ll like what you find!

Jeremusic