Teaching Kids About Money – Opportunities Are Everywhere
Welcome back!
Last weekend I went on a road trip with one of my daughters. It wasn’t that far, just a couple of hours up into the mountains near where we live. She’s writing an eBook, or, rather, she has contracted a writer who is an expert in her topic to write an eBook to her specifications, and the writer had bogged down a little.
So, she and I headed off to visit the writer with a nifty new Ipod microphone to do some interviewing to help get the project moving again.
On the way up there, she was telling me about the Zone athletics meet, where she represented her school at shot put.
“I sucked,” she said. “I only got to go to Zone because the best two in each sport went to Zone, and there were only two of us who put our names down for shot put, so we both got to go.”
“Well,” I said, “It’s easy to come first when not many people are competing with you.”
“Hey!” she said. “That would be a great example for the internet business!”
And so it would.
What we are doing, with all the researching we teach our members to do, is looking for the niches like shot put in athletics – the places where not many people think of competing. The places that aren’t sexy and flashy and celebrity-generating.
And the beauty of an internet business of course, unlike sports, is that they don’t gather people together from further and further apart until you meet some real competition. The internet is a global market, but it’s composed of millions of little pockets, and you only need to come first in your own little pocket to make a decent income.
All we are doing when we look for a profitable niche is finding our own little pocket where we can come first.
Just like my 11-year-old shot put “star”!
